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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyers falsely told officers investigating voter fraud they would not be held responsible for violating state laws around accessing voter registration information, an anonymous whistleblower revealed on Monday.
DHS officers also had concerns about the reliability of the data they were working with, the whistleblower said

DHS officers raise concerns over potentially illegal voter searches and unreliable data, whistleblower says
Officers were instructed to search state voter databases and create federal records on suspected non-citizen voters despite concerns over the process

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyers told officers investigating voter fraud they would not be held responsible for violating state laws around accessing voter registration information, an anonymous whistleblower revealed on Monday.
DHS officers also had concerns about the reliability of the data they were working with, the whistleblower said.
The Trump administration has ramped up its investigation into noncitizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.
Noncitize…

DHS officers raise concerns over potentially illegal voter searches and unreliable data, whistleblower says
Officers were instructed to search state voter databases and create federal records on suspected non-citizen voters despite concerns over the process

Toen Trump afgelopen week zei dat Israël en Hamas akkoord waren kom je dit natuurlijk al weten. Dat was even waar als dat Iran hem zou smeken om een deal.
Netanyahu keurt plan van Trumps 'Vredesraad' voor Gaza af https://nos.nl/l/2626158

Netanyahu keurt plan van Trumps 'Vredesraad' voor Gaza af
De Israëlische premier is het niet eens met het vredesplan. Hamas staat nog achter het voorstel, zei een anonieme hoge functionaris tegen persbureau AFP. 

Anonymous Hollywood advice for David Ellison to get his WBD deal done: announce more jobs for starved-for-work LA, fire Bari Weiss, and chat with Kamala Harris (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/paramount-warner-merger-kamala-harris-12370158…

Paramount’s Precipice: How David Ellison Could Salvage $111B WBD Merger (Hint – Call Kamala)
Here's a few H'wood suggestions of what David Ellison could do to get his Paramount-WBD merger back on track ASAP & defang the state AGs' antitrust suit

:antifa:
Gemeinsam auf die Straße‼️
Angesichts der Wahlergebnisse heißt es jetzt zusammenschließen und organisieren, statt ohnmächtig zuzusehen.
#Demonstration zu den Landtags- und Kommunalwahlen
⚠️ 12.09.26
⚠️ 18 Uhr,
⚠️ Startpunkt: Theatervorplatz
#DenRechtendieRäumenehmen

The anonymous hacker group SikLik claimed to have breached the infrastructure of Russia’s Central Election Commission and its contractors ahead of the State Duma elections.
https://mezha.net/eng/news/5197b263_anonymous_hackers_claim/

Wir müssen annehmen, dass die KI den Weg ins Internet und den Angriff eigenständig entwickelt hat, sagt DFKI-Chef Antonio Krüger im FAZ-Interview (€) über den OpenAI-Vorfall bei Hugging Face. Sein Fazit: Europa braucht eine eigene, souveräne KI-Modellfamilie statt US- oder China-Systemen. (FAZ, Alexander Armbruster) #KI

Michael Adam (SPD) tritt als Bürgermeister von Bodenmais zurück – zum 31. Dezember 2026. Der Marktrat muss den Antrag noch annehmen.
Als Grund nennt er das Klima im Marktgemeinderat. Den Rücktritt aus freien Stücken bezahlt er mit seinen Rentenansprüchen.
Unabhängig davon, wie man zu ihm steht: Wenn Kommunalpolitik Menschen so zermürbt, ist das ein Problem, das über eine Person hinausgeht.

„Neid & Missgunst“: Adam will nicht mehr Bürgermeister sein
Michael Adam, Bürgermeister der Marktgemeinde Bodenmais, hat am Mittwochabend, 29. Juli, via Mail bekannt gegeben, dass er von seinem Amt zurücktreten möchte...

Spec-Driven Hardware Evolution via Executable Contract Refinement and Proof-Guided RTL Update
Shibo Zhao, Yang Zhang, Mengxia Tao, Baoqi Zhang, Kezhi Li, Qiang Xu, Binwu Zhu, Hao Yan, Min Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12684 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12684 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12684
arXiv:2608.12684v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Hardware development is inherently evolutionary: major revisions typically begin by changing intended behavior and then updating a previously validated implementation, rather than regenerating RTL from scratch. Yet most recent LLM-based hardware research still frames the task primarily as prompt-to-RTL generation, offering limited support for semantic version evolution of trusted legacy designs. We present spec-driven hardware evolution, a contract-centered formulation for RTL version iteration. Instead of treating a new feature request as a direct prompt for RTL generation, we refine it into a reviewed executable contract for the next version. This contract specifies what must hold at the externally visible transactional level through a behavior-level reference together with explicit observation and checking semantics, while leaving how the change is realized in RTL to the evolution process. Based on this formulation, we organize hardware evolution into four stages: Specify, Plan, Implement, and Validate. After contract approval, the remaining stages proceed automatically: Plan derives cross-version semantic deltas and localizes affected RTL regions, aided by mutation-based semantic probing; Implement and Validate then perform legacy-aware RTL update under proof-guided checking and iterative repair. We evaluate the framework on a controlled version-evolution case study of a representative TPU datapath block under data-format changes. The results support the feasibility of contract-driven hardware evolution and demonstrate that the proposed backend workflow can effectively drive validated legacy RTL toward next-version functional convergence under a reviewed executable contract. An anonymous artifact for reproducibility is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/SDHE-3A6C.
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Preventing quart-NaI adhesion in Bridgman growth using ammonium iodide
Lam Tan Truc, N. T. Luan, Gul Rooh, O. Gileva, K. A. Shin, H. S. Lee, A. Iltis, C. R. Byeon, C. H. Lee, H. J. Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21171 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.21171 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.21171
arXiv:2608.21171v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Adhesion between NaI(Tl) single crystals and the walls of quartz ampoules remains a major limitation for Bridgman growth under sealed conditions, particularly for applications requiring ultra-radiopure scintillators for dark matter searches, where sealed handling is essential. In this study, ammonium iodide (NH4I) was used as an additive to generate HI in situ, thereby suppressing the NaOH-SiO2 reaction that forms adhesive sodium silicate phases. Small-diameter crystals (8 mm) were first grown to determine the NH4I concentration required to eliminate adhesion. The optimized condition was then applied to the growth of a large NaI(Tl) crystal. A crack-free and bubble-free NaI(Tl) crystal with dimensions of 3 inches in diameter by 3 inches in length was successfully grown. The crystal exhibited a light output of 59,000 photons/MeV, which is higher than that of the commercial NaI(Tl) crystals used as references in this study.
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