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“CDC is over. It was killed.
This administration only knows how to break things.
They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players.
People should be scared,”
said Dr. Demetre ,
former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 (@50501movement.bsky.social)
“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/cdc-rfk-jr-shutdown-layoffs-goal-rcna237035

Researchers detail "Pixnapping", a new covert attack to steal 2FA codes and other private data on Android; Google's September patch only partially mitigates it (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones
Malicious app required to make “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions.

Column Twisted Reed-Solomon Codes as MDS Codes
Wei Liu, Jinquan Luo, Puyin Wang, Dengxin Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08755 https://

Column Twisted Reed-Solomon Codes as MDS Codes
In this paper, we study column twisted Reed-Solomon(TRS) codes. We establish some conditions for column TRS codes to be MDS codes and show that the dimension of their Schur square codes is $2k$. Consequently, these TRS codes are not equivalent to Reed-Solomon(RS) codes. Moreover, this construction method provides more flexible parameters compared to previous twisted generalized Reed-Solomon(TGRS) code constructions. For large odd prime power $q$, different from the systematically constructed TG…

The GAO launches a probe into USAGM for potential overreach; sources say congressional staffers warned Kari Lake that she illegally used appropriated funds (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/14/kari-lake-voa-cuts-lawsu…

Kari Lake defends VOA cuts in court after warnings from Capitol Hill
As Trump lieutenant tells a federal judge she is following the law in dismantling the VOA, emails obtained by The Washington Post show staff on Capitol Hill warned her about overstepping.

Practice Points: George Pickens highlights contested catch ability https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/practice-points-george-pickens-highlights-contested-catch-ability

OK, now, do we believe this?
CISA work not ‘degraded’ by Trump administration cuts, top agency official says
https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-operational-strength-despite-cuts-nicholas-andersen-billington-cybersecurity-summit/

A look at WindBorne, which uses weather balloons and AI to improve forecasting, as potential budget cuts to NOAA threaten its access to public weather data (Tim Fernholz/New York Times)
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The Future of Weather Prediction Is Here. Maybe.
Thanks to A.I., companies like WindBorne hope to usher in a golden age of forecasting. But they rely in part on government data — and the agency that provides it is in turmoil.

Optimal binary codes from $\mathcal{C}_{D}$-codes over a non-chain ring
Ankit Yadav, Ritumoni Sarma, Anuj Kumar Bhagat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09057 https://

Optimal binary codes from $\mathcal{C}_{D}$-codes over a non-chain ring
In \cite{shi2022few-weight}, Shi and Li studied $\mathcal{C}_D$-codes over the ring $\mathcal{R}:=\mathbb{F}_2[x,y]/\langle x^2, y^2, xy-yx\rangle$ and their binary Gray images, where $D$ is derived using certain simplicial complexes. We study the subfield codes $\mathcal{C}_{D}^{(2)}$ of $\mathcal{C}_{D}$-codes over $\mathcal{R},$ where $D$ is as in \cite{shi2022few-weight} and more. We find the Hamming weight distribution and the parameters of $\mathcal{C}_D^{(2)}$ for various $D$, and identi…

Practice Points: George Pickens highlights contested catch ability https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/practice-points-george-pickens-highlights-contested-catch-ability

Fears of brain drain grow as Trump cuts take a toll on UCLA
Research that was years in the making
— into diabetes, cancer, heart disease, strokes, PTSD and fighting antibiotic-resistant infections
— is on pause at UCLA, nearly a month after UCLA saw around $500 million in federal grants suspended.
While a federal judge ordered the restorationof 114 National Science Foundation grants in early August, grants from the National Institutes of Health remain suspended.
S…

Fears of brain drain grow as Trump cuts take a toll on UCLA
Several UCLA scientists tell LAist that their experiments on cancer, heart disease and other ailments are imperiled, but they’re more worried that young academics will abandon the field and that humanity will be worse off for it.