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New York-based Kaizen, which provides a commerce platform for government agencies to offer services like utility billing, raised a $21M Series A led by NEA (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/202…

Exclusive: Govtech startup Kaizen raises $21M for commerce platform
NEA led the round.

Very good to see this! https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-european-military-just-ditched-microsoft-for-open-source-libreoffice-heres-why/ h/t to @…

This European military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice - here's why.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-european-military-just-ditched-microsoft-for-open-source-libreoffice-heres-why/

This European military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice - here's why
It's not about the cost savings, either. Many government organizations are replacing Microsoft software for a more important reason.

A potential actually-useful use-case for chatbots: Back in The Good Old Days when programmers did not fear being swamped by bug reports, especially the not-so-great reports, software would carry a global-scoped 'gripe' button, when clicked, a redacted snapshot of the machine state was bundled with whatever they wished to put into the text box, and no reply was expected beyond 'received'. Given the ease of recognizing pure noise in the input, an LLM might coallate a bunch and produce a useful report? False positives happen in support all the time 😅
That kinda puts the #LLM in the 'triangle' position on a #StaffordBeer #VSM diagram, what which measures expected vs actual like a steam-engine governor, reducing Variety to useful patterns and all. 🤔

FESTIM v2.0: Upgraded framework for multi-species hydrogen transport and enhanced performance
James Dark, R\'emi Delaporte-Mathurin, J{\o}rgen S. Dokken Huihua Yang, Chirag Khurana, Kaelyn Dunnell, Gabriele Ferrero, Vladimir Kulagin, Samuele Meschini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24760

FESTIM v2.0: Upgraded framework for multi-species hydrogen transport and enhanced performance
FESTIM is an open-source finite element framework for modelling the transport of hydrogen isotopes in materials. It provides a flexible and extensible tool for simulating diffusion, trapping, surface interactions, and other processes that govern hydrogen behaviour. This paper presents FESTIM v2.0, a major release that broadens both the physical scope and the software infrastructure of the framework. On the physics side, the formulation adopts a modular structure that supports multi-species tran…

Trump un-banned the use of no-click, smartphone Spyware for use by ICE against immigrants & PROTESTORS.
☑️ICE reactivates contract with previously banned spyware vendor
https://wapo.st/4httse1
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ICE reactivates contract with previously banned spyware vendor
The Biden administration had barred Paragon Solutions from U.S. government use after finding that the company’s software had been used unethically elsewhere.

Adobe Premiere Pro: neue Effekte, Übergänge und Animationen
Die Videobearbeitung Adobe Premiere Pro enthält künftig die GPU-beschleunigten Effekte der früher als Plug-in-Sammlung verfügbaren Software Film Impact.

"Parece Miami": curitibano sendo #curitibano ...
#curitiba
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AzqpbJ8z

10K views · 557 reactions | Acredito que é uma decisão unânime. Comente “Alô Ratinho Jr” para esse vídeo chegar no governador. Essa rua em Curitiba tem o cabeamento de energia subterrâneo, parece Miami, mas é a capital paranaense. A Rua José Américo de Oliveira, localizada no bairro Hugo Lange em Curitiba, se destaca pelo cabeamento de energia ser subterrâneo. #curitiba #curitibapr #cwb #urbanismo #foryou #foryoupage #fy | João Schünemann - Imóveis de Luxo
Acredito que é uma decisão unânime. Comente “Alô Ratinho Jr” para esse vídeo chegar no governador. Essa rua em Curitiba tem o cabeamento de energia subterrâneo, parece Miami, mas é a capital...

Electromagnetic Simulations of Antennas on GPUs for Machine Learning Applications
Murat Temiz, Vemund Bakken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10713 https://arxiv…

Electromagnetic Simulations of Antennas on GPUs for Machine Learning Applications
This study proposes an antenna simulation framework powered by graphics processing units (GPUs) based on an open-source electromagnetic (EM) simulation software (gprMax) for machine learning applications of antenna design and optimization. Furthermore, it compares the simulation results with those obtained through commercial EM software. The proposed software framework for machine learning and surrogate model applications will produce antenna data sets consisting of a large number of antenna si…