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We only have a small garden, and we mostly grow flowers in containers. Since the end of last week's warm weather the lobelia has been going absolutely great guns, and I popped outside at lunchtime to find five bees happily lapping pollen & nectar from this single container alone.
Elsewhere in the garden there were another 6 or 7 bees and two small white butterflies. This has made my day!
#BloomScrolling #bees

CrowdStrike says it investigated 320 cases of North Korean operatives gaining remote IT jobs in the US, Europe, and elsewhere in its 2025 Threat Hunting Report (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/crowdstrike-north-korean-operatives/

CrowdStrike investigated 320 North Korean IT worker cases in the past year
Threat hunters saw North Korean operatives almost daily, reflecting a 220% year-over-year increase in activity, CrowdStrike said in a new report.

Lies we tell ourselves to keep using #Golang
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to-keep-using-golang

Finland’s been a great surprise. We were told it’s flat and uninteresting but at least around the lakes it’s fantastic. We havnt gone elsewhere to compare but like route 62 is all they say it is. Really amazing place
Lots of gluten free and wheat free options for mt wife also. Super happy with the trip

High-fidelity control of a $^{13}$C nuclear spin coupled to a tin-vacancy center in diamond
Jeremias Resch, Ioannis Karapatzakis, Mohamed Elshorbagy, Marcel Schrodin, Philipp Fuchs, Philipp Gra{\ss}hoff, Luis Kussi, Christoph S\"urgers, Cyril Popov, Christoph Becher, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, David Hunger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03354

High-fidelity control of a $^{13}$C nuclear spin coupled to a tin-vacancy center in diamond
Nuclear spins near group-IV defects in diamond are promising candidates for quantum memories in quantum network applications. Here, we demonstrate high-fidelity control of a single $^{13}$C nuclear spin coupled to a tin-vacancy (SnV) center in diamond. We perform a combination of optical and microwave pumping to achieve initialization into a combined electro-nuclear spin state with a fidelity of $99.74(3)\,\%$. Harnessing a superconducting waveguide for radio-frequency driving, we demonstrate p…

Reasoning under uncertainty in the game of Cops and Robbers
Dazhu Li, Sujata Ghosh, Fenrong Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00004 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

Reasoning under uncertainty in the game of Cops and Robbers
The game of Cops and Robbers is an important model for studying computational queries in pursuit-evasion environments, among others. As recent logical explorations have shown, its structure exhibits appealing analogies with modal logic. In this paper, we enrich the game with a setting in which players may have imperfect information. We propose a new formal framework, Epistemic Logic of Cops and Robbers (ELCR), to make the core notions of the game precise, for instance, players' positions, obser…

On Micro-survey Results - Archived results from some small surveys/polls taken on this site (and elsewhere)... - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-results.html

On Micro-survey Results
Archived results from some small surveys/polls taken on this site (and elsewhere)...

CosinorAge: Unified Python and Web Platform for Biological Age Estimation from Wearable- and Smartwatch-Based Activity Rhythms
Jinjoo Shim, Jacob Hunecke, Elgar Fleisch, Filipe Barata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01089

CosinorAge: Unified Python and Web Platform for Biological Age Estimation from Wearable- and Smartwatch-Based Activity Rhythms
Every day, millions of people worldwide track their steps, sleep, and activity rhythms with smartwatches and fitness trackers. These continuously collected data streams present a remarkable opportunity to transform routine self-tracking into meaningful health insights that enable individuals to understand -- and potentially influence -- their biological aging. Yet most tools for analyzing wearable data remain fragmented, proprietary, and inaccessible, creating a major barrier between this vast …

Tekort aan drinkwater dreigt, beloofde voorraden komen niet van de grond | #Trouw
https://www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid-economie

The article points out that the rise on borrowing and visiting libraries in Denmark is an anomaly in Europe*, which is a pity. It also rightly identified that the number of events, reading groups and a good selection of books are key to get people into libraries. IMHO, the other important factor is the digital side. It's extremely easy to see what books are available and to order from libraries across the whole country on the bibliotek.dk website.
And once you're in the library to collect one thing, it's easy to pick up a few more...
*Citation needed
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114946331036135197
Ruth_Mottram - Last year Danes borrowed 23.6 million paper books from public libraries, plus music, film, games digital loans, with 32.5 million in person library visits. It's increasing annually too.
I'm not surprised, Danish libraries are wonderful, everyone should have this.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/bibliotekernes-udlaan-stiger-tredje-aar-i-traek-vi-elsker-laese-papirboeger