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Versteigerter Meteorit vom Mars: Sotheby's prüft Fragen der Regierung des Niger
Im Juli wurde in New York der größte Meteorit vom Mars für eine Rekordsumme versteigert. Jetzt wird geprüft, ob der Stein überhaupt legal dort gelandet ist.

Belgium-based holder of frozen Russian funds opposes expanding investment risk amid Ukraine aid push: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/belgiumbased-holder-of-frozen-russian.html

„Ob die Fledermaus-Sprache auch eine eigene Grammatik hat, ist unklar. Die Forschenden wissen nur: Bei verschiedenen Lautäußerungen, die aus Einzelsilben zusammengesetzt sind, ist die Reihenfolge der Silben wichtig und darf nicht durcheinandergebracht werden.“
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The White House effort to claw back $9.4 billion of already allocated government spending faces a critical vote in the Senate this week.
Some Republicans have concerns about the cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting
as the clock ticks to Friday’s deadline to approve or modify the Trump administration plan.

Republicans face deadline to claw back funding for foreign aid and public media
The White House effort to cut back $9.4 billion of already allocated government spending faces a critical vote in the Senate this week. Some Republicans have concerns about the cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting as the clock ticks to Friday’s deadline to approve or modify the Trump administration plan. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins reports.

Now I’m on my way to FrOSCon. On Sunday at 3 p.m., I will give a talk there on the democratisation of digital maps with Protomaps.
https://cusy.io/en/about/events/20th-froscon.html
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Connected forcing density and related problems
Boris Brimkov, Randy Davila, Houston Schuerger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11194 https://

Connected forcing density and related problems
A connected forcing set of a graph is a zero forcing set that induces a connected subgraph. In this paper, we introduce and study CF-dense graphs -- graphs in which every vertex belongs to some minimum connected forcing set. We identify several CF-dense graph families and investigate the relationships between CF-density and analogous notions in zero forcing and total forcing. We also characterize CF-dense trees and give a formula for the number of distinct connected forcing sets in trees. Final…

“Move fast and break things.”
The things:
- Human rights
- Our habitat
- Democracy
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital

"Analysis: UK foreign aid for nature hits £800m record due to cash for carbon credits"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

Analysis: UK foreign aid for nature hits £800m record due to cash for carbon credits - Carbon Brief
The UK’s climate-aid spending on “nature protection and restoration” reached record levels of nearly £800m last year, according to government figures

Schön, alle Leute mal wieder zu sehen. Erschreckende Erkenntnis: Wir werden alle älter 😉 #froscon2025 #froscon

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Foreign nation suspected in hack of Washington Post reporters’ emails,
--WestJet hit by cyber incident,
--Iran likely to retaliate with cyber ops,
--Zoomcar breach exposed customers' data,
--Qilin gang hit French insurer,
--Trump provided Medicaid data to deportation officials,
--46K Grafana instances remain unpatch…

Foreign nation suspected in hack of Washington Post reporters’ emails
WestJet hit by cyber incident, Iran likely to retaliate with cyber ops, Zoomcar breach exposed customers' data, Qilin gang hit French insurer, Trump provided Medicaid data to deportation officials, 46K+ Grafana instances remain unpatched, 10K VirtualMacOSX customers affected by breach, much more