@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-22 23:15:12
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco,
a Republican running for Governor of California, has
💥seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials,
❌ saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy.
County elections officials have disputed Bianco's claims
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, called Bianco’s move unprecedented and says it is designed to sow distrust in elections
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-21 06:35:52
Universal recipes for startup success are impossible: once good ideas are widely adopted, founders converge on the same moves, erasing any competitive moats (Jerry Neumann/Colossus)
https://colossus.com/article/we-have-learned-nothing-startup-pundits/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-13 15:31:54
The global economy has been rocked by the war in the Middle East,
with Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatening energy flows and sending the price of oil soaring to its highest level in years.
The United Nations Security Council responded to the unprovoked U.S.-Israeli war by passing a resolution this week condemning Iran
— specifically for its attacks on U.S. allies in the region
— while ignoring the role of the Trump administration and the Netanyahu govern…
@rocksongoftheweek@mastodon.world2026-02-20 09:10:14
We go back to the 60s this week for a bit of bluesy rock as our spotlight falls on a track from Python Lee Jackson.
As always we invite you to give it a listen and see what we had to say about the track and the band behind it.
Don't forget to follow us for more from our weekly showcase, exploring great tracks from across the universe of #rock and
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-14 05:37:10
In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column,
I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer:
exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.
These all deserve deeper dives,
but perhaps black holes deserve one most of all because, technically speaking,
they do provide the deepest dive you can physically take.
They also make very big bangs indeed, with their collisions rapidly releasing almost inco…
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-03-31 10:46:33
As a demonstration for how difficult software and service transition can be, this press release concerns switching off just two of the services replaced by Universal Credit - a programme announced in 2010.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/success
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-29 19:22:40
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116313947655200049
They tried to, uhm, resurrect their company with this with not a lot of success unfortunately.
webOS (which was rather nice) sort of lives on in a janky way in LG TVs.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-04-07 00:23:11
Trump seizes on rescue of downed airman to recast unpopular Iran war (Trevor Hunnicutt/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-seizes-rescue-downed-airman-recast-unpopular-iran-war-2026-04-06/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p98#a260406p98
@arXiv_physicsinsdet_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-02-02 09:14:39
High-bandwidth frequency domain multiplexed readout of transition-edge sensors for neutrinoless double beta decay searches
M. Adami\v{c} (McGill,LBNL), M. Beretta (UCB,INFN), J. Camilleri (LBNL,Virginia Tech), C. Capelli (LBNL,Zurich U.), M. A. Dobbs (McGill), T. Elleflot (LBNL), B. K. Fujikawa (LBNL), Yu. G. Kolomensky (LBNL,UCB), D. Mayer (MIT), J. Montgomery (McGill), V. Novosad (ANL), A. M. Sindhwad (UCB), V. Singh (UCB), G. Smecher (t0.technology), A. Suzuki (LBNL), B. Welliver (UCB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23106 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.23106 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.23106
arXiv:2601.23106v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The next-generation of cryogenic neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments require increasingly fast readout in order to improve background discrimination. These experiments, operated as cryogenic calorimeters at $\sim$10 mK, are usually read out by high-impedance neutron transmutation doped (NTD) thermistors, which provide good energy resolution, but are limited by $\sim$1 ms response times. Superconducting detectors, such as transition-edge sensors (TESs) with a time resolution of $\sim$100 $\mu$s, offer superior timing performance over NTD semiconductor bolometers. To make this technology viable for an application to a thousand or more channels, multiplexed readout is necessary in order to minimize the thermal load and radioactive contamination induced by the readout. Frequency-domain multiplexing readout (fMux) for TESs, previously developed at Berkeley Lab and McGill University, is currently in use for mm-wave telescopes with detector sampling rates in the order of 100 Hz. We demonstrate a new readout system, based on the McGill/Berkeley digital fMux readout, to satisfy the higher bandwidth and noise requirements of the next generation of TES-instrumented cryogenic calorimeters. The new readout samples detectors at 156 kHz, three orders of magnitude faster than its cosmology-oriented predecessor. Each multiplexing readout module comprises ten superconducting resonators in the MHz range and a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), interfaced to high-bandwidth field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based electronics for digital signal processing and low-latency feedback.
toXiv_bot_toot
@rocksongoftheweek@mastodon.world2026-03-06 00:34:36
