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This should really be called "tax the rich more and the poor less" More money for a wealthy person won't mean they drink more coffee or eat more pub meals.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-21/can-aust…

Can Australia still afford the pub, our coffee addiction or Friday night takeaway?
From our coffee addiction to a weekend pub tradition, some of the simple pleasures many Australians have taken for granted now feel like luxuries. But if patrons can no longer afford to visit the pubs and cafes we love, there may be something bigger at stake.

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--German police ID Trickbot's "Stern,"
--BitMEX thwarts Lazarus Group attack,
--Shin Bet thwarted 85 Iranian cyberattacks aimed at civilians,
--Vibe coding app Lovable failed to fix critical flaw,
--China's quantum satellite Micius has a severe security flaw,
--Russia's GRU Unit 29155 has a hacker team,
--…

Law enforcement took down cybercriminal malware testing service AVCheck
German police ID Trickbot's "Stern," BitMEX thwarts Lazarus Group attack, Shin Bet thwarted 85 Iranian cyberattacks aimed at civilians, Vibe coding app Lovable failed to fix critical flaw, China's quantum satellite Micius has a security flaw, Russia's Unit 29155 has a hacker team, much more

First Lasing and Stable Operation of a Direct-Amplification Enabled Harmonic Generation Free-Electron laser
Zheng Qi, Junhao Liu, Lanpeng Ni, Tao Liu, Zhen Wang, Kaiqing Zhang, Hanxiang Yang, Zhangfeng Gao, Nanshun Huang, Si Chen, Hang Luo, Yaozong Xiao, Cheng Yu, Yongmei Wen, Fei Gao, Yangyang Lei, Huan Zhao, Yanyan Zhu, Liping Sun, Weiyi Yin, Xingtao Wang, Taihe Lan, Xiaoqing Liu, Lie Feng, Wenyan Zhang, Ximing Zhang, Bin Li, Chao Feng, Bo Liu, Zhentang Zhao

First Lasing and Stable Operation of a Direct-Amplification Enabled Harmonic Generation Free-Electron laser
Seeded free-electron lasers (FELs) capable of operating at repetition rates up to the MHz level are in high demand for advanced time-resolved spectroscopies, which require both full longitudinal coherence and high average photon flux in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and x-ray regimes. However, conventional external-seed laser systems cannot sustain MHz operation with sufficient hundreds of megawatts peak power requirement due to their limited total power. Here, we report the first lasing and st…

Hearing Hands: Generating Sounds from Physical Interactions in 3D Scenes
Yiming Dou, Wonseok Oh, Yuqing Luo, Antonio Loquercio, Andrew Owens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09989

Hearing Hands: Generating Sounds from Physical Interactions in 3D Scenes
We study the problem of making 3D scene reconstructions interactive by asking the following question: can we predict the sounds of human hands physically interacting with a scene? First, we record a video of a human manipulating objects within a 3D scene using their hands. We then use these action-sound pairs to train a rectified flow model to map 3D hand trajectories to their corresponding audio. At test time, a user can query the model for other actions, parameterized as sequences of hand pos…

"I wrote in October that billionaires should resist cozying up to authoritarians: while it can feel as if they are reducing risks to themselves and their businesses, surrendering to a corrupt system is just as likely to endanger them. Musk is the first to learn this lesson, but I suspect he will not be the last."
Let's see.

From a German lagerstätte, which means "hold my beer". https://tech.lgbt/@DelilahTech/114617249507331663

Diagnosing the impact of relativistically intense prepulse on few-picosecond timeframes for short scale length laser-matter interactions
H. M. Huddleston, M. Yeung, C. R. J. Fitzpatrick, J. P. Kennedy, S. Palaniyppan, R. Shah, D. C. Gautier, M. Zepf, J. C. Fernandez, B. M. Hegelich, B. Dromey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02798

Diagnosing the impact of relativistically intense prepulse on few-picosecond timeframes for short scale length laser-matter interactions
With the rapid proliferation of multi-petawatt (MPW) lasers globally, a new era of high-energy density science promises to emerge within the next decade. However, precise control over how light at these ultra-relativistic intensities interacts with matter (especially with solid-density targets) will be crucial to fully realize the cutting-edge scientific advancements and technological breakthroughs that the MPW regime promises to unlock. In this manuscript, we present experimental results, supp…