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The A.I. insurance market is in its infancy, but Mr. Kvist says mainstream insurers are lining up to back him.
One of his clients is a job recruiting company that uses A.I. to sift through candidates.
“Which is great, but you can now discriminate at a scale we’ve never seen before,” Mr. Kvist said.
“It’s a breeding ground for class-action lawsuits.”
Mr. Kvist believes the work he is doing now will lay the foundation for more complex A.I. insurance policies to come.

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
A destructive A.I., like a nuclear bomb, is now a concrete possibility; the question is whether anyone will be reckless enough to build one.

Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
BLAKE: It's effective, though. [Avon disconnects the cylinder]
AVON: Look at the gauge. The cylinder is almost empty.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/107/75 B7B3

Jet Collimation Profile of Low-Luminosity AGN M84: Insight into the Jet Formation in the Low Accretion Regime
Elika Prameswari Fariyanto, Kazuhiro Hada, Yuzhu Cui, Mareki Honma, Masanori Nakamura, Keiichi Asada, Xuezheng Wang, Wu Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21241

Jet Collimation Profile of Low-Luminosity AGN M84: Insight into the Jet Formation in the Low Accretion Regime
Recent advancements in high-resolution Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) have significantly improved our understanding of jet collimation near supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), particularly in high-power systems. However, the collimation properties of jets in low-luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs) remain poorly explored. In this study, we investigate the jet structure of M84, a nearby radio galaxy and a representative LLAGN, to probe jet collimation properties in a low-acc…

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.

When Stars Mimic Monsters: Luminous Blue Variables in SBS 0335-052 E
Zixuan Peng, Crystal L. Martin, Jiamu Huang, Nikolaus Z. Prusinski, Chenliang Huang, Zhuyun Zhuang, Yuan Li, Tin Long Sunny Wong, Jiayang Yang, Joseph F. Hennawi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03912

When Stars Mimic Monsters: Luminous Blue Variables in SBS 0335-052 E
Recent studies have claimed the detection of an active massive black hole (BH) in the low-metallicity blue compact dwarf galaxy SBS 0335-052 E based on near-infrared (NIR) time variability and broad H$α$ wings. This interpretation remains questionable given the observed broad wings in forbidden [O III] emission. Based on spectroscopic properties derived from our KCWI/KCRM integral-field observation of super star clusters 1 and 2 (SSCs 1$\&$2), we propose instead that these BH signatures origin…

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.SR. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.SR/new
[1/1]:
- An excess of luminous white dwarfs in the peculiar Galactic globular cluster NGC 2808
Laksh Gupta, Samyaday Choudhury, Annalisa Calamida, Christian I. Johnson, Domenico Nardiello

First power on of the Sony PVM-2530: major convergence issues. Fortunately I have the service manual and this should be very correctable. Still need to get the speakers cleaned up and attached to the PVM.
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An excess of luminous white dwarfs in the peculiar Galactic globular cluster NGC 2808
Laksh Gupta, Samyaday Choudhury, Annalisa Calamida, Christian I. Johnson, Domenico Nardiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26190

An excess of luminous white dwarfs in the peculiar Galactic globular cluster NGC 2808
We study the white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence of the Galactic Globular Cluster (GGC) NGC 2808 by using deep near-UV data from the Hubble Space Telescope and theoretical models, to investigate if this cluster hosts an excess of WDs. Excess in WDs is a rare phenomenon that has been found to exist only in a few GGCs. We compared star counts from different evolutionary phases on the near-UV color-magnitude diagram to evolutionary times predicted by BaSTI models. The investigation was carried out o…

The closure of rural hospitals is a looming problem across all of California.
Two Inland Empire lawmakers are urging state officials to take action to save a hospital in Blythe.
Last spring, Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe was on the brink of closure,
after a series of financial mishaps left it bleeding cash.
In May, the hospital announced that it would not accept new patients, “for the foreseeable future,”
although its emergency room and clinic remained open, th…

This rural hospital almost closed. Emergency state funding is keeping it open, but for how long?
The closure of rural hospitals is a looming problem across California. Two lawmakers are urging the state try and save a hospital in Blythe.

The Progenitor of the S147 Supernova Remnant
Elvira Cruz-Cruz, Christopher S. Kochanek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02132 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02132

The Progenitor of the S147 Supernova Remnant
The supernova remnant (SNR) S147 contains the pulsar PSR J0538+2817 and a likely unbound binary companion, HD 37424. It is the only good Galactic candidate for a binary unbound by a core-collapse supernova (SN). Using Gaia DR3 parallaxes and photometry, we select the stars local to SNR S147 in a cylinder with a projected radius of $100$ pc and a parallax range of $0.614 < \varpi < 0.787$ mas (a length of $\simeq 360$ pc). We individually model the most luminous of these stars. The two most lumi…