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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.

California Sen. Adam Schiff and U.S. Rep. Laura Friedman call on Trump to consider a federal film and TV tax credit, instead of 100% tariffs on foreign films (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Legislators to Trump: Consider a Federal Film and TV Tax Credit Instead
Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Laura Friedman, who are both attempting to pull together bipartisan bills proposing such an incentive, were quick to respond to the president on Monday.

Experimental Study of Magnetic Near-Field Microstrip Electronic Probe for PCB EMC Emission Measurement
Hongchuan Jia (NUIST), Fayu Wan (NUIST), Vladimir Mordachev (ICB), J\'er\^ome Rossignol (ICB), Glauco Fontagalland (PIMENT), Nour Murad (PIMENT), Blaise Ravelo (NUIST)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24944

Experimental Study of Magnetic Near-Field Microstrip Electronic Probe for PCB EMC Emission Measurement
An experimental study on magnetic near-field (NF) scanning of printed circuit board (PCB) emission radiation is developed in this paper. The design and installation of the electromagnetic (EM) NF scanner is introduced. The test bed of magnetic NF emission in the microwave frequency range is described. The methodology of the microstrip magnetic NF probe is discussed. The probe calibration process was performed following the IEC 61967-1 NF scanning standard. The NF scanner functioning is tested w…

xAI sues OpenAI in California for allegedly stealing trade secrets by means of hiring away key employees; in August, xAI sued an ex-staffer who left for OpenAI (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/musks-xai-sues-openai-alleging-theft-of-trad…

Musk’s xAI sues OpenAI, alleging theft of trade secrets
Following a recent lawsuit against a former employee over allegedly stealing trade secrets, Musk’s xAI is now suing the company that executive left to work for — OpenAI. The suit accuses OpenAI of “inducing” recruits that it poached to steal trade secrets from the company.

“A string of bands have pulled out of a UK music festival hours before they were due to perform after Irish band The Mary Wallopers said they were ‘cut off’ for displaying a Palestinian flag.
The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords and The Academic announced on Saturday that they would no longer be performing at the Victorious festival in Portsmouth following Friday’s incident.
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Rock band The Last Dinner Party said they would boycott the festival in a statement shared on their Inst…

Bands pull out of UK music festival after The Mary Wallopers say they were ‘cut off’
Irish folk group displayed Palestinian flag on stage in Portsmouth

Currently testing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor with FSR 4 on Linux (thanks to Optiscaler oc). I must say I'm finally enjoying this and any other game I have tried so far to the fullest. There's just this nagging feeling of resentment that AMD doesn't seem to be in a hurry to do their own job and release officially FSR 4 for RDNA 3 on Windows and Linux, hence the turncoat hesitations. For what it's worth, I'd choose Linux over Windows any day.
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"A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates to embrace the technology, few are seeing it create real value. [...] In collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, our research team at BetterUp Labs has identified one possible reason: Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."
"Unlike this mental outsourc…

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and colla…

Radiation damage study of Belle II silicon strip sensors with 90 MeV electron irradiation
K. Adamczyk (Belle II SVD Collaboration), H. Aihara (Belle II SVD Collaboration), K. Amos (Belle II SVD Collaboration), S. Bacher (Belle II SVD Collaboration), S. Bahinipati (Belle II SVD Collaboration), J. Baudot (Belle II SVD Collaboration), P. K. Behera (Belle II SVD Collaboration), S. Bettarini (Belle II SVD Collaboration), L. Bosisio (Belle II SVD Collaboration), A. Bozek (Belle II SVD Collab…

Radiation damage study of Belle II silicon strip sensors with 90 MeV electron irradiation
The silicon strip sensors of the Belle II silicon vertex detector were irradiated with 90 MeV electron beams up to an equivalent 1-MeV-neutron fluence of $3.0\times 10^{13}~{\rm n}_{\rm eq}/{\rm cm^2}$. We measure changes in sensor properties induced by radiation damage in the semiconductor bulk. Electrons around this energy are a major source of beam-induced background during Belle II operation. We discuss observed changes in full depletion voltage, sensor leakage current, noise, and charge co…

Arriving at Act I, The Alters is quite engaging. It's a video game, in case you are reaching for your favourite search engine. So far, the sci-fi aspect has that structured feeling of the Eastern European/Soviet branch of the genre, mixed up with the post-Soviet era shift of values and cultural trends -- still kind of bland, but looking at the Western guilty thrill of the dystopian. It's a damn good, well-made game. I hope it holds up in that way until the end.