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😱 “Rainfall in the central city of Hue reached 1,085 millimeters (42 inches) in 24 hours by late Monday, the highest volume ever recorded in Vietnam”
https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-floods-record-rainfall-3492e2748c8504392943f21b5df5079…

Record rainfall causes major flooding in Vietnam, submerging ancient sites
Heavy rains have caused major flooding in central Vietnam, submerging homes, farmland, and tourist spots like Hue and Hoi An. By late Monday, Hue saw record rainfall of 42 inches within 24 hours. By Tuesday morning, water levels in Hue's Perfume River rose to 15 feet. The ancient town of Hoi An experienced waist-deep floods, leading to tourist evacuations by boat. The floods have disrupted train routes between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. About 1,000 people in rural areas are isolated due to flo…

Four African countries to ‘run out of supplies to fight malnutrition’ within 3 months due to global aid cuts | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/aid-food-kenya-nigeria-somalia-africa-b2816539.html

And the prize for the most painful #acronym in an astronomy paper's title in the past few weeks goes to ... ASTRONAUT = A databaSe of millimeTeR ObservatioNs of Asteroids Using acT (which itself stands for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope the regular acronym of which is ACT): https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18300.

Parole de survivante, sur les séquelles :
1️⃣ Bottes en caoutchouc trop grandes. Engelures. Morve au nez. Malnutrition.
Un corps d'enfant qu'on maltraite, qu'on oublie. #Sectes #Violences
2️⃣ Un dos brisé, jamais soigné. Une scolarité abandonnée, une enfance volée.
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Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/21/dutch-online-grocery-store-picnic-raises-430m/

Dutch online grocery store Picnic raises €430M
Dutch online grocery store Picnic has raised €430 million from existing investors and is ploughing much of the funding to grow its operations in Germany.Picnic's existing investors include German supermarket giant Edeka, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, Dutch investment firm Hoyberg and Amsterdam-headquartered investment firm NPM Capital.As well as bolstering its presence in Germany, where Picnic says it's the market leader, the funds will be used to expand into multiple unnamed m…

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/
The cruelty, corruption, incompetence, hate fueled rule of the current USA administrati…

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard Chan School’s Atul Gawande.

Neue Details! - Drama um Inter-Goalie: Erlitt Opfer Herzinfarkt? #News #Nachrichten

On Secrecy Capacity of Binary Beampointing Channels with Block Memory and Feedback
Siyao Li, Mingzhe Chen, Shuangyang Li, Giuseppe Caire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20980 https:/…

On Secrecy Capacity of Binary Beampointing Channels with Block Memory and Feedback
This paper investigates the secrecy capacity of the binary beampointing (BBP) channel with block memory and feedback, a simplified yet insightful model for millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems with beamformed transmissions and backscatter feedback. We consider a system where a legitimate receiver and a passive eavesdropper experience independent and uniformly distributed angular directions over transmission blocks, with the base station receiving noiseless, unit-delayed feedback from both, under th…

Smarter Staub: Wie millimetergroße Computer unsere Welt unbemerkt vermessen
"Smarter Staub" ist keine Science-Fiction mehr: Winzige Sensoren könnten in Zukunft unsere Umwelt unbemerkt überwachen.

Transformation of topological optical states via spiral modulation in fractional-diffraction systems
Dongdong Wang, Xueqing He, Rujiang Li, Dumitru Mihalache, Boris A. Malomed, Pengfei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20651

Transformation of topological optical states via spiral modulation in fractional-diffraction systems
We propose a scheme for manipulations of a variety of topological states in fractional optical systems through spiral modulation of the local refraction index. An analytical approximation, based on a truncated finite-mode system, and direct simulations reveal that the spiral modulation supports direct mutual conversion between eigenmodes with topological-charge difference Δm=1, driven by the resonant coupling between the modes and the underlying spiral modulation. The conversion between eigenm…