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🫓 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.

OpenAI told investors that it projects its cash burn this year through 2029 will rise to a total of $115B, about $80B higher than it previously expected (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-says-business-will-bur…

OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029
OpenAI recently had both good news and bad news for shareholders. Revenue growth from ChatGPT is accelerating at a more rapid rate than the company projected half a year ago. The bad news? The computing costs to develop artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, and other data ...

An appeals court in Missouri
✅has ordered the rewording of a misleading explainer for a Republican-backed ballot measure
🔥that aims to undo a previously passed initiative that expanded abortion and reproductive rights in the state.
The order from the three-judge panel within Missouri’s Western District of Appeals
represents the second time in just a few months that the explanation accompanying the anti-abortion ballot measure was found to be confusing or deceptive.

Missouri Court Orders Clearer Wording on GOP Measure to Undo Abortion Rights
The ballot measure seeks to undo a citizen-driven one that passed in 2024, which expanded abortion rights in the state.

"For nearly 20 years, the [#SNP] has acted, in many respects, as a bulwark to the worst of Westminster – or so the story goes. Not good policy, just not as bad as Westminster. Just enough to hold power without disrupting the status quo.
When the SNP had the political capital to finally scrap the regressive Council Tax – something they had previously promised to do – they baulked. On LGBT ri…

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom #environment

[M]any consumers might not realize the privacy risks just by glancing at the flyer sent to them, according to Florian Schaub, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information.
"The privacy policy is very specific that we're going to track everything, including what you do in Incognito Windows. Previously anonymous data may now be identifiable. All those risks are not disclosed here," Schaub said, after reviewing a copy of the flyer.

Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/apple-announces-departure-lisa-jackson-k…

Apple announces departure of general counsel and policy chief
The two executives previously reported to Apple CEO Tim Cook and represent the latest sign that Apple's senior leadership is seeing a slew of exits.

🧋 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.

New from 404 Media: logins for Flock, the company behind the nationwide AI-camera network, are included in malware infections. Includes government and police accounts, meaning hackers could potentially break in. Senator Wyden asking FTC to investigate Flock via @…

Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks FTC to Investigate the Company
Lawmakers say AI-camera company Flock is violating federal law by not enforcing multi-factor authentication. 404 Media previously found Flock credentials included in infostealer infections.

60 Minutes heavily edited down its interview with President Trump, after previously settling with him over editing a pre-election interview with Kamala Harris (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/03/trump-cbs-60-minutes…

Tech Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen has long criticized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
— calling it an impediment to fintech and crypto companies. 
Andreessen’s investment firm (Andreessen Horowitz aka A16Z) backed many fintech/crypto players that were under CFPB scrutiny,
Under the Trump administration, the CFPB’s enforcement efforts were sharply scaled back:
investigations suspended,
consumer-protection rule-makings shelved,
and …

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.

As a security precaution I had previously configured every single 11ty repository to have its own single-package-scoped npm token (there were probably ~30 or so), so this is a lovely improvement 😅

"In Al-Mughayyir, a village near Ramallah, more than 3,000 olive trees were bulldozed by Israeli forces, part of a broader pattern of destruction. Similarly, Deir Ballout has been targeted once again. It’s where, in 2021, Zaytoun customers helped plant 2,000 olive trees with the Palestine Fair Trade Association to replace those previously destroyed by Israeli forces."
Olive Harvest 2025: a season of hope, struggle, and solidarity - Zaytoun

Olive Harvest 2025: a season of hope, struggle, and solidarity - Zaytoun
As the olive harvest commences this month, the outlook is grim. A number of forces are converging in real time: a poor harvest, soaring local prices, and a fragile economy already on the brink, all dealing a harsh blow to farmers who are contending with so much.

Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Sent Harsh Message By 4 x NBA Champion https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-called-bum-draymond-green/?adt_ei=[email]

Antarctica sees similar climate change effects as Greenland: Study #Antarctica

Antarctica sees similar climate change effects as Greenland: Study
The planet's warming climate is having effects in Antarctica that increasingly resemble those observed in the Arctic, meaning global sea levels could rise faster than previously predicted, Danish researchers warned on Friday.

Sources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies (Jake Pearson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-vall…

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.

Since we started using `cargo vet` in #ArielOS, I'm happy to see that some of the crates that we previously on our list of "yes we should review them but don't have the resources now" are vanishing from there because other parties we trust have actually reviewed them.
The ecosystem is growing! ❤️

Marc Andreessen is one of America’s most well-known investors and an outsize figure in the so-called fintech industry.
His firm seeded eight companies since 2016 that landed in the crosshairs of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
-- the small watchdog agency that Congress created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect vulnerable consumers from exploitation.
Some of those inquiries have resulted in consent orders, fines and, for one company, a lifetime industry ba…

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.

1. Video DPD driver parking on crossing where child killed previously
2. Upload to Operation Snap at https://nextbase.co.uk/national-dash-cam-safety-portal/
3. Driver gets prosecuted
4. Result!
PF20HSD

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Traditional politics of assistance and the repression of unemployment were now called into question. The need for reform became urgent.
Poverty was gradually separated from the old moral confusions. Economic crises had shown that unemployment could not be confused with indolence, as indigence and enforced idleness spread throughout the countryside, to precisely the places that had previously been considered home to the purest and most immediate forms of moral life. This demonstrated that poverty did not solely fall under the order of the fault: ‘Begging is the fruit of poverty, which in turn is the consequence of accidents in the production of the earth or in the output of factories, of a rise in the price of basic foodstuffs, or of growth of the population, etc.’ Indigence became a matter of economics.
But it was not contingent, nor was it destined to be suppressed forever. There would always be a certain quantity of poverty that could never be effaced, a sort of fatal indigence that would accompany all forms of society until the end of time, even in places where all the idle were employed: ‘The only paupers in a well governed state must be those born in indigence, or those who fall into it by accident.’ This backdrop of poverty was somehow inalienable: whether by birth or accident, it formed an inevitable part of society. The state of lack was so firmly entrenched in the destiny of man and the structure of society that for a long time the idea of a state without paupers remained inconceivable: in the thought of philosophers, property, work and indigence were terms linked right up until the nineteenth century.
This portion of poverty was necessary because it could not be suppressed; but it was equally necessary in that it made wealth possible. Because they worked but consumed little, a class of people in need allowed a nation to become rich, to release the value of its fields, colonies and mines, making products that could be sold throughout the world. An impoverished people, in short, was a people that had no poor. Indigence became an indispensable element in the state. It hid the secret but most real life of society. The poor were the seat and the glory of nations. And their noble misery, for which there was no cure, was to be exalted:
«My intention is solely to invite the authorities to turn part of their vigilant attention to considering the portion of the People who suffer … the assistance that we owe them is linked to the honour and prosperity of the Empire, of which the Poor are the firmest bulwark, for no sovereign can maintain and extend his domain without favouring the population, and cultivating the Land, Commerce and the Arts; and the Poor are the necessary agents for the great powers that reveal the true force of a People.»
What we see here is a moral rehabilitation of the figure of the Pauper, bringing about the fundamental economic and social reintegration of his person. Paupers had no place in a mercantilist economy, as they were neither producers nor consumers, and they were idle, vagabond or unemployed, deserving nothing better than confinement, a measure that extracted and exiled them from society. But with the arrival of the industrial economy and its thirst for manpower, paupers were once again a part of the body of the nation.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Investigating Language and Retrieval Bias in Multilingual Previously Fact-Checked Claim Detection
Ivan Vykopal, Antonia Karamolegkou, Jaroslav Kop\v{c}an, Qiwei Peng, Tom\'a\v{s} Jav\r{u}rek, Michal Gregor, Mari\'an \v{S}imko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25138

Investigating Language and Retrieval Bias in Multilingual Previously Fact-Checked Claim Detection
Multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) offer powerful capabilities for cross-lingual fact-checking. However, these models often exhibit language bias, performing disproportionately better on high-resource languages such as English than on low-resource counterparts. We also present and inspect a novel concept - retrieval bias, when information retrieval systems tend to favor certain information over others, leaving the retrieval process skewed. In this paper, we study language and retrieval b…

What Matters in RL-Based Methods for Object-Goal Navigation? An Empirical Study and A Unified Framework
Hongze Wang, Boyang Sun, Jiaxu Xing, Fan Yang, Marco Hutter, Dhruv Shah, Davide Scaramuzza, Marc Pollefeys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01830

What Matters in RL-Based Methods for Object-Goal Navigation? An Empirical Study and A Unified Framework
Object-Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) is a critical component toward deploying mobile robots in everyday, uncontrolled environments such as homes, schools, and workplaces. In this context, a robot must locate target objects in previously unseen environments using only its onboard perception. Success requires the integration of semantic understanding, spatial reasoning, and long-horizon planning, which is a combination that remains extremely challenging. While reinforcement learning (RL) has become…

From keywords to semantics: Perceptions of large language models in data discovery
Maura E Halstead, Mark A. Green, Caroline Jay, Richard Kingston, David Topping, Alexander Singleton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01473

From keywords to semantics: Perceptions of large language models in data discovery
Current approaches to data discovery match keywords between metadata and queries. This matching requires researchers to know the exact wording that other researchers previously used, creating a challenging process that could lead to missing relevant data. Large Language Models (LLMs) could enhance data discovery by removing this requirement and allowing researchers to ask questions with natural language. However, we do not currently know if researchers would accept LLMs for data discovery. Usin…

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

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

Colorado voters overwhelmingly supported a pair of ballot measures that aim to ensure every public school child in the state is able to access free meals at their schools.
Proposition MM increases taxes on wealthy households earning more than $300,000 annually.
The measure supplements a previously passed referendum from 2022 that also called for increases in taxes in order to help fund schools, but which fell short of its funding goals.
The tax increases will affect around …

Colorado Passes Measures to Feed All Public School Kids by Taxing the Wealthy
Excess funds from the school meals program would be redirected toward the state-managed SNAP program.

Trump un-banned the use of no-click, smartphone Spyware for use by ICE against immigrants & PROTESTORS.
☑️ICE reactivates contract with previously banned spyware vendor
https://wapo.st/4httse1
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ICE reactivates contract with previously banned spyware vendor
The Biden administration had barred Paragon Solutions from U.S. government use after finding that the company’s software had been used unethically elsewhere.

Comcast's board approves the spinoff of Comcast's cable TV networks and their digital platforms to create Versant Media Group, trading as VSNT as of January 5 (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/comcast-board-approv…

Comcast Board Approves Separation Of Cable Networks Into New Versant Media Group In January
Comcast’s Board of Directors said it’s board has approved the previously announced separation its cable television networks into a new company called Versant.

My local supermarket keeps changing how the product offers work...
Buy 4 for 3, cheapest item free
Buy 2 for some random reduced price
Buy 1 for some price that's reduced from whatever it was previously offered at.
Then there's loyalty card prices, which only apply to some items.
Why can't they just offer slightly lower prices across the range so everyone benefits without jumping through hoops?!

#RIP Jane Goodall.
https://apnews.com/article/jane-goodall-obit-78698397851bc7634717206f7eba07b2

Jane Goodall, pioneering conservationist and primatologist, dies at 91
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91. The Jane Goodall Institute announced her death Wednesday, saying she died of natural causes while in California on a U.S. speaking tour. Goodall is best remembered for living among chimpanzees in Africa decades ago and documenting the animals using tools and doing other activities previously believed to be exclusive to humans. She also note…

EvoWorld: Evolving Panoramic World Generation with Explicit 3D Memory
Jiahao Wang, Luoxin Ye, TaiMing Lu, Junfei Xiao, Jiahan Zhang, Yuxiang Guo, Xijun Liu, Rama Chellappa, Cheng Peng, Alan Yuille, Jieneng Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01183

EvoWorld: Evolving Panoramic World Generation with Explicit 3D Memory
Humans possess a remarkable ability to mentally explore and replay 3D environments they have previously experienced. Inspired by this mental process, we present EvoWorld: a world model that bridges panoramic video generation with evolving 3D memory to enable spatially consistent long-horizon exploration. Given a single panoramic image as input, EvoWorld first generates future video frames by leveraging a video generator with fine-grained view control, then evolves the scene's 3D reconstruction …

Reverend David Black (who was previously shot in the face with a pepper ball by an ICE sniper) pleads with the line of local and state police supporting DHS, outside the Broadview, IL ICE facility
Source: https://v.redd.it/f1izzd32r2zf1

#AppealsCourt #overrules federal judge who wanted rogue #BorderPatrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino to appear daily in local courtroom to justify activities..
Previously Bovino has sicced his forces on civilians and been rampa…

Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks FTC to Investigate the Company https://www.404media.co/flock-logins-exposed-in-malware-infections-senator-asks-ftc-to-investigate-the-company/

Astronomers Discover Previously Unknown Quasi-Moon Near Earth - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/0034204/astronomers-discover-previously-unknown-quasi-moon-near-earth

If the November 2025 election was a referendum on President Trump, the Democrats have a lot to celebrate tonight.
Democratic candidates swept key races:
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic socialist, beat Trump-endorsed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a historic election for New York City mayor.

Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a 46-year-old Democrat who previously worked as a CIA officer, beat a Republican candidate to become Virginia governor.

Rep…

Voters approve Prop. 50, California redistricting, in a win for Democrats
Prop. 50, California’s congressional redistricting measure, was on the ballot on a high-profile election day that saw Democratic wins in New York, New Jersey and elsewhere.

A non-speedup result for the chain-antichain principle over a weak base theory
Katarzyna W. Kowalik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00323 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

A non-speedup result for the chain-antichain principle over a weak base theory
We show that the theory $\mathsf{WKL}^*_0+\mathsf{CAC}$ is polynomially simulated by $\mathsf{RCA}_0^*$ with respect to $\forallΠ^0_3$ formulas. For the proof, we use the method of forcing interpretations and syntactically simulate a two-step model-theoretic argument, which involves construction of a restricted definable ultrapower, followed by a generic cut satisfying $\mathsf{CAC}$. Our result sharply contrasts with the previously known fact that $\mathsf{RCA}_0^*+\mathsf{RT}^2_2$ has non-el…

Decentralized exchange Ostium raised a $20M Series A led by General Catalyst and Jump Trading, a source says at a ~$250M valuation, after previously raising $8M (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/03/ostium-series-a-fundraise-perpetuals-perps-cry…

Exclusive: Harvard grads raise $20 million for Ostium, a platform focused on a derivative popular with crypto traders
The marquee investors General Catalyst and Jump Crypto led the funding round.

Chambers and walls in spaces of real algebraic curves of small degrees
Victor Ivanovich Zvonilov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00751 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

Chambers and walls in spaces of real algebraic curves of small degrees
This paper reviews known results on the rigid isotopy classification of plane curves of degree $m\leq6$ and curves of small degrees on quadrics. The paper's study completes the rigid isotopy classification of nonsingular real algebraic curves of bidegree (4,3) on a hyperboloid, begun by the author in earlier works. There are given previously missing proofs of the uniqueness of the connected components for 16 classes of real algebraic curves of bidegree (4,3) having a single node or a cusp. The …

Not really surprised that Trump wants to do nuclear weapon tests again. He just does everything this previously oldest republican president stopped or argued against: first tariffs, now nuclear weapons
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermed

from my link log —
Identity types.
https://bartoszmilewski.com/2025/09/22/identity-types/
saved 2025-09-26 https://dotat.…

Identity Types
Previously: Models of (Dependent) Type Theory. There is a deep connection between mathematics and programming. Computer programs deal with such mathematical objects as numbers, vectors, monoids, fu…

🌴 Satellite study reveals 6.5 million hectares of 'hidden' oil palm across Africa
#africa

Satellite study reveals 6.5 million hectares of 'hidden' oil palm across Africa
Researchers have identified 6.5 million hectares of previously unrecorded oil palm growing wild, semi-wild and in gardens, across Africa—an area three times larger than all African commercial plantations combined.

A planetary system with a sub-Neptune planet in the habitable zone of TOI-2093
J. Sanz-Forcada, E. Gonz\'alez-\'Alvarez, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, J. A. Caballero, V. J. S. B\'ejar, E. Herrero, C. Rodr\'iguez-L\'opez, K. R. Sreenivas, L. Tal-Or, S. Vanaverbeke, A. P. Hatzes, R. Luque, E. Nagel, F. J. Pozuelos, D. Rapetti, A. Quirrenbach, P. J. Amado, M. Blazek, I. Carleo, D. Ciardi, C. Cifuentes, K. Collins, Th. Henning, D. W. Latham, J. Lillo-Box, E. Marfil, D. Montes…

A planetary system with a sub-Neptune planet in the habitable zone of TOI-2093
Aims. We aim to confirm and measure the mass of the transiting planet candidate around the K5V star TOI-2093, previously announced by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project. Methods. We combined photometric data from 32 sectors between 2019 and 2024 with 86 radial velocity measurements obtained with the CARMENES spectrograph over a period of 2.4 years, along with a series of ground-based, broadband photometric monitoring campaigns to characterize the host star and the transiti…

The Vegan Logic Test: If You Believe These 6 Things, You’re Nearly There https://veganfta.com/blog/2025/09/24/the-vegan-logic-test-if-you-believe-these-6-things-youre-nearly-there/?utm_source=Mastodon

The Vegan Logic Test: If You Believe These 6 Things, You’re Nearly There
People have some serious issues when the word ‘vegan’ comes up. It can trigger defensiveness. But have you considered that you may, in some ways, think like a vegan more than you previously thought?

Fast Energy-Theft Attack on Frequency-Varying Wireless Power without Additional Sensors
Hui Wang, Nima Tashakor, Xiaoyang Tian, Hans D. Schotten, Stefan M. Goetz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25394

Fast Energy-Theft Attack on Frequency-Varying Wireless Power without Additional Sensors
With the popularity of wireless charging, energy access protection and cybersecurity are gaining importance, especially in public places. Currently, the most common energy encryption method uses frequency and associated impedance variation. However, we have proven that this method is not reliable, since a hacker can detect the changing frequency and adjust the compensation. However, the previously presented system needed time to follow the updated frequency, while encryption systems may vary th…

The Guided Local Hamiltonian Problem for Stoquastic Hamiltonians
Gabriel Waite
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25829 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25829

The Guided Local Hamiltonian Problem for Stoquastic Hamiltonians
We show that the Guided Local Hamiltonian problem for stoquastic Hamiltonians is (promise) BPP-hard. The Guided Local Hamiltonian problem is a variant of the Local Hamiltonian problem that incorporates an additional input known as a guiding state, which is promised to overlap with the ground state. For a range of local Hamiltonian families, this problem is (promise) BQP-hard, though for stoquastic Hamiltonians, the complexity was previously unknown. Our results are achieved by first reducing fr…

For ESA’s mission #Vigil to forecast dangerous space weather, #mpsgoettingen is providing one of the key instruments: Vigil's Photospheric Magnetic Field Imager. Read more about the instrument and the science we plan to do with it here:

Updates to the WFC3/UVIS Saturation Map
Mitchell Revalski, Isabel Rivera, Varun Bajaj, Frederick Dauphin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00097 https://arxiv.org…

Updates to the WFC3/UVIS Saturation Map
The calwf3 software for WFC3/UVIS utilizes a reference file to flag pixels that are saturated beyond their full-well depth. Previously, this was accomplished using a constant threshold of 65,500 e$^{-}$ across the entire detector. In this study, we retrieved $\sim$1 million stars from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) to determine the flux level at which the Point Spread Function begins to flatten, which occurs as the central pixel saturates. We quantified the saturation limit as…

I figure even if it is someday possible for the transhumanists to upload themselves into a machine, it will be a nightmare attempting to later transplant themselves into the new improved updated wow machine that will someday replace it!
Folks who balk about Mastodon not letting you migrate your entire presence elsewhere likely have never tried to extricate their personal workflow from a 15 year old laptop! 😅
That is, of course, AFTER previously spending an hour or so to weed out the about:config AI functions and add no-AI search engines to the fresh Firefox install 😞
Yes, I have contemplated installing Emacs and nothing else. Would seem the only sensible thing to do, but 'sensible' was never listed on my report card.

Dynamics of a bricklayer model: multi-walker realizations of true self-avoiding motion
A. C. Maggs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00975 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Dynamics of a bricklayer model: multi-walker realizations of true self-avoiding motion
We consider a multi-walker generalization of the true self-avoiding walk, the bricklayer model. We perform stochastic simulations and solve the continuum partial differential equations that describe the collective evolution of $N$ bricklayers/walkers. These equations were previously derived from hydrodynamic considerations. In the large-$N$ limit, the results from simulation agree with the solutions of the partial differential equations.

@… @… voyez le deliberate mistake, et merci.
I did previously think of chanteur.
A bicyclette, de Royaume-Uni au Lyon very many years ago. Depuis the early 1980s my good spoken French has descended into happily careless tooted Masto…

folks migrating away from hosting providers that hadn’t previously considered how tightly coupled their web framework was to said host are about to learn some things — I’m sorry and I wish you the best on your journey

The US DOJ has indicted two Virginia brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, for allegedly deleting 96 US government databases while working as Opexus contractors (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/03/virgina-twins-doj-arrest-opexus-data-breaches

Virginia brothers arrested for allegedly tampering with government databases
The brothers worked for a contractor and previously pled guilty for hacking into the State Department.

Learning Distinguishable Representations in Deep Q-Networks for Linear Transfer
Sooraj Sathish, Keshav Goyal, Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24947 https:/…

Learning Distinguishable Representations in Deep Q-Networks for Linear Transfer
Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated success in solving complex sequential decision-making problems by integrating neural networks with the RL framework. However, training deep RL models poses several challenges, such as the need for extensive hyperparameter tuning and high computational costs. Transfer learning has emerged as a promising strategy to address these challenges by enabling the reuse of knowledge from previously learned tasks for new, related tasks. This avoids the nee…

Classification of solutions of an elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi equation
Alessio Porretta, Philippe Souplet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00146 https://arxiv.org/p…

Classification of solutions of an elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi equation
We show that any classical solution of the diffusive Hamilton-Jacobi (DHJ) equation $-Δu= |\nabla u|^p$ in a half-space with zero boundary conditions for $12$, our result completes the full classification picture of the Dirichlet problem for equation (DHJ) in a half-space.

The other day, @… published a agreat video explaining whats is wrong with the Digital Omnibus, a bundle of laws the EU commission wants to pass quickly in order to weaken the data protection standards the EU previously established in the GDPR.
My favourite quote is what @…

Key Bears-Packers matchup in Week 16 set for 8:20 p.m. ET kickoff https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6856892/2025/12/02/bears-packers-week-16-kickoff/

Formation and evolution of a 2-brane structure in multidimensional $f(R)$ gravity
Kirill A. Bronnikov, Arkady A. Popov, Sergey G. Rubin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26215 https://…

Formation and evolution of a 2-brane structure in multidimensional $f(R)$ gravity
It has been previously shown that multidimensional $f(R)$ gravity {can lead} to a two-brane structure. In this paper, we analyze such a model with a spatially flat 4D de Sitter (dS) cosmology {whose Hubble parameter $H$ determines the universal energy scale}. We show that the two-brane metric is nucleated at the highest energies. The distance between the branes grows gradually as the energy decreases, tending to a finite value at zero energy density. It is stated that the physic…

In the Skyraider II crash in Oklahoma the other day, I hadn't previously seen this angle showing the stop sign. I guess they did eventually come to a complete stop!
(Everyone on the ground and in the plane was OK, thanks to a driver with a dashcam noticing and swerving out of the way, whence this sti…

Cool Dark Gas in Cygnus X - The First Large-scale Mapping of Low-frequency Carbon Recombination Lines: #MilkyWay: https://public.nrao.edu/news/astronomers-map-mysterious-dark-gas-in-the-milky-way/ - new research exposes CO-dark molecular gas, previously invisible to telescopes, uncovering the hidden building blocks of our Galaxy.

EU member states backed a revised proposal to combat online child sexual abuse, despite opposition from Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, and the Netherlands.
The plan allows companies to voluntarily scan encrypted messages as part of risk-mitigation duties, replacing earlier mandatory detection orders. Germany’s shift secured a qualified majority.
The Council will now negotiate final wording with the European Parliament, which previously rejected the scanning.

Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.
A lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips were connected in ways that have not been previously reported.

In Giant Deals, U.A.E. Got Chips, and Trump Team Got Crypto Riches
A lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips were connected in ways that have not been previously reported.

Jay Yarow, who previously led digital strategy at CNBC and Business Insider, is named president of CoinDesk Insights, the media and events division of Bullish (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/01/cn…

CNBC Veteran Jay Yarow Joins CoinDesk to Expand Media and Events
Yarow will oversee CoinDesk Insights as its parent company looks to expand digital asset coverage across the globe.

US private payrolls unexpectedly declined in November, the ADP employment report showed on Wednesday.
Private employment decreased by 32,000 jobs last month
after an upwardly revised 47,000 increase in October.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast private employment rising by 10,000 jobs after a previously reported 42,000 rebound in October.

Type-Less yet Type-Aware Inductive Link Prediction with Pretrained Language Models
Alessandro De Bellis, Salvatore Bufi, Giovanni Servedio, Vito Walter Anelli, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26224

Type-Less yet Type-Aware Inductive Link Prediction with Pretrained Language Models
Inductive link prediction is emerging as a key paradigm for real-world knowledge graphs (KGs), where new entities frequently appear and models must generalize to them without retraining. Predicting links in a KG faces the challenge of guessing previously unseen entities by leveraging generalizable node features such as subgraph structure, type annotations, and ontological constraints. However, explicit type information is often lacking or incomplete. Even when available, type information in mos…

Perplexity is making its AI browser Comet, previously $200 per month as part of Perplexity Max, free for all, with rate limits (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/perplexity-makes-200-ai-browser-free-to-battle-ai-sl…

Find out how Perplexity wants to fight AI 'slop' with its latest browser
Perplexity's Comet browser is now free as the AI startup fights low-quality content and partners with publishers like CNN and The Washington Post.

Richard Murphy, who previously advocated green growth, gets there in the end.
"The real challenge we face is not how to restart a growth engine that has already driven us to the edge of environmental collapse. It is how to redesign the economy so that the resources we already have are used to meet human and ecological needs.
Growth is not coming back — and nor should our democracy depend upon it."

Growth is not coming back — and nor should our democracy depend upon it
Martin Wolf has (once again) declared in the Financial Times that the fate of democracy rests on economic growth. As he said, in advance of the Budget: [Reeves'] first priority must be to get whatever growth she can.  Growth made democracy possible, he claims, and only growth can now save it, in...

Rachael Bade, who previously co-authored Politico Playbook, Sean Spicer, and Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine plan online political show The Huddle (Status)
https://www.status.news/p/sean-spicer-rachel-bade-dan-turrentine-show-youtube

The 'Huddle' in Washington
Rachael Bade is teaming up with Sean Spicer and Dan Turrentine on a new venture, Status has learned, braving the crowded independent media space with a new political show.

https://san.com/cc/company-that-sells-spyware-for-monitoring-sex-offenders-hacked/
A file titled “officers” in the leak contains 6,896 entries for people who work in the criminal-justice system and who currently or have previously used RemoteCOM…

Company that sells spyware for monitoring sex offenders hacked
A company that sells spyware that monitors individuals on parole and probation had its data leaked to a cybercrime forum.

@… so, maybe the new user had previously asked questions that baked-in members didn't like …
… but is that an excuse to press the user's buttons? I don't think so. Instead of de-escalating the situation, people throw fuel and light matches.
I learnt the (very) hard way how to get easy editor in response to visudo.
Some p…

The Lie of the Average: How Class Incremental Learning Evaluation Deceives You?
Guannan Lai, Da-Wei Zhou, Xin Yang, Han-Jia Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22580 https://

The Lie of the Average: How Class Incremental Learning Evaluation Deceives You?
Class Incremental Learning (CIL) requires models to continuously learn new classes without forgetting previously learned ones, while maintaining stable performance across all possible class sequences. In real-world settings, the order in which classes arrive is diverse and unpredictable, and model performance can vary substantially across different sequences. Yet mainstream evaluation protocols calculate mean and variance from only a small set of randomly sampled sequences. Our theoretical anal…

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

Paramount hires Josh Silverman, previously Mattel's chief franchise officer, as president of global products and experiences, overseeing consumer products, more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.

Paramount Hires Josh Silverman as President of Global Products and Experiences
The exec, most recently the chief franchise officer of Mattel, will oversee consumer products, live experiences, partnerships and publishing for the Skydance-owned media company.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX
has taken money directly from Chinese investors,
according to previously sealed testimony,
raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.
The recent testimony,
coming from a SpaceX insider during a court case,
marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the privately held company has been disclosed.
While there is no prohibition on Chinese ownership i…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies
The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most important military contractors.

Restrictions on Initial Conditions in Cosmological Scenarios and Implications for Simulations of Primordial Black Holes and Inflation
Thomas W. Baumgarte, Katy Clough, John T. Giblin Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26470

Restrictions on Initial Conditions in Cosmological Scenarios and Implications for Simulations of Primordial Black Holes and Inflation
Numerical relativity simulations provide a means by which to study the evolution and end point of strong over-densities in cosmological spacetimes. Specific applications include studies of primordial black hole formation and the robustness of inflation. Here we adopt a toy model previously used in asymptotically flat spacetimes to show that, for given values of the over-density and the mean curvature, solutions to the Hamiltonian constraint need not exist, and if they do exist they are not uniq…

Correlated double ramification cycle formula
Thomas Blomme, Francesca Carocci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24721 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24721

Correlated double ramification cycle formula
We prove a refinement of Pixton's formula for the double ramification cycle with target variety which takes into account the correlator of a rubber map previously introduced by the authors. To do so, we need to: reinterpret the correlator in terms of (logarithmic) roots of the trivial line bundle; refine the natural stratification of the boundary of moduli of maps to keep track of how torsion line bundles on the target variety pull-back. We apply the refined DR cycle formula to compute 0-correl…

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.

The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just 7,500
– and those spots will mostly be filled by white South Africans.
The low number represents a dramatic drop after the US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people
fleeing war and persecution from around the world

Sources: White House officials discussed antitrust concerns over Netflix's interest in WBD, questioning if a deal would give Netflix too much power in Hollywood (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/…

Exclusive | White House officials have raised antitrust concerns over Netflix's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery: sources
A high-level meeting that took place about 10 days ago hasn’t been previously reported. Several White House officials also suggested during the sitdown that a broader investigation is necessa…

💸 Wealthy parents rush to give children their assets as tougher UK inheritance tax rules loom
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/sep/13/wealthy-parents-rush-to-give-children-their-assets-as-tougher-…

Xavier Worthy's return ignites Chiefs offense in blowout win over Ravens: It's 'scary for defenses' https://www.nfl.com/news/xavier-worthy-return-chiefs-blowout-win-ravens-its-scary-for-defenses

🛡️ 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

The White House says that journalists can no longer access "Upper Press" in the West Wing, an area previously open to reporters, without an appointment (Brett Samuels/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5584020-white-house-limi…

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

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.

Google rolls out an AI-powered conversational photo editing tool, previously exclusive to the Pixel 10 series, to all Google Photos users on Android (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/android-users-just…

Your Android phone just got a massive Google Photos upgrade - here's what it can do now
Previously exclusive to the Pixel 10, you can now edit photos with a simple AI prompt - remove glare, add clouds, and more.

C.J. Gardner-Johnson signs with third team of the season, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/c-j-gardner-johnson-bears-dennis-allen-defensive-secondary/

🪭 Previously unknown protein 'folding factories' discovered
#biology

Previously unknown protein 'folding factories' discovered
In order to fulfill their many functions, proteins must be folded into the correct shape. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered tiny "folding factories" in cells that enable efficient and accurate protein folding. A lack of these structures can lead to diseases such as diabetes and neurodegenerative disorders.

Browns stun Pack with big block, then 55-yard FG https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46340211/browns-break-win-column-wild-win-late-vs-packers

Spotify raises UK prices by £1 after previously raising them in April 2024; the Premium individual monthly plan will now cost £12.99 (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spo

Spotify raises UK and Switzerland Premium prices again as analysts see US hike by early 2026
The 8.3% increase marks the second time in 18 months that the Swedish streaming giant has raised UK prices by £1.

Internal memo: Meta's head of AI product Nat Friedman says Vishal Shah, who previously led the metaverse unit, is joining his team to lead AI product management (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/89a089db-432e-44eb-96e3-21f9ffce555c

Now that the Epstein Transparency Act has passed both Houses,
the Department of Justice is obligated to share with the public thousands of previously secret documents, emails, and photos.
Although many critics are concerned that redactions will make these documents ineffectual in exposing the predators and predator protectors,
there is still hope that these women will finally be able to reveal the corruption that has survived multiple presidential administrations.
…

Thanks to Epstein, America’s elite are losing control of the narrative
The Epstein Transparency Act may trigger the most significant crack in oligarchic power in a generation. With Congress compelling the DOJ to reveal Epstein’s secret files, the protective wall around America’s most powerful men is beginning to crumble. This moment could be the first genuine challenge to the impunity enjoyed by the country’s wealthiest predators.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees on Friday issued an order
allowing President Donald Trump to unilaterally hold back $4 billion in foreign aid funding
— overturning the decision of Congress that was previously signed into law.
It was a ruling that required a willful disregard for some of the most fundamental understandings of America’s federal government
— and prompted a sharp dissent from the Democratic appointees.
The shadow docket ruling addre…

SCOTUS Republican appointees let Trump ignore Congress, cut foreign aid
As Justice Kagan wrote for the dissenting Dem appointees, the majority's "preliminary" ruling means $4 billion in aid allotted by Congress will be blocked "for all time.“

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.

CBS News hires Charles Forelle, who recently left his role as deputy editor at The Wall Street Journal; he had been with the WSJ since 2002 (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/cbs-news-hires-wsjs-forelle/

CBS News hires WSJ's Forelle - Talking Biz News
Charles Forelle, who recently left his role as deputy editor at The Wall Street Journal, has been hired at CBS News in a similar role, reports Lachlan Cartwright of Breaker. He had been deputy editor in chief at The Journal since 2023. He was previously financial editor and had been a reporter at the Journal since 2002, […]

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees on Friday issued an order
allowing President Donald Trump to unilaterally hold back $4 billion in foreign aid funding
— overturning the decision of Congress that was previously signed into law.
It was a ruling that required a willful disregard for some of the most fundamental understandings of America’s federal government
— and prompted a sharp dissent from the Democratic appointees.
The shadow docket ruling addre…

SCOTUS Republican appointees let Trump ignore Congress, cut foreign aid
As Justice Kagan wrote for the dissenting Dem appointees, the majority's "preliminary" ruling means $4 billion in aid allotted by Congress will be blocked "for all time.“

Apple quietly cancels the release of Apple TV show The Savant this Friday; its trailer faced backlash for allegedly misrepresenting right-wing ideologies (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/23/apple-tv-the-savant-release-cancelled/

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

Donald Trump has bizarrely claimed he didn’t approve of the massive ICE raid of a Hyundai manufacturing plant in Georgia.
“I was very much opposed,”
the MAGA leader told reporters aboard Air Force One,
en route to Japan as part of his wider diplomatic tour of Asia.
Hyundai is a major South Korean car manufacturer.
On Oct. 29, Trump will meet with its President, Lee Jae Myung, who has previously blasted the raid.
She warned the action would have severe con…

Trump Hammers His Own ICE Goons to Suck Up to Foreign Leader
He is slamming ICE over a raid at a U.S. Hyundai plant as he prepares to meet with South Korea’s president.

Meta launches the American Technology Excellence Project, a super PAC to fight AI policy bills at the state level; it previously launched a California PAC (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/meta-superpac-ai-regulation

Exclusive: Meta launches super PAC to fight AI regulation
Meta is targeting what it sees as onerous AI and tech policy bills across the country.

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.

Oracle promotes Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-CEOs, replacing Safra Catz; Magouyrk previously led Cloud Infrastructure, and Sicilia led Oracle Industries (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…