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China bans TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities, citing national security concerns, after a report on Huawei's Ascend AI chips (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/china-blac

China blacklists major chip research firm TechInsights following report on Huawei
Beijing has banned semiconductor researcher TechInsights from working with or receiving data from entities in China.

Quick Hits: Pete Carroll addresses backup quarterback dilemma and depth around team following end of preseason https://www.raiders.com/news/pete-carroll-addresses-backup-quarterback-dilemma-and-depth-around-team-follow…

Here’s the key point: Trump’s corruption of justice isn’t just individual; it’s categorical. We have grown accustomed to him rewarding his loyalists and punishing his critics. That he fired the prosecutors who worked on his federal criminal cases while pardoning the Jan. 6 rioters represents a textbook case of individual favoritism.
The Trump administration’s abuse of the civil rights division is something else entirely. It had already initiated a “litigation freeze” on filing new civil rights cases, and it had indicated that it was even going to reconsider previous settlements and consent decrees intended to address police misconduct.
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Civil rights laws are designed in part to protect innocent citizens — including, of course, innocent citizens from minority communities — from unjust government officials. Here, the legal world is turned upside down. The Justice Department is using its civil rights division to protect an unjust government official who violated the civil rights of an innocent individual.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/dillon-taylor-justice-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.0DWy.hF58YNdciy3A&smid=url-share

Quick Hits: Pete Carroll addresses backup quarterback dilemma and depth around team following end of preseason https://www.raiders.com/news/pete-carroll-addresses-backup-quarterback-dilemma-and-depth-around-team-follow…

Trump administration in damage-control mode after Hyundai immigration raid sparks investment concerns (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/16/trump-damage-control-following-hyundai-ice-raids-south-korea-investment-immigrantion-workers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p43#a250916p43

GRB 250702B: Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Black Hole Falling into a Star
Eliza Neights, Eric Burns, Chris L. Fryer, Dmitry Svinkin, Suman Bala, Rachel Hamburg, Ramandeep Gill, Michela Negro, Megan Masterson, James DeLaunay, David J. Lawrence, Sophie E. D. Abrahams, Yuta Kawakubo, Paz Beniamini, Christian Aa. Diget, Dmitry Frederiks, John Goldsten, Adam Goldstein, Alexander D. Hall-Smith, Erin Kara, Alison M. Laird, Gavin P. Lamb, Oliver J. Roberts, Ryan Seeb, V. Ashley Villar,…

GRB 250702B: Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Black Hole Falling into a Star
Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous electromagnetic events in the universe. Their prompt gamma-ray emission has typical durations between a fraction of a second and several minutes. A rare subset of these events have durations in excess of a thousand seconds, referred to as ultra-long gamma-ray bursts. Here, we report the discovery of the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen with a ~25,000 s gamma-ray duration, GRB 250702B, and characterize this event using data from four instruments in the Int…

People Are Highly Cooperative with Large Language Models, Especially When Communication Is Possible or Following Human Interaction
Pawe{\l} Niszczota, Tomasz Grzegorczyk, Alexander Pastukhov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18639

People Are Highly Cooperative with Large Language Models, Especially When Communication Is Possible or Following Human Interaction
Machines driven by large language models (LLMs) have the potential to augment humans across various tasks, a development with profound implications for business settings where effective communication, collaboration, and stakeholder trust are paramount. To explore how interacting with an LLM instead of a human might shift cooperative behavior in such settings, we used the Prisoner's Dilemma game -- a surrogate of several real-world managerial and economic scenarios. In Experiment 1 (N=100), part…

The Connection between Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies and the First Massive Quenched Galaxies
Pablo Araya-Araya, Rachel K. Cochrane, Laerte Sodr\'e Jr., Robert M. Yates, Christopher C. Hayward, Marcel P. van Daalen, Marcelo C. Vicentin, Bitten Gullberg, Francesco Valentino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26646

The Connection between Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies and the First Massive Quenched Galaxies
High-redshift (z > 2) massive quiescent (MQ) galaxies provide an opportunity to probe the key physical processes driving the fuelling and quenching of star formation in the early Universe. Observational evidence suggests a possible evolutionary link between MQs and dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs; or submillimetre galaxies), another extreme high-redshift population. However, galaxy formation models have historically struggled to reproduce these populations - especially simultaneously - limit…

The flimsy evidence behind Trump's big autism announcement, explained (Dylan Scott/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/health/462311/trump-tylenol-autism-announcement-leucovorin
http://www.memeorandum.com/250922/p137#a250922p137