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Filings: Skydance extends the length of contracts and bumps up compensation for its four top executives, and WBD unveils bonuses for outgoing leaders (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/10/skydance-extends-employment-contr…

Skydance Bumps Pay, Extends Contracts For Top Execs; New Bonuses For WBD Brass
Skydance has extended and expanded employment agreements for key corporate executives including CEO David Ellison. WBD unveiled deal-related bonuses.

Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
Microsoft Edge is ending support for Manifest V2 extensions like uBlock Origin starting this month.

California approves 35 films for its production incentive program, estimating that they will bring $1.08B in combined production spending to the state (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/michael…

'Michael' Sequel Among 35 Films Approved for California Tax Incentive
Lionsgate's upcoming sequel to the highest grossing biopic of all time, "Michael," headlined the latest batch of 35 films approved for California's production incentive program.

The Trump administration renewed its appeal to the US supreme court on Sunday
to allow restrictions on mail-in voting,
after a federal judge had blocked new limits on such ballots, just ahead of November’s midterm elections.
The latest filing follows a decision by US district court judge Indira Talwani on Friday to extend a court order
preventing the US Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing Donald Trump’s executive order.
The legal fight was continuing as states …

Trump again asks supreme court to restrict mail-in voting as midterms loom
Legal fight continues as states begin sending out ballots for voters to vote by mail in November’s midterm elections

How Trump and Musk made the Nepal disaster worse, by glaciologist dr Heïdi Sevestre:
"What about early warning systems?"
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya, a joint initiative by NASA, USAID and ICIMOD monitoring, had mapped landslide and flood hazard in these valleys since 2010.
The Trump administration’s aid freeze cut it in January 2025."
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I spent the entire summer worrying about glaciers collapsing. With the crazy temperature records everywhere I knewit was only a question of time. On August 26th, all these fears came true. At… | Dr. Heïdi Sevestre | 62 comments
I spent the entire summer worrying about glaciers collapsing. With the crazy temperature records everywhere I knewit was only a question of time. On August 26th, all these fears came true. At 8:37AM, Nepal time, 100 to 200 million cubic metres of rock and ice detached from the north flank of Langtang Lirung at 5200m high, the equivalent of 90 to 175 Wembley stadiums, on Mohd. Farooq Azam's estimate at ICIMOD. Dan Shugar in Calgary and Jakob Steiner in Graz find from the satellite imagery that…

A profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which has lost an estimated third of its warehouse space to Ukrainian attacks (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/world…

She Is Russia’s Richest Woman. Her Business Empire Is Going Up in Flames.
As Ukraine repeatedly strikes warehouses of the e-commerce site Wildberries, Tatyana Kim, its billionaire co-founder, faces her biggest test yet.

Quantum Lifts of Noninteger Power Law Field Theories
Jarah Evslin, Hengyuan Guo, Stefano Bolognesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06282 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.06282 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.06282
arXiv:2608.06282v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Field theories whose potentials have noninteger power laws $\alpha$ have found many applications, but are often claimed to have no lift to quantum field theory except as effective models. We define quantum lifts by expanding the classical potential in Hermite polynomials and then normal ordering at a mass scale shifted by a parameter $\beta$. We find that when $\alpha>2$, for sufficiently large $\beta$, the vacuum state can be perturbatively expanded in usual Fock states. We apply this to the following problem. The $\sigma=4$ P\"oschl-Teller model has a $\phi^{5/2}$ potential. As the third derivative of the potential diverges in each vacuum, one expects the three point interactions to diverge in the vacuum. The model's kink has three shape modes and the least bound mode extends so far into the vacuum that its probability of being excited by radiation apparently diverges. We show that a deformation $\beta$ of order the meson mass or larger is sufficient to tame this divergence, although it nonetheless results in an excitation probability which is enhanced by a $\beta$-dependent fractional power of the inverse coupling.
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🧠 The same engine infers closure types from usages without any PHPDocs, including by-reference variables, and infers static variable types from assignments instead of falling back to mixed
🏗️ Under the hood: a single-pass inside-out engine rewrite replaces three separate AST traversals. Code like $a = [$b = 1, $b 1] now infers as array{1, 2}. Extension APIs stay compatible; the new features require bleeding edge

Deformation algorithm: Deforming (2 1)-dimensional integrable systems to higher dimensional ones
Wang Fa-Ren, Jia Man, Lou S Y
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01293 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.01293 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.01293
arXiv:2608.01293v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The deformation algorithm based on conservation laws can lift (1 1)-dimensional integrable systems to higher-dimensional counterparts while preserving Lax integrability, yet its generalization to (2 1)-dimensional models has remained an open problem. This paper establishes a unified deformation framework for two (2 1)-dimensional integrable equations: the anisotropic Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation and the isotropic Nizhnik-Novikov-Veselov (NNV) equation. By introducing a set of mutually commuting field-dependent deformation operators, we systematically construct infinite families of ($m 3$)-dimensional integrable KP and NNV hierarchies, derive their closed-form Lax pairs, and rigorously verify integrability via the vanishing commutator condition of Lax operators. For each high-dimensional hierarchy, concrete finite-dimensional master systems are obtained by truncating auxiliary spatial variables: a (3 1)-dimensional KP system and a (4 1)-dimensional generalized NNV system. Further symmetry reductions recover the original (2 1)-dimensional KP and NNV equations, and more importantly produce two distinct Harry-Dym (HD)-type reciprocal integrable systems. The KP reduction yields an anisotropic (2 1)-dimensional HD model, while the NNV reduction generates the first spatially isotropic two-space-dimensional HD system reported so far, filling a notable gap in existing literature. Parallel comparison of the KP and NNV branches reveals that the spatial symmetry of the original two-dimensional parent equation directly governs the symmetry properties of its high-dimensional deformations and HD dual subsystems. Our work not only extends the conservation-law deformation conjecture beyond (1 1)-dimensions to accommodate both strong Lax and weak Lax structures, but also provides a universal route to construct reciprocal links for multi-dimensional integrable systems.
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All across America, the midterm elections are drowning in dark money.
A New York Times review of advertising data, campaign-finance filings and tax records
revealed that about $1 billion in anonymous money is sloshing through the political landscape in 2026,
a staggering sum and yet almost certainly a low-end estimate,
given how difficult this money is to trace.

‘The Least Transparent Midterm’: How Dark Money Is Washing Over the 2026 Election
At least $1 billion from anonymous donors is flowing into the midterm elections. Dark money is not new, but it now permeates nearly every major contest.