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North Carolina-based Eton Solutions, which offers wealth management ERP tools for single- and multifamily offices, raised a $58M Series C led by Navis Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/07/16/eton-solutions-58m-fam…

Exclusive: Eton Solutions raises $58M for family office ERP
The company's tech provides a single source of truth for the ultra-rich.

Kostenfalle In-App-Kauf: Eltern haften nicht immer fürs Kind
Auch als kostenlos beworbene Handy- und Computerspiele können teure Rechnungen nach sich ziehen. Eltern sollten darum genau wissen, was ihr Nachwuchs treibt.

Oh dear, they really need to sort themselves out and pronto.
Corbyn and Sultana clash over new party membership
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkn3v1e7g3o

Corbyn and Sultana clash over new party membership
MP Zarah Sultana says she is a victim of a "sexist boys' club" in row over setting up new left wing party.

Exploratory Movement Strategies for Texture Discrimination with a Neuromorphic Tactile Sensor
Xingchen Xu, Ao Li, Benjamin Ward-Cherrier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14954 https:/…

Exploratory Movement Strategies for Texture Discrimination with a Neuromorphic Tactile Sensor
We propose a neuromorphic tactile sensing framework for robotic texture classification that is inspired by human exploratory strategies. Our system utilizes the NeuroTac sensor to capture neuromorphic tactile data during a series of exploratory motions. We first tested six distinct motions for texture classification under fixed environment: sliding, rotating, tapping, as well as the combined motions: sliding+rotating, tapping+rotating, and tapping+sliding. We chose sliding and sliding+rotating …

Regimes and Transitions of the Nonlinear Temporal Talbot Effect: Underlying Mechanism for A-Type Breathers, Soliton Crystals, and Soliton Gas
Marina Zajnulina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12494

Regimes and Transitions of the Nonlinear Temporal Talbot Effect: Underlying Mechanism for A-Type Breathers, Soliton Crystals, and Soliton Gas
A frequency comb from a phase-modulated continuous-wave laser is subject to the temporal Talbot effect and modulational instability in an optical fiber or semiconductor. Using Soliton Radiation Beat Analysis and a dispersion relation for comb lines, I identify distinct regimes of the nonlinear Talbot effect of A-type breathers, soliton crystals, and soliton gas that arise from varying hierarchies of self-phase modulation, cross-phase modulation, and the type of four-wave mixing (regular vs. cas…

On the N-elliptic localized solutions to the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation and their asymptotic analysis
Liming Ling, Wang Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12882

On the N-elliptic localized solutions to the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation and their asymptotic analysis
We parameterize the elliptic function solutions to the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger (DNLS) equation with four independent parameters and generate two equivalent forms of N-elliptic localized solutions to the DNLS equation through the Darboux-Bäcklund transformation. The N-elliptic localized solutions are expressed as (the derivative of) the ratios of determinants with entries in terms of Weierstrass sigma functions. Moreover, the asymptotic behaviors of both forms of N-elliptic localized …

To add a single example here (feel free to chime in with your own):
Problem: editing code is sometimes tedious because external APIs require boilerplate.
Solutions:
- Use LLM-generated code. Downsides: energy use, code theft, potential for legal liability, makes mistakes, etc. Upsides: popular among some peers, seems easy to use.
- Pick a better library (not always possible).
- Build internal functions to centralize boilerplate code, then use those (benefits: you get a better understanding of the external API, and a more-unit-testable internal code surface; probably less amortized effort).
- Develop a non-LLM system that actually reasons about code at something like the formal semantics level and suggests boilerplate fill-ins based on rules, while foregrounding which rules it's applying so you can see the logic behind the suggestions (needs research).
Obviously LLM use in coding goes beyond this single issue, but there are similar analyses for each potential use of LLMs in coding. I'm all cases there are:
1. Existing practical solutions that require more effort (or in many cases just seem to but are less-effort when amortized).
2. Near-term researchable solutions that directly address the problem and which would be much more desirable in the long term.
Thus in addition to disastrous LLM effects on the climate, on data laborers, and on the digital commons, they tend to suck us into cheap-seeming but ultimately costly design practices while also crowding out better long-term solutions. Next time someone suggests how useful LLMs are for some task, try asking yourself (or them) what an ideal solution for that task would look like, and whether LLM use moves us closer to or father from a world in which that solution exists.

Ukraine's defense, digital ministries coordinate to scale drone solutions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/ukraines-defense-digital-ministries-coordinate.html

»Datenschutzstreit – USA stoppen britische Apple-Hintertür:
Die USA haben Großbritannien erfolgreich dazu gedrängt, die Forderung nach einem Zugang zu verschlüsselten Apple-Nutzerdaten aufzugeben.«
Erst Britanien dann wer noch alles? Dies hat nichts mit Sicherheit zu tun, sondern ist ein schamloses Aushorchen für den eigenen Profit.
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Datenschutzstreit: USA stoppen britische Apple-Hintertür - Golem.de
Die USA haben Großbritannien erfolgreich dazu gedrängt, die Forderung nach einem Zugang zu verschlüsselten Apple-Nutzerdaten aufzugeben.

Auslieferung mit Bug: iPhone Air und iPhone 17 Pro mit seltenem Kameraproblem
Unter bestimmten Umständen ergänzt die Kamera der neuen Geräte merkwürdige schwarze Flächen. Es soll ein Update geben.