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Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asked whether a woman’s story about an affair with a married candidate would do well.
“That would have been kind of like National Enquirer gold?”
Pecker said yes.
But, Steinglass continued: “At the time you had entered into that agreement [with McDougal], you had zero intention of publishing that story?”
Steinglass pressed: “Despite the fact that publishing it would help your bottom line, you killed it to help the candidate, Donald Trump?”

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20408 has been replaced.
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Time-varying double-peaked emission lines following the sudden ignition of the dormant galactic nucleus AT2017bcc
We present a pan-chromatic study of AT2017bcc, a nuclear transient that was discovered in 2017 within the skymap of a reported burst-like gravitational wave candidate, G274296. It was initially classified as a superluminous supernova, and then reclassified as a candidate tidal disruption event. Its optical light curve has since shown ongoing variability with a structure function consistent with that of an active galactic nucleus, however earlier data shows no variability for at least 10 years p…

A dark standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant following LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA O4a
C. R. Bom, V. Alfradique, A. Palmese, G. Teixeira, L. Santana-Silva, A. Santos, P. Darc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16092

A dark standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant following LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA O4a
We present a new constraint on the Hubble constant ($H_0$) from the standard dark siren method using a sample of $5$ well-covered gravitational wave (GW) alerts reported during the first part of the fourth LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observing runs in combination with standard dark sirens from the first three runs. Our methodology relies on the galaxy catalog method alone. We use the full probability density estimation of photometric redshifts derived by a deep learning method using the DESI Legacy Survey…

Well, I guess I should feel better about how I look at 59. I am older than the first Doctor was when he regenerated, and he looked much older. https://mastodon.world/@paulbowler/112321856954665711

Paul Bowler (@paulbowler@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image Remembering William Hartnell, who passed away (aged 67), on 23rd April 1975. The actor appeared in over 75 British films, but is probably best remembered as the First Doctor in Doctor Who, a role he played from 1963 to 1966. #DoctorWho

Congratulations to Ed Dwight for finally travelling into space! 🚀
https://apnews.com/article/ed-dwight-blue-origin-jeff-bezos-9fb11af587996ba6833f2b19e9aee68f

Dell appears to have suffered another data breach where ~30K customer service records were scraped, following its recent breach that affected 49M customers (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/thre

Threat actor scraped Dell support tickets, including customer phone numbers | TechCrunch
A threat actor told TechCrunch that a new flaw in a Dell portal allowed him to download the data of around 30,000 customers.

Boeing’s Starliner capsule stuck on ground after helium leak
After years of delays, Boeing’s Starliner capsule was set to take off early this month with two astronauts aboard
— and now the flight to the International Space Station has been put on hold indefinitely following a series of setbacks.
The original May 6 launch was scuttled hours before takeoff due to a balky rocket valve.
It was rescheduled first for May 10 and then a second time for Friday, when it was de…

Boeing's Starliner capsule stuck on ground after helium leak
The launch of Boeing's Starliner capsule is delayed indefinitely following detection of a helium leak in the spacecraft that will service the International Space Station.

Françoise Hardy Dead: French Singer & 'Grand Prix' Actor Was 80
https://deadline.com/2024/06/francoise-hardy-dead-french-singer-actor-1235971005/

Françoise Hardy Dies: French Singer & ‘Grand Prix’ Actor Was 80
Françoise Hardy, a popular French singer and actor who had numerous Top 10 albums and singles in Europe and appeared in films including Grand Prix, has died June 11 at 80.

A candidate period of 4.605 day for FRB 20121102A and one possible implication of its origin
Jixuan Li, Yang Gao, Di Li, Kinwah Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16669

A candidate period of 4.605 day for FRB 20121102A and one possible implication of its origin
A firm establishment of the presence or the lack of periodicity in repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) is crucial for determining their origins. Here we compile 1145 radio bursts of FRB 20121102A with fluence larger than 0.15 Jy ms from observations using the Five-hundredmeter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, Arecibo Observatory, Green Bank Telescope, Effelsberg Telescope, MeerKAT Telescope, Lovell Telescope, Deep Space Network 70 m radio telescopes, Very Large Array, and the Westerbork Synth…

Astronomers detect sudden awakening of black hole 1m times mass of sun
The mysterious brightening of a galaxy far, far away has been traced to the heart of the star system
and the sudden awakening of a giant black hole 1m times more massive than the sun.
Decades of observations found nothing remarkable about the distant galaxy in the constellation of Virgo,
but that changed at the end of 2019 when astronomers noticed a dramatic surge in its luminosity that persists t…