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Sources say the Congressional Budget Office, lawmakers’ nonpartisan bookkeeper, was hacked by a suspected foreign actor, and email and chat logs between lawmakers’ offices and nonpartisan researchers might have been accessed.
Congressional Budget Office believed to be hacked by foreign actor
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Congressional Budget Office believed to be hacked by foreign actor
The Congressional Budget Office formulates economic projections for lawmakers, and every bill taken up in Congress gets a CBO “score” of how much it would add to the national debt.

Good news for Irish artists, musicians etc.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/10/06/budget-2026-states-basic-income-scheme-for-artists-made-permanent/

Budget 2026: State’s basic income scheme for artists made permanent
Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
Furloughed federal workers are not entitled to automatic back pay after the government shutdown ends,
the Trump administration’s budget office claimed in a new draft memo
ratcheting up tensions in Washington over the week-long closure.

The top lawyer at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
argued in the draft that the law Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed in 2…

Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up tensions in Washington over the week-long closure of dozens of federal agencies.

The US Congressional Budget Office says it has identified a security incident; sources say the CBO has been hacked by a suspected foreign actor (Washington Post)

Congressional Budget Office believed to be hacked by foreign actor
The Congressional Budget Office formulates economic projections for lawmakers, and every bill taken up in Congress gets a CBO “score” of how much it would add to the national debt.

And it turns out that what we thought was the bottom, wasn't the bottom.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/07/federal-workers-not-entitled-back-pay-after-shutdown-budget-office-says/

There is no budget "deal" to be made -- President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework ... (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-no-budget-deal-to-be-made
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p96#a251007p96

Bootstrapping as a Morphism: An Arithmetic Geometry Approach to Asymptotically Faster Homomorphic Encryption
Dongfang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02365 https://

Bootstrapping as a Morphism: An Arithmetic Geometry Approach to Asymptotically Faster Homomorphic Encryption
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) provides a powerful paradigm for secure computation, but its practical adoption is severely hindered by the prohibitive computational cost of its bootstrapping procedure. The complexity of all current bootstrapping methods is fundamentally tied to the multiplicative depth of the decryption circuit, denoted $L_{dec}$, making it the primary performance bottleneck. This paper introduces a new approach to bootstrapping that completely bypasses the traditional circ…

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"Ofgem approves GBP 10.3 billion investment in UK transmission grid"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

Ofgem approves GBP 10.3 billion investment in UK transmission grid
UK energy regulator green-lights transmission network operator budgets for five-year period. Initial budget of GBP 10.3 billion ($13.7 billion) approved with an upper-bound estimate of GBP 70 billion transmission investment by 2031. At least GBP 44 billion of transmission spend has already been committed, according to the regulator.

The gov towards the working class today, and last year... and the year before that
#budget2026 #noxp #mastodaoine