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Intel-Gerüchte: Achtkern-CPU für Budget-PCs und Core Ultra X für Notebooks
Das Auslese-Tool CPU-Z gibt einen Ausblick auf neue Intel-Prozessoren. Für Budget-PCs könnte der Core Ultra 3 205 spannend werden.

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (among other programs) to be eliminated at University of Nebraska-Lincoln #UNL. A tragedy all around. #Geosciences #Geology

Blame finance capital, not Brexit, for budget crisis | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blame-finance-capital-not-brexit-budget-crisis

Courtesy of Maggie Miller over on BlueSky: With the House coming back into session, the House Budget Committee has scheduled a hearing for next week — on oversight of the recently hacked Congressional Budget Office. Expect the intrusion to a top subject of conversation.
https://budget.house.g…

Oversight of the Congressional Budget Office | The U.S. House Committee on the Budget - House Budget Committee
The Official U.S. Congressional website of The Republican Budget Committee

Sources: NPR aims to trim $5M over the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 to balance its $300M annual budget but doesn't anticipate layoffs or major programming shifts (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/17/nx-s1-5539164/npr-public-media-funding-budge…

I agree that it’s better to be prepared than having to frantically try to find ways to cut costs. But it’s gonna be tough either way, since this comes at a time when universities are already struggling with massively reduced budgets.
And unlike what some administrators believe, “just get yourself another SNSF project” (to make up for a lack of structural funding), has never worked, and a dwindling acceptance rate definitely won’t help.

C'est toujours une histoire de budget
#gendarmerie

C'est toujours une histoire de budget

Personalization on a Budget: Minimally-Labeled Continual Learning for Resource-Efficient Seizure Detection
Amirhossein Shahbazinia, Jonathan Dan, Jose A. Miranda, Giovanni Ansaloni, David Atienza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13974

Personalization on a Budget: Minimally-Labeled Continual Learning for Resource-Efficient Seizure Detection
Objective: Epilepsy, a prevalent neurological disease, demands careful diagnosis and continuous care. Seizure detection remains challenging, as current clinical practice relies on expert analysis of electroencephalography, which is a time-consuming process and requires specialized knowledge. Addressing this challenge, this paper explores automated epileptic seizure detection using deep learning, focusing on personalized continual learning models that adapt to each patient's unique electroenceph…

A new super PAC called the Fellowship PAC says it will spend $100M to support pro-crypto legislators; sources say Tether is expected to be one of the backers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/technology/crypto-fellowship-su…

New Crypto Super PAC Garners $100 Million to Help Push Industry Agenda
The effort, called the Fellowship PAC, is the crypto industry’s latest move to help elect legislators that will force through its interests in Washington.

wow. Looks like my MP has played a not small role in ensuring that the budget passed by abstaining with one of his colleagues.
That said two Conservative MPs also abstained and it sounds like both Sheer and another CPC MP were also prepared to abstain if needed using a weird procedural thing with online vs in person voting.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ndp

Copenhagen increased its bicycle budget - I was asked to comment: https://www.verdensmaal.org/nyheder/k�%B8benhavns-kommune-vil-gøre-det-lettere-at-suse-ge

For the first time in U.S. history, there are more Americans over 62 than under 18.
With the national workforce getting older every year, many economists argue that having people keep working longer than they used to would help maintain a robust labor market.
But it can be hard for many older adults to stay employed past the age of 62, the year they typically become eligible for early Social Security retirement benefits, even when their health is good.
In part, that’s becaus…

Trump administration ends a federal program helping older people get jobs since the 1960s
The White House left the program out of its proposed 2026 budget due to what it said was a failure at moving older workers into unsubsidized employment.

Qqn saurait m'expliquer ce que je rate ?
https://www.education.gouv.fr/le-budget-et-les-finances-du-systeme-educatif-89252
Cout d'un élève de primaire : 6940€ par an.
50.9% du budget va au personnel enseignant.

I just sent the following to my House and Senate Congress Critters:
Please do not vote to approve *any* budget agreement.
Please let our Federal government shut down.
Please do not fall for any “negotiations” or “agreements”: We know that the present administration will simply usurp those funds for whatever purpose they chose.
Our present Federal government is engaged in a near-war against our people. Both the Constitution and the laws are being ignored or twisted.

Shutdown Firings Paused by US Judge as Vought Vows More to Come (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-15/white-house-budget-chief-sees-federal-layoffs-exceeding-10-000
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p98#a251015p98

This just made me laugh
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-foundation-fails-to-pass-a-budget
Partly because I have been making friends with the local Corvid population here and now when I walk the dog past the spot where I feed them they flock to me and gape…

Esa-Chef Aschbacher fordert höheren Etat
Der aktuelle Esa-Etat ist ein Rekord. Damit Europa bei der Raumfahrt nicht zurückfällt, solle der kommende noch höher ausfallen, fordert Esa-Chef Aschbacher.
https://www.

There are only 3 major OS that are currently in active development. The rest are just running on fumes of "keep this thing running with as little budget as possible" and sometimes failing at that too.
Two of these are been developed to get worse and suck you energy and your time out: Android and IOS
The last one is Linux desktop.
(Sorry Haiku, I don't mean to disrespect you. You are awesome)

"Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #HeatPumps #Energy

Forget What's Sensitive, Remember What Matters: Token-Level Differential Privacy in Memory Sculpting for Continual Learning
Bihao Zhan, Jie Zhou, Junsong Li, Yutao Yang, Shilian Chen, Qianjun Pan, Xin Li, Wen Wu, Xingjiao Wu, Qin Chen, Hang Yan, Liang He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12958

Forget What's Sensitive, Remember What Matters: Token-Level Differential Privacy in Memory Sculpting for Continual Learning
Continual Learning (CL) models, while adept at sequential knowledge acquisition, face significant and often overlooked privacy challenges due to accumulating diverse information. Traditional privacy methods, like a uniform Differential Privacy (DP) budget, indiscriminately protect all data, leading to substantial model utility degradation and hindering CL deployment in privacy-sensitive areas. To overcome this, we propose a privacy-enhanced continual learning (PeCL) framework that forgets what'…

Magnetic reconnection sustains the mass budget of the solar wind
Yajie Chen, Hardi Peter, Damien Przybylski, Haruhisa Iijima, Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11692

Magnetic reconnection sustains the mass budget of the solar wind
The solar wind originates from regions of open magnetic fields on the Sun, but the relevant processes remain unsolved. We present a self-consistent numerical model of the source region of the wind, in which jets similar to those observed on the Sun naturally emerge due to magnetic reconnection between closed and open magnetic fields. In this process material is transferred from closed to open field lines and fed into the solar wind.We quantify the mass flux through the magnetic field connected …

Wow, don't miss the intense amount of cybersecurity news in today's Metacurity, including
--AI cyber risks are more evolutionary than revolutionary, experts say,
--Gucci parent Kering is a victim of an attack claimed by ShinyHunters,
--Jaguar extends its shutdown after ShinyHunters attack,
--Google confirms LE platform attack claimed by ShinyHunters,
--ShinyHunters claims attack on SK Telecom,
--Poland boosts cyber budget after attacks,
--China…

AI cyber risks are more evolutionary than revolutionary, experts
Gucci parent Kering is a victim of an attack claimed by ShinyHunters, Jaguar extends its shutdown after ShinyHunters attack, Google confirms LE platform attack claimed by ShinyHunters, ShinyHunters claims attack on SK Telecom, Poland boosts cyber budget after attacks, much more

Reducing (some of) the #EV benefits is never a popular measure. Perhaps that is why it is being introduced now, after the recent elections.
At the same time, the incentive remains in place, because the purchase tax on fossil fuel engines is also increasing, as are fuel taxes.

Norway to phase out electric vehicle VAT exemption from 2027 - electrive.com
In its 2026 state budget, Norway’s government has proposed reducing the VAT exemption threshold for electric cars from NOK 500,000 to NOK 300,000, before

Bad year for bicycling at the California State Capitol. Caltrans quick-build bill died, among others.
https://www.calbike.org/bike-friendly-bills-bite-the-dust/

Bike-Friendly Bills Bite the Dust - CalBike
After several years of successful campaigns, including passing the Freedom to Walk Act,the Complete Streets Bill, and securing $1 billion for the Active Transportation Program, 2025 is shaping up to be a dismal year for active transportation efforts in Sacramento. A combination of budget shortfalls, literal and metaphorical fires, and a federal government openly hostile […]

"[Lucy Powell] needs to spell out where she stands on key issues without delay — the Gaza genocide first of all, the priorities for the Budget, the arms bill, public ownership of water, continuing to extend employment rights beyond the present legislation and more.
"... about the likes of Ovenden and McSweeney, about the promiscuous withdrawal of the parliamentary whip from Labour MPs and Starmer’s general authoritarianism?"

Crucial BX500 SSDs (still being manufactured in 2025) don't appear to support SMART self-tests. They support SMART attributes etc, but none of the testing functionality.
I'm quite surprised. I realise these are budget consumer drives but that is some aggressive market segmentation there.

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

Efficiently Computing Equilibria in Budget-Aggregation Games
Patrick Becker, Alexander Fries, Matthias Greger, Erel Segal-Halevi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08767 https://…

Efficiently Computing Equilibria in Budget-Aggregation Games
Budget aggregation deals with the social choice problem of distributing an exogenously given budget among a set of public projects, given agents' preferences. Taking a game-theoretic perspective, we initialize the study of \emph{budget-aggregation games} where each agent has virtual decision power over some fraction of the budget. This paper investigates the structure and shows efficient computability of Nash equilibria in this setting for various preference models. In particular, we show that …

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/

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active #NASA space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/scientists-its-do-or-die-time-for-americas-primacy-exploring-the-solar-system/ - this year's budget expires at the end of this month, and Congress must act before October 1 to avert a government shutdown; if Congress passes a budget before then, it will most likely be in the form of a continuing resolution, an extension of this year's funding levels into the first few weeks or months of fiscal year 2026.

After Trump's budget cuts, radio and TV stations are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower their fees as they mull whether to drop national programming altogether (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/poli

NPR and PBS Must Transform After Trump’s Cuts Cripple Broadcasters
Radio and television stations, facing enormous budget holes, are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower their fees as they examine whether to drop national programming altogether.

TCDRM: A Tenant Budget-Aware Data Replication Framework for Multi-Cloud Computing
Santatra Hagamalala Bernardin (IRIT-PYRAMIDE, IRIT), Riad Mokadem (IRIT-PYRAMIDE, IRIT), Franck Morvan (IRIT-PYRAMIDE, IRIT), Hasinarivo Ramanana, Hasimandimby Rakotoarivelo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07833

TCDRM: A Tenant Budget-Aware Data Replication Framework for Multi-Cloud Computing
Multi-cloud computing systems face significant challenges in ensuring acceptable performance while adhering to tenant budget requirements. This paper proposes a tenant budget-aware (tenant-centric) data replication framework for Multi-Cloud Computing (TCDRM). The proposed strategy dynamically creates data replicas based on predefined thresholds for response time, economic budget of the tenant and data popularity. TCDRM employs a heuristic replica placement algorithm that leverages the diverse p…

Ireland pays #BasicIncome to 2,000 artists.
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/1007/1537249-budget-2026-basic-income-for-artists-sch…

Der weltweite #CO2-Ausstoß ist 2025 erneut gestiegen und erreicht voraussichtlich 38,1 Milliarden Tonnen.
Besonders #fossileBrennstoffe tragen zum Anstieg bei. Trotz einiger positiver Entwicklungen wie rückläufiger

Globaler CO2-Ausstoß 2025 weiter gestiegen
Die Treibhausgas-Emissionen sind in diesem Jahr weiter in die Höhe gegangen. Auch die Konzentration in der Atmosphäre dürfte einen neuen Rekord erreichen, prognostiziert ein neuer Forschungsbericht. Es gibt aber auch ermutigende Signale.

"Le PS dévoile son budget alternatif : suspension de la réforme des retraites, taxe sur les patrimoines, baisse de la CSG et relance économique"
https://www.

Le PS dévoile son budget alternatif : suspension de la réforme des retraites, taxe sur les patrimoines, baisse de la CSG et relance économique
Le plan dévoilé samedi par les socialistes à Blois prévoit 14 milliards d’économie. « Il nous faut d’évidence reprendre la main » face « au budget de souffrance » de François Bayrou, a estimé le chef des députés PS, Boris Vallaud.

😩 Fixing Britain’s worklessness crisis will cost employers £6bn a year, report says
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/05/fixing-britains-worklessness-crisis-will-cost-employers-6bn-a-year-report-says<…

Fixing Britain’s worklessness crisis will cost employers £6bn a year, report says
The Keep Britain Working review, created to tackle the rising tide of ill health pushing millions out of work, reported its findings ahead of this month’s budget

Proposed elimination of all Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Uni Nebraska Lincoln #geosciences #geology
"The proposed plan would eliminate the academic department and all programs."

BREAKING: UNL to eliminate multiple programs as part of $27.5 million budget cut
Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design and Earth and Atmospheric departments announced the possible elimination of the programs as apart of UNL $27.5 million budget cuts.

“The fact…GOP is unwilling to defend…role of…GOP-controlled Congress is…GOP’s problem to solve.”
“…Republican Congress &…Trump administration made this bed; they, across all 3 branches, are fully responsible for…crash of…constitutional system; & until Mike Johnson & John Thune figure out how they’re going to preserve & enforce…literal force of law…appropriations bills are supposed to have…hard to see why Democrats…should vote to enable ongoing lawlessness.”

There is no budget "deal" to be made
President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

Radio and television stations,
facing enormous budget holes,
are pleading with NPR and PBS
to lower their fees as they examine whether to drop national programming altogether.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/poli…

NPR and PBS Must Transform After Trump’s Cuts Cripple Broadcasters
Radio and television stations, facing enormous budget holes, are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower their fees as they examine whether to drop national programming altogether.

"In the budget speech this year, commission president Ursula von der Leyen made a bold statement that AI is expected to approach human reasoning by next year."
Die Nächste, nach (bzw. vor) Wildberger.
"Surprised by this statement, I asked the commission to provide me with documents .."
"The commission’s response was not filled with references to the scientific literature. Instead, the Commission referred to the essays and books by tech CEOs."<…

The SPAr process: proton captures powering carbon-oxygen shell mergers in massive stars
L. Roberti, M. Pignatari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13749 https://a…

The SPAr process: proton captures powering carbon-oxygen shell mergers in massive stars
Carbon-oxygen (C-O) shell mergers in massive stars play a crucial role in both nucleosynthesis and the final stages of stellar evolution. These convective-reactive events significantly alter the internal structure of the star shortly before core collapse. We investigate how the enhanced production of light particles (especially protons) during a C-O shell merger, relative to classical oxygen shell burning, affects the energy balance and evolution of the convective shell. We derive the budget fo…

Introduction to a Low-Cost AI-Powered GUI for Unstained Cell Culture Analysis
Surajit Das, Pavel Zun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11354 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Introduction to a Low-Cost AI-Powered GUI for Unstained Cell Culture Analysis
This article presents a novel microscopy image analysis framework designed for low-budget labs equipped with a standard CPU desktop. The Python-based program enables cytometric analysis of live, unstained cells in culture through an advanced computer vision and machine learning pipeline. Crucially, the framework operates on label-free data, requiring no manually annotated training data or training phase. It is accessible via a user-friendly, cross-platform GUI that requires no programming skill…

“The statistics really show that having teams go out there and actually engage people works a lot better than having a static command van that takes up 44 percent of your budget,” -
And SFPD needs over 6 months to conclude they should try that approach instead of the high-tech, high cost command vehicle?
Or were SFPD simply responding to political directives from "tough on (whatever)" politicians chumming for votes?

SFPD spent 44% of Mission overtime budget on 24/7 police bus, captain says
For nearly 200 days, a police bus cost the Mission police station 44 percent of its monthly overtime budget, Captain Sean Perdomo said.

“The statistics really show that having teams go out there and actually engage people works a lot better than having a static command van that takes up 44 percent of your budget,” -
And SFPD needs over 6 months to conclude they should try that approach instead of the high-tech, high cost command vehicle?
Or were SFPD simply responding to political directives from "tough on (whatever)" politicians chumming for votes?

SFPD spent 44% of Mission overtime budget on 24/7 police bus, captain says
For nearly 200 days, a police bus cost the Mission police station 44 percent of its monthly overtime budget, Captain Sean Perdomo said.

Chinese ModernBERT with Whole-Word Masking
Zeyu Zhao, Ningtao Wang, Xing Fu, Yu Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12285 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12285

Chinese ModernBERT with Whole-Word Masking
Encoder-only Transformers have advanced along three axes -- architecture, data, and systems -- yielding Pareto gains in accuracy, speed, and memory efficiency. Yet these improvements have not fully transferred to Chinese, where tokenization and morphology differ markedly from English. We introduce Chinese ModernBERT, a from-scratch Chinese encoder that couples: (i) a hardware-aware 32k BPE vocabulary tailored to frequent Chinese affixes/compounds, lowering the embedding budget; (ii) whole-word …

heise | So finden Sie das passende Notebook fürs Studium
Als Studienanfänger steht man beim Notebook-Kauf vor einem riesigen Angebot. Wir geben Tipps, worauf Sie achten sollten, und was Sie für Ihr Budget bekommen.
h…

Kürzungen, Gebühren - Das werden die Wiener in ihrer Geldbörse spüren #News #Nachrichten

Politico/Bruegel would have us believe that the term "public goods" includes "defense". (Citing a paper which implicitly admits nobody agrees by saying everyone "needs to realise" it.)
https://www.politico.eu/article/tanks-vs-tractor…

It’s tanks vs. tractors in the next EU budget
Farmers will fight hard to boost their share of the next budget, but the bloc’s defense needs are growing fast.

Shareholders and CEOs going all in on AI are like fathers using their family's grocery budget to finance their gambling addiction.

CBC reporting that Elizabeth May has said she will be voting for the budget tonight. Which means the Liberals only need one more vote for it to pass, or for two MPs to abstain.
Seems unlikely we will have an election from this budget vote... but you never know!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Liberals #GreenParty #GPC #NDP #Bloc #CPC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/federal-budget-vote-2025-9.6981042#content

Risk-Bounded Multi-Agent Visual Navigation via Dynamic Budget Allocation
Viraj Parimi, Brian C. Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08157 https://arxiv.org…

Risk-Bounded Multi-Agent Visual Navigation via Dynamic Budget Allocation
Safe navigation is essential for autonomous systems operating in hazardous environments, especially when multiple agents must coordinate using just visual inputs over extended time horizons. Traditional planning methods excel at solving long-horizon tasks but rely on predefined distance metrics, while safe Reinforcement Learning (RL) can learn complex behaviors using high-dimensional inputs yet struggles with multi-agent, goal-conditioned scenarios. Recent work combined these paradigms by lever…

Psi-Turing Machines: Bounded Introspection for Complexity Barriers and Oracle Separations
Rafig Huseynzade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08577 https://arxiv.o…

Psi-Turing Machines: Bounded Introspection for Complexity Barriers and Oracle Separations
We introduce Psi-Turing Machines (Psi-TM): classical Turing machines equipped with a constant-depth introspection interface $ ι$ and an explicit per-step information budget $ B(d,n)=c\,d\log_2 n $. With the interface frozen, we develop an information-theoretic lower-bound toolkit: Budget counting, $ Ψ$-Fooling, and $ Ψ$-Fano, with worked examples $ L_k $ and $ L_k^{\mathrm{phase}} $. We prove an oracle-relative separation $ P^Ψ \neq NP^Ψ $ and a strict depth hierarchy, reinforced by an Ant…

Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other (Lisa Mascaro/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-government-shutdown-russ-vought-project-2025-bf3ecd1f7cd765c9e125d7d7179c8b39
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p111#a251014p111

»Hollow Knight - Silksong – Ohne Marketing zum Millionenhit: Was die Gaming-Branche von "Silksong" lernt.
Sechs Jahre Entwicklungszeit, null Marketing-Budget – und trotzdem das meisterwartete Spiel des Jahres«
Sehr spannend und mal sehen wie es ansonsten vom Ansatz von Marketing und der Umsetzung von Software angewendet werden kann.
🎮

Ohne Marketing zum Millionenhit: Was die Gaming-Branche von "Silksong" lernt
Sechs Jahre Entwicklungszeit, null Marketing-Budget – und trotzdem das meisterwartete Spiel des Jahres

Smart Fast Finish: Preventing Overdelivery via Daily Budget Pacing at DoorDash
Rohan Garg (Dianxia), Yongjin Xiao (Dianxia), Jason (Dianxia), Yang, Mandar Rahurkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07929

Smart Fast Finish: Preventing Overdelivery via Daily Budget Pacing at DoorDash
We present a budget pacing feature called Smart Fast Finish (SFF). SFF builds upon the industry standard Fast Finish (FF) feature in budget pacing systems that depletes remaining advertising budget as quickly as possible towards the end of some fixed time period. SFF dynamically updates system parameters such as start time and throttle rate depending on historical ad-campaign data. SFF is currently in use at DoorDash, one of the largest delivery platforms in the US, and is part of its budget pa…

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.

I know these places provide jobs and pay taxes but overall I feel the misery #gambling causes outweighs the benefit. Very much makes me angry that they're positioned and designed to exploit those who can least afford it. I won't be crying any tears if they all go.
William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes | William Hill | The Guardian

Yesterday, we talked with controlling about the budget of our unit for 2026. Acquisition of third party funding for this and that, balance, etc.
Each professorship has to get CHF 80'000 per year, it's part of the performance evaluation—of course we need way more to fund all members of the group
#AcademicChatter
1/n

"In the budget speech this year, commission president Ursula von der Leyen made a bold statement that AI is expected to approach human reasoning by next year."
How the #EU commission is basing its #AI policy (and funding) on the wishful thinking of tech bros. Those, which currently use circu…

Co-Alignment: Rethinking Alignment as Bidirectional Human-AI Cognitive Adaptation
Yubo Li, Weiyi Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12179 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Co-Alignment: Rethinking Alignment as Bidirectional Human-AI Cognitive Adaptation
Current AI alignment through RLHF follows a single directional paradigm that AI conforms to human preferences while treating human cognition as fixed. We propose a shift to co-alignment through Bidirectional Cognitive Alignment (BiCA), where humans and AI mutually adapt. BiCA uses learnable protocols, representation mapping, and KL-budget constraints for controlled co-evolution. In collaborative navigation, BiCA achieved 85.5% success versus 70.3% baseline, with 230% better mutual adaptation an…

Remind me again how the party that controls all three branches of the government is blaming their failure to pass a budget and cause completely unnecessary utter chaos on the opposition?

The House Appropriations Committee approved the FY2026 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) bill last evening including funding for #NASA and keeps the agency at roughly the same level as FY2025, $24.8 billion: https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/house-appropriators-approve-fy2026-budget-for-nasa/ - the House committee has a stronger emphasis on human exploration than its Senate counterpart, but the agency fares much better on both sides of Capitol Hill than it did in the president’s request.

“Start ‘vibe testing’ your website on budget devices.”
@…, delivering for performance at #smashingconf 💯💯💯💯

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.

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
https://www.

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.

"Sadiq Khan calls on Reeves to bring ‘authentic’ Labour budget that boosts green investment"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Money #Finance

Everybody with half a brain knows that Trump's threat "We'll fire more workers because we can't get a #budget" is BS. They would have #fired those civil servants anyway, sooner or later.
"If you don't eat what your mother has cooked, the Sun will set tonight!!!&quot…

$27.7 billion budget and they didn’t spring for run-flats.
Honestly, it’s really good that they’re not good at what they do.
#USpol

👏👏👏
"Le Monde – Budget 2026 : des taxes sur les multinationales et les géants du numérique américains votées Š l’Assemblée, au grand dam du gouvernement"
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/artic…

Budget 2026 : des taxes sur les multinationales et les géants du numérique américains votées à l’Assemblée, au grand dam du gouvernement
En première lecture, les députés ont approuvé à une écrasante majorité un amendement de LFI et un autre de Renaissance. Ces deux mesures pourraient rapporter plus de 20 milliards d’euros, mais ont peu de chances de passer l’étape du Sénat.

Trump Admin Gets UN To Slash 'Ineffective' Peacekeeping Force's US-Funded Budget (Adam Kredo/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/trump-admin-gets-un-to-slash-ineffective-peacekeeping-forces-us-funded-budget/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p139#a251008p139

Certainty-Guided Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Dynamic Thinking Budget Approach
Jo\~ao Paulo Nogueira, Wentao Sun, Alonso Silva, Laith Zumot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07820

Certainty-Guided Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Dynamic Thinking Budget Approach
The rise of large reasoning language models (LRLMs) has unlocked new potential for solving complex tasks. These models operate with a thinking budget, that is, a predefined number of reasoning tokens used to arrive at a solution. We propose a novel approach, inspired by the generator/discriminator framework in generative adversarial networks, in which a critic model periodically probes its own reasoning to assess whether it has reached a confident conclusion. If not, reasoning continues until a…

Is a race or a lottery a good way to allocate subsidies, or are there better alternatives?
Yesterday, a new round of subsidies for electric heavy-duty vehicles opened in the Netherlands – and was immediately oversubscribed, just like the previous rounds.
https://www.rvo.nl/subsidies-financiering/

“The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” | Whistleblowers Reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency: #NASA Since Early Summer—Threatening Safety, Mission, Science: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/9/new-democratic-staff-report-direct-evidence-trump-administration-has-been-illegally-imposing-president-s-proposed-budget-cuts-at-nasa-since-early-summer-threatening-safety-mission-science -> https://bsky.app/profile/commerce.senate.gov/post/3lzyge7sr422e and https://bsky.app/profile/solarshea.bsky.social/post/3m2mxii7lkc2o

Due to the federal government shutdown and lack of funding
Deep investigations will not happen in the wake of the October 2025 explosion and fire at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, California.
Scholars of chemical disasters believe this absence
– and the potential for the board to be eliminated entirely under the proposed 2026 federal budget
– raises the risk of more, and more serious, chemical disasters,
not just in the U.S. but around the world

Refinery fires, other chemical disasters may no longer get safety investigations
Because of the federal government shutdown and proposed budget, key federal investigations may stop, including into what happened at a Chevron refinery in California in October 2025.

Schuldenberg wächst - Minister bestätigt: Länder reißen Loch ins Budget #News #Nachrichten

Remember how the maga-klan screamed when they heard "Defund The Police"?
Now that the maga-in-chief has decided to secretly defund everything from national parks to embassy security the klan-of-orange is silent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/upshot/

In Budget Logs It Tried to Hide, White House Wrests More Control Over Spending
Deep within obscure footnotes, the Trump administration is claiming more of Congress’s constitutional power of the purse by threatening to block funding.

Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

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

Likes, Budgets, and Equilibria: Designing Contests for Socially Optimal Advertising
Sayantika Mandal, Harman Agrawal, Swaprava Nath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11253 https://

Likes, Budgets, and Equilibria: Designing Contests for Socially Optimal Advertising
Firms (businesses, service providers, entertainment organizations, political parties, etc.) advertise on social networks to draw people's attention and improve their awareness of the brands of the firms. In all such cases, the competitive nature of their engagements gives rise to a game where the firms need to decide how to distribute their budget over the agents on a network to maximize their brand's awareness. The firms (players) therefore need to optimize how much budget they should put on t…

States face massive new costs under Trump budget cuts
States are scrambling to prepare for an unprecedented shift of costs and responsibilities under Trump’s sweeping tax and spending plan,
which will force them to make difficult decisions about cuts to state programs to offset the new financial burdens.

Unlike the federal government, states must balance their budgets each year.
That means deep cuts and changes to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance …

States face massive new costs under Trump budget cuts
Governors are already making budgetary decisions in anticipation of added costs and responsibilities they will have to take on.

Trump administration says federal worker layoffs 'have begun' amid government shutdown (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trumps-budget-director-says-layoffs-begun-government-shutdown-rcna236923
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p97#a251010p97

US ‘slipping’ on cybersecurity, annual Cyberspace Solarium Commission report concludes
https://cyberscoop.com/cyberspace-solarium-commission-report-budget-workforce-cuts/

US ‘slipping’ on cybersecurity, annual Cyberspace Solarium Commission report concludes
The annual implementation report recommends reversing Trump administration budget cuts, empowering the national cyber director and other steps.

A provision in the recently passed Wisconsin state budget that diverts $2.2 million annually from schools to fund 12 Milwaukee County prosecutors may violate the Wisconsin Constitution.
The positions had previously been paid for with federal funding that is set to expire.
The budget act redirects all traffic fines and forfeiture revenues in Milwaukee County to the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office to fund 12 positions.

State Budget Shifts Money from Schools to Milwaukee Prosecutors
$2.2 million per year diverted from city schools could violate state constitution.

Direct Evidence Trump Administration Has Been Illegally Imposing President’s Proposed Budget Cuts at #NASA Since Early Summer—Threatening Safety, Mission, Science: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/9/new-democratic-staff-report-direct-evidence-trump-administration-has-been-illegally-imposing-president-s-proposed-budget-cuts-at-nasa-since-early-summer-threatening-safety-mission-science -> thread https://bsky.app/profile/commerce.senate.gov/post/3lzyge7sr422e

There's a New Budget Showdown. Senate Dems' Current Plan Is Bullshit (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/theres-a-new-budget-showdown-senate-dems-current-plan-is-bullshit/sharetoken/e9887f89-0ace-4692-8173-205644708605
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p69#a250904p69

Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live threat
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/10/congress/cbo-still-under-threat-00644930

Democrats accuse Trump administration of blocking more than $400B in federal funding (Aris Folley/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/business/budget/5491624-trump-administration-blocks-federal-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p41#a250908p41

This year's federal budget runs out September 30,
and although lawmakers from both parties have signaled they will reject most of Trump's cuts, it's far from certain that Congress will pass a budget for the next fiscal year before the looming deadline.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, has directed NASA managers to make plans to close out missions tagged for cancellation.
Without specific congressional direction, the White House would have a clear hand at imp…

GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites
One scientist says it’s like buying a car and running it into a tree to save on gas money.

Hochul hails Mamdani's rise -- then questions his biggest ideas (Jeff Coltin/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/08/hochul-mamdani-new-york-budget-00643760
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p5#a251109p5

Unemployment, inflation and GDP growth will be worse this year than projected, budget office says (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cbo-outlook-trade-tariffs-58a06e8b72aab4f145e2ca18f44549a4
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p137#a250912p137

Trump’s White House budget chief, Russ Vought,
just ominously posted on X that
“reductions in force”
(laying off federal workers)
have begun, as the government shutdown enters its 10th day.
He offered no further details, but we’ll bring you more as soon as we get it.

RFK Jr to testify at Senate hearing on chaos at federal health agencies and vaccine policy changes
– live updates
Trump’s health secretary is expected to face tough questions on about department layoffs and budget cuts amid scrutiny over his plans to
‘make America healthy again’