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White House pulls Brian Quintenz nomination to lead CFTC (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/30/congress/white-house-pulls-quintenz-nomination-to-lead-cftc-00589043
http://www.memeorandum.com/250930/p165#a250930p165

Balancing Compliance and Privacy in Offline CBDC Transactions Using a Secure Element-based System
Panagiotis Michalopoulos, Anthony Mack, Cameron Clark, Linus Chen, Johannes Sedlmeir, Andreas Veneris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25469

Balancing Compliance and Privacy in Offline CBDC Transactions Using a Secure Element-based System
Blockchain technology has spawned a vast ecosystem of digital currencies with Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) -- digital forms of fiat currency -- being one of them. An important feature of digital currencies is facilitating transactions without network connectivity, which can enhance the scalability of cryptocurrencies and the privacy of CBDC users. However, in the case of CBDCs, this characteristic also introduces new regulatory challenges, particularly when it comes to applying estab…

KI: Apple steckt mehr Geld rein – verspricht weiter neue Siri für 2026
Neben den iPhone-Verkäufen interessierten sich Analysten bei den Apple-Zahlen vor allem für das Thema KI. Die Chefetage blieb eher schmallippig.

BNR Puzzels | BNR Nieuwsradio
https://www.bnr.nl/puzzels#hashi
Best geinig kort vermaak..
(Oplossing even verwijderd. 😇

Dann halt so...
Hier der Strasser-Express #tcrno11cap2 #TCRNo11

Topology-Optimized Dielectric Cavities for Enhanced Excitonic Light Emission from $\rm WSe_{2}$
Owen Matthiessen, Brandon Triplett, Omer Yesilyurt, Davide Cassara, Karthik Pagadala, Morris M. Yang, Andres E. Llacsahuanga Allcca, Hamza Ather, Colton Fruhling, Abhishek Bharatbhai Solanki, Yong P. Chen, Hadiseh Alaeian, Alexander V. Kildishev, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Federico Capasso, Alexandra Boltasseva, Vahagn Mkhitaryan

Topology-Optimized Dielectric Cavities for Enhanced Excitonic Light Emission from $\rm WSe_{2}$
Photonic inverse design and, especially, topology optimization, enable dielectric cavities with deeply sub-diffraction mode volumes and high quality factors, thus offering a powerful platform for enhanced light-matter coupling. Here, we design and fabricate arrays of CMOS-compatible silicon cavities on sapphire with extreme subwavelength transverse mode sizes of only 30-40 nm ($\rm V\simλ^3/2500$). These cavities are engineered for deterministic coupling to a monolayer (or few-layer) excitonic…

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Mon Laferte (60) Lily Allen (28) Pulp (28) Chini.png (25) Blondie (22). #myweekcounted 769 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Brilliant week in Bristol.
Especially invigorating to present the invited talk, 'Private Education Capital: Beyond Caste-based Educational Exclusion as "Tradition"' at Centre for International Research in Education. I also gave a Roundtable Presentation, 'Epistemic Humility as Experienced Provocation' for doctoral students.
Grateful to wonderful colleagues who took such care, asked such thoughtful questions, and showed me beautiful Bristol with scrumpt…

It's time to slowly start moving my projects off the LLM Torment Nexus, formerly known as #GitHub. Projects related to #Gentoo will move to our own infrastructure, with GitHub mirrors / contribution channels for the time being. In the future, I will probably be replacing them with #Codeberg mirors / contribution channels.
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/cpuid2cpuflags.git

Bei Regen fährt ja niemand.
#regen #radfahren