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Heartbreaking. They’re barely recovering from Beryl. #HurricaneMelissa
https://abcnews.go.com/US/disastrous-images-emerge-jamaica…

Disastrous images emerge from Jamaica following direct hit by Hurricane Melissa
"Communities and towns no longer look the same," said the prime minister.

Second harmonic generation in polycrystalline ZnS nanowaveguides
Antoine Lemoine, Lise Morice, Brieg Le Corre, Antoine L\'etoublon, Alex Na\"im, Thomas Batte, Mathieu Perrin, Charles Cornet, Yannick Dumeige, Christophe Levallois, Yoan l\'eger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22667

Second harmonic generation in polycrystalline ZnS nanowaveguides
We report the realization of Zinc Sulfide (ZnS) nanowaveguides and the experimental observation of second harmonic generation (SHG) in such structures, demonstrating their potential for integrated nonlinear photonics. ZnS thin films were deposited via RF magnetron sputtering and characterized using atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and ellipsometry. The nonlinear optical properties of these films were theoretically analyzed to assess the…

Prima Filmchen bei Arte https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/123890-004-A/ist-kollektiveigentum-zum-scheitern-verurteilt/?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=123890-004…

The Number of Parts in the (Distinct) Partitions With Parts From a Set
A. David Christopher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22618 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.226…

The Number of Parts in the (Distinct) Partitions With Parts From a Set
The number of parts in the partitions (resp. distinct partitions) of $n$ with parts from a set were considered. Its generating functions were obtained. Consequently, we derive several recurrence identities for the following functions: the number of prime divisors of $n$, $p$-adic valuation of $n$, the number of Carlitz-binary compositions of $n$ and the Hamming weight function. Finally, we obtain an asymptotic estimate for the number of parts in the partitions of $n$ with parts from a finite se…

Watching #IdrisElba portray the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 prime minister and the United States 🇺🇸 president in two movies this year wasn’t in my bingo card. 😮 One movie is a fun watch and is very silly, while the other is sobering and really terrifying.
#films

I really don't want to diss all these lovely people who've practised so hard, but I can't help feeling that the theme of tonight's #BBC4 #prom is "music a detective show might use to indicate that an important witness is having a psychotic episode".

We are now in the weeds on Hacker Summer Camp, so cut through the clutter and check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Microsoft, CISA warn of critical on-prem exchange flaw,
--Poisoned Google invite can exploit Gemini,
--OpenAI Connectors' weakness can extract info from Google Drive accounts,
--Sweeping intrusion breached US legal filing system,
--Deibert warns of tech fascism,
--NIST with…

Microsoft, CISA warn of critical on-prem exchange flaw
Poisoned Google invite can exploit Gemini, OpenAI Connectors' weakness can extract info from Google Drive accounts, Sweeping intrusion breached US legal filing system, Deibert warns of tech fascism, NIST withheld AI report due to Trump fears, Air France and KLM hit by cyberattacks, much more

Completions of Extremely Noncatenary Noetherian UFDs
Eli B. Dugan, S. Loepp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18102 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18102

Completions of Extremely Noncatenary Noetherian UFDs
Let $T$ be a complete local ring. We present necessary and sufficient conditions for $T$ to be the completion of a local (Noetherian) unique factorization domain $A$ such that there exist height one prime ideals $\{J_k\}_{k = 1}^{\infty}$ of $A$ satisfying the following conditions: (1) $J_k = J_{\ell}$ if and only if $k = \ell$, (2) there exist positive integers $n \neq m$ such that for each $k \in \mathbb{N}$, there are two saturated chains of prime ideals of $A$ of the form $J_k \subsetneq J^…

💉 The ancient origins of the addiction-prone mind—and what it means for us today
#addiction

The ancient origins of the addiction-prone mind—and what it means for us today
Why do so many people struggle to stop drinking, quit smoking, or resist endless scrolling on their phones? Addiction touches millions of lives, yet it's often misunderstood as a personal weakness or moral failing. In reality, addiction is rooted in the ancient architecture of the human brain.

In July, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France plans to recognize a Palestinian state
—joining the ranks of more than 100 global states, mostly non-European, that have already done so.
His decision was a clear shot across the bow to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israeli conduct in Gaza.
The point was made even more blunt in the following days by the news that the United Kingdom also intends to recognize a Palestinian state if no progress is…

What Was the Tipping Point on Gaza?
After almost two years of war, Israel is feeling the growing weight of governmental opprobrium.