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New Mexico is making child care free.
Beginning in November, it will be the first state in the nation to provide child care to all residents regardless of income, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced this week.
The state has been working to lower child care care costs since 2019, when it created the Early Childhood Education and Care Department

New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free
The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

State of the software engineering #jobsmarket, 2025: what hiring managers see
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market-in-2…

NABU raids Ukraine’s State Tax Service amid probe linked to ‘Midas’corruption case: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/10/nabu-raids-ukraines-state-tax.html

Agnostic Product Mixed State Tomography via Robust Statistics
Alvan Arulandu, Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel Kane, Jerry Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08472 https://

Agnostic Product Mixed State Tomography via Robust Statistics
We consider the problem of agnostic tomography with \emph{mixed state} ansatz, and specifically, the natural ansatz class of product mixed states. In more detail, given $N$ copies of an $n$-qubit state $ρ$ which is $ε$-close to a product mixed state $π$, the goal is to output a nearly-optimal product mixed state approximation to $ρ$. While there has been a flurry of recent work on agnostic tomography, prior work could only handle pure state ansatz, such as product states or stabilizer state…

So, Micro Rubio marco-managing everything, declaring that sans-serif is woke but Times New Roman is politically correct.
A silly story, but the read should be that Rubio is entirely sidelined, if he has to pull stunts like this to keep busy, to keep in the public eye.
https://www.

At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.

"UK to recognise Palestine as a state in September - unless Israel meets conditions"
29 July 2925
Israel has not met the UK government conditions. In fact quite the reverse.
So what is holding things up?
https://news.sky.com/st…

First-order State Space Model for Lightweight Image Super-resolution
Yujie Zhu, Xinyi Zhang, Yekai Lu, Guang Yang, Faming Fang, Guixu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08458 http…

First-order State Space Model for Lightweight Image Super-resolution
State space models (SSMs), particularly Mamba, have shown promise in NLP tasks and are increasingly applied to vision tasks. However, most Mamba-based vision models focus on network architecture and scan paths, with little attention to the SSM module. In order to explore the potential of SSMs, we modified the calculation process of SSM without increasing the number of parameters to improve the performance on lightweight super-resolution tasks. In this paper, we introduce the First-order State S…

New York State Attorney General Indicted (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/new-york-state-attorney-general-indicted
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p108#a251009p108

Not sure about this...
Microsoft To Provide Free AI Tools For Washington State Schools - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0012220/microsoft-to-provide-free-ai-tools-for-washington-state-schools

A group of state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others warning their chatbots' "delusional outputs" could be violating state laws (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-…

The world's chemical pollution: Current state of research #environment

The world's chemical pollution: Current state of research
Two authors from ETH Zurich and RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau have concluded that the rapid production and distribution of chemicals in the environment means that regulatory risk assessment can no longer keep pace with their ever-increasing numbers.

This might qualify as a "sophisticated" cyberattack, no?
North Korean state-sponsored hackers hijacked Google accounts to remotely control and wipe smartphones and tablets held by individuals in South Korea, then exploited their KakaoTalk messenger as a channel to spread malware to their contacts

North Korean hackers hijack Google, KakaoTalk accounts to control South Korean phones: Report
The attack marks the first confirmed case of a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group compromising Google accounts. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

#California legislature votes new #Law in to ban feline declawing
https://www.mer…

California bans cat declawing under new state law
Leading veterinary organization opposed the bill, animal welfare groups said practice is painful and cruel

Interesting how Poetiq (company) can improve on the performance of the standard Gemini 3.0 Pro model by adding refinements and tricks. It leads to a 9% improvement on the ARC-AGI-2 Benchmark.
https://poetiq.ai/posts/arcagi_verified/

Poetiq Shatters ARC-AGI-2 State of the Art at Half the Cost
We are proud to confirm that our system has officially outperformed existing methods, establishing a new state-of-the-art by a significant margin.

State-dependent brain responsiveness, from local circuits to the whole brain
A. Destexhe, J Goldman, N. Tort-Colet, A. Roques, J. Fousek, S. Petkoski, V. Jirsa, O. David, M. Jedynak, C. Capone, C. De Luca, G. De Bonis, P. S. Paolucci, E. Mikulan, Pigorini, M Massimini, A. Galluzzi, A. Pazienti, M. Mattia, A. Arena, B. E. Juel, E. Hagen, J. F. Storm, E. Montagni, F. Resta, F. S. Pavone, A. L. Allegra Mascaro, A. Dwarakanath, T. I. Panagiotaropoulos, J. Senk, M. Diesmann, A. Camassa, L.…

State-dependent brain responsiveness, from local circuits to the whole brain
The objective of this paper is to review physiological and computational aspects of the responsiveness of the cerebral cortex to stimulation, and how responsiveness depends on the state of the system. This correspondence between brain state and brain responsiveness (state-dependent responses) is outlined at different scales from the cellular and circuit level, to the mesoscale and macroscale level. At each scale, we review how quantitative methods can be used to characterize network states base…

Maybe I am just a naïve European and I just don’t get the process of a government shutdown in the USA. But I must say that I simply do not understand the approach whereby, in the event of disagreement, the state (the richest state in the world!!!) can cease its basic functions and not pay salaries.

🫵 Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/hackers-bullet-proof-hosts-deliver-malware-from-blockchains/

Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains
Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns.

I have colorized my dual-operator CW #POTA script and turned it into a cheat sheet with an example on the reverse side, centered so you can print it duplex and cut it out if you like.

• Dual-OP-CW-POTA-Cheat-Sheet.pdf if you just want to print

Nothing to see here. Just a Nazi saying Nazi things.
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/115187032207649435

Non-Kramers State Transitions in a Synthetic Toggle Switch Biosystem
Jianzhe Wei, Jingwen Zhu, Pan Chu, Liang Luo, Xiongfei Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07797 https://

Non-Kramers State Transitions in a Synthetic Toggle Switch Biosystem
State transitions are fundamental in biological systems but challenging to observe directly. Here, we present the first single-cell observation of state transitions in a synthetic bacterial genetic circuit. Using a mother machine, we tracked over 1007 cells for 27 hours. First-passage analysis and dynamical reconstruction reveal that transitions occur outside the small-noise regime, challenging the applicability of classical Kramers' theory. The process lacks a single characteristic rate, quest…

Jerry Jones had 4 words to describe Micah Parsons negotiations https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/penn-state/news/jerry-jones-had-4-words-micah-parsons-negotiations/8e01e23e1b171124603d083a

The 3-state Potts model on planar triangulations: explicit algebraic solution
Mireille Bousquet-M\'elou, Hadrien Notarantonio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08414 https://

The 3-state Potts model on planar triangulations: explicit algebraic solution
We consider the $3$-state Potts generating function $T(ν,w)$ of planar triangulations; that is, the bivariate series that counts planar triangulations with vertices coloured in $3$ colours, weighted by their size (number of vertices, recorded by the variable $w$) and by the number of monochromatic edges (variable $ν$). This series was proved to be algebraic 15 years ago by Bernardi and the first author: this follows from its link with the solution of a discrete differential equation (DDE), …

Evaluating and Learning Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes under Truncation by Death
Sihyung Park (North Carolina State University), Wenbin Lu (North Carolina State University), Shu Yang (North Carolina State University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07501

Evaluating and Learning Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes under Truncation by Death
Truncation by death, a prevalent challenge in critical care, renders traditional dynamic treatment regime (DTR) evaluation inapplicable due to ill-defined potential outcomes. We introduce a principal stratification-based method, focusing on the always-survivor value function. We derive a semiparametrically efficient, multiply robust estimator for multi-stage DTRs, demonstrating its robustness and efficiency. Empirical validation and an application to electronic health records showcase its utili…

De Nederlandse overheid zou van Schleswig-Holstein kunnen leren.
https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.

Sunset over Carpinteria State Beach. Carpinteria, California, USA. March, 2025. #beach #sunset #monochrome

Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
AJ Alvero, Ruohong Dong, Klint Kanopka, David Lang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08199 https://

Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
Computational sociology is growing in popularity, yet the analytic tools employed differ widely in power, transparency, and interpretability. In computer science, methods gain popularity after surpassing benchmarks of predictive accuracy, becoming the "state of the art." Computer scientists favor novelty and innovation for different reasons, but prioritizing technical prestige over methodological fit could unintentionally limit the scope of sociological inquiry. To illustrate, we focus on compu…

Just a reminder:
Each of you ought to take a look at your state's "unclaimed property" website. You may find something owed to you or to someone you know.
The amounts can be trivial or they can be large - and you won't know until you check.
Usually getting the funds owed to you is as simple as filling out a government form on a web page (and perhaps submitting something that proves you are who you say you are.)
Here is the link for California:

State Constrained Optimal Control Problems With Control On The Acceleration. Applications To Kinetic Mean Field Games
Yves Achdou (LJLL)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07332 https:/…

State Constrained Optimal Control Problems With Control On The Acceleration. Applications To Kinetic Mean Field Games
Relying on the careful study of a related problem in the calculus of variations, we study a class of optimal control problems in which the control lies on the acceleration, with state constraints on the position variable. In dimension one, we find explicit formulas in the special case when the running cost is a power of the acceleration (in absolute value) and the terminal cost is zero. For more general costs or/and higher dimensions, we study the singularities of the value function. We also pr…

Really excited to see that my #book on the #MsMarvel is on sale for $26, for the hardcover and softcover each.
https://www.

Ms. Marvel's America
Contributions by José Alaniz, Jessica Baldanzi, Eric Berlatsky, Peter E. Carlson, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Antero Garcia, Aaron Kashtan, Winona Landis, A. David Lewis, Martin Lund, Shabana Mir, Kristin ...

Isomer- and state-dependent ion--molecule reactions between Coulomb-crystallised Ca$^ $ ions and 1,2-dichloroethene
Lei Xu, Richard Karl, Jutta Toscano, Stefan Willitsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08791

Isomer- and state-dependent ion--molecule reactions between Coulomb-crystallised Ca$^+$ ions and 1,2-dichloroethene
We report a systematic investigation of isomer- and state-dependent reactions between Coulomb-crystallised laser-cooled Ca$^+$ ions and \emph{cis/trans}-1,2-dichloroethene (DCE) isomers. By manipulating the electronic state populations of Ca$^+$ through tuning of laser cooling parameters, we observed distinct reactivities in its ground and excited states, as well as with the geometric isomers of DCE. Our experiments revealed two primary reaction channels, formation of CaCl$^+$ and C$_2$HCaCl$^+…

One dead, multiple injured after shooting on Kentucky State University's campus; suspect in custody (WKYT-TV)
https://www.wkyt.com/2025/12/09/one-dead-suspect-custody-after-shooting-kentucky-state-universitys-campus-officials-say/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p149#a251209p149

Three HBCU colleges on lockdown and/or canceled classes due to threats after Charlie Kirk’s death. No, the suspect in the photo circulated by law enforcement is not black, he’s apparently white.
#HBCU #lockdown #threat

Three Historically Black Colleges and Universities on lockdown for 'terroristic threats': reports
Alabama State University, Hampton University and Virginia State University locked down the morning of Sept. 11 after threats were made against all three campuses.

Quantized Charge Accumulation in a Quantum Anomalous Hall System
Yuanze Li (State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Jiahao Chen (State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Renfei Wang (International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, Beijing, China), Yifan Zhang (School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech …

Quantized Charge Accumulation in a Quantum Anomalous Hall System
We report the first experimental observation of magnetic-field-induced quantized charge accumulation in a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) system -- a phenomenon originating from the intrinsic two-dimensional surface state and fundamentally distinct from conventional edge-dependent transport phenomena. Our approach employs a novel out-of-plane capacitive detection method to directly probe this charge accumulation, revealing its distinction and correlation with other surface state properties, such a…

Sonnet 064 - LXIV
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself conf…

General expression for the energy and the equation of state for polycrystalline solids
O. Bystrenko (Frantsevich Institute for problems of materials science, Kyiv, Ukraine), B. Ilkiv (Frantsevich Institute for problems of materials science, Kyiv, Ukraine), S. Petrovska (Frantsevich Institute for problems of materials science, Kyiv, Ukraine), T. Bystrenko (Frantsevich Institute for problems of materials science, Kyiv, Ukraine), O. Foia (Frantsevich Institute for problems of materials sc…

General expression for the energy and the equation of state for polycrystalline solids
On the basis of the extended classical elasticity theory, we propose universal semi-empirical analytical expressions for the energy and the equation of state for poly-crystalline solids. The validation of the relations has been made by means of first principle density functional theory simulations with the use of pseudo-potential approach and generalized gradient approximation for the exchange-correlation energy. The calculations performed for a large number of inorganic crystalline compounds w…

Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic's share of enterprise LLM spend grew from 24% to 40% YoY (Menlo Ventures)
https://menlovc.com/perspective/2025-the-state-of-generative-ai-in-the-enter…

2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise | Menlo Ventures
For all the fears of over-investment, AI is spreading across enterprises at a pace with no precedent in modern software history.

Public sector organisations *shouldn't* standardise on Calibri, actually.
While assessments might focus on readability, selecting it binds organisations to the Microsoft ecosystem for the lifetime of the documents, since licensing is only covered for Windows / Office users.
https://w…

Font Wars: Times New Roman vs. Calibri in U.S. Diplomacy | Politics
In a move reflecting broader debates on diversity the US State Department led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reverted to using the Times New Roman font in official communications dismissing the previous administrations adoption of the more accessible Calibri font

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

How to simulate magic state cultivation with around $8$ Clifford terms on average
Kwok Ho Wan, Zhenghao Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08658 https://arxi…

How to simulate magic state cultivation with around $8$ Clifford terms on average
Building upon [arXiv:2509.01224], we present a sketch on how to simulate the non-Clifford $d=5$ magic state cultivation circuits [arXiv:2409.17595] with a sum of $\approx 8$ Clifford ZX-diagrams on average, at $0.1\%$ noise. Compared to a magic cat state stabiliser decomposition of all $53$ non-Clifford spiders ($6{,}377{,}292$ terms required), this is more than $7 \times 10^{5}$ times reduction in the number of terms. Our stabiliser decomposition has the advantage of representing the final non…

Lithuania declares state of emergency over smuggler balloons from Belarus: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/lithuania-declares-state-of-emergency.html

Phase-resolved spectroscopic observations of the magnetic cataclysmic binary EF Eridani: Revealing complex magnetic accretion during a high state
Zwidofhela N. Khangale, Stephen B. Potter, David A. H. Buckley, Paul E. Barrett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08266

Phase-resolved spectroscopic observations of the magnetic cataclysmic binary EF Eridani: Revealing complex magnetic accretion during a high state
We present high-resolution, phase-resolved spectroscopic observations of the polar EF Eri, obtained with SALT and the SAAO 1.9-m telescope during its recent emergence from a three-decade-long low state. The average spectrum shows strong emission from the Balmer lines (H$α$ and H$β$) and He~\textsc{ii} 4686 Å, along with weaker emission from the He~\textsc{i} lines and the Bowen fluorescence (C~\textsc{iii}/N~\textsc{iii}) blend at 4650 Å. The emission lines redward of 5500 Å transition to …

Don’t let anyone tell you rubio has any substance under his attempts at style.
To say he is an empty suit would be an insult to suits.
“U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a ‘wasteful’ diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.”

The brutal rollout of Donald Trump’s immigration police state:
the surge in funding and manpower,
the troubling arrests by masked agents,
the increasing use of problematic tech,
the incessant cruelty of the messaging,
and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state
With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the
changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts.
Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's
science. Three: Be aware that you live in a malevolent Universe controlled
by Murphy's Law, sometimes offset by Brewster's Factor; that's engineering.

Huh, fascinating: https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/public-service-announcement-re-salt-typhoon Following this development with interest.

On Structured State-Space Duality
Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Xiwen Zhang, Weimin Wu, Han Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04944 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04944

On Structured State-Space Duality
Structured State-Space Duality (SSD) [Dao & Gu, ICML 2024] is an equivalence between a simple Structured State-Space Model (SSM) and a masked attention mechanism. In particular, a state-space model with a scalar-times-identity state matrix is equivalent to a masked self-attention with a $1$-semiseparable causal mask. Consequently, the same sequence transformation (model) has two algorithmic realizations: as a linear-time $O(T)$ recurrence or as a quadratic-time $O(T^2)$ attention. In this note,…

V Sge - Supersoft Source or Exotic Hot Binary? An X-Shooter campaign in the high state: #star is eating its cosmic twin at rate never seen before: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/09/hungry-star-is-eating-its-cosmic-twin.page

Kimi Onoda, Japan's new Minister of State for Economic Security, is a 43 year old half-Irish ex-game industry PR femcel with an extensive history of defending her exclusive attraction to anime boys on twitter

2026 NFL Mock Draft, top 10 picks: Fernando Mendoza at No. 1, Jeremiyah Love to Vikings https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6873333/2025/12/09/nfl-mock-draft-2026-mendoza-ohio-state/

A Comparative Analysis of Contextual Representation Flow in State-Space and Transformer Architectures
Nhat M. Hoang, Do Xuan Long, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Min-Yen Kan, Luu Anh Tuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06640

A Comparative Analysis of Contextual Representation Flow in State-Space and Transformer Architectures
State Space Models (SSMs) have recently emerged as efficient alternatives to Transformer-Based Models (TBMs) for long-sequence processing, offering linear scaling and lower memory use. Yet, how contextual information flows across layers and tokens in these architectures remains understudied. We present the first unified, token- and layer-level analysis of representation propagation in SSMs and TBMs. Using centered kernel alignment, stability metrics, and probing, we characterize how representat…

from my link log —
The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025.
https://shnatsel.medium.com/the-state-of-simd-in-rust-in-2025-32c263e5f53d
saved 2025-11-06

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025
If you’re already familiar with SIMD, the table is all you need. And if you’re not, you will understand the table by the end of the…

PCIe any% speedrun update: LTSSM is in full swing, I've made it all the way to Configuration.LinkWidth.Accept (and improved the ngscopeclient decode for link training in the process).

The State of State AI: Legislative Approaches to AI in 2025
https://fpf.org/blog/the-state-of-state-ai-legislative-approaches-to-ai-in-2025/
@…

Trump plans executive order curbing state AI laws https://therecord.media/trump-plans-ai-exec-order-curbing-state-laws

Today in #AbolishStateDOTs news..
#NYC #CrossBronxExpressway

Power and limitations of distributed quantum state purification
Benchi Zhao, Yu-Ao Chen, Xuanqiang Zhao, Chengkai Zhu, Giulio Chiribella, Xin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08691

Power and limitations of distributed quantum state purification
Quantum state purification, which mitigates noise by exploiting multiple noisy copies of unknown states, has applications in quantum communication and computation with imperfect devices. Despite its importance, the fundamental capabilities and limitations of purification in distributed quantum systems remain largely unexplored. Here, we systematically study distributed quantum state purification under local operations and classical communication (LOCC). We prove that no nontrivial two-to-one LO…

It would take a law to stop laws, not the pronouncement of a POTUS
Trump pledges executive action to counter state AI laws - Roll Call
https://rollcall.com/2025/12/08/trump-pledges-executive-action-to-counter-state-ai-laws/

💸 Idaho State University may buy a private med school: What would it mean for Idaho's doctor shortage?
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-idaho-state-university-buy-private.html

Idaho State University may buy a private med school: What would it mean for Idaho's doctor shortage?
Idaho State University appears to be getting more serious about buying the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine in Meridian—at least, serious enough to spend $100,000 on a study that could help make the case for a purchase.

VideoVerse: How Far is Your T2V Generator from a World Model?
Zeqing Wang, Xinyu Wei, Bairui Li, Zhen Guo, Jinrui Zhang, Hongyang Wei, Keze Wang, Lei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08398

VideoVerse: How Far is Your T2V Generator from a World Model?
The recent rapid advancement of Text-to-Video (T2V) generation technologies, which are critical to build ``world models'', makes the existing benchmarks increasingly insufficient to evaluate state-of-the-art T2V models. First, current evaluation dimensions, such as per-frame aesthetic quality and temporal consistency, are no longer able to differentiate state-of-the-art T2V models. Second, event-level temporal causality, which not only distinguishes video from other modalities but also constitu…

David Sacks says AI preemption won't apply to state laws on child safety, communities won't be forced to host data centers they don't want, and more (David Sacks/@davidsacks)
https://x.com/davidsacks/status/1998125180753944985

David Sacks (@DavidSacks) on X
ONE RULEBOOK FOR AI I wanted to share a few thoughts on AI preemption and address some of the concerns. First, this is not an “AI amnesty” or “AI moratorium.” It is an attempt to settle a question of jurisdiction. When an AI model is developed in state A, trained in state B,

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

Newsom condemns 'reprehensible' Charlie Kirk shooting (Julia Mueller/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5496656-newsom-kirk-shooting-reprehensible-violence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p128#a250911p128

https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10612803
NK hackers hijack Google, KakaoTalk accounts to control phones: report

NK hackers hijack Google, KakaoTalk accounts to control phones: report - The Korea Herald
North Korean state-sponsored hackers hijacked Google accounts to remotely control and wipe smartphones and tablets held by individuals in South Korea, then expl

Trump tried to convince deported South Korean workers to stay and train Americans. South Korea chooses to bring ‘exhausted and in-shock’ workers home after plant raid. 😆
Also this detail,
"After a meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Cho said they had agreed the workers would not be shackled during the transport to the Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta." So friendly... 😂

Trump tried to convince deported South Korean workers to stay and train Americans
South Korea chooses to bring ‘exhausted and in-shock’ workers home after plant raid

The next launch attempt for New Glenn with #ESCAPADE is no earlier than November 12, due to forecasted weather and sea state conditions: https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2 - Blue Origin has worked with the FAA and range to select a launch window from 19:50 to 21:17 UTC; the live webcast starts at T-20 minutes.

Protoplanetary disks around magnetized young stars with large-scale magnetic fields I: Steady-state solutions
D. Steiner, L. Gehrig, M. G\"udel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08393

Protoplanetary disks around magnetized young stars with large-scale magnetic fields I: Steady-state solutions
Describing the large-scale field topology of protoplanetary disks faces significant difficulties and uncertainties. The transport of the large-scale field inside the disk plays an important role in understanding its evolution. We aim to improve our understanding of the dependencies that stellar magnetic fields pose on the large-scale field. We focus on the innermost disk region ($\lesssim$ 0.1 AU), which is crucial for understanding the long-term disk evolution. We present a novel approach comb…

Robust Belief-State Policy Learning for Quantum Network Routing Under Decoherence and Time-Varying Conditions
Amirhossein Taherpour, Abbas Taherpour, Tamer Khattab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08654

Robust Belief-State Policy Learning for Quantum Network Routing Under Decoherence and Time-Varying Conditions
This paper presents a feature-based Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework for quantum network routing, combining belief-state planning with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to address partial observability, decoherence, and scalability challenges in dynamic quantum systems. Our approach encodes complex quantum network dynamics, including entanglement degradation and time-varying channel noise, into a low-dimensional feature space, enabling efficient belief updates and scala…

Person of interest in fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk in custody, FBI says (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5497301-suspect-fatal-shooting-charlie-kirk-in-custody-fbi-says/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p162#a250910p162

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

This fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without a safety net for the hungry.
With the U.S. government shut down for multiple weeks
and Donald Trump refusing to fund SNAP, the federal food stamp program,
a panic set inamong the more than 40 million people who rely on it.
Families skipped meals,
and babies went unfed.
Food banks ran out of food, and some people turned to dumpster diving.
It was just a glimpse of what’s to come.
Start…

Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis
President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But with 26 having cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, they may not have the money to continue the programs.

Arizona attorney general: "My state is the fentanyl funnel for the rest of America. Trump is turning his back on it.
The federal focus on deportations has siphoned resources away from combating drug and human trafficking."
https://www.ms.now/opinion/arizona-border-drugs-trump-deportations-kris-mayes

Implementing a Universal Set of Geometric Quantum Gates through Dressed-State assisted STA
M. Estefan\'ia Rus, Alejandro Ferr\'on, Omar Osenda, Sergio S. Gomez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08723 …

Implementing a Universal Set of Geometric Quantum Gates through Dressed-State assisted STA
Geometric quantum computation relies on the geometric phase that arises in adiabatic cyclic evolutions of non-degenerate quantum systems, enabling the design of robust quantum gates. However, the adiabatic condition requires long evolution times, making the system vulnerable to decoherence. In this work, we propose a scheme to realize fast and high-fidelity geometric quantum gates by applying the Superadiabatic Transitionless Driving (SATD) protocol within the dressed-state framework. We analyz…

Chinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/c…

Chinese chipmaker Hygon calls off merger with top shareholder
Shares fall as companies blame 'market environment' for change of plan

DeRainMamba: A Frequency-Aware State Space Model with Detail Enhancement for Image Deraining
Zhiliang Zhu, Tao Zeng, Tao Yang, Guoliang Luo, Jiyong Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06746

DeRainMamba: A Frequency-Aware State Space Model with Detail Enhancement for Image Deraining
Image deraining is crucial for improving visual quality and supporting reliable downstream vision tasks. Although Mamba-based models provide efficient sequence modeling, their limited ability to capture fine-grained details and lack of frequency-domain awareness restrict further improvements. To address these issues, we propose DeRainMamba, which integrates a Frequency-Aware State-Space Module (FASSM) and Multi-Directional Perception Convolution (MDPConv). FASSM leverages Fourier transform to d…

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas (Jaclyn Ramkissoon/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5550530-abbott-texas-wildfire-risk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p60#a251011p60

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Calibri font banished as U.S. diplomacy returns to Times New Roman (Brianna Tucker/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/10/calibri-font-rubio-state-department/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p136#a251210p136

On top of $46.5 billion for border wall construction,
the OBBB delivered ⚠️ $74.9 billion to ICE
—double its entire budget under Joe Biden
—and more than the annual military spending of all but eight countries.
Of that,🔥 $45 billion will go to establishing new detention centers,
—including 50 by year’s end,
some of them tent camps in the style of the notorious Alligator Alcatraz.
Nearly🔥 $30 billion will go to enforcement and deportation,
—whi…

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state
With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

Sources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-silicon-va

"On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced that it had reached a settlement with the state of Missouri to end the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program, which allowed more than 7 million mostly low-income Americans to reduce their federal student loan payments."
Trump admin blasted for 'unrelenting push to jack up costs' with new 'backroom deal' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/linda-mcmahon-2674384567/

Most Americans Who Rely on Obamacare Live in Republican Areas (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/11/us/politics/obamacare-aca-enrollment-state-map.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk8.VIKL.1squlRdLsEKF&smid=bs-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p51#a251011p51

"The United States condemns the Houthis' ongoing unlawful detention of current and former local staff of the U.S. Mission to Yemen,"
U.S. State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement.
"The Houthis' arrests of those staff,
and the sham proceedings that have been brought against them,
are further evidence that the Houthis rely on the use of terror against their own people
as a way to stay in power"
Pigott said

Loss-tolerant parallelized Bell-state generation with a hybrid cat qudit
Z. M. McIntyre, W. A. Coish
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08577 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Loss-tolerant parallelized Bell-state generation with a hybrid cat qudit
Having multiple Bell pairs shared by distant quantum registers provides a key resource for both quantum networks and distributed quantum computing. In this paper, we present a protocol for parallelized Bell-pair generation that uses the phase of a coherent light pulse to encode a qudit, enabling the simultaneous generation of multiple Bell pairs. By encoding a qudit in a basis of light-matter Schrödinger's cat states, the loss of a photon in transit can be detected through an $XX$ parity syndr…

Amkor breaks ground on advanced chip packaging campus in Arizona, with production expected by early 2028; state officials say Amkor's investment could reach $7B (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Amkor breaks ground on Arizona advanced packaging campus, plugging critical gap in US semiconductor supply chain — production expected in 2028, investment could extend to $7 billion with 3,000 jobs in tow
Amkor moves in next door to TSMC as CHIPS Act funding continues to turn the Phoenix metro area into a chips hub.

‘Discriminatory And Unlawful Executive Orders’: State AGs Take Aim at Trump Edicts
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/discriminatory-and-unlawful-executive

From Physical to Logical: Graph-State-Based Connectivity in Quantum Networks
Mateo M. Blanco, Manuel Fern\'andez-Veiga, Ana Fern\'andez-Vilas, Rebeca P. D\'iaz-Redondo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08384

From Physical to Logical: Graph-State-Based Connectivity in Quantum Networks
Entanglement is a key resource in quantum communication, but bipartite schemes are often insufficient for advanced protocols like quantum secret sharing or distributed computing. Graph states offer a flexible way to represent and manage multipartite entanglement in quantum networks, enabling logical connectivity through local operations and classical communication (LOCC). In this work, we extend existing approaches based on bi-star configurations to more complex multi-star topologies. We analyz…

The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document
to carve out an exception for Donald Trump and his top officials
ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes.
The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions
if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the court in 2002,
to ensure Trump and his administration’s top …

Trump Administration Reportedly Pushing ICC to Exempt Trump From War Crimes Prosecution
“This is rogue state behavior,” one expert said.

State of Oregon, et al. v. Trump, et al. (CourtListener)
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71554902/32/state-of-oregon-et-al-v-trump-et-al/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p3#a251009p3

Sources: DeepSeek is developing its new AI model using several thousand Nvidia Blackwell chips, which were smuggled into China via third-party countries (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-using-banned-nvidia-chi…

DeepSeek is Using Banned Nvidia Chips in Race to Build Next Model
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, has been developing its next major model using several thousand Nvidia’s state-of-the-art Blackwell chips which the U.S. has forbidden from being exported to China, according to six people with knowledge of the matter. The chips DeepSeek is using were smuggled ...

Adaptive Quantum Computers: decoding and state preparation
Niels M. P. Neumann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08718 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08718

Adaptive Quantum Computers: decoding and state preparation
Interacting with a standard computer can enhance the capabilities of current quantum computers already today, particularly by offloading certain computations to the standard computer. Quantum computers that interact with standard computers to perform computations are called adaptive quantum computers. This work formalizes a model that describes these adaptive quantum computers. As quantum computers are still under development, this work focuses on computations that terminate after a fixed numbe…

State Department allows denial of immigrant visas to those with certain medical conditions (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5595789-immigrant-visas-medical-conditions-state-department/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p15#a251109p15

Bob Iger says the OpenAI deal "does not in any way represent a threat to the creators at all" because it doesn't include name, likeness, or character voices (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business<…

Bob Iger: Disney’s OpenAI Deal “Does Not In Any Way” Threaten Creatives
The CEO suggested that Disney would prefer Paramount to prevail in the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery, citing Netflix's streaming dominance and the perilous state of movie theaters.

Last night was a very good night to be among fellow Democrats from across the county. Here is what we did:
Eileen Higgins blew out the Miami Mayor’s race, winning by 19 points, 59.5%-40.5%.
In the last two years we’ve flipped Florida’s two largest cities, Jacksonville and Miami, and Mayor-Elect Higgins will be the first Dem in this office in almost 30 years
In a Georgia state house special election our candidate Eric Gisler flipped a Trump 12 district, 51%-49%
Albuque…

Dems Have Another Very Good Night, Trump Is Dangerously Unwell, Rep. Haley Stevens Kicks Off Campaign to Remove RFK
Greetings from Los Angeles!

Optimal Distillation of Qubit Clocks
Sujay Kazi, Iman Marvian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08493 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08493

Optimal Distillation of Qubit Clocks
We study coherence distillation under time-translation-invariant operations: given many copies of a quantum state containing coherence in the energy eigenbasis, the aim is to produce a purer coherent state while respecting the time-translation symmetry. This symmetry ensures that the output remains synchronized with the input and that the process can be realized by energy-conserving unitaries coupling the system to a reservoir initially in an energy eigenstate, thereby modeling thermal operatio…

New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued the following statement after she was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s office of the Eastern District of Virginia. 
“This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.
He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding,
all because I did my job as the New York State Attorney General.  
“These charges are baseless,
and the president’s own publi…

Attorney General Letitia James Issues Statement on Donald Trump’s Weaponization of the Department of Justice
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued the following statement after she was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s office of the Eastern

Hardness of recognizing phases of matter
Thomas Schuster, Dominik Kufel, Norman Y. Yao, Hsin-Yuan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08503 https://arxiv.org/…

Hardness of recognizing phases of matter
We prove that recognizing the phase of matter of an unknown quantum state is quantum computationally hard. More specifically, we show that the quantum computational time of any phase recognition algorithm must grow exponentially in the range of correlations $ξ$ of the unknown state. This exponential growth renders the problem practically infeasible for even moderate correlation ranges, and leads to super-polynomial quantum computational time in the system size $n$ whenever $ξ= ω(\log n)$. Ou…

An analysis of 100T tokens from the past year shows reasoning models now represent over half of all usage, open-weight model use has grown steadily, and more (OpenRouter)
https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai

State of AI | OpenRouter
An empirical study analyzing over 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM interactions across tasks, geographies, and time.

New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued the following statement after she was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s office of the Eastern District of Virginia. 
“This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.
He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding,
all because I did my job as the New York State Attorney General.  
“These charges are baseless,
and the president’s own publi…

Attorney General Letitia James Issues Statement on Donald Trump’s Weaponization of the Department of Justice
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued the following statement after she was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s office of the Eastern

Democrat flips Georgia state House seat in district Trump won (Brandon Conradis/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5641566-democrats-flip-georgia-seat/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p151#a251209p151

Quantum-Kaniadakis entropy as a measure of quantum correlations through implicit bounds
Narayan S Iyer, Shraddha Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07241 https://

Quantum-Kaniadakis entropy as a measure of quantum correlations through implicit bounds
In the present article, we examine the relationship of negative conditional quantum Kaniadakis entropy ($α-$CQKE) with the fully entangled fraction (FEF) which is a substantial yardstick for quantum information processing protocols including teleportation, and quantum steerability, executed over four vital quantum states with maximally mixed marginals, the 2-qubit Werner state, the 2-qubit Weyl state, the 2-qudit Werner state and the isotropic state. We initiate our analysis in 2$\otimes$2 sys…