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Why the Lammy law change is a serious mistake
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/news/crime-and-justice/why-the-lammy-law-change-is-a-serious-mistake/

Why the Lammy law change is a serious mistake
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy proposed increase of sentencing powers for magistrates may well damage our justice system

Got a Surface Laptop Studio 2? Or just need a 100W USB-Power Delivery charger?
My new favorite charger is the "Anker Prime Charger, 160W 3-Port (140W on a single port). Perfect for a power-hungry laptop smartphone.
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Charger-Compa

Watching #IdrisElba portray the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 prime minister and the United States 🇺🇸 president in two movies this year wasn’t in my bingo card. 😮 One movie is a fun watch and is very silly, while the other is sobering and really terrifying.
#films

Amazon relaunches its game streaming service Luna, available at no additional cost for Prime subscribers, and adds new beginner-friendly multiplayer games (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/amazons-revamped-l…

Such intelligent and thoughtful comments from the Singapore PM. It is embarrassing as a USA citizen how foolish and ignorant our leaders are. We need to elect people with much more integrity and competence as they do in Singapore. Singapore is so well run and the USA is now being run into the ground by extremely bad policy. The damage the USA as done to its future this year is beyond calculation. We will be paying for decades for our foolish votes last year.

PM Lawrence Wong in an interview with the Financial Times (Oct 2025)
Transcript of Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong's interview with the Financial Times' (FT) Editor, Roula Khalaf, on 21 October 2025.

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul signed an order on Friday revoking the Thai citizenship of Phat Suphapa, who is also known as Ly Yong Phat. Ly, a naturalized Thai national, he was accused of being involved with cyber-scam operations and human trafficking networks.
https://www.

Ravens Player Floated as Prime Free Agent Target for Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/ravens-tyler-linderbaum-free-agent-target/?adt_ei=[email]

YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.c…

YouTube Has a Firm Grip on Daytime TV
YouTube’s big streaming lead over Netflix and other competitors stems in large part to its dominance during daylight hours.

Statement on Ukraine which I guess will never be acceptable to Putin, it is a good proposal however...

Statement by Chancellor Merz, Prime Minister Frederiksen, President Stubb, President Macron, Prime Minister Meloni, Prime Minister Schoof, Prime Minister Støre, Prime Minister Tusk, Prime Minister Kristersson, Prime Minister Starmer, as well as President Costa and President von der Leyen

YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.c…

YouTube Has a Firm Grip on Daytime TV
YouTube’s big streaming lead over Netflix and other competitors stems in large part to its dominance during daylight hours.

Matt LaFleur: Week 8 is about Packers-Steelers not Aaron Rodgers' first game vs. Green Bay https://www.nfl.com/news/matt-lafleur-week-8-is-about-packers-steelers-not-aaron-rodgers-first-game-vs-green-bay

“Canada did not sign the letter, Environment and Climate Change Canada confirmed to CBC News Friday.”
Canada is a problem.
A huge problem.
Our Prime Minister is in the Middle East instead of COP. That's all you need to know.
We're all so screwed right now... the world... all of us.
Our leaders in ‘developed' countries cannot extricate their minds from the Fossil Fuel industry and it's going to kill us all, or at least a very large proportion of us.
#COP30 #CanPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/cop30-showdown-9.6987443

Stargate: New series info and how to watch on Prime Video
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/stargate-franchise-amazon-mgm-studios-prime-video

Everything to know about ‘Stargate’ from Amazon MGM Studios
A new reboot of ‘Stargate’ is in the works. Find out more about the military sci-fi franchise that has delighted fans for over three decades.

I'm giving 70% odds of this being unwatchable slop unconcerned with storytelling, as is usual in sci-fi/fantasy these days https://www.ign.com/articles/amazon-announces-new-stargate-series-headed-to-prime-video

Nobel-Worthy Prime Minister Attempts to End Century of Ethnic Hatred for Armenians https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/nobel-worthy-prime-minister-attempts-to-end-century-of-ethnic-hatred-for-armenians/

Nobel-Worthy Prime Minister Attempts to End Century of Ethnic Hatred for Armenians
Experts called it a "huge step" one that is chiefly thanks to the persistence of Nikol Pashinyan and presenting the case for peace.

Christoph Schneider, Prime Video Germany's Country Director since 2022, is leaving Amazon after 13 years due to an internal restructure that eliminates his role (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/prime-video-germany-christoph-s…

Prime Video Germany’s Long-Serving Chief Christoph Schneider Stepping Down
Christoph Schneider, Prime Video's country chief in Germany, is leaving Amazon after 13 years.

Poland’s Prime Minister Tusk: U.S. will respond militarily if Russia attacks Ukraine after a peace agreement is signed: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/polands-prime-minister-tusk-us.html

Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism https://theconversation.com/why-openai-is-a-prime-example-of-the-ethical-limits-of-capitalism-270407

Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism
Money and morality are a challenging corporate combination.

original character do not steal

It is December, so it is time to share my #Warframe2024 report from last year before the 2025 one arrives, and yes, I play on Linux and have since 2023, running Warframe on Debian Trixie.
#Debian #Warframe

So much is happening in infosec, so don't fall behind. Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Cops take down alleged money-laundering operations E-Note,
--Google is suing mass texting operation Darcula,
--AI-generated social media firm Doublespeed was hacked,
--Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's messages were leaked,
--Korea launches massive probe of Coupang breach,
--Foreign pow…

Cops take down alleged money-laundering operations E-Note
Google is suing mass texting operation Darcula, AI-generated social media firm Doublespeed was hacked, Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's messages were leaked online, Korea launches massive probe of Coupang breach, Foreign power tried to install malware on Italian ferry, much more

Amazon Prime has a documentary "Code Is Law" - which was released in February, but has an updated end from June 2025.
It deals with the question about "smart contracts" - are actions that are permitted by the code/words of a contract acceptable, even if they were not intended to be. (Most of the opinions given on this are from people who lost large amounts of money due to bugs.)

Two explosions targeted a railway line that connects Poland and Ukraine. Prime Minister Tusk is calling these attacks “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens.”
[@… on Bluesky]

A prime minister is a minister that is not the product of two smaller ministers and thus is only divisible by 1 and itself.

Vikings expected to activate RB Aaron Jones for Thursday game vs. Chargers https://www.nfl.com/news/aaron-jones-vikings-expected-to-activate-rb-for-thursday-game-vs-chargers

🪪 A shadowy L.A. crime ring is hijacking the IDs of foreign scholars, fraud expert says
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-07/former-international-scholars-become-prime-prey-for-l-a-identity-theft-r…

L.A. identity theft ring targets former foreign scholars
An identity theft ring believed to be based in the Burbank area is using Social Security numbers from former foreign scholars to apply for bank accounts and lines of credit.

Trump sought to pin any worries about high inflation on his predecessor, Joe Biden.
“Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess,
and I’m fixing it,” Trump said.
“We’re poised for an economic boom, the likes of which the world has never seen.”
His holiday wishes came at a crucial time as he tries to rebuild his steadily eroding popularity.
Public polling shows most U.S. adults are frustrated with his handling of the economy as
inflation picked up after his tari…

WATCH: Trump addresses the nation from the White House | PBS News special coverage
President Donald Trump delivered a politically charged speech Wednesday carried live in prime time on network television, seeking to pin the blame for economic challenges on Democrats while announcing he is sending a $1,776 bonus check to U.S. troops for Christmas.

just released liboprf-0.9.3
liboprf is a library implementing the OPRF from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9497.html and in addition it also provides a threshold variant (tOPRF) and a distributed key generation (DKG) protocol for the tOPRF shared secret, as well as a key update protocol fo…

Prime-powered images and irreducible polynomials in dynamical semigroups
Aristaa Bhardwaj, Adrian Boyer-Paulet, Wade Hindes, Emma Qiu, Alexander Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10310

Prime-powered images and irreducible polynomials in dynamical semigroups
Let $G=\langle x^d+c_1,\dots,x^d+c_s\rangle$ be a semigroup generated under composition for some $c_1,\dots,c_s\in\mathbb{Z}$ and some $d\geq2$. Then we prove that, outside of an exceptional one-parameter family, $G$ contains a large and explicit subset of irreducible polynomials if and only if it contains at least one irreducible polynomial. In particular, this conclusion holds when $G$ is generated by at least $s\geq3$ polynomials when $d$ is odd and at least $s\geq5$ polynomials when $d$ is …

Today I learned about Yorkshire Pudding - and I've decided I need to try my hand at making them.

This recipe seems to be an exhaustive examination of the different myths and factors that surround the famous popover accomplice to decadent Prime Rib...
https://www.seriouseats.com/the-be…

The Best Yorkshire Pudding Recipe
The secret to the ultimate Yorkshire pudding is making the batter in advance. The result is Yorkshire pudding that rises tall, is tender and lightly chewy.

Bayes Meets Riemann Again: Large Prime Discovery and Re-emergence of the Bone of Contention
Durba Bhattacharya, Sucharita Roy, Sourabh Bhattacharya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09651

Bayes Meets Riemann Again: Large Prime Discovery and Re-emergence of the Bone of Contention
Prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians since antiquity, with ongoing efforts to uncover both their properties and ever-larger examples. While giant primes rarely aid cryptography, they find use in areas such as locally decodable codes. Large prime-hunting, often brute-force in nature, is conceptually linked to the Riemann Hypothesis and the prime number theorem, which portrays prime distribution as essentially random. This motivates a statistical perspective, with Bayesian methodology pro…

An algebraic approach to Latin squares of prime power order by local permutation polynomials
Ra\'ul M. Falc\'on, Jaime Guti\'errez, Jorge Jim\'enez Urroz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09086

An algebraic approach to Latin squares of prime power order by local permutation polynomials
Every Latin square of prime power order $q$ is uniquely described by a local permutation polynomial (LPP) in the polynomial ring $\mathbb{F}_q[x,y]$. Despite this equivalence, one may find in the literature only some preliminary results on the relationship among Latin squares and LPPs. This paper delves into this topic by showing how the coefficients of any LPP are identified with the zeros of an algebraic set over $\mathbb{F}_q$. This allows for an algebraic description of all Latin squares of…

Veteran Stefon Diggs shined when Patriots needed him most: 'Prime time is my time' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47390497/stefon-diggs-shined-need-new-england-patriots-vs-baltimore-ravens

Just noticed Firefox was guzzling around ~750MB when opening Apple Music page. This led me down a rabbit hole of building a custom music client and its so bad.
1. You need Apple developer account (99USD/year) for API access.
2. Linux is not a native target meaning having to use MusicKit JS library with Electron, GtkWebKit or QtWebEngine.
3. Legal issues.
Spotify is such a saint in terms of third-party client support. Also, I have Amazon Prime which gets me Amazon Music…

Good Morning #Canada
On this day in 1948, the longest serving political leader in the British Commonwealth retired. William Lyon Mackenzie King served 21 years and 154 days as Prime Minister of Canada, in non-consecutive terms, from 1921–1926, 1926–1930, and 1935–1948. He led Canada through the Great Depression, introduced Old Age Pensions, nationalized the Bank of Canada, passed the 1938 National Housing Act to improve housing affordability, established the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Trans-Canada Air Lines, and the National Film Board, and implemented Unemployment Insurance. His government was also responsible for Japanese Internment Camps, and he believed strongly in the occult.
This video from TVO is an excellent overview of King's career. It's probably a two coffee viewing this morning if you have the time, but IMO worth the investment.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.tvo.org/video/mackenzie-king-at-150

Inductive inference of gradient-boosted decision trees on graphs for insurance fraud detection
F\'elix Vandervorst, Bruno Deprez, Wouter Verbeke, Tim Verdonck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05676

Inductive inference of gradient-boosted decision trees on graphs for insurance fraud detection
Graph-based methods are becoming increasingly popular in machine learning due to their ability to model complex data and relations. Insurance fraud is a prime use case, since false claims are often the result of organised criminals that stage accidents or the same persons filing erroneous claims on multiple policies. One challenge is that graph-based approaches struggle to find meaningful representations of the data because of the high class imbalance present in fraud data. Another is that insu…

The White House published a photo in which Netanyahu is seen forced by Trump to apologize to Qatari PM Al Thani while reading a piece of paper on the phone. I guess the script was 99% sure provided to him by Trump or his administration.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/5

Europe’s populist worries will intensify today
when right-wing billionaire Andrej Babiš becomes Czech prime minister.
Combined with Hungary’s Viktor Orbšn and Slovakia’s Robert Fico,
Babiš has the potential to jam up the legislative machinery in Brussels as it works on key files.
Czech President Petr Pavel is set to appoint Babiš to the position
after resolvinglongstanding conflict-of-interest issues related to the PM-elect’s conglomerate, Agrofert.
Babiš…

New Czech PM Babiš is poised to aggravate Brussels’ populist headache
Andrej Babiš could find common cause with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Slovakia’s Robert Fico on several issues.

PRIME: Planning and Retrieval-Integrated Memory for Enhanced Reasoning
Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Nguyen Luong Tran, Zhichao Yang, Feiyun Ouyang, Shuo Han, Razieh Rahimi, Hong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22315

PRIME: Planning and Retrieval-Integrated Memory for Enhanced Reasoning
Inspired by the dual-process theory of human cognition from \textit{Thinking, Fast and Slow}, we introduce \textbf{PRIME} (Planning and Retrieval-Integrated Memory for Enhanced Reasoning), a multi-agent reasoning framework that dynamically integrates \textbf{System 1} (fast, intuitive thinking) and \textbf{System 2} (slow, deliberate thinking). PRIME first employs a Quick Thinking Agent (System 1) to generate a rapid answer; if uncertainty is detected, it then triggers a structured System 2 rea…

Hardware is weird sometimes
Julien's random thoughts: Corsair CMK32GX4M2D3600 RAM Micron single-rank kit vs CMK32GX4M2D3600 Nunya dual-rank RAM kit vs Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard
https://blog.madbrain.com/2022/12/corsair-cmk32gx4m2d3600-ram-micron.…

Corsair CMK32GX4M2D3600 RAM Micron single-rank kit vs CMK32GX4M2D3600 Nunya dual-rank RAM kit vs Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard
In November 2021, I upgraded my main desktop computer with an AMD Ryzen 5950X CPU, an Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard, and a Corsair CMK32GX...

Finite groups of non-prime-power order with exactly four character codegrees
Yu Zeng, Mehdi Ghaffarzadeh, Mohsen Ghasemi, Dongfang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08221 https://…

Finite groups of non-prime-power order with exactly four character codegrees
For an irreducible complex character \(χ\) of a finite group \(G\), the \emph{codegree} of \(χ\) is defined as the ratio \(|G : \ker(χ)| / χ(1)\), where \(\ker(χ)\) represents the kernel of \(χ\). In this paper, we provide a detailed characterization of finite groups of non-prime power order that have exactly four irreducible character co-degrees.

HackWorld: Evaluating Computer-Use Agents on Exploiting Web Application Vulnerabilities
Xiaoxue Ren, Penghao Jiang, Kaixin Li, Zhiyong Huang, Xiaoning Du, Jiaojiao Jiang, Zhenchang Xing, Jiamou Sun, Terry Yue Zhuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12200

HackWorld: Evaluating Computer-Use Agents on Exploiting Web Application Vulnerabilities
Web applications are prime targets for cyberattacks as gateways to critical services and sensitive data. Traditional penetration testing is costly and expertise-intensive, making it difficult to scale with the growing web ecosystem. While language model agents show promise in cybersecurity, modern web applications demand visual understanding, dynamic content handling, and multi-step interactions that only computer-use agents (CUAs) can perform. Yet, their ability to discover and exploit vulnera…

So I see that now that Blue Canada has its conservative Prime Minister, Poillievre is on the chopping block.
Simultaneous stories yesterday in the Globe and Mail, CBC, questions on Parliament Hill, CPC Caucus “sources".
The Powers That Be are done with Pierre. I'll be happy to see him go... but those same 'powers’ are not laying the groundwork for someone less or even as extremist as Pierre.
Which means we'll continue marching rightward like the USA, and be vulnerable to the same kind of Nazi-glorifying autocrat taking power.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #CPC #Rightwing
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-pierre-poilievre-okay-conservative-leader-image/
(Free archive link: https://archive.ph/pJqyK)

Keir Starmer has announced an "online hospital" initiative to transform how outpatient care is delivered in England.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/pm-unveils-online-hospital-plan

NHS unveils 'online hospital' plan to slash waiting lists
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a landmark "online hospital" initiative to transform how outpatient care is delivered in England.

A Congruence for Sums of Integer Powers Modulo Products of Distinct Primes
Shao-Yuan Huang, Hsiu-Yu Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10418 https://arxiv.org/p…

A Congruence for Sums of Integer Powers Modulo Products of Distinct Primes
Let p1, p2,..., pn be distinct prime numbers, and let Nn be their product. We prove that, for any positive integer L that is divisible by the least common multiple of p1 minus one, p2 minus one, and so on, and for integers a1, a2,..., an satisfying that each ai is relatively prime to Nn and shares the same prime factor pi, a certain congruence relation holds among their Lth powers.

Assessment of the $a_{2}(1320)$ tensor-meson contribution to $\eta/\eta^{\prime}\to\pi^{0}\gamma\gamma$ decays
Rafel Escribano, Sergi Gonz\`alez-Sol\'is, Emilio Royo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00787

Assessment of the $a_{2}(1320)$ tensor-meson contribution to $η/η^{\prime}\toπ^{0}γγ$ decays
In light of the recent measurement of the $η\toπ^{0}γγ$ decay by the KLOE-2 Collaboration, a previous analysis including vector- and scalar-meson exchange contributions using the VMD and L$σ$M frameworks, respectively, is extended in the present study to incorporate the effects of the $a_{2}(1320)$ tensor meson within a chiral context. Although the individual contribution of the $a_{2}$ is negligible, its destructive interference with the vector-meson resonances is found to be significant,…

I drive a plug-in hybrid - a Prius Prime which is possibly not as greedy as the car used in the video
My experience so far has been that when I was driving nearly every km on electricity a message popped up that I needed to top up my gas tank with fresh fuel and drive on that for a time!
Because I bought it as a new car, the cost of replacing it with an EV is quite high. And I still would need to go fight Strata Council to get charging at my parking space.

Bengals' Joe Flacco shines in battle for the ages vs. Aaron Rodgers, Steelers: 'This is what we do it for' https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-joe-flacco-shines-in-battle-for-the-ages-vs-aaron-rodgers-steelers-t…

Amazon unveils updates to Luna, including adding AAA games like Hogwarts Legacy and new GameNight original party games, available to Prime subscribers (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/amazon-prime-gaming-luna-cha…

Amazon Prime Gaming's Luna Changes, Execs on AAA Video Games
Amazon is revamping its cloud-gaming service Luna to offer a wide variety of top-tier games.

In a way it is very simple, seize the assets or let the european taxpayers pay the bill. Ukraine losing the war is much more expensive....
I understand there are good arguments against seizing russian assets but then we have to accept the "pain" of providing those funds ourselves.
http…

How Belgium became Russia’s most valuable asset
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever is unmoved in his opposition to a raid on Moscow’s funds held in a Brussels bank to support a loan to Ukraine. 

My grandmother would always ask every German the question "You knew what was happening, why did you not do something?" The question was about the Nazi concentration and death camps. And it was a valid question.
Today we know about what ICE and DHS are doing, we know our country is going fascist and is trying to create Gulags and concentration camps and the kind of social fear that would be the pride of the East German STASI.
Here's a prime example - California Cit…

What on earth has Starmer been smoking now?
'Keir Starmer is to examine India’s digital ID system on his visit to Mumbai as a potential model for the UK, praising the system as a “massive success”.
Speaking on his two-day trip to Mumbai, where he met an expert on India’s digital ID system, Starmer defended the introduction of a similar measure in the UK, saying he believed the rollout of a voluntary system could be expanded to school applications, mortgages and driving licenc…

Looks like #Labour is fighting back! "Farage boats" 😂
"Starmer to rethink human rights law to tackle ‘Farage boats’"
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oc…

Higher dimensional geometry of $p$-jets
Lance Edward Miller, Jackson S. Morrow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00336 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00336

Higher dimensional geometry of $p$-jets
In this work, we prove a quantitative version of the prime-to-$p$ Manin--Mumford conjecture for varieties with ample cotangent bundle. More precisely, let $A$ be an abelian variety defined over a number field $F$, and let $X$ be a smooth projective subvariety of $A$ with ample cotangent bundle. We prove that for every prime $p\gg 0$, the intersection of $X(F^{\text{alg}})$ and the geometric prime-to-$p$ torsion of $A$ is finite and explicitly bounded by a summation involving cycle classes in …

"Cody Kociemba, the developer behind the Hack/House project, has taken it upon himself to maintain these aging devices. The solution is called "No Longer Evil," or “NLE” for short. It's an open-source project designed to give decommissioned Nest Thermostats a second life."
ht…

Google killed old Nest thermostats, but hackers are making them work again
A clever workaround restores lost functionality, but is it ready for prime time?

Near the Runaway: The Climate and Habitability of Teegarden's Star b
Ryan Boukrouche, Rodrigo Caballero, Neil Lewis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11940 https://

Near the Runaway: The Climate and Habitability of Teegarden's Star b
Teegarden's Star b, a nearby terrestrial world receiving an Earth-like instellation, is a prime candidate for next-generation observatories targeting temperate exoplanets in their habitable zones. We employ a suite of three-dimensional global climate model (GCM) simulations to (1) map the inner boundary of the habitable zone of Teegarden's Star b and (2) characterize its surface climate under the assumption of an Earth-analog atmosphere. Our simulations show that, with its most recently estimat…

Week 14 features 3 division battles for first place and 3 high-profile prime-time games https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/week-14-features-3-division-battles-for-first-place-and-3-highprofile-primetime-games

From #LizOyer @lawyer_oyer@instagram.com
#DonaldTrump continues do find shockingly unqualified and disgusting people to pardon. His latest, #CadeCothren, is a prime example. We can’t let these sham…

Starmer: "It's un-British to have so little respect for others."
He conveniently ignores that more than 60,000 people murdered. 40,000 with life-changing injuries. Their homes and towns, the whole landscape flattened.
Murder is murder, wherever and whoever.
The #Genocide doesn't pause.
Keir Starmer asks students not to join protests on 7 October - BBC News…

Keir Starmer asks students not to join protests on 7 October
The prime minister says it is "un-British" to hold pro-Palestinian protests on the second anniversary of Hamas's attacks on Israel.

Sum of short exponential sums with prime numbers
Firuz Rakhmonov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09102 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09102

Sum of short exponential sums with prime numbers
For sufficiently large integers $K$, $x$, $y$, and $q$ satisfying $K \le y < x$, where $f(u) = αu^n + α_{n-1}u^{n-1} + \ldots + α_1 u$ is a polynomial of degree $n$ with real coefficients, $n$ is a fixed positive integer, $α$ is a real number such that $\left|α- \frac{a}{q}\right| \le \frac{1}{q^2}$, $(a, q) = 1$, $q \ge 1$ and $\mathscr{L} = \ln x$, an estimate of the form $$ \sum_{k=1}^K \left| \sum_{x - y < p \le x} e(kf(p)) \right| \ll K y \left( \frac{1}{q} + \frac…

Some formulae relating modular representations of elementary abelian $p$-groups
Jonathan Elmer, Kazal Kadr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07939 https://arxiv.o…

Some formulae relating modular representations of elementary abelian $p$-groups
Let $p>0$ be a prime, $k$ a field of characteristic $p$ and $G$ and elementary abelian $p$-group of order $q = p^n$. Let $W$ be an indecomposable $kG$-module of dimension 2 and define $V_i=S^{i-1}(W^*)$ for each $i=1 \ldots q$. We show that $V_2 \otimes V_i \cong V_{i+1} \oplus V_{i-1}$ provided $i$ is not divisible by $p$, and that $V_2 \otimes V_p$ is indecomposable if $n>1$. Our results generalise results of Almkvist and Fossum for representations of cyclic groups of order $p$. We show how o…

Good Morning #Canada
There is a lot of news coverage about a USA president that lusts after a Nobel Prize like he attacks a family sized bucket of KFC. So let's celebrate that OTD in 1957, the first Canadian won the peace prize - Lester B. Pearson. Before he became our 14th Prime Minister, he spent the majority of his career as a diplomat. He was one of the founders of the United Nations and almost ended up as its first Secretary General. He was instrumental in ending the Suez Canal crisis by suggesting and helping to implement the first U.N. Peacekeeping Force.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1957/pearson/facts/

Apparently, Prime Day is whenever they want it to be.

In the Netherlands, the strongest party has less than 20% of all seats.
That is not a problem if you move beyond the typical "government must have majority" idea.
Get good managers to run the gov departments. Let the Parliament do it's job: pass laws so the gov departments know what to do.
But it takes discipline. Don't fire the prime minister just because they say something stupid or have friends you don't like. Treat them like the employee they are.…

Installation and first commissioning results of the JEF lead tungstate calorimeter
Alexander Somov, Vladimir Berdnikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03500 https://

Installation and first commissioning results of the JEF lead tungstate calorimeter
The Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL), consisting of 1,596 lead tungstate scintillating crystals, has been recently constructed and installed in Experimental Hall D at Jefferson Lab (JLab). The calorimeter is a key component of the JLab Eta Factory Experiment, whose main goal is to measure the decays of eta and eta prime mesons into multi-photon final states. The ECAL replaces the inner part of the former forward lead-glass calorimeter. Scintillation light from each crystal is detected using H…

On 2-absorbing submodules and their Amalgamations
Abuzer Gunduz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09863 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09863

On 2-absorbing submodules and their Amalgamations
Let $R_1$ and $R_2$ be commutative rings with $1\neq 0,\;M$ and $N$ be unitary $R_1-$module and $R_2-$module, respectively. $f:R_1\rightarrow R_2$ be a ring homomorphism and $φ: M\rightarrow N$ be an $R-$module homomorphism. This article studied $2-$absorbing submodule that is a generalization of the concept of prime submodule. Firstly, some characterizations of $2-$absorbing submodule are presented. Then, we examine the notion of $2-$absorbing submodule in amalgamation module $M \bowtie^φ JN…

Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/el…

As Elon Musk Preps Tesla’s Optimus for Prime Time, Big Hurdles Remain
When Elon Musk takes the stage at Tesla’s annual meeting next month, one of the centerpieces of his plan to impress shareholders will be a dancing troupe of Optimus bots, the humanoid machines that he says will eventually eclipse Tesla’s electric vehicle business, which is suffering from ...

Two irrationally elliptic closed orbits of Reeb flows on the boundary of star-shaped domain in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$
Xiaorui Li, Hui Liu, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06597 h…

Two irrationally elliptic closed orbits of Reeb flows on the boundary of star-shaped domain in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$
There are two long-standing conjectures in Hamiltonian dynamics concerning Reeb flows on the boundaries of star-shaped domains in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ ($n \geq 2$). One conjecture states that such a Reeb flow possesses either $n$ or infinitely many prime closed orbits; the other states that all the closed Reeb orbits are irrationally elliptic when the domain is convex and the flow possesses finitely many prime closed orbits. In this paper, we prove that for dynamically convex Reeb flow on the boun…

Spectrality of Prime Size Tiles
Weiqi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23752 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23752

Spectrality of Prime Size Tiles
We prove that if a tile in $\mathbb Z^d$ has prime size $p$, then it must be spectral. The proof is by contradiction, it is simply shown that the tiling complement of such a tile can not annihilate all $p$-subgroups. In addition, with a simple transformation we prove that any $p$ points in general linear positions in $\mathbb Z^d$ must be both tiling and spectral if $d\ge p-1$.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges,
seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation.
Netanyahu is the only sitting prime minister in Israeli history to stand trial,
after being charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate cases
accusing him of exchanging favors with wealthy political supporters.
He hasn’t been convi…

Israeli leader Netanyahu requests a pardon to end his ongoing corruption trial
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel's president for a pardon during his ongoing corruption trial. His office on Sunday confirmed the request was submitted to the president's legal department. The president's office called it an “extraordinary request” with “significant implications.” Netanyahu faces charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. But he hasn't been convicted. He denies the allegations and calls the trial a witch hunt. The request follows U…

On minimal product-one sequences of maximal length over the non-abelian group of order $pq$
Danilo Vilela Avelar, Fabio Enrique Brochero Mart\'inez, S\'avio Ribas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00070

On minimal product-one sequences of maximal length over the non-abelian group of order $pq$
Let $G$ be a finite group. A sequence over $G$ is a finite multiset of elements of $G$, and it is called product-one if its terms can be ordered so that their product is the identity of $G$. The large Davenport constant $\D(G)$ is the maximal length of a minimal product-one sequence, that is, a product-one sequence that cannot be partitioned into two nontrivial product-one subsequences. Let $p,q$ be odd prime numbers with $p \mid q-1$ and let $C_q \rtimes C_p$ denote the non-abelian group of or…

From The Conversation
Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat
Mark Carney has long been recognized as an authority on climate change. In 2015, as the governor of the Bank of England, he gave his famous “tragedy of the horizon” speech that introduced climate change to bankers as a threat to international financial stability.
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#canpoli

If anything, one piece of evidence supporting Liz Truss's thesis about the decline of Britain, is the national indignity of a former Prime Minister appearing on Rumble to rant about the deep state wokes.
(She *was* Prime Minister, there are citations for this on Wikipedia.)

Say goodbye to these NFL teams, plus a volleyball stunner https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6888684/2025/12/15/chiefs-vikings-bengals-eliminated-the-pulse/

Remember the Poillievre/Carney, “I’m Stephen Harper” meme?
Fun Fact! Canada's new Ambassador to the United States Mark Wiseman: “ is... chairman of the board of directors of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo)” (#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ABPoli #USA #Harper #Carney

A remark on weighted average multiplicities in prime factorisation
Viktor Mirjani\'c, Daattavya Aggarwal, Challenger Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06993 https://

A remark on weighted average multiplicities in prime factorisation
We study a generalisation of the quality of an ABC triple that we call the weighted average multiplicity (WAM), in which the logarithmic heights of prime factors are raised to a complex exponent s. The WAM is connected to the standard ABC conjecture at s=1. We show that for real part of s less than 1, WAM is unbounded over ABC triples both for integers and polynomials. For real part greater than 1, we characterise a boundary beyond which WAM is holomorphic and bounded. In this region, we show t…

If you have Amazon Prime, you also have Luna Standard for gaming which includes Hogwarts Legacy for free, an excellent game. I see what Amazon is doing here, making gaming without a game console cheap and lock people in…
For a casual gamer like me, Luna is great, cheap, I can play on my large television or PC etc. Always good performance, no hardware necessary (besides a controller).
#amazon

So will the BBC give a prime News at 10 slot to this?
No because unlike a munitions factory blowing up in the USA, this is brown people and not in the Imperial centre.
Mexico floods leave at least 27 dead and more missing - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/arti…

Mexico floods leave at least 27 dead and more missing
Heavy rainfall has caused river banks to burst and triggered landslides, carrying away homes and cars.

gotta be real nowadays as an online queer zoomer i somehow usually enjoy normal irl small talk and loathe online queer zoomer small talk. the former is genuinely more valuable and also less stagnant even as its used as the prime example of it for occasionally good reason

An admirer of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
Sanae Takaichi is a protege of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ultra-conservative vision
and a regular at the Yasukuni Shrine,
seen as a symbol of Japan's wartime militarism,
which could complicate Tokyo's relations with its Asian neighbors.
#Sanae

The European Union on Friday
indefinitely froze Russia’s assets in Europe
to ensure that Hungary and Slovakia,
both with Moscow-friendly governments,
can’t prevent the billions of euros from being used to support Ukraine.
Using a special procedure meant for economic emergencies,
the EU blocked the assets until Russia gives up its war on Ukraine
and compensates its neighbor for the heavy damage that it has inflicted for almost four years.
EU Cou…

EU set to lock up Russia's frozen assets so Hungary and Slovakia can't veto their use for Ukraine
The European Union is set to lock up Russia’s assets in Europe until Russia ends its war on Ukraine and compensates for the damage. The move expected on Friday would allow EU leaders to decide how to use Russian Central Bank assets to support Ukraine financially and militarily when they hold a summit next week. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán opposes the decision. He has accused the European Commission of “raping European law.” The EU has frozen $247 billion in Russian assets. Most…

Matrix generators for Weil representations
Mikko Korhonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12261 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12261

Matrix generators for Weil representations
Let $r$ be an odd prime and $\mathbb{F}$ a field containing a primitive $r$th root of unity. Then for all $\ell \geq 1$, there is a faithful representation $f: \operatorname{Sp}_{2\ell}(r) \rightarrow \operatorname{GL}_{r^\ell}(\mathbb{F})$ called the Weil representation. We provide explicit matrices generating $\operatorname{Sp}_{2\ell}(r)$ in $\operatorname{GL}_{r^\ell}(\mathbb{F})$, which we have implemented in Magma. We also describe such generators for the irreducible Weil representations …

Let's overreact to NFL Week 11: MVP for Josh Allen? Sack record for Myles Garrett? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46988497/nfl-week-11-overreactions-fantasy-josh-allen-myles-garrett-rams-afc-west

$p$-retract Rationality and Norm One Tori
Kazuki Sato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10027 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10027

$p$-retract Rationality and Norm One Tori
We study whether the norm one torus associated with a finite separable non-Galois field extension $K/k$ is $p$-retract rational over $k$ for a prime $p$, focusing on the case where the Galois group of the Galois closure of $K/k$ is either the symmetric or the alternating group.

Nicolas Guillou cannot shop online.
When he used Expedia to book a hotel in his own country, the reservation was cancelled within hours.
He is “blacklisted by much of the world’s banking system”,
unable to use most bank cards.
Guillou, you see, has been sanctioned by the United States,
putting him on a 15,000-strong list alongside al-Qaida terrorists, drug cartels and Vladimir Putin.
Why?
Because alongside two other judges of the international crimin…

On the Ratat-Goormaghtigh equation and integer points close to the graph of a smooth function
Tomohiro Yamada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11252 https://arxi…

On the Ratat-Goormaghtigh equation and integer points close to the graph of a smooth function
We prove that the sum of reciprocals $1/x$ of integer solutions of $(x^m-1)/(x-1)=N$ with $x, m\geq 2$ for a given integer $N$ except the smallest $x$ is smaller than $5.9037$. If we limit $x$ to be prime, then the sum is smaller than $0.73194$.

Indiana governor Mike Braun announced today that he is calling a special session to consider redrawing congressional districts in the state, the latest Republican state to work on its maps ahead of 2026.
Indiana is one of several Republican-led states that the Trump administration has pressured to undertake mid-decade redistricting to favor Republicans,
-- which began with a push in Texas to redraw lines to add Republican seats.
“I am calling a special legislative session to…

Modular analogs of character formulas and minimal lifts of modular forms
Patrick B. Allen, Preston Wake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21426 https://arxiv.org/…

Modular analogs of character formulas and minimal lifts of modular forms
If $f$ is a mod-$3$ eigenform of weight 2 and level $Γ_0(\ell^2)$ for a prime $\ell$ such that $\ell \equiv -1 \pmod{3}$, and $\ell$ is a vexing prime for $f$, we show that there is no obstruction to finding a minimal lift of $f$, but that there is an obstruction to finding a nonminimal lift. The key new ingredient that we prove is a modular analog of the standard character formula for a cuspidal representation of $\mathrm{GL}_2(\mathbb{F}_\ell)$, an enhancement that allows us to easily comput…

How to see two bright, once-in-a-lifetime comets with your naked eye
The comets, C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN), are already showing off their green tails to cameras and telescopes.
But the best chances to see them with the naked eye from the northern hemisphere should be in the second half of the month.

“What stands out about these two is their potential brightness,” said Erika Gibb, an astrobiologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
“For sky-gaz…

How to see two bright, once-in-a-lifetime comets with your naked eye
Comet Lemmon and Comet SWAN will be closest to Earth as a new moon sets up prime viewing conditions. Add in a meteor shower and we may get spectacular sky gazing.

What to know about Bears vs. Eagles NFL Black Friday game: A matchup of first-place teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6838214/2025/11/28/bears-eagles-nfl-black-friday-game-prime-watch/

Products of strictly hyperbolic conjugacy classes in symplectic groups
Klaus Nielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26237 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26237

Products of strictly hyperbolic conjugacy classes in symplectic groups
We call a conjugacy class of the symplectic group Sp$(2n, K)$ over a field $K$ strictly hyperbolic if its minimal polynomial is of the form $q(x) q^*(x)$, where the polynomial $q(x)$ is prime to its reciprocal $q^*(x) := x^n q(x^{-1})$. It is shown that the product of 2 cyclic, strictly hyperbolic conjugacy classes of Sp$(2n, K)$ contains all nonscalar elements of Sp$(2n, K)$. It follows that the projective symplectic group has a conjugacy class of covering number 2, i.e. PSp$(2n,K) = Ω^2$ for…

"Starmer continues to pin all his hopes on economic growth driven by the City. In this he follows every prime minister since the 2008 crash who have all banked the future on a revival of the system that imploded globally then."
Labour is neither listening nor learning | Morning Star
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Modular curves of prime-power level with infinitely many quadratic points
Michael Cerchia, Rakvi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22895 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Modular curves of prime-power level with infinitely many quadratic points
We completely determine the $1085$ open subgroups $H$ of $\operatorname{GL}_2(\widehat{\mathbb{Z}})$ of prime-power level that satisfy $-I \in H$ and $\operatorname{det}(H)=\widehat{\mathbb{Z}}^{\times}$ for which the corresponding modular curve $X_H$ has infinitely many quadratic points. When $g(X_H)\geq 2$ this is equivalent to determining all the hyperelliptic modular curves of prime-power level and all the bielliptic modular curves of prime-power level that admit a degree two map to a posit…

Teammates, coaches on what makes Brock Bowers elite: 'I don't know how he gets open, but he does' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47200897/las-vegas-raiders-tight-end-brock-bowers

An effective Bombieri-Vinogradov error term for sifting problems
Daniel R. Johnston
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10853 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10853

An effective Bombieri-Vinogradov error term for sifting problems
In number theory, many major results related to the twin prime and Goldbach conjectures are proven using the methods of sieve theory. However, in nearly every case, the existing proofs of these results are ineffective, in that explicit values for which they hold cannot be computed. The reason for this ineffectivity is due to the reliance on the Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem. In this paper, we show that any classical sifting problem with a Bombieri-Vinogradov style error term can in fact be made e…

On the growth of Tate-Shafarevich groups of $p$-supersingular abelian varieties of ${\rm GL}_2$-type over $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extensions of number fields
Erman Isik, Antonio Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11511

On the growth of Tate-Shafarevich groups of $p$-supersingular abelian varieties of ${\rm GL}_2$-type over $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extensions of number fields
We study the boundedness of the Mordell-Weil rank and the growth of the $v$-primary part of the Tate-Shafarevich group of $p$-supersingular abelian varieties of ${\rm GL}_2$-type with real multiplication over $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extensions of number fields, where $v$ is a prime lying above $p$. Building on the work of Iovita-Pollack in the case of elliptic curves, under precise ramification and splitting conditions on $p$, we construct explicit systems of local points using the theory of Lubin-Tate …

On the decimal digits of $1/p$
Kurt Girstmair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07873 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07873

On the decimal digits of $1/p$
Let $p$ be a prime $\equiv 3$ mod 4, $p>3$, and suppose that 10 has the order $(p-1)/2$ mod p. Then $1/p$ has a decimal period of length $(p-1)/2$. We express the frequency of each digit $0,\LD,9$ in this period in terms of the class numbers of two imaginary quadratic number fields. We also exhibit certain analogues of this result, so for the case that 10 is a primitive root mod $p$ and for octal digits of $1/p$.

On the Tamagawa number conjecture for modular forms twisted by anticyclotomic Hecke characters
Takamichi Sano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01601 https://arxi…

On the Tamagawa number conjecture for modular forms twisted by anticyclotomic Hecke characters
Let $f \in S_{2r}(Γ_0(N))$ be a normalized newform of weight $2r$ which is good at $p$. Let $K$ be an imaginary quadratic field of class number one in which every prime divisor of $pN$ splits. Let $χ$ be an anticyclotomic Hecke character of $K$ which is crystalline at the primes above $p$ and such that $L(f,χ,r)\neq 0$. We prove that the Tamagawa number conjecture for the critical value $L(f,χ,r)$ follows from the Iwasawa main conjecture for the Bertolini-Darmon-Prasanna $p$-adic $L$-functi…