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»Schweiz plant Überwachung schlimmer als die USA:
Die Revision des Schweizer Überwachungsgesetzes VÜPF würde sich direkt gegen VPN- und verschlüsselte Chat- und E-Mail-Anbieter mit Sitz in der Schweiz richten.«
Ja dem ist so und doch ist dies den meisten Scheizer*innen nicht mal im Ansatz bewusst, denn anscheinend hat ja niemensch was zu verbergen.
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Schweiz plant Überwachung schlimmer als die USA | Tuta
Die Revision des Schweizer Überwachungsgesetzes VÜPF würde sich direkt gegen VPN- und verschlüsselte Chat- und E-Mail-Anbieter mit Sitz in der Schweiz richten.

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…

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.

Maybe Switzerland could have waited for Trump to discover that he can’t make Swiss watches in the US either.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-coffee-beef-fruit-4fe084c2724ec6d92096efa263fdcf76

Maybe Switzerland could have waited for Trump to discover that he can’t make Swiss watches in the US either.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-coffee-beef-fruit-4fe084c2724ec6d92096efa263fdcf76

Maybe Switzerland could have waited for Trump to discover that he can’t make Swiss watches in the US either.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-coffee-beef-fruit-4fe084c2724ec6d92096efa263fdcf76

The University of Zurich said that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, known for their work in development economics, will move from the US to Switzerland, amid Donald Trump's attacks on universities.
https://www.

Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave US for Switzerland
The University of Zurich said that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, known for their work in development economics, will move from the US to Switzerland, amid Donald Trump's attacks on universities.

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

🇨🇭Greetings from Sweden, Mr. President!
(Response to the « Sweden (not Switzerland) » Campaign from VISITSWEDEN)

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

If Switzerland has to invest $200B in the US, perhaps they could turn Nevada into a Cocoa plantation and bring down the price of chocolate.

Our department at the University of #Lausanne, Switzerland, has an opening for a junior lecturer (#postdoc) in computational humanities: 80%, up to 5 years, starting Feb 1, 2026.
Knowledge of French (~ B2 level) is required for teaching.
Check out the official job posting (in French) …

Our department at the University of #Lausanne, Switzerland, has an opening for a junior lecturer (#postdoc) in computational humanities: 80%, up to 5 years, starting Feb 1, 2026.
Knowledge of French (~ B2 level) is required for teaching.
Check out the official job posting (in French) …

Our department at the University of #Lausanne, Switzerland, has an opening for a junior lecturer (#postdoc) in computational humanities: 80%, up to 5 years, starting Feb 1, 2026.
Knowledge of French (~ B2 level) is required for teaching.
Check out the official job posting (in French) …

"Für jede Trafostation eine LEG" [‘A local energy community for every transformer station’]
It is fascinating how local energy communities are encouraged in Switzerland (so not governed by EU law, that also creates that role), and how the (local) utilities are also actively involved in this.
https://www.

"Für jede Trafostation eine LEG"
Winterthur - Stadtwerk Winterthur will mit lokalen Elektrizitätsgemeinschaften vor allem zur Erreichung der städtischen Klima- und Energieziele beitragen. Produktmanager Roland Hongler erklärt, wie das Modell gestaltet ist: Für die Teilnehmenden sollte es attraktiv sein und für das Stadtwerk zugleich wirtschaftlich tragfähig bleiben.

Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave US for Switzerland (Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/10/10/nobel-winning-economists-duflo-and-banerjee-will-leave-the-us-for-switzerland_6746307_19.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p143#a251010p143

June 2nd to 4, 2026, the #WritingResearch community will meet in #Winterthur, #Switzerland, for the

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

"If there is one magic ingredient for Switzerland’s enduring economic success, I found, it is that its businesses often combine blue-collar know-how with white-collar innovation. Switzerland, like Germany, built its 20th-century industrial economy on training and valuing all types of workers—those that work with their hands and those that work at a desk."

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.

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 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-1957-spaghetti-grows-on-trees-hoax.html

The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks
In 1957, the BBC program Panorama aired one of the first televised April Fools’ Day hoaxes. Above, you can watch a faux news report from Switzerland narrated by respected BBC journalist Richard Dimbleby. Here's the basic premise:

Switzerland is covered in solar PV — if the Swiss can see the economic benefits, then sunnier countries can get over themselves
#Switzerland #Swiss #Schweiz

«Hayek, whose company is the world’s largest watchmaker, said the CEOs’ visit sent a signal of weakness. Instead, he suggested that Switzerland — the seventh-largest investor in the US — should retaliate by threatening to cut investment, or ditch a deal to buy US-made F-35 jets.
“Are we William Tell,” he quipped in reference to the Swiss hero of folklore, “or are we a vassal?”»

Spotify raises UK prices by £1 after previously raising them in April 2024; the Premium individual monthly plan will now cost £12.99 (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spo

Spotify raises UK and Switzerland Premium prices again as analysts see US hike by early 2026
The 8.3% increase marks the second time in 18 months that the Swedish streaming giant has raised UK prices by £1.

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

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.

"Swiss unemployment stands at a mere 2.8%, meaning the country is near full employment. And, its median salary of approximately over $90,000 per year, is about 50% higher than in the U.S. despite having a similar GDP per capita."
https://fortune.com…

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

“Arguing that ‘no country should be above international law,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable for what he called a ‘worsening human rights crisis in the United States.’”

Johnson urges UN panel to hold President Trump accountable for what he calls 'human rights abuses'
In a virtual appearance before a United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Switzerland, Mayor Brandon Johnson invited UN experts to come to Chicago to witness firsthand the “abuses” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during raids that have wreaked havoc in neighborhoods across the…

1,000 Swiss glaciers already gone, and the melting is speeding up #Switzerland

1,000 Swiss glaciers already gone, and the melting is speeding up
Swiss glaciers lost nearly 3% of their volume in 2025, following a snow-poor winter and scorching summer heatwaves. The melt has been so extreme that some glaciers lost more than two meters of ice thickness in a single season. Scientists caution that the decline is destabilizing mountains, raising risks of rock and ice avalanches. Long-term monitoring efforts are now more critical than ever.

Cryogenic In-Memory Computing with Phase-Change Memory
Davide G. F. Lombardo (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Siddharth Gautam (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Alberto Ferraris (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Manuel Le Gallo (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Abu Sebastian (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Ghazi Sarwat Syed (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland)

Cryogenic In-Memory Computing with Phase-Change Memory
In-memory computing (IMC) is an emerging non-von Neumann paradigm that leverages the intrinsic physics of memory devices to perform computations directly within the memory array. Among the various candidates, phase-change memory (PCM) has emerged as a leading non-volatile technology, showing significant promise for IMC, particularly in deep learning acceleration. PCM-based IMC is also poised to play a pivotal role in cryogenic applications, including quantum computing and deep space electronics…

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…

I'm quite unsure, should I stay or should I go? 😜

"Value each part of a corporate ecosystem, from the factory worker to the competitor next door. Be altruistic and self-interested at the same time: if you have success, invest your proceeds in nascent and innovative companies.
And don’t try to save pennies in manufacturing or other built-up know-how by outsourcing, if it could lose you pounds (or billions of Swiss Francs) down the line."

@… Regarding quotes, I'd add that in Germany and Austria, guillemets are an alternative to „…“ and are used like this: »…«
In Switzerland, only «…» are used for all national languages, but they are only spaced in French.

@… Regarding quotes, I'd add that in Germany and Austria, guillemets are an alternative to „…“ and are used like this: »…«
In Switzerland, only «…» are used for all national languages, but they are only spaced in French.

"Ghana, Switzerland partner on $200 million rooftop solar rollout"
#Ghana #Switzerland #SolarPower #Energy

Ghana, Switzerland partner on $200 million rooftop solar rollout
Ghana’s new clean energy program, backed by Switzerland’s Klik Foundation, will install 4,000 rooftop systems totaling 137 MW to expand renewable capacity and cut emissions.

Trump’s Tariffs Leave Swiss Farmers With Too Much Milk - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/switzerland-tariffs-trump-milk-cheese-cows.html

Glossar »Nachhaltigkeit in der Werbebranche«
https://www.designerinaction.de/kreativwirtschaft/glossar-nachhaltigkeit-in-der-werbebranche-zum-downloaden/
"Der Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) und die IA…

The USA has only a million elevators, about as many as Italy, and they cost four times as in Switzerland.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250827193631/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevato…

Opinion | Why Are Housing Costs So High? The Elevator Can Explain Why.
An illness led Stephen Smith to study why America has so few elevators. What he learned explains why housing costs are so high.

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

Beyond Anthropomorphism: Enhancing Grasping and Eliminating a Degree of Freedom by Fusing the Abduction of Digits Four and Five
Simon Fritsch (Soft Robotics Lab, IRIS, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Liam Achenbach (Soft Robotics Lab, IRIS, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Riccardo Bianco (Soft Robotics Lab, IRIS, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Nicola Irmiger (Soft Robotics Lab, IRIS, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Gawain Marti (Soft Robotics Lab, IRIS, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich, Swi…

Beyond Anthropomorphism: Enhancing Grasping and Eliminating a Degree of Freedom by Fusing the Abduction of Digits Four and Five
This paper presents the SABD hand, a 16-degree-of-freedom (DoF) robotic hand that departs from purely anthropomorphic designs to achieve an expanded grasp envelope, enable manipulation poses beyond human capability, and reduce the required number of actuators. This is achieved by combining the adduction/abduction (Add/Abd) joint of digits four and five into a single joint with a large range of motion. The combined joint increases the workspace of the digits by 400\% and reduces the required DoF…

Why do I always get that urge of "Someone is wrong on the internet!" when @… posts about Switzerland? 🙄

Characterisation of Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers as charge readout operated in pure argon
G. Eurin (IRFU, CEA, Universit\'e Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France), A. Delbart (IRFU, CEA, Universit\'e Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France), R. De Oliveira (CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland), A. Drozd (CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland), P. Granger (IRFU, CEA, Universit\&…

Characterisation of Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers as charge readout operated in pure argon
The gain measurements of several 1 mm-thick, 10$\times$10 cm$^2$ Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (ThGEMs), operated in pure argon at 3.3 bar and room temperature are presented. Electrostatic simulations, performed with the COMSOL MultiPhysics software, were employed to guide the design of the detectors, and the field configurations are discussed. A modified ThGEM design, incorporating two embedded internal electrodes in addition to the conventional top and bottom electrodes, was developed to…

Saturday was beautiful in the #swiss mountains, while the city was in the clouds.
Got a very nice close-up show by a bearded #vulture!
#birdwatching #Switzerland #hiking

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.

Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics, which is building AI models to enable human-like robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks, raised a $16M seed (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/04/mimic-raises-16m-build-a…

Mimic raises $16M to build AI models for human-like robotic hands - SiliconANGLE
Mimic raises $16M to build AI models for human-like robotic hands - SiliconANGLE

Probing the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 using the evolution of its spectral and aperiodic timing properties
Aman Kaushik (TIFR, India), Yash Bhargava (TIFR, India), Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India), Maurizio Falanga (ISSI, Switzerland,University of Bern, Switzerland)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01207

Probing the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 using the evolution of its spectral and aperiodic timing properties
Understanding accretion components in neutron star (NS) low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) systems is important to probe fundamental aspects of accretion mechanism and evolution of the system constraining its physical properties. Here, we present spectral and aperiodic timing analyses of the NICER and AstroSat data from the accretion powered millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) SAX J1808.4-3658 during its 2022 outburst. We find that emissions from a softer accretion disk and a harder, centrally located, c…

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

Mad science.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/0729235/scientists-grow-mini-human-brains-to-power-computers
>Scientists Grow Mini Human Brains To Power Computers

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.

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

Some images from earlier this year, edited with #ThingUmbrella tools)...

12th Low-Level RF Workshop (LLRF2025)
Dmitry Teytelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07603 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07603

12th Low-Level RF Workshop (LLRF2025)
This volume contains contributions submitted to the 12th Low-Level RF Workshop which will be held in Newport News, Virginia, USA on October 12-16, 2025. This workshop continues the series of successful international workshops held in Newport News, USA (2001), Geneva, Switzerland (2005), Knoxville, USA (2007), Tsukuba, Japan (2009), Hamburg, Germany (2011), Tahoe City, USA (2013), Shanghai, China (2015), Barcelona, Spain (2017), Chicago, USA (2019), Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland (2022), and Gyeong…

Our conference is preceeded by a «research school» for junior researchers (typically: PhD students). The RS starts in the afternoon of day 1, then two full days (day 2 and day 3), and ends around noon of day 4 (with transportation to the main conference).
What is a typical program for such a #ResearchSchool? I can also include tourist activities or some hiking (it‘s in Switzerland,…

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…

"Climate change linked to landslide that buried Swiss village"
#Switzerland #Climate #ClimateChange

Climate change linked to landslide that buried Swiss village
In May, a landslide above Blatten in the canton of Valais buried most of the village under a mass of ice, mud and rock, an event that has prompted in-depth research. At a recent conference in Innsbruck, UZH researcher Christian Huggel presented his findings on the link between the landslide and climate change.

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror,
murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci
and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had
five hundred years of democracy and peace -- and what did they produce?
The cuckoo-clock.
-- Orson Welles, "The Third Man"

Die #Klimakrise trifft die #Schweiz:
Der #Griesgletscher in der #Schweiz hat zwischen 20…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Beethoven and Schubert from the Chiaroscuro Quartet and cellist Christian Poltéra
Beethoven's 'Razumovsky' String Quartet and Schubert's String Quintet in C, D.956 performed in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l0b5

#3goodthings And it's only 10 o'clock!
1. My daughter reached France safely in the early hours of the morning, via Switzerland and Germany and train, plane and bus 🚆✈️🚌
2. What a beautiful sunny day 🌞
3. @… has fitted the new drive to…

Baidu and Swiss Post's PostBus plan to launch Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicle service in Switzerland, testing in December ahead of rollout by Q1 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/baidu-expands-robotaxi-push-swit…

Federation problems is just something we have to live with in the Fediverse.
Federating has its pros and cons.
I'm Swiss. We know these things.
#switzerland #fediverse #justswissthings

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…

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?

Predictive Criteria for Electrospray-Assisted Droplet Dynamics in Aerodynamic Flow Fields
Ethan Kahn (Unaffiliated, Z\"urich, Switzerland)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22676 …

Predictive Criteria for Electrospray-Assisted Droplet Dynamics in Aerodynamic Flow Fields
Electrospray technology enables external electric fields to steer charged droplets, with potential applications in fuel-air mixing and aerodynamic flow control. This study develops a computational framework that couples a steady OpenFOAM RANS solution of a NACA 1912 airfoil channel flow with a reduced-order Lagrangian particle model to examine droplet trajectories under viscous drag and electrostatic forces. Baseline uniform-flow tests confirmed that electrostatic deflection weakens as inertial…

Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter

Finally a revolution we can all agree upon

You know that you’re teaching in #Switzerland when you catch the majority of students running the live broadcast of today’s #ski competition in a separate window while doing learning tasks
#AcademicChatter

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

Temperature Optimisation in Data Centres
Vlad C. Coroam\u{a}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26163 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26163

Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter

Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter

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…

Rolex says Trump “joked” his invite to their private box at the U.S. Open was to get favorable tariff terms for Switzerland,
a quip that “brought a round of laughter all around
https://meidasnews.com/news/exclusive-rolex-cour…

"Swiss glaciers shrank by a quarter in past decade: study"
#Switzerland #Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange

Swiss glaciers shrank by a quarter in past decade: study
Switzerland's glaciers, which are disproportionately impacted by climate change, have lost a quarter of their volume in the past decade alone, a study warned Wednesday, heightening concerns over accelerating melting.

@… it's funny you say that! I really like the concept of a common Waschküche as is standard in Switzerland, as you can get 6 really good industrial washing machines and a person to maintain them for like a tenner a month, rather than every flat having to spend €600 on some shitty consumer-grade Siemens crap.

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!

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…

Rumble plans to roll out a bitcoin tipping feature, developed in partnership with Tether, to its 51M creators in December; Tether has invested $775M in Rumble (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/25…

Rumble to Roll Out Bitcoin Tipping for 51M Users in December
The feature is developed with Tether and was announced at the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, Switzerland. The first BTC tip was sent to content creator David Freiheit.

I like my individualized mail addresses. I just received a phishing mail to update my data with a Swiss payment system (TWINT) - but it was sent to an address I created for a doctor's appointment system (Onedoc).
The message also contains my postal address from the time I created that account.
#databreach

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…

"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 …

I always enjoy having visitors from no-matter-which EU country discovering that no, Switzerland is not part of the EU, only Schengen
“There’s no roaming, right? I need to print and screenshot everything in advance?!”
Sure, there’s roaming, it only has a different price tag. And can you imagine, when I visit you, I pay the same absurdly high fees

"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 […]