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Tom Hanks, Ken Burns Say PBS 'American Revolution' Counters Trump-Led Erasing Of History
https://deadline.com/2025/09/tom-hanks-ken-burns-american-revolution-trump-1236549033/

Chiral quantum magnets with optically and catalytically active spin ladders
Bum Chul Park, Sung-Chul Kim, Dae Beom Lee, Young Kwang Kim, Bomin Kim, Sonny H. Rhim, Eunsoo Lee, Yongju Hong, Kwangyeol Lee, Sang Hyun Lee, Jessica Ma, Michal Sawczyk, Jun Lu, Jason Manassa, Nishkarsh Agarwal, Robert Hovden, Sung Ok Won, Min Jun Ko, Minkyu Park, Jiung Cho, Xiaoming Mao, Kai Sun, Young Keun Kim, Nicholas A. Kotov

Chiral quantum magnets with optically and catalytically active spin ladders
Chiral quantum magnets with spin-states separated by a large energy gap are technologically attractive but difficult to realize. Geometrically frustrated topological states with nanoscale chirality may offer a chemical pathway to such materials. However, room temperature spin misalignment, weakness of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, and high energy requirements for lattice distortions set high physicochemical barriers for their realization. Here, we show that layered iron oxyhydroxides (LIO…

IT-Störungen bei Kommunalwahl: Keine Hinweise auf Cyberangriff
Ein Technikfehler im Rechenzentrum Niederrhein sorgte dafür, dass es Störungen beim Abruf der Wahlergebnisse gab. Auch in Münster gab es Probleme.

OH: I know you from `pip install` #PyConUK

Any developer worth their salt knows that the outputting code is the easiest part of software development, and that code as an artifact has little value without everything that surrounds it: the people, the shared knowledge, the practices (both formal and informal), the infrastructure, the networks of trust, etc etc.
And yet!! like fools, we’ve got ourselves hung up on OSS licenses and copyright — the legal structures surrounding the code itself — as if code were in fact the only thing that really matters. As if we didn’t know better.
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EXAONE 4.0: Unified Large Language Models Integrating Non-reasoning and Reasoning Modes
LG AI Research, :, Kyunghoon Bae, Eunbi Choi, Kibong Choi, Stanley Jungkyu Choi, Yemuk Choi, Kyubeen Han, Seokhee Hong, Junwon Hwang, Taewan Hwang, Joonwon Jang, Hyojin Jeon, Kijeong Jeon, Gerrard Jeongwon Jo, Hyunjik Jo, Jiyeon Jung, Euisoon Kim, Hyosang Kim, Jihoon Kim, Joonkee Kim, Seonghwan Kim, Soyeon Kim, Sunkyoung Kim, Yireun Kim, Yongil Kim, Youchul Kim, Edward Hwayoung Lee, Gwangho Lee, Ha…

EXAONE 4.0: Unified Large Language Models Integrating Non-reasoning and Reasoning Modes
This technical report introduces EXAONE 4.0, which integrates a Non-reasoning mode and a Reasoning mode to achieve both the excellent usability of EXAONE 3.5 and the advanced reasoning abilities of EXAONE Deep. To pave the way for the agentic AI era, EXAONE 4.0 incorporates essential features such as agentic tool use, and its multilingual capabilities are extended to support Spanish in addition to English and Korean. The EXAONE 4.0 model series consists of two sizes: a mid-size 32B model optimi…

So much cybersecurity news, so little time. Don't miss today' jam-packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know today, including
--Cops bust up NoName057(16) by seizing servers, issuing warrants, and raiding homes
--6.5m Co-op members' data were stolen,
--Cambodia busts 1k for cybercrime,
--Thai police raid Cambodian tycoon's homes in scam probe,
--DoJ busts one and charges three other alleged Ryuk actors,
--Au…

Cops bust up NoName057(16) by seizing servers, issuing warrants, and raiding homes
6.5m Co-op members' data were stolen, Cambodia busts 1k for cybercrime, Thai police raid Cambodian tycoon's homes in scam probe, DoJ busts one and charges three other alleged Ryuk actors, Aussie right-wing party hit by ransomware, China cyberspies on Taiwan's semiconductor industry, much more

Interesting and fulsome interview on exactly how NORAD reacted to the plane hijacking in Victoria/Vancouver on Tuesday. They speak to the commander of NORAD, currently a Canadian.
I appreciated the last section most though:
“It's the only bi-national command in the world; it's been a strong bi-national command since 1958, and nothing has changed.
We don't ever talk politics at work. It's not something that we do, nor does it affect what we do.
I would say that we are as tight, and probably tighter than we've ever been. As the world around us gets to be more dangerous, I would say that NORAD is even closer than it's ever been.
But one last thing — we have the watch. That's the slogan here for NORAD.
To give you a great example, all of the assessors, we all live on-base in homes that actually have a safe, we call it the SCIF. It's basically a classified room that has all of our systems. The days that you're on duty, you're either at work or in your house. Because the timelines are so small for answering the phone, you don't walk the dog; you don't do all these other things, and someone covers for you when you're going between work and home.
That's how important this mission is to us down here. It's really important for everybody in Canada to know that at NORAD, we have the watch”
#canpoli #norad #cf18
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-fighter-jets-bc-alleged-plane-hijacking-1.7588750

Fortifying the Agentic Web: A Unified Zero-Trust Architecture Against Logic-layer Threats
Ken Huang, Yasir Mehmood, Hammad Atta, Jerry Huang, Muhammad Zeeshan Baig, Sree Bhargavi Balija
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12259

Fortifying the Agentic Web: A Unified Zero-Trust Architecture Against Logic-layer Threats
This paper presents a Unified Security Architecture that fortifies the Agentic Web through a Zero-Trust IAM framework. This architecture is built on a foundation of rich, verifiable agent identities using Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs), with discovery managed by a protocol-agnostic Agent Name Service (ANS). Security is operationalized through a multi-layered Trust Fabric which introduces significant innovations, including Trust-Adaptive Runtime Environments (T…

Selenskyj sieht bisher keine Anzeichen für Dreiergipfel mit Trump und Putin
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj sieht bisher keine Anzeichen für einen bevorstehenden Dreiergipfel mit US-Präsident Donald Trump und Kremlchef Wladimir Putin zur Beendigung des Krieges in seinem Land.
Bei einem Besuch in Brüssel sagte Selenskyj: "Im Moment gibt es keine Hinweise von Seiten Russlands, dass der Dreiergipfel stattfindet." …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Rubio hält Waffenruhe weiter für möglich ++
Laut US-Außenminister Rubio ist nach dem Treffen von Trump und Putin ein Waffenruhe noch nicht vom Tisch. Neben Merz und von der Leyen reisen auch die Staats- und Regierungschefs von Italien, Frankreich und Finnland nach Washington.