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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.

An updated Classic.

Trump is set to remove Erik Siebert, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia,
for being faithful to facts, evidence, and guidelines governing good prosecutorial conduct, rather than fully corrupting his office to target Trump’s enemies.
That’s not a rhetorical cheap shot. It’s what Trump is actually doing, per ABC:
"President Donald Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incrimin…

Trump Firing Top Prosecutor for Failing to Invent Fake Crimes by Foes
A U.S. attorney in Virginia is finding no evidence that Letitia James broke the law. In America, that’s justice. In Trumpworld, it’s a firing offense.

Thickness Dependence and Fundamental Limitations for Ion Permeation in Nanoscale Films
Jay Prakash Singh, Konstantin I. Morozov, Viatcheslav Freger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14725

Thickness Dependence and Fundamental Limitations for Ion Permeation in Nanoscale Films
Nanoscale films play a central role in biology and osmotic separations. Their water/salt selectivity is often regarded as intrinsic property, favoring thinner membranes for faster permeation. Here we highlight and quantify a fundamental limitation arising from the dependence of ion self-energy on film thickness, governed by its ratio to Bjerrum length. The resulting relation factors out this dependence from intrinsic ion permeability, which agrees well with available data and enables evaluation…

„ For teaching, this means teaching language with an explicit focus on wellbeing of all class members and striving to be an inclusive setting for all learners. It means finding ways to bring in critical reflection to prompt thinking about social structures, people’s thoughts and feelings in relation to their positioning within social structures, and ways to value and empower individuals.“

The two top Democrats in Congress on Saturday demanded a meeting with President Trump ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government,
warning him that Republicans would be blamed for a painful shutdown if he refused to negotiate with them.
“It is now your obligation to meet with us directly to reach an agreement to keep the government open and address the Republican health care crisis,”
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York,…

Top Democratic Leaders Ask Trump for Meeting to Avert a Shutdown
After a Republican plan to keep funding flowing foundered in the Senate, Representative Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Chuck Schumer accused the president of standing in the way of a solution.

The Rev. William Barber, Founding Director of our Center for Public Theology/Public Policy, on NPR addressing key questions evoked by the Charlie Kirk murder. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/17/nx-s1-5543129/progressives-gra…

Beyond Random Masking: A Dual-Stream Approach for Rotation-Invariant Point Cloud Masked Autoencoders
Xuanhua Yin, Dingxin Zhang, Yu Feng, Shunqi Mao, Jianhui Yu, Weidong Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14975

Beyond Random Masking: A Dual-Stream Approach for Rotation-Invariant Point Cloud Masked Autoencoders
Existing rotation-invariant point cloud masked autoencoders (MAE) rely on random masking strategies that overlook geometric structure and semantic coherence. Random masking treats patches independently, failing to capture spatial relationships consistent across orientations and overlooking semantic object parts that maintain identity regardless of rotation. We propose a dual-stream masking approach combining 3D Spatial Grid Masking and Progressive Semantic Masking to address these fundamental l…

Following public outcry,
the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss,
about a month after cutting it.
But rather than sending the money directly to the four programs that are part of a national network helping students who are deaf and blind, a condition known as deafblindness,
the department has instead rerouted the grants to a different organization
The Trump administration targeted the programs in …

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign
Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.