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everyone: wow, see-in-the-dark contact lenses!
me: they made tiny contact lenses for mice!
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-infrared-contact-lenses-people-dark.html

Infrared contact lenses allow people to see in the dark, even with their eyes closed
Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. Unlike infrared night vision goggles, the contact lenses, described in the journal Cell, do not require a power source—and they enable the wearer to perceive multiple infrared wavelengths. Because they're transparent, users can see both infrared and visible light simultaneously, though infrared vision was enhanced when partic…

UK startup Inforcer, which helps SMBs automate and manage Microsoft 365, security, and more, raised a $35M Series B, a source says at a $200M valuation (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/inforcer-raises-35-million-ai-smb

The British Startup Helping SMBs Get Ready To Use AI
Inforcer's software helps IT shops manage security for SMB clients. Now the startup's raised $35 million in a Series B round to get them AI-ready, too.

"The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe’s Critical Infrastructure" by IISS.
https://www.iiss.org/research-paper/2025/08/the-scale-of-russian--sabotage-operations--against-europes-critic…

The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe’s Critical Infrastructure
This IISS paper assesses Russia’s unconventional war on Europe, focusing on sabotage of critical infrastructure, from military sites and energy grids to communications and undersea cables, testing the resilience of European governments and societies and challenging NATO/EU deterrence.

Strange Parables - an #improv #poem https://muz4now.com/2025/strange-parables-an-improv-poem/

Strange Parables - an #improv #poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Kast, el imperturbable. Columna de Oscar Contardo.
#Columnistas

Bidirectional Temporal Information Propagation for Moving Infrared Small Target Detection
Dengyan Luo, Yanping Xiang, Hu Wang, Luping Ji. Shuai Li, Mao Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15415

Bidirectional Temporal Information Propagation for Moving Infrared Small Target Detection
Moving infrared small target detection is broadly adopted in infrared search and track systems, and has attracted considerable research focus in recent years. The existing learning-based multi-frame methods mainly aggregate the information of adjacent frames in a sliding window fashion to assist the detection of the current frame. However, the sliding-window-based methods do not consider joint optimization of the entire video clip and ignore the global temporal information outside the sliding w…

Running Critical National Infrastructure as a business has proven a recipe for failure
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/running-critical-national-infrastructure-as-a-business-has-proven-a-recipe-for-failure…

Running Critical National Infrastructure as a business has proven a recipe for failure
Using a business model of cost-cutting and even increasing profit margins does not work for public services, and should not happen

SpO2-Messung mit Apple Watches: Patentinhaber fordert neues US-Importverbot
Im Einvernehmen mit dem US-Zoll dürfen Apple Watches die Blutsauerstoffsättigung wieder erfassen. Das ist rechtswidrig, meint Medizingerätehersteller Masimo.

Boy On A Bicycle
- an #improv #poem -
https://muz4now.com/2015/boy-on-a-bicy…

Boy On A Bicycle - an improv #poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now