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Photometry is all you need - #supernova classification as a mixing problem: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28922 -> StarXiv Episode 38 - merging galaxies, exploding stars and the beauty of individual galaxies: https://rss.com/podcasts/starxiv/2893795/

Memo: Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot chatbots into a single app featuring AI agents dubbed AutoPilot and coding tools (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-memo-details-ai-…

Microsoft Memo Details AI App Overhaul to ‘Earn the Right to Exist’
Microsoftis merging its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps and cutting unwanted features to ‘earn the right to exist’ in the eyes of customers, an executive told staff Thursday morning. In a 1,200-word memo, Jacob Andreou, an executive vice president, said the new unified app will also feature ...

Football meets international football: Ranking every NFL soccer-style crossover jersey from 1-32 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7444316/2026/07/14/nfl-soccer-jerseys-fanatics-world-cup/

Conservative economist Andy Hall offers a damning condemnation of conventional politicians (although he is apparently oblivious of the import of his argument) 👇
Hall writes:
"Politicians do not respond mechanically to shifts in public sentiment
—they answer to donors, activists, and primary challengers,
not just median voters…
and sometimes they stake out new positions well before the public asks for them,
or refuse to move long after it has"

AI is the Democratic Party's Next Villain
We analyze roughly 280,000 candidate fundraising emails to trace the rise of anti-billionaire populism in the Democratic party and see how it is slowly merging with a new kind of anti-AI populism.

Football meets international football: Ranking every NFL soccer-style crossover jersey from 1-32 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7444316/2026/07/14/nfl-soccer-jerseys-fanatics-world-cup/

Football meets international football: Ranking every NFL soccer-style crossover jersey from 1-32 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7444316/2026/07/14/nfl-soccer-jerseys-fanatics-world-cup/

Amazon plans to merge MX Player into Prime Video in India, combining free and paid streaming catalogs on a single platform over the next few months (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/amazon-mx-player-merges-prime-video-india-1…

Amazon MX Player Joins Prime Video in India Streaming Merger
Amazon MX Player is merging with Prime Video to create a large Indian streaming service, spanning free, paid, and ad-supported content.

Would any of y'all be interested in an archival curation tool that can handle merging large collections of files?
I'm in the middle of designing something — git is inspiration but the wrong tool for this job — but that allows reintegrating diverged collections of materials, and propagating enough information that if you were to merge two folders, you'd get a relevant set of questions about the contents to successfully and meaningfully merge them.
It's aware of the fact that embedded metadata changes.
My goal is to make a library simple enough that one could embed it in an operating system's file browser to surface intelligent behavior, and that it could form the basis of media servers too, taking the scanning-and-recording-files duties.

Exploring the biggest construction site in Europe: ESMC Dresden, a Taiwanese-German #chip joint venture.
More water diverted? There’s enough for all, we learn. More housing? That’s for the market to tackle. Energy needs? Complex. Workers on site? Many from eastern Europe. Fascinating

Amazon plans to merge MX Player into Prime Video in India, combining free and paid streaming catalogs on a single platform over the next few months (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/amazon-mx-player-merges-prime-video-india-1…

Amazon MX Player Joins Prime Video in India Streaming Merger
Amazon MX Player is merging with Prime Video to create a large Indian streaming service, spanning free, paid, and ad-supported content.

The #Gentoo #Python 3.14 switch / 3.11 3.13t removal PR is green. Doing some final testing locally before merging it (one that involves 350 "merge wait" packages, what could possibly go wrong…).
https://codeberg.org/gentoo/gentoo/pulls/1031

A lot of the analytical work I do really adapts well to #Jupyter Notebooks. It's very helpful to organize the code into logical chunks, one chunk per cell.
However, now I want to re-run the entire workbook, changing only one parameter.
Is there an easy way to do that without merging all the cells together?
ETA: My notebook has a parameter section at the top, but now I want to …

Gravitational-wave constraints on the pair-instability mass gap and nuclear burning in massive stars: #GravitationalWave Transient Catalog.

The non-UK part of BT is merging with the non-US part of Verizon.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/29/bt-verizon-joint-venture-deal-telecoms-international

BT and Verizon to create joint global business in $625m deal
UK telecoms group’s 50/50 venture ends more than 18-month search for a buyer of its international operations

A French parliament inquiry report calls for 25% cuts to public broadcasting and more; the far right plans to privatize public broadcasting if elected in 2027 (Angelique Chrisafis/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may

Back with the Taiwanese colleagues to explore the #semiconductor industry, now in #Dresden. We started with vanished #chip histories, moved to promised silicon futures and will now venture out – a…

"How heat domes form, intensify, and what they do to the body"
#US #UA #America #Weather

How heat domes form, intensify, and what they do to the body | The Optimist Daily
Two heat domes are merging over the eastern US by July 4, driving heat indexes above 110 degrees Fahrenheit from the mid-South to the Gulf Coast.