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Tim Sweeney: the Ninth Circuit's decision on Epic v. Apple contempt ruling appeal "completely shuts down" App Store rules allowing Apple to collect "junk fees" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/843265/apple-epic-games-tim…

Tim Sweeney on the future of Fortnite after another win over Apple
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discusses what’s next for Fortnite after a big appeals court ruling in its legal dispute against Apple’s App Store policies.

NFL QB rankings, Week 15: Patrick Mahomes hits season low while Jordan Love cracks top 5 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-qb-rankings-index-week-15-2025-nfl-season

Here's a good chunk of the assigned books for my grad seminar on Canadian history - a few golden oldies, but mostly newer stuff. I've got a good group and am looking forward to a fine term.
#histodons

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Patricia Wolf, Alexandra Spence:
🎵 Soundwalking Across the Hemispheres; Frog Chorus, Cricket Choir
#PatriciaWolf #AlexandraSpence
https://dragonseyerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/soundwalking-across-the-hemispheres-frog-chorus-cricket-choir
https://open.spotify.com/track/3WdzSejwNCDPDE87k6ylWd

This summer, Mikhail Loshchinin set out for Russia on a motorcycle with German plates, reaching the border in Latvia on July 1.
At the Ubylinka checkpoint on the Russian side, he presented his Russian passport.
According to his mother, Olga, he didn’t use his Belgian passport because of the urgency of the trip and to avoid needing a visa.
Russian border guards examined Loshchinin’s phone and likely discovered his many contacts in Ukraine.
After holding him for several…

Belgian-Russian dual citizen charged with treason after trying to visit father in St. Petersburg following a heart attack
A 48-year-old man with dual Russian and Belgian citizenship has been charged with treason in Russia following an attempt to visit his father, who recently suffered a heart attack. Mikhail Loshchinin’s family is scattered across Europe. He has lived in Germany for the past several years, working as a database administrator in Luxembourg. His mother is in Poland, his father is in St. Petersburg, and his sister is a Ukrainian citizen. Mikhail also has many friends in Ukraine, i…

CAGE: An Internal Source Scanning Cryostat for HPGe Characterization
G. Othman, C. Wiseman, T. H. Burritt, J. A. Detwiler, M. P. Held, R. Henning, T. Mathew, D. Peterson, W. Pettus, G. Song, T. D. Van Wechel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.06289
arXiv:2602.06289v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The success of current and future-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments relies on the ability to eliminate or reduce extraneous backgrounds. In addition to constructing experiments using radiopure materials and handling in underground laboratories, it is necessary to understand and reduce known backgrounds in data analysis. The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless double beta Decay is searching for this decay using 76Ge-enriched high-purity germanium detectors submerged in an active liquid argon veto. A significant background in LEGEND is surface events from shallowly-impinging radiation on detector surfaces. In this paper we introduce the Collimated Alphas, Gammas, and Electrons (CAGE) scanning system, an internal-source scanning vacuum cryostat, designed to perform studies of surface events on sensitive surfaces of HPGe in a surface-lab. CAGE features a collimated radionuclide source inside a movable infrared shield that is able to perform precision scans of detector surfaces by utilizing three independent motor stages for source positioning. This allows detailed studies of pulse shapes as a function of source position and incident angle, where defining features can be extracted and exploited for removing surface backgrounds in data analysis in LEGEND. In this paper, we describe CAGE and demonstrate its performance with a commissioning run with 241Am. The commissioning run was completed with the source at normal incidence, and we estimate a beam spot precision of 3.1 mm, which includes positioning uncertainties and the beam-spot size. Using the 59.5 keV gamma population from 241Am, we show that low-energy photon events near the passivated surface feature risetimes that increase with radial distance from the detector center. We suggest a specific metric that can be used to discriminate low-energy gamma backgrounds in LEGEND with similar characteristics.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Patrick Doyle & Patrick Doyle:
🎵 A Little Princess (1995) "Cristina Elisa Waltz"
#PatrickDoyle
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Cqbqvkp64UIWdGoiU3Hx9

Border Patrol employee found 'covered in vomit' in St. Paul, charged with drunk driving (Joey Peters/Sahan Journal)
https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/border-patrol-employee-charged-drunk-driving-st-paul/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p162#a260129p162

Trump wants one of his conspiracy theorist followers out of Colorado prison custody. Colorado isn't having any of it.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/colorado-news/tina-peters-not-going-int…

CAGE: An Internal Source Scanning Cryostat for HPGe Characterization
G. Othman, C. Wiseman, T. H. Burritt, J. A. Detwiler, M. P. Held, R. Henning, T. Mathew, D. Peterson, W. Pettus, G. Song, T. D. Van Wechel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06289