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Dublin-based cross-border payment startup NomuPay raised a $40M Series C at a $290M valuation, following a $37M Series B at a $200M valuation in January 2025 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025…

Irish fintech NomuPay lands $40M at a $290M valuation from SoftBank | TechCrunch
As global trade evolves, there's an increasing demand for diverse cross-border payment options. That's why an Irish-based fintech startup called NomuPay

Medien: Kiew wurden zwei Optionen für Waffenruhe vorgeschlagen
Russische Unterhändler haben der Ukraine laut Berichten staatlicher russischer Medien zwei Optionen für eine Waffenruhe vorgeschlagen. Die erste Option macht demnach zur Bedingung, dass die Ukraine mit einem Abzug all ihrer Truppen aus den vier ukrainischen Regionen beginnt, die Russland für sich beansprucht. Die zweite Option wäre Teil eines größeren Pakets, das …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ US-Senator Graham rechnet mit scharfen Sanktionen ++
Der republikanische US-Senator Graham zeigt sich in den tagesthemen zuversichtlich, dass scharfe US-Sanktionen gegen Moskau verabschiedet werden. Außenminister Wadephul betont, dass Europa und die USA den Druck auf Putin aufrechterhalten müssen.

Faster negative length shortest paths by bootstrapping hop reducers
Yufan Huang, Peter Jin, Kent Quanrud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00428 https://

Faster negative length shortest paths by bootstrapping hop reducers
The textbook algorithm for real-weighted single-source shortest paths takes $O(m n)$ time on a graph with $m$ edges and $n$ vertices. The breakthrough algorithm by Fineman [Fin24] takes $\tilde{O}(m n^{8/9})$ randomized time. The running time was subsequently improved to $\tilde{O}(mn^{4/5})$ [HJQ25]. We build on [Fin24; HJQ25] to obtain an $\tilde{O}(m n^{3/4} + m^{4/5} n)$ randomized running time. (Equivalently, $\tilde{O}(mn^{3/4})$ for $m \geq n^{5/4}$, and $\tilde{O}(m^{4/5} n)$ for $m \…

Optimal T depth quantum circuits for implementing arbitrary Boolean functions
Suman Dutta, Anik Basu Bhaumik, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Subhamoy Maitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01542

Optimal T depth quantum circuits for implementing arbitrary Boolean functions
In this paper we present a generic construction to obtain an optimal T depth quantum circuit for any arbitrary $n$-input $m$-output Boolean function $f: \{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}^m$ having algebraic degree $k\leq n$, and it achieves an exact Toffoli (and T) depth of $\lceil \log_2 k \rceil$. This is a broader generalization of the recent result establishing the optimal Toffoli (and consequently T) depth for multi-controlled Toffoli decompositions (Dutta et al., Phys. Rev. A, 2025). We achie…

I'm a fucking Anarchist, and I’m not shutting the hell up! Stop trying to convince me otherwise. If you don’t like my path and my knowledge, then I have a damn good option for you!
Move the fuck on with your life. Find new friends, meet new people, connect with those who share your interests. Stop wasting your time trying to change me.
Fuck off telling me to vote in some bullshit election. Stop trying to talk me out of anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism. I’m done with th…

A New Deep-learning-Based Approach For mRNA Optimization: High Fidelity, Computation Efficiency, and Multiple Optimization Factors
Zheng Gong, Ziyi Jiang, Weihao Gao, Deng Zhuo, Lan Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23862

A New Deep-learning-Based Approach For mRNA Optimization: High Fidelity, Computation Efficiency, and Multiple Optimization Factors
The mRNA optimization is critical for therapeutic and biotechnological applications, since sequence features directly govern protein expression levels and efficacy. However, current methods face significant challenges in simultaneously achieving three key objectives: (1) fidelity (preventing unintended amino acid changes), (2) computational efficiency (speed and scalability), and (3) the scope of optimization variables considered (multi-objective capability). Furthermore, existing methods often…

Observation of the Crab Nebula with the Single-Mirror Small-Size Telescope stereoscopic system at low altitude
C. Alispach, A. Araudo, M. Balbo, V. Beshley, J. Bla\v{z}ek, J. Borkowski, S. Boula, T. Bulik, F. Cadoux, S. Casanova, A. Christov, J. Chudoba, L. Chytka, P. \v{C}echvala, P. D\v{e}dic, D. della Volpe, Y. Favre, M. Garczarczyk, L. Gibaud, T. Gieras, E. G{\l}owacki, P. Hamal, M. Heller, M. Hrabovsk\'y, P. Jane\v{c}ek, M. Jel\'inek, V. J\'ilek, J. Jury\v{s}ek, V. Kar…

Observation of the Crab Nebula with the Single-Mirror Small-Size Telescope stereoscopic system at low altitude
The Single-Mirror Small-Size Telescope (SST-1M) stereoscopic system is composed of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) designed for optimal performance for gamma-ray astronomy in the multi-TeV energy range. It features a 4-meter-diameter tessellated mirror dish and an innovative SiPM-based camera. Its optical system features a 4-m diameter spherical mirror dish based on the Davies-Cotton design, maintaining a good image quality over a large FoV while minimizing optical aberrati…

Since migrating away from big tech platforms (including Google Drive) I have been using Libreoffice for my writing and presentations.
I often get asked why I do not use OnlyOffice since it looks so much better (especially the web client). Two answers:
- The presentation tools of OnlyOffice are too barebones
But more importantly:
OnlyOffice is a company that seems to be controlled by a Russian guy who invests a lot of time to hide the fact that OnlyOffice is Russian (see…

Comparing Collabora with OnlyOffice
Collabora Online provides excellent interoperabilty, efficient backend for scalability, best privacy, and a rich interface for cooperation and editing docx, xlsx, pptx and odf

It's June, so I've got my Javastation off the shelf for the first time in a couple of decades. This is a Javastation Krups, with 100MHz sparc, sold as a diskless workstation. I never realised it had a PPP ROM boot in! Anyway, I should get on and set up networking and a boot server.
(Note: the plastic on the clips on the doors is fragile, 2 just pinged off on me)
#retrocomputing

02:31—Good Night #Fediverse! 😴💤
I just made myself a new banner for myself, using (mostly) open source software. The only exception was that I used a random website to add an outline to my Rudolf Rocker image, I was too lazy to get out of bed and use GIMP on my PC for that step. For everything else, I used this tool from GitHub: