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Kupferdiebe verursachen teils große Schäden im Norden
Diebe schneiden immer wieder Ladekabel an Schnellladesäulen für E-Autos ab und stehlen sie. Meist schlagen die Täter nachts auf verlassenen Parkplätzen zu.
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Aeolian dune simulation (made in 2017) for #MeerMittwoch:
The images show a screenshot of the JavaScript application to create the simulation and some Houdini renders of exported height fields. The sim itself had 5 macro params to control the behavior of the interactive deposit/erosion/transportation process. It supported tileable patterns, customizable seed terrain (images) and ran r…

Recyclers Switch from Smelting to Solvents, Recovering Precious Metals from E-waste with Fewer Emissions https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/recyclers-switch-from-smelting-to-solvents-recovering-precious-metals-fr…

Recyclers Switch from Smelting to Solvents, Recovering Precious Metals from E-waste with Fewer Emissions
The UN estimated that some three-fourths of all e-waste didn't enter recycling streams, leaving an estimated $62 billion in metals behind

Runway launches GWM-1, its first world model, which uses frame-by-frame prediction to simulate physics, and updates Gen 4.5 to add native audio and more (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/runway-releases-its-first-w…

Runway releases its first world model, adds native audio to latest video model | TechCrunch
Runway debuts a physics-aware world model that simulates reality to train agents and power video, robotics and avatar applications.

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s path to the postseason after surprises in Week 10 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/11/11/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

Yes, Switzerland🇨🇭 loves ⛰️ peaks. But when it comes to solar power, it's okay to take a little bit off the top.
From 2026 onwards, (new) solar power installations must limit their peak capacity to 70%. This only slightly reduces production, but it does reduce the simultaneous load on the grid.
https://www.…

Neue Regeln bei der Einspeisung von Solarstrom
Die Energiewende ist in vollem Gang. Solaranlagen boomen und liefern immer mehr erneuerbaren Strom. Eine positive Entwicklung, die auf unsere Energie- und Klimaziele einzahlt. Doch wenn an sonnigen Mittagen alle Solaranlagen gleichzeitig Strom einspeisen, entstehen Leistungsspitzen, die das Stromnetz an seine Grenzen bringen. Es herrscht sozusagen Stau im Netz.

Vor nicht allzu langer Zeit gab es viel Öffentlichkeit für die Initiative #SaveSocial, die aus sehr vielen mehr und minder prominenten Personen besteht ("Wer wir sind"). Sie sammelt auch Spenden.
Aber was macht die denn eigentlich tatsächlich? Und was geschieht mit den Spenden?

Eagles vs. 49ers prediction, odds, start time: NFL Wild Card Sunday picks from 10,000 simulations

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-49ers-prediction-odds-time-nf…

When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.

"Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024" für Playstation 5 erschienen
Der "Flight Simulator 2024" ist für die Playstation 5 erschienen. Dabei hatte Microsoft einen Port zuerst abgelehnt.
https://w…