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A profile of Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban, who brokered the EA takeover with Jared Kushner, following the PE firm's high-stakes deals from TikTok to Altera (Financial Times)

My reaction to the little snippets I caught is similar to @…’s, and of course this is the whole point:
Fascist movements have always, always rested on insecure, mediocre men who feel like the world owes them something and it’s slipping away, who will do •anything• and believe •anything• as an alternative to the nagging feeling that actually they just kind of suck.
1/ https://climatejustice.social/@Brad_Rosenheim/115293541723826815

Femtosecond Laser Crystallization of Ultrathin a-Ge Films in Multilayer Stacks with Silicon Layers
Yuzhu Cheng, Alexander V. Bulgakov, Nadezhda M. Bulgakova, Ji\v{r}\'i Ber\'anek, Aleksey V. Kacyuba, Vladimir A. Volodin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26303

Femtosecond Laser Crystallization of Ultrathin a-Ge Films in Multilayer Stacks with Silicon Layers
Ultrashort pulsed laser annealing is an efficient technique for crystallizing amorphous semiconductors with the possibility to obtain polycrystalline films at low temperatures, below the melting point, through non-thermal processes. Here, a multilayer structure consisting of alternating amorphous silicon and germanium films was annealed by mid-infrared (1500 nm) ultrashort (70 fs) laser pulses under single-shot and multi-shot irradiation conditions. We investigate selective crystallization of u…

Orbital altermagnetism on the kagome lattice and possible application to $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$
Anzumaan R. Chakraborty, Fan Yang, Turan Birol, Rafael M. Fernandes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26596

Orbital altermagnetism on the kagome lattice and possible application to $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$
Altermagnets, which encompass a broad landscape of materials, are compensated collinear magnetic phases in which the antiparallel magnetic moments are related by a crystalline rotation. Here, we argue that collinear altermagnetic-like states can also be realized in lattices with an odd number of sublattices, provided that the electronic interactions promote non-uniform magnetic moments. We demonstrate this idea for a kagome metal whose band filling places the Fermi level close to the van Hove s…

Non-Altermagnetic Origin of Exchange Bias Behaviors in Incoherent RuO$_2$/Fe Bilayer Heterostructures
Shelby S. Fields, Joseph C. Prestigiacomo, Cory D. Cress, Nicholas G. Combs, Olaf van 't Erve, Patrick G. Callahan, Keith E. Knipling, Michelle E. Jamer, Frank M. Abel, Feng Ye, Arianna Minelli, Zachary J. Morgan, Haile Ambaye, Masaaki Matsuda, Avishek Maity, Valeria Lauter, Steven P. Bennett

Non-Altermagnetic Origin of Exchange Bias Behaviors in Incoherent RuO$_2$/Fe Bilayer Heterostructures
Initially identified as a promising altermagnetic (AM) candidate, rutile RuO$_2$ has since become embroiled in controversy due to contradictory findings of modeling and measurements of the magnetic properties of bulk crystals and thin films. For example, despite observations of a bulk non-magnetic state using density functional theory, neutron scattering, and muon spin resonance measurements, patterned RuO$_2$ Hall bars and film heterostructures display magnetotransport signatures of magnetic o…

Strain-induced Dynamic Spin-Phonon Coupling in Epitaxial RuO2 Films
In Hyeok Choi, Seung Gyo Jeong2, Jae Hyuck Lee, San Kang, Sreejith Nair, Changyoung Kim, Dirk Wulferding, Bharat Jalan, Jong Seok Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23969

Strain-induced Dynamic Spin-Phonon Coupling in Epitaxial RuO2 Films
Magnetic order parameters in altermagnets can couple to quantized lattice vibration via both piezomagnetic and magnetoelastic effects, leading to the renormalization of phonon dispersion. Here, we demonstrate photo-induced dynamic frequency modulation of THz phonons excited in anisotropically-strained epitaxial RuO2 thin films using ultrafast coherent phonon spectroscopy and time-resolved magneto-optic Kerr effect measurement. A coherent oscillation of a transverse acoustic phonon appears in th…

Arriving at Act I, The Alters is quite engaging. It's a video game, in case you are reaching for your favourite search engine. So far, the sci-fi aspect has that structured feeling of the Eastern European/Soviet branch of the genre, mixed up with the post-Soviet era shift of values and cultural trends -- still kind of bland, but looking at the Western guilty thrill of the dystopian. It's a damn good, well-made game. I hope it holds up in that way until the end.

So my other big piece of the day is an inside look at the struggle for the future of the CVE program that just went live at CyberScoop.
Many thanks to Jay Jacobs of Empirical Security, Nick Leiserson of the Institute for Security and Technology, Mitchel Herckis of Wiz, Brian Fox of Sonatype, Peter Allor of the CVE Foundation, Ben Edwards of Bitsight and a few experts who go unnamed for their insight.

Der "Minecraft"-Film bekommt eine Fortsetzung
Der Kinoerfolg des "Minecraft"-Films macht es alternativlos: Ein Nachfolger ist in Arbeit und soll 2027 erscheinen.
https://www.hei…

IRS Direct File,
the electronic system for filing tax returns for free,
will not be offered next year,
the Trump administration has confirmed.
An email sent Monday from IRS official Cynthia Noe to state comptrollers that participate in the Direct File program said that
“IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026. No launch date has been set for the future.”
The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency
was credited by users with…

IRS Direct File won't be available next year for submitting tax returns for free
The Trump administration has decided not to offer the IRS' electronic tax filing system for free next year, and its future is unclear. An IRS official informed state comptrollers in an email Monday that "IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026." Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said better alternatives exist and the private sector can do a better job. The program, developed during Joe Biden's presidency, was praised for making tax filing easy and economical. However, it face…