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On 31 March 2026, University College London will be hosting a Festschrift Symposium for Professor M. Angela Sasse, to recognise and celebrate her contributions to the field of Computer Science and human-centred security specifically. We are seeking scientific contributions to a volume that will be presented at the event. Submissions will be selected by a committee of her students and colleagues, with accepted papers being made available online following the event.
Submissions are limit…

Chirality-Induced Orbital-Angular-Momentum Selectivity in Electron Transmission and Scattering
Yun Chen, Oded Hod, Joel Gersten, Abraham Nitzan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02997 …

Chirality-Induced Orbital-Angular-Momentum Selectivity in Electron Transmission and Scattering
Chirality-induced orbital-angular-momentum selectivity (CIOAMS) in electron transmission and scattering processes is investigated. Polarization of the OAM of an electron traversing chiral media is first studied via electronic wavepacket propagation using the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. Next, spatial resolution of wavepackets carrying opposite OAM, following scattering from a corrugated surface is demonstrated. This suggests that OAM may play a significant role in the mechanisms underl…

A look at LA's shrinking entertainment economy; ProdPro: 30% fewer $40M films and shows began shooting in the US in 2024 vs 2022, down 13% more in 2025 so far (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/los-a…

Multi-messenger lensing time delay as a probe of the graviton mass
Elena Colangeli, Charles Dalang, Tessa Baker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03196 https://ar…

Multi-messenger lensing time delay as a probe of the graviton mass
Gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of cosmology and astrophysics. With the prospect of the first strongly lensed gravitational waves on the horizon, we highlight an opportunity to test fundamental physics. In this work, we assume a nonzero mass for the graviton, which leads to gravitational waves following timelike geodesics instead of null geodesics. We derive standard gravitational lensing equations, such as the scattering angle, the time-delay between different images and the magnific…

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Rethinking Layer-wise Model Merging through Chain of Merges
Pietro Buzzega, Riccardo Salami, Angelo Porrello, Simone Calderara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21421 https://

Rethinking Layer-wise Model Merging through Chain of Merges
Fine-tuning pretrained models has become a standard pathway to achieve state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of domains, leading to a proliferation of task-specific model variants. As the number of such specialized modules in-creases, merging them into a unified model without retraining has become a critical challenge. Existing merging techniques often rely on interference heuristics,importance weighting, or activation matching while treating each layer independently, thereby failing…

Public defender’s office seeks removal of Trump’s top federal prosecutor in L.A.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-29/public-defender-moves-to-disqualify-bill-essayli

Public defender's office seeks to remove L.A.'s top federal prosecutor
In a filing Friday, the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles argued acting U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli should be removed because he is unlawfully occupying his post.

Anomalous ultrafast heat transfer in single palladium nanocrystals seen with an X-ray free electron laser
David Yang, James Wrigley, Jack Griffiths, Longlong Wu, Ana F. Suzana, Jiecheng Diao, Angel Rodriguez-Fernandez, Joerg Hallmann, Alexey Zozulya, Ulrike Boesenberg, Roman Shayduk, Jan-Etienne Pudell, Anders Madsen, Ian K. Robinson
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Anomalous ultrafast heat transfer in single palladium nanocrystals seen with an X-ray free electron laser
We report transient highly strained structural states in individual palladium (Pd) nanocrystals, electronically heated using an optical laser, which precede their uniform thermal expansion. Using an X-ray free-electron laser probe, the evolution of individual 111 Bragg peaks is measured as a function of delay time at various laser fluences. Above a laser fluence threshold at a sufficient pump-probe delay, the Bragg peak splits into multiple peaks, indicating heterogeneous strain, before returni…

Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is finalizing $350M in funding led by Felicis at a $10B valuation; founded in 2023, Mercor manages 30K contractors (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
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