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I dreamt last night that I was in Glasgow for a concert and a massive power failure occurred. There was no electricity and all electronics were fried - radio, phones, internet, nothing working except some very old cars with no electronic systems.
We heard rumours that either the Earth had been hit by an EMP pulse from a cosmic event, or maybe this was more local and was caused by a weapon of some kind.
Police were out on horseback telling us to stay calm but had no info. /1

Solche Nachrichten machen Hoffnung
https://www.euronews.com/2025/06/16/german-court-sentences-syrian-torture-doctor-to-life-imprisonment

German court sentences Syrian torture doctor to life imprisonment
Alaa M was found guilty of crimes committed at military hospitals in Syria at the start of the country's civil war. The 40-year-old later moved to Germany, where he worked as an orthopaedic surgeon.

Zelensky shouldn't target Moscow, Trump says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/zelensky-shouldnt-target-moscow-trump.html

Oopsie
„Tensions erupted at the Rafah crossing as local Egyptians confronted far-left Western activists— described as "Greta Thunberg types" —who had gathered to "march on Gaza" and protest against Israel.
The mostly European demonstrators, accusing Israel of
"genocide," were met with fierce opposition from Egyptian locals, who pelted them with clubs and water bottles, forcing them back and halting their advance toward the border.“

Jewish Breaking News on Instagram: "🇪🇬😱Chaos Erupts in Egypt as Locals Clash with Western Pro-Ham@s Activists Near Gaza Border BREAKING: Tensions erupted at the Rafah crossing as local Egyptians confronted far-left Western activists—described as “Greta Thunberg types”—who had gathered to “march on Gaza” and protest against Israel. The mostly European demonstrators, accusing Israel of “genocide,” were met with fierce opposition from Egyptian locals, who pelted them with clubs and water bottles, forcing them back and halting their advance toward the border. Many of the activists have since taken to social media claiming they were beaten, had their passports stolen, and are now stranded in Egypt. Several are pleading online for help from their embassies. One Egyptian pundit remarked: “There’s a reason Egypt has a huge wall and doesn’t let any Gazans in. What made these people think they could just ‘march to Gaza’ via Egypt?” Egyptian authorities have yet to issue an official statement."
12K likes, 1,023 comments - jewishbreakingnews on June 13, 2025: "🇪🇬😱Chaos Erupts in Egypt as Locals Clash with Western Pro-Ham@s Activists Near Gaza Border BREAKING: Tensions erupted at the Rafah crossing as local Egyptians confronted far-left Western activists—described as “Greta Thunberg types”—who had gathered to “march on Gaza” and protest against Israel. The mostly European demonstrators, accusing Israel of “genocide,” were met with fierce opposition from Egyptia…

X-ray investigation of the remarkable galaxy group Nest200047
Anwesh Majumder, A. Simionescu, T. Pl\v{s}ek, M. Brienza, E. Churazov, I. Khabibullin, F. Gastaldello, A. Botteon, H. R\"ottgering, M. Br\"uggen, N. Lyskova, K. Rajpurohit, R. A. Sunyaev, M. W. Wise
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11312

X-ray investigation of the remarkable galaxy group Nest200047
Galaxy groups are more susceptible to feedback from the central active galactic nuclei (AGN) due to their lower gravitational binding energy compared to clusters. This makes them ideal laboratories to study feedback effects on the overall energy and baryonic mass budget. We study the LOFAR-detected galaxy group Nest200047, where there is clear evidence of multiple generations of radio lobes from the AGN. Using 140 ks Chandra and 25 ks XMM-Newton data, we investigate thermodynamic properties of …

ARMOR: Aligning Secure and Safe Large Language Models via Meticulous Reasoning
Zhengyue Zhao, Yingzi Ma, Somesh Jha, Marco Pavone, Chaowei Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11500

ARMOR: Aligning Secure and Safe Large Language Models via Meticulous Reasoning
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities. However, their susceptibility to misuse has raised significant safety concerns. While post-training safety alignment methods have been widely adopted, LLMs remain vulnerable to malicious instructions that can bypass safety constraints. Recent efforts have introduced inference-time safety reasoning (system-2 alignment), where LLMs conduct a reasoning process to perform safety verification before final response. We…

Kann euch das Buch "Opus. The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church" von Gareth Gore empfehlen. Sehr lesenswert. Der Zusammenhang zwischen der Besetzung des US Supreme Court und Opus Dei war mir bspw. völlig neu.
Tatsächlich sehe ich nach dem Buch Papst Benedikt XVI in einem etwas positiveren Licht und Johannes Paul II in einem noch negativeren.

A live blog of WWDC, where OS redesigns, new naming conventions, and more are expected, after failing to deliver on Apple Intelligence, unveiled at WWDC 2024 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/681646/apple-wwdc-2025-news-rumors-ios-26…

WWDC 2025: all the news from Apple’s annual developer conference
Apple faces some unusually high stakes at this year’s WWDC.

Decay character theory for partially dissipative hyperbolic systems of balance laws
Ling-Yun Shou, Jiang Xu, Ping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11450 ht…

Decay character theory for partially dissipative hyperbolic systems of balance laws
The partially dissipative systems that characterize many physical phenomena were first pointed out by Godunov (1961), then investigated by Friedrichs-Lax (1971) who introduced the convex entropy, and later by Shizuta-Kawashima (1984,1985) who initiated a simple sufficient criterion ensuring the global existence of smooth solutions and their large-time asymptotics. There has been remarkable progress in the past several decades, through various different attempts. However, the decay character the…

N\'eel vector controlled exceptional contours in $p$-wave magnet-ferromagnet junctions
Md Afsar Reja, Awadhesh Narayan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12434

Néel vector controlled exceptional contours in $p$-wave magnet-ferromagnet junctions
Non-Hermitian systems can host exceptional degeneracies where not only the eigenvalues, but also the corresponding eigenvectors coalesce. Recently, $p$-wave magnets have been introduced, which are characterized by their unusual odd parity. In this work, we propose the emergence of non-Hermitian degeneracies at the interface of $p$-wave magnets and ferromagnets. We demonstrate that this setup offers a remarkable tunability allowing realization of exceptional lines and rings, which can be control…