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At least one-fifth of the country’s 433 national parks have been significantly strained and understaffed because of steep cuts mandated by the Trump administration, according to internal government data
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27…

How Trump Administration Cuts Are Hurting National Parks
Amid deep cuts, more than 90 parks have reported problems like lost revenue and cuts to emergency services. One expert called this “a dangerous path.”

Tea, which claims to make dating safer for women, is the #2 app in the US App Store, despite multiple security flaws exposing private chats, photo IDs, and more (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/29/tea-app-secur…

Tea app security breaches reveal private chats and photo ID
Two major security vulnerabilities in the Tea app – which claims to make dating safer for women – have exposed...

Russia attacks Ukrainian cities – EU prepares tough sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/30/russia-attacks-ukrainian-cities-eu.html

Louvre: Relaxing Hardware Requirements of Quantum LDPC Codes by Routing with Expanded Quantum Instruction Set
Runshi Zhou, Fang Zhang, Hui-Hai Zhao, Feng Wu, Linghang Kong, Jianxin Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20858

Louvre: Relaxing Hardware Requirements of Quantum LDPC Codes by Routing with Expanded Quantum Instruction Set
Generalized bicycle codes (GB codes) represent a promising family of quantum low-density parity-check codes, characterized by high code rates and relatively local qubit connectivity. A subclass of the GB code called bivariate bicycle codes (BB codes) has garnered significant interest due to their compatibility with two-layer connectivity architectures on superconducting quantum processors. However, one key limitation of BB codes is their high qubit connectivity degree requirements (degree 6), w…

West Texas Congressman's 'Big Beautiful' Cuts Could Harm Rural Hospitals in His District https://www.texasobserver.org/jodey-arrington-obbba-cuts-west-texas-rural-hospitals/

West Texas Congressman's 'Big Beautiful' Cuts Could Harm Rural Hospitals in His District
Jodey Arrington was the House architect of Trump’s massive tax-and-spend bill that includes steep healthcare cuts.

(2,2)-GB Codes: Classification and Comparison with weight-4 Surface Codes
Fran\c{c}ois Arnault, Philippe Gaborit, Nicolas Saussay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21237 https://

(2,2)-GB Codes: Classification and Comparison with weight-4 Surface Codes
Generalized Bicycle (GB) codes offer a compelling alternative to surface codes for quantum error correction. This paper focuses on (2,2)-Generalized Bicycle codes, constructed from pairs of binary circulant matrices with two non-zero elements per row. Leveraging a lower bound on their minimum distance, we construct three novel infinite families of optimal (2,2)-GB codes with parameters [[ 2n^2, 2, n ]], [[ 4r^2, 2, 2r ]], and [[(2t + 1)^2 + 1, 2, 2t + 1 ]]. These families match the performance …

New York state cyber chief calls out Trump for cybersecurity cuts
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/new-york-state-cyber-chief-calls-out-trump-for-cybersecurity-cuts/

New York state cyber chief calls out Trump for cybersecurity cuts | TechCrunch
The top cybersecurity official in New York told TechCrunch in an interview that Trump's budget cuts are going to put the government at risk from cyberattacks, and will put more pressure on states to secure themselves.

Russia targets Ukrainian cities with missile, drone attacks as peace talks stall: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/30/russia-targets-ukrainian-cities-with.html

Tariffs will pay for tax cuts?
-- The White House can’t be serious.
After passing tax cuts that will likely cost $5.5 trillion over the coming decade, the Trump administration is under increasing pressure to rein in soaring budget deficits. So what’s the plan? Tariffs, tariffs and more tariffs.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently claimed on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that tariff revenue “is going to pay off our deficit.”
Administration estimates of 10-year tari…

Tariffs will pay for tax cuts? The White House can’t be serious.
Trump officials say trillions of dollars in tariff revenue will pay for their tax cuts. Don’t hold your breath.

The Republican shell game on tax cuts
Republicans continue to profess deep concern about the federal debt -- even as their top priority is to pass a bill that will increase it by trillions of dollars.
They have multiple rationalizations for this behavior,
which might work psychologically but do not mathematically.

Thus they claim that the deficit reflects runaway spending rather than insufficient revenue
and that reducing that revenue is therefore nothing to w…

The Republican shell game on tax cuts
Expiring tax cuts are yesterday’s news for deficit scorekeepers, but an exciting new policy in campaign pitches.