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Talon Metals, which is proposing a nickel mine in the Duluth Complex of northern #Minnesota, is abandoning its plans for a processing plant in #NorthDakota. Instead, it would like to process at the Eagle Mine and Humboldt Mill in

Talon Metals scraps plans for $365M nickel processing plant in western North Dakota
The company, based in Minnesota's Iron Range, had planned to produce nickel concentrate in Beulah and sell it to electric car manufacturer Tesla.

Head of drone manufacturer critically injured in car bomb in Russia.
Assassination attempt demonstrates Ukraine’s ability to continue clandestine operations deep inside Russian territory.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug

Another rather good thing about #bicycles: they generally don't spy on you. So you don't need to feel positive about a gunsmith who also helps lorry drivers pollute and then begs Trump to pardon them.

Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/meta-debuts-muse-personal-ai-agent

Meta debuts Muse, its long-planned personal AI agent
The product was a core part of Mark Zuckerberg's vision for more personal - and private - AI in his recent 6,500 word manifesto.

The German regulatory and policy environment feels most comfortable with the status quo, with what is known and with paths already taken. However, it is preventing innovation in a field where German industry (car manufacturers and energy companies) needs and is capable of delivering it.

UPLOAD-ANYON: Progress Towards an Optimised Twisted Anyon Cavity with High-Sensitivity AM-Noise Detection for an Ultralight Axion Dark Matter Search
Robert Crew, Emma Paterson, Maxim Goryachev, Eugene Ivanov, Pashupati Dhakal, Tugrul Talha Ersoz, Michael Tobar, Jeremy Bourhill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19225 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.19225 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.19225
arXiv:2608.19225v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a superconducting single-mode microwave haloscope based on helical cavity resonators for the detection of ultralight dark matter axions over the mass range $10^{-18}$ to $10^{-13}\,\mathrm{eV}$. Building on the single-mode helical-cavity concept introduced by Bourhill et al. [Phys. Rev. D 108, 052014 (2023); arXiv:2208.01640], we use an inverse-design framework to develop practical resonator geometries compatible with superconducting niobium fabrication. The optimisation employs a figure of merit derived to minimise the measurement time required to achieve a fixed experimental sensitivity. Relative to the heuristic M\"obius-geometry benchmark, the best subtractively manufacturable bulk-niobium design achieves a figure of merit more than three orders of magnitude larger. An experimentally informed microwave interferometric readout model, incorporating measured electronics noise and active suppression of pump amplitude noise, is used to project the sensitivity of the proposed experiment. For an acquisition time of three months, the haloscope is projected to reach $g_{a\gamma\gamma}<10^{-11}\,\mathrm{GeV}^{-1}$ across more than four orders of magnitude in axion mass. The projected sensitivity extends approximately one order of magnitude below the current exclusion limits set by CAST, providing a practical pathway towards a high-sensitivity direct search for ultralight dark matter axions.
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GCVE BCP-02 v1.9: Making Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Open, Accessible, and Practical for Everyone
The GCVE initiative has published version 1.9 of GCVE BCP-02 . Practical Guide to Vulnerability Handling and Disclosure, introducing significant improvements to help software vendors, manufacturers, open-source maintainers, and security researchers establish effective Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) processes.
Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure should not be a privilege reserved for large organizations with dedicated security teams, expensive compliance frameworks, or specialized legal departments. Every software developer and manufacturer, regardless of size or resources, should be able to receive, assess, remediate, and disclose security vulnerabilities responsibly. This is one of the fundamental principles behind GCVE BCP-02.
The updated document is freely available, openly developed, and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license. Organizations can reuse, adapt, and integrate its recommendations into their own vulnerability-handling processes.
#cra #cve #gcve #vulnerability #cvd #vulnerabilityManagement
🔗 https://gcve.eu/2026/10/16/gcve-bcp-02-v1.9-making-coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure-open-accessible-and-practical-for-everyone/

An interesting piece on the social leasing of EVs in France. What began as a double-edged sword of industrial policy and social policy has now reached a point where it is the car manufacturers who are no longer so keen on it: the market is ‘taking off’ of on its own, and the manufacturers prefer to use available (especially the ‘made in Europe’) production capacity for electric models with higher profit margins.
https://www.numerama.com/vroom/2345959-renault-et-stellantis-trainent-des-pieds-pour-le-leasing-social-et-ce-nest-pas-sans-raison.html

That does not mean the policy is bad or unnecessary; the ‘affordable’ segment at the lower end of the market is not automatically served by car manufacturers, nor are the upfront costs barriers for switching to an EV addressed properly without this program.

By allowing higher emissions, you are not giving European car manufacturers more breathing space; rather, you are penalising innovation. And if you fall behind in the global race, this is no way to catch up.