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China's response to Trump's tariffs: No grand statements, just stop buying American soy. Immediately and 100%.
https://newrepublic.com/article/201461/trump-tariffs-soybean-industry-china-reckoning

Trump’s Tariffs Should Force a Reckoning With America’s Soy Industry
The industry became the world’s second largest not because of human demand for soy, but to feed China’s pigs.

Hartklachten, depressie en oorpijn: bewoners bij industrie zijn structureel ongezonder
#volksgezondheid https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/onderzoek…

Hartklachten, depressie en oorpijn: bewoners bij industrie zijn structureel ongezonder
Mensen die wonen bij zware industrie – zoals bij Rijnmond, Chemelot, Chemours en Tata Steel – voelen zich structureel ongezonder dan de rest van Nederland. Zij melden vaker hartklachten, buik- en oorpijn en vermoeidheid. Voor het eerst is op grote schaal aangetoond dat hun gezondheid slechter is naarmate mensen dichter bij de industrie wonen.

In a letter, the SIA urges the USPTO to drop a plan to impose annual patent fees of 1% to 5% based on government-assessed value, replacing the flat-fee model (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Chipmaking industry pushes back on U.S. Patent Office considering imposing annual fee based on assessed value — “tax on innovation” draws strong opposition from Semiconductor Industry Association
The federal government wants a bigger slice of the semiconductor pie through patents.

Diminished Sombor index and its relationship with topological indices
F. Movahedi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06532 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06532

Diminished Sombor index and its relationship with topological indices
In this paper, we investigate the Diminished Sombor index (DSO), a recently introduced degree-based topological index for a simple graph $G$, defined as \[ DSO(G) = \sum_{uv \in E} \frac{\sqrt{d_u^2+d_v^2}}{d_u+d_v}, \] where $d_u$ denotes the degree of a vertex $u \in V$. We establish several sharp bounds for this index in terms of classical topological indices such as the Zagreb, Albertson, Harmonic, Randić, and geometric-arithmetic indices. The relationships and inequalities between DSO and…

Towards solving industrial integer linear programs with Decoded Quantum Interferometry
Francesc Sabater, Ouns El Harzli, Geert-Jan Besjes, Marvin Erdmann, Johannes Klepsch, Jonas Hiltrop, Jean-Francois Bobier, Yudong Cao, Carlos A. Riofrio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08328

Towards solving industrial integer linear programs with Decoded Quantum Interferometry
Optimization via decoded quantum interferometry (DQI) has recently gained a great deal of attention as a promising avenue for solving optimization problems using quantum computers. In this paper, we apply DQI to an industrial optimization problem in the automotive industry: the vehicle option-package pricing problem. Our main contributions are 1) formulating the industrial problem as an integer linear program (ILP), 2) converting the ILP into instances of max-XORSAT, and 3) developing a detaile…

Indoctrination, torture, violence — Report reveals Ukrainian children's ordeal under Russian occupation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/indoctrination-torture-violence-report-reveals.html

The cybersecurity news machine is cranking away at top speed, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US indicts ransomware dev, offers $10 million reward, and puts him on most-wanted list,
--US tech giants enable human rights abuse in China,
--BlackDB.cc operator pleads guilty,
--Microsoft issues 80 Patch Tuesday fixes,
--Pakistan has built sweeping surveillance system,
--Apple targets spy…

US indicts ransomware dev, offers $10 million reward, puts him on most-wanted list
US tech giants enable human rights abuse in China, BlackDB.cc operator pleads guilty, Microsoft issues 80 Patch Tuesday fixes, Pakistan has built sweeping surveillance system, Apple targets spyware with Memory Integrity Enforcement, Korean telco KT on hot seat for 278 mobile fraud cases, much more

Rapper Wyclef Jean, now chief creative officer for OpenWav, extols the startup's tools that let musicians sell tickets, connect directly with fans, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/the-music-industry-…

The music industry is broken: OpenWav's new app aims to change that | TechCrunch
OpenWav is building a direct-to-fan platform for music artists that lets them keep more of the profits.

Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

Amkor breaks ground on advanced chip packaging campus in Arizona, with production expected by early 2028; state officials say Amkor's investment could reach $7B (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Amkor breaks ground on Arizona advanced packaging campus, plugging critical gap in US semiconductor supply chain — production expected in 2028, investment could extend to $7 billion with 3,000 jobs in tow
Amkor moves in next door to TSMC as CHIPS Act funding continues to turn the Phoenix metro area into a chips hub.