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Robotaxis are so safe that California police haven't written them a single ticket. https://apnews.com/article/waymo-no-driver-traffic-ticket-0a0dffb19bf38c5ee85681a6f83591ff

Police in Northern California stop driverless Waymo taxi after illegal U-turn
Police in Northern California pulled over a self-driving Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn. But without a driver behind the wheel, they could not issue a moving violation ticket. The San Bruno Police Department wrote up the weekend encounter in social media posts that have gone viral. Police said that their “citation books don’t have a box for ‘robot’.” State law requires moving violations be issued to drivers or operators. A new state law that kicks in next year will allow l…

Law enforcement agencies from Austria, Estonia, Finland, and Latvia, together with Europol,
have seized thousands of SIM-box devices and SIM cards used in multiple scam campaigns.
The police kicked off Operation Simcartel on October 10 in Latvia,
carrying out 26 searches, and arresting five people right away,
also seizing approximately 1,200 SIM-box devices, 40,000 SIM cards, and five servers with additional infrastructure.
A SIM-box device is a piece of hardwar…

Massive SIM farm network powering 49 million fake accounts taken apart by Europol
Seven people were arrested

🔦 South Korea's loot box law shows strong results, but players still left in the dark
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South Korea's loot box law shows strong results, but players still left in the dark
A new study in Acta Psychologica finds that South Korea's new law requiring mobile games to disclose loot box probabilities is more effective than industry self-regulation.

Why Apple is taking this controversial symbol—“carbon neutral”—off its packaging - Fast Company https://apple.news/AfB8qC8STRH-VJXGfJMKN-Q

High-$z$ SMBHs in Cosmological Models with Enhanced Power Spectra
M. V. Tkachev, S. V. Pilipenko, E. V. Mikheeva, V. N. Lukash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17026 https://

High-$z$ SMBHs in Cosmological Models with Enhanced Power Spectra
We consider the impact of non-power-law spectra of matter perturbations with a bump or with a blue tilt at small scales on the evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) located the innermost part of galaxies. We study SMBH's mass growth rate and the epochs of their birth in four cosmological models using N-body simulations of dark matter within the box of $(100$~Mpc$/h)^3$. The simulations were populated with SMBHs using TRINITY semi-analytic model. We found that the most massive SMBHs at t…

Benford behavior resulting from stick and box fragmentation processes
Bruce Fang, Steven J. Miller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12915 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Benford behavior resulting from stick and box fragmentation processes
Benford's law is the statement that in many real world data sets, the probability of having digit $d$ in base $B$, where $1 \leq d \leq B$, as the first digit is \log_{B}\!\left(\frac{d+1}{d}\right). We sometimes refer to this as weak Benford behavior, and we say that a data set exhibits strong Benford behavior in base $B$ if the probability of having significand at most s, where $1 \leq s < B$, is \log_{B}\!\left(s\right). We examine Benford behaviors in two different probabilistic models: sti…

The limiting law of the Discrete Gaussian level-lines
Joseph Chen, Eyal Lubetzky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04333 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04333

The limiting law of the Discrete Gaussian level-lines
Consider the $(2+1)$D Discrete Gaussian (ZGFF, integer-valued Gaussian free field) model in an $L\times L$ box above a hard floor. Bricmont, El-Mellouki and Fröhlich (1986) established that, at low enough temperature, this random surface exhibits entropic repulsion: the floor propels the average height to be poly-logarithmic in $L$. The second author, Martinelli and Sly (2016) showed that, for all but exceptional values of $L$, the surface has a plateau whose height concentrates on an explicit…