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The Korean government will provide trade secret original certification services to applicants of a government-backed AI startup program to help safeguard their business ideas following a major data leak.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20260622007000320

Gov't to provide trade secret certification for startup program applicants following data leak
SEOUL, June 22 (Yonhap) -- The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said Monday it will...

Shares of quantum computing companies surged Thursday after the US government awarded grants and took equity stakes: D-Wave closed up 33%, Rigetti 30%, IBM 12% (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/quantum-stocks--us-taking-equity-stakes.html…

Quantum stocks soar as U.S. reportedly plans $2 billion ‘award’ and taking equity stakes
Quantum computing shares popped in premarket trading following reports that the U.S. government will award grants to nine firms operating in the space.

Mexican President Sheinbaum told reporters on Wednesday they had been unaware of the presence of the two C-I-A employees who died in a car accident during an antidrug operation in Mexico. Sheinbaum has resisted the Trump administration's threats to use airstrikes or ground troops to fight Mexican cartels, and perhaps the C-I-A should use bicycles or walk there because the cars seem to not to like them either.

Mexico weighs action after CIA agents die in crash following drug lab raid
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the government is still investigating a potential violation of national security laws in the incident.

"The investigation, led by ICIJ and 47 media partners, explores how Merck & Co. — known as MSD outside the United States and Canada — keeps huge revenues flowing while pricing out many patients and governments from its blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda."
‘Unacceptable’: Lawmakers react to revelations from ICIJ’s Cancer Calculus investigation - ICIJ
https://www.icij.org/investigations/cancer-calculus/unacceptable-lawmakers-react-to-revelations-from-icijs-cancer-calculus-investigation/

A federal judge has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials,
accusing the Justice Department of using its investigatory powers to retaliate against state officials for not cooperating with federal efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.
In a ruling unsealed Monday,
U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz found the “dominant purpose” of the subpoenas was
to “coerce Minnesota officials into assisting…

Judge halts effort to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Walz in immigration enforcement probe
A federal judge has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials, calling it an effort to “harass and retaliate against them.” U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz found in a ruling unsealed Monday that the “dominant purpose” of the subpoenas was to “coerce Minnesota officials into assisting the federal government with enforcing civil immigration law and to harass and retaliate against them for failing to do so.” The sub…

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 23. April 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 33. #Atombombe "Fenton". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

Halfway the EU gas storage filling season, the Netherlands is lagging. Our storages are only at 31% now, way behind the EU average of 53%, and other major storage countries like France (52%), Germany (45%) and Italy (71%).
Based on security of supply advice by Gasunie, Dutch government had set a target of 80% by 1 November 2026. Our EU obligation is 74%. Both would practically seem out of reach by now, which is unfortunate in view of our dependence on LNG imports in an unstable world.

Solutocapillary instability in slipping falling films
Sanghasri Mukhopadhyay, S\'everine Millet, Bastien Di Pierro, Asim Mukhopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17519 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17519 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17519
arXiv:2605.17519v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a comprehensive framework for gravity-driven, surfactant-laden thin films flowing over slippery substrates, elucidating how wall slip modifies the coupled hydrodynamics and interfacial transport. A long-wave model is formulated with a conservative bulk-surface mass balance and a Navier slip condition. The Orr-Sommerfeld eigenvalue problem governs the linear regime, while a weighted-residual model captures the nonlinear evolution over a range of equilibrium surfactant coverages, Marangoni strengths, and adsorption kinetics. The analysis predicts a non-monotonic variation of the critical Reynolds number with equilibrium coverage, exhibiting a maximum at intermediate $\Gamma_e$, and a slip-induced transition from single- to double-hump solitary structures with increasing Marangoni number, accompanied by attenuated capillary ripples. Under fast adsorption kinetics, the surface field homogenizes, preserving the mean film shape and flux while flattening both the surface concentration $\Gamma$ and the bulk inventory $\chi h\phi$. A spurious interfacial mass growth reported by Pascal et al.(PRF, 2019) and D'Alessio et al.(JFM, 2020) is resolved through a revised surface balance ensuring strict conservation. Wall slip thus emerges as a key control parameter, reducing viscous resistance and mitigating Marangoni back-stress. The slip parameter $\beta$ is a useful control knob for surfactant-laden films. Slip prevents fragile multi-hump bound states, promoting a single broad crest or an almost flat, uniform sheet by carefully bonding $\beta$ to wave selection, ripple damping, and the bulk-surface surfactant balance.
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Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 22. Juli 1965 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 2. #Atombombe "Pongee". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”

Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…

Newsom continues crackdown on cities over housing plan requirements. 'No city gets a pass,' governor says
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed legal actions this week against five small cities that they say are failing to meet benchmarks required for housing planning.