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"Judges are the societal bulwarks called to punish people who commit cruel crimes, especially those involving children. Judge James B. Gosnell failed to answer that calling in a major way."
Dylann Roof's Judge Arrested On Child Porn Charges And Denied Bond - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/09/dylann-roofs-judge-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-and-denied-bond/

Rare Event Simulation of Quantum Error-Correcting Circuits
Carolyn Mayer, Anand Ganti, Uzoma Onunkwo, Tzvetan Metodi, Benjamin Anker, Jacek Skryzalin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13678

Rare Event Simulation of Quantum Error-Correcting Circuits
We describe a practical approach for accessing the logical failure rates of quantum error-correcting (QEC) circuits under low physical (component) failure rate regimes. Standard Monte Carlo is often the de facto approach for studying the failure rates of quantum circuits. However, in the study of fault-tolerant error-correcting circuits, the ability to extend this approach to low physical failure rates is limited. In particular, the use of Monte Carlo to access circuits that are relatively larg…

Photo of Angkor Wat (Cambodia) with a cow and a pig in the foreground by my father.
Angkor Wat is the largest Hindu temple complex in the world, situated at Angkor, Cambodia, built by King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city.
#AngkorWat is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
When I visited (decades later) tourists filled the fields instead of…

Learning from Natural Language Feedback for Personalized Question Answering
Alireza Salemi, Hamed Zamani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10695 https://arxiv.org…

Learning from Natural Language Feedback for Personalized Question Answering
Personalization is crucial for enhancing both the effectiveness and user satisfaction of language technologies, particularly in information-seeking tasks like question answering. Current approaches for personalizing large language models (LLMs) often rely on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), followed by reinforcement learning with scalar reward signals to teach models how to use retrieved personal context. We believe that these scalar rewards sometimes provide weak, non-instructive feedback…

I thought I could get away from <all this> a bit by coming to Anchorage. Instead, it followed me here. 😑

Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency still hadn't not answered nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers.
The agency laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired and were not extended

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.

A Survey of Reasoning and Agentic Systems in Time Series with Large Language Models
Ching Chang, Yidan Shi, Defu Cao, Wei Yang, Jeehyun Hwang, Haixin Wang, Jiacheng Pang, Wei Wang, Yan Liu, Wen-Chih Peng, Tien-Fu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11575

A Survey of Reasoning and Agentic Systems in Time Series with Large Language Models
Time series reasoning treats time as a first-class axis and incorporates intermediate evidence directly into the answer. This survey defines the problem and organizes the literature by reasoning topology with three families: direct reasoning in one step, linear chain reasoning with explicit intermediates, and branch-structured reasoning that explores, revises, and aggregates. The topology is crossed with the main objectives of the field, including traditional time series analysis, explanation a…

Junk-Traffic-Flut: Rekord-DDoS-Angriff auf Provider mit 7,3 TBit/s
Groß angelegte DDoS-Attacken werden immer heftiger. Cloudflare meldet einen Angriff mit einer Datenmenge von 7,3 Terabit pro Sekunde auf einen Host-Provider.

FEMA Didn't Answer Thousands Of Calls From Texas Flood Survivors, Call Center Staffers Had Been Fired - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/fema-didnt-answer-thousands-of-call-from-texas-flood-survivors-call-center-staffers-had-been-fired/

Die Bundesregierung will Cyberschutz für kritische Infrastruktur bis 2026 zur Pflicht machen – und hinkt damit der EU-Richtlinie und der Realität hinterher. Während Angriffe zunehmen, fehlt es an Tempo und Klarheit. Claudia Plattner (BSI) mahnt: Viele Unternehmen haben die Gefahr noch immer nicht auf dem Schirm #ZEIT
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BSI: Cyberschutz für kritische Infrastruktur soll 2026 zur Pflicht werden
Für rund 29.000 wichtige Unternehmen soll es bald verbindliche Cybersicherheitsvorgaben geben. Die Bundesregierung will eine EU-Richtlinie dazu gesetzlich verankern.