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India's lower house of parliament passes a sweeping online gaming bill to impose a blanket ban on real-money games nationwide, threatening a $23B industry (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/india-bans-real-money-…

India bans real-money gaming, threatening a $23 billion industry | TechCrunch
India is set to ban real-money gaming nationwide under a proposed law that has just passed the lower house of parliament.

Can Effects of a Generalized Uncertainty Principle Appear in Compact Stars?
Jo\~ao Gabriel Galli Gimenez, Dimiter Hadjimichef, Peter O. Hess, Marcelo Netz-Marzola, C\'esar A. Zen Vasconcellos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14296

Can Effects of a Generalized Uncertainty Principle Appear in Compact Stars?
In the present contribution, a preliminary analysis of the effects of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) with a minimum length, in the context of compact stars, is performed. On basis of a deformed Poisson canonical algebra with a parametrized minimum length scale that induces deviations from conventional Quantum Mechanics, fundamental questions involving the consistence, evidences and proofs of this approach as a possible cure for unbounded energy divergence are outlined. The incorpor…

Citizens United is the court decision that essentially ended meaningful campaign finance law in the United States.
Billionaires and centi-millionaires started gaining publicity and critical reactions to the scale of their spending and the impact it had on elections.
Political giving at scale by the extremely wealthy wasn’t new.
Perhaps the difference was the internet.
Whatever it was, the years after 2010 spawned the idea that the very wealthy and the extremely powe…

The Age of Monsters
We live in an age of monsters: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, the...

"Ocean-based carbon storage ramps up, bringing investment and concern"
#Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange

Ocean-based carbon storage ramps up, bringing investment and concern
Capturing carbon to ship or funnel it offshore for storage in depleted marine oil and gas wells is gaining momentum as a proposed climate solution, even as it faces criticism. Across the globe, plans are afoot to launch multiple projects — such as in the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and Southeast Asia — […]

Deep learning based doubly robust test for Granger causality
Yongchang Hui, Chijin Liu, Xiaojun Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15798 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Deep learning based doubly robust test for Granger causality
Granger causality is popular for analyzing time series data in many applications from natural science to social science including genomics, neuroscience, economics, and finance. Consequently, the Granger causality test has become one of the main concerns of the econometrician for decades. Taking advantage of the theoretical breakthroughs in deep learning in recent years, we propose a doubly robust Granger causality test (DRGCT). Our method offers several key advantages. The first and most direc…

SYCL for Energy-Efficient Numerical Astrophysics: the case of DPEcho
Salvatore Cielo, Alexander P\"oppl, Ivan Pribec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14117 https://

SYCL for Energy-Efficient Numerical Astrophysics: the case of DPEcho
Energy awareness and efficiency policies are gaining more attention, over pure performance (time-to-solution) Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) when comparing the possibilities offered by accelerated systems. But in a field such as numerical astrophysics, which is struggling with code refactorings for GPUs, viable porting paths have to be shown before first. After summarizing the status and recurring problems of astrophysical code accelerations, we highlight how the field would benefit from por…

{annotater}: Annotate package load calls, so we can have an idea of the overall purpose of the libraries we’re loading: #rstats

Dual-Phase Playtime-guided Recommendation: Interest Intensity Exploration and Multimodal Random Walks
Jingmao Zhang, Zhiting Zhao, Yunqi Lin, Jianghong Ma, Tianjun Wei, Haijun Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14058

Dual-Phase Playtime-guided Recommendation: Interest Intensity Exploration and Multimodal Random Walks
The explosive growth of the video game industry has created an urgent need for recommendation systems that can scale with expanding catalogs and maintain user engagement. While prior work has explored accuracy and diversity in recommendations, existing models underutilize playtime, a rich behavioral signal unique to gaming platforms, and overlook the potential of multimodal information to enhance diversity. In this paper, we propose DP2Rec, a novel Dual-Phase Playtime-guided Recommendation mode…

🪩 Q&A: How viruses build perfectly symmetrical protective shells
#virus

Q&A: How viruses build perfectly symmetrical protective shells
Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) around their genomes, a process that—while messy and complex—consistently results in highly symmetrical icosahedral structures.

Lets be honest, we spend too much time cleaning data. {janitor} can help with that: #rstats #datasciece