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Rats suck.
I have a largish older (’48) brick house on a crawl space. I have a large brushy yard. I live in the Midwest. So of course I am a rat magnet.
This is the 2nd pack we’ve had in 25 years, so I guess that means we’ve been lucky. For an unknown period of time prior to last Winter the crawl had standing water deep enough that no self-respecting rat would have stayed. Last week we had a bag of snacks ripped open.
The guys from Critter Control have snap-trapped 3 so…

Zoe Weissman came to Brown from Parkland, Florida,
where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018.
“Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,”
says Weissman about surviving a second school shooting in her young life,
“my most predominant emotion right now is, honestly, anger …
because we are the only country where this happens, a…

“We’re Angry”: Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence
The two victims in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University have been identified: freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and sophomore Ella Cook. We speak to another sophomore, Zoe Weissman, who came to Brown from Parkland, Florida, where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018. “Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,” says Weissman about surviving a second s…

On 10 February 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a contract with OHB Italia for the development of the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses): #Ramses will rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis before its rare close encounter with Earth. RPS and MARIE to investigate asteroid Apophis' passage through Earth's magnetosphere: https://www.dlr.de/en/blog/archive/ramses-mission-rps-and-marie-to-investigate-asteroid-apophis-passage-through-earth-s-magnetosphere

AgentCgroup: Understanding and Controlling OS Resources of AI Agents
Yusheng Zheng, Jiakun Fan, Quanzhi Fu, Yiwei Yang, Wei Zhang, Andi Quinn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09345 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09345 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.09345
arXiv:2602.09345v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI agents are increasingly deployed in multi-tenant cloud environments, where they execute diverse tool calls within sandboxed containers, each call with distinct resource demands and rapid fluctuations. We present a systematic characterization of OS-level resource dynamics in sandboxed AI coding agents, analyzing 144 software engineering tasks from the SWE-rebench benchmark across two LLM models. Our measurements reveal that (1) OS-level execution (tool calls, container and agent initialization) accounts for 56-74% of end-to-end task latency; (2) memory, not CPU, is the concurrency bottleneck; (3) memory spikes are tool-call-driven with a up to 15.4x peak-to-average ratio; and (4) resource demands are highly unpredictable across tasks, runs, and models. Comparing these characteristics against serverless, microservice, and batch workloads, we identify three mismatches in existing resource controls: a granularity mismatch (container-level policies vs. tool-call-level dynamics), a responsiveness mismatch (user-space reaction vs. sub-second unpredictable bursts), and an adaptability mismatch (history-based prediction vs. non-deterministic stateful execution). We propose AgentCgroup , an eBPF-based resource controller that addresses these mismatches through hierarchical cgroup structures aligned with tool-call boundaries, in-kernel enforcement via sched_ext and memcg_bpf_ops, and runtime-adaptive policies driven by in-kernel monitoring. Preliminary evaluation demonstrates improved multi-tenant isolation and reduced resource waste.
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For ESA’s mission #Vigil to forecast dangerous space weather, #mpsgoettingen is providing one of the key instruments: Vigil's Photospheric Magnetic Field Imager. Read more about the instrument and the science we plan to do with it here:

I've rebuilt kwin_wayland three times now, making more drastic cuts each time, and I still haven't managed to evict the gestures. What am I missing? The patch applies fine manually. Am I misunderstanding how to declare the patch in the spec file? Do I need to declare it as a Patch rather than a Source? Am I not supposed to provide the .patch file extension? Some previously-unconsidered fourth thing?
It's half past midnight. I guess I'll knock off and read this again to…

The latest post on the DLR Space Blog is about the #RAMSES mission, which will accompany the #asteroid #Apophis as it soars past Earth in 2029 - and about the instrument

First Results from ALPPS [the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Perseus Polarization Survey] - A Sub-Alfvénic Streamer in SVS 13A: #Star-Building Material into Newborn System in Perseus: https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/astronomers-spot-magnetically-guided-streamer-funneling-star-building-material-into-newborn-system-in-perseus/

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
TARRANT: If he's still inside the ship then he's probably safe. Oh you're very clever Servalan; why can't you work it out? Sand slides. Sand higher than the windows.
SERVALAN: Are you serious?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/245 B7B3

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.optics. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.optics/new
[1/1]:
- Robot joint characterisation and control using a magneto-optical rotary encoder
Yunlong Guo, John Canning, Zenon Chaczko, Gang-Ding Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17608 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/115609561523131866
- Comprehensive Multimodal and Multiscale Analysis of Alzheimer Disease in 5xFAD Mice: Optical Spec...
Solanki, Apachigawo, Khan, Maity, Alharthi, Nasim, Poshtiri, Sweety, Xiao, Khan, Pradhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18320 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsmedph_bot/115609269625501897
- Stable multipole solitons in defocusing saturable media with an annular trapping potential
Xiaoli Lang, Boris A. Malomed, Liangwei Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18356 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nlinPS_bot/115609515016328541
- High-Accuracy Material Classification via Reference-Free Terahertz Spectroscopy: Revisiting Spect...
Mathias Hedegaard Kristensen, Pawe{\l} Piotr Cielecki, Esben Skovsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18572 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsappph_bot/115609324247942112
- Observation of Dicke cooperativity between strongly coupled phonons and crystal-field excitations...
Fangliang Wu, Xiaoxuan Ma, Zhongwei Zhang, Motoaki Bamba, Jian Sun, Yuan Wan, Shixun Cao, Qi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18862 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot/115609901666309913
- Strong Energy Dependent Transition Radiation in a Photonic Crystal
V. Gareyan, Zh. Gevorkian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18863 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsaccph_bot/115609494674308155
- 3M-TI: High-Quality Mobile Thermal Imaging via Calibration-free Multi-Camera Cross-Modal Diffusion
Minchong Chen, Xiaoyun Yuan, Junzhe Wan, Jianing Zhang, Jun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19117 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115610498715181168
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