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Cowboys QB Dak Prescott Gets Good News in Latest Prediction https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-dak-prescott-gets-good-news/?adt_ei=[email]

Home-goods companies prepare new Trump-linked products (Shelby Talcott/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/16/2025/home-goods-companies-prepare-new-trump-linked-products
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p164#a250616p164

Aspora, which makes financial tools like remittance services for the Indian diaspora, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Sequoia and Greylock at a $500M valuation (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/15/aspora-ge…

Aspora gets $50M from Sequoia to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora | TechCrunch
Aspora (formerly Vance) is trying to build a verticalized financial experience for the Indian diaspora by keeping convenience at the center.

High-speed and high-connectivity two-qubit gates in long chains of trapped ions
Isabelle Savill-Brown, Joseph J. Hope, Alexander K. Ratcliffe, Varun D. Vaidya, Haonan Liu, Simon A. Haine, C. Ricardo Viteri, Zain Mehdi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11385

High-speed and high-connectivity two-qubit gates in long chains of trapped ions
We present a theoretical study of fast all-to-all entangling gates in trapped-ion quantum processors, based on impulsive excitation of spin-dependent motion with broadband laser pulses. Previous studies have shown that such fast gate schemes are highly scalable and naturally performant outside the Lamb-Dicke regime, however are limited to nearest-neighbour operations. Here we demonstrate that impulsive spin-dependent excitation can be used to perform high-fidelity non-local entangling operation…

The harder life gets, the more conventionally melodic, naive and childlike my music gets.
It surprises me, but then I remember when an artist friend became very depressed (not what’s going on with me) her work went from extraordinarily detailed, insectoid abstract ink drawings to much more colourful, simple, “innocent” representational paintings.

Comcast IPv6 decided to bork itself again. Nothing I've tried (restarting DHCPv6 client, power cycling the modem) works.
My router gets a v6 address, can hit the internet without issues.
Router makes a DHCPv6 request, gets a delegated /59 out of my static /56.
But when I try to use an address out of the /59 on the local network (via radvd handing out /64's) it gets nowhere, traceroutes stop at the CPE/CMTS.

Sure will be nice when the US gets a new president and half my timeline isn't just "Matches filter Trump".

Towards fault-tolerant quantum computation with universal continuous-variable gates
Sheron Blair, Francesco Arzani, Giulia Ferrini, Alessandro Ferraro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13643

Towards fault-tolerant quantum computation with universal continuous-variable gates
Continuous-variable (CV) systems have shown remarkable potential for quantum computation, particularly excelling in scalability and error correction through bosonic encoding. Within this framework, the foundational notion of computational universality was introduced in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1784 (1999)], and has proven especially successful since it allows for the identification of finite sets of universal CV gates independent of the encoding scheme. However, achieving the critical objective of…

Trump says 'it's possible' US gets involved in Israel-Iran conflict (Rachel Scott/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-us-gets-involved-israel-iran-conflict/story?id=122865561
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p64#a250615p64

Exact requirements for battery-assisted qubit gates
Riccardo Castellano, Vasco Cavina, Mart\'i Perarnau-Llobet, Pavel Sekatski, Vittorio Giovannetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11855

Exact requirements for battery-assisted qubit gates
We consider the implementation of a unitary gate on a qubit system S via a global energy-preserving operation acting on S and an auxiliary system B that can be seen as a battery. We derive a simple, asymptotically exact expression for the implementation error as a function of the battery state, which we refer to as the it Unitary Defect. Remarkably, this quantity is independent of the specific gate being implemented, highlighting a universal property of the battery itself. We show that minimizi…