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Hackers calling themselves SafePay. carried out a ransomware attack on the five-star K Club resort in Co Kildare as it prepared to host some of the world’s top golfers at the Irish Open this past weekend.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-wor

Cyberattack on K Club before Irish Open
The five-star resort was hit by a ransomware attack, with leaked data including financial records, IT documentation and administrative information

'Little more special': Colts dedicate win to Irsays https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46191424/colts-dedicate-daniel-jones-led-win-late-owner-jim-irsay-family

The Internal Revenue Service will furlough nearly half of its employees – around 34,000 workers – due to the ongoing government shutdown.
In a statement on Wednesday, the IRS said that “due to the lapse in appropriations”, it will begin its furlough on 8 October for “everyone except already-identified excepted and exempt employees”.
“Employee who are not exempt or excepted are furloughed and placed in a non-pay and non-duty status until further notice; however, all employees should…

Smartphone-based iris recognition through high-quality visible-spectrum iris image capture.V2
Naveenkumar G Venkataswamy, Yu Liu, Soumyabrata Dey, Stephanie Schuckers, Masudul H Imtiaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06170

Smartphone-based iris recognition through high-quality visible-spectrum iris image capture.V2
Smartphone-based iris recognition in the visible spectrum (VIS) remains difficult due to illumination variability, pigmentation differences, and the absence of standardized capture controls. This work presents a compact end-to-end pipeline that enforces ISO/IEC 29794-6 quality compliance at acquisition and demonstrates that accurate VIS iris recognition is feasible on commodity devices. Using a custom Android application performing real-time framing, sharpness evaluation, and feedback, we intro…

Schleswig-Holsteins E-Mail-Systeme auf Open Source umgestellt
Die Landesverwaltung Schleswig-Holsteins hat den Umstieg ihres Mailsystems von Microsoft Exchange und Outlook auf Open-Source-Lösungen vollzogen.
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IRS Commissioner On Direct File Program: ‘It’s Gone’ | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/07/irs-commissioner-on-direct-file-program-its-gone/

IRS furloughs nearly half its workforce, shuttering most operations (Danny Nguyen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/08/congress/irs-begins-furloughing-employees-00597834
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p105#a251008p105

Movable IRS-Aided ISAC Systems: Joint Beamforming and Position Optimization
Yue Geng, Tee Hiang Cheng, Kai Zhong, Kah Chan Teh, Qingqing Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04873 http…

Movable IRS-Aided ISAC Systems: Joint Beamforming and Position Optimization
Driven by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and movable antenna (MA) technologies, movable IRS (MIRS) has been proposed to improve the adaptability and performance of conventional IRS, enabling flexible adjustment of the IRS reflecting element positions. This paper investigates MIRS-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. The objective is to minimize the power required for satisfying the quality-of-service (QoS) of sensing and communication by jointly optimizing the MIRS e…

Billy Long removed as IRS commissioner, will serve as Iceland ambassador
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2025/08/trump-removes-billy-long-as-irs-commisioner-less-than-2-months-after-his-confirmation/

IRS tells employees furlough backpay guaranteed, while WH counters in memo (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/08/trump-furlough-government-shutdown-back-pay-irs
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p112#a251008p112