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Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to 'assert its will' over allies (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/12/danish-intelligence-accuse-the-us-of-using-economic-power-to-assert-will-over-allies
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p13#a251213p13

Last July, Wilmer Chavarria, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in Vermont,
was returning from Nicaragua, where he had visited his mother and other relatives,
when he was detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston
for no apparent reason.
👉Chavarria was held for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer.
T…

CBP agents held a U.S. citizen for hours until he let them search his devices
A federal lawsuit argues that perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.

Tracing Planetary Accretion in a 3 Gyr-old Hydrogen-Rich White Dwarf: The Extremely Polluted Atmosphere of LSPM J0207 3331
\'Erika Le Bourdais, Patrick Dufour, Carl Melis, Beth L. Klein, Laura K. Rogers, Antoine B\'edard, John Debes, Ashley Messier, Alycia J. Weinberger, Siyi Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08676

Tracing Planetary Accretion in a 3 Gyr-old Hydrogen-Rich White Dwarf: The Extremely Polluted Atmosphere of LSPM J0207+3331
We report the detection of 13 heavy elements (Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Sr) in the photosphere of LSPM J0207+3331, a ~3 Gyr old hydrogen-rich white dwarf with an effective temperature comparable to that of the Sun. Upper limits on carbon, obtained through the absence of molecular CH, suggest accretion from a carbon-volatile-depleted source. The accreted parent body exhibits slight deficits of Mg and Si relative to Fe but otherwise bulk Earth-like abundance patterns; a …

LRQ-Solver: A Transformer-Based Neural Operator for Fast and Accurate Solving of Large-scale 3D PDEs
Peijian Zeng, Guan Wang, Haohao Gu, Xiaoguang Hu, TiezhuGao, Zhuowei Wang, Aimin Yang, Xiaoyu Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11636

LRQ-Solver: A Transformer-Based Neural Operator for Fast and Accurate Solving of Large-scale 3D PDEs
Solving large-scale Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) on complex three-dimensional geometries represents a central challenge in scientific and engineering computing, often impeded by expensive pre-processing stages and substantial computational overhead. We introduce Low-Rank Query-based PDE Solver (LRQ-Solver), a physics-integrated framework engineered for rapid, accurate, and highly scalable simulations of industrial-grade models. This framework is built upon two primary technical innovat…

State-Dependent X-ray Variability in Cygnus X-1: A 12-Year NuSTAR Timing Study of Accretion Flow Geometry
Kshitij Duraphe, Kartik Mandar, Chooda Khanal, Abha Pareek, Tejaswi Kondhiya, V Sree Suswara, Deeksha Dinesh, Vidyasagar Bhat, Gopal Bhatta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10746

State-Dependent X-ray Variability in Cygnus X-1: A 12-Year NuSTAR Timing Study of Accretion Flow Geometry
We present a comprehensive timing analysis of the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1 using 26 NuSTAR observations spanning 2012-2024, providing the most detailed characterization to date of its accretion flow variability across spectral states. Our analysis reveals fundamental insights into the physics governing state transitions in stellar-mass black holes. We discover distinct bimodal flux distributions in the 8-79 keV band with well-separated peaks, contrasting with overlapping distributions…

A Davydov Ansatz approach to accurate system-bath dynamics in the presence of multiple baths with distinct temperatures
Chenlin Ma, Fulu Zheng, Kewei Sun, Lu Wang, Yang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09029

A Davydov Ansatz approach to accurate system-bath dynamics in the presence of multiple baths with distinct temperatures
We perform benchmark simulations using the time-dependent variational approach with the multiple Davydov Ansatz (mDA) to study realtime nonequilibrium dynamics in a single qubit model coupled to two thermal baths with distinct temperatures. A broad region of the parameter space has been investigated, accompanied by a detailed analysis of the convergence behavior of the mDA method. In addition, we have compared our mD2 results to those from two widely adopted, numerically "exact" techniques: the…

Just wrote this:
"Real American citizens would never encounter such an un-American experience, and rest assured if you do get taken, maimed or killed by ICE, or ICE-like forces, you weren't really an American to start with, were you?"
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/ice-didn

Ice Didn’t Do What They Did and Do
A statement from the US Department of Homeland Security: "Guys, guys, except for all the times we have targeted, arrested, unlawfully detained, been violent with, and hurt American Citizens, ICE doesn't do those things to American citizens. We should be grateful that ICE is doing the vital work of culling

Le MIT est la première université Š refuser de signer l’accord sur l’éducation supérieure de l’administration Trump
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/artic

Le MIT est la première université à refuser de signer l’accord sur l’éducation supérieure de l’administration Trump
Au risque de perdre d’importants financements fédéraux, la présidente du prestigieux Massachusetts Institute of Technology a refusé de céder à la pression du gouvernement et a choisi de défendre l’indépendance de son institution.

Trump said Tuesday that the United States could step in to disarm Hamas
— “quickly and perhaps violently”
— if the organization did not do so itself,
a potential vulnerability in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement
that has tentatively brought an end to two years of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Hamas, which has controlled Gaza for nearly two decades,
has not yet publicly agreed to or signed anything that specifies how it will disarm,
though …

Trump says U.S. will disarm Hamas if it does not do so itself
Hamas has not yet publicly agreed to or signed anything that specifies how it would disarm, but Trump suggested he had received verbal assurances.

CBP Agents Held This U.S. Citizen for Hours Until He Agreed To Let Them Search His Electronic Devices (Jacob Sullum/Reason)
https://reason.com/2025/12/11/cbp-agents-held-this-u-s-citizen-for-hours-until-he-agreed-to-let-them-search-his-electronic-devices/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p119#a251212p119