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In #Berlin stammt rund drei Viertel des Mikroplastiks in Gewässern aus #Reifenabrieb.
Studien belegen, dass geringere #Geschwindigkeit den Abrieb reduziert, doch ein

Gefahren durch Mikroplastik: Langsam fahren hilft – aber nur freiwillig
Der Löwenanteil des Mikroplastiks in Berliner Gewässern kommt durch Reifenabrieb zustande. Mehr Tempolimits soll es deshalb aber nicht geben.

Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with new regulations, including EU's DSA, the UK Online Safety Act, and the US Take It Down Act (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/bluesky-roll…

Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines | TechCrunch
Some of the changes represent an effort by Bluesky to purposefully shape its community and the behavior of its users, nudging them to be nicer and more respectful of others.

Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with new regulations, including the EU DSA, UK Online Safety Act, and US Take It Down Act (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/bluesky-rolls-out-mass…

Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines | TechCrunch
Some of the changes represent an effort by Bluesky to purposefully shape its community and the behavior of its users, nudging them to be nicer and more respectful of others.

Mastodon's latest update readies the app for Quote Posts, revamps design
Mastodon’s implementation of the Quote Post, however, aims to implement the feature in a way that will limit its ability to be used for hate and harassment.
:mastodon: https://

Mastodon's latest update readies the app for Quote Posts, revamps design | TechCrunch
Mastodon 4.4 takes the first steps towards implementing Quote Posts, and also brings a host of design and UX changes.

A Fast Coloring Oracle for Average Case Hypergraphs
Cassandra Marcussen, Edward Pyne, Ronitt Rubinfeld, Asaf Shapira, Shlomo Tauber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10691

A Fast Coloring Oracle for Average Case Hypergraphs
Hypergraph $2$-colorability is one of the classical NP-hard problems. Person and Schacht [SODA'09] designed a deterministic algorithm whose expected running time is polynomial over a uniformly chosen $2$-colorable $3$-uniform hypergraph. Lee, Molla, and Nagle recently extended this to $k$-uniform hypergraphs for all $k\geq 3$. Both papers relied heavily on the regularity lemma, hence their analysis was involved and their running time hid tower-type constants. Our first result in this paper is…

Ford CEO Jim Farley is gearing up to compete with Chinese EVs by revamping their assembly line and introducing a new electric truck in 2027. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

The American Car Industry Can’t Go On Like This
Ford is taking drastic steps to compete with China’s cheap EVs. Even that might not be enough.

Unifying equivalences across unsupervised learning, network science, and imaging/network neuroscience
Mika Rubinov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10045 https://

Unifying equivalences across unsupervised learning, network science, and imaging/network neuroscience
Modern scientific fields face the challenge of integrating a wealth of data, analyses, and results. We recently showed that a neglect of this integration can lead to circular analyses and redundant explanations. Here, we help advance scientific integration by describing equivalences that unify diverse analyses of datasets and networks. We describe equivalences across analyses of clustering and dimensionality reduction, network centrality and dynamics, and popular models in imaging and network n…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
Mara Simpson:
🎵 So Far
#MaraSimpson
https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/track/so-far
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RBnVd7IJ9rIoE7hlhmySD

Google is testing an AI-powered Google Finance website in the US, letting users ask questions, access advanced charting tools, view a live news feed, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/08/google-tests-revam…

Google tests revamped Google Finance with AI upgrades, live news feed | TechCrunch
Users will now be able to research their financial questions with AI, access advanced charting tools, and get real-time data and news.

A look at Meta's revamped GenAI strategy, as Mark Zuckerberg poaches top AI talent for the Superintelligence team with a typical offer of $200M over four years (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/07/11/meta-superintellige…

Meta Superintelligence – Leadership Compute, Talent, and Data
Meta’s shocking purchase of 49% of Scale AI at a ~$30B valuation shows that money is of no concern for the $100B annual cashflow ad machine. Despite seemingly unlimited resources, Meta has been fal…