Tootfinder

Sounds like code, if you ask me (I think she's his handler)
Melania Trump pens letter to Putin raising concerns about children
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5456305-melania-trump-pens-letter-to-putin-raising-concerns-about-children/

"Tidal marshes trap microplastics, raising risks for ecosystems and people"
#Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

Tidal marshes trap microplastics, raising risks for ecosystems and people
Freshwater tidal marshes, critical for wildlife and coastal protection, are now serving as microplastic catch basins, according to a team of researchers at Penn State. They recently found that these marshes trap large amounts of diverse plastics, with concentrations and ecological risks increasing downstream.

NFL Week 3 panic meter: Bears, Bengals raising alarms; Chiefs, Giants merit patience https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-3-panic-meter-bears-bengals-raising-alarms-chiefs-giants-merit-patience

Indian on-demand home services provider Urban Company surged 56% in its stock market debut after raising $215M in India's most oversubscribed major IPO of 2025 (Ashutosh Joshi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

India’s Most Popular Big IPO of the Year, Urban Co, Poised to Begin Trading
Urban Co. will begin trading in Mumbai on Wednesday after wrapping up India’s most oversubscribed major initial public offering this year.

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Monday introduced the
Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act
with the aim of raising taxes on companies that pay their executives more than 50 times their workers’ wages.
The legislation would impose penalties starting at 0.5 percentage points for companies with CEO-to-worker pay ratios between 50-to-1 and 100-to-1.
Firms where executives make more than 500 times their workers’ pay would be forced to pay the highest rate.

'Corporate Greed Is Out of Control': Tlaib-Sanders Bill Would Tax Companies for Excessive CEO Pay | Common Dreams
As Elon Musk nears trillionaire status, Bernie Sanders and Rashida Tlaib push for a bill to rein in excessive CEO pay. With CEOs making 600 times more than workers, it's time for corporations to pay their fair share.

Peacock will raise prices by $3 per month for new users starting July 23 and test a $7.99/month ad-supported "Select" tier without sports and some other content (Josef Adalian/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/peacock-price-increase-2025.html

Peacock Is Hiking Prices More Than It Ever Has Before
Peacock is raising prices — by nearly 40 percent on its ad-supported plan and 20 percent on its ad-free plan. The streamer now has the most expensive ad-supported tier on the market.

🤑 Open source X rival Mastodon begins raising funds with new in-app donation feature
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/open-source-x-rival-mastodon-begins-raising-funds-with-new-in-app-donation-feature/

Open source X rival Mastodon begins raising funds with new in-app donation feature | TechCrunch
Mastodon is experimenting with a new way to raise money: in-app donation banners.

Moka Espresso
In 1933, Alfonso Bialetti introduced the Moka Express,
#coffee #espresso

Shanghai-based, US-listed lidar maker Hesai jumped 7.7% in its Hong Kong debut, giving the company a ~$4.5B market cap after raising ~$514M from the IPO (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/markets/equities/chines…

Chinese auto sensor maker Hesai's shares jump 8% in Hong Kong debut
Blacklisted by US, company aims to cement position in AI industrial revolution

MEraser: An Effective Fingerprint Erasure Approach for Large Language Models
Jingxuan Zhang, Zhenhua Xu, Rui Hu, Wenpeng Xing, Xuhong Zhang, Meng Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12551

MEraser: An Effective Fingerprint Erasure Approach for Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly prevalent across various sectors, raising critical concerns about model ownership and intellectual property protection. Although backdoor-based fingerprinting has emerged as a promising solution for model authentication, effective attacks for removing these fingerprints remain largely unexplored. Therefore, we present Mismatched Eraser (MEraser), a novel method for effectively removing backdoor-based fingerprints from LLMs while maintaining …

Beyond PII: How Users Attempt to Estimate and Mitigate Implicit LLM Inference
Synthia Wang, Sai Teja Peddinti, Nina Taft, Nick Feamster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12152 https://…

Beyond PII: How Users Attempt to Estimate and Mitigate Implicit LLM Inference
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can infer personal attributes from seemingly innocuous text, raising privacy risks beyond memorized data leakage. While prior work has demonstrated these risks, little is known about how users estimate and respond. We conducted a survey with 240 U.S. participants who judged text snippets for inference risks, reported concern levels, and attempted rewrites to block inference. We compared their rewrites with those generated by ChatGPT and Rescriber, a …

A Software-Only Post-Processor for Indexed Rotary Machining on GRBL-Based CNCs
Pedro Portugal, Damian D. Venghaus, Diego Lopez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11433 https://

A Software-Only Post-Processor for Indexed Rotary Machining on GRBL-Based CNCs
Affordable desktop CNC routers are common in education, prototyping, and makerspaces, but most lack a rotary axis, limiting fabrication of rotationally symmetric or multi-sided parts. Existing solutions often require hardware retrofits, alternative controllers, or commercial CAM software, raising cost and complexity. This work presents a software-only framework for indexed rotary machining on GRBL-based CNCs. A custom post-processor converts planar toolpaths into discrete rotary steps, executed…

Artificial Intelligence and Journalism: A Systematic Bibliometric and Thematic Analysis of Global Research
Mohammad Al Masum Molla, Md Manjurul Ahsan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10891

Artificial Intelligence and Journalism: A Systematic Bibliometric and Thematic Analysis of Global Research
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping journalistic practices across the globe, offering new opportunities while raising ethical, professional, and societal concerns. This study presents a comprehensive systematic review of published articles on AI in journalism from 2010 to 2025. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020 guidelines, a total of 72 peer-reviewed articles were selected from Scopus and Web of Science databases. The analysis c…

Election deniers now hold posts on local US election boards, raising concerns for midterms | US politics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/election-deniers-midterms-board-offices

Data-driven Smile Design: Personalized Dental Aesthetics Outcomes Using Deep Learning
Marcus Lin, Jennifer Lai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12001 https://arx…

Data-driven Smile Design: Personalized Dental Aesthetics Outcomes Using Deep Learning
A healthy smile plays a significant role in functional as well as esthetic considerations, improving confidence. It is difficult for dental professionals to strike a balance between esthetic requirements and functional requirements. Traditional smile design has had heavy reliance on dentist expertise and used plaster models and hand drawings, raising questions about the outcome for patients. Digital technology, led by Dr. Christian Coachman in 2007, allows photographic and videographic assessme…

> "The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags"
We're living in the backstory lore of a satirical 90s videogame.
https://www.theverge.com/x-ai/775411/grok-xai-safety-musk-warren-hegseth-dod

The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags
Every AI company should be worried about safety. But xAI and Grok should be most concerned. Senator Warren sent Pete Hegseth a letter to that effect.

Nothing raised a $200M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.3B valuation, taking the total funding to $450M , and says it had $1B in total sales in early 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/nothing-cl…

Nothing closes $200M Series C led by Tiger Global, plans AI-first device launch | TechCrunch
Carl Pei's Nothing is raising $200 million in a Series C round from Tiger Global at a $1.3 billion valuation.

Energy-Aware 6G Network Design: A Survey
Rashmi Kamran, Mahesh Ganesh Bhat, Pranav Jha, Shana Moothedath, Manjesh Hanawal, Prasanna Chaporkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11289 ht…

Energy-Aware 6G Network Design: A Survey
6th Generation (6G) mobile networks are envisioned to support several new capabilities and data-centric applications for unprecedented number of users, potentially raising significant energy efficiency and sustainability concerns. This brings focus on sustainability as one of the key objectives in the their design. To move towards sustainable solution, research and standardization community is focusing on several key issues like energy information monitoring and exposure, use of renewable energ…

Toxic “forever chemicals” found in 95% of beers tested in the U.S. #UnitedStates

Toxic “forever chemicals” found in 95% of beers tested in the U.S.
Forever chemicals known as PFAS have turned up in an unexpected place: beer. Researchers tested 23 different beers from across the U.S. and found that 95% contained PFAS, with the highest concentrations showing up in regions with known water contamination. The findings reveal how pollution in municipal water supplies can infiltrate popular products, raising concerns for both consumers and brewers.

Ukraine’s economic crimes bureau remains leaderless amid government interference: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukraines-economic-crimes-bureau-remains.html

The biggest issues facing youth sports? Greg Olsen has strong opinions https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6553294/2025/08/15/greg-olsen-issues-youth-sports/

Pruning Long Chain-of-Thought of Large Reasoning Models via Small-Scale Preference Optimization
Bin Hong, Jiayu Liu, Zhenya Huang, Kai Zhang, Mengdi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10164

Pruning Long Chain-of-Thought of Large Reasoning Models via Small-Scale Preference Optimization
Recent advances in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated strong performance on complex tasks through long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, their lengthy outputs increase computational costs and may lead to overthinking, raising challenges in balancing reasoning effectiveness and efficiency. Current methods for efficient reasoning often compromise reasoning quality or require extensive resources. This paper investigates efficient methods to reduce the generation length of LRM…

Call for Book Chapters - Future Spectralities: Raising Ghosts, Conjuring Black Futurity https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/10/call-for-book-chapters-future-spectralities-raising-ghosts-conjuring…

Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu have raised $5B via bonds this month for AI and digital infra; with JD.com, their combined 2025 AI capex is projected to top $32B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-17…

China’s AI Funding Spree: Why Alibaba, Baidu Are Tapping Bond Markets
Companies in China’s technology sector have been raising billions in capital to advance their artificial intelligence capabilities and other digital infrastructure.

Versatile and Fast Location-Based Private Information Retrieval with Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Torus
Joon Soo Yoo, Taeho Kim, Ji Won Yoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12761

Versatile and Fast Location-Based Private Information Retrieval with Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Torus
Location-based services often require users to share sensitive locational data, raising privacy concerns due to potential misuse or exploitation by untrusted servers. In response, we present VeLoPIR, a versatile location-based private information retrieval (PIR) system designed to preserve user privacy while enabling efficient and scalable query processing. VeLoPIR introduces three operational modes-interval validation, coordinate validation, and identifier matching-that support a broad range o…

Sources: Lynn Forester de Rothschild is exploring a sale of a ~20% stake in The Economist Group, potentially raising between £200M and £400M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-15/forester-…

Forester de Rothschild Said to Explore Sale of Stake in The Economist Group
Lynn Forester de Rothschild is exploring a sale of a significant minority stake in The Economist Group, marking the first ownership shake-up in a decade at the 182-year-old magazine read by both the political and business elite.

The Raising Humans Kind Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

🔥 Deforestation is killing people by raising local temperatures
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/deforestation-is-killing-people-by-raising-local-temperatures/

Deforestation is killing people by raising local temperatures
For decades, the case for saving tropical forests has been cast in terms of carbon. Trees sequester vast quantities of it; razing them pumps more into the air. But new research reminds us that the destruction of rainforests has consequences that arrive long before the carbon accounting is tallied: It makes people hotter, sometimes lethally […]

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736415
UK Parilament Petition: Raise fuel duty in line with inflation to raise income for critical services
(and to contribute to costs of climate change and other externalities...)

Petition: Raise fuel duty in line with inflation to raise income for critical services
In 2000 fuel duty on petrol was 49p/litre. Since then, it has not risen with inflation, and currently sits at 53p/litre. We believe raising the duty to 93p/litre would raise significant revenue for the Treasury.

Micah Parsons makes eyebrow-raising comment amid Cowboys locker room tension reports https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-makes-eyebrow-raising-comment-amid-dallas-cowboys-locker-room-tension-reports

Get off my lawn!
Octopus arm flexibility facilitates complex behaviors in diverse natural environments.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-10674-y

Wow, FileMerge not only has a new icon, but someone finally fixed the "Use Selection for Find" (Command-E) menu item that's been raising an "unrecognized selector" exception for several years.
Thank you to the team at Apple for giving this ancient NeXT-era tool some love!

ALMA reveals diverse dust-to-gas mass ratios and quenching modes in old quiescent galaxies
Giuliano Lorenzon, Darko Donevski, Allison W. S. Man, Michael Romano, Katherine E. Whitaker, Sirio Belli, Daizhong Liu, Minju M. Lee, Desika Narayanan, Arianna Long, Irene Shivaei, Ambra Nanni, Krzysztof Lisiecki, Prasad Sawant, Giulia Rodighiero, Ivana Damjanov, Junais, Romeel Dave, Ciro Pappalardo, Christopher Lovell, Mahmoud Hamed

ALMA reveals diverse dust-to-gas mass ratios and quenching modes in old quiescent galaxies
Recent discoveries of dust and molecular gas in quiescent galaxies (QGs) up to $z\sim3$ challenge the long-standing view that the interstellar medium depletes rapidly once star formation ceases, raising key questions of whether dust and gas co-evolve in QGs, and how their depletion links to stellar aging. We present deep Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Band~6 continuum and CO(3--2) observations of 17 QGs at $z\sim0.4$ in the COSMOS field. Using the dust-to-molecular gas mass…

Why Raider Nation Will Appreciate New-Look Offense https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-geno-smith-patrick-mahomes-josh-allen-chip-kelly

Soybeans are the second largest crop in the United States.
More than 80 million acres.
American soybean farmers are heading into harvest season without a single order from China,
historically their largest customer,
raising alarm bells about the agricultural sector’s stability and broader implications for the U.S. economy

Farmer says ‘we’re in a very dire situation’ ahead of harvest—with zero soybean orders from China, historically the largest buyer
Caleb Ragland says his pleas to the Trump administration have fallen on deaf ears.

Probability-Raising Causality for Uncertain Parametric Markov Decision Processes with PAC Guarantees
Ryohei Oura, yuji Ito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07319

Probability-Raising Causality for Uncertain Parametric Markov Decision Processes with PAC Guarantees
Recent decision-making systems are increasingly complicated, making it crucial to verify and understand their behavior for a given specification. A promising approach is to comprehensively explain undesired behavior in the systems modeled by Markov decision processes (MDPs) through formal verification and causal reasoning. However, the reliable explanation using model-based probabilistic causal analysis has not been explored when the MDP's transition probabilities are uncertain. This paper prop…

Lee Enterprises adds a $4.99 per month "temporary" surcharge to its newspaper subscriptions, citing inflation and global tariffs (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/tariffs-local-newspapers-prices

Scoop: Dozens of local newspapers raise prices, blaming tariffs
Newsprint was exempted from recent tariffs on Canadian imports, raising questions about the price hikes.

Really enjoyed @…’s thoughtful and entertaining talk at #smashingconf today! Amazing to see how philosophical ideas influenced the design of iA’s apps and what designers can and could learn from philosophy – and vice versa. A lot of food for thought!…

Enforcing Speech Content Privacy in Environmental Sound Recordings using Segment-wise Waveform Reversal
Modan Tailleur, Mathieu Lagrange, Pierre Aumond, Vincent Tourre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08412

Enforcing Speech Content Privacy in Environmental Sound Recordings using Segment-wise Waveform Reversal
Environmental sound recordings often contain intelligible speech, raising privacy concerns that limit analysis, sharing and reuse of data. In this paper, we introduce a method that renders speech unintelligible while preserving both the integrity of the acoustic scene, and the overall audio quality. Our approach involves reversing waveform segments to distort speech content. This process is enhanced through a voice activity detection and speech separation pipeline, which allows for more precise…

Happy Fifth Gotcha Day to Izzy!
On July 11, 2020, we adopted a very scared spaniel who had spent three months in a high kill shelter in South Carolina raising her four puppies, and then being spayed and treated for heartworms. When she was transported from South Carolina to Washington, she was so scared that she didn't want to leave the crate she had ridden in. Then she didn't want to get out of our car when we got to our house. I had to carry her up the front steps to our hou…

Vibe Check: Understanding the Effects of LLM-Based Conversational Agents' Personality and Alignment on User Perceptions in Goal-Oriented Tasks
Hasibur Rahman, Smit Desai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09870

Vibe Check: Understanding the Effects of LLM-Based Conversational Agents' Personality and Alignment on User Perceptions in Goal-Oriented Tasks
Large language models (LLMs) enable conversational agents (CAs) to express distinctive personalities, raising new questions about how such designs shape user perceptions. This study investigates how personality expression levels and user-agent personality alignment influence perceptions in goal-oriented tasks. In a between-subjects experiment (N=150), participants completed travel planning with CAs exhibiting low, medium, or high expression across the Big Five traits, controlled via our novel T…

HISPASpoof: A New Dataset For Spanish Speech Forensics
Maria Risques, Kratika Bhagtani, Amit Kumar Singh Yadav, Edward J. Delp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09155 https://

HISPASpoof: A New Dataset For Spanish Speech Forensics
Zero-shot Voice Cloning (VC) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) methods have advanced rapidly, enabling the generation of highly realistic synthetic speech and raising serious concerns about their misuse. While numerous detectors have been developed for English and Chinese, Spanish-spoken by over 600 million people worldwide-remains underrepresented in speech forensics. To address this gap, we introduce HISPASpoof, the first large-scale Spanish dataset designed for synthetic speech detection and attribut…

3.5 billion euros in new funds pledged for Ukraine's reconstruction after Recovery Conference, ministry says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/billion-euros-in-new-funds.html

When Your Reviewer is an LLM: Biases, Divergence, and Prompt Injection Risks in Peer Review
Changjia Zhu, Junjie Xiong, Renkai Ma, Zhicong Lu, Yao Liu, Lingyao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09912

When Your Reviewer is an LLM: Biases, Divergence, and Prompt Injection Risks in Peer Review
Peer review is the cornerstone of academic publishing, yet the process is increasingly strained by rising submission volumes, reviewer overload, and expertise mismatches. Large language models (LLMs) are now being used as "reviewer aids," raising concerns about their fairness, consistency, and robustness against indirect prompt injection attacks. This paper presents a systematic evaluation of LLMs as academic reviewers. Using a curated dataset of 1,441 papers from ICLR 2023 and NeurIPS 2022, we…

My 8yo crashed the HOA meeting and took notes for us.
I'm not sure if that's a parenting win or fail (raising NIMBYs?)

Electronic and optical properties of the thio-apatites phases Ba$_5$(VS$_{\alpha}$O$_{\beta}$)$_3$X [X=Cl, F, Br, I]: impact of multiple anionic substitution
Smritijit Sen, Houria Kabbour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08308

Electronic and optical properties of the thio-apatites phases Ba$_5$(VS$_α$O$_β$)$_3$X [X=Cl, F, Br, I]: impact of multiple anionic substitution
A systematic study of the electronic structure and optical properties of the thio-apatites Ba$_5$(VS$_α$O$_β$)$_3$X (X= Cl, F, Br, I) is carried out through first principles density functional theory simulations. The band gap and properties evolution from fluorine to iodine on fixed O/S ratios, as well as by substituting sulfur (S) for oxygen (O) are discussed. The reduction of the band gap by raising valence band energy levels, with an increasing S/O ratio can also be further modulated by th…

Attendees of Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit erupted in boos over the Trump administration’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein,
the deceased child predator.
Top MAGA leaders criticized the White House from stage and on their wide-reaching social media accounts throughout the weekend,
-- attacking not only Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, for declining to release more on the investigation and potential Epstein associates,
-- but raising questi…

MAGA leaders sound alarm about discontented Trump base: ‘A huge risk’
At the Turning Point USA conference in Tampa, the young MAGA faithful boils over the Epstein memo saga and boos talk of protecting immigrant workers.

Forgetting for a moment you 2 chuckle fucks invaded DC w/the military just to have them add mulch to parks (that's your raising up warriors?!) but chess playing computer, Big Blue, beat human players not by trying to make the most winning move, but by making the move least likely to lose.
How about kegseth the Ax Tosser and the Bone Spur in Chief google the phrase "game theory" learn a thing or 2 and update the group chat from there, you dumb bastards.

What happens when bees can’t buzz right? Nature starts falling apart #nature

What happens when bees can’t buzz right? Nature starts falling apart
High heat and heavy metals dampen a bumblebee’s trademark buzz, threatening pollen release and colony chatter. Tiny sensors captured up-to-400-hertz tremors that falter under environmental stress, raising alarms for ecosystems and sparking ideas for pollination robots.

Call for Book Chapters - Future Spectralities: Raising Ghosts, Conjuring Black Futurity
https://ift.tt/g5Z9TUe
updated: Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 3:35pmfull name / name of organization: Viola Marchi…
via Input 4 RELCFP

JWST Discovery of Warm Dust in the #Circumgalactic Medium of the Makani Galaxy: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adee91 -> Astronomer Sylvain Veilleux helped to detect dust far outside the body of a galaxy in a reservoir of hot gas, raising questions about how these particles survived such a long and volatile journey: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/umd-led-study-discovers-warm-space-dust-distant-place

The Dual Role of Low-Weight Pauli Propagation: A Flawed Simulator but a Powerful Initializer for Variational Quantum Algorithms
Zong-Liang Li, Shi-Xin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06358

The Dual Role of Low-Weight Pauli Propagation: A Flawed Simulator but a Powerful Initializer for Variational Quantum Algorithms
Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) rely on a classical optimizer to tune a parameterized quantum circuit, raising the question of whether classical methods can assist in this process. In this work, we investigate the low-weight Pauli propagation (LWPP) algorithm as a potential classical tool for simulating the VQA circuit. We first find that LWPP is an unreliable estimator of the true energy, limiting its utility as a direct simulator. However, we uncover its real value: despite this numeric…

A Characterization Framework for Stable Sets and Their Variants
Athanasios Andrikopoulos, Nikolaos Sampanis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09798 https://arxiv.…

A Characterization Framework for Stable Sets and Their Variants
The theory of optimal choice sets offers a well-established solution framework in social choice and game theory. In social choice theory, decision-making is typically modeled as a maximization problem. However, when preferences are cyclic -- as can occur in economic processes -- the set of maximal elements may be empty, raising the key question of what should be considered a valid choice. To address this issue, several approaches -- collectively known as general solution theories -- have been p…

"‘Pitfalls of AI technology’: Rosenberg speaks out on financial scam using his likeness"
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/2025/07/07/pitfalls-of-ai-technology-rosenberg-speaks-out-…

Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal launches Parallel Web Systems to build infrastructure for AI agents to search the web, raising $30M from Khosla Ventures and others (Bloomberg)

"Climate change turns Alpine glaciers into ‘Swiss cheese’, raising water and power concerns"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Climate change is turning Switzerland's glaciers into ‘Swiss cheese’
Glacier shrinkage has wide impacts on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels, and border tensions when it comes to cross-boundary rivers.

VOTER: “West Virginia has 4 members of Congress…
none of them are willing to come here and do what you’re doing.
What can we do?”
BERNIE: “We need a political revolution.
We need to elect people accountable to the working class
rather than raising money from billionaires.”
https://

Nick Sirianni admits he wasn't aware of Eagles raising Super Bowl banner: How Philly has quickly moved on

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nick-si

Call for Book Chapters - Future Spectralities: Raising Ghosts, Conjuring Black Futurity
https://ift.tt/g5Z9TUe
updated: Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 3:35pmfull name / name of organization: Viola Marchi…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Enhancing Privacy in Decentralized Min-Max Optimization: A Differentially Private Approach
Yueyang Quan, Chang Wang, Shengjie Zhai, Minghong Fang, Zhuqing Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07505

Enhancing Privacy in Decentralized Min-Max Optimization: A Differentially Private Approach
Decentralized min-max optimization allows multi-agent systems to collaboratively solve global min-max optimization problems by facilitating the exchange of model updates among neighboring agents, eliminating the need for a central server. However, sharing model updates in such systems carry a risk of exposing sensitive data to inference attacks, raising significant privacy concerns. To mitigate these privacy risks, differential privacy (DP) has become a widely adopted technique for safeguarding…

Oklahoma State AD Chad Weiberg's contract will be 'addressed in due time,' school official says https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/cowboys/2025/09/12/oklahoma-state-at…

Sources: Groq has talked with investors about raising $300M to $500M at a $6B post-investment valuation, which would double its $2.8B valuation from August 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-challenger…

Nvidia Challenger Groq Discusses $6 Billion Valuation
Groq, an Nvidia challenger that develops chips to power large language models, has talked to investors about raising between $300 million to $500 million at a $6 billion post-investment valuation, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising effort. The deal discussions come ...

Shares of transit software company Via closed at $49.51 in their NYSE debut, above the $46 IPO price, giving Via a market cap of ~$3.9B, after raising $492.9M (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/via-s…

Via shrugs off tepid open to end first day of trading slightly above IPO price | TechCrunch
Transit tech software startup Via had its IPO debut on Friday, starting at below offering price before rising to close at nearly $50.

Interpretability as Alignment: Making Internal Understanding a Design Principle
Aadit Sengupta, Pratinav Seth, Vinay Kumar Sankarapu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08592 https://

Interpretability as Alignment: Making Internal Understanding a Design Principle
Large neural models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings, raising concerns about whether their behavior reliably aligns with human values. Interpretability provides a route to internal transparency by revealing the computations that drive outputs. We argue that interpretability especially mechanistic approaches should be treated as a design principle for alignment, not an auxiliary diagnostic tool. Post-hoc methods such as LIME or SHAP offer intuitive but correlational explanations…

Proactive AI Adoption can be Threatening: When Help Backfires
Dana Harari, Ofra Amir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09309 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09309

Proactive AI Adoption can be Threatening: When Help Backfires
Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants are increasingly embedded in workplace tools, raising the question of how initiative-taking shapes adoption. Prior work highlights trust and expectation mismatches as barriers, but the underlying psychological mechanisms remain unclear. Drawing on self-affirmation and social exchange theories, we theorize that unsolicited help elicits self-threat, reducing willingness to accept assistance, likelihood of future use, and performance expectancy. We report tw…

DP-FedLoRA: Privacy-Enhanced Federated Fine-Tuning for On-Device Large Language Models
Honghui Xu, Shiva Shrestha, Wei Chen, Zhiyuan Li, Zhipeng Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09097

DP-FedLoRA: Privacy-Enhanced Federated Fine-Tuning for On-Device Large Language Models
As on-device large language model (LLM) systems become increasingly prevalent, federated fine-tuning enables advanced language understanding and generation directly on edge devices; however, it also involves processing sensitive, user-specific data, raising significant privacy concerns within the federated learning framework. To address these challenges, we propose DP-FedLoRA, a privacy-enhanced federated fine-tuning framework that integrates LoRA-based adaptation with differential privacy in a…

American neo-Nazis love the Trump era.
“[Trump] awakened a lot of people to the issues we’ve been raising for years.
He’s the best thing that’s happened to us.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/american-nazis…

Study reveals uneven land sinking across New Orleans, raising flood-risk concerns https://phys.org/news/2025-06-reveals-uneven-orleans.html
New Orleans is sinking—and so are its $15 billion flood defenses

Study reveals uneven land sinking across New Orleans, raising flood-risk concerns
Parts of New Orleans and its surrounding wetlands are gradually sinking, and while most of the city remains stable, a new study from Tulane University researchers suggests that sections of the region's $15 billion post-Katrina flood protection system may need regular upgrades to outpace long-term land subsidence.

Brazil suspends Amazon Soy Moratorium, raising fears of deforestation spike
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/brazil-suspends-amazon-soy-moratorium-raising-fears-of-deforestation-spike/

Dallas Cowboys' Trevon Diggs has eyebrow-raising top-5 quarterback list https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-trevon-diggs-has-eyebrow-raising-top-5-quarterback-list

Sources: Polymarket considers an offer valuing it at ~$9B, up from $1B in the summer; Kalshi is close to raising money at a $5B valuation, up from $2B in June (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/pr

Prediction Startup Polymarket Fields Offer for $9 Billion Valuation; Kalshi Nears $5 Billion Financing
Startups that enable people to bet on events such as the New York mayoral race, NFL games and the Federal Reserve rate decisions are in talks to raise more money at multi-billion-dollar valuations, as trading volume and rivalry between the two apps intensifies. Polymarket has considered an offer ...

"Illinois farmers find that sheep and solar arrays go well together"
#US #USA #America #Energy

Illinois farmers find that sheep and solar arrays go well together
The agrivoltaics practice of raising sheep under solar panels is a win-win for Illinois farmers — but first the market for lamb meat needs to grow.

Who Gets Seen in the Age of AI? Adoption Patterns of Large Language Models in Scholarly Writing and Citation Outcomes
Farhan Kamrul Khan, Hazem Ibrahim, Nouar Aldahoul, Talal Rahwan, Yasir Zaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08306

Who Gets Seen in the Age of AI? Adoption Patterns of Large Language Models in Scholarly Writing and Citation Outcomes
The rapid adoption of generative AI tools is reshaping how scholars produce and communicate knowledge, raising questions about who benefits and who is left behind. We analyze over 230,000 Scopus-indexed computer science articles between 2021 and 2025 to examine how AI-assisted writing alters scholarly visibility across regions. Using zero-shot detection of AI-likeness, we track stylistic changes in writing and link them to citation counts, journal placement, and global citation flows before and…

PitchBook: 27 VC-backed companies went public in the US in the first half of 2025, the smallest number in at least 10 years, raising a total of $44.4B (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The U.S. military B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the coordinated strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House
-- but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.
The White House confirmed to Military.com that those involved in the mission, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, were invited to the White House's July 4 celebration.
It follows comments mad…

Pilots Who Conducted Iran Strikes Invited to White House on July 4, Raising Security Concerns
The B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House, but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.

Raising awareness of the unseen environmental impacts of floods #environment

Raising awareness of the unseen environmental impacts of floods
Just recently, the world watched as many people were injured and dozens died after a torrential flood swept through a Texas town early in July.

ScamDetect: Towards a Robust, Agnostic Framework to Uncover Threats in Smart Contracts
Pasquale De Rosa, Pascal Felber, Valerio Schiavoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07094 https:…

ScamDetect: Towards a Robust, Agnostic Framework to Uncover Threats in Smart Contracts
Smart contracts have transformed decentralized finance by enabling programmable, trustless transactions. However, their widespread adoption and growing financial significance have attracted persistent and sophisticated threats, such as phishing campaigns and contract-level exploits. Traditional transaction-based threat detection methods often expose sensitive user data and interactions, raising privacy and security concerns. In response, static bytecode analysis has emerged as a proactive mitig…

E2B, formerly FoundryLabs, which is developing an open-source, sandboxed cloud infrastructure for AI agents, raised a $21M Series A led by Insight Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/28/e2

E2B shares its vision of sandboxed, cloud environments for every AI agent after raising $21M in funding - SiliconANGLE
E2B shares its vision of sandboxed, cloud environments for every AI agent after raising $21M in funding - SiliconANGLE

Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Gaps: The Impact of GenAI and Search Technologies on Retention
Mahir Akgun, Sacip Toker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07357 https:…

Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Gaps: The Impact of GenAI and Search Technologies on Retention
The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) tools, such as ChatGPT, has transformed how students access and engage with information, raising questions about their impact on learning outcomes and retention. This study investigates how GenAI (ChatGPT), search engines (Google), and e-textbooks influence student performance across tasks of varying cognitive complexity, based on Bloom's Taxonomy. Using a sample of 123 students, we examined performance in three tasks: [1] knowing and understanding, [2] applyin…

Sources: Zerohash, which provides crypto and stablecoin infrastructure, is raising ~$100M at a ~$1B valuation, up from $340M when it raised a Series D in 2022 (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/11/

Exclusive: Crypto and stablecoin infrastructure startup zerohash to raise $100 million at almost $1 billion valuation
The company is the latest beneficiary of venture capital’s booming interest in stablecoins.

Drilling for fresh water under the salt water off Cape Cod, Expedition 501 extracted thousands of samples from what is now thought to be a massive, hidden aquifer stretching from New Jersey as far north as Maine.
https://apnews.com/article/freshwater-

Scientists tap fresh water under the sea, raising hopes for a thirsty world
Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive reservoirs deep under the ocean. Their consortium of more than a dozen nations sank pipes through the seabed muck off Cape Cod this summer to see how old that water is, what organisms live in it and whether it is a renewable resource that could someday slake the planet’s growing thirst. Their search comes as the U.N. forecasts that the global demand for fresh water will exceed …

In 2030, OpenAI projects $200B in revenue, with R&D spending hitting ~45% of that, or ~$90B; R&D costs of Alphabet and others are currently 10%-20% of revenue (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-350-billion-computing-co…

OpenAI’s $350 Billion Computing Cost Problem
The most popular consumer internet services usually figure out how to make money even after a decade or more of losses. Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Snap all started generating cash by raising prices or leveraging their large audiences to sell ads or other services. OpenAI’s growing audience would ...

Some of the country’s largest liberal foundations are quietly working to raise at least $250 million
to help civil groups push back against President Trump and what they see as his steady drift toward authoritarianism.
The effort is in its early days,
working to secure initial commitments.
But the scale of the collaborative undertaking has turned heads in the tightly networked world of philanthropy.
It comes as donors are licking their wounds and many efforts to …

Liberal Fund-Raising Drive Seeks $250 Million to Aid Pushback Against Trump
Donors hope to raise huge sums of money to help those fighting what they see as a drift toward authoritarianism, but without attracting unwanted White House attention.

Economists are watching closely for more signs that President Trump's trade war is raising prices for consumers
and reigniting the nation's inflation problem.
An indicator closely watched by the Federal Reserve showed mixed progress on inflation in July:
overall numbers held steady,
but a key gauge heated up for the fourth straight month.

Fed's go-to inflation gauge creeps higher as trade war ramps up
Economists are watching for more signs the trade war is raising prices for consumers.

Sources: Periodic Labs, which is building AI for material science, is raising $200M led by a16z, valuing the company at $1B before the investment (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

An over $242M Polymarket bet on whether President Zelenskyy would wear a suit before July closed as "No" despite claims he did, raising governance concerns (Sebastian Sinclair/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/329210/polymarket-rules-no-237m-bet-zelenskyys

Polymarket Rules 'No' on $237M Controversial Bet Over Zelenskyy's Suit
Discontent over the market’s resolution has reignited scrutiny of UMA’s dispute system and the influence of large Polymarket stakeholders.

Sources: LangChain, which helps developers use off-the-shelf AI models to create new apps, raised $100M led by IVP at a $1.1B valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/07/…

AI Startup LangChain Is In Talks To Raise $100 Million
The startup, which sources say is raising at a $1.1 billion valuation, helps developers at companies like Klarna and Rippling use off-the-shelf AI models to create new applications.

South Korean AI chip design firm DeepX partners with Baidu on industrial AI projects, as sources say it is preparing to raise a round above its $79M Series C (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

AI Chip Firm DeepX Hires Morgan Stanley for Funding Before IPO
South Korean AI chip designer DeepX Co. has hired Morgan Stanley to assist with a round of capital-raising ahead of a potential initial public offering in 2027.

Bit Digital-owned AI infrastructure company WhiteFiber closed down 4.59% in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $159.4M in an IPO, valuing the company at $619M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-06/whitefiber…

Ticketing platform StubHub plans to sell ~34M shares at $22 to $25 in its IPO, valuing it at up to $9.2B and raising up to $851M, after delaying an IPO in April (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/t…

Cloud security software company Netskope plans to sell 47.8M shares at $15 to $17 in its IPO, valuing it at up to $6.5B and raising up to $813M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/cybersecurity-firm-netskope-eyes-up-65-billi…

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, and startup staff, raising tax-free gains from $10M to $15M (Robert Frank/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/trump-big-beautiful-…

Top five tax changes for the wealthy in Trump's 'big beautiful bill'
Taxpayers earning $1 million or more are expected to see a boost in after-tax income of about 3% under Trump's megabill.

Sources: Ramp is in talks to raise $350M led by Iconiq at a ~$21B valuation, after raising $200M at a $16B valuation in June (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ramp-talks-raise-21-billion-valuation-30-june-financing

Ramp in Talks to Raise at $21 Billion Valuation, Up 30% From June Financing
Ramp, a six-year-old corporate card and expense management startup, is in discussions with investors to raise $350 million at a valuation of about $21 billion with the investment, according to three people with direct knowledge of the fundraising, just a month after raising at a $16 billion ...

Source: AI contractor marketplace Mercor has received investment offers valuing it as high as $10B, just six months after raising $100M at a $2B valuation (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mercor-field…

Mercor Fields $10 Billion-Valuation Offers in ‘Pre-emptive’ Onslaught
The frothiness of the artificial intelligence boom is starting to look like 1999…or 2021. Startups are again receiving unsolicited investment interest months or even weeks after announcing a fundraising, sometimes at prices that would more than double their valuation. The latest is Mercor, a ...

Bullish, a digital asset exchange and CoinDesk owner, plans to sell 20.3M shares at $28 to $31 in a US IPO, raising up to $629.3M at an up to $4.2B valuation (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Honeywell's Quantinuum raised $600M from Quanta, Nvidia's NVentures, and others at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in January 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-04/nvid…

Sony says it is raising PlayStation 5 prices by $50 for all models in the US due to a "challenging economic environment", starting on August 21 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/762410/sony-ps5-price-hike-raise-digital-pro

Sony is raising PS5 prices, starting tomorrow
Sony is increasing the price of all models of the PS5 in the US by $50, effective August 21st.

Sources: Crusoe is discussing raising $1B at a $10B valuation; the company, which is helping build OpenAI's first Stargate facility, had $250M revenue in 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/crusoe-talks-raise-money-10-bill…

OpenAI’s Data Center Provider in Talks to Raise Money at $10 Billion Valuation
Crusoe, the developer behind OpenAI’s first Stargate data center, is discussing raising funds at a $10 billion valuation—more than three times its valuation less than a year ago, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising talks. The seven-year-old company wants to raise at ...