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Klarna launches a $40/month unlimited mobile plan in the US via a partnership with telecom services startup Gigs, following similar offerings by Revolut and N26 (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/klarna-ceo-outlines-plan-to…

Klarna CEO wants to turn the platform into a 'super app' with AI
The buy now, pay later giant's IPO may be on hold — but its business strategy remains the same, according to CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski.

Krugman outlines a constellation of possible causes around a core theme: extreme uncertainty.
“What does a business do in the face of this kind of uncertainty? It tries to avoid making commitments that it may soon regret.”
Krugman tries to tie it all to Trump’s recent actions, which is dubious: the post-college job market has been crap since 2022 or 2023; Krugman’s own graph suggests it started worsening circa 2018. The larger theme of uncertainty, however, fits that timeframe.

“I, Harry the Hake, do solemnly declare that I will live and die British. I would rather be left to rot on the jetty than be fed to some Frenchie or Kraut. God save the queen. Sorry, king.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

House Finch on a Cactus. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. #huntingtonlibrary #finch #housefinch

The current UK government, supposedly "Labour", looking more and more right-wing as days pass.. And then politicians wonder why people stop voting to the "left" 🙃
"UK will look into more ‘transactional’ approach to granting visas, says Starmer"
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A new paper projecting Joshua tree habitat under future climate based on incredibly high-resolution distribution data, from Joshua Tree Genome Project collaborators at USGS. They estimate up to 80% loss of suitable habitat by 2100 under the worst-case climate scenario.
#JoshuaTree #science

Singular intersections on families of abelian varieties
Nicola Ottolini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15344 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.1…

Singular intersections on families of abelian varieties
Let $S$ be a smooth irreducible curve defined over $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$, let $\mathcal{A}$ be an abelian scheme over $S$ and $\mathcal{C}$ a curve inside $\mathcal{A}$, both defined over $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$. In this paper we prove that the set of points in which $\mathcal{C}$ intersects proper flat subgroup schemes of $\mathcal{A}$ tangentially is finite. This fits in the framework of the so-called problems of unlikely intersections, and can be seen as a variation of the relative Pink co…

from my link log —
Microsoft Windows Registry attack surface analysis.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-windows-registry-adventure-7-attack-surface.html
saved 2025-05-26

The Windows Registry Adventure #7: Attack surface analysis
Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Google Project Zero In the first three blog posts of this series, I sought to outline what the Windows Regi...

Introducing Quantum Computing to High-School Curricula: A Global Perspective
Mar\'ia Gragera Garc\'es, Luis G\'omez Orzechowski, Juan Francisco Rodr\'iguez Hern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14809

Introducing Quantum Computing to High-School Curricula: A Global Perspective
Quantum computing is an emerging field with growing implications across science and industry, making early educational exposure increasingly important. This paper examines how quantum computing concepts can be introduced into high-school STEM curricula within existing structures to enhance foundational learning in mathematics, computer science, and physics. We outline a modular integration strategy introducing key quantum ideas into standard courses, leveraging open-source educational resources…

The risk of famine increases in Gaza
as the Israeli government’s blockade of nearly all aid to Gaza approaches its third month. 
“I felt this almost sense of panic as every day went by without food let in,”
Ash Bohrer, a Chicago-based Jewish activist in the Palestinian solidarity movement,
told me as she outlined how high the stakes are as the genocide continues in Gaza.
“When I first heard it, my initial thought was … if there is some way I can use my body,&quo…

BREAKING: Jewish Leaders in Chicago Embark on Indefinite Hunger Strike
As part of a nationwide mobilization, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace are putting their bodies on the line in solidarity with Gazans suffering from hunger during Israel’s blockade. By engaging in this risky form of protest, the strikers are continuing a long tradition of calculated starvation as a method of forcing a public confrontation with crises.