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As Cyber Threats Escalate, the National Vulnerability Database Is Falling Behind
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is struggling.
It faces a growing backlog to process data in its vulnerability repository, which publicly shares information assessing and detailing mitigation solutions against new cyber exploits.
With nearly 1,800 new reported vulnerabilities sitting in a queue for analysis this year, delays in processing leave the United States increa…

»Oft faulenzt er tagelang, hat er aber viel Arbeit, dann arbeitet er Tag und Nacht mit unermüdlicher Ausdauer fort; eine bestimmte Zeit zum Schlafen und Wachen gibt es bei ihm nicht; sehr oft bleibt er ganze Nächte auf, dann legt er sich wieder mittags ganz angekleidet aufs Kanapee und schläft bis abends, unbekümmert um die ganze Welt, die bei ihm frei aus- und eingeht.« (Preußischer Spitzelbericht über Marx, 1852/53)

And yet:
"Three Republican-led states — Texas, along with Missouri and North Carolina — have not faced federal legal action after revamping district lines following Trump’s call for new maps to expand GOP numbers in the House."
✅ Justice Department sues to block California US House map | AP News

After reading great things about the author and great reviews of the book, this weekend I started to read “True and False Magic” by Phil Stutz.
I am completely puzzled as I read 47% of the book and I have absolutely no idea what I read. I am honestly feeling like the book and my brain are not overlapping even a bit.

Extreme events and impact statistics for unipotent actions on the space of lattices
Jens Marklof, Andreas Str\"ombergsson, Shucheng Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11371 http…

Extreme events and impact statistics for unipotent actions on the space of lattices
This paper extends a recent extreme value law for horocycle flows on the space of two-dimensional lattices, due to Kirsebom and Mallahi-Karai, to the simplest examples of rank-$k$ unipotent actions on the space of $n$-dimensional lattices. We analyse the problem in terms of the hitting time and impact statistics for the unipotent action with respect to a shrinking surface of section, following the strategy of Pollicott and the first named author in the case of hyperbolic surfaces. If $k=n-1$, t…

New Journal: Journal of Buddhist Studies Vol. XXI
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The CIVICUS Monitor has downgraded the United States of America’s civic space rating, reflecting a sharp deterioration of fundamental freedoms in the country. The People Power Under Attack report now rates the USA as “Obstructed” following a year of sweeping executive actions, restrictive laws, and aggressive crackdowns on free speech and dissent.
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“The backsliding on rule of law and fundamental freedoms in the United States is truly alarming,” said Mandeep Tiwana...

United States of America - Civicus Monitor
USA downgraded by CIVICUS Monitor

Influence of Platinum Thin Films on the Photophysical and Quantum Properties of Near-Surface NV Centers
Joachim P. Leibold (Department of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany), Lina M. Todenhagen (Walter Schottky Institute, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany), Matthias Althammer (Walther-Mei{\ss}ner-Institute, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Garching, Germany), Nikhita Khera (Department of Physics and Resea…

Influence of Platinum Thin Films on the Photophysical and Quantum Properties of Near-Surface NV Centers
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are optically addressable spin defects with great potential for nanoscale quantum sensing. A key application of NV centers is the detection of external spins at the diamond surface. Among metals, platinum thin films - widely used in spintronics, catalysis and electrochemistry - provide a particularly interesting system for such studies. However, the interaction between NV centers and metals is known to affect their quantum sensing capabilities. In this w…

These charts will shock you I am sure.
Travel to the United States for Europeans appears much less popular year-over-year.
Financial Times shows the steep drop (paywalled) since the new administration began.
https://flowingdata.com/2025/04/15/decline-in…

Decline in European travelers to U.S.
These charts will shock you I am sure. Travel to the United States for Europeans appears much less popular year-over-year. Financial Times shows the steep drop (paywalled) since the new administrat…

Intermediate chiral edge states in quantum Hall Josephson junctions
Partha Sarathi Banerjee, Rahul Marathe, Sankalpa Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11432 https://

Intermediate chiral edge states in quantum Hall Josephson junctions
A transfer-matrix-based theoretical framework is developed to study transport in superconductor-quantum Hall-Superconductor (SQHS) Josephson junctions modulated by local potential barriers in the quantum-Hall regime. The method allows one to evaluate the change in the conductivity of such SQHS Josephson junctions contributed by the intermediate chiral edge states (ICES) induced by these local potential barriers at their electrostatic boundaries at specific electron filling-fractions. It is part…