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An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, as the company navigates political instability in The Netherlands and abroad and the impacts of Trump's trade war (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

How ASML, a Key Supplier to the Chip Industry, Is Navigating Trump’s Trade War
ASML, the Dutch company that makes multimillion-dollar tools to manufacture advanced semiconductors, is grappling with the repercussions of a tech trade war.

Someday, I want to erase everything and vanish offline, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
I’m sick of being trapped in this endless cycle of digital puppetry and mental sludge, where every click feeds some shallow algorithm designed to keep you hooked and dumbed down, turning people into another batch of screen-zombies chasing cheap hits and empty dopamine hits.
I want out of this rat race of constant noise and manufactured crises, where reality is warped into a carnival…

Wind-fed Supermassive Black Hole Accretion by the Nuclear Star Cluster: the Case of M31*
Zhao Su, Zhiyuan Li, Zongnan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04778 h…

Wind-fed Supermassive Black Hole Accretion by the Nuclear Star Cluster: the Case of M31*
The central supermassive black hole (SMBH) of the Andromeda galaxy, known as M31*, exhibits dim electromagnetic emission and is inferred to have an extremely low accretion rate for its remarkable mass ($\sim10^8~\rm~M_\odot$). In this work, we use three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to explore a previously untested scenario, in which M31* is fed by the collective stellar mass-loss from its surrounding nuclear star cluster, manifested as a famous eccentric disk of predominantly old stel…

I'm increasingly of the view that these should include those for domestic hot water. More efficient to convert solar to heat than to the vector of electricity. Les critical minerals, less fossil fuels and wood in their manufacture.
Most new build homes must be fitted with solar panels - Miliband - BBC News
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Most new build homes must be fitted with solar panels - Miliband
The energy secretary says the move will cut energy bills, but house builders caution against burdensome regulations.

#PennedPossibilities 691
MC POV: Have you travelled to other lands? (Or planets even)?
MC: I've been everywhere. My realm touches every part of the physical realm, we can manifest ourselves wherever we need to be. We just don't do that any more. People get so weird when we do. Last time we did, we accidentally started two religions and a war, in one generation.

"Spain aims to ban flushing of wet wipes, with manufacturers paying for cleanup"
#Spain #Pollution

"Meanwhile, others see signs of success. That code (actually from 2006) is still there because, well, it is still there, because its authors did not get distracted by the shiny shiny and get bogged down in another rewrite, because as manufacturers and markets came and went, the Java runtime was still there, and the bytecode could still execute."

Mechanical Degradation of Unentangled Polymer Melts under Uniaxial Extensional Flow
Mingchao Wang, Stephen Sanderson, Debra J. Searles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03945

Mechanical Degradation of Unentangled Polymer Melts under Uniaxial Extensional Flow
Complex flow fields govern the deformation of polymers in various manufacturing processes. However, high flow rates may trigger reaction events (i.e., bond breaking or undesirable reaction of mechanophores) in raw polymeric materials, leading to the mechanical or functional debasement of manufactured structures. Additionally, it is difficult to fully characterize such molecular-level flow in the laboratory due to time- and length-scale limits. In this study, we perform non-equilibrium molecular…

Sources: Xiaomi is among the Chinese tech companies most impacted by new US chip design export rules, affecting its new 3nm mobile chip made by TSMC in Taiwan (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2b0a0000-1bf6-475a-ac96-c17212afecc2

Xiaomi among Chinese tech groups set to be hardest hit by US chip software ban
Companies may struggle to manufacture silicon in Taiwan with export controls preventing updates to design tools