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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.

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
(Archive:

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

@… 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…

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

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

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

#Measles On The Rise Across Globe As #Vaccination Rates Decline...Third World Has Highest Spike, But #USA in The Mix As Well Now.

Tried some home grown caffeine boost .
I have several Yaupon holly bushes growing in the back yard. I tried it previously where I dried the leaves a few days and brewed the crushed leaves Was similar to green tea with a slight bitterness.
This time I made sure all the twig ends were removed and after they were washed roasted them in the oven at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. They had a nice smell as they roasted. Crushed and stored them for a couple days. The aging step probably was …

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 @…

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.“

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, […]

U.S. faces rising death toll from wildfire smoke, study finds #UnitedStates

U.S. faces rising death toll from wildfire smoke, study finds
Wildfires burning across Canada and the Western United States are spewing smoke over millions of Americans—the latest examples of ashy haze becoming a regular experience, with health impacts far greater than scientists previously estimated.

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

A sample of 3403 galaxy clusters identified in XMM-Newton X-ray images
Z. S. Yuan, Z. L. Wen, W. Xu, J. L. Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21031 https://arx…

A sample of 3403 galaxy clusters identified in XMM-Newton X-ray images
Currently, the number of galaxy clusters identified using galaxy data has far exceeded the number derived from intracluster medium data. In this study, we used positional information from large optical cluster catalogues to search for previously unrecognized X-ray galaxy clusters in archival XMM-Newton data. We successfully identified 1490 galaxy clusters in X-ray images for the first time. By incorporating 1913 previously known X-ray clusters, we constructed a sample of 3403 galaxy clusters ob…

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.“

Bengals DC Al Golden says players-only meeting following loss to Jets underscores 'sense of urgency' https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-dc-al-golden-says-players-only-meeting-following-loss-to-jets-underscores-sense-…

Follow-up: looks like the possibility mentioned previously will become a reality:

humancompatible.train: Implementing Optimization Algorithms for Stochastically-Constrained Stochastic Optimization Problems
Andrii Kliachkin, Jana Lep\v{s}ov\'a, Gilles Bareilles, Jakub Mare\v{c}ek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21254

humancompatible.train: Implementing Optimization Algorithms for Stochastically-Constrained Stochastic Optimization Problems
There has been a considerable interest in constrained training of deep neural networks (DNNs) recently for applications such as fairness and safety. Several toolkits have been proposed for this task, yet there is still no industry standard. We present humancompatible.train (https://github.com/humancompatible/train), an easily-extendable PyTorch-based Python package for training DNNs with stochastic constraints. We implement multiple previously unimplemented algorithms for stochastically constra…

A recurrence for certain Tutte polynomials and a depth-first search conjecture
Vincent Brugidou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20959 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

A recurrence for certain Tutte polynomials and a depth-first search conjecture
We combinatorially prove a recurrence between the Tutte polynomials of graphs obtained by contraction of the complete graphs $K_{n}$%. This generalizes to two variables a relation previously obtained by the author between the inversion enumerating polynomials in the colored trees. A combinatorial interpretation concerning certain polynomials recently introduced by the author via the theory of symmetric functions is also conjectured . This intrepretation uses the depth-first search.

A family of Hecke eigenforms for Drinfeld modular forms of arbitrary rank
O\u{g}uz Gezmi\c{s}, \"Ozge \"Ulkem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20895 https://

A family of Hecke eigenforms for Drinfeld modular forms of arbitrary rank
We aim to provide a family of Drinfeld-Hecke eigenforms given in terms of a determinant of twisted Eisenstein series. Our main tool is the theory of vectorial Drinfeld modular forms, previously introduced by Pellarin [18] and extensively studied by Pellarin [19] as well as in his joint work with Perkins [20] in the rank two setting. We will develop this theory in the present paper for the arbitrary rank setting by using a particular representation.

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

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.

I wasn't previously aware, but apparently the government is looking, again, at updating the Computer Misuse Act 1990 with proposals to protect researchers. (Although I haven't seen an open consultation since 2023.)

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.

Enhancements to XAML Live Preview in Visual Studio for .NET MAUI. This feature is available in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14 and the Visual Studio 2026 Insiders release.
#visualstudio #visualstudio2026

🛡️ 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

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

@… the endless 'pkg autoremove' issue may be be fixed. IIRC it was previously reproducible after deleting a meta package or two.

AI-Enhanced Multi-Dimensional Measurement of Technological Convergence through Heterogeneous Graph and Semantic Learning
Siming Deng, Runsong Jia, Chunjuan Luan, Mengjia Wu, Yi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21187

AI-Enhanced Multi-Dimensional Measurement of Technological Convergence through Heterogeneous Graph and Semantic Learning
Technological convergence refers to the phenomenon where boundaries between technological areas and disciplines are increasingly blurred. It enables the integration of previously distinct domains and has become a mainstream trend in today's innovation process. However, accurately measuring technological convergence remains a persistent challenge due to its inherently multidimensional and evolving nature. This study designs an Technological Convergence Index (TCI) that comprehensively measures c…

Symplectic Isospectral Runge--Kutta Methods as Lie group methods
Paolo Cifani, Klas Modin, Cecilia Pagliantini, Milo Viviani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20620 https://

Symplectic Isospectral Runge--Kutta Methods as Lie group methods
In this paper, we compare three different approaches for a conservative integration in time of isospectral flows on quadratic Lie algebras. We show that it is possible to choose an equivalent formulation of the original isospectral flow such that, applying a symplectic Runge--Kutta method, the resulting scheme is both conservative and computationally more efficient than other schemes previously proposed. In particular, in the case of Hamiltonian systems, we get arbitrarily high-order Lie--P…

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

MIT bag in non-smooth convex domains
Konstantin Pankrashkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20958 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20958

MIT bag in non-smooth convex domains
The Dirac operator with MIT bag boundary condition in a bounded convex domain is shown to be always self-adjoint in the $H^1$-setting. This allows one to show that such operators appear as limit of Dirac operators with large positive mass outside the domain. Similar results were previously known for smooth domains only.

SMC-X: A Distributed Scalable Monte Carlo Simulation Method for Chemically Complex Alloys
Xianglin Liu, Kai Yang, Fanli Zhou, Pengxiang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20949 https…

SMC-X: A Distributed Scalable Monte Carlo Simulation Method for Chemically Complex Alloys
To predict the complex chemical evolution in multicomponent alloys, it is highly desirable to have accurate atomistic simulation methods capable of reaching sufficiently large spatial and temporal scales. In this work, we advance the recently proposed SMC-X method through distributed computation on either GPUs or CPUs, pushing both spatial and temporal scales of atomistic simulation of chemically complex alloys to previously inaccessible scales. This includes a 16-billion-atom HEA system extend…

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…

"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...

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…

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

Cooperative Function with Thermal Fluctuations in Mechanical Networks
Ben Pisanty, Jovana Andrejevic, Andrea J. Liu, Sidney R. Nagel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20560 https://

Cooperative Function with Thermal Fluctuations in Mechanical Networks
Elastic networks can be tuned to exhibit complex mechanical responses and have been extensively used to study protein allosteric functionality, where a localized strain regulates the conformation at a distant site. We show that cooperative binding, where two sites each enhance the other's ability to function, can be trained via a symmetric application of the training previously employed for creating network allostery. We identify a crossover temperature above which cooperative functionality bre…

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.

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…

Memory-QA: Answering Recall Questions Based on Multimodal Memories
Hongda Jiang, Xinyuan Zhang, Siddhant Garg, Rishab Arora, Shiun-Zu Kuo, Jiayang Xu, Christopher Brossman, Yue Liu, Aaron Colak, Ahmed Aly, Anuj Kumar, Xin Luna Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18436

Memory-QA: Answering Recall Questions Based on Multimodal Memories
We introduce Memory-QA, a novel real-world task that involves answering recall questions about visual content from previously stored multimodal memories. This task poses unique challenges, including the creation of task-oriented memories, the effective utilization of temporal and location information within memories, and the ability to draw upon multiple memories to answer a recall question. To address these challenges, we propose a comprehensive pipeline, Pensieve, integrating memory-specific …

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

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.

DevFD: Developmental Face Forgery Detection by Learning Shared and Orthogonal LoRA Subspaces
Tianshuo Zhang, Li Gao, Siran Peng, Xiangyu Zhu, Zhen Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19230

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.

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

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?)

What Really Doomed Napoleon’s Army? Scientists Find New Clues in DNA https://www.404media.co/what-really-doomed-napoleons-army-scientists-find-new-clues-in-dna/

Ransomware gang known for government attacks claims Maryland transit incident
https://therecord.media/maryland-transit-administration-data-breach-claimed-ransomware-gang

Ransomware gang known for government attacks claims Maryland transit incident
Maryland's statewide transit agency confirmed that a previously disclosed cyberattack exposed an unknown amount of data. A highly active cybercrime gang reportedly claimed the incident.

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

A Mega-Study of Digital Twins Reveals Strengths, Weaknesses and Opportunities for Further Improvement
Tiany Peng, George Gui, Daniel J. Merlau, Grace Jiarui Fan, Malek Ben Sliman, Melanie Brucks, Eric J. Johnson, Vicki Morwitz, Abdullah Althenayyan, Silvia Bellezza, Dante Donati, Hortense Fong, Elizabeth Friedman, Ariana Guevara, Mohamed Hussein, Kinshuk Jerath, Bruce Kogut, Kristen Lane, Hannah Li, Patryk Perkowski, Oded Netzer, Olivier Toubia

On isomorphisms between quiver Yangians
Vishnu Jejjala, Dumisani Nxumalo, Konstantinos Zoubos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19288 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1…

I just updated 8 libraries I maintain to run on PHP 8.5.
None of them required any changes for 8.5. One had two deprecation nitpicks left over from 8.4 that I'd not previously caught, trivially fixed.
It took me a little over an hour to do all 8, including some other maintenance at the same time.
PHP upgrades rock if your code is good. 🙂 :elephpant:
#PHP

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…

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.

Design and Development of an Intelligent LLM-based LDAP Honeypot
Javier Jim\'enez-Rom\'an, Florina Almenares-Mendoza, Alfonso S\'anchez-Maci\'an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16682

Design and Development of an Intelligent LLM-based LDAP Honeypot
Cybersecurity threats continue to increase, with a growing number of previously unknown attacks each year targeting both large corporations and smaller entities. This scenario demands the implementation of advanced security measures, not only to mitigate damage but also to anticipate emerging attack trends. In this context, deception tools have become a key strategy, enabling the detection, deterrence, and deception of potential attackers while facilitating the collection of information about t…

“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

Bolts' Hampton dealt with fracture, hopeful for Sun. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47113545/chargers-hampton-dealt-ankle-fracture-hopeful-sunday

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.

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.

The X-ray Emission of NGC 5005: An Unobscured Low-Luminosity AGN with a Weakly Accreting Broad-Line Region
Anna Trindade Falc\~ao, R. Middei, G. Fabbiano, M. Elvis, P. Zhu, W. P. Maksym, D. {\L}. Kr\'ol, L. Feuillet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20597

The X-ray Emission of NGC 5005: An Unobscured Low-Luminosity AGN with a Weakly Accreting Broad-Line Region
We present deep Chandra X-ray observations of NGC 5005, a LINER-dominated galaxy previously reported to host a broad H$α$ emission line. The diffuse soft X-ray emission ($<$3 keV) extends out to $\sim$800 pc, while harder emission ($>$3 keV) is confined to the central $\sim$400 pc. Spatially resolved spectroscopy of the nuclear ($r<150$ pc) and extended ($150

🫙 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.

Hayabusa2 extended mission target asteroid 1998 KY26 is smaller and rotating faster than previously known: #Hayabusa2 touchdown? New study reveals space mission’s target asteroid is tinier and faster than thought: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2515/

Patriots defensive coordinator Terrell Williams diagnosed with prostate cancer: 'He's been through a lot'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patrio…

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

@… on the bright side 🙂 one good thing about vi is the knowledge that it can be deeply divisive.
I once used this foreknowledge as part of a secret plan to find good co-workers for something. As predicted: the discussion quickly spiralled out of control. Some of the previously identified candidates showed their true colours when put in a difficult (contentious) si…

G\"odel Test: Can Large Language Models Solve Easy Conjectures?
Moran Feldman, Amin Karbasi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18383 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

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/

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…

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

Control Disturbance Rejection in Neural ODEs
Erkan Bayram, Mohamed-Ali Belabbas, Tamer Ba\c{s}ar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18034 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Control Disturbance Rejection in Neural ODEs
In this paper, we propose an iterative training algorithm for Neural ODEs that provides models resilient to control (parameter) disturbances. The method builds on our earlier work Tuning without Forgetting-and similarly introduces training points sequentially, and updates the parameters on new data within the space of parameters that do not decrease performance on the previously learned training points-with the key difference that, inspired by the concept of flat minima, we solve a minimax prob…

🪭 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.

RadioSED II: discovering the peaked spectrum radio sources in Stripe 82
E. F. Kerrison, E. M. Sadler, V. A. Moss, E. K. Mahony, L. Driessen, K. Ross, K. Rose, D. Dobie, T. Murphy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21233

RadioSED II: discovering the peaked spectrum radio sources in Stripe 82
This paper is the second in a series presenting \textsc{RadioSED}, a Bayesian inference framework for constructing, modelling and classifying radio spectral energy distributions from publicly-available surveys. We focus here on the application of our framework to SDSS Stripe 82. Not only do we recover all eleven previously-published peaked spectrum sources from the literature within this region, but we increase the number of known peaked spectrum sources here by more than an order of magnitude.…

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 ...

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.

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

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/

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."

🫓 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.

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

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.

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.

Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/warming-triggers-unprecedented-carbon-loss-from-tropical-soils-study-finds/

Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds
Climate warming could cause much greater soil carbon losses in the tropics than previously predicted, with potentially dire consequences for the global climate, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Tropical forests store around a third of the world’s soil carbon and exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other land biome. […]

We haven’t mined on the moon yet, but companies are already buying its resources.

Finnish tech firm Bluefors,
a maker of ultracold refrigerator systems critical for quantum computing,
has purchased tens of thousands of liters of Helium-3 from the moon
— spending “above $300 million”
— through a commercial space company called Interlune.
The agreement, which has not been previously reported, marks the largest purchase of a natural resource from space
…

Moon helium deal is biggest purchase of natural resources from space
The feasibility of moon mining is not yet proven, but the future of supercomputing may depend on the ability to extract Helium-3 from the lunar surface.

REBELS-IFU: on the origin of the elevated [OIII]/[CII] ratios in the early Universe
Hiddo Algera, Lucie Rowland, Renske Smit, Rebecca Fisher, Lise Ramambason, Nimisha Kumari, Livia Vallini, Hanae Inami, Themiya Nanayakkara, Mauro Stefanon, Manuel Aravena, Tom Bakx, Rychard Bouwens, Rebecca Bowler, Karin Cescon, Chian-Chou Chen, Pratika Dayal, Ilse De Looze, Andrea Ferrara, Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Lena Komarova, Ivana van Leeuwen, Katherine Ormerod, Sander Schouws, Laura Sommovigo, Aswin Vi…

REBELS-IFU: on the origin of the elevated [OIII]/[CII] ratios in the early Universe
We present new ALMA [OIII]$_{88}$ observations of eight previously [CII]$_{158}$-detected galaxies at $6.8 \lesssim z \lesssim 7.7$. Six of our targets -- the primary sample -- are massive, UV-luminous galaxies drawn from the REBELS survey, while the remaining two are UV-fainter galaxies that were previously serendipitously detected through their luminous [CII] lines in the REBELS fields. We detect [OIII]$_{88}$ emission in all eight galaxies at $6.2 - 17.7σ$ significance, and find them to be …

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…

The GSA adds Meta's Llama to its list of approved AI tools for US federal agencies, after previously approving Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, and Open AI's tools (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/metas-ai-

Jets, scuffling on D, trade for Titans CB Brownlee https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46358299/jets-scuffling-defense-trade-titans-jarvis-brownlee-jr

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

While Trump described his call for the U.S. military to reestablish a position in Afghanistan as “breaking news,” he has previously raised the idea.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about whether it or the Pentagon has done any planning around returning to the sprawling [Bagram] air base, which was central to America’s longest war.

Trump says US working to take back Bagram Air Base from Taliban
President Donald Trump has suggested he's working to reestablish a U.S. presence at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

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.

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.

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.

Sources: Meta has held talks with Fox Corp. and others about licensing their articles for use in its AI tools, after previously reducing its focus on news (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/meta-approaches-med…