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"Größte Explosionen seit dem Urknall": Neue Form kosmischer Ausbrüche entdeckt
Eine bislang unbekannte Art kosmischer Explosionen ist noch einmal deutlich heller und energiereicher als alles, was wir kennen. Entdeckt wurden sie dank Gaia.

“Of course, we’ll not sign it, we won’t return it, we’ll do nothing about it,”
Stockholm rejects ‘bizarre’ US letter urging city to scrap diversity initiatives - The Guardian https://apple.news/AY-ia_hgUQIiUQ3Dh286CPg

Germany is drawing up plans to rapidly expand its network of bomb-proof bunkers and shelters,
the government’s most senior civilian protection official has said,
warning the state needs to be prepared for an attack from Russia within the next four years.
Ralph Tiesler, the head of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK),
said Europe’s largest economy needed to wake up to the reality of conflict,
and that in its current state Germany w…

"A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them."
#Animals #Conservation

A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them.
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. A new report, “Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates,” catalogs the species closest to the brink. Compiled by more than 100 scientists and conservationists, it’s a stark warning: without urgent action, some of our closest […]

Oh wow ​LLMs are just so terrible. 🤦‍♂️
I made a #systemd service watcher¹ ( :nixos: #NixOS module²³) which regularly feeds systemd status outputs into an LLM (mistral here) and sends me an email if it thinks it found real problems. Well, now I always get alarmist emails with bullshit warnings, suc…

Yann Büchau / ollama-watchdog · GitLab
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Methane leaks from dormant oil and gas wells in Canada are seven times worse than thought, study suggests #Canada

Methane leaks from dormant oil and gas wells in Canada are seven times worse than thought, study suggests
Methane emissions from Canada's non-producing oil and gas wells appear to be seven times higher than government estimates, according to a new study led by researchers at McGill University. The findings spotlight a major gap in the country's official greenhouse gas inventory and raise urgent questions about how methane leaks are monitored, reported and managed.

Urgent action before 12.00 CET / 11.00 BST
Call for the Protection of the Freedom Flotilla and an End to the Gaza Blockade - Deadline 5th June 12.00 CET | Framaforms.org
https://framaforms.org/call-for-the-pr

The attorneys general of California, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York today filed a petition requesting that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) eliminate unnecessary restrictions on the abortion medication mifepristone.
The petition comes as the FDA undertakes a full review of mifepristone labeling requirements.
The coalition are urging the FDA to use this full review of mifepristone to lift unjustified restrictions and maximize access to this essential medication.…

FUSE: Universal Speech Enhancement using Multi-Stage Fusion of Sparse Compression and Token Generation Models for the URGENT 2025 Challenge
Nabarun Goswami, Tatsuya Harada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00809

FUSE: Universal Speech Enhancement using Multi-Stage Fusion of Sparse Compression and Token Generation Models for the URGENT 2025 Challenge
We propose a multi-stage framework for universal speech enhancement, designed for the Interspeech 2025 URGENT Challenge. Our system first employs a Sparse Compression Network to robustly separate sources and extract an initial clean speech estimate from noisy inputs. This is followed by an efficient generative model that refines speech quality by leveraging self-supervised features and optimizing a masked language modeling objective on acoustic tokens derived from a neural audio codec. In the f…

"Pumping Water Onto Sea Ice Could Halt its Loss in the Arctic—Nonprofit Proves ‘Naive’ Idea Plausible"
#Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange

Pumping Water Onto Sea Ice Could Halt Ice Loss in the Arctic—Nonprofit Proves 'Naive' Idea Plausible
The craziness of the whole endeavor is only matched by the urgency with which they believe something must be done to address sea ice loss.