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The UK's Online Safety Act shows the UK prioritized government control over improving safety, becoming a cautionary tale in internet regulation for democracies (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

Solar Flare Ion Temperatures: #SolarFlares over 6 times hotter than previously thought: https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/solar-flares-over-6-times-hotter-than-previously-thought/

Pedro Sšnchez: Europe’s response to war in Gaza has been a failure: Spanish prime minister says double standards over Gaza and Ukraine threaten to undermine west’s global standing
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep

Equivariant Flow Matching for Symmetry-Breaking Bifurcation Problems
Fleur Hendriks, Ond\v{r}ej Roko\v{s}, Martin Do\v{s}k\'a\v{r}, Marc G. D. Geers, Vlado Menkovski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03340

Equivariant Flow Matching for Symmetry-Breaking Bifurcation Problems
Bifurcation phenomena in nonlinear dynamical systems often lead to multiple coexisting stable solutions, particularly in the presence of symmetry breaking. Deterministic machine learning models struggle to capture this multiplicity, averaging over solutions and failing to represent lower-symmetry outcomes. In this work, we propose a generative framework based on flow matching to model the full probability distribution over bifurcation outcomes. Our method enables direct sampling of multiple val…

Had a great time at Good Vibrations Society this weekend.
First act I saw was the most entrancing. Rozsa stroking a harp and singing angelically with a backing track. She was great.
The North London Gospel Choir doing Graceland was pretty cool. They got some mad energy, all those gospel synced dance moves. Lovely to hear that album in a new way.
Enjoyed the Gentlemen Dub Club and Riot Jazz and So Solid Crew. Watched a nice sunset at camp.
Lovely small site, great crowd. Hung with some friends and met old ones I hadn't seen for years.
Also tripped over a guy rope in the dark on the first night and hurt my wrist pretty bad.
Walked away after a moment on the floor assessing damage but visited the medical tent. My wrist swelled up so much the next day I had to have my wristband replaced. Drive home somewhat more perilous as a result. Thank goodness for automatic gear boxes.
#goodVibrationsSociety #festival #uk

Distinguished bases in the wrapped Floer cohomology of tropical Lagrangian surfaces
Jaewon Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02646 https://

Distinguished bases in the wrapped Floer cohomology of tropical Lagrangian surfaces
We introduce a new construction for tropical Lagrangian surfaces in $(\mathbb{C}^*)^2$. This construction makes the surfaces special Lagrangian, which gives a strong control over the asymptotic behavior of holomorphic disks near each cylindrical end. As a result, we find a distinguished basis of the wrapped Floer cohomology ring $HW^\bullet(L_f, L_f)$ for several different examples and find the corresponding distinguished bases of functions on the mirror curves.

Fantasy football 2025: Top 10 league-winners https://www.nfl.com/news/fantasy-football-2025-top-10-league-winners

ReWeave: Traffic Engineering with Robust Path Weaving for Localized Link Failure Recover
Jingyi Guan, Kun Qiu, Jin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00708 https://

ReWeave: Traffic Engineering with Robust Path Weaving for Localized Link Failure Recover
Link failures occur frequently in Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks and pose significant challenges for Traffic Engineering (TE). Existing TE schemes either reroute traffic over vulnerable static paths, leading to performance degradation, or precompute backup routes for a broad range of failure scenarios, which introduces high overhead and limits scalability. Hence, an effective failure recovery mechanism is required to offer sufficient path diversity under constrained overhead, thereby …

Verification of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center solar flare forecast (1998-2024)
Enrico Camporeale, Thomas E. Berger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01114 https://

Verification of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center solar flare forecast (1998-2024)
The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issues the official U.S. government forecast for M-class and X-class solar flares, yet the skill of these forecasts has never been comprehensively verified. In this study, we evaluate the SWPC probabilistic flare forecasts over a 26-year period (1998-2024), comparing them to several zero-cost and statistical baselines including persistence, climatology, Naive Bayes, and logistic regression. We find that the SWPC model does not outperform these bas…

Buttonbush with two Bees with the Biotechnology Building in the far background
#flowers #photo #photography