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> "At one point during the press conference, Mr Finch acknowledged the risks attached to talking about a live legal case, saying: “I was told if I released this, I’d be in contempt of court.”
Contempt of court is being cynically used for self-promotion by right-wing activists.
Take action against them, and they become martyrs against "cover-ups". If a case collapses as a result of their actions, it's just proof of a corrupt system protecting criminals.

Reform’s 19-year-old council leader risks contempt of court over rape case comments
George Finch - the 19-year-old Warwickshire county council leader - risks having broken the law with a comment he made about the case

Cosmography of Non-Interacting Ghost and Generalized Ghost Dark Energy Models in f(Q) Gravity
M. Sharif, Madiha Ajmal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02280 http…

Cosmography of Non-Interacting Ghost and Generalized Ghost Dark Energy Models in f(Q) Gravity
This paper aims to develop non-interacting ghost dark energy and generalized ghost dark energy models within the framework of $f(Q)$ theory using the correspondence scheme. We use pressureless matter and a power-law scale factor. The cosmic implications of the resulting models are studied through the equation of state parameter and the phase planes. We also check the stability of the reconstructed models through the squared speed of sound parameter. The equation of state parameter exhibits a ph…

Characterization of a laser filament-induced plasma in air at 10 kHz using optical emission spectroscopy
Malte C. Schroeder, Robin L\"oscher, Nikita Bibinov, Ihor Korolov, Peter Awakowicz, Thomas Mussenbrock, Clara J. Saraceno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03309

Characterization of a laser filament-induced plasma in air at 10 kHz using optical emission spectroscopy
The increasing availability of high-power Yb-based ultrafast laser-amplifier systems has opened the possibility of air filamentation at high repetition rates >1 kHz. In this new regime, accumulation effects cannot be ruled out, therefore, characterizing the plasma parameters and afterglow plasma-chemical kinetics becomes increasingly relevant. In this work, we use optical emission spectroscopy to measure nanosecond dynamics of gas temperature and electron temperature, species-specific decay tim…

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2…

Trump's TMTG Truth Social Q2 Earnings: $20M Loss on $883K in Net Sales
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social that is majority-owned by President Donald Trump, posted earnings for Q2 2025.

Quantum stress-energy at timelike boundaries: testing a new beyond-$\Lambda$CDM parameter with cosmological data
Oliver H. E. Philcox, Eva Silverstein, Gonzalo Torroba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00115

Quantum stress-energy at timelike boundaries: testing a new beyond-$Λ$CDM parameter with cosmological data
We analyze the basic cosmological effects of a population of timelike boundaries -- a form of nontrivial spacetime topology -- containing a boundary layer of quantum stress energy. This accumulation of vacuum fluctuations of quantum fields can be consistently negative and UV sensitive, providing an additional source of cosmic energy density strong enough to compete with matter and dark energy. For boundary conditions enabling a solution with fixed comoving boundary size, this effect contributes…

Variational Quantum Sensing for Structured Linear Function Estimation
Priyam Srivastava, Vivek Kumar, Gurudev Dutt, Kaushik P. Seshadreesan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22043 http…

Variational Quantum Sensing for Structured Linear Function Estimation
We study the variational optimization of entangled probe states for quantum sensing tasks involving the estimation of a structured linear function of local phase parameters. Specifically, we consider scenarios where each qubit in a spin-1/2 array accumulates a phase phi_i = alpha_i * theta, with a known weight vector alpha, reducing the task to single-parameter estimation of theta. Using parameterized quantum circuits composed of dipolar-interacting gates and global rotations, we optimize probe…

Helicity amplitude and branching fraction measurement of $\chi_{cJ} \rightarrow \Lambda\bar{\Lambda} $
BESIII Collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00289 https://

Helicity amplitude and branching fraction measurement of $χ_{cJ} \rightarrow Λ\barΛ $
Utilizing $2712.4 \pm 14.3$ million $ψ(3686)$ events accumulated by the BESIII experiment, we perform a partial wave analysis of $ψ(3686)\rightarrowγχ_{cJ}\rightarrowγΛ\barΛ$ decay ($J=0,1,2$). The ratio of the helicity amplitudes with same (++) and opposite (+-) helicity for $χ_{c2}\rightarrowΛ\barΛ$ decay is determined for the first time to be $R_{χ_{c2}}=0.575 \pm 0.048 \pm 0.018 $, with a relative phase angle $ΔΦ_{χ_{c2}} = 0.37 \pm 0.15 \pm 0.05 $~rad. The parameters of the a…

Healthy European peatlands require specific temperature and water level parameters #Europe

Healthy European peatlands require specific temperature and water level parameters
Efforts to enhance peat accumulation in European peatlands, which contain around half of Europe's soil carbon, will require a combination of warm temperatures and a specific depth of the water table, according to a study published in PLOS One by Graeme Swindles of Queen's University Belfast, U.K. and colleagues.

The number and breadth of extremely mainstream businesses who aren't afraid to participate in Rhode Island PrideFest is wonderful, given the way companies have been targeted just for acknowledging basic human rights. Nice to live here.

SViP: Sequencing Bimanual Visuomotor Policies with Object-Centric Motion Primitives
Yizhou Chen, Hang Xu, Dongjie Yu, Zeqing Zhang, Yi Ren, Jia Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18825

SViP: Sequencing Bimanual Visuomotor Policies with Object-Centric Motion Primitives
Imitation learning (IL), particularly when leveraging high-dimensional visual inputs for policy training, has proven intuitive and effective in complex bimanual manipulation tasks. Nonetheless, the generalization capability of visuomotor policies remains limited, especially when small demonstration datasets are available. Accumulated errors in visuomotor policies significantly hinder their ability to complete long-horizon tasks. To address these limitations, we propose SViP, a framework that se…