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Call for evidence:
"Following an initial evidence session in Parliament on the role of the UK’s refinery industry in the energy transition, the Committee is launching a new inquiry and call for evidence on the future of UK oil and gas.
"Data from the oil and gas industry shows that it directly supports around 26,000 jobs across the UK and indirectly supports 95,000 more."
Managing the future of UK oil and gas - Committees - UK Parliament

„Following their success in bringing Meta and Alphabet to heel for allegedly censoring right-leaning viewpoints, conservatives have been amping up their pressure campaign against Wikipedia.“
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digit

Following on previous comments alluding to the big payment systems as a hegemonic cudgel, here's something about a Brazilian system being investigated by the US government for unfair competition.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250

How Brazil's innovative 'Pix' payment system is angering Trump and Zuckerberg
The Pix instant payment system is used by nearly everyone in Brazil, from street vendors to major retailers. In a recent op-ed, economist Paul Krugman even touted it as the “future of money”. Its success has sparked global interest and some political tension after US President Donald Trump launched an investigation into the system.

Tilted Dirac cones and their topology in Holographic Materials
Jeong-Won Seo, Taewon Yuk, Sang-Jin Sin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03033 https://arxiv.org/p…

Tilted Dirac cones and their topology in Holographic Materials
We explore strongly correlated materials with tilted Dirac cone by introducing a method to realize this spectral feature within a holographic setup. Following the work by Moradpouri et al., we construct an asymptotically AdS spacetime by uplifting the vielbein of Volovik et al to tilt the flat spacetime light cone. We then couple the resulting metric to holographic fermions and compute their spectral functions, confirming the presence of a tilted Dirac cone in momentum space. We also calculate …

An interview with Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman on movies that inspired him, too-short theatrical windows, Letterboxd's influence, and more (Mia Lee Vicino/Letterboxd)
https://letterboxd.com/journal/tom-rothman-sony-interview/

Executive Decisions: Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman tells us why the future of film is on Letterboxd • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman talks to Mia Lee Vicino about his scrappy indie roots, championing visionary filmmakers like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino, and why Letterboxd is the way of the future.

Good news: @… 43 will be released next Tuesday, October 28th!
https://www.neowin.net/news/fedora-43-is-coming-next-week-followin…

Fedora 43 is coming next week following Go/No-Go meeting
Fedora 43 will now arrive next week following a Go/No-Go meeting. If you've been stranded on Windows 10, Fedora could be a good option to move to.

TikTok suspends its live feature for the "next few days" in Indonesia, citing "increasing violence in protests" over lawmakers' pay (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

"the [Chinese] plan removes #ElectricVehicles from the list of strategic emerging industries. That move has been misread by some commentators as a retreat. It is better seen as a milestone of maturity. When an industry no longer needs preferential support or policy protection, it has crossed from experiment to normalcy"

Golden Week Goes Electric: China’s Holiday Travel Becomes a Showcase for the Clean Economy - CleanTechnica
China’s Golden Week 2025 marked a new milestone: record EV travel, record rail trips, and falling oil demand. The future arrived on holiday.

Expectations for the first supermassive black-hole binary resolved by PTAs II: Milestones for binary characterization
Polina Petrov, Levi Schult, Stephen R. Taylor, Nihan Pol, Nima Laal, Maria Charisi, Chung-Pei Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01316

Expectations for the first supermassive black-hole binary resolved by PTAs II: Milestones for binary characterization
Following the recent evidence for a gravitational wave (GW) background found by pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments, the next major science milestone is resolving individual supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). The detection of these systems could arise via searches using a power-based GW anisotropy model or a deterministic template model. In Schult et al. 2025, we compared the efficacy of these models in constraining the GW signal from a single SMBHB using realistic, near-future PTA da…

Localized Pattern Formation and Oscillatory Instabilities in a Three-component Gierer Meinhardt Model
Chunyi Gai, Fahad Al Saadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01401 https://…

Localized Pattern Formation and Oscillatory Instabilities in a Three-component Gierer Meinhardt Model
In this paper, we introduce a three-component Gierer-Meinhardt model in the semi-strong interaction regime, characterized by an asymptotically large diffusivity ratio. A key feature of this model is that the interior spike can undergo Hopf bifurcations in both amplitude and position, leading to rich oscillatory dynamics not present in classical two-component systems. Using asymptotic analysis and numerical path-following, we construct localized spike equilibria and analyze spike nucleation that…