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Cable company Altice changes its name to Optimum Communications and will change its NYSE ticker symbol to OPTU on November 19 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/altic…

Altice Changes Corporate Name to Optimum Communications
The cable company (which was once called Cablevision) will begin trading under the ticket OPTU later this month.

Strategic Communication Protocols for Interstellar Objects Using a Threat-Communication Viability Index and the Information-Communication Paradox
David R. Gruber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03973

Strategic Communication Protocols for Interstellar Objects Using a Threat-Communication Viability Index and the Information-Communication Paradox
Strategic Communication Protocols provide a structured approach for first contact with interstellar objects that demonstrate technological characteristics and high levels of threat. The protocols find their starting point in an ISO Information-Communication Paradox, namely, as our knowledge of an ISO's threatening capabilities increases, the probability of successful communication decreases while the urgency of communication attempts simultaneously intensifies. From this paradox, a Threat-Commu…

Beyond Canonical Rounds: Communication Abstractions for Optimal Byzantine Resilience
Hagit Attiya, Itay Flam, Jennifer L. Welch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04310 https://

Beyond Canonical Rounds: Communication Abstractions for Optimal Byzantine Resilience
We study communication abstractions for asynchronous Byzantine fault tolerance with optimal failure resilience, where $n > 3f$. Two classic patterns -- canonical asynchronous rounds and communication-closed layers -- have long been considered as general frameworks for designing distributed algorithms, making asynchronous executions appear synchronous and enabling modular reasoning. We show that these patterns are inherently limited in the critical resilience regime $3f < n \le 5f$. Several ke…

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Pollsters Didn't See the Blue Wave Coming in New Jersey and Virginia (Aaron Zitner/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/pollsters-didnt-see-the-blue-wave-coming-in-new-jersey-and-virginia-dd640214
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p174#a251105p174

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'It's coming for you': Analyst reveals 'terrible news for red America' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/it-s-coming-for-you-analyst-reveals-terrible-news-for-red-america/

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Multi-Frequency Resonating Based Magnetic Induction Underground Emergency Communications with Diverse Mediums
Jianyu Wang, Zhichao Li, Wenchi Cheng, Wei Zhang, Hailin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03848

Multi-Frequency Resonating Based Magnetic Induction Underground Emergency Communications with Diverse Mediums
Magnetic induction (MI) communication is an effective underground emergency communication technique after disasters such as landslides, mine collapses, and earthquakes, due to its advantages in mediums such as soil, concrete, and metals. However, the propagation mediums in practical MI based underground emergency communications are usually diverse and composed randomly due to the impact of disasters, which poses a challenge for MI communication in practical applications. In this paper, we formu…

Robust Beamforming for Magnetic Induction Based Underground Emergency Communications
Jianyu Wang, Tianrui Hou, Wenchi Cheng, Hailin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03852 https:…

Robust Beamforming for Magnetic Induction Based Underground Emergency Communications
Magnetic induction (MI) communication is an effective underground emergency communication technique after disasters such as landslides, mine collapses, and earthquakes, due to its advantages in mediums such as soil, concrete, and metals. Based on channel state information (CSI), magnetic beamforming can significantly improve the performance of MI communication. However, in post-disaster underground communication, channel estimation may suffer from errors due to factors such as complex environme…