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"Extinct-in-the-wild plant rediscovered in Sri Lanka thanks to social media"
#SriLanka #SocialMedia #Plants

Extinct-in-the-wild plant rediscovered in Sri Lanka thanks to social media
In 2012, Sri Lanka’s National Red List pronounced the towering Doona ovalifolia tree “extinct in the wild.” Known locally as pini-beraliya, the species lingered only as a single cultivated specimen in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya. For years, that lone tree stood as a melancholy reminder of what had been lost. The species’ unlikely […]

The Qantas board's decision to dock the pay of its CEO over a cyber incident reflects a new era of breach accountability for top executives.
Check out my latest CSO piece on this topic. Thanks to Joe Sullivan, Martin Tully of Redgrave, and Paul Mee of OliverWyman for their insights.
Qantas cutting CEO pay signals new era of cyber accountability

Qantas cutting CEO pay signals new era of cyber accountability
With boards, regulators, and investors turning up the heat, corporate leaders, not just CISOs, are facing financial and legal consequences for data breaches.

Gee, ATT - this paragon of responsibility - wants to use a diesel generator as emergency back u p- creating noise and air quality issues on a regular because it needs to be tested on a regular basis.
AND SF has an all-electric new construction ordinance - why shouldn't that apply here? (yes, I get the ordinance applies to buildings and this isn't a building - legal quibbles to allow big corps to do damage, rather than the right thing.)
At a minimum, I think appealing on…

Neighborhood finds it's hard to fight AT&T - 48 hills
Planners approve 104-foot tower in Diamond Heights over broad community opposition

Gee, ATT - this paragon of responsibility - wants to use a diesel generator as emergency back u p- creating noise and air quality issues on a regular because it needs to be tested on a regular basis.
AND SF has an all-electric new construction ordinance - why shouldn't that apply here? (yes, I get the ordinance applies to buildings and this isn't a building - legal quibbles to allow big corps to do damage, rather than the right thing.)
At a minimum, I think appealing on…

Neighborhood finds it's hard to fight AT&T - 48 hills
Planners approve 104-foot tower in Diamond Heights over broad community opposition

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#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
VILA: Huh! Blake!
BLAKE: Shhh, quiet.
VILA: Am I glad to see you. What are you doing here?
BLAKE: Is Jenna all right?
VILA: Only pair-bonding with the chief.
BLAKE: Good.
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DIFNet: Decentralized Information Filtering Fusion Neural Network with Unknown Correlation in Sensor Measurement Noises
Ruifeng Dong, Ming Wang, Ning Liu, Tong Guo, Jiayi Kang, Xiaojing Shen, Yao Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18854

DIFNet: Decentralized Information Filtering Fusion Neural Network with Unknown Correlation in Sensor Measurement Noises
In recent years, decentralized sensor networks have garnered significant attention in the field of state estimation owing to enhanced robustness, scalability, and fault tolerance. Optimal fusion performance can be achieved under fully connected communication and known noise correlation structures. To mitigate communication overhead, the global state estimation problem is decomposed into local subproblems through structured observation model. This ensures that even when the communication network…

Non-commutative Intermediate Factor theorem associated with $W^*$-dynamics of product groups
Tattwamasi Amrutam, Yongle Jiang, Shuoxing Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18978 htt…

Non-commutative Intermediate Factor theorem associated with $W^*$-dynamics of product groups
Let $G = G_{1} \times G_{2}$ be a product of two locally compact, second countable groups and $μ\in \mathrm{Prob}(G)$ be of the form $μ= μ_{1} \times μ_{2}$, where $μ_{i} \in \mathrm{Prob}(G_{i})$. Let $(B,ν_B)$ be the associated Poisson boundary. We show that every intermediate $G$-von Neumann algebra $\mathcal{M}$ with \[ \mathcal{N} \subseteq \mathcal{M} \subseteq \mathcal{N} \,\bar{\otimes}\, L^{\infty}(B,ν) \] splits as a tensor product of the form $\mathcal{N}\bar{\otimes}L^{\infty…

VLT/CRIRES observations of warm Neptune WASP-107 b: Molecular detections and challenges in ground-based transmission spectroscopy of cooler and cloudy exoplanets
Linn Boldt-Christmas, Adam D. Rains, Nikolai Piskunov, Lisa Nortmann, Fabio Lesjak, David Cont, Oleg Kochukhov, Axel Hahlin, Alexis Lavail, Thomas Marquart, Ulrike Heiter, Miriam Rengel, Denis Shulyak, Fei Yan, Artie Hatzes, Evangelos Nagel, Ansgar Reiners, Ulf Seemann

VLT/CRIRES+ observations of warm Neptune WASP-107 b: Molecular detections and challenges in ground-based transmission spectroscopy of cooler and cloudy exoplanets
Atmospheres of transiting exoplanets can be studied spectroscopically using space-based or ground-based observations. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, so there are benefits to both approaches. This is especially true for challenging targets such as cooler, smaller exoplanets whose atmospheres likely contain many molecular species and cloud decks. We aim to study the atmosphere of the warm Neptune-like exoplanet WASP-107 b (Teq~740 K). Several molecular species have been detected in …

Solute dispersion in axially strained tube flows: Large-time asymptotics and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Gaussian profiles
Prabakaran Rajamanickam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17982 https:…

Solute dispersion in axially strained tube flows: Large-time asymptotics and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Gaussian profiles
The dispersion of a passive scalar in an axially strained flow in a slender tube is studied, with particular focus on large-time asymptotics following the approach of~\cite{rajamanickam2020dispersion}. For times exceeding the cross-sectional diffusion timescale, the scalar field forms an axial (Ornstein--Uhlenbeck) Gaussian profile whose variance increases exponentially with the local axial strain, which itself varies with radial location, while radial diffusion only slowly modulates the overal…