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Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border.
That decision, made in the waning hours of this year’s legislative session,
leaves the future of the state wall unclear.
Just 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to dat…

With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program
Texas officials suggested the federal government could pick up construction. However, during President Trump’s first term, his administration built about one-third of what the state was able to put up in the same amount of time.

For me if someone schedules a meeting before 08:00 and after 15:00 it is an automatic NO.
Early morning mail checks (before 07:00) is done only when I am on call and to see if there was any emergencies in the prior evening production run that I missed. When I do that my day starts at that time! I adjust the end of day time to allow for the early start. Normal hours for me is 07:00 to 15:30.

Oracle Q4: revenue up 11% YoY to $15.9B, vs. $15.59B est., cloud revenue up 27% YoY, signals strong cloud infrastructure revenue growth; ORCL up 6% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/oracle-orcl-q4-earnings-report-2025.html

Oracle shares climb 8% as earnings, revenue top estimates
Oracle reported better-than-expected results for the latest quarter on Wednesday.

The ASAS-SN Low Surface Brightness Survey I: Proof-of-Concept and Potential Applications
Evan Jennerjahn, Michael A. Tucker, Benjamin J. Shappee, Christopher S. Kochanek, Subo Dong, Annika H. G. Peter, Jose L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek, Todd A. Thompson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14873

The ASAS-SN Low Surface Brightness Survey I: Proof-of-Concept and Potential Applications
The ASAS-SN Low Surface Brightness Survey utilizes the $\sim7$ years of g-band CCD data from ASAS-SN (The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae) to create stacked images of the entire sky. It is significantly deeper than previous photographic surveys. Our median/95th percentile cumulative exposure time per field is 58.1/86.8 hours, and our median $3σ$ g-band surface brightness limit off the Galactic plane ($|b| > 20°$) is 26.1 mag arcsec$^{-2}$. We image large-scale diffuse struct…

Levitated macroscopic rotors with 10 hours of free spin at room temperature
Xianfeng Chen, Nirmala Raj, Ruvi Lecamwasam, Mingxi Chen, Christina Yuan Ling Tan, Syed M. Assad, Ping Koy Lam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03803

Levitated macroscopic rotors with 10 hours of free spin at room temperature
Low-dissipation rotors with large angular momentum are essential for precision sensing and probing macroscopic quantum phenomena. To date, low dissipation can only be achieved for micro-scale rotors. Here, we report a diamagnetically levitated millimeter-scale rotor exhibiting a measured dissipation rate as low as $3.85\,μ\mathrm{Hz}$ at room temperature, corresponding to a free spinning duration exceeding 10 hours. The rotor is levitated stably over an axisymmetric permanent magnet trap, and …

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OnePlus unveils the $700 OnePlus Pad 3, a 13.2-inch Android tablet with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, a <6mm thick body, 17 hours of battery life, and LCD display (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Slept like crap last night, so by 11a, I’ve run three errands, walked 15k steps, did a 5.5 mile walk, and have 8 hours of stand time. What do I do with the next 14 hours???

Today is #BandcampFriday! (thank you @… for the reminder: https://ravenati…

Our planet is currently reverberating from the impact of a powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) that struck Earth head-on in the early hours of June 1 — and the resulting auroras were absolutely stunning.
The CME erupted during an M8.2 class solar flare eruption on May 30 at 8:05 p.m. EDT (00:05 GMT on May 31) and has been racing toward Earth at nearly 1,938 km/s or 4.3 million mph.
When it slammed into Earth's magnetic field, the impact triggered a severe (G4) geomagnetic sto…

Severe G4 geomagnetic storm sparks northern lights across US and beyond (photos)
The speedy solar storm arrived in style, sparking stunning aurora displays as far south as California and New Mexico.

Asana reports Q1 revenue of $187.3M, vs. $185.5M est., up 9% YoY vs. 26% last year, and adjusted EPS of $0.05, vs. $0.02 est.; ASAN falls 8% after hours (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/03/asan…

Asana shares drop as earnings results top estimates but revenue growth slows - SiliconANGLE
Asana shares drop as earnings results top estimates but revenue growth slows - SiliconANGLE