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"no deal, because neither Netanyahu nor Sinwar believes what’s on offer serves their interests. .......'The only party that’s really in a hurry is Biden.' Though that’s not quite right. Also in a hurry are the hostages and their families, whose agony has endured for more than 200 days, and the civilians of Rafah, huddled in tents, grieving their tens of thousands of dead, without running water or sanitation. They’re in a hurry too. But no one is listening to them."

A look at potential Telegraph bidders after RedBird IMI walked: Daily Mail proprietor Jonathan Harmsworth, Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, Murdoch, and more (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-0…

The Telegraph Is Up for Sale Again: Here’s Who Might Buy It
The Telegraph, one of Britain’s oldest and most influential newspapers, is back on the block after UAE-backed investment group RedBird IMI officially walked away from its proposed takeover following a political furor.

Cryptanalysis of the SIMON Cypher Using Neo4j
Jonathan Cook, Sabih ur Rehman, M. Arif Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04735 https://a…

Cryptanalysis of the SIMON Cypher Using Neo4j
The exponential growth in the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has seen the introduction of several Lightweight Encryption Algorithms (LEA). While LEAs are designed to enhance the integrity, privacy and security of data collected and transmitted by IoT devices, it is hazardous to assume that all LEAs are secure and exhibit similar levels of protection. To improve encryption strength, cryptanalysts and algorithm designers routinely probe LEAs using various cryptanalysis techniques to i…

The Economy Is Awesome and Here's Why That's Bad for Biden 🙄 (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-economy-is-awesome-and-heres
http://www.memeorandum.com/240416/p58#a240416p58

The Rise of Faint, Red AGN at $z>4$: A Sample of Little Red Dots in the JWST Extragalactic Legacy Fields
Dale D. Kocevski, Steven L. Finkelstein, Guillermo Barro, Anthony J. Taylor, Antonello Calabr\`o, Brivael Laloux, Johannes Buchner, Jonathan R. Trump, Gene C. K. Leung, Guang Yang, Mark Dickinson, Pablo G. P\'erez-Gonz\'alez, Fabio Pacucci, Kohei Inayoshi, Rachel S. Somerville, Elizabeth J. McGrath, Hollis B. Akins, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Micaela B. Bagley, Rebecca A. A. Bow…

The Rise of Faint, Red AGN at $z>4$: A Sample of Little Red Dots in the JWST Extragalactic Legacy Fields
We present a sample of 341 "little red dots" (LRDs) spanning the redshift range $z\sim2-11$ using data from the CEERS, PRIMER, JADES, UNCOVER and NGDEEP surveys. These sources are likely heavily-reddened AGN that trace a previously-hidden phase of dust-obscured black hole growth in the early Universe. Unlike past use of color indices to identify LRDs, we employ continuum slope fitting using shifting bandpasses to sample the same rest-frame emission blueward and redward of the Balmer break. This…

Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review
Jonathan Liu, Seth Poulsen, Erica Goodwin, Hongxuan Chen, Grace Williams, Yael Gertner, Diana Franklin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00832

Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review
Algorithm design is a vital skill developed in most undergraduate Computer Science (CS) programs, but few research studies focus on pedagogy related to algorithms coursework. To understand the work that has been done in the area, we present a systematic survey and literature review of CS Education studies. We search for research that is both related to algorithm design and evaluated on undergraduate-level students. Across all papers in the ACM Digital Library prior to August 2023, we only find …

Small instanton-induced flavor invariants and the axion potential
Ravneet Bedi, Tony Gherghetta, Christophe Grojean, Guilherme Guedes, Jonathan Kley, Pham Ngoc Hoa Vuong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09361

Small instanton-induced flavor invariants and the axion potential
Small instantons which increase the axion mass due to an appropriate modification of QCD at a UV scale $Λ_{\rm SI}$, can also enhance the effect of CP-violating operators to shift the axion potential minimum by an amount, $θ_{\rm ind}$, proportional to the flavorful couplings in the SMEFT. Since physical observables must be flavor basis independent, we construct a basis of determinant-like flavor invariants that arise from instanton calculations containing the effects of dimension-six CP-odd …

Blending Data-Driven Priors in Dynamic Games
Justin Lidard, Haimin Hu, Asher Hancock, Zixu Zhang, Albert Gim\'o Contreras, Vikash Modi, Jonathan DeCastro, Deepak Gopinath, Guy Rosman, Naomi Leonard, Mar\'ia Santos, Jaime Fern\'andez Fisac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14174

Blending Data-Driven Priors in Dynamic Games
As intelligent robots like autonomous vehicles become increasingly deployed in the presence of people, the extent to which these systems should leverage model-based game-theoretic planners versus data-driven policies for safe, interaction-aware motion planning remains an open question. Existing dynamic game formulations assume all agents are task-driven and behave optimally. However, in reality, humans tend to deviate from the decisions prescribed by these models, and their behavior is better a…

Former Cowboys DT follows DL coach to Seattle https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_cowboys_dt_follows_dl_coach_to_seattle/s1_14819_40134116

Former Cowboys DT follows DL coach to Seattle
After playing multiple seasons in Dallas, Johnathan Hankins will relocate again. The well-traveled defensive tackle will commit to the Seahawks, NFL.com’s Mike Garafolo notes. On a Seattle visit Tuesday, Hankins will agree to head west after spending a season-and-a-half in Dallas. Acquired at the 2022 trade deadline, Hankins re-signed with the Cowboys in 2023. He played a key role in Dallas’ run-stopping efforts, and the Seahawks will expect the same on a defensive line already housing Dr…

Blending Data-Driven Priors in Dynamic Games
Justin Lidard, Haimin Hu, Asher Hancock, Zixu Zhang, Albert Gim\'o Contreras, Vikash Modi, Jonathan DeCastro, Deepak Gopinath, Guy Rosman, Naomi Leonard, Mar\'ia Santos, Jaime Fern\'andez Fisac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14174

Blending Data-Driven Priors in Dynamic Games
As intelligent robots like autonomous vehicles become increasingly deployed in the presence of people, the extent to which these systems should leverage model-based game-theoretic planners versus data-driven policies for safe, interaction-aware motion planning remains an open question. Existing dynamic game formulations assume all agents are task-driven and behave optimally. However, in reality, humans tend to deviate from the decisions prescribed by these models, and their behavior is better a…