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"Light of Motiram": Sony verklagt Tencent wegen "Horizon"-Abklatsch
Der chinesische Publisher Tencent arbeitet an einem Spiel mit erheblicher Ähnlichkeit zu den "Horizon"-Spielen. Nun klagt Sony: "Light of Motiram" sei ein Klon.

Source: over a dozen people at Thinking Machines Lab were approached by Meta; one offer was $1B over a multi-year span; not a single person has taken the offer (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-ai-recruiting-spree-thinking-m…

Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target
Meta approached more than a dozen staffers at Mira Murati’s AI startup to discuss joining its new superintelligence lab. One received an offer for more than $1 billion.

So it's been a little while now. How are people liking their #Tongsheng TSDZ8s? And their #Toseven DM02s? I'd love to know how they're holding up to abuse after 1 year.
#Ebikes

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sister Sledge:
🎵 Thinking Of You
#NowPlaying #SisterSledge
https://matonii.bandcamp.com/track/sister-sledge-thinking-of-you-matonii-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/0i99qmXRRRpK22wrYDaZv0

I remember thinking somewhere around the mid seventies that Springsteen and the E Street Band, was like a version of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy.
But Phil Lynott did it with a lot less verses.
And this was from this side of the Atlantic, it took a long while to appreciate Springsteen more, perhaps 30 years longer.
Maybe because I kept Van Morrison (another Irishman), so close from the early 70's.
And then again watching this 75 gig on BBC 2 I'm mostly thinkin…

Uniqueness of Cylindrical Tangent Cones $C_{p,q} \times \mathbb{R}$
Benjy Firester, Raphael Tsiamis, Yipeng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22373 https://a…

Uniqueness of Cylindrical Tangent Cones $C_{p,q} \times \mathbb{R}$
We show the uniqueness of the cylindrical tangent cone $C(\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{S}^4) \times \mathbb{R}$ for area-minimizing hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^9$, completing the uniqueness of all tangent cones of the form $C_{p,q} \times \mathbb{R}$ proved by Simon for dimensions at least 10 and Székelyhidi for the Simons cone.

New turntable thinking: Hold the arm steady and slide the platter sideways.
No, really: https://soulution-audio.com/soulution-787-turntable/

Frequency-Domain Analysis of the Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko Beams with Attached Masses
Alexander Zuyev, Julia Kalosha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22147 https://

Frequency-Domain Analysis of the Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko Beams with Attached Masses
This work is focused on the frequency-domain modeling of a simply supported flexible beam with an attached mass in the presence of dissipation. The considered system is equipped with a spring-loaded control actuator and possesses local damping effect. With the help of Hamilton's variational principle, the equations of motion are derived in the state space form with account of interface conditions involving lumped control and local damping. The transfer functions are obtained for Timoshenko and …

So it's been a little while now. How are people liking their #Tongsheng TSDZ8s? And their #Toseven DM02s? I'd love to know how they're holding up to abuse after 1 year.
#Ebikes

Sources say Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and other Chinese companies are testing domestic alternatives as they deal with a dwindling stockpile of Nvidia processors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bb1315e8-27df-4a93-a4dc-11e2883fdde3

Chinese tech groups prepare for AI future without Nvidia
Tougher US export restrictions on advanced chips give added urgency to testing of domestic alternatives