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"An SNP victory in May’s Holyrood contest would hardly be an earthquake, after 18 continuous years of nationalist government. It would, though, signal a remarkable comeback from a period of eclipse, and from an often dismal record on public services. For Labour, which did so well in Scotland in the 2024 general election, it would signal a crisis moment, imperilling Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership"
#UKPol

John Swinney's independence strategy backed by SNP members
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxwx02xp8yo
Ahh ...
De verkiezingen in Schotland gaan volgend jaar weer ergens over.

"Labour has also won every time the Senedd has been contested, as it will be again in May. Yet, if the most recent Wales-wide poll holds good, that is set to change. Plaid will instead be the largest party, just ahead of Reform UK, with Labour third. Though still a minority, Plaid would be in government. In Welsh terms, that would be a political earthquake. Perhaps in Britain-wide terms too"
#UKPol

SNP MSP Claire Haughey at conference in Aberdeen: - Due to Westminster policies, there's been an 81% drop in Health and Care worker visas in one year, devastating Scotland's health and care sector.
MSP Emma Harper adds that Labour must allow foreign healthcare workers to bring their families with them when they come to Scotland.
Both are nurses, as well as MSPs.
#SNPconf25

"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…

🟡 Five progressive motions passed this morning at the SNP conference without a single voice against, passed by acclaim. (is that a record?)
🟡 Fantastic & inspiring speech from STUC head Roz Foyer, I feel all tingly with hope now
🟡 Susan Aitken (leader of Glasgow city council) spoke of an international conference for city mayors that she recently chaired and how the housing crisis is an international phenomenon, and how Scotland needs homes for all residents, including refuge…

A trio of 🔥novel physical attacks raises new questions about the true security offered by "Trusted execution environments", or TEEs
TEEs are everywhere
—in blockchain architectures, virtually every cloud service, and computing involving AI, finance, and defense contractors.
It’s hard to overstate the reliance that entire industries have on three TEEs in particular:
💥Confidential Compute from Nvidia,
💥SEV-SNP from AMD,
and
💥SGX and TDX from …

New physical attacks are quickly diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel
On-chip TEEs withstand rooted OSes but fall instantly to cheap physical attacks.

Decoding Positive Selection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with Phylogeny-Guided Graph Attention Models
Linfeng Wang, Susana Campino, Taane G. Clark, Jody E. Phelan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08703

Decoding Positive Selection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with Phylogeny-Guided Graph Attention Models
Positive selection drives the emergence of adaptive mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, shaping drug resistance, transmissibility, and virulence. Phylogenetic trees capture evolutionary relationships among isolates and provide a natural framework for detecting such adaptive signals. We present a phylogeny-guided graph attention network (GAT) approach, introducing a method for converting SNP-annotated phylogenetic trees into graph structures suitable for neural network analysis. Using 500 M…

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-bio.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.GN/new
[1/1]:
- DP-SNP-TIHMM: Differentially Private, Time-Inhomogeneous Hidden Markov Models for Synthesizing Ge...
Shadi Rahimian, Mario Fritz

For those of us in Galloway, this is extremely bad news. Stranraer used to be a large reservoir of #UKLabour/#SNP swing voters, and the population of Stranraer is substantially larger than the population of the Rhinns.
If that ward is returning a #Tory/