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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announces that it is shutting down following the loss of federal funding (CPB)
https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding…

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.

#Vancouver Gastown Public Spaces survey
Take the survey and share your experience of the following neighbourhood changes:
Public space enhancements on Water Street
Two-way Cordova Street
Sunday pedestrian zone (10 am to 6 pm)

From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”

Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing… | Adrian Cockcroft
Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing tickets and waiting for data center ops teams to do what we need. We worked around the issues, built a new cloud native developer driven architecture and scaled Netflix at speed. At the time many people said we were crazy to run a large enterprise on cloud and would be back in datacenters when it failed. …

Variation of Bose surface by Filling in Cooper pair Bose metal
Jiahao Su, Ji Liu, Jianyu Li, Zhangkai Cao, Tao Ying, Ho-Kin Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24405

Variation of Bose surface by Filling in Cooper pair Bose metal
The Cooper pair Bose metal (CPBM) is a non-superfluid quantum phase in which uncondensed fermion pairs form a "Bose surface" in momentum space. We investigate the CPBM in the two-dimensional spin-anisotropic attractive Hubbard model by tuning the next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) hopping t', carrier filling n, and spin anisotropy alpha, using large-scale constrained-path quantum Monte Carlo simulations. A moderate NNN hopping (t'/t = 0.2) substantially enlarges the CPBM region: the phase extends into…

New accreditation awards to archive services https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/new-accreditation-awards-to-archive-services/

New accreditation awards to archive services - The National Archives
Following a recent Archive Service Accreditation Panel, the UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee is pleased to announce the latest awards to archive services.

Ultrafast electron dynamics upon above band-gap excitation in epitaxial LaFeO$_3$(001) thin films
Friederike Elisa W\"uhrl, Antonia Rieche, Anne Oelschl\"ager, Kathrin D\"orr, Wolf Widdra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24809

Ultrafast electron dynamics upon above band-gap excitation in epitaxial LaFeO$_3$(001) thin films
Strong electron correlations in perovskite oxides give rise to rich and often unexpected electronic phenomena. In this study, we present a comprehensive surface-science investigation of epitaxial thin films of the charge-transfer insulator LaFeO$_3$(001). The characterization includes low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS), and photoemission spectroscopy. We map both the occupied and unoccupied electronic states using two-photon photoe…

If any fysh.org users are following, yes, it's currently down.
1. We had another slew of memory errors caught in the last hour.
2. I initiated an emergency reboot to see if that cleared them.
3. It failed on boot on first attempt, kernel panic.
4. After a reset it came up, including running the user-visible VMs (river etc), but is still logging a slew of memory errors.
5. So I've now shutdown the VMs again.
We'll be poking the service provider to s…

On a construction of stable maps from 3-manifolds into surfaces
Gakuto Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21337 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21337

On a construction of stable maps from 3-manifolds into surfaces
For any link $L$ in the 3-sphere, we give a visual construction of a stable map $f$ from the 3-sphere into the real plane enjoying the following properties; $f$ has no cusp point, the set of definite fold points of $f$ coincides with the given link $L$ and $f$ only has certain type of fibers containing two indefinite fold points. Moreover, this $f$ induces a similar stable map from a 3-manifold $M$ into the 2-sphere, where $M$ is obtained from the 3-sphere by integral Dehn surgery along $L$.

Microsoft became the second company to surpass $4T in market cap, joining Nvidia, after shares jumped 8% in after-hours trading on better-than-expected results (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/microsoft-market-cap-tops-4-trillion-…

Microsoft tops $4 trillion in market cap after hours, joining Nvidia in exclusive club
Based on its post-market trading, Microsoft has become the world's second $4 trillion company following quarterly earnings.