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Sportsbooks on hook for millions if Raiders win Super Bowl https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/sportsbooks-on-hook-for-millions-if-raiders-win-super-bowl-3431698/

"Finding Bliss"
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/finding-bliss

Finding Bliss #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Este es un buen artículo de opinión para entender cómo la administración de Rodrigo Chaves Robles (alias zoodrigo, el presidente de Costa Rica acosador sexual que llegó al poder violando leyes de financiamiento de campañas políticas y parece gobernar para no estorbar al narco) ha hecho un daño enorme a instituciones públicas "desde adentro": poniendo a jerarcas "sumisos y servirles" en puestos de juntas directivas de instituciones autónomas para que tomen decisiones contr…

‘A timebomb’: could a French mine full of waste poison the drinking water of millions? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/23/french-mine-stocamine-waste-drinking-water-chemicals-alsace-aquifer-aoe

Single-photon sources created by nature millions of years ago
D. G. Pasternak, A. M. Romshin, R. A. Khmelnitsky, G. Yu. Kriulina, A. A. Zhivopistsev, O. S. Kudryavtsev, A. V. Gritsienko, A. M. Satanin, I. I. Vlasov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20405

Single-photon sources created by nature millions of years ago
Single photons source (SPS) is a key component required by quantum communication devices. We report the finding of bright diamond-based SPS created by nature millions of years ago. It is shown that narrow ($\leq$ 2 nm) lines observed within the 500-800 nm range in photoluminescence (PL) spectra of the surface layer of untreated Yakut diamonds rich in nitrogen and hydrogen belong to SPS. Moreover, unknown narrow-line PL observed earlier in nitrogen- and hydrogen-rich diamonds from various deposi…

Investigating Structural Pruning and Recovery Techniques for Compressing Multimodal Large Language Models: An Empirical Study
Yiran Huang, Lukas Thede, Massimiliano Mancini, Wenjia Xu, Zeynep Akata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20749

Investigating Structural Pruning and Recovery Techniques for Compressing Multimodal Large Language Models: An Empirical Study
While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities, their substantial computational and memory requirements pose significant barriers to practical deployment. Current parameter reduction techniques primarily involve training MLLMs from Small Language Models (SLMs), but these methods offer limited flexibility and remain computationally intensive. To address this gap, we propose to directly compress existing MLLMs through structural pruning combined with efficient …

In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading

Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/india-bans-streami…

India bans streaming apps you’ve never heard of — but millions watch | TechCrunch
India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers — for allegedly promoting "obscene" content.

https://san.com/cc/millions-of-cars-at-risk-from-flipper-zero-key-fob-hack-experts-warn/
Millions of cars at risk from Flipper Zero key fob hack, experts warn

Millions of cars at risk from Flipper Zero key fob hack, experts warn
Hackers are using a custom Flipper Zero firmware to bypass security protections in automotive key fobs, putting millions of vehicles at risk.