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Judge restores lawmakers' unfettered access to ICE detention facilities (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/02/lawmaker-access-ice-detention-ruling-00807198
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p82#a260302p82

Supreme Court restores New York Republican's congressional district (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5763760-malliotakis-wins-supreme-court/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p122#a260302p122

🧼 New chemi-mechanical process removes pigments and restores properties in recycled plastics
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-chemi-mechanical-pigments-properties-recycled.html

New chemi-mechanical process removes pigments and restores properties in recycled plastics
Researchers in Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Department of Chemical Engineering and at the University of Akron have published research in Chemical Engineering Journal about a new technology that seeks to solve long-standing challenges in plastic recycling that limit the overwhelming majority of plastics to a single use and contribute to the accumulation of plastic waste.

‘Oscar of science’ awarded to team behind gene therapy that restores lost vision
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/19/the-oscar-of-science-awarded-to-scientists-behind-genetic-treatme…

‘Oscar of science’ awarded to team behind gene therapy that restores lost vision
Married couple Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire developed Luxturna, which helped a patient see their child’s face for the first time

Vision Quest (again) #PRIMA retinal i…

Vision Quest
An eye prosthesis 20 years in the making restores sight in patients with a common age-related eye disease.

Cuba restores power after 29-hour blackout amid US oil blockade | Business and Economy News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/3/18/cuba-restores-power-after-29-hour-blackout-amid-us-oil-blockade?traffic_source=rss

CISA staff who were furloughed could soon be back in the saddle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/politics/senate-dhs-ice-shutdown-funding.html

Senate Votes to Fund Most of D.H.S. in Bid to End Partial Shutdown
The bill excludes funding for ICE and the Border Patrol but restores it for federal airport security workers. The House could consider the package on Friday.

In a word, the D's, once again, gave in.
The D's got nothing real - ICE and CBP will still be a masked and brutal Magastapo.
So what that ICE and CBP remain unfunded - they are awash in $$ but trump big fugly bill.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/poli

Senate Votes to Fund TSA and Most of DHS in Bid to End Partial Shutdown
The bill excludes funding for ICE and Border Patrol but restores it for federal airport security workers. The House could consider the package on Friday.

Trump's leadership restores US influence in Latin America (Peter Laffin/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/4447336/trump-leadership-restores-us-influence-latin-america/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p55#a260206p55

In Reversal, Trump Restores Support for House Republican Who Opposed Tariffs (Tim Balk/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/politics/trump-jeff-hurd-republican-house-tariffs-endorsement-reversal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p83#a260320p83

ZOR filters: fast and smaller than fuse filters
Antoine Limasset
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03525 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.03525 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.03525
arXiv:2602.03525v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Probabilistic membership filters support fast approximate membership queries with a controlled false-positive probability $\varepsilon$ and are widely used across storage, analytics, networking, and bioinformatics \cite{chang2008bigtable,dayan2018optimalbloom,broder2004network,harris2020improved,marchet2023scalable,chikhi2025logan,hernandez2025reindeer2}. In the static setting, state-of-the-art designs such as XOR and fuse filters achieve low overhead and very fast queries, but their peeling-based construction succeeds only with high probability, which complicates deterministic builds \cite{graf2020xor,graf2022binary,ulrich2023taxor}.
We introduce \emph{ZOR filters}, a deterministic continuation of XOR/fuse filters that guarantees construction termination while preserving the same XOR-based query mechanism. ZOR replaces restart-on-failure with deterministic peeling that abandons a small fraction of keys, and restores false-positive-only semantics by storing the remainder in a compact auxiliary structure. In our experiments, the abandoned fraction drops below $1\%$ for moderate arity (e.g., $N\ge 5$), so the auxiliary handles a negligible fraction of keys. As a result, ZOR filters can achieve overhead within $1\%$ of the information-theoretic lower bound $\log_2(1/\varepsilon)$ while retaining fuse-like query performance; the additional cost is concentrated on negative queries due to the auxiliary check. Our current prototype builds several-fold slower than highly optimized fuse builders because it maintains explicit incidence information during deterministic peeling; closing this optimisation gap is an engineering target.
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