Tootfinder

US delays Patriot deliveries to Switzerland, prioritizes Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/us-delays-patriot-deliveries-to.html

Transparent and Fair Profiling in Employment Services: Evidence from Switzerland
Tim R\"az
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11847 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Transparent and Fair Profiling in Employment Services: Evidence from Switzerland
Long-term unemployment (LTU) is a challenge for both jobseekers and public employment services. Statistical profiling tools are increasingly used to predict LTU risk. Some profiling tools are opaque, black-box machine learning models, which raise issues of transparency and fairness. This paper investigates whether interpretable models could serve as an alternative, using administrative data from Switzerland. Traditional statistical, interpretable, and black-box models are compared in terms of p…

#proton

Very much loved this article about a rattled #Switzerland after the imposed 39% tariffs:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Switzerland proposes regulations forcing service providers to collect user IDs and disable encryption, threatening its status as a haven for privacy tech firms (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/switzerland-digital-privacy-law-proton-priv…

Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
Switzerland-based providers of secure email, VPNs and other digital services say a pending government proposal would be catastrophic to their ability to protect the privacy of users.

They move to ... Germany (partly)
https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/115040366123200972

"Swiss River Cleanup Sets a Global Example"
#Switzerland #Environment
https://happyeconews.com/swiss-river-c

Swiss River Cleanup Sets a Global Example | Happy Eco News
The Swiss river cleanup turned once-polluted waters into safe, swimmable spaces through strict laws, modern sewage systems, and major investments. Today, Swiss cities enjoy crystal-clear rivers, setting a global example. Their continued efforts to remove micropollutants show how clean water benefits public health, community well-being, and the environment.

PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/pfas-forever-chemicals-found-in-98-of-us-waters-tested/

PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested
A recent study from the U.S.-based environmental nonprofit Waterkeeper Alliance has found “forever chemicals” contamination in 98% of the waterways it tested in the United States. The findings come at a time when representatives from the world are gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for the United Nations plastics treaty negotiations to hammer out a plan to […]

Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
The Swiss government could soon require service providers with more than 5,000 users to collect government-issued identification, retain subscriber data for six months and, in many cases, disable encryption.
🇨🇭 https://

Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
Swiss-based providers of secure email, VPNs and other digital services say a pending government proposal would be catastrophic to their ability to protect the privacy of users.

It's a beautiful day for a trip to Milan from Zurich.
#SBB #traintravel #switzerland

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[2/2]:
- Transparent and Fair Profiling in Employment Services: Evidence from Switzerland
Tim R\"az

"Switzerland Rolls Out Labels Flagging Animal Suffering In Food Products"
#Switzerland #Animals #Food

Switzerland Rolls Out Labels Flagging Animal Suffering In Food Products
Switzerland is tightening up its food labeling by requiring animal products linked to "painful procedures" to include this information

Trump U.S. Open invitation from Rolex comes after slapping tariff on Switzerland
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/08/trump-us-open-invitation-rolex-tariff-switzerland.html

The government in Switzerland is informing that sensitive information from various federal offices has been impacted by a ransomware attack at the third-party organization Radix.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/switze…

Switzerland says government data stolen in ransomware attack
The government in Switzerland is informing that sensitive information from various federal offices has been impacted by a ransomware attack at the third-party organization Radix.

Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance https://therecord.media/switzerland-digital-privacy-law-proton-privacy-surveillance

Switzerland currently has hazard warnings for
- heavy rain
- flash floods
- strong wind
- droughts
- forest fires
and *drumroll*
- avalanches
The only thing missing is an earthquake.
But it would probably feel to much like Iceland then 😄
#climatechange #meteoswiss

💥 Engineers overcome radiation challenge with custom silicon chips
#electronics

Engineers overcome radiation challenge with custom silicon chips
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is tough on electronics. Situated inside a 17-mile-long tunnel that runs in a circle under the border between Switzerland and France, this massive scientific instrument accelerates particles close to the speed of light before smashing them together. The collisions yield tiny maelstroms of particles and energy that hint at answers to fundamental questions about the building blocks of matter.

@… The East Asian food in Lausanne is IMO much better than Zurich, or pretty much anywhere else in Switzerland. Just saying. 🙃

New Study Shows Google Tracking Persists Even With Privacy Tools
A new SafetyDetectives study reveals the surprising extent of Google tracking across the web in the US, UK, Switzerland, and Sweden. Discover how Google Analytics, AdSense, and YouTube embeds collect your data, even when using DuckDuckGo.
🕵️ https:…

New Study Shows Google Tracking Persists Even With Privacy Tools
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

From inside the aircraft I flew in this morning. According to the inflight map:
1, 2: Somewhere over and near Zvornik, #Bosnia. The river in 2 should be #Drina.
3: Somewhere over #Switzerland with a view of the #Alps.
#photography #amateur #flying #travel #sunrise

Holidays To Switzerland Travel Podcast - Plan Your Swiss Vacation
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/holidays-to-switzerland-travel-podcast/

Fullmoon fun with a cheap cellphone ... the Flimserstein above Flims, Graubünden, Switzerland illuminated solely by #moonlight (the village is pretty dim) - 20 seconds at f/1.79 and ISO 1600; some stars are visible in the brightened sky.

The IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration -- Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2025)
R. Abbasi, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08667

The IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration -- Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2025)
IceCube-Gen2 is a planned next-generation neutrino observatory at the South Pole that builds upon the successful design of IceCube. Integrating two complementary detection technologies for neutrinos, optical and radio Cherenkov emission, in combination with a surface array for cosmic-ray air shower detection, IceCube-Gen2 will cover a broad neutrino energy range from MeV to EeV. This index of contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference in Geneva, Switzerland (July 15-24, 2025)…

#Trump #tradeDeficit #Switzerland
🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭
The reason why Trump is destroying the Swiss economy:
US-Americans want their gold back in the country because they…

Europe pioneers lead-cooled nuclear reactors for clean energy at sea, revolutionizing maritime decarbonization. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Europe bets on lead-cooled nuclear reactors to decarbonize sea vessels
Switzerland's ABB and Sweden's Blykalla have joined their forces to develop a small lead-cooled nuclear reactor for maritime use.

Switzerland ready to give Putin immunity for peace talks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/switzerland-ready-to-give-putin.html

Similarities in the Initiation of Upward Positive and Downward Negative Lightning Flashes
Toma Oregel-Chaumont, Mohammad Azadifar, Antonio \v{S}unjerga, Marcos Rubinstein, Farhad Rachidi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09440

Similarities in the Initiation of Upward Positive and Downward Negative Lightning Flashes
This study examines the relationship between upward negative stepped leader pulses in upward positive lightning and preliminary breakdown pulses (PBPs) in downward negative lightning discharges. Through analysis of simultaneous channel-base current and electric field data from the Säntis tower in Switzerland, we found notable similarities between Category A and B upward positive lightning pulses and the "Classical" and "Narrow" PBPs observed in downward negative flashes. Statistical comparison…

If you're not against the Trump administration and its full-blown destruction of science and democracy.. Then you are for it. So sad to see that this is apparently the path chosen by #DartmouthCollege, so easily contributing to the "divide and conquer" Trump strategy.

How Dartmouth Became the Ivy League’s Switzerland
Rob Wolfe writes about the policy of “institutional restraint” pursued by Sian Beilock, the president of Dartmouth College, in her dealings with student protests and Donald Trump’s Administration.

Report: Swiss deep tech startups have created over $100B in total enterprise value, with 60% of VC funding in Switzerland from 2019 to 2025 going to deep tech (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/26/switzerlands-100b-deeptech-engine-comes-…

Switzerland’s $100B deeptech engine comes Into focus
Today, the launch of The Swiss Deep Tech Report 2025 spotlights how Switzerland has quietly become one of the world’s most advanced and efficient deeptech ecosystems. Curated in close collaboration with Dealroom.co, Startupticker and venture capital firms Founderful and Kickfund, the report is the first of its kind to map the full scope of Switzerland’s deeptech performance - from research institutions and patents to venture activity and late-stage outcomes. With over 1500 Swiss deeptech …

Now with a map indicating the availability and pricing of BMW's #V2G bidirectional wallbox. Do the price differences reflect national support schemes?
https://www.

Once upon a time in Switzerland, heading into the vast land of (rapidly declining) ice, leading through a sea of colors... "Like walking through a painting" never felt more true than on that tour...
(Alt text for more detail)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- 20 Years of the Amaryllis Quartet
The Amaryllis Quartet performs a 20th birthday concert in Switzerland, playing Beethoven, Brahms and a new work by Heinz Holliger.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f9kq

Across the aisle, two couples sit together: 2 british people (in their late 40s) somehow related to the movie/TV business, 2 americans (in their 70s). Talking about places they’ve been, like Prague and entire Slovakia 🧐
Now the younger woman is musing wanting to go to Switzerland once, bc it’s such a dark energy, like the place where Hitler shot himself?
Is she mixing up Hitler with Bruno Ganz?

https://tuta.com/fr/blog/switzerland-surveillance-plan

La Suisse prévoit une surveillance pire que celle des États-Unis | Tuta
La révision de la loi suisse sur la surveillance (VÜPF) viserait directement les fournisseurs de VPN et de services de messagerie et de chat cryptés basés en Suisse.

Who woulda thunk that studying the Star Wars galaxy map would make me understand Switzerland better? #Aargau #CoinDrop
https://www.

Switzerland is stunned

The trip from Hamburg back to Switzerland starts as usual: change of platform, announced with 15; but due to overcrowding, all bets are off.
At least some off the escalators were working in Hamburg Hbf.

The trip from Hamburg back to Switzerland starts as usual: change of platform, announced with 15; but due to overcrowding, all bets are off.
At least some off the escalators were working in Hamburg Hbf.

The trip from Hamburg back to Switzerland starts as usual: change of platform, announced with 15; but due to overcrowding, all bets are off.
At least some off the escalators were working in Hamburg Hbf.

»KI "Made in Switzerland" – Wie in der Schweiz an der Konkurrenz zu ChatGPT getüftelt wird:
Die ETHs in Zürich und Lausanne haben angekündigt, ein eigenes grosses Sprachmodell zu entwickeln. Es soll hohen Ansprüchen genügen.«
Da bin ich mal gespannt wie mensch es mit einem guten Gewissen nutzen kann.
💻

Wie in der Schweiz an der Konkurrenz zu ChatGPT getüftelt wird
ETH und EPFL haben angekündigt, ein eigenes grosses Sprachmodell zu entwickeln – mit hohen Ansprüchen.

🚨Job alert 🚨 Position in #mineralogy and #petrology at Uni Fribourg, Switzerland
https://www.unifr.ch/geo/en/department/job

Deep Learning for Operational High-Resolution Nowcasting in Switzerland Using Graph Neural Networks
Oph\'elia Miralles, Daniele Nerini, Jonas Bhend, Baudouin Raoult, Christoph Spirig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00017

Deep Learning for Operational High-Resolution Nowcasting in Switzerland Using Graph Neural Networks
Recent advances in neural weather forecasting have shown significant potential for accurate short-term forecasts. However, adapting such gridded approaches to smaller, topographically complex regions like Switzerland introduces computational challenges, especially when aiming for high spatial (1 km) and temporal (10 minutes) resolution. This paper presents a Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based approach for high-resolution nowcasting in Switzerland using the Anemoi framework and observational input…

Friendly reminder for my fellow German #NixCon visitors: Vodafone and O2 do not have free roaming in Switzerland, but anything on the Telekom network does.
#NixCon2025

Track transport. No more planes where possible.
First stop Feldmeilen to Zurich
#switzerland #sbb #zvv

writer identity and voice https://patthomson.net/2025/07/30/writer-identity-and-voice/

El Salvador-based Tether says it holds nearly 80 tons of gold, worth ~$8B, in a vault in Switzerland; precious metals made up nearly 5% of its reserves in March (Jack Ryan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Hiking in Saxony Switzerland #154
#NowWatching

Enjoing a few days with the GNU TALER team at a castle in Switzerland. The wallet can carry real electronic cash and even used for offline transactions. Technology is ready to be used, not based on blockchain and really free software.Pilot regions are now being onboarded. I moderated a branding and an #ERPnext demo session and submitted a proposal for @…

Permafrost in Swiss Alps at record warmth #switzerland

Permafrost in Swiss Alps at record warmth
The permafrost in Switzerland's Alps is the warmest since records began, the Swiss Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.

A few weeks ago, GDC'25 (https://globaldigitalcollaboration.org/agenda?day=2025-07-02) was hosted in Geneva, and we got together to discuss many different aspects of digital identity. I was very happy that consensus seems to converge on unlinkability as a non-negotiable…

Global Digital Collaboration Conference (GDC25)
Join the Global Digital Collaboration Conference (GDC25) on July 1-2, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland. Uniting the world for the future of digital public infrastructure.

@… @… the "de" is for the language "Deutsch", though 🙂 Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg ... and everyone else is welcome under

Spin dynamics in natural multiferroic pyroxene NaFeSi$_2$O$_6$
Oleksandr Prokhnenko (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin f\H{u}r Materialien und Energie, Berlin, Germany), Stanislav E. Nikitin (PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland), Koji Kaneko (Materials Sciences Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Japan, Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Japan), Chihiro Tabata (Materials Sciences Research Center, Japan A…

Spin dynamics in natural multiferroic pyroxene NaFeSi$_2$O$_6$
Spin dynamics in the natural mineral aegirine, NaFeSi$_2$O$_6$, a member of the pyroxene family, was studied by elastic and inelastic neutron scattering. Magnetization and specific heat measurements as well as single-crystal neutron diffraction maps, taken in the temperature range 2 - 20 K, confirm two successive magnetic transitions at 8.8 and 5.8 K, consistent with previous studies. The observed spin-wave excitations emerge from the incommensurate magnetic Bragg peaks corresponding to the pro…

And that’s it for #DocEng25! Thanks to all presenters and participants. Next year, #DocEng26 will be in Fribourg, Switzerland from August 25 to 28. See you there!

Same here.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pvmejqjts5j7vgkeohkv3woi/post/3lseduwh5v623

Stuff I found (@stuffifound.politicalmemes.org)
Sadly my country is not coloured green yet on this map. Let's hope it will soon! #freepalestine #uk #greatbritain #netherlands #belgium #luxembourg #germany #finland #estonia #latvia #lithuania #france #switzerland #austria #portugal #italy #kosovo #northmacedonia #greece #cyrpus #palestine

"Yukoner recognized by United Nations for #radio work"
https://www.yukon-news.com/news/yukoner-recognized-by-united-nations-for-rad…

Track transport. No more planes where possible.
First stop Feldmeilen to Zurich
#switzerland #sbb #zvv

I discovered a new software that I absolutely love: @…
A self hosted web app that replaces Google Timeline and gives me complete control over my GPS/GNSS location history.

AI and Agile Software Development: A Research Roadmap from the XP2025 Workshop
Zheying Zhang, Tomas Herda, Victoria Pichler, Pekka Abrahamsson, Geir K. Hanssen, Joshua Kerievsky, Alex Polyakov, Mohit Chandna, Marius Irgens, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Ayman Asad Khan, Crystal Kwok, Evan Leybourn, Munish Malik, Dorota Mleczko, Morteza Moalagh, Christopher Morales, Yuliia Pieskova, Daniel Plan\"otscher, Mika Saari, Anastasiia Tkalich, Karl Josef Gstettner, Xiaofeng Wang

AI and Agile Software Development: A Research Roadmap from the XP2025 Workshop
This paper synthesizes the key findings from a full-day XP2025 workshop on "AI and Agile: From Frustration to Success", held in Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland. The workshop brought together over 30 interdisciplinary academic researchers and industry practitioners to tackle the concrete challenges and emerging opportunities at the intersection of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and agile software development. Through structured, interactive breakout sessions, participants identified shar…

The Mediomatix Corpus: Parallel Data for Romansh Idioms via Comparable Schoolbooks
Zachary Hopton, Jannis Vamvas, Andrin B\"uchler, Anna Rutkiewicz, Rico Cathomas, Rico Sennrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16371

The Mediomatix Corpus: Parallel Data for Romansh Idioms via Comparable Schoolbooks
The five idioms (i.e., varieties) of the Romansh language are largely standardized and are taught in the schools of the respective communities in Switzerland. In this paper, we present the first parallel corpus of Romansh idioms. The corpus is based on 291 schoolbook volumes, which are comparable in content for the five idioms. We use automatic alignment methods to extract 207k multi-parallel segments from the books, with more than 2M tokens in total. A small-scale human evaluation confirms tha…

"Swiss pilot takes big step closer to solar plane altitude record"
#Switzerland #Aeroplane #SolarPower #Energy

Swiss pilot takes big step closer to solar plane altitude record
Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan got within around a thousand meters of setting a new altitude record in a solar-powered plane on Sunday as he chases the goal of breaking the 10,000 meters barrier.

What a delightful pass for the assist. Fooled me, as I thought it was coming to the top of the box. Instead Bonmati chops it back downward towards goal and it's an open and unhurried opportunity.
Now Switzerland will have to take some risks. The tactics, at present, seem to be to bomb it downfield and let Pilgrim run.
#ESPSUI

Guess what arrived in Switzerland today! This looks great, @…!
#retrocomputing #computinghistory

Guess what arrived in Switzerland today! This looks great, @…!
#retrocomputing #computinghistory

Guess what arrived in Switzerland today! This looks great, @…!
#retrocomputing #computinghistory

Electric field control of superconducting fluctuations and quasiparticle interference at oxide interfaces
Graham Kimbell (Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland), Ulderico Filippozzi (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands), Stefano Gariglio (Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland), Marc Gabay (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Universite Paris Saclay, CNRS U…

Electric field control of superconducting fluctuations and quasiparticle interference at oxide interfaces
We investigate tunable superconducting transitions in (111)$\mathrm{LaAlO}_3/\mathrm{KTaO}_3$ field-effect devices. Large increases in conductivity, associated with superconducting fluctuations, are observed far above the transition temperature. However, the standard Aslamazov-Larkin paraconductivity model significantly underestimates the effect observed here. We use a model that includes conductivity corrections from normal state quasiparticle interference together with all contributions from …

“The goal is to host a tournament to show Switzerland how great women’s football is. All these people will jump from a low level of either not knowing or not watching it to, holy f*** this is great. If you do that with 20 to 30 per cent of society, it will be a cultural change for women and women’s football in this country for the future.“
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6460773/2025/07/01/switzerland-euro-2025-host/

Just a bit over a week until (my first) #NixCon :blobcatspace:
(and my second time at a conference in Switzerland)
#NixOS #Nix

Recommendations for Best Practices for Data Preservation and Open Science in HEP
Simone Campana (CERN, Switzerland), Irakli Chakaberia (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA), Gang Chen (Institute of High Energy Physics, China), Cristinel Diaconu (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille CPPM, France, CNRS/IN2P3 and Aix-Marseille Universit\'e, France), Caterina Doglioni (University of Manchester, UK), Dillon S. Fitzgerald (University of Michigan, USA), Vincent Garonne (B…

Recommendations for Best Practices for Data Preservation and Open Science in HEP
These recommendations are the result of reflections by scientists and experts who are, or have been, involved in the preservation of high-energy physics data. The work has been done under the umbrella of the Data Lifecycle panel of the International Committee of Future Accelerators (ICFA), drawing on the expertise of a wide range of stakeholders. A key indicator of success in the data preservation efforts is the long-term usability of the data. Experience shows that achieving this requires pr…

One nice thing about Switzerland is that you can mispronounce every word in your shitty German and people just assume you’re from some place over the mountain.

"Objective-C is a West Coast language. Objective-C is a hippie. You throw stuff at it and it just trusts you. “Peace maaaaaannn… if you say this is an NSArray I believe you…” and it leans back in its armchair, smoking weed, listening to Marley, Floyd, Doors, or Janis, looking at you with deep eyes, telling you stories about Buddhism and how important is ecology, and that tonight they are going to a retreat in the beach to pray for Yemanjš and the salvation of dolphins."

The Developer Guide to Migrate Across Galaxies
This is the presentation I gave at the second App Builders Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 25th, 2017.

Replicability: Terminology, Measuring Success, and Strategy
Werner A. Stahel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19070 https://arxiv.org/p…

Replicability: Terminology, Measuring Success, and Strategy
Empirical science needs to be based on facts and claims that can be reproduced. This calls for replicating the studies that proclaim the claims, but practice in most fields still fails to implement this idea. When such studies emerged in the past decade, the results were generally disappointing. There have been an overwhelming number of papers addressing the ``reproducibility crisis'' in the last 20 years. Nevertheless, terminology is not yet settled, and there is no consensus about when a repl…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Works by Brahms and the Schumanns
From the Dreigestirn Summer Festival in Boswil, Switzerland. Pianist Diana Ketler and friends with works by Robert and Clara Schumann and Brahms.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fwnc

Had the opportunity to visit a most fascinating solar #observatory Thursday in #Switzerland near #Arosa, the Astrophysikalisches Observatorium #Tschuggen (AOT) which #MaxWaldmeier had built in 1939, which was abandoned in 1980 and which amateur astronomers are now bringing back to the state just at that time: Here are the original Kern #coronagraph and another one from #Zeiss (with a huge spectrograph) it's sitting on. See https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10230945670040155 for a picture album, with links to the background in the first comment.

"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.

If an organization already has a subscription to Microsoft Dependency365, of course it can save money by canceling subscriptions to redundant services, e.g., Zoom.
But it’ll make the organization even more vulnerable to Microsoft‘s price gouging. The consequence should obviously not be to keep paying for Zoom, but to liberate yourself from the dependency on a single, foreign megacorp.
If the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland can operate without Microsoft, why couldn’t Swiss un…

If an organization already has a subscription to Microsoft Dependency365, of course it can save money by canceling subscriptions to redundant services, e.g., Zoom.
But it’ll make the organization even more vulnerable to Microsoft‘s price gouging. The consequence should obviously not be to keep paying for Zoom, but to liberate yourself from the dependency on a single, foreign megacorp.
If the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland can operate without Microsoft, why couldn’t Swiss un…

If an organization already has a subscription to Microsoft Dependency365, of course it can save money by canceling subscriptions to redundant services, e.g., Zoom.
But it’ll make the organization even more vulnerable to Microsoft‘s price gouging. The consequence should obviously not be to keep paying for Zoom, but to liberate yourself from the dependency on a single, foreign megacorp.
If the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland can operate without Microsoft, why couldn’t Swiss un…

US re-routing Patriots to fast-track air defenses to Ukraine, WSJ reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/us-rerouting-patriots-to-fasttrack.html

My wife was just going walkies with her service dog 🐕‍🦺 around our little town. During that time, a Google Streetview car passed her multiple times.
My reaction?
"Great, after the update everyone will believe our town is fake, with the same copy-pasted NPC everywhere"
#Schweiz #switzerland

#Gletscher in der #Schweiz, den #USA und #Kanada haben zwischen 2021 und 2024 rund 12 % ihrer

Gone with the glaciers: Researchers track unprecedented ice loss
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that glaciers in western Canada, the United States, and Switzerland lost around 12% of their ice between 2001 and 2024.

Film financing Switzerland and investment obligation round table now in Locarno
https://youtube.com/live/4IMCYIDVzN8?si=OCKAeoAJ_e3yu0jP

Observation of Astrophysical Sources with SST-1M Telescopes -- First Results
Jakub Jury\v{s}ek (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Thomas Tavernier (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Vladim\'ir Novotn\'y (for the SST-1M Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17451

Observation of Astrophysical Sources with SST-1M Telescopes -- First Results
The Single-Mirror Small Size Cherenkov Telescope (SST-1M) was developed by a consortium of institutes in Switzerland, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The SST-1M design is based on the Davies-Cotton concept, featuring a 4-meter mirror and an innovative SiPM-based camera. It is most sensitive to gamma rays in the TeV and multi-TeV energy bands. Since 2022, two SST-1M prototypes have been commissioned at the Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic, where their performance in both mono and stere…

@… @… I guess that’s what certain people call “neutrality.”

@… @… I guess that’s what certain people call “neutrality.”

SUSY Highlights: Current Results and Future Prospects
Jory Sonneveld (on behalf of the ATLAS,CMS Collaborations)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16400 https://

SUSY Highlights: Current Results and Future Prospects
At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, one of the goals of colliding protons together is to search for new physics. Supersymmetry (SUSY), a popular theory of physics beyond the well-established standard model of particle physics, is a large part of the search program of the ATLAS and CMS multi-purpose detectors located on opposite sides of the 27-kilometer LHC ring. So far no sign of supersymmetry has been found in the most obvious search channels such as all-hadroni…

"How Switzerland’s Solar Train Tracks Could Reshape Renewable Energy"
#Switzerland #Trains #SolarPower #Energy

How Switzerland’s Solar Train Tracks Could Reshape Renewable Energy | Happy Eco News
Switzerland is testing solar train tracks to generate clean energy using unused rail space. These removable panels could power 300,000 homes, create jobs, and reduce land use. Countries like South Korea and Japan are watching closely. If successful, the system could offer a new way to meet global energy demands.Switzerland is testing solar train tracks to generate clean energy using unused rail space. These removable panels could power 300,000 homes, create jobs, and reduce land use. Countries …

Swiss president under fire after Trump call leads to US tariffs shock
Karin Keller-Sutter accused of mishandling talks as shares dive after Switzerland hit with 39% tariff
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/swiss-president-shares-plunge-us-tariffs-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Trump on CNBC on his EU trade deal: "They paid 600 billion dollars and because of that I reduced their tariff from 30% down to 15%. That’s not like a loan btw. There is nothing to pay back. They gave us 600 billion dollars that we can invest in anything we want. They don’t know. "
Trump just wants Switzerland to pay him out. How many billions?

"PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested"
#US #USA #America #PFAS

PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested
A recent study from the U.S.-based environmental nonprofit Waterkeeper Alliance has found “forever chemicals” contamination in 98% of the waterways it tested in the United States. The findings come at a time when representatives from the world are gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for the United Nations plastics treaty negotiations to hammer out a plan to […]