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The authoritarian strongmen Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping
have mused on how organ transplants might lead to immortality,
during a brief exchange of small talk caught on a hot mic at a military parade.
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#TerryPratchett

DNA Unzipping Transition
Somendra M. Bhattacharjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24064 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.24064

DNA Unzipping Transition
This review focuses on the force-induced unzipping transition of double-stranded DNA. It begins with a brief history of DNA melting, which emerged alongside the growth of the field of molecular biology, juxtaposed with the advancements in physics during the same post-World War II period. The earlier theories of melting of DNA were based on the Ising model and its modifications, but gradually moved towards polymer-based models. The idea of force-induced unzipping was first introduced in 1999 as …

Part of being the retired guy whose wife works 45 miles away in a job that doesn't allow her to always catch her shuttle home means always being ready to hop into the car and brave LA traffic. Off I go!
On one hand it sorta sucks, but on the other hand at least I get to spend half the drive with my wife, which is something I like.

No-go theorems for logical gates on product quantum codes
Xiaozhen Fu, Han Zheng, Zimu Li, Zi-Wen Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16797 https://

No-go theorems for logical gates on product quantum codes
Quantum error-correcting codes are essential to the implementation of fault-tolerant quantum computation. Homological products of classical codes offer a versatile framework for constructing quantum error-correcting codes with desirable properties, especially quantum low-density parity check (qLDPC) codes. Based on extensions of the Bravyi--König theorem that encompass codes without geometric locality, we establish a series of general no-go theorems for fault-tolerant logical gates supported b…

hi yall! weird and arty movies used to be a massive part of my psyche for a brief, intense time when i was younger. but then i had a particularly bad depressive slump that killed the habit. now i wanna get back into it. each day for the next week, im gonna watch one Andrei Tarkovsky film (i found a free collection on archive.org!) and post my initial reaction afterward. i saw one of his movies, Stalker, when i was about 15, and while i liked it, i know i was too young and stupid to actually …

Beautiful porphyritic granodiorite, part of the Variscan basement, on the Costa Brava, Mediterranean Spain. #geology

Okay, I tried not to make it overly complex. Just a very brief cut and some music.
Here's the clip of today's walk 🙂
https://video.franzgraf.de/w/vaEHJN15GYZ7BUtgVaT81m
(powered by my own Peertube instance :))

Before returning to Albion EU I wanted to get at least full T4 gear on Albion Asia plus Avalonian Pickaxe after using learning points to get to T4 mining. Upgrade costs are part of the data.
As of this moment I give a brief glance at all members in the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax":
1/7 online. The 1 that's me of course.
Here are my notes on etherpad(attached image)

This is the first I've heard of this:
“They’re finding backdoors in Barbie dolls,” said Antani, now CEO of Horizon3.ai, a cybersecurity firm, referring to concerns from researchers who successfully hacked the microphone of a digitally connected version of the toy."
https://

Smartphones have become an intelligence treasure trove
Hackers tied to China's government have tried repeatedly to access the phones of prominent Americans, part of Beijing's sprawling cyberespionage efforts. Smartphones and other mobile devices present significant national security and cybersecurity risks, as foreign government hackers exploit vulnerabilities in mobile networks and apps to spy on people and steal secrets. And people's careless use of mobile devices to share sensitive information is another concern. National security experts say th…