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"Yuki's Revenge": Tarantino produziert neue "Kill Bill"-Szene in Unreal Engine
Quentin Tarantino hat einen Kurzfilm in der Unreal Engine produziert. "Yuki's Revenge" zeigt eine gestrichene Szene aus "Kill Bill".

Encounters Down Under
If you have had an encounter or know someone who has...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/encounters-down-under/

Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data
— Then the user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline
The smart vacuum cleaner was remotely bricked for not collecting data.

Was there a massive leak of a dangerous greenhouse gas in Iceland🇮🇸 in 2011 - or was it just a data📈 reporting error? European emission databases show that the Norðuršl aluminium factory🏭 in Iceland released 60 tons of SF₆ in 2011 — but no such emissions in any other year. It's so much that it is hard to believe this really happened. And that is not the only odd thing I found in emission databases.

Errors and Inconsistencies in European Emission Data
Factories that suddenly have emissions a thousand times lower than before, unexplained data gaps, and inconsistent CO₂ emissions from different data sources are some of the issues one finds when having a closer look at the European Union's emission databases.

AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-launches-cloud-ai-tool…

Amazon launches cloud AI tool to help engineers recover from outages faster
Amazon Web Services' DevOps Agent is meant to help developers more quickly figure out what caused an outage and how to fix it.

If you're interested in how I quantified natural #CO2 emissions from "mofettes" near #Tübingen with a low-cost sensor network, and want to join my PhD defense tomorrow at 10:00, DM me here and i might send you the link (if I don't forget it 😅).
I'll be mostly talking about …

Quantification of natural CO2 emissions from mofettes using a low-cost sensor network at the Starzach site in South-West Germany
We present a top-down method to derive CO2 emissions from mofettes, using only point measurement time series at irregular locations. Notably, no wind vector information is needed, as gas transport is derived from cross-correlations between sensor stations and subsequently integrated using Gauss’ divergence theorem. The method is applied to an existing low-cost sensor network at the Starzach site near the Black Forest in Germany, for which no comprehensive estimate of the total emissions exist…

Nur 32 #Energieunternehmen waren 2024 für die Hälfte der weltweiten #CO2-Emissionen verantwortlich.
Besonders staatlich kontrollierte Produzenten wie #SaudiAramco blockierten beim Klim…

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

Astronomie: Erstmals präzise Masse eines einsamen Exoplaneten ermittelt
Zwar kennen wir schon Dutzende Exoplaneten ohne einen eigenen Stern, ihre Massen konnten aber nur geschätzt werden. Jetzt ist eine präzise Messung gelungen.

Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that 👉 prohibits anyone based in China and "other adversarial countries" from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing systems.
The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law,
was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service the
Defense Department’s computer systems for nearly a decade
— a practice that left s…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

#Agrivoltaics is the practice of purposefully shading agricultural crop lands with solar panels
in order to enjoy the dual benefits of solar electricity and increased food production.
A new study I
co-authored with my colleague, Uzair Jamil, found that
👍 partial shading to benefit crop production even works when the solar panels do not.
This has interesting policy ramific…

How shading crops with solar panels can improve farming, lower food costs and reduce emissions
Canada can meet its carbon emission reduction targets, make food cheap again and open up a gigantic trade surplus with the U.S. by shading farm crops with solar panels.