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They say the human brain doesn't settle into adulthood until around age 30.
So two teenage Dutch boys were arrested for walking a route past Europol, Eurojust, and the Canadian embassy with a Wi-Fi sniffer at the behest of someone on Telegram.
https://nltimes.nl/2025/09/26/two-…

Two Dutch teens arrested in rare Russian espionage case
Dutch authorities have arrested two 17-year-old boys suspected of performing espionage tasks for a Russian intelligence service, in what officials call a “unique case” in the Netherlands, De Telegraaf reported.

The Tangerine Tyrant is a clear and present danger to the American People and the national security of the United States.
"The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and 'respect for human rights.'"

Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S
The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and "respect for human rights."

It's been an interesting conference in Aarhus on digital methods in #NeoLatin studies. What I find strinking is that the focus has shifted from text analysis/stylometry to data analysis. There's a rather strong interest now in generating, sharing and reusing data. At least one positive effect of the AI hype.

Dutch army to deploy hackers to front lines to gain battlefield advantage
https://nltimes.nl/2025/09/13/dutch-army-deploy-hackers-front-lines-gain-battlefield-advantage

Dutch army to deploy hackers to front lines to gain battlefield advantage
The Royal Netherlands Army is deploying hackers to the front lines as part of the newly formed 101 CEMA Battalion, officials said Thursday. According to De Telegraaf, the unit, officially established in Stroe, merges companies specialized in electronic warfare and cyber operations.

Rip D'Angelo
Genius brings and bears a price
Torn down to early
Always
#dangelo #goat

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An S-matrix Formalism for the Nonclassical Optical Response of Plasmonic Sphere Aggregates
Xin Zheng, Christos Mystilidis, Christos Tserkezis, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Xuezhi Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04589

An S-matrix Formalism for the Nonclassical Optical Response of Plasmonic Sphere Aggregates
A computational method for the scattering of light by multiple nonclassical plasmonic nanospheres, each of which has multiple (non-)concentric dielectric or metallic layers, is presented. The electromagnetic (EM) response of the free electrons in the metals is described by three popular mesoscopic models: the nonlocal hydrodynamic Drude model (NLHDM) and its diffusive variant, namely the generalized nonlocal optical response (GNOR) model, as well as the surface response model (SRM). The main eq…