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I've seen Prof. Terrence Tao speak to some of the top regional math students at UCLA on the impact of AI. He is rational & measured but also recognizes the massive unintended impact that AI poses for his field & for society as a whole.
#ucla #math

Why mathematician Terence Tao thinks AI must spark a rapid revolution  | New Scientist
This year has left mathematicians reeling as AI models are increasingly solving seemingly intractable maths problems. Terence Tao, the world's leading mathematician, says a rethink of the entire field is the only way out of the crisis 

POL-OS: Bersenbrück: Einbruch in Verkaufshäuschen - Polizei sucht Zeugen Osnabrück (ots) - In der Mozartsraße brachen bislang unbekannte Täter in einem Verkaufshäuschen zwischen Mittwoch 13:30 Uhr und Donnerstag 07:30 Uhr ein. Die Kriminellen gelangten gewaltsam ins Innere des Gebäudes. Dort entkamen sie im ... https://www.

Mitch McConnell has a long history of dirty tricks
— culminating in functionally stealing a Supreme Court nomination from then-President Barack Obama and holding it for Donald Trump
— so it’s not surprising that many progressives suspect the former Senate Majority Leader has sinister motives in refusing to step down from his seat.
There has also been boundless speculation that he’s using this to gain some illicit power for Republicans.
The rumors have gotten so bad …

Mitch McConnell is never coming back to the Senate
The likeliest reason for the Kentucky senator's ruse is also the most pathetic

Vikings' trade of J.J. McCarthy to Giants shows just how hard it is to hit on young QBs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7641637/2026/09/28/jj-mccarthy-vikings-giants-trade-kevin-oconnell/

Olha aonde a Vanilla fica pra se esquentar rs.
#CatsOfMastodon #gatosDoMastodon #Gatos

A tiny sampling of images from this weekend's photo shoot for my upcoming online shop. The majority of work was actually about creating/staging and taking photos of template setups of different frames and mattes/passepartouts (not shown here, and instead of using LLMs to generate fake interiors).
#Photography

US senator Mitch McConnell is still not cleared to return to work, his office confirmed on Monday,
six weeks after he was hospitalized after a fall at his home.
An update released alongside a new photograph of the Republican lawmaker – one of the highest-profile figures in Congress, as a former Senate majority leader – said he was undergoing “intense physical therapy” and is “working hard” to get back to his duties.
In the statement, he said that he wouldn’t be able to make…

Mitch McConnell still not cleared to resume Senate duties, office says
Kentucky senator has been absent and not seen in public since mid-June after he was hospitalized due to a fall

Governor Andy Beshear seems to know what he’s doing, in any case.
In an appearance on Bloomberg TV, he shot down the idea of his calling a special election,
saying that those who
“are really pushing I think are under the impression that a Democrat in Kentucky might be able to win that election.
It’s been since 1992 that we had a Democratic senator in Kentucky.”
He also noted that McConnell missing votes while the seat goes unoccupied “might not be a bad thing…

How the Democrats Can Benefit From Missing Mitch
Amid the former Senate majority leader’s mysterious hospitalization, some are placing unreasonable demands on Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. Let’s sort this out.

"Mit so viel Recherche hat Maximilian Krah wohl nicht gerechnet
Bei Al Jazeera English interviewt Journalist Mehdi Hasan den AfD-Politiker Maximilian Krah zu Migration, Muslimen, Putin. Wer die üblichen deutschen AfD-Befragungsversuche gewohnt ist, wird überrascht sein: Die Show ist nicht nur penibel vorbereitet, das Anschauen macht sogar Spaß."

„Unterhaltsam wie ein Tennis-Match“: Politiker Maximilian Krah landet bei Al Jazeera im Kreuzverhör
So Interviews gibt es in deutschen Medien kaum: Moderator Mehdi Hasan befragt den AfD-Abgeordneten extrem gut vorbereitet – und unterhaltsam.

Classical Acceptance Is Not Hybrid Authentication: Measuring X.509 Verifier Semantics in Post-Quantum Migration
Taesung Kim, Boheung Chung, Keonwoo Kim, Yousung Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20800 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20800 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20800
arXiv:2607.20800v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A relying party validating a hybrid X.509 certificate --- carrying both a classical and a post-quantum credential --- must distinguish whether its accepting judgment rests on the post-quantum evidence or only on the classical path. To preserve compatibility, the separable designs place that evidence where classical path validation may ignore it. A verifier can then validate the classical path and accept while the post-quantum evidence never bears on the decision --- a valid classical result silently promoted to a hybrid conclusion it did not establish. We measure this across eight path-validation stacks (seven independent codebases), in nine validation modes, over six certificate schemes. Under a hybrid-required policy, nearly every stack parsing a separable hybrid certificate accepts on the classical path without making the post-quantum evidence outcome-bearing; one enforcing mode instead fractures interoperability over a signature-input encoding not yet interoperably profiled; and stacks that verify post-quantum signatures still do not enforce the binding by default: the gap is structural, not explained by missing primitive capability alone. Under lifecycle desynchronization the downgrade is realized: when a bound post-quantum credential is revoked while the classical certificate stays valid, the default path still accepts, because the bound credential lies outside the decision's scope. Binding success is not authentication success. We contribute a specification-derived verifier model and an executable, policy-parametric reference contract --- what a verifier must recognize, verify, make outcome-bearing, and check before reporting a validation as hybrid --- with a diagnosis of why standards do not require it.
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