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Jerry Jones previously eyed Sean Payton for Cowboys job, but timing never aligned, he explains

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jerry-j…

Sources: Meta poached Yang Song, who led OpenAI's strategic explorations team, to be the research principal of Meta Superintelligence Labs earlier this month (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-poaches-openai-researcher-yang-song/

Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab
Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is the new ‘research principal’ of Meta Superintelligence Labs.

watching die hard as is tradition
i had not previously noticed the sleigh bells in the soundtrack

FINANCIAL TIMES
The US and Ukraine have drafted a new 19-point peace deal,
but left the most politically sensitive elements to be decided by the countries' presidents,
according to Ukrainian first deputy foreign minister Sergiy Kyslytsya.
Washington had previously put Kyiv under pressure to agree a 28-point proposal that had been developed by US and Russian officials and crossed several long-standing Ukrainian red lines.
Kyslytsya, who was in the room as par…

US and Ukraine draft new 19-point peace plan but defer biggest decisions
The most politically sensitive elements are left for Trump and Zelenskyy to discuss

Just another corrupt Trump crony getting a pardon.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/trump-pardons-binance-founder-changpeng-zhao/

"Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country"
#Iceland #Mosquitoes #Climate

My company is not presently hiring anyone.
But if it were I would have a policy that said that any candidate who had previously worked for ICE was automatically disqualified and would not be hired as an employee or used in any consulting (or similar) relationship.

Netflix plans to release the Stranger Things S5 finale in 350 movie theaters in the US and Canada from December 31 to January 1, despite previous statements (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Series Finale Officially Coming to Theaters, Despite Previous Statements
The streamer has confirmed that the hit show's finale will be in theaters after previously seeming to shoot down the idea amid the show's creators, The Duffers Brothers, defecting to Paramount: "They would have been nuts not to do it."

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz3vv62pgo?at_medium=RSS/Mastodon
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat
Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.

"Trump travelled on Epstein's plane more than previously thought, prosecutor says"
where there is mega smoke there is fire

Updating previously this morning I realized the quartet Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD and Nix really covers all my nerd-needs 🤓

🫙 Light-triggered process lets 3D printers create custom glass structures without glue or high temperatures
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-triggered-3d-printers-custom-glass.html

Light-triggered process lets 3D printers create custom glass structures without glue or high temperatures
Researchers have developed the first binder-free method for 3D printing glass, using light to trigger a chemical reaction that directly forms silica structures without the need for organic additives or extreme heat. This breakthrough makes glass printing faster, cleaner, and more precise, with the potential to revolutionize fields from optics to medicine by enabling custom, high-performance glass components that were previously impossible to manufacture.

Amazon's #Deadline renderfarm manager is now in "maintenance mode". It was only a matter of time until they made it AWS cloud only... They had previously discontinued the built-in on-demand render licensing and made it AWS cloud only.
I need to look at alternatives in the long term. But for now it works nicely in our pipeline and doesn't need new features. The only proble…

South Korean prosecutors allege China's CXMT mass-produced 10nm-class DRAM using leaked Samsung tech, indicting 10 employees who previously worked for Samsung (Heo Kyungjun/아시아 ...)
https://cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2025122311034625685

Prosecutors Indict Former Samsung Executive and Others for Leaking ‘K-Semiconductor’ Technology to China’s CXMT
The prosecution has uncovered the full extent of a case involving the leak of Samsung Electronics’ state-designated core technology for 10-nanometer-c...

HARLI CQUINN: Higher Adjusted Randomness with Linear In Complexity QUantum INspired Networks for K-Means
Jiten Oswal, Saumya Biswas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19395 https://

HARLI CQUINN: Higher Adjusted Randomness with Linear In Complexity QUantum INspired Networks for K-Means
We contrast a minimalistic implementation of quantum k-means algorithm to classical k-means algorithm. With classical simulation results, we demonstrate a quantum performance, on and above par, with the classical k-means algorithm. We present benchmarks of its accuracy for test cases of both well-known and experimental datasets. Despite extensive research into quantum k-means algorithms, our approach reveals previously unexplored methodological improvements. The encoding step can be minimalisti…

Greg Olson to take over as offensive playcaller https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-greg-olson-interim-offensive-coordinator-pete-carroll-2025-coaching-staff

Expedition 33 is one of my all time fav games but I'm happy the Indie Game Dev Awards is taking a hard line on AI in games.
https://mashable.com/article/clair-obscur-expedition-33-indie-game-awards-revoked-ai

Die #Klimakrise trifft #Island:
Erstmals wurden in Island #Mücken nachgewiesen. Drei Exemplare der kälteresistenten Art Culiseta annulata wurden im Westen des Landes entdeckt.
Durch di…

Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-ties-emails
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p63#a251122p63

On Sunday night Bari Weiss,
the editor of The Free Press and the new head of CBS News,
abruptly stopped a forthcoming 60 Minutes report on the torture endured by migrants in the brutal El Salvadoran prison CECOT,
where the Trump administration has sent more than 280 men.
Trump supporters praised the decision from Weiss, who,
notwithstanding her description of conditions at CECOT as “horrific,”
had previously praised El Salvadoran leader Nayib Bukele for ma…

Cancel Culture’s Boomerang Effect
How we got to a place where free speech means whatever conservatives want to say

"Trump - who has previously criticized the appearance of U.S. warships - will be personally involved in the designs."
I'm sure the engineers working on the project will be ever so pleased to have his input.
https://www.reuters.com/worl…

"One pretty foolproof way of encouraging right wing populism in the UK is to pretend the market requires public spending cuts when public spending levels are already weak."
mainly macro: What the call for fiscal headroom reveals
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/

What the call for fiscal headroom reveals
  Everyone, including the IFS, is agreed that the Chancellor should in the budget create more fiscal headroom than she did previously. Rath...

Intrinsic Electro-Optic Kerr Rotation
Erlend Sylju{\aa}sen, Alireza Qaiumzadeh, Rembert A. Duine, Arne Brataas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20139 https://arx…

Intrinsic Electro-Optic Kerr Rotation
We uncover a previously overlooked contribution to the electro-optic Kerr rotation of reflected light, arising from the interplay of matter, the static electric field, and the magnetic component of light. Remarkably, this mechanism dominates in isotropic nonmagnetic homogeneous metals. We derive analytical expressions for the Kerr rotation in both two-dimensional layers and semi-infinite systems. Within the relaxation-time approximation, we predict experimentally accessible signal magnitudes. T…

As I said previously, I do, do ❤️ ridges... This was six days ago, on almost the last day of autumn (meanwhile it's all white)...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Hiking

With an influx of Meta alums, some OpenAI staffers worry it is adopting Meta's tactics, like using social media dynamics with Sora and a softening stance on ads (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-readies-facebook-era

OpenAI Readies Itself for Its Facebook Era
This summer, Fidji Simo wasted no time addressing a concern among many at OpenAI. Leading her first all-hands meeting as the startup’s new CEO of applications, she acknowledged that she and many others at OpenAI shared the same background: They’d previously worked at Meta Platforms. And then ...

Two information panels about Black soldiers have been installed just outside the American military cemetery in Margraten, The Netherlands. The action was undertaken by a Dutch TV channel.
Similar panels had previously been permanently removed from the cemetery by the Trump administration.
News article in Dutch:
https://nos.nl/l/2591602

Tv-programma zet nieuwe panelen naast begraafplaats Margraten
De twee panelen met informatie over zwarte Amerikaanse militairen werden onthuld in het bijzijn van nazaten. De VS had eerder dergelijke panelen verwijderd.

Posting this here for others with #LongCovid.
One of the things I've done this year is rule out potential other causes of my symptoms (imaging, blood work, neurological testing). This, in addition to treating symptoms as best I can (insomnia, brain fog, joint pain, double vision, tinnitus, hearing loss, etc.).
This fall, I wrapped up with neurology (I didn't want to, a…

MeerKAT discovery of 164 compact radio rings toward the Galactic Plane
C. Bordiu, F. Bufano, G. Umana, J. R. Rizzo, C. Spingola, C. Trigilio, S. Loru, M. D. Filipovic, C. Buemi, F. Cavallaro, L. Cerrigone, P. Leto, A. Ingallinera, S. Riggi, A. C. Ruggeri, Z. Smeaton, P. A. Woudt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20289

MeerKAT discovery of 164 compact radio rings toward the Galactic Plane
We report the discovery of 164 compact (radius < 1 arcmin) radio rings using MeerKAT 1.3 GHz data from the SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (l=2-60deg, 252-358deg, |b|<1.5deg) and the Galactic Centre mosaic, from a search aimed at identifying previously uncatalogued radio sources. Within this sample, approximately 19 per cent of the rings contain a central point radio source. A multiwavelength analysis reveals a striking diversity: about 40 per cent of the rings enclose an isolated…

the grand opening of oakshire place mobile home sales of union city, tennessee, may 1970, with free entertainment by... who?! (i don't think this was a previously known/rumored VU date?)

Fast and compact time-resolved spectroscopy enabled by Quantum Walk Combs
Ina Heckelmann, Davide Pinto, Uwe Schmitt, Mattias Beck, J\'er\^ome Faist
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20112

Fast and compact time-resolved spectroscopy enabled by Quantum Walk Combs
Optical frequency combs paved the way for fast and compact multi-component optical chemical analysis due to their broadband spectra. Dual-comb spectrometers embody this technology, but their design requires a pair of matched combs, adding complexity to the system. In this study, we propose and implement a scheme for a rapid, compact spectroscopic analyser that operates without moving components, leveraging the tunability and speed of a single quantum walk comb laser. Previously, these combs hav…

Contribution of Thermal Tides to Venus Upper Cloud-Layer Superrotation: #Venus Identified: https://eos.org/research-spotlights/key-driver-of-extreme-winds-on-venus-identified - a new study suggests that a once-daily atmospheric tidal cycle may be a bigger driver of rapid Venusian winds than previously thought.

Greg Olson to take over as offensive playcaller https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-greg-olson-interim-offensive-coordinator-pete-carroll-2025-coaching-staff

“Additionally, Cursor’s Amazon Web Services bills more than doubled from $6.2 million in May 2025 to $12.6 million in June 2025, exacerbating a cash crunch that began when Anthropic introduced Priority Service Tiers, an aggressive rent-seeking measure that begun what I call the Subprime AI Crisis, where model providers begin jacking up the prices on their previously subsidized rates.”
#SubprimeAI
https://www.wheresyoured.at/costs/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

"As people’s access to the world is so much influenced by what’s digitally accessible, and as we’re seeing the undermining of whatever might have previously passed as authentic, it’s absolutely essential that we are offering the user buttressing evidence that proves the authenticity of what they’re looking at."

"This Week in Videogames spoke to a dozen professional concept artists in the wake of Vincke’s comments, all of whom currently or have previously worked in game development, ranging from indie studios to large AAA developers. All, without exception, said that ‌generative AI image tools had only made their lives more difficult – even when simply used as reference material."

🦠 Genomes of 24,000 previously unknown microbes revealed by new tools
#microbes

Genomes of 24,000 previously unknown microbes revealed by new tools
QUT researchers have recovered the genomes of more than 24,000 previously unknown microbial species—some from entirely new branches of life that likely evolved before plants and animals. The microbes are detailed in two studies published in Nature Biotechnology and Nature Methods.

Sign up for the Convention Zero games and events are open ... And so it's the sign up for my 'lil seminar about keeping backups for creative folks:
https://warhorn.net/events/conzero-fall-2025
It will be held this Saturday at 8 am EST, 1 pm GMT, 2 pm CET.

Yet one more adverse impact of climate change:
"Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten. Rising temperatures are also helping pests invade places further from the equator and on higher ground that were previously too cold"
In hindsight, not surprising - but this is the first time I have seen this impact publicly discussed.
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses superchar…

Yet one more adverse impact of climate change:
"Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten. Rising temperatures are also helping pests invade places further from the equator and on higher ground that were previously too cold"
In hindsight, not surprising - but this is the first time I have seen this impact publicly discussed.
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses superchar…

Cowboys Announce Reunion With Previously Suspended DB https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/julius-wood-reunite-with-previously-suspended-db/?adt_ei=[email]

https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/trump-formally-taps-joshua-rudd-lead-nsa-cyber-command/410266/
“Rudd, the current deputy director for Indo-Pacific Command, appears to not have previously held a military cybersecurity po…

Trump formally taps Joshua Rudd to lead NSA, Cyber Command
The nomination marks a turning point for the electronic surveillance and hacking teams that have been without a permanent leader for eight months.

🥳 New Kitten Release
• Reduces minimum Bash version requirement for installing Kitten to Bash 3.2 (was previously Bash 5 ). This removes the requirement for people on macOS to upgrade the ancient version of Bash that Apple ships with their desktop operating system. (If you’re on Linux none of this was ever an issue for you.)¹
• Updates runtime to Node 24.12.0, the latest long-term support (LTS) version.

Until trials can prove a negative, we can't really use science to suggest anything about the effectiveness of medicine or the causes of disease.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/rfk-jr-s-loathesome-edits-cdc-websit…

RFK Jr.’s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism
The site previously correctly noted that studies have repeatedly found no link.

Hyperbolic Dispersion and Low-Frequency Plasmons in Electrides
Qi-Dong Hao, Hao Wang, Hong-Xing Song, Xiang-Rong Chen, Hua Y. Geng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17859 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.17859 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.17859
arXiv:2511.17859v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Natural hyperbolic materials have attracted significant interest in the field of photonics due to their unique optical properties. Based on the initial successful explorations on layered crystalline materials, hyperbolic dispersion was associated with extreme structural anisotropy, despite the rarity of natural materials exhibiting this property. Here we show that non cubic electrides are generally promising natural hyperbolic materials owing to charge localization in interstitial sites. This includes elemental and binary electrides, as well as some two-dimensional materials that show prominent in-plane hyperbolic dispersion. They exhibit low plasma frequencies and a broad hyperbolic window spanning the infrared to the ultraviolet. In semiconductor electrides, anisotropic interband transitions provide an additional mechanism for hyperbolic behaviour. These findings remove the previously held prerequisite of structural anisotropy for natural hyperbolic materials, and open up new opportunities, which might change the current strategy for searching and design photonic materials.
toXiv_bot_toot

Games That Weren't: How can you possibly squeeze a 32-bit PlayStation CD ROM game into a small Game Boy Color Cartridge? Well, HotGen would attempt to do just that with a conversion of Resident Evil in mid-1999 and to make it as close as possible with similar 3D perspectives using scaled sprites.
https://www.ga…

The Worst Greenhouse Gas on Planet Earth: #SF6 💨🟡🌍🔥
Scientists have identified a factory in Germany emitting far more of the world's most damaging greenhouse gas than officially reported.
I previously covered this in my newsletter and have now also made a short video presentation 🎥

Indirect CW for teen pregnancy, rape, death.
Just finished "Girls Like Us" by Randi Pink. Pink has a knack for telling stories that capture the grim but also vibrant nuances of African-American history. I previously read "Under the Heron's Light" which has more elements of magical realism and connects more directly to the history of enslavement; "Girls Like Us" is more historical fiction, with a bridge at the end to contemporary times (circa 2019, when the book was published). It tells the story of a disparate group of mostly-Black teens who are pregnant in 1972, and shows a range of different outcomes as varied as the backstories of the different girls. Rather than just separate vignettes, the girls' stories are women together into a single plot, and Pink is a expert at pulling us in to deeply contemplate all the complexities of these girls' lives, showing rather than telling us truths about the politics of teen pregnancy and abortion, and how even though the choices involved don't have simple answers, taking those choices out of the hands of the people they most intimately affect is cruel and deadly.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Geek-speak. We chit-chat a lot about KDE 6.5, but if you have Slackware Current , kernel 6.17.4, Ghostty terminal, Mango (previously MaoMao) windowmanager DankMaterialShell running quite easily (and Niri is there also), you know you're onto something 😜
cc @…
#slackware

Were they perchance inspired by the Dutch government? (The shameful false accusations of childcare benefit fraud, which all but ruined numerous families, known in the Netherlands as the #toeslagenaffaire – still not fully resolved and remedied.)

Labour admits 60% of parents wrongly targeted in HMRC child benefit fraud crackdown
Exclusive: Scale of government’s anti-fraud fiasco is four times higher than previously admitted

„Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought“ (via @… )
https://www.

Been redoing my Raspberry PI based heating management around pi5 machines after a few 3s died this month.
Previously designed some 3D Printed cases but I was new to the hobby - and new to 3D design - so they didn't work out great, here's the new attempt, happy with 2 years of experience gains.

Scientists Discover ‘Black Widow’ Exoplanet That Defies Explanation https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-black-widow-exoplanet-that-defies-explanation/

The Boston Globe says Brian McGrory will return as editor, after Nancy Barnes' departure at the end of 2025; McGrory previously was editor from 2012 to 2023 (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/15/business/boston-globe-edito…

Brian McGrory rejoins Boston Globe as editor
McGrory, currently the chair of Boston University’s journalism department, previously served as Globe editor from 2012 until early 2023.

2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.

No puedo confirmar ni desmentir que haya encargado en preventa esta belleza de vinilo. El EP de «Radio Free Europe», que fue el primer single publicado por R.E.M.
#REM #Vinilos #VinylRecords

It should be noted that the Nacirema absolutely do kill those outside of their tribes during highly ritualized combat. In fact, they are known and feared by many surrounding tribes for their war-like nature. But the previously mentioned taboo seems to be against the execution of the ritual for either enslavement or sacrifice of outsiders for sacrifice or enslavement within tribal territory. Similarly, the Nacirema will not seize slaves during their war raids to bring within their territory. However, it does seem that the tribute system which the Nacirema impose on other tribes favors slavery.
The Elihcian people even tell stories of a chief who tried to end a slave-like practice among their people and refused tribute to the Nacirema. The chief of the Nacirema send emissaries to plot the murder of great chief of the Elihcian with the strongest nobles who were the largest slave owners. The war chief of the Elihcian, a friend of the Nacirema chief, then took over the tribe, enslaved many and paid even more tribute to the Nacirema chief. Many tribes to the South of the Nacirema have very similar stories.
Strangely, again, the Nacirema do not see themselves as war-like. Rather, they see themselves as peaceful. When talking about war and war-raids, they will even sometimes use a phase that means "maintaining" or "sustaining peace" to describe them.
Again, it seems to be the use of ritual that allows them to declare slavery and human sacrifice as "justice" and to declare war as "peace."

In #Helsinki there's only one person I trust with repairing a #watch without screwing up (there was another previously, but he retired). Today I went and asked his name, let him know I've always been happy with his work and I'll go back with the next watch to repair the next time he has a shift there. …

Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/copywriters-reveal-how-ai-has-decimated-their-industry/

my therapist who has previously said to me "you're not scaring the hoes. well, at least not that particular hoe"

🛡️ Big trees in Amazon more climate-resistant than previously believed
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/25/study-shows-big-trees-in-amazon-more-climate-resistant-than-previously-believed

South Africa considers site near African penguin colony for third nuclear power plant https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/south-africa-considers-site-near-african-penguin-colony-for-third-nuclear-pow…

South Africa considers site near African penguin colony for third nuclear power plant
South African state electricity company Eskom is reevaluating two sites to host the country’s third nuclear power plant, having previously dismissed both for an earlier facility. The two potential sites are Thyspunt, on the Eastern Cape coast, and Bantamsklip, near Dyer Island in the Western Cape, home to a significant, but declining colony of critically […]

Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-assista

Google Assistant will stick around a bit longer than expected for some Android users
Google has announced that it needs a bit more time to make Gemini the new default digital helper for most of its users.

Just finished "Kirby's Lessons for Falling (In Love)" by Laura Gao. I'd previously read her autobiographical graphic novel "Messy Roots" which was excellent, and this book continues that trend. Yet another complicated look at a Chinese-American immigrant experience, wrapped into a queer romance with a dose of spirituality in there as well. I think the background metaphor of falling is really strong, and gets used in so many senses it's beautiful.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

AWS says services have "returned to normal operations" after an outage in its US-EAST-1 region, first reported at 3:11am ET, that took down major websites (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/amazon-web-services-outage-takes-down-major-we…

AWS services recover after daylong outage hits major sites
Downdetector previously showed user reports of problems at sites including Amazon, Snapchat, Disney+, Reddit and Canva.

"Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study"
#Animals #Biodiversity

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study
A survey of Colombian birdlife, which evolved over more than a decade into the world’s largest-ever ornithological study, has found that clearing forests to create new pastures is causing as much as 60% more damage to biodiversity than previously thought. Until now, research into the impact on biodiversity of land use change has generally involved […]

Rams star Puka Nacua doubles down on referee criticism after one of the best wide receiver games ever

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/los-angeles-rams-star-puka-nacua-referee-c…

Spinning into the Gap - Direct-horizon Collapse as the Origin of GW231123 from End-to-end General-relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations: #BlackHoles Explained: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/10/mysterious-impossible-merger-of-two-massive-black-holes-explained/ - a comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously thought to be largely off-limits.

A lot of journalistic pieces contain too little information. But here's one that is chock full of interesting stuff, not details, but hooks for deeper inquiry. That stuff goes far beyond the topics in the headline. For instance I had never previously considered subway cars as a potential form of spyware.
"After F-35 “Kill Switch”, Now Europe Perturbed By Chinese “Kill Switch” That Could Cripple Its Transport Infra'

After F-35 “Kill Switch”, Now Europe Perturbed By Chinese “Kill Switch” That Could Cripple Its Transport Infra
The debate about a “kill switch” in Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets was hardly over when a new worry is pestering Europe. Do Chinese electric buses plying across multiple cities in Europe come with a similar “kill switch” that allows Beijing to deactivate them remotely? In the last month, multiple European countries, […]

hmm someone on hacker news claims that letter-number-letter abbreviations like i18n for internationalization comes from stenography
which disagrees with the explanation i previously heard that it came from a sysadmin at DEC abbreviating someone’s long name to fit as a username https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

"The effort focused on dozens of targets and involved a level of automation that Anthropic’s cybersecurity investigators had not previously seen"
Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s AI to Automate Cyberattacks
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-hackers-

BBC News hires Lindsay McIntosh, previously Head of News at The Sunday Times, as its Executive News Editor (BBC Press Office on LinkedIn)
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7407013484615409664

We are delighted to announce Lindsay McIntosh as the new Executive News Editor, BBC News.    As Executive News Editor, Lindsay will be at the heart of the BBC newsroom – driving the BBC’s editorial… | BBC Press Office
We are delighted to announce Lindsay McIntosh as the new Executive News Editor, BBC News.    As Executive News Editor, Lindsay will be at the heart of the BBC newsroom – driving the BBC’s editorial agenda and working across BBC News to ensure we continue to deliver high quality, distinctive news across our platforms.   Lindsay joins us from The Sunday Times where she is currently the Head of News and oversees its award-winning political and investigative journalism across digital and pr…

Ubisoft added an offline mode to, previously online-service only game, The Crew 2.
https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/the-crew/the-crew-2/news-updates/zs6ZFyLEQvKbFskEJZolR/the-crew-2-hybrid-mode-is-now-availab…

The Crew 2 Hybrid Mode is now available
Hybrid Mode is now live in The Crew 2, letting players switch between online and offline play. Preserve progress, access rewards, and enjoy the open world without an internet connection.

🫓 Ultra-flat optic pushes beyond what was previously thought possible
#optics

Ultra-flat optic pushes beyond what was previously thought possible
Cameras are everywhere. For over two centuries, these devices have grown increasingly popular and proven to be so useful, they have become an indispensable part of modern life.

ICE has used the pretext of combating antisemitism to target dissidents.
A branch of the agency previously used to target drug smugglers and human traffickers has reportedly been directed to scan social media for posts sympathetic to Hamas.
Though ICE is ostensibly still bound by constitutional limits,
the way it has been operating bears the hallmarks of a secret police force in the making.
They typically meet five criteria:
they’re a police force targeting pol…

How ICE is becoming a secret police force under the Trump administration
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement meets most criteria that have defined secret police forces in authoritarian regimes. And the worst may be yet to come.

There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr

As we rapidly push earth's systems away from a quasi-equilibrium state by simply adding more carbon dioxide, more methane, more nitrous oxide to the atmosphere, we start finding previously unrecognized interactions affecting things like the carbon sinks.
As a scientist, I am thrilled at the exiting research that is arising from these new observations.
As a person, I am terrified.

As we rapidly push earth's systems away from a quasi-equilibrium state by simply adding more carbon dioxide, more methane, more nitrous oxide to the atmosphere, we start finding previously unrecognized interactions affecting things like the carbon sinks.
As a scientist, I am thrilled at the exiting research that is arising from these new observations.
As a person, I am terrified.

So, you receive an email about an issue that was opened on my Cosmix-Saigon repo. Go through the paces and clean up the code (there were some minor niggles, although everything worked).
Decide to open and address the actual issues mentioned. Issue was withdrawn previously 🤣
Well, okay, at least it's at its best again 😂

Elon Musk says Grok 5 would be released "in Q1 sometime", later than a deadline he previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025 (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musks-xai-delays-grok-5-rele…

Elon Musk’s xAI Delays Grok 5 Release to Next Year
XAI plans to release its next-generation Grok 5 artificial intelligence model in the first three months of next year, CEO Elon Musk said on Friday. That’s later than a deadline Musk had previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025. In an interview with the investor Ron Baron, who has backed several Musk companies including xAI, Musk said that Grok 5 would be released “in Q1

Extreme floods are slashing global rice yields faster than expected #environment

Extreme floods are slashing global rice yields faster than expected
Scientists discovered that a week of full submergence is enough to kill most rice plants, making flooding a far greater threat than previously understood. Intensifying extreme rainfall events may amplify these losses unless vulnerable regions adopt more resilient rice varieties.

Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20 required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3329

Alibaba Cloud claims to slash Nvidia GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
The new Aegaeon system can serve dozens of large language models using a fraction of the GPUs previously required, potentially reshaping AI workloads.

The BBC says "as we have made clear previously, we will be defending" against Trump's defamation lawsuit and "we are not going to make further comment" (Christal Hayes/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvd81470v1o

BBC says it will defend Trump defamation lawsuit over Panorama speech edit
The US president is requesting $5bn (£3.7bn) in damages, according to court documents filed in Florida.

Trump is just the worst!
The National Park Service is reshuffling its free-admission schedule
so that visitors get in free on Donald Trump’s birthday next year,
while Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth (previously free days) will now require regular entrance fees.
https://bsky.app…

Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social)
Trump is just the worst! The National Park Service is reshuffling its free-admission schedule so that visitors get in free on Donald Trump’s birthday next year, while Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth (previously free days) will now require regular entrance fees. https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/national-park-service-free-days-2026-trump-birthday-mlk-juneteenth

Commanders QB Jayden Daniels leaves game after landing hard on previously dislocated left elbow

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jayden-daniels-injury-commanders-qb-elbow-vikings…

Coinbase confirms that it has called off acquisition talks with stablecoin infra startup BVNK; reports previously put the acquisition price around $2B (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/11/coinbase-bvnk-2-billion-deal-falls-through-stableco…

Exclusive: Coinbase and stablecoin startup BVNK call off $2 billion acquisition
BVNK was previously fielding offers from not only Coinbase but Mastercard.

🧋 Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought
#co2

Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought
The world has far fewer places to securely store carbon dioxide deep underground than previously thought, steeply lowering its potential to help stem global warming, according to a new study that challenges long-held industry claims about the practice.

A few conservative representatives with ties to the FBI and the Justice Department have spilled that
the true details of the Epstein files are “worse” for Trump than previously reported, according to journalist David Schuster.
Michael Wolff, a longtime chronicler of Trump’s White House who conducted extensive interviews with Epstein prior to his death, told The Daily Beast last month that
Epstein had shown him photos of Trump with half-naked “young girls” in his lap.

DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump
Details in the files are reportedly even more damning for Donald Trump than previously indicated—and it was already bad.

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/biodiversity-loss-due-to-land-use-change-could-be-highly-underestimated-study/

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study
A survey of Colombian birdlife, which evolved over more than a decade into the world’s largest-ever ornithological study, has found that clearing forests to create new pastures is causing as much as 60% more damage to biodiversity than previously thought. Until now, research into the impact on biodiversity of land use change has generally involved […]

Trump's latest pardons underscore the breadth of his efforts to clear anyone involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, which was won by Joe Biden.
Donald Trump on Friday issued a second pardon to Daniel Edwin Wilson,
whom he had previously pardoned for participation in the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021,
but was in prison on a separate gun charge. The action was announced Saturday morning.

Trump also pardoned Suzanne Kaye, who had been sentenced to…

Trump gives second pardon to Jan. 6 participant and pardons two others
The latest pardons underscore the breadth of the efforts the president has taken to clear anyone involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

Kamal Ahmed, who previously hosted The Telegraph's The Daily T podcast, leaves to join Fortune as executive editorial director for UK and Europe (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

Kamal Ahmed joins Fortune as editorial director for UK and Europe
Kamal Ahmed is leaving The Telegraph to join business publisher Fortune as executive editorial director for UK and Europe.

TSMC reports Q3 net profit up 39% YoY to ~$14.8B, beating est., after previously reporting a 30% rise in revenue, the latest sign of robust spending on AI chips (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Testing confirmed the patient has H5N5, a strain of bird flu that has previously been reported in animals but never before in humans
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/suspected-human-bird-flu-case-1st-us-9/story?id=127519769

1st US human bird flu case in 9 months confirmed with strain only seen in animals before
The patient is an older adult with underlying health conditions.

BBC Studios appoints Alice Taylor, who previously led Disney's StudioLAB, as the head of its new AI Creative Lab to ensure "ethical, editorially sound" output (Lily Ford/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

BBC Studios Names Alice Taylor Chief of New AI Creative Lab
At a time when fear is heightened around AI's impact on the industry, Taylor will ensure the BBC AI Creative Lab's output is "innovative, ethical, editorially sound and technically robust."

The American Library Association (ALA) has touted a "massive win"
after previously revoked federal funding for libraries and museums was reinstated nationwide.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
announced on Wednesday it had
"reinstated all federal grants,"
8 months after an executive order from Donald Trump kick-started a firestorm
at the agency that supports the nation’s libraries.
Most of IMLS' staff, and i…

Library Grants Reinstated Nationwide After ‘Massive’ Legal Victory
Grants being restored after a Trump and DOGE firestorm are being hailed as "a massive win for libraries."

The Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials,
substantially expanding its use of data sharing to expel people under deportation orders.
Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports.
ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deporta…

T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.

Jensen Huang says its Blackwell GPUs are now in full production in Arizona, after being solely manufactured in Taiwan previously (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/nvidia-jensen-huang-gtc-washington-dc-ai.html

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's AI chips are now being manufactured in Arizona
Previously, Nvidia's fastest GPUs were solely manufactured in Taiwan.

Sources: Microsoft's US data center crunch will last through H1 2026, longer than previously outlined, as the company restricts new Azure cloud subscriptions (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The German government scales back financial aid for its semiconductor industry, cutting €3B from its previously planned €15B chip subsidies to fund road repairs (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20