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A federal judge dismisses Newsmax's antitrust lawsuit against Fox News as a "shotgun complaint" and gives Newsmax until September 11 to refile (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/newsmax-fox-news-antitrust-complaint-1236509021/

Judge Dismisses Newsmax’s “Shotgun Complaint” Against Fox News But Will Allow New Filing
The judge will allow the case to be refiled.

Related to understanding firearms, "rifles" and hand guns tend to be rifled. Rifling is grooving that runs in a helical pattern down the barrel. When purchasing a firearm, it's important to check the rifling.
First check that the firearm is unloaded. Empty or remove the magazine, cycle the weapon. Next, check again that it's unloaded by looking both down the barrel and into the magazine. Now, shine a light down the barrel and look down it. In the absence of a light, you may be able to reflect light off your thumbnail.
Rifling should look as though it's drawn on with a sharp pencil, and the barrel should look otherwise completely smooth and clean. If the rifling looks like bumpy mountains, then the owner probably used corrosive ammo and didn't clean it enough. It will probably still shoot, but not at all accurately.
Both the rifling and the pin can be used in forensic analysis to match a bullet to a gun. I don't honestly know how accurate this is because a lot of forensic "science" is just made up stuff that relies on the CSI effect and doesn't actually work as advertised.
However, not all firearms are not all rifled. Shotguns are "smoothbore" firearms, meaning they lack rifling. It is not possible to perform forensic analysis of a smoothbore firearm. It *is* possible to check for powder on the hands of someone who has used a firearm within the last few days, but it's not possible to distinguish between firing inside and outside a range.
I've been gathering all kinds of tidbits like this, partially just out of curiosity and partially because I've been wanting to write a story about a revolutionary group fighting a modern authoritarian society. I'm always happy to learn other bits, if anyone has anything else I could throw in my narrative (whenever I finally get back to writing it).

Here we go.
1- thoughts and prayers
2- not the time to talk about gun control
3- teachers should be armed
4- wait for next distracting headline event
5- nothing.
https://mastodon.archive.org/@tv/115101806412344977

Cowboys Headlines: Micah Parsons sticking point revealed, new trade destination for TE? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/01/news-headlines-june-30-2025-micah-par…

This was the big revelation from today's hearing.
Funding for program to stop next Stuxnet from hitting US expired Sunday
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/lapsed_cisa_funding_cybersentry/?utm_source=dlvr.it&…

Funding for program to stop next Stuxnet from hitting US expired Sunday
: CyberSentry work grinds to a halt

Invisible Injections: Exploiting Vision-Language Models Through Steganographic Prompt Embedding
Chetan Pathade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22304 https://arx…

Invisible Injections: Exploiting Vision-Language Models Through Steganographic Prompt Embedding
Vision-language models (VLMs) have revolutionized multimodal AI applications but introduce novel security vulnerabilities that remain largely unexplored. We present the first comprehensive study of steganographic prompt injection attacks against VLMs, where malicious instructions are invisibly embedded within images using advanced steganographic techniques. Our approach demonstrates that current VLM architectures can inadvertently extract and execute hidden prompts during normal image processin…

AI is slowly taking over coding but many programmers are still sticking their head in the sand about what’s coming…
Now Google’s Chief Scientist just made a telling revelation:
AI now generates at least 25% of their code
https://codingbeautydev.com/blog/ai-writes-google…

Google just confirmed the AI reality many programmers are desperately trying to deny - Coding Beauty
AI is slowly taking over coding but many programmers are still sticking their head in the sand about what’s coming… Now Google’s Chief Scientist just made a telling revelation: AI now generates at least 25% of their code. Can you see — it’s happening now at top software companies with billions of active lines of … Google just confirmed the AI reality many programmers are desperately trying to deny Read More »

JADES reveals a large population of low mass black holes at high redshift
Sophia Geris, Roberto Maiolino, Yuki Isobe, Jan Scholtz, Francesco D'Eugenio, Xihan Ji, Ignas Juodzbalis, Charlotte Simmonds, Pratika Dayal, Alessandro Trinca, Raffaella Schneider, Santiago Arribas, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Andrew J. Bunker, Stefano Carniani, Stephane Charlot, Jacopo Chevallard, Emma Curtis-Lake, Benjamin D. Johnson, Eleonora Parlanti, Pierluigi Rinaldi, Brant Robertson, Sandro Tacchella, Hannah …

JADES reveals a large population of low mass black holes at high redshift
JWST has revealed a large population of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the distant universe, which are challenging our understanding of early massive black hole seeding and growth. We expand the exploration of this population to lower luminosities by stacking $\sim 600$ NIRSpec grating spectra from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) at $3

Microscopic model of the operation of the Single-chalcogenide X-point Memory
P. Fantini, A. Ghetti, E. Varesi, A. Pirovano, F. Pellizzer, D. Baratella, C. Ribaldone, S. Caravati, D. Campi, M. Bernasconi, R. Bez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12118

Microscopic model of the operation of the Single-chalcogenide X-point Memory
Ovonic threshold switching is the key process for several applications of chalcogenide alloys including phase change memories and selector elements in cross-points arrays. Very recently, it has been shown that the threshold switching voltage VT depends on the polarity of the applied field. This feature has been already exploited in the realization of the Single Chalcogenide X-point Memory (SXM) in which a single film of a chalcogenide alloy can serve as both a memory and selector unit. In this …

Highly anisotropic 1D materials supported in exfoliable 2D coordination polymers with optical anisotropy switching via twist-engineering
Eleni C. Mazarakioti, Carla Boix-Constant, Iv\'an G\'omez-Mu\~noz, Diego L\'opez-Alcal\'a, Sergio Revuelta, Marco Ballabio, Vasileios Balos, Jos\'e J. Baldov\'i, Enrique C\'anovas, Josep Canet-Ferrer, Guillermo M\'inguez Espallargas, Samuel Ma\~nas-Valero, Eugenio Coronado

Highly anisotropic 1D materials supported in exfoliable 2D coordination polymers with optical anisotropy switching via twist-engineering
Van der Waals (vdW) materials provide a platform to study and control the physical properties of low-dimensional materials. While strategies developed for two-dimensional (2D) crystals are not directly transferable to one-dimensional (1D) systems, we can benefit from them by creating layers formed by interconnected chains. Here, we develop a molecular strategy to illustrate this concept consisting of assembling 1D materials in 2D metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Crystals of [FeX(pzX)(bpy)] (X =…