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Harvard economist Jason Furman estimates that investments in data centers and information-processing software accounted for 92% of US GDP growth in H1 2025 (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/data-centers-gdp-g…

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says
Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

Hollywood Burbank Airport’s air traffic control tower is temporarily unmanned due to staffing shortages during the government shutdown.
Air traffic controllers are working without pay during the shutdown,
leading to an uptick in workers calling out sick.
Outgoing flights have been delayed an average of two hours and 31 minutes,
with several flights canceled.

Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned amid government shutdown
The Hollywood Burbank Airport's air traffic control tower is temporarily unmanned and flights are delayed Monday afternoon due to staffing shortages amid the ongoing government shutdown, according to the FAA

Denmark tightens controls on oil tankers to counter Russia's 'shadow fleet': https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/denmark-tightens-controls-on-oil.html

No-reference Quality Assessment of Contrast-distorted Images using Contrast-enhanced Pseudo Reference
Mohammad-Ali Mahmoudpour, Saeed Mahmoudpour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05053

No-reference Quality Assessment of Contrast-distorted Images using Contrast-enhanced Pseudo Reference
Contrast change is an important factor that affects the quality of images. During image capturing, unfavorable lighting conditions can cause contrast change and visual quality loss. While various methods have been proposed to assess the quality of images under different distortions such as blur and noise, contrast distortion has been largely overlooked as its visual impact and properties are different from other conventional types of distortions. In this paper, we propose a no-reference image q…

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

Sources: the Netherlands is prepared to drop the ministerial order that gave it control of Nexperia if China allows exports of its critical chips again (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-07/dutch-ready…

Dutch Ready to Drop Control of Nexperia If Chip Supply Resumes
The Netherlands is prepared to suspend a so-called ministerial order that gave it control over Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in a move that would de-escalate a fight with Beijing that threatens to disrupt automotive production around the world.

Controversial ex-adviser to Zelensky's office hit with Russian international arrest warrant: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/controversial-exadviser-to-zelenskys-office.html

Military contractors called for
— and are now getting
— contracts to help carry out Trump’s mass deportations,
🔥with a bounty for every immigrant they track down.
https://www.levernews.com/inside-ices-plans-for-a-bounty-hunter-army/

Inside ICE’s Plans For A Bounty Hunter Army
Military contractors called for — and are now getting — contracts to help carry out Trump’s mass deportations, with a bounty for every immigrant they track down.

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted