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Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to law firms for IP and patent law work, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/generative-ai-is-coming-for-ip

Generative AI is coming for IP and patent law, as Solve Intelligence raises its Series B
It looks like a swathe of older legal tech platforms are about to be hit by Generative AI startups. But are VCs using 'king-making' tactics to back the winners?

"The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich. If democracy is the problem capital is always trying to solve, propaganda is part of the solution. Like the kings and empire-builders of the past, they use their platforms to project the claims that suit them and suppress the claims that don’t. This means boosting right and far-right movements, which defend wealth and power..." -- George Monbiot.

An unraveling Justice Department appears to be coming apart at the seams (Steve Benen/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/an-unraveling-justice-department-appears-to-be-coming-apart-at-the-seams
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p123#a260113p123

Positivity properties of canonical bases
Jiepeng Fang, Xuhua He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12154 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12154

Positivity properties of canonical bases
We prove that the canonical basis of a modified quantum group $\dot{\mathbf{U}}$ exhibits strong positivity properties for the canonical basis elements arising from spherical parabolic subalgebras. Our main result establishes that the structure constants for both the multiplication with arbitrary canonical basis elements in $\dot{\mathbf{U}}$ and the action on the canonical basis elements of arbitrary tensor products of simple lowest and highest weight modules by these elements belong to $\math…

Secret communication games and a hierarchy of quasiparticle statistics in 3 1D topological phases
Zhiyuan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11818 https://a…

Secret communication games and a hierarchy of quasiparticle statistics in 3 + 1D topological phases
We show that a family of secret communication challenge games naturally define a hierarchy of emergent quasiparticle statistics in three-dimensional (3D) topological phases. The winning strategies exploit a special class of the recently proposed $R$-paraparticles to allow nonlocal secret communication between the two participating players. We first give a high-level, axiomatic description of emergent $R$-paraparticles, and show that any physical system hosting such particles admits a winning st…

Eyewitnesses say Iranian government forces have begun opening fire,
apparently with automatic weapons and at times seemingly indiscriminately,
on unarmed protesters.
Hospital workers say protesters had been coming in with pellet injuries but now arrive with gunshot wounds and skull fractures.
One doctor called it a “mass-casualty situation.”
Despite the communications blockade, a recurring image has made its way out of Iran:
rows and rows of body bags.

As Iran’s Government Tries to Quell Protests, Accounts of Brutal Crackdown Emerge
As many as 3,000 feared dead as witnesses describe government forces firing on unarmed protesters.

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Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung mit RCS: Hinweise auf baldige iOS-Umsetzung
Aktuell können Botschaften über die Rich Communication Services auf iPhones potenziell belauscht werden. Apple arbeitet aber an einer Verbesserung.
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