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The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program.
During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,”
adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out
https://news.bloombe…

IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming
The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.

The Most Communist President Ever (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-communist-president-ever
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p25#a250901p25

Predicting when each winless NFL team will get its first win: Saints' breakthrough coming soon?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/predict

An Efficient, Reliable and Observable Collective Communication Library in Large-scale GPU Training Clusters
Ziteng Chen (Infrawaves), Xiaohe Hu (Infrawaves), Menghao Zhang (Beihang University), Yanmin Jia (Infrawaves), Yan Zhang (Infrawaves), Mingjun Zhang (Infrawaves), Da Liu (Infrawaves), Fangzheng Jiao (Beihang University), Jun Chen (Infrawaves), He Liu (Infrawaves), Aohan Zeng (Tsinghua University), Shuaixing Duan (Zhipu AI), Ruya Gu (Infrawaves), Yang Jing (Infrawaves), Bowen Han …

An Efficient, Reliable and Observable Collective Communication Library in Large-scale GPU Training Clusters
Large-scale LLM training requires collective communication libraries to exchange data among distributed GPUs. As a company dedicated to building and operating large-scale GPU training clusters, we encounter several challenges when using NCCL in production, including 1) limited efficiency with costly and cumbersome P2P communication, 2) poor tolerance to frequent RNIC port failures, and 3) insufficient observability of transient collective communication anomalies. To address these issues, we pro…

A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression (Joshua Rothman/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-cu…

A.I. Is Coming for Culture
We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. But when machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, Joshua Rothman asks, what’s left for the human imagination?

Pilot design, channel estimation, and target detection for integrated sensing and communication with OTFS
Dazhuo Wang, Yonghong Zeng, Yuhong Wang, Francois Chin, Yugang Ma, Sumei Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25846

Pilot design, channel estimation, and target detection for integrated sensing and communication with OTFS
Recent studies shows that the orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) waveform is a promising candidate for future communication. To meet users' potential demand for Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) applications in 6G, the usage of OTFS for both radar sensing and wireless communication needs to be explored. In this paper, we propose a Fast Algorithm OTFS radar (FAOR) that can perform radar sensing in low complexity to detect the range and speed of the targets. It computes the 2D cycli…

A Robust Proactive Communication Strategy for Distributed Active Noise Control Systems
Junwei Ji, Dongyuan Shi, Zhengding Luo, Boxiang Wang, Ziyi Yang, Haowen Li, Woon-Seng Gan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00934

A Robust Proactive Communication Strategy for Distributed Active Noise Control Systems
Distributed multichannel active noise control (DMCANC) systems assign the high computational load of conventional centralized algorithms across multiple processing nodes, leveraging inter-node communication to collaboratively suppress unwanted noise. However, communication overhead can undermine algorithmic stability and degrade overall performance. To address this challenge, we propose a robust communication framework that integrates adaptive-fixed-filter switching and the mixed-gradient combi…

Google Home Speaker hands-on: the new $99 speaker is a similar size to the HomePod Mini, comes in four colors, and Gemini is a vastly improved assistant (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/788085/hands-on-google-home-speaker

Hands-on with the new Google Home Speaker coming next year
Hands-on with Google’s new $99 Home Speaker coming in Spring 2026.

Secrecy-Driven Beamforming for Multi-User Integrated Sensing and Communication
Ali Khandan Boroujeni, Hyeon Seok Rou, Ghazal Bagheri, Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, Stefan K\"opsell, Rafael F. Schaefer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26249

Secrecy-Driven Beamforming for Multi-User Integrated Sensing and Communication
This paper proposes a secure integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework for multi-user systems with multiple communication users (CUs) and adversarial targets, where the design problem is formulated to maximize secrecy rate under joint sensing and communication constraints. An efficient solution is presented based on an accelerated fractional programming method using a non-homogeneous complex quadratic transform (QT), which decomposes the problem into tractable subproblems for beamf…

Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids
“Coming to Other Cities”
as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/31/immigration_aaron_reichlin_melnick

Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids “Coming to Other Cities” as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is calling for federal agents to pause immigration enforcement in the Chicago area until after Halloween, amid widespread condemnation of violent arrests and confrontations with residents. Meanwhile, the person at the center of much of Chicago’s enforcement, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, did a five-hour deposition Thursday in a case challenging federal agents’ treatment of protesters, journalists, children and immigrants. Bovino is “in charge of the Chi…