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Sources: Sinclair is launching a strategic review of its broadcast business that could lead to a merger and is looking to separate or spinoff its Ventures unit (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/sinclair-is-exploring-mergers-for…

Sinclair is exploring mergers for its broadcast business
Sinclair, one of the largest owners of broadcast stations in the U.S., is launching a strategic review of its broadcast business that could result in a merger, CNBC has learned.

Unexpected medical consequences of vaccines are real, it would seem. For both HPV vaccine and shingles vaccines.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/unintended-side-effects-hpv-and-shingles-vaccines-reason-for-concern/

Unintended Side Effects HPV and Shingles Vaccines—Reason for Concern
While vaccine debate rages in social media and on Capitol Hill, examination of massive data sets reveals unanticipated effects of the human papilloma virus (HPV) and varicella-zoster (Shingles) vaccin

Xeon-Chefarchitekt: Ingenieur-Urgestein verlässt Intel
Der Kahlschlag bei Intel geht weiter. Senior Fellow Ronak Singhal verlässt Intel zum Monatsende nach 28 Jahren.
https://www.heise.d…

Computation of Singular Godeaux Surfaces and a New Explicit Fake Quadric (With an Appendix by Christian Gleissner and Noah Ruhland)
Carlos Rito, Christian Gleissner, Noah Ruhland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08198

Computation of Singular Godeaux Surfaces and a New Explicit Fake Quadric (With an Appendix by Christian Gleissner and Noah Ruhland)
We present a computational method for detecting highly singular members in families of algebraic varieties. Applying this approach to a family of numerical Godeaux surfaces, we obtain explicit examples with many singularities. In particular, we construct a Godeaux surface whose singular locus consists of two $\mathsf A_1$ and two $\mathsf A_3$ singularities. We show that this surface admits a $\mathbb{Z}/2 \times \mathbb{Z}/4$ abelian cover which is a smooth minimal surface of general type with…

Local news streamer Zeam acquires the NewsOn local broadcast streaming service from Sinclair Broadcast Group (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/zeam-acquires-newson-local-tv-streaming-sinclair-1236487505/

Streaming Platform Zeam Acquires NewsOn From Sinclair Broadcast Group
Streamer Zeam has acquired the NewsOn local TV platform from Sinclair Broadcast Group as Zeam looks to expand its consumer and B-to-B operations.

"Starmer had a chance to thwart the smuggling gangs – with ‘one in, one out’, he has bottled it.
This messy policy won’t deter desperate asylum seekers. It’s more likely to have been created to appease the likes of Nigel Farage."
Diane Taylor in the Guardian.
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For me, if they say I have to use Chrome I extend a middle finger, delete the site if bookmarked and go elsewhere.
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/09/08/chrome-mask-make-firefox-appear-as-chrome-with-a-single-click/

Aspheric lens design proposal for near-perfect mode-matching of a broadband quantum dot micropillar to a single-mode fibre
Yichen Zhang, David Dlaka, James McDougall, James Y Tai, Petros Androvitsaneas, Edmund Harbord, Ruth Oulton, Andrew B. Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06223

Aspheric lens design proposal for near-perfect mode-matching of a broadband quantum dot micropillar to a single-mode fibre
Quantum dots in micropillars are one of the most promising options for a bright, deterministic single photon source. While highly efficient devices (>95%) have been designed, there remains a significant bottleneck that impacts the overall system efficiency: the large numerical aperture of the output mode. This leads to inefficient coupling of emitted photons into single-mode fibre, thus limiting practical integration into quantum computing and communication architectures. We show that with the …

Feedback Control of a Single-Tail Bioinspired 59-mg Swimmer
Conor K. Trygstad, Cody R. Longwell, Francisco M. F. R. Gon\c{c}alves, Elijah K. Blankenship, N\'estor O. P\'erez-Arancibia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07566

Feedback Control of a Single-Tail Bioinspired 59-mg Swimmer
We present an evolved steerable version of the single-tail Fish-&-Ribbon-Inspired Small Swimming Harmonic roBot (FRISSHBot), a 59-mg biologically inspired swimmer, which is driven by a new shape-memory alloy (SMA)-based bimorph actuator. The new FRISSHBot is controllable in the two-dimensional (2D) space, which enabled the first demonstration of feedback-controlled trajectory tracking of a single-tail aquatic robot with onboard actuation at the subgram scale. These new capabilities are the resu…

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
"Single point of failure": 400 Wissenschaftler gegen Chatkontrolle
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