Tootfinder

Starve-attract-shoot-kill-repeat.
Western governments: "Israel has the right to defend itself."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/officials-say-73-palestinians-killed-in-gaza-while-…

Officials say 73 Palestinians killed in Gaza while seeking aid as Israel widens evacuation orders
At least 73 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach aid at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the territory's Health Ministry said, in one of the deadliest days yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war.

Judge orders DOJ to give more info on subpoenas targeting trans minors' medical care
https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-orders-doj-to-give-more-info

Sources: Apple told at least two suppliers to boost their daily output of entry-level iPhone 17 by at least 30%, after strong pre-orders last weekend (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-rushes-boost-production-cheaper-iphone…

Apple Rushes to Boost Production of Cheaper iPhone 17
Apple is rushing to boost production of its newly released entry-level model iPhone 17 after strong pre-orders last weekend. The tech giant told at least two suppliers to boost their daily output of the standard model by at least 30%, according to people familiar with the matter. The shift ...

The countable condensation on linear orders
Jennifer Brown, Ricardo Su\'arez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14614 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14614

The countable condensation on linear orders
The countable condensation on a linear order $L$ is the equivalence relation $\sim_ω$ defined by declaring $x \sim_ωy$ when the set of points between $x$ and $y$ is countable. We characterize the linear orders $L$ that condense to $1$ under the countable condensation by constructing a linear order $U$ that is universal for the order types $L$ such that $L/\!\!\sim_ω\, \cong 1$. We define a multiplication operation $\cdot_ω$ on the class of linear orders by setting $M \cdot_ωL$ to be the or…

India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting orders the takedown of 138 YouTube videos and 83 Instagram posts on Adani Enterprises, citing a court order (The News Minute)
https://www.thenewsminute.com/news/govt-or

Govt orders takedown of 138 YouTube videos, 83 Instagram posts on Adani citing court order
Follow TNM’s WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has issued takedown notices to sever

Belgium's King Filip speaks up for Gaza where "innocent citizens, jailed in their enclave, die from starvation and succumb to the bombs. This is a shame for humanity."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/officia

Officials say 73 Palestinians killed in Gaza while seeking aid as Israel widens evacuation orders
At least 73 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach aid at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the territory's Health Ministry said, in one of the deadliest days yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war.

EPA Orders Scientists To Stop Publishing Research - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/epa-orders-scientists-to-stop-publishing-research/

Trump is being cagey about how many people he’s ordered the U.S. Navy to kill on the high seas.
The official toll from American military strikes on two boats accused of running drugs from Venezuela is now 14,
but a few days ago, Trump teased the possibility that a third boat had been “knocked off,” presumably on his orders.
The Trump administration’s justification for these strikes, such as it is,
seems to be that any shipment of drugs connected to the Venezuelan gan…

A Rogue Nation on the High Seas
Trump is treating the military like his personal mercenaries.

Some generalizations of Camina pairs and orders of elements in cosets
Thu T. H. Quan, Hung P. Tong-Viet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13056 https://arxiv.org/…

Some generalizations of Camina pairs and orders of elements in cosets
In this paper, we investigate certain generalizations of Camina pairs. Let $H$ be a nontrivial proper subgroup of a finite group $G$. We first show that every nontrivial irreducible complex character of $H$ induces homogeneously to $G$ if and only if for every $x\in G\setminus H$, the element $x$ is conjugate to $xh$ for all $h\in H$. Furthermore we prove that if $xh$ is conjugate to either $x$ or $x^{-1}$ for all $h\in H$ and all $x\in G\setminus H$, then the normal closure $N$ of $H$ in $G$ a…

Officials say 85 Palestinians seeking aid are killed in Gaza as Israel widens evacuation orders (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-07-20-2025-2b494af89d710793bc6933f5ae437566
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p31#a250720p31

Competing and Intertwined Orders in Boson-Doped Mott Antiferromagnets
Xin Lu, Jia-Xin Zhang, Lukas Homeier, Hong-Chen Jiang, Shou-Shu Gong, D. N. Sheng, Zheng-Yu Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15215

Competing and Intertwined Orders in Boson-Doped Mott Antiferromagnets
Inspired by the recent experimental advances in cold atom quantum simulators, we explore the experimentally implemented bosonic $t$-$t'$-$J$ model on the square lattice using large-scale density matrix renormalization group simulations. By tuning the doping level $δ$ and hopping ratio $t'/t$, we uncover six distinct quantum phases, several of which go far beyond the conventional paradigm of phase-coherent superfluidity (SF) expected for bosonic systems. In particular, in the presence of antife…

A US judge temporarily orders Meta not to respond to DHS subpoenas seeking Instagram users' info after their accounts posted an ICE agent's name (Alfred Ng/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/judge-te…

I don’t know how to emphasize this enough: “AI” is the worst economic bubble in human history, likely by several orders of magnitude.
It’s highly probable that The Great Depression will seem like a minor faux-pas compared to the fallout when this bubble pops.

Advanced DOA Regulation with a Whale-Optimized Fractional Order Fuzzy PID Framework
Lida Shahbandari, Hossein Mohseni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12487 https://

Advanced DOA Regulation with a Whale-Optimized Fractional Order Fuzzy PID Framework
This study introduces a Fractional Order Fuzzy PID (FOFPID) controller that uses the Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) to manage the Bispectral Index (BIS), keeping it within the ideal range of forty to sixty. The FOFPID controller combines fuzzy logic for adapting to changes and fractional order dynamics for fine tuning. This allows it to adjust its control gains to handle a person's unique physiology. The WOA helps fine tune the controller's parameters, including the fractional orders and th…

Augmenting cobots for sheet-metal SMEs with 3D object recognition and localisation
Martijn Cramer, Yanming Wu, David De Schepper, Eric Demeester
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13964

Augmenting cobots for sheet-metal SMEs with 3D object recognition and localisation
Due to high-mix-low-volume production, sheet-metal workshops today are challenged by small series and varying orders. As standard automation solutions tend to fall short, SMEs resort to repetitive manual labour impacting production costs and leading to tech-skilled workforces not being used to their full potential. The COOCK+ ROBUST project aims to transform cobots into mobile and reconfigurable production assistants by integrating existing technologies, including 3D object recognition and loca…

Sensing decoherence by using edge state
Andrey R. Kolovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12209 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12209…

Sensing decoherence by using edge state
In the absence of decoherence the current of fermionic particles across a finite lattice connecting two reservoirs (leads) with different chemical potentials is known to be ballistic. It is also known that decoherence typically suppresses this ballistic current. However, if decoherence is weak, the change in the current may be undetectable. In this work we show that the effect of a weak decoherence can be amplified by orders of magnitude if the lattice has edge states.

The chilling reason the military is silent now
Pete Hegseth’s campaign against the military’s traditional legal structure has been one of the most-significant but least-reported aspects of his tenure as defense secretary.
In February, he fired the top Army, Air Force and Navy lawyers,
calling them “roadblocks to orders that are given by a commander in chief.”
In March, he commissioned his personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore
— one of the people included in the leak…

The chilling reason the military is silent now
National Guard in cities and attacks on drug boats began with ousting military lawyers called JAGs.

“Produce”? I guess that Pentagon contract with Grok will get its first use.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9w1014rlq9o

Donald Trump orders US attorney general to 'produce' more Epstein documents
Trump's supporters and opponents alike have demanded more disclosures related to the disgraced financier.

Fat Donald orders minions to retake air base in Afghanistan - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/09/18/fat-donald-orders-minions-to-retake-air-base-in-afghanistan/

Trump orders Bondi to release Jeffrey Epstein-related grand jury testimony (Joe Walsh/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-orders-bondi-to-release-jeffrey-epstein-related-grand-jury-testimony/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p4#a250718p4

Identification and Estimation of Multi-order Tensor Factor Models
Zetai Cen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13418 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13418

Identification and Estimation of Multi-order Tensor Factor Models
We propose a novel framework in high-dimensional factor models to simultaneously analyze multiple tensor time series, each with potentially different tensor orders and dimensionality. The connection between different tensor time series is through their global factors that are correlated to each other. A salient feature of our model is that when all tensor time series have the same order, it can be regarded as an extension of multilevel factor models from vectors to general tensors. Under very m…

Comparisons of Experiments in Moral Hazard Problems
Zizhe Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12476 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12476

Comparisons of Experiments in Moral Hazard Problems
I use a novel geometric approach to compare information in moral hazard problems. I study three nested geometric orders on information, namely the column space, the conic span, and the zonotope orders. The orders are defined by the inclusion of the column space, the conic span, and the zonotope of the matrices representing the experiments. For each order, I establish four equivalent characterizations, (i) inclusion of polyhedral sets of feasible state dependent utilities, (ii) matrix factorizat…

Tuning Coupled Toroidic and Polar Orders in a Bilayer Antiferromagnet
Chuangtang Wang, Xiaoyu Guo, Zixin Zhai, Meixin Cheng, Sang-Wook Cheong, Adam W. Tsen, Bing Lv, Liuyan Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13542

Tuning Coupled Toroidic and Polar Orders in a Bilayer Antiferromagnet
Magnetic toroidal order features a loop-like arrangement of magnetic dipole moments, thus breaking both spatial inversion (P) and time-reversal (T) symmetries while preserving their combined PT sym-metry. This PT symmetry enables a linear magnetoelectric effect, allowing the coupling between magnetic toroidicity and electric polarity. However, the detection and control of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic toroidal order and the investigation of its linear magnetoelectric response remain largely une…

Huh?
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/08/opm-orders-deletion-federal-workers-vaccination-records/407334/

OPM orders deletion of federal workers’ vaccination records
The announcement came hours after a formal dissolution of a lawsuit challenging the Biden-era requirement that federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19, which hasn’t been enforced since 2023.

Sources: NSA Director William Hartman unsuccessfully tried to protect Vinh Nguyen, an expert in AI and cryptology, from being fired on President Trump's orders (Julian E. Barnes/New York Times)
https://w…

N.S.A.’s Acting Director Tried to Save Top Scientist From Purge
Vinh Nguyen, an expert in artificial intelligence and advanced mathematics, was among the current and former officials whose security clearances were revoked by the president.

Generalized Algebra Grounded on Nonadditive Entropies
Leandro Lyra Braga Dognini, Constantino Tsallis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13324 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Generalized Algebra Grounded on Nonadditive Entropies
A $N$-body system is simple if all associated physically relevant space-time correlations are short-ranged, meaning that their momenta of all orders are finite. Such systems typically have a total number $W$ of admissible microscopic configurations which grows with $N$ as $W(N) \sim μ^N\;(μ>1, \, N\to\infty)$. Their thermostatistical properties are known to be satisfactorily handled within Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) statistical mechanics. In contrast, a system is complex if one or more associated c…

"Trump’s push to keep coal plants running could cost consumers billions"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

Trump’s push to keep coal plants running could cost consumers billions
The DOE’s emergency stay-open orders for aging fossil-fuel plants are forcing unexpected costs onto utility customers. Additional orders would deepen the…

With ABC Cancelling Jimmy Kimmel under orders from the Orange Clown Führer, its time to cancel Disney / Hulu / ESPN streaming and boycott ABC
#BoycottDisney #JimmyKimmel

A model for intertwined orders in cuprates
R. S. Markiewicz, M. Matzelle, A. Bansil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13543 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13543

A model for intertwined orders in cuprates
We model the intertwined orders in the cuprate pseudogap as a textured antiferromagnet (AFM), where the texture arises from confining competing phases on topological defects, i.e., arrays of AFM domain walls. Three branches of texture are found, which can be interpreted as a strongly frustrated remnant of an underlying eutectoid phase diagram. This model can describe many key features of intertwined orders in cuprates, including the trisected superconducting dome, and provides clear evidence fo…

LDMX -- The Light Dark Matter EXperiment
Stephen Appert, L\'eo Borrel, Patill Daghlian, Bertrand Echenard, Victor Gomez, David G. Hitlin, Nathan Jay, Sophie Middleton, Noah Moran, James Oyang, Arnaud Pele, Eduardo Sanchez, Jason Trevor, Guanglei Zhao, Weilong Zhou, Liam Brennan, Anthony Chavez, Owen Colegrove, Giulia Collura, Filippo Delzanno, Chiara Grieco, Cameron Huse, Joseph Incandela, Asahi Jige, David Jang, Matthew Kilpatrick, Kai Kristiansen, Susanne Kyre, Juan Lazaro, Amina…

LDMX -- The Light Dark Matter EXperiment
LDMX, The Light Dark Matter EXperiment, is a missing momentum search for hidden sector dark matter in the MeV to GeV range. It will be located at SLAC in End Station A, and will employ an 8 GeV electron beam parasitically derived from the SLAC LCLS-II accelerator. LDMX promises to expand the experimental sensitivity of these searches by between one and two orders of magnitude depending on the model. It also has sensitivity in visible ALP searches as well as providing unique data on electron-nuc…

Dramatic Enhancement of Supercontinuum Generation in H$_2$O by Non-Harmonic Two-Color Excitation
Tsuneto Kanai, ChengXiang Jin, Hibiki Tsunekawa, Atsunori Sakurai, Toshiki Sugimoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12765

Dramatic Enhancement of Supercontinuum Generation in H$_2$O by Non-Harmonic Two-Color Excitation
We demonstrate a dramatic enhancement of supercontinuum generation (SCG) in H$_2$O driven by non-harmonic two-color laser fields, where pump and seed frequencies are not integer multiples. This scheme yields a broadband SC spectrum enhanced by approximately three orders of magnitude over the single-color case. Systematic experiments and theoretical analysis, including isotope effects, show that the enhancement arises from soliton compression with resonant dispersive wave (RDW) emission, phase- …

Hydrodynamic Attraction and Hindered Diffusion Govern First-passage Times of Swimming Microorganisms
Yanis Baouche, Magali Le Goff, Thomas Franosch, Christina Kurzthaler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14765

Hydrodynamic Attraction and Hindered Diffusion Govern First-passage Times of Swimming Microorganisms
The motion of microorganisms in their natural habitat is strongly influenced by their propulsion mechanisms, geometrical constraints, and random fluctuations. Here, we study numerically the first-passage-time (FPT) statistics of microswimmers, modeled as force-dipoles, to reach a no-slip wall. Our results demonstrate that hindered diffusion near the wall can increase the median FPT by orders of magnitude compared to "dry" agents, while the intricate interplay of active motion and hydrodynamic a…

Injective modules over pseudo-krullian orders
Yuriy A. Drozd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11150 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11150

Injective modules over pseudo-krullian orders
We introduce a new class of rings, pseudo-krullian orders, consider the Serre quotients of their module categories with respect to pseudo-isomorphisms and describe injective objects in such quotient categories and its global homological dimension. These results generalize the results of I. Beck for the case of Krull rings. In particular, we establish the global homological dimension of the category of maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over an order over a noetherian ring of Krull dimension 2.

4 out of 5 US troops surveyed understand duty to disobey illegal orders:
"'…moral injuries of this operation, I think, will be enduring,'…National Guard member…deployed to quell public unrest over immigration arrests in Los Angeles told The New York Times. 'This is not what…military of our country was designed to do, at all.'"
"…when some troops disobey – even indirectly – others can more easily find…courage to do the same."

We're rounding the bend on Hacker Summer Camp, so check out today's Metacurity for the infosec developments you should know, including
--CISA orders agencies to deal with Microsoft Exchange fixes by Monday,
--Aussie gov't sues Optus for privacy violations,
--US confirms BlackSuit takedown,
--US Courts vows to take action in wake of widespread breach,
--Samourai Wallet founders plead guilty,
--White hat hackers seek to help small water systems,

CISA orders agencies to deal with Microsoft Exchange fixes by Monday
Aussie gov't sues Optus for privacy violations, US confirms BlackSuit takedown, US Courts vows to take action in wake of widespread breach, Samourai Wallet founders plead guilty, White hat hackers seek to help small water systems, Bouygues Telecom suffers big breach, much more

CISA orders agencies to immediately patch Citrix Bleed 2, saying bug poses ‘unacceptable risk’ https://therecord.media/cisa-orders-agencies-patch-citrix-bleed-2

On even $K$-groups of rings of integers of real abelian fields
Meng Fai Lim, Chao Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13796 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13796

On even $K$-groups of rings of integers of real abelian fields
We present approaches for calculating the precise orders of the algebraic $K$-groups $K_{4n-2}(\mathcal{O}_K)$ for a totally real abelian $K$. Along the way, we also establish a formula connecting the order of $K_{4n-2}(\mathcal{O}_E)$ of a totally real $p$-elementary field $E$ to its intermediate cyclic $p$-degree fields. Additionally, we provide a compiled list of values for these $K$-groups.

Trump orders a third boat blown up which he claims killed three ‘narcoterrorists’ on alleged drug vessel | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-military-strike-drugs-vessel-b2830273.html

As Fat Nixon stuffs his face with McDonald's & Diet Coke...
☑️ Trump, 79, Orders Everyone But Him to Get Fit Again
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-orders-everyone-but-him-to-get-fit-again/

Trump, 79, Orders Everyone But Him to Get Fit Again
The announcement comes after the president’s health and fitness came under the spotlight this month.

On the Complexity of the Skolem Problem at Low Orders
Piotr Bacik, Jo\"el Ouaknine, James Worrell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11234 https://

On the Complexity of the Skolem Problem at Low Orders
The Skolem Problem asks to determine whether a given linear recurrence sequence (LRS) $\langle u_n \rangle_{n=0}^\infty$ over the integers has a zero term, that is, whether there exists $n$ such that $u_n = 0$. Decidability of the problem is open in general, with the most notable positive result being a decision procedure for LRS of order at most 4. In this paper we consider a bounded version of the Skolem Problem, in which the input consists of an LRS $\langle u_n \rangle_{n=0}^\infty$ and a…

I asked fascism for advice on living my best life. It suggested following orders and never smiling.
#Fascism #AntiFascism #Antifa

Sample Variance Denoising in Cylindrical 21-cm Power Spectra
Daniela Breitman, Andrei Mesinger, Steven G. Murray, Anshuman Acharya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12545

Sample Variance Denoising in Cylindrical 21-cm Power Spectra
State-of-the-art simulations of reionisation-era 21-cm signal have limited volumes, generally orders of magnitude smaller than observations. Consequently, the Fourier modes in common between simulation and observation have limited overlap, especially in cylindrical (2D) k-space that is natural for 21-cm interferometry. This makes sample variance (i.e. the deviation of the simulated sample from the population mean due to finite box size) a potential issue when interpreting upcoming 21-cm observa…

Fast Approximate Rank Determination and Selection with Group Testing
Adiesha Liyanage, Braeden Sopp, Brendan Mumey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12634 https:/…

Fast Approximate Rank Determination and Selection with Group Testing
Suppose that a group test operation is available for checking order relations in a set, can this speed up problems like finding the minimum/maximum element, rank determination and selection? We consider a one-sided group test to be available, where queries are of the form $u \le_Q V$ or $V \le_Q u$, and the answer is `yes' if and only if there is some $v \in V$ such that $u \le v$ or $v \le u$, respectively. We restrict attention to total orders and focus on query-complexity; for min or max fin…

The #CourtWatch #News website I just stumbled upon has paid the #PACER fee$ and shared the many legal filings of literally hundreds of cases and amicus briefs brought against

Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders
We put them all in one place.

Three-dimensional Dynamics of Strongly Magnetized Ion-Electron Relativistic Reconnection
Fabio Bacchini, Gregory R. Werner, Camille Granier, Jesse Vos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12509

Three-dimensional Dynamics of Strongly Magnetized Ion-Electron Relativistic Reconnection
We present 3D simulations of semirelativistic collisionless magnetic reconnection, where upstream ions are subrelativistic while electrons are ultrarelativistic. We employ the realistic proton-to-electron mass ratio and explore a range of upstream ion magnetization spanning two orders of magnitude, with our highest-magnetization run achieving unprecedentedly large domain sizes. Through a parameter scan, we find that as the system transitions from mildly to trans- and ultrarelativistic regimes t…

I suspect that are an increasing number of people among us who have long supported the right of the state of Israel to exist who are starting to wonder whether they ought to reconsider that position.
"Israel launches waves of Gaza airstrikes after new displacement orders"

JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

Strong appetite for new iPhone in China as pre-orders break record
The numbers underscore Apple’s brand loyalty in China despite growing competition from the likes of Huawei, analysts say.

#uspol

Supreme Court Keeps Ruling in Trump’s Favor, but Doesn’t Say Why
In a series of terse, unsigned orders, the court has often been giving the green light to President Trump’s agenda -- without a murmur of explanation
https://www.ny…

Supreme Court Keeps Ruling in Trump’s Favor, but Doesn’t Say Why
In a series of terse, unsigned orders, the court has often been giving the green light to President Trump’s agenda without a murmur of explanation.

Good morning everyone.
One million people are facing imminent death and destruction at the hands of Israel in Gaza.¹
Israel has issued evacuation orders for one million people. These are people who have been displaced over and over again in Israel’s ongoing genocide. They have nowhere left to go. To move South costs thousands of dollars to rent land, a tent, and sanitation due to war-time profiteering.² That’s if they can get someone outside of Palestine to host their fundraiser …

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

Robust Extraction of Global 21 cm Spectrum from Experiments with a Chromatic Beam Based on Physics-Motivated Error Modeling
Haoran Li, Furen Deng, Meng Zhou, Yidong Xu, Xuelei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13102

Robust Extraction of Global 21 cm Spectrum from Experiments with a Chromatic Beam Based on Physics-Motivated Error Modeling
The extraction of the sky-averaged 21 cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization faces significant challenges. The bright and anisotropic Galactic foreground, which is 4 - 6 orders of magnitude brighter than the 21 cm signal, when convolved with the inevitably chromatic beam, introduces additional spectral structures that can easily mimic the real 21 cm signal. In this paper, we investigate the signal extraction for a lunar-orbit experiment, where the antenna moves fast in orbit a…

Bragging about an overt triple murder.
The sailors involved and their whole chain of command followed grossly illegal orders to murder three civilian Venezuelans who posed no serious threat to anyone.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
⚠️ Trump says the US attacked what he claims was drug-trafficking boat from Venezuela in international waters:

Magnetoelectric multiferroics: from fundamentals to transformative applications -- a mini review
Micha{\l} Wanic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12867 https://

Magnetoelectric multiferroics: from fundamentals to transformative applications -- a mini review
Multiferroics, combining ferroelectric and magnetic orders, enable magnetoelectric (ME) coupling for advanced applications. This mini review explores single-phase and composite multiferroics, examining phenomenological, microscopic, nanostruc-tured, and quantum mechanisms driving ME effects. Phenomenological models quantify coupling coefficients, while microscopic approaches reveal spin-lattice in-teractions, including frustrated spin states and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya contributions. Nanostructur…

Simultaneous Matching of Phase and Amplitude for Spontaneous Parametric Down-conversion in Semiconductor Waveguides
Albert Peralta Amores, Marcin Swillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14903

Simultaneous Matching of Phase and Amplitude for Spontaneous Parametric Down-conversion in Semiconductor Waveguides
We propose a non-uniform modulation of $χ^{(2)}_{xyz}$ to significantly enhance photon pair generation efficiency via spontaneous parametric down-conversion in modal phase-matched semiconductor waveguides. This approach enables amplitude-matching in the transverse direction while preserving the phase-matching along the waveguide propagation axis. Our analysis predicts a tenfold efficiency increase in comparison to the most efficient non-modulated waveguide, and up to 13 orders of magnitude eff…

Magic Hexagon Formulas
Geoffrey B. Campbell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10961 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10961

Magic Hexagon Formulas
We give a variety of magic hexagons of Orders from 3 to 7, many of which are extensions of known results. We also give a theorem that their are an infinite number of magic hexagons of Order $n$ for any fixed positive integer $n$ for any arbitrary magic sum $M=m$ to be any desired integer $m$. We instigate theory and ideas associated with formula-based versions of the magic hexagons, which seem to be new.

"Alibaba Cloud will be discontinuing services in the Nanjing - Local Region Zone A (cn-nanjing-a) And Fuzhou - Local Region Zone A (cn-fuzhou-a) regions."
New orders end 2025-08-15, service fully discontinued 2026-07-14.
#AS37963

SBU claims liquidation of Russian agents responsible for killing officer in Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/sbu-claims-liquidation-of-russian.html

SCDTour: Embedding Axis Ordering and Merging for Interpretable Semantic Change Detection
Taichi Aida, Danushka Bollegala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11818 https://

SCDTour: Embedding Axis Ordering and Merging for Interpretable Semantic Change Detection
In Semantic Change Detection (SCD), it is a common problem to obtain embeddings that are both interpretable and high-performing. However, improving interpretability often leads to a loss in the SCD performance, and vice versa. To address this problem, we propose SCDTour, a method that orders and merges interpretable axes to alleviate the performance degradation of SCD. SCDTour considers both (a) semantic similarity between axes in the embedding space, as well as (b) the degree to which each axi…

Emergent Symmetry and Phase Transitions on the Domain Wall of $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ Topological Orders
Hong-Hao Song, Chen Peng, Rui-Zhen Huang, Long Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12193

Emergent Symmetry and Phase Transitions on the Domain Wall of $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ Topological Orders
The one-dimensional (1D) domain wall of 2D $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ topological orders is studied theoretically. The Ising domain wall model is shown to have an emergent SU(2)$_{1}$ conformal symmetry because of a hidden nonsymmorphic octahedral symmetry. While a weak magnetic field is an irrelevant perturbation to the bulk topological orders, it induces a domain wall transition from the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid to a ferromagnetic order, which spontaneously breaks the anomalous $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ symmet…

Frontline report: Russian commanders vanish after questioning orders of "meat grinder" near Pokrovsk - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/17/frontline-report-russian-commanders-vanish-after-questioning-orders-of-meat-grinder-near-pokrovsk/

From a comment: “@…: well things must be at their worst because the art is so good right now”
via @mimsymars@threads.net

Intertwined polar, chiral, and ferro-rotational orders in a rotation-only insulator
Weizhe Zhang, June Ho Yeo, Xiaoyu Guo, Tony Chiang, Nishkarsh Agarwal, John T. Heron, Kai Sun, Junjie Yang, Sang-Wook Cheong, Youngjun Ahn, Liuyan Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08650

Intertwined polar, chiral, and ferro-rotational orders in a rotation-only insulator
Intertwined orders refer to strongly coupled and mutually dependent orders that coexist in correlated electron systems, often underpinning key physical properties of the host materials. Among them, polar, chiral, and ferro-rotational orders have been theoretically known to form a closed set of intertwined orders. However, experimental investigation into their mutual coupling and physical consequences has remained elusive. In this work, we employ the polar-chiral insulator Ni$_3$TeO$_6$ as a pla…

Orders of commutators and Products of conjugacy classes in finite groups
Hung P. Tong-Viet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10882 https://a…

Orders of commutators and Products of conjugacy classes in finite groups
Let $G$ be a finite group, let $x\in G$ and let $p$ be a prime. We prove that the commutator $[x,g]$ is a $p$-element for every $g\in G$ if and only if $x$ is central modulo $O_p(G),$ where $O_p(G)$ denotes the largest normal $p$-subgroup of $G$. This result simultaneously generalizes some variants of both the Baer-Suzuki theorem and Glauberman's $Z_p^*$-theorem. Furthermore, we show that if $x\in G$ is a $p$-element and there exists an integer $m\ge 1$ such that for all $g\in G$, either $[x,g]…

Meituan says daily orders on its instant delivery service surpassed 120M on July 5, setting an all-time high, with food orders accounting for 100M of them (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/artic…

Meituan captures record orders as e-commerce war fuels demand for delivery
Daily orders surpassed 120 million on Meituan’s instant delivery service platform on Saturday; Taobao and JD.com also reported good volume.

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Embargo may be a rebranded version of ALPHV ransomware group,
--Russian threat group GreedyBear is stealing crypto,
--Israel beat Iran in the brief war's cyber conflicts,
--M&S resumes click and collect orders,
--GPT-5 was a disaster and easy to hack,
--Hacker breached dealership portal and could hack customers' cars,

New Embargo group may be a rebranded version of ALPHV ransomware gang
Russian threat group GreedyBear is stealing crypto, Israel beat Iran in the brief war's cyber conflicts, M&S resumes click and collect orders, GPT-5 was a disaster and easy to hack, Hacker breached dealership portal and could hack customers' cars, Korea's Yes24 ransomwared again, much more

"Each card contains the restrained person’s name and description along with the protected individual’s name, birth date, and some basic information about their case.
Hope Card holders can show the cards to law enforcement, employers, school officials and landlords if an abuser is violating an order."
**WA hands out 2,000 ‘Hope Cards’ to people with protection orders in program's first 6 months** • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/wa-hands-out-2000-hope-cards-to-people-with-protection-orders-in-programs-first-6-months/

Judge says DHS must stop race-based immigration arrests, granting temporary restraining orders (Kabc/ABC7)
https://abc7.com/post/judge-grants-temporary-restraining-orders-restricting-dhs-immigration-operations-southern-california/17077030/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p1#a250712p1

Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to provide technical support to the US military, after a ProPublica report raised security concerns (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/microsoft

Locally Associated Quadratic Orders
Grant Moles, Talha Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08447 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08447

Locally Associated Quadratic Orders
In 2025, the concept of an order in a number field being associated, ideal-preserving, or locally associated was introduced in order to tackle problems in factorization. In this paper, we explore locally associated orders in real quadratic number fields of the form $\mathbb{Q}[\sqrt{p}]$, with $p\in\mathbb{N}$ prime. In particular, we develop strategies and produce results which make determining when a given order in such a number field is (or is not) locally associated much easier. We also hig…

CISA orders federal agencies to patch Sitecore zero-day following hacking reports https://therecord.media/cisa-orders-patch-for-sitecore-zero-day

Type-I Multiferroic VHfO$_4$ with Strain-Switchable Magnetic Orders and Magnetoelectric Coupling
Qisheng Yu, Boyu Liu, Hongjun Xiang, Shi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10380 ht…

Type-I Multiferroic VHfO$_4$ with Strain-Switchable Magnetic Orders and Magnetoelectric Coupling
Motivated by the complementary properties of vanadium-based ferromagnets and HfO$_2$-based ferroelectrics, we propose a novel multiferroic oxide, VHfO$_4$, through 50\% Hf$^{4+}$ substitution with V$^{4+}$ in the ferroelectric $Pca2_1$ phase of HfO$_2$. First-principles DFT calculations reveal that the $Pca2_1$-like VHfO$_4$ phase exhibits dynamic stability and concurrent ferroic orders: robust ferroelectric polarization comparable to HfO$_2$ and V-driven magnetism. Parallel tempering Monte Car…

'Refuses to obey the orders of the Court': Hunter Biden begs judge to issue a bench warrant forcing ex-Overstock CEO to show up in defamation lawsuit
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/refuses-to-obey-the-orders-of-the-court-hunter-biden-begs-judge-to-issue-a-bench-warrant-forcing-ex-overstock-ceo-to-show-up-in-defamation-lawsuit/

Neuromorphic Intelligence
Marcel van Gerven
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11940

Neuromorphic Intelligence
Neuromorphic computing seeks to replicate the remarkable efficiency, flexibility, and adaptability of the human brain in artificial systems. Unlike conventional digital approaches, which depend on massive computational and energy resources, neuromorphic systems exploit brain-inspired principles of computation to achieve orders of magnitude greater energy efficiency. By drawing on insights from artificial intelligence, neuroscience, physics, chemistry, and materials science, neuromorphic computi…

Hugging Face begins taking orders for its $449 Reachy Mini Wireless and $299 Reachy Mini Lite open source robots, which come as kits for developers to build (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/hugging-fa…

Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots | TechCrunch
Hugging Face is releasing two versions of its desktop robot meant for designing and coding AI applications.

Climate Activists Argue 3 Executive Orders Violate Their Constitutional Rights - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/climate/lighthiser-trial-climate-trump.html

Israel Orders All Gaza City Residents to Leave Ahead of Assault (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-09/israel-orders-all-gaza-city-residents-to-leave-ahead-of-assault
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p18#a250909p18

Sen. Padilla Leads Effort to Repeal Executive Orders Undermining Federal Unions -
https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/2025/09/18/repeal-union-busting/72429

President Trump orders regulators to investigate banks for "politicized or unlawful debanking", echoing allegations from conservatives and the crypto industry (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-orders-crackdow…

Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically-Motivated ‘Debanking’
In a new executive order, the US president has called on federal regulators to investigate and punish banks for alleged discrimination against conservatives and certain types of business.

Cybersecurity threats continue to mount, so eyes akimbo and don't forget to check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Airlines, transportation sector are Scattered Spider's latest targets,
--Sinaloa cartel used hacked phone records and surveillance cameras to help kill FBI informants,
--Germany orders Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores,
--Fake US bank accounts fuel romance scam indu…

Airlines, transportation sector are Scattered Spider's latest targets
Sinaloa cartel used hacked phone records and surveillance cameras to help kill FBI informants, Germany orders Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores, Fake US bank accounts fuel romance scam industry, Trump builds giant US citizen database, Canada orders Hikvision to shut down, more

As the country tumbles towards fascism, some members of the U.S. military have struggled with a choice:
⭐️defy illegal orders, or participate in the dismantling of American democracy.
In June
-- over the objections of local leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom
-- Donald Trump called up the National Guard and the U.S. Marines to quell protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids.
🔥That month, calls to the GI Rights Hotline spiked.
⚠️The hotline provides info…

Calls to GI Hotlines Rise as Service Members Consider Defying Trump’s Orders
Conscientious objector applications surge under Trump as military members fear becoming “the saber that he’s rattling.”…

The contribution of electron and hole conductivity to the transport loss in organic solar cells
Chen Wang, Toni Seiler, Doyoung Sun, Safa Shoaee, Maria Saladina, Carsten Deibel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11399

The contribution of electron and hole conductivity to the transport loss in organic solar cells
The effective conductivity determines the reciprocal of the transport resistance, the dominant loss of fill factor in organic solar cells. We experimentally determine the dependence of effective conductivity on its electron and hole contributions. Using PM6:Y12 blends with tunable morphological and energetic disorder, we show that the effective conductivity follows a harmonic mean of electron and hole conductivities even across nearly three orders of magnitude in conductivity imbalance. We also…

Trump orders takedown of longtime protest tent at White House (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5489497-trump-orders-takedown-peace-vigil-white-house/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p126#a250905p126

Soybeans are the second largest crop in the United States.
More than 80 million acres.
American soybean farmers are heading into harvest season without a single order from China,
historically their largest customer,
raising alarm bells about the agricultural sector’s stability and broader implications for the U.S. economy

Farmer says ‘we’re in a very dire situation’ ahead of harvest—with zero soybean orders from China, historically the largest buyer
Caleb Ragland says his pleas to the Trump administration have fallen on deaf ears.

Electron Ptychography Images Hydrogen Atom Superlattices and 3D Inhomogeneities in Palladium Hydride Nanoparticles
Zixiao Shi, Qihao Li, Himani Mishra, Desheng Ma, H\'ector D. Abru\~na, David A. Muller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11142

Electron Ptychography Images Hydrogen Atom Superlattices and 3D Inhomogeneities in Palladium Hydride Nanoparticles
When hydrogen atoms occupy interstitial sites in metal lattices, they form metal hydrides (MHx), whose structural and electronic properties can differ significantly from the host metals. Owing to the small size of hydrogen atom and its unique interactions with the host metal, MHx is of broad interest in both fundamental science and technological applications. Determining where the hydrogen is located within the MHx, and whether it orders on the partially occupied interstitial sites is crucial f…

Sources: Nvidia's China-only RTX 6000D receives lukewarm demand, with some seeing it as expensive given its performance lags the RTX 5090 (Reuters)
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/tech-and-st

Nvidia's new RTX6000D chip for China finds little favour with major firms, sources say
Nvidia's RTX6000D, its newest artificial intelligence chip tailored for the Chinese market, has seen only lukewarm demand with some major tech firms opting not to place orders, two people with knowledge of procurement discussions said.

Low-energy domain wall racetracks with multiferroic topologies
Arundhati Ghosal, Alexander Qualls, Yousra Nahas, Shashank Ojha, Peter Meisenheimer, Shiyu Zhou, Maya Ramesh, Sajid Husain, Julia Mundy, Darrell Schlom, Zhi Yao, Sergei Prokhorenko, Laurent Bellaiche, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Paul Stevenson, Lucas Caretta
https://arxiv.or…

Low-energy domain wall racetracks with multiferroic topologies
Conventional racetrack memories move information by pushing magnetic domain walls or other spin textures with spin-polarized currents, but the accompanying Joule heating inflates their energy budget and can hamper scaling. Here we present a voltage-controlled, magnetoelectric racetrack in which transverse electric fields translate coupled ferroelectric-antiferromagnetic walls along BiFeO3 nanostrips at room temperature. Because no charge traverses the track, the switching dissipates orders of m…

Pam Bondi orders grand jury probe of Obama administration review of 2016 election (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/pam-bondi-orders-grand-jury-probe-obama-admin-review-2016-election-rcna223016
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p129#a250804p129

While judicial nominees often opt not to answer specific questions,
Bove’s refusal to comment on the clear wording of the 22nd amendment should alarm members of the Senate Judiciary Committee -- which is set to vote on Thursday on whether to advance his nomination to full Senate consideration.
Bove’s response — or lack thereof — comes as Trump has frequently expressed interest in running for president again, even saying in interviews that he’s “not joking” about the matter. …

Trump Judicial Nominee Won’t Answer Question on Constitutionality of Third Presidential Term
Trump nominee Emil Bove also faces questions relating to his staff suggesting that the DOJ should ignore court orders.

Judge orders ICE to improve conditions at Lower Manhattan immigration facility | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-orders-ice-to-improve-conditions-at-lower-manhattan-immigration-facility/

Police chief orders more cooperation with immigration agents as federal activity takes root in DC (Ashraf Khalil/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/washington-trump-homeless-national-guard-police-a0d326fcd3731c564c2c566893385674
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p139#a250814p139

Federal grants must ‘demonstrably advance’ Trump’s agenda, president orders - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/08/federal-grants-must-demonstrably-advance-trumps-agenda-president-orders/407335/

Trump orders Interior to look at raising revenue at national parks (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5385033-trump-orders-interior-to-look-at-raising-revenue-at-national-parks/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p139#a250703p139

State Department cable: Marco Rubio orders diplomats in Europe to lobby against the DSA, arguing it imposes free speech restrictions and high compliance costs (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc…

Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically-Motivated 'Debanking' (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-orders-crackdown-on-politically-motivated-debanking/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250808/p10#a250808p10

A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $200M in punitive damages (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.c…

Tesla found partially liable for fatal 2019 crash, hit with $243 million in damages
The outcome is a stunning rebuke for Tesla, which for years has fought to absolve itself of responsibility when its technology is involved in a crash.

Trump Orders NASA To Crash Perfectly Good CO2 Satellite For No Reason At All
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-orders-nasa-to-crash-perfectly

30 day orders = housing, etc., payment; 29 day orders, nothing.
'It infuriates us': Veterans rage at 'abusive' Trump over reports of him stiffing soldiers - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-infuriating-29-day-orders/

Apple delays iPhone Air pre-orders in China, likely over eSIM regulatory issues, replacing the original schedule with "release information to be updated later" (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec…

Apple postpones iPhone Air in China as Beijing keeps tight grip on eSIM approval
Apple says all three state-owned telecoms network operators would provide eSIM support ‘subject to regulatory approval’.

**Bondi orders prosecutor to bring Comey and Brennan to grand jury** - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/08/04/bondi-orders-prosecutor-to-bring-comey-and-brennan-to-grand-jury/

The FTC orders Google, OpenAI, Meta and Instagram, Snap, xAI, and Character.AI to provide information on how their AI chatbots impact children and teens (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-11/…