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[FDP @fdp]

Die #Chatkontrolle ist ein Frontalangriff auf das digitale Briefgeheimnis. Noch im Oktober erklärte CDU-Fraktionschef Spahn, man sei gegen diese anlasslose Kontrolle von Chats. Heute will die CDU im Europäischen Parlament genau das ermöglichen. Erneut bricht die CDU ihr Wort.

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇩🇪🤡 Irre! Italien warnt vor der #Chatkontrolle, stimmt aber TROTZDEM zu! 🤯
Noch 2 Tage: Stoppt den Coup!
✍️ Aktiv werden: https://t.co/Axa6QXDTYA
📄 EU-Dokument: https://t.co/txH1VvGWya

[Dr. Christoph Canne @ChristophCanne]

Der nächste regulatorische Genickschuss für unseren industriellen Mittelstand ist in Brüssel beschlossene Sache:
Die sog. „Conditionality“ im Emissionshandel ETS-1 ab 2026.
Das Prinzip dahinter ist einfach nur noch unfassbar:

Ab 2026 kürzt Brüssel den Unternehmen aus den Branchen Chemie, Glas, Papier, Keramik, die (noch) nicht unter den Grenzausgleichsmechanismus CBAM fallen, die für sie lebenswichtigen Gratis-CO2-Zertifikate pauschal um 20 %, wenn sie bürokratische Klimaziele verfehlen oder verordnete Energieeffizienz-Audits nicht eins zu eins umsetzen. Zusätzlich greift ein brutaler „Worst-Performer-Malus“: Wer zu den CO₂-intensivsten 20 % seiner Branche gehört, verliert die Zertifikate automatisch, es sei denn, er unterwirft sich bürokratischen Klimaneutralitätsplänen

Das Absurde daran: Um diese Klimaziele zu erreichen, bräuchten diese Unternehmen vor allem "grünen Wasserstoff", aber dieser ist weit entfernt davon, ausreichend und vor allem zu wettbewerbsfähigen Preisen zur Verfügung gestellt zu werden.

So stehen die Unternehmen vor der Wahl zwischen Pest und Cholera. Entweder Investitionen in grüne Transformationen, die sich nicht rechnen, oder weiter explodierende operative Kosten - beides hat ihre Überseekonkurrenz nicht.

Während Großprojekte wie die Stahlindustrie mit Milliardensubventionen und CBAM-Zöllen künstlich beatmet werden, steht der breite industrielle Mittelstand schutzlos im globalen Wettbewerb.

Die Verbände der chemischen Industrie warnen eindringlich: Die Peitsche des CO₂-Preises knallt weiter unbarmherzig auf ein ausgetrocknetes industrielles Umfeld und führt direkt in eine neue, massive Welle der Deindustrialisierung für Chemie, Glas, Papier und Keramik.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Marie Skłodowska Curie defended her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris on 25 June 1903 and became the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree.

[sciformation🚀🧪 @sciformation]

@ICIQchem @CSUC_info @universitatURV @iCERCA @_BIST @SOMM_alliance At https://t.co/K6vOQAvkBB, researchers can just publish lab notebook entries 1:1 in a FAIR way, e.g.
https://t.co/OzAv2fftzx

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

Physical AI hits production speed on automotive assembly! 👀

@TheSanctuaryAI just achieved 99,5%+ success on a wire plugging task at a Tier 1 automotive supplier, 2.54 seconds per task, validated against live production benchmarks.

The system matched the customer's actual production line throughput.

The task sounds simple. But if you look closer, it's not. Inserting flexible wires into moving targets on a conveyor requires contact-rich dexterity, force sensing, real-time adaptation.

Materials shift. Targets move. This has stayed out of reach for traditional automation.

Instead of waiting for humanoid hardware to mature, Sanctuary AI is deploying Physical AI on existing commercial robotic platforms (Universal Robots in this case). So their solution is fully hardware-agnostic. Deploy today on what you already have. Scale to next-gen humanoids later.

Olivia Norton (co-founder, CTO): "Physical AI adoption is gated by AI that meets both performance and cycle time requirements. That's what customers are seeking, and that's what we are delivering."

Looks like manufacturing, logistics, and other labor-constrained industries don't need to wait.

Read more here: https://t.co/4jMfGtL49S

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[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

❤️ Love the Wayback Machine? Some publishers and news organizations are blocking it from archiving journalism—cutting off access to the public record and future accountability.

Want to tell them to stop blocking web archiving? ✍️ Sign the open letter to support keeping journalism preserved in the Wayback Machine ⤵️
https://t.co/fUrdNz60RD

@fightfortheftr #SaveTheArchive #DigitalArchive #WaybackMachine #TruthMatters

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

A robot with 20 legs! 🐛

Duke University researchers published a study presenting a sea-urchin-like robot with 20 legs.

The robot, called Argus, has no front or back. Twenty telescoping legs radiate from a central body, with a depth camera at each leg tip.

The design allows it to move in any direction, stabilize after being pushed, cross rough terrain, carry 10-pound payloads, and even climb walls.

The researchers didn't ask "what animal should we copy?" Instead, they focused on a mathematical concept called dynamic isotropy, how symmetrically a robot can accelerate in every direction. A score of 1 means perfect symmetry in all directions.

Most robots today, including advanced quadrupeds and humanoids, score below 0.6. Argus scored 0.91, close to theoretical maximum.

How? They arranged the body around a regular dodecahedron (a shape with 12 pentagonal faces), giving Argus a nearly uniform field of view and eliminating the need to orient itself the way conventional robots do.

When tested on uneven ground, concrete, grass, sand, wet surfaces, Argus handled obstacles, kept moving with broken legs, and pushed heavy objects while rolling.

Read the article here: https://t.co/LQ4Q4mWSUb

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[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

🧵1/3 What happens when libraries can no longer preserve the knowledge they collect? 📚⚠️

Brewster Kahle warns that the systems connecting libraries, readers, and cultural memory are becoming dangerously fragile as publishers replace ownership with temporary access.

Read the essay Preserving the Library System by Brewster Kahle, part of VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive.

🔗 https://t.co/tjoVGTQ2d6

[DEASanDiego @DEASANDIEGODiv]

The brain develops well into the mid-20s, when the brain completes critical processes. Exposure to addictive substances during this time interferes with development, and addiction is up to 7X more likely if drugs are initiated at this time.@DEAHQ @TheJusticeDept @samhsagov @ONDCP

[Math Files @Math_files]

Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska solved a problem that had puzzled mathematicians for over 400 years. Even Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton couldn’t crack it.

We live in a three-dimensional world, but Maryna solved a puzzle in an eight-dimensional space—something that’s very hard even to imagine.

She was born in Kyiv, studied at Taras Shevchenko University, worked in Bonn and Berlin, and at just 33 became a professor in Lausanne.

So what was the problem? It’s about how to pack identical spheres as tightly as possible in space. This question was first asked by Kepler back in 1611. Over time, scientists found answers for two and three dimensions—but not for eight.

Maryna proved that in eight dimensions, the densest packing is formed by a special mathematical structure called a lattice. What’s even more amazing is that she did it in just 23 pages, while earlier attempts took hundreds.

In 2022, she was awarded the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics. She became only the second woman in history to receive it.

Today, Maryna Viazovska works in Lausanne, supports Ukrainian mathematicians, and brings pride to Ukraine with her achievements.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Did you know that we have millions of different antibodies, but each individual white blood cell produces only one kind of antibody? By fusing an antibody-producing cell with a tumour cell Georges Köhler and César Milstein were able to produce antibodies in large amounts.

[BonifaziLAB @BonifaziGroup]

Der “heilige Gral” der Energiewende: Sonnenkraft nutzen wie die Blätter im Wald

🌞 Check the recent contribution by Prof. Bonifazi, featured in @derStandardat : bio-inspired solar tech mimicking photosynthesis for next-gen sustainable energy.
https://t.co/lu6LlIxRsw

[sciformation🚀🧪 @sciformation]

@HartwigGroup @Willi_Amberg @SynStrategy Do you offer a website to which we can pass SMILES as parameters? An API?
It would be nice to give our users a link to analyze their transformations with one click.

[Mario Barbatti @MarioBarbatti]

Postdoc position in Marseille. #CompChem

https://t.co/2rixYqGMZa

[Rainer Moormann @MoormannRainer]

Gerade eine WDR5 Sendung über den neuen Superrechner in Jülich: 11 MW schluckt der, so viel wie die Stadt Jülich.

Im Anschluss ein etwas peinliches Interview mit einem Paderborner Prof Dumitrescu: "ja, wir werden die ganz großen Rechenleistungen wg Energiemangel nicht haben,=>

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

Welcome to the pico world! 🔬

Micro-dispensing at the picoliter scale is incredible when you compare it to everyday numbers: a single raindrop is about 50 microliters, roughly 50 million times larger than a picoliter.

Being able to place droplets this small without touching the surface is key for biotech, diagnostics, and micro-electronics, where tiny volumes matter.

And at this scale, two basics become critical:
→ Accuracy = how close you are to the real value.
→ Precision = how repeatable each droplet is.

I could watch it all day long!

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[Daniel Gräber @dg_graeber]

20 Prozent des in Deutschland derzeit erzeugten Stroms kommt aus Gaskraftwerken. Die Gasspeicher leeren sich. Zum Glück weht noch etwas Wind. Jedes einzelne Kernkraftwerk, das aus ideologischem Eifer und politischem Starrsinn stillgelegt wurde, würde jetzt helfen.

[Rachel Crespo-Otero @RCrespoOtero]

I have a three-year PDRA position to work on the development of adaptive embedding methods. Please share this with anyone who may be interested. #CompChem https://t.co/VQv1R2w46w

[Harder-Research @harder_research]

FINALLY a complex of type LMg-CaL! This formally Mg(0)-Ca(II) complex shows a very long Mg-Ca bond with Mg(-)/Ca(+) polarization and is quite reactive! Our first 2026 paper is "In dear memory of Herbert Roesky" https://t.co/epFVfTQwRd