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I just got word that the family home of one of our Gaza Verified families was bombed by Israel.
I know the names of nine of the family members, including two children, who were murdered by Israel and there are other relatives who were living there that were also murdered in the same genocidal attack.
Our Gaza Verified family member and their immediate family are safe in the South.
I am devastated for them.
I hope Israel and every single person complicit in this genoci…

Octopuses possess a radically decentralized nervous system,
with the majority of their neurons residing in their arms.
Some say the octopus is a single organism with 9 brains.
From another perspective, we can say it is nine organisms housed within a single skin.
How can multiple humans come to inhabit a single organism with distributed sensory and decision-making capabilities?
How is cognition located in the network that spans bodies and environments?

How to Become an Octopus (and sometimes squid) — Gray Area Festival 2025 Workshop
What might we learn by thinking, sensing, and moving like an cephalopod? In this embodied, experimental workshop, artist Miriam Simun invites participants to leave behind the habits of upright human life and explore the world from the perspective of the soft-bodied, many-armed cephalopod.

«So does it matter how many questions you ask an AI chatbot, or AI search summaries you generate? Yes, but not as a tally of your sins. It doesn’t matter whether each prompt costs the energy equivalent of nine seconds of television or nine days. Instead, what matters is that each prompt is a signal to the AI provider and its investors to grab more energy, period, from whatever source they can»
Great work by @… about the "dispersal trick" of big tech et al.
https://medium.com/@dnafus/why-saying-ai-uses-the-energy-of-nine-seconds-of-television-is-like-spraying-dispersant-over-an-f0d0cfd67d68

To cut or not to cut: Data-quality evaluation for the ASTRI Mini-Array
E. Molina (for the ASTRI Project), L. Foffano (for the ASTRI Project), S. Crestan (for the ASTRI Project), S. Iovenitti (for the ASTRI Project), S. Lombardi (for the ASTRI Project), F. Lucarelli (for the ASTRI Project), T. Mineo (for the ASTRI Project)
https://arxiv.org…

To cut or not to cut: Data-quality evaluation for the ASTRI Mini-Array
The ASTRI Mini-Array consists of nine Cherenkov telescopes under construction at the Observatorio del Teide, with one of them already performing observations since November 2024. Given the complexity of the analysis of gamma-ray data acquired with Cherenkov telescopes, a proper evaluation of the quality of these data is important to avoid a negative impact on the high-level scientific products. There are several factors that can contribute to reducing the quality of the observations, such as cl…

A bit out of date and it is gross figures. So some money comes in e.g. via rubberneck tourists, but my guess is that's typically overestimated.
The Windsors (Battenburg Saxe-Coburgs) cost a lot, 8 times more per citizen than Spain's Bourbons.
Here’s how much Europe’s royal families really cost | CNN
https://…

Here’s how much Europe’s royal families really cost
Of the 10 main royal families in Europe, nine still receive public funding for carrying out their duties – the only exception being the Princely House of Liechtenstein, which doesn’t get any taxpayer money to cover its expenses.

Raiders rookie class: What are fair expectations for Jeanty, Bech? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-rookie-class-what-are-fair-expectations-for-jeanty-bech-3432381/

The nine rings of the galaxy LEDA 1313424
Pierre Sikivie, Yuxin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19421 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19421

The nine rings of the galaxy LEDA 1313424
The galaxy LEDA 1313424 has recently been discovered to have nine rings [1]. The authors of the discovery paper interpret the rings to be the result of the passing of a smaller galaxy through the center of the LEDA galaxy 56 Myr ago. We point out several difficulties with this interpretation and propose instead that the rings of LEDA are the imprint upon baryonic matter of caustic rings of dark matter. Caustic rings of dark matter, with the pattern of radii observed in the LEDA galaxy, form if …

So the DC National Guard are an f-ing laughing stock of derelict traitorous fops. They couldn’t secure a lemonade stand and yet took and take the illegal order to deploy _against_ the American People.
11 f-ing shootings on the National Guard’s watch because the f-ing National Guard are not police and never should take a deployment to pretend to be.
You dishonorable scum. You will never live down the shame. Wastes of space.

11 people were shot at seven overnight incidents, police say
D.C. police are investigating the shootings of 11 people overnight at seven different locations. These shootings took place within nine hours.

The US starts publishing GDP data on nine public blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with the help of Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/us-puts-gdp-data-on-th…

The Coconut Story
Join us on a whimsical journey with nine adventurous coconuts, each with their own unique personality...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-coconut-story/

A new stablecoin is coming to Europe.
#crypto

Nine major European banks join forces to issue stablecoin
The stablecoin aims to become a trusted European payment standard in the digital ecosystem and is expected to be first issued in the second half of 2026.

Novel Market Temperature Definition Through Fluctuation Theorem: A Statistical Physics Framework for Financial Crisis Prediction
Masoome Ramezani, Fereydoun Rahnama Roodposhti, Ghanbar Abbaspour Esfeden, Mehdi Ramezani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23692

Novel Market Temperature Definition Through Fluctuation Theorem: A Statistical Physics Framework for Financial Crisis Prediction
This paper introduces a novel approach to financial crisis prediction by establishing a thermodynamic-like framework derived from the fluctuation theorem of statistical physics. We define market temperature through the probability ratio of positive to negative returns and demonstrate its effectiveness in identifying market states and predicting potential crises. Our empirical analysis spans nine major global indices from 2005 to 2025, revealing statistically significant differences in temperatu…

Kenny Clark, Cowboys' key acquisition in Micah Parsons trade, ready to 'bring the physicality' for Dallas

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kenny-c…

Collisional excitation of HCN by CO to refine the modeling of cometary comae
Francesca Tonolo, Ernesto Quintas-S\'anchez, Adrian Batista-Planas, Richard Dawes, Fran\c{c}ois Lique
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19904

Collisional excitation of HCN by CO to refine the modeling of cometary comae
We present the first dataset of collisional (de)-excitation rate coefficients of HCN induced by CO, one of the main perturbing gases in cometary atmospheres. The dataset spans the temperature range of 5-50 K. It includes both state-to-state rate coefficients involving the lowest ten and nine rotational levels of HCN and CO, respectively, and the so-called "thermalized" rate coefficients over the rotational population of CO at each kinetic temperature. The derivation of these coefficients exploi…

There hasn't been nearly enough coverage of this.
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/…

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Nine Inch Nails (41) Drink The Sea (14) The Beatles (14) The Parcels (14) Pulp (12). #myweekcounted 262 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Low-mass companions to nine stars
Andrzej Niedzielski, Robert Jaros, Divyansh Srivastava, Monika Adam\'ow, Aleksander Wolszczan, Eva Villaver, Gracjan Maciejewski, Beata Deka-Szymankiewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22127

Low-mass companions to nine stars
We present an independent spectroscopic and radial velocity analysis for nine stars from the Pennsylvania-Toruń Planet Search. For BD+24 4697, we present an updated true companion's mass (0.16$\pm$0.02 \, M$_{\odot}$), as well as evidence of stellar activity. For BD+54 1640 and BD+65 1241 we present true masses of companions, $m = 0.15 \pm 0.04\,M_\odot$ and $m = 0.091 \pm 0.005\,M_\odot$, respectively. For BD+63 974 and BD+69 935 we find low mass companions with $m \sin i = 0.046 \pm 0.001\,M…

Replaced article(s) found for hep-th. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-th/new
[2/3]:
- QM2-branes and the Swampland Distance Conjecture in nine dimensions
Mar\'ia Pilar Garc\'ia del Moral, Camilo las Heras, Alvaro Restuccia

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Jesus and Mary Chain:
🎵 Nine Million Rainy Days
#TheJesusandMaryChain
https://hybropsyche.bandcamp.com/track/nine-million-rainy-days
https://open.spotify.com/track/77UPPPUsW9xaoA9rFYaJuO

The periastron regression of 2M1510 AB, the jet precession of M87* and Telisto/Planet Nine: three different scenarios for a possible common cause
Lorenzo Iorio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18881

The periastron regression of 2M1510 AB, the jet precession of M87* and Telisto/Planet Nine: three different scenarios for a possible common cause
The eclipsing binary 2M1510 AB made of two brown dwarfs, the supermassive black hole M87* and our solar system may all have in common the presence of a massive pointlike distant companion perturbing in some ways their inner dynamics. That is, respectively, a circumbinary exoplanet whose orbital plane should be perpendicular to that of its host inner binary, an intermediate mass black hole potentially causing the observed jet precession, and a still unseen planet, known as Telisto or Planet Nine…

I finished watching the nine-part #Netflix documentary Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War, and I found it to be a very informative look at the Cold War and US–Russia relations through the lens of the ongoing Russia–Ukraine War.
ht…

Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War - Wikipedia

Russian overnight strike on Kyiv kills one, injures at least nine as fires hit three districts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/25/russian-overnight-strike-on-kyiv.html

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
AVON: Tell me everything you know about Belkov's One Nine Seven computer.
ORAC: You suggested I spared you the technical details.
AVON: Oh, don't sulk, Orac. I have a little more time now.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/277 B7B4

Whom We Trust, What We Fear: COVID-19 Fear and the Politics of Information
Daniele Baccega, Paolo Castagno, Antonio Fern\'andez Anta, Juan Marcos Ramirez, Matteo Sereno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20146

Whom We Trust, What We Fear: COVID-19 Fear and the Politics of Information
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered not only a global health crisis but also an infodemic, an overload of information from diverse sources influencing public perception and emotional responses. In this context, fear emerged as a central emotional reaction, shaped by both media exposure and demographic factors. In this study, we analyzed the relationship between individuals' self-reported levels of fear about COVID-19 and the information sources they rely on, across nine source categories, including…

The Daily Beast COO Keith Bonnici says the publisher has been profitable through the first nine months of 2025 and expects its first full year of profitability (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/daily-beast-annual-profit-growth/

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Beast Expects First Annual Profit in 17-Year History
The publisher has seen revenue and headcount grow 20% and 25%, respectively, after changing ownership last April

The nine model category structures on the category of sets
Omar Antol\'in-Camarena, Tobias Barthel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15731 https://arxiv.org/p…

The nine model category structures on the category of sets
We give a proof of the folklore theorem, attributed to Goodwillie, that there are precisely nine model structures on the category $\mathsf{Set}$ of sets. This result is deduced from a complete study of lifting problems and the ensuing classification of all weak factorization systems on $\mathsf{Set}$. Moreover, we determine the Quillen equivalences between these model structures and exhibit an explicit example of equivalent model structures that cannot be realized by a single Quillen adjunction.

Just finished Transiruby, along with a 9k-line journal file for it. I almost got 100, but not quite; I don't have time to go back to it before the semester starts though.
If you like exploration games, it's an excellent one, with great level design & tons of secrets. It actually makes you do significant secret-finding and map-reading in order to beat the game, not just for extras or a special ending, which is something that a lot of metroidvania games since Super Metroid don't do. My one complaint is that the map system isn't perfect, and finding obscure secrets to progress is fine when the map hints at them but much less fun when it hints incorrectly (I looked one progress item up in a speedrun video because of this).
Decently cool movement mechanics, although the combat does take a back seat and almost all of the bosses are easy (I beat the final two bosses in the third and second tries respectively). I don't think that's any better or worse than a game like Nine Sols where the final boss took me hundreds of tries though; just a different flavor. The world-building isn't as rich as the more epic metroidvanias like Hollow Knight or Lone Fungus (or again, Nine Sols) but again I'm fine with that. It's just a more casual game that has really excellent level design & exploration poetics.
#AmPlaying

CLASH-VLT: Constraining deviation from GR with the mass profiles of nine massive galaxy clusters
L. Pizzuti, A. Biviano, K. Umetsu, E. Agostoni, A. Autorino, A. M. Pombo, A. Mercurio, M. D'Addona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16317

CLASH-VLT: Constraining deviation from GR with the mass profiles of nine massive galaxy clusters
We investigate the anisotropic stress parameter, $η=Ψ/Φ$, defined as the ratio of the gravitational potentials in the linearly perturbed Friedmann-Lemaître Robertson-Walker metric, as a probe of deviations from general relativity across astrophysical to cosmological scales. Using mass profiles reconstructed from high-precision lensing and kinematics of nine galaxy clusters from the CLASH-VLT sample, we derive $η(r)$ as a function of the radial distance from the cluster centres, over the ra…

The Hands-Up Problem and How to Deal With It: Secondary School Teachers' Experiences of Debugging in the Classroom
Laurie Gale, Sue Sentance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18861

The Hands-Up Problem and How to Deal With It: Secondary School Teachers' Experiences of Debugging in the Classroom
Debugging is a vital but challenging skill for beginner programmers to learn. It is also a difficult skill to teach. For secondary school teachers, who may lack time or relevant knowledge, honing students' understanding of debugging can be a daunting task. Despite this, little research has explored their perspectives of debugging. To this end, we investigated secondary teachers' experiences of debugging in the classroom, with a focus on text-based programming. Through thematic analysis of nine …

The only UK AWS availability region, eu-west-2, launched in December 2016. This means that any AWS-based service for the UK that launched before 2017 either spent time and money on a migration (at some point in the last nine years), or they're not actually in the UK.

Effectiveness and Safety of Selective IL-23 Receptor Antagonists in Moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis
Wellgner Fernandes Oliveira Amador, Isabelle Castro Vitor, Milena Ramos Tome, Diogo Delgado Dotta, Rodrigo V Motta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25069

Effectiveness and Safety of Selective IL-23 Receptor Antagonists in Moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis
Selective interleukin-23 receptor antagonists (IL-23RA) show promise for treating moderate to severe ulcerative colitis (UC) but their efficacy and safety are not fully understood. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing IL-23RA with placebo in moderate to severe UC. Outcomes included clinical and endoscopic remission, response rates, and adverse events. Nine trials including 3808 patients in the induction phase and 1734 in the maintenance ph…

Yet another reason to hate Zuck: I tried to log in to FB with a new browser. Meta's rinky-dink security check made me run through a set of visual prompts and pick some crazy, Triple-Nine-Society-level match six times in a row. I failed two rounds. It was harder than the damn bar exam. (Not really.) So I switched to audio. Finally got through that: Six matches in a row of which audio prompt had a change of instrument, then six of two, and only two, percussion beats from three sound files.…

Already over 12 years ago, the Google data center in Hamina, Finland, was equipped with a sauna powered by the facility's residual heat 🙀.
https://www.wired.com/2012/10/google-finland-data-center-2

Why Vikings' Adam Thielen reportedly agreed to revised contract, reduced salary after trade from Panthers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-vik

The meaning of prompts and the prompts of meaning: Semiotic reflections and modelling
Martin Thellefsen, Amalia Nurma Dewi, Bent Sorensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14250 https:…

The meaning of prompts and the prompts of meaning: Semiotic reflections and modelling
This paper explores prompts and prompting in large language models (LLMs) as dynamic semiotic phenomena, drawing on Peirce's triadic model of signs, his nine sign types, and the Dynacom model of communication. The aim is to reconceptualize prompting not as a technical input mechanism but as a communicative and epistemic act involving an iterative process of sign formation, interpretation, and refinement. The theoretical foundation rests on Peirce's semiotics, particularly the interplay between …

Six of nine universities that were asked to sign an agreement in exchange for funding advantages have rejected the offer ahead of Today’s deadline for response
Within a day of the call,
University of Virginia and Dartmouth College rejected the compact,
joining ranks with MIT,
Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania and the
University of Southern California.
The University of Texas at Austin was invited to sign on and the chair of the University o…

White House hits road block in effort to get top colleges to sign deal
Six of nine universities that were asked to sign an agreement in exchange for funding advantages have rejected the offer ahead of Monday’s deadline for responses

"Whenever anyone asks me for advice, I tell them: we don’t realize how deeply the nine-to-five fractures us. The weekends, the holidays, the fixed friend group—whatever rigidness exists in your behavior will exist in your perception, and it will exist in your ability to think critically."
Victoria Brugger, "Last Words of an Ego on Death Row"

Last Words of an Ego on Death Row
Hello.I don’t know who you are. But I hope we meet in the next pages—across whichever dimension I had to cross to embody these feelings.This is not a book. It is not a journal.It is the autopsy of an ego and the birth certificate of the woman I am today.It carries the blueprints I bled for: how to build something from nothing, how to love yourself when the mirror is a battlefield, how to decode the nature of existence and drag purpose out of the dark.But more than all of that—this is my b…

The creator of Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) books, Edward Packard, penned a short book called "Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years", available for download for free here:
https://edwardpackard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Nine-T…

Today's SYP (Support Your Parks) #HamRadio #POTA #QRP CW adventure had limited time, so I wasn't sure I'd actually stay for 10 QSOs. But then I discovered that park

When you’ve spent almost nine hours inside the vortex of Psytrance, you can bet it’s my favorite genre of all time, because once you’re hooked on 145 BPM the line between hearing and being the music completely disappears.
The bassline doesn’t just sit in the background, it takes command with ruthless precision, rewiring thought into rhythm and heartbeat into tempo, proving again and again that Psytrance isn’t just what I listen to, it’s the sound I belong to.
By the time the flow…

Research and development as a driver of innovation and economic growth; case of developing economies
Ayusha Fayyaz, Zoltan Bartha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19413 https://

Research and development as a driver of innovation and economic growth; case of developing economies
The goal of this research is to uncover the channels through which research and development (R&D) impacts economic growth in developing countries. The study employed nine variables from three broader categories in the World Economic Forum database, each covering 32 countries from the lower-middle-income group for the year 2019. The theoretical framework is based on the R&D ecosystem, which includes components such as Institutions, Human capital, Capital market, R&D, and Innovation. Each of thes…

Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel has left after nine months; its ad business reportedly generated only about $20,000 in Q4 2024 (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/perplexity-advertising-chief-taz-patel-departs/

EXCLUSIVE: Perplexity Ad Chief Taz Patel Departs
Perplexity’s push into advertising has so far brought in modest revenue as the company eyes new growth and faces mounting legal challenges

Rephasing invariant formulae for general parameterizations of flavor mixing matrix and exact sum rules with unitarity triangles
Masaki J. S. Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17866

Rephasing invariant formulae for general parameterizations of flavor mixing matrix and exact sum rules with unitarity triangles
In this letter, we present rephasing invariant formulae $δ^{(αi)} = \arg [ { V_{α1} V_{α2} V_{α3} V_{1i} V_{2i} V_{3i} / V_{αi }^{3} \det V } ] $ for CP phases $δ^{(αi)}$ associated with nine Euler-angle-like parameterizations of a flavor mixing matrix. Here, $α$ and $i$ denote the row and column carrying the trivial phases in a given parameterization. Furthermore, we show that the phases $δ^{(αi)}$ and the nine angles $Φ_{αi}$ of unitarity triangles satisfy compact sum rules $ δ^…

A Survey of Post-Quantum Cryptography Support in Cryptographic Libraries
Nadeem Ahmed, Lei Zhang, Aryya Gangopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16078 https://

A Survey of Post-Quantum Cryptography Support in Cryptographic Libraries
The rapid advancement of quantum computing poses a significant threat to modern cryptographic systems, necessitating the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). This study evaluates the support for PQC algorithms within nine widely used open-source cryptographic libraries -- OpenSSL, wolfSSL, BoringSSL, LibreSSL, Bouncy Castle, libsodium, Crypto++, Botan, and MbedTLS -- focusing on their implementation of the NIST-selected PQC finalists: CRYSTALS-Kyber, CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON, and SP…

In India, today is the start of "nawaraatri", which is nine nights of triumph of good over evil. It is also the start of "dasaraa" ("dusseraah") which is 10 festival days, with the 10th day attributed to several notable "good over evil" events.
Happy nawaraatri and #dasaraa to all who observe. 🎊

Mayer--Vietoris sequences for complexes of tori
Nguyen Manh Linh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16056 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16056

Mayer--Vietoris sequences for complexes of tori
In the patching setting, given a factorization inverse system of fields over which patching for finite-dimensional vector spaces holds, together with a crossed module over the inverse limit field, the corresponding six-term Mayer--Vietoris sequence is constructed, generalizing the classical result of Harbater--Hartmann--Krashen for linear algebraic groups. When the crossed module is a two-term complex of tori, the above sequence is extended into a nine-term exact sequence, notably without any a…

Floor sensors are cheap and easy to use! A Nihon Buyo Case Study
Miho Imai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19261 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19261

Floor sensors are cheap and easy to use! A Nihon Buyo Case Study
As floor-sensing technologies gain traction in movement research, questions remain about their usability and effectiveness for non-expert users. This study presents a case study evaluating Flexel, a modular, low-cost, high-resolution pressure-sensing floor interface, in the context of Nihon Buyo, a traditional Japanese dance. The system was installed, calibrated, and used by a first-time, non-technical user to track weight distribution patterns of a teacher and learner over nine weeks. Live pre…

Millisecond Pulsar Discoveries in an Image-based MeerKAT Survey of the Galactic Bulge
Rahul Sengar, Akash Anumarlapudi, David L. Kaplan, Dale A. Frail, Scott D. Hyman, Emil Polisensky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20614

Millisecond Pulsar Discoveries in an Image-based MeerKAT Survey of the Galactic Bulge
We report on the follow-up observations of circularly polarized sources identified in the MeerKAT image-based survey of the Galactic bulge. Using the Parkes radio telescope, we observed sixteen circularly polarized sources with the UWL receiver and detected nine pulsars among which six of them are new discoveries. All pulsars are fast rotators with spin periods under 100\,ms. Among the new discoveries five are millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and one has a spin period of 55\,ms. At least four new MSP…

"Some of the mistakes we have made, some of the unforced errors have given a sense that we are not on the side of ordinary people."
I imagine Leo is of the Roman persuasion too.
Who is new deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell? - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev1d3

Who is new deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell?
A Labour activist since the age of nine, the Manchester MP has promised to be a voice for party members.

Nine EU countries are joining forces to push for public charging infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles along two major European corridors. The goal is to speed up grid connections and permits for charging hubs along these routes, making smart use of available grid capacity wherever possible.
https://www.

#afir | Jaap Burger
Nine EU countries are joining forces to push for public charging infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles along two major European corridors. The goal is to speed up grid connections and permits for charging hubs along these routes, making smart use of available grid capacity wherever possible. Ministers from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland and Sweden have just signed a declaration to work on accelerating the development of charging infrastructure fo…

Simulating Electron Transfer on Noisy Quantum Computers: A Scalable Approach to Open Quantum Systems
Marvin Gajewski, Alejandro D. Somoza, Gary Schmiedinghoff, Pascal Stadler, Michael Marthaler, Birger Horstmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18141

Simulating Electron Transfer on Noisy Quantum Computers: A Scalable Approach to Open Quantum Systems
Simulating large electronic networks with vibrational environments remains a fundamental challenge due to the long lifetimes of electronic-vibrational (vibronic) excitations on the picosecond scale. Quantum computers are a promising platform to simulate the dynamics of open quantum systems aided by intrinsic hardware-noise, with successful demonstrations of models with two electronic sites. We simulated a microscopic model of electron-transfer (ET) with a single donor and up to nine acceptor si…

The massive wildfire in southern France got worse today. 135 km² burned already.
Three years of drought created a large amount of fuel in the form of dead trees and dead brushes, a climate expert explained on TV.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange
#ClimateChange

Massive wildfire in France leaves at least one dead, nine injured
Firefighters in southern France were battling on Wednesday to contain the country’s biggest wildfire so far this year, said local authorities. At least one person has died so far in the wildfire, while nine others were injured. More than 1,800 firefighters have been deployed to tackle the blaze. 

Simple field test of ChatGPT 5. "Produce a table of Bolivia's largest 15 cities by population in the latest census. Provide a link to the source."
It offered the 2012 Census data, and provided a link. But each of the top nine cities has a population that doesn't match the source.
#ChatGPT #GPT5

Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel has left after nine months; its ad business reportedly generated only about $20,000 in Q4 2024 (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/perplexity-advertising-chief-taz-patel-departs/

EXCLUSIVE: Perplexity Ad Chief Taz Patel Departs
Perplexity’s push into advertising has so far brought in modest revenue as the company eyes new growth and faces mounting legal challenges

Past/Present: Jason Witten among 10 Cowboys nominees for 2026 Hall of Fame https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-jason-witten-among-10-cowboys-nominees-for-2026-hall-of-fame

For fans of science fiction, or fans of the Murderbot TV series, this is a great deal. Nine Murderbot stories nine other works by Martha Wells, for $18.
https://tech.lgbt/@humblebundles/115079637034477377

"Don’t get me wrong: My ego is not so large that I believe I played a significant role in putting Trump into office. What I mean is that it took the collective action of thousands of people in similar positions, working nine-to-five jobs, figuring out how they were going to pay for their kid’s daycare or fund their retirement, to get us where we are today. I was a part of that—until I decided I could no longer be."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-day-as-an-accomplice-of-the-republican-party-miles-bruner

Unified Multi-task Learning for Voice-Based Detection of Diverse Clinical Conditions
Ran Piao, Yuan Lu, Hareld Kemps, Tong Xia, Aaqib Saeed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20717 http…

Unified Multi-task Learning for Voice-Based Detection of Diverse Clinical Conditions
Voice-based health assessment offers unprecedented opportunities for scalable, non-invasive disease screening, yet existing approaches typically focus on single conditions and fail to leverage the rich, multi-faceted information embedded in speech. We present MARVEL (Multi-task Acoustic Representations for Voice-based Health Analysis), a privacy-conscious multitask learning framework that simultaneously detects nine distinct neurological, respiratory, and voice disorders using only derived acou…

NFL Week 9 early odds: Chiefs headline group of nine road favorites; Lions near double-digit favorite

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee

Russian attacks kill 24, injure 62 in Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

The sidebar of /r/freebsd now features:
― a clearer call to action for donations
– randomly alternating with FreeBSD products (a link to the shop), Beastie, the orb, and up to nine other images.
Links to the goodies, and more, are in the FreeBSD Foundation menu.
@…

This administration is planning on killing poor Americans to own the libs.
No two ways about it.
https://bsky.app/profile/aridrennen.bsky.social/post/3m46tpsd2yc2w

Ari Drennen (@aridrennen.bsky.social)
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

It is impossible to do this for Trump in place of Reagan, because none of the apologies apply. It is impossible to come up with nine positive aspects of Trump, even trivial ones. He's a repulsive human being who is only tolerated because he has money and power. https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/1154354453

Mark Dominus (@mjd@mathstodon.xyz)
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For running my #HamRadio portable setup from solar power, I made a power distribution box. I didn't know where to stop, apparently, and now I have a beast that weighs 1.2kg. It has two isolated battery busses, each of which has an XT60M, PowerPole, and 5.5x2.1mm barrel connector to choose from, supporting the batteries I have and that friends might have. It has four other circuits that …

London-based Attio, which offers a CRM service where AI agents and humans work together, raised a $52M Series B led by GV, bringing its total funding to $116M (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/08/26/attio-raises-52m-series-b-to-scale-crm-platform/…

Attio raises $52M Series B to scale CRM platform
London-based CRM startup Attio has raised $52 million in Series B funding to expand its CRM platform. The round was led by GV (Google Ventures), with participation from existing investors Redpoint Ventures, 01A, Point Nine, and Balderton Capital, bringing Attio’s total funding to $116 million.With the new funding, Attio plans to scale its engineering team, accelerate product development, and double down on go-to-market outreach. Investment will focus particularly on features that enhance agen…

New rephasing invariants and CP violation built from the trios of the CKM or PMNS matrix elements
Shu Luo, Zhi-zhong Xing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15662 https://

New rephasing invariants and CP violation built from the trios of the CKM or PMNS matrix elements
Given the $3\times 3$ Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) quark flavor mixing matrix $V$, we define a new set of rephasing invariants in terms of the "trios" of its nine elements: $\lozenge^{ijk}_{αβγ} \equiv (V^{}_{αi} V^{}_{βj} V^{}_{γk})/\det V$ with $α\neq β\neq γ$ and $i \neq j \neq k$ running respectively over $(u, c, t)$ and $(d, s, b)$. We find that ${\rm Im} \lozenge^{ijk}_{αβγ} = - {\cal J}$ holds, where ${\cal J}$ is the well-known Jarlskog invariant of weak CP violation. Ana…

Nearly half of rural hospitals now operate at a loss.
As new federal budget cuts take effect, analysts warn that hundreds of rural hospitals more may close.
-- threatening to turn vast stretches of the country into health-care deserts.
At the center of this growing crisis lies a rollback in federal health-coverage spending.
Nonpartisan analyses show large Medicaid reductions over ten years.
-- the total is on the order of eight to nine hundred billion dollars f…

Rural Hospitals in the United States Face Collapse
As Medicaid cuts deepen, small-town hospitals across Republican states are closing, leaving millions without access to emergency care.

QM2-branes and the Swampland Distance Conjecture in nine dimensions
Mar\'ia Pilar Garc\'ia del Moral, Camilo las Heras, Alvaro Restuccia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09967

QM2-branes and the Swampland Distance Conjecture in nine dimensions
We discuss the relationship between the Swampland program and QM2-branes, which are supersymmetric M2-branes with discrete spectrum. The worldvolume description of these M2-branes is well-known. The global description is given in terms of twisted torus bundles with monodromy in $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$. In particular, we show that the towers of states that ensure the Swampland Distance Conjecture for type II maximal supergravity in nine dimensions are directly related to QM2-branes with triv…

US newsletter publisher The Flyover now has 25 staff, 2.5M subscribers, nine state-specific daily editions, and one national edition, after its 2023 launch (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-ameri

Email-based publisher The Flyover has 25 full-time staff two years after launch
The Flyover is an email-first publication that is seeing success through converting its state news readers to national news.

Remember Trump telling how extremely safe Washington DC was now..... Ofcourse he was lying.
https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/…

11 people were shot at seven overnight incidents, police say
D.C. police are investigating the shootings of 11 people overnight at seven different locations. These shootings took place within nine hours.

Past/Present: Jason Witten among 10 Cowboys nominees for 2026 Hall of Fame https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-jason-witten-among-10-cowboys-nominees-for-2026-hall-of-fame

106 for a fitness fix! Way to redline 69
A new p.r. today in set one: 106 reps at the current level (35-cm offset at the feet; parallettes for full range of motion). The middle section here is sped up to 9x speed for your entertainment and viewing ease. I will do a second set in the evening. My goal is to hit two sets of 100 or more in a day. I hope to hit that by my 70th birthday in nine weeks.
#calisthenics

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
BLAKE: Where in Zone Nine?
ZEN: The freighter is on course for the only habitable planet in Zone Nine.
BLAKE: Which is?
ZEN: Code-named Horizon.
BLAKE: "Horizon"?
AVON: Code-named by whom?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/34

Revenge game? Packers' Micah Parsons isn't the only player looking to show out against former team

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/revenge

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine: Proactive Self-Refinement for Language Models
Jinyi Han, Xinyi Wang, Haiquan Zhao, Tingyun li, Zishang Jiang, Sihang Jiang, Jiaqing Liang, Xin Lin, Weikang Zhou, Zeye Sun, Fei Yu, Yanghua Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12903

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine: Proactive Self-Refinement for Language Models
Recent advances in self-refinement have demonstrated significant potential for improving the outputs of large language models (LLMs) through iterative refinement. However, most existing self-refinement methods rely on a reactive process with a fixed number of iterations, making it difficult to determine the optimal timing and content of refinement based on the evolving generation context. Inspired by the way humans dynamically refine their thoughts during execution, we propose ProActive Self-Re…

I say it after every shooting, but it doesn't need to be this way in America. There is much we can do to make America safer. We just choose not to.
Live updates: Grand Blanc, Michigan, church shooting and fire | CNN
https://share.google/9u16abDy8OboamCeQ

At least 1 dead and 9 others wounded after shooting at Michigan church
At least on person was killed and nine others wounded in a shooting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan, according to police. Follow for live updates.

The 2025 outburst of IGR J17511-3057: timing and spectral insights from NICER and NuSTAR
A. Sanna (Universit\`a degli Studi di Cagliari), G. K. Jaisawal (National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark), T. E. Strohmayer (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), G. Illiano (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera), A. Riggio (Universit\`a degli Studi di Cagliari), A. Papitto (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), T. Di Salvo (Universit\`a degli Studi di Palermo), L. Burderi (U…

The 2025 outburst of IGR J17511-3057: timing and spectral insights from NICER and NuSTAR
IGR J17511-3057 was observed in a new outburst phase starting in February 2025 and lasting at least nine days. We investigated the spectral and temporal properties of IGR J17511-3057, aiming to characterise its current status and highlight possible long-term evolution of its properties. We analysed the available NICER and NuSTAR observations performed during the latest outburst of the source. We updated the ephemerides of the neutron star and compared them to previous outbursts to investigate i…

Localizing Malicious Outputs from CodeLLM
Mayukh Borana, Junyi Liang, Sai Sathiesh Rajan, Sudipta Chattopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17070 https://ar…

Localizing Malicious Outputs from CodeLLM
We introduce FreqRank, a mutation-based defense to localize malicious components in LLM outputs and their corresponding backdoor triggers. FreqRank assumes that the malicious sub-string(s) consistently appear in outputs for triggered inputs and uses a frequency-based ranking system to identify them. Our ranking system then leverages this knowledge to localize the backdoor triggers present in the inputs. We create nine malicious models through fine-tuning or custom instructions for three downstr…

Some New Modular Rank Four Nahm Sums as Lift-dual of Rank Three Examples
Zhineng Cao, Liuquan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12468 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Some New Modular Rank Four Nahm Sums as Lift-dual of Rank Three Examples
We find nine new sets of rank four Nahm sums associated with nine different numeric matrices which are likely to be modular. They are discovered by applying the lift-dual operation to some modular rank three Nahm sums in the works of Zagier and the authors. We prove the modularity of four sets of these Nahm sums by establishing Rogers--Ramanujan type identities which express them as modular infinite products. We use various $q$-series techniques including the constant term method and Bailey pai…

Google Cloud says it now works with nine of the 10 leading AI labs, including OpenAI, and with 60% of the world's generative AI startups, fueling its growth (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/how-ai-startups-are-fueli…

How AI startups are fueling Google's booming cloud business | TechCrunch
Google Cloud is one of the company's fastest-growing business lines, and continues to rack up new customers.

Lions' unsung defense steps up, surprises even Dan Campbell: 'I had confidence, but nine points?' https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-unsung-defense-steps-up-surprises-even-dan-campbell-i-had-confidence-but-nine-points

The Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT -- XVIII. Complex sub-pulse modulation patterns, bi-drifting and mode changing of nine radio pulsars
Haoyue Wang, Michael J. Keith, Patrick Weltevrede, Geoffrey Wright, Bhaswati Bhattacharyya, JuiAn Hsu, Xiaoxi Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15949

The Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT -- XVIII. Complex sub-pulse modulation patterns, bi-drifting and mode changing of nine radio pulsars
We present a detailed analysis of sub-pulse modulations in nine pulsars which show evidence of changes in sub-pulse drift direction as a function of pulse longitude in the Thousand Pulsar Array single pulse survey with MeerKAT. We confirm that all of these are consistent with persistent drift direction changes. These 'bi-drifting' pulsars present a challenge to the classical carousel model for sub-pulse drifting. In general, bi-drifting in this expanded sample is less clear than some of the pre…

LOTUSDIS: A Thai far-field meeting corpus for robust conversational ASR
Pattara Tipaksorn, Sumonmas Thatphithakkul, Vataya Chunwijitra, Kwanchiva Thangthai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18722

Russian strikes in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast kill 1, injure 9 others: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/russian-strikes-in-dnipropetrovsk-oblast.html

QCD Sum Rule Study of the Tensor $\Delta^0\Delta^0$ Dibaryon State
M. Ahmadi, H. Mohseni, K. Azizi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12105 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

QCD Sum Rule Study of the Tensor $Δ^0Δ^0$ Dibaryon State
We study the exotic $Δ^{0}Δ^{0}$ dibaryon state with quantum numbers $J^{P} = 2^{+}$ within the framework of QCD sum rules. A tensor interpolating current is constructed to determine the mass and residue of this state, including explicit calculations of contributions from quark, gluon, and mixed vacuum condensates up to dimension nine. The numerical analysis yields a mass of $m_{Δ^{0}Δ^{0}} = 2426^{+101}_{-108}~\mathrm{MeV}$ and a residue of $f_{Δ^{0}Δ^{0}} = \left( 2.30^{+0.49}_{-0.45} \…

Five Minutes of DDoS Brings down Tor: DDoS Attacks on the Tor Directory Protocol and Mitigations
Zhongtang Luo, Jianting Zhang, Akshat Neerati, Aniket Kate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10755

Five Minutes of DDoS Brings down Tor: DDoS Attacks on the Tor Directory Protocol and Mitigations
The Tor network offers network anonymity to its users by routing their traffic through a sequence of relays. A group of nine directory authorities maintains information about all available relay nodes using a distributed directory protocol. We observe that the current protocol makes a steep synchrony assumption, which makes it vulnerable to natural as well as adversarial non-synchronous communication scenarios over the Internet. In this paper, we show that it is possible to cause a failure in t…

Patriots releasing veteran S Peppers, source says https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46105067/patriots-releasing-veteran-jabrill-peppers-source-says

The Senate rejected dueling short-term government funding proposals Friday afternoon,
🔥leaving no clear off-ramp before the fiscal year ends and agencies shut down at midnight Sept. 30.
Despite the looming cliff, neither side appears ready to blink, and
💥lawmakers are set to spend at least the next nine days back home.
House Republicans are not set to return until after a shutdown is already underway, and the Senate is unlikely to vote again until less than 48 hours …

Nine current and ex-Apple staffers accuse Apple VP of Fitness Tech Jay Blahnik of creating a toxic work environment; Apple settled a sexual harassment complaint (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/technology/apple-fitness-jay-blahnik.…

Apple Fitness Chief Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture and Harassment
Workers say the executive was volatile and retaliated when they cooperated with an investigation. Apple denies the claims.

Will Caleb Williams make Bears history and eclipse the 4,000-yard passing mark? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6567829/2025/08/25/bears-caleb-williams-yard-passing-betting/

Will Caleb Williams make Bears history and eclipse the 4,000-yard passing mark? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6567829/2025/08/25/bears-caleb-williams-yard-passing-betting/

Paris-based Upciti, which offers city operations software and hardware to over 150 municipalities in 17 countries, raised a $20M Series A led by Notion Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/16/upciti-closes-20m-to-dr…

UPCITI closes $20M to drive global growth of its urban operating platform
UPCITI, a Paris-based company building an operating system for cities, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Notion Capital, with participation from Point Nine and Chalfen Ventures.UPCITI combines proprietary software with purpose-built hardware to help municipalities run critical operations, such as traffic flow, street management, and public safety, more efficiently and securely, with a clear ROI that simplifies adoption. By owning both the software an…

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce announce engagement on Instagram after 2 years of dating https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6576592/2025/08/26/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-engaged-instagram/

As of Wednesday, 38 large fires were burning across nine western states,
including Colorado’s #Lee Fire and California’s #Gifford Fire, which ballooned into the state’s largest this year.

What’s driving the explosive fires in the West?
As of Wednesday, 38 large fires were burning across nine western states, including Colorado’s Lee Fire and California’s Gifford Fire, which ballooned into the state’s largest this year.

For several years
– since conservatives, gained a six-three majority on the bench thanks to Donald Trump’s nominations during his first presidency
– the court has been delivering transformative rulings that have reverberated across the social and political landscape.
In 2022, it overturned Roe v Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion that had existed for nearly half-a-century.
In July 2024, in a far-reaching decision, it granted Trump
– and, by exten…

2025 NFL trade deadline: Nine players who could benefit from a change of scenery, including Saints Pro Bowlers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nfl-trade-deadline-biggest-tra…