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TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Jesus and Mary Chain:
🎵 Tower of Song
#TheJesusandMaryChain
https://open.spotify.com/track/6tLF3toLOqEJWqK0hXP0Rh

As promised, the @… fundraising campaign seems to be storming ahead, so here's a new - and rather hastily edited - video from NW #Greenland fieldwork just up on @… Just in case anyone finds it interesting and fun. I made this in shotcut. At some point I'll work out how to annotate them properly I guess...
Enjoy!
https://tilvids.com/w/nY8US6AsGDnsVeUXPqBixq

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16144 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

A Survey of the Holroyd-Talbot Conjecture
A family of sets is intersecting if every pair of its members has an element in common. Such a family of sets is called a star if some element is in every set of the family. Given a graph $G$, let $μ(G)$ denote the size of the smallest maximal independent set of $G$. In 2005, Holroyd and Talbot conjectured the following generalization of the Erdős-Ko-Rado Theorem: for $1\le r\le μ(G)/2$, there is a maximum size intersecting family of independent $r$-sets that is a star. In this paper we pres…

Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Models-based Anomaly Detection for under-constrained Cable-Driven Parallel Robots
Julio Garrido, Javier Vales, Diego Silva-Mu\~niz, Enrique Riveiro, Pablo L\'opez-Matencio, Josu\'e Rivera-Andrade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07714

Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Models-based Anomaly Detection for under-constrained Cable-Driven Parallel Robots
Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) are increasingly used for load manipulation tasks involving predefined toolpaths with intermediate stops. At each stop, where the platform maintains a fixed pose and the motors keep the cables under tension, the system must evaluate whether it is safe to proceed by detecting anomalies that could compromise performance (e.g., wind gusts or cable impacts). This paper investigates whether anomalies can be detected using only motor torque data, without additiona…

I seem to be having a rush* of new followers on my occasional #peertube channel - no idea why? Bots?
Does this mean I should post more videos? Anyone else seeing more people arriving to peertube?
*Ok, "rush" is relative, but it's more than two hundred now
https://tilvids.com/c/icesheets_climate/videos

Samsung unveils the $899 Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE, with a smaller cover screen than the Galaxy Z Flip 7, a smaller battery, no telephoto, Android 16, in two colors (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/09/samsung-launches-t…

Samsung launches the more affordable Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE for $899
Samsung just launched the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE at Galaxy Unpacked. The new foldable offers an easier entry point than Samsung's other options.

One of my favourite peertube channels btw is @… who in this inspiring video, explains how she makes all her vids on linux.
If I ever get more time, I will seriously follow some of these recommendations - I'm already a fan of @…
https://tilvids.com/w/p4pRnBvNGGAAafD5KtDSvs

A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/middle-east-super-apps/

Tech giants in the Gulf are building super-apps to dominate digital life
From Dubai to Riyadh, apps are consolidating ride-hailing, payments, and delivery into single platforms.