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Sources: the US federal judiciary's electronic case filing system was hit in a sweeping hack, potentially compromising the identities of confidential informants (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/06/federal-court-filing-system-pacer-…

On Friday, Trump’s border czar,
Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles
to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.
“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what?
We are already mobilizing.
We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,”
Homan told Fox News.
California Governor Gavin Newsom respo…

LA protests live: National Guard to arrive within 24 hours after being deployed by Trump over immigration demos
Demonstrators clash with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in hours-long stand-off

US and Mexico team up to tackle sewage flowing across border in Tijuana River #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

US, Mexico Sign Accord To Combat Tijuana River Sewage Flowing Across Border
"The United States and Mexico have signed an agreement outlining specific steps and a new timetable to clean up the longstanding problem of the Tijuana River pouring sewage across the border and polluting California beaches, officials from both countries announced Thursday."

@… I get the feeling that Evan is not interested in this conversation.

Cowboys' Jerry Jones not confident Micah Parsons plays Week 1 amid contract dispute https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-jerry-jones-not-confident-micah-parsons-plays-week-1-amid-contract-dispute

Notes and computations on forbidden differences
Christian Dean, Haley Havard, Elizabeth Hawkins, Patch Heard, Andrew Lott, Alex Rice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03650 https://

Notes and computations on forbidden differences
We explore from several perspectives the following question: given $X\subseteq \mathbb{Z}$ and $N\in \mathbb{N}$, what is the maximum size $D(X,N)$ of $A\subseteq \{1,2,\dots,N\}$ before $A$ is forced to contain two distinct elements that differ by an element of $X$? The set of forbidden differences, $X$, is called \textit{intersective} if $D(X,N)=o(N)$, with the most well-studied examples being $X=S=\{n^2: n\in \mathbb{N}\}$ and $X=\mathcal{P}-1=\{p-1: p\text{ prime}\}$. In addition to some ne…

Microsoft's FY 2025 report excludes the names of rivals, breaking from a common industry practice; its last report designated 25 companies as competitors (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/microsoft-competitors-filings.html

Microsoft ends tradition of naming competitors in regulatory filings
Apple, Meta and Nvidia still mention their rivals in annual reports. It's a practice that Alphabet, Amazon and Tesla gave up years ago.

Millisecond-Response Tracking and Gazing System for UAVs: A Domestic Solution Based on "Phytium Cambricon"
Yuchen Zhu, Longxiang Yin, Kai Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04043

Millisecond-Response Tracking and Gazing System for UAVs: A Domestic Solution Based on "Phytium + Cambricon"
In the frontier research and application of current video surveillance technology, traditional camera systems exhibit significant limitations of response delay exceeding 200 ms in dynamic scenarios due to the insufficient deep feature extraction capability of automatic recognition algorithms and the efficiency bottleneck of computing architectures, failing to meet the real-time requirements in complex scenes. To address this issue, this study proposes a heterogeneous computing architecture base…

Learning Optimal Crew Dispatch for Grid Restoration Following an Earthquake
Farshad Amani, Faezeh Ardali, Amin Kargarian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04308 https://

Learning Optimal Crew Dispatch for Grid Restoration Following an Earthquake
Post-disaster crew dispatch is a critical but computationally intensive task. Traditional mixed-integer linear programming methods often require minutes to several hours to compute solutions, leading to delays that hinder timely decision-making in highly dynamic restoration environments. To address this challenge, we propose a novel learning-based framework that integrates transformer architectures with deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to deliver near real-time decision support without comprom…

Alibaba's shares jumped 19% in Hong Kong on Monday, following strong quarterly results from its cloud computing unit and reports of its new AI chip on Friday (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/01/alibaba-shares-hong-kong-today.html

Alibaba shares jump 19% on cloud unit acceleration, report of new AI chip
Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares jumped 19% on strong results at its cloud computing division driven by its AI investments.