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Trump has pushed Congress to pass a proof-of-citizenship law,
signed an executive order seeking a national voter ID requirement
and tried to limit mail voting through U.S. Postal Service changes.
None of those moves succeeded in time to affect this year’s midterm elections.
🆘But It’s a different matter in the states.
More than three dozen voting laws passed in Republican-controlled states are taking effect for the first time this year,
many of them containin…

Hillary Clinton and Kara Swisher partner to launch High Stakes, a weekly midterm election podcast produced by Vox Media that will run through mid-November (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…

Hillary Clinton Steps to the Podcast Mic as Midterms Approach
With “High Stakes,” Mrs. Clinton is teaming up with “Pivot” co-host Kara Swisher to break down the consequential battle for the House and the Senate.

Observateurs et astrophotographes sur les remparts des ruines du château de Castrojeriz après le troisième contact de l'éclipse totale du 12 août 2026 au crépuscule.
#eclipse #eclipse2026 #Castrojeriz

Track Changes On Podcast
Musings on the future of work, corporate accountability and burnout from an office escapee who thinks we can and should expect better...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/track-changes-on/

Apparently, Apple is warning folks of mercenary groups spyware attempts on their phones:
https://bsky.app/profile/wraithe.bsky.social/post/3msyvxxc6zs25

Wraithe (@wraithe.bsky.social)
There’s a Mastodon account that tracks changes to Apple support pages and it shows this page has updated today with this information: [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Putain j'en peux plus.
Plus besoin de docs ou de scripts pour que les humains puissent faire un truc par eux-mêmes : "Demande Š Claude, il va lire le repo et il se démerdera".
Et mêmes les README, c'est dépassé. Par contre, t'as de grandes chances de trouver de l'info dans AGENTS/CLAUDE.md, ou dans des skills.
Réfléchir Š ce qu'on va faire ? "C'est bon, Claude va faire des issues Š partir du call. Tu vois, il a tout listé/découpé"…

Spectral phase transitions in Gaussian multi-index models
Florent Krzakala, Pierre Mergny, Vanessa Piccolo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12183 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12183 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12183
arXiv:2608.12183v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recovering a low-dimensional latent subspace from nonlinear observations of Gaussian covariates in high dimensions is a fundamental problem in feature learning. Here, we consider Gaussian multi-index models in which the covariates $\boldsymbol{x}_i \stackrel{\mathrm{i.i.d.}}{\sim} \mathcal{N}(0,\boldsymbol{I}_d)$ and the responses $\boldsymbol{y}_i$ depend on $\boldsymbol{x}_i$ only through its projection onto an unknown $r$-dimensional subspace. Earlier work based on approximate message passing (AMP) identified a sharp threshold for weak recovery [Troiani et al., 2025], raising the question of whether it can be attained, without side information, by a spectral method. We answer this affirmatively and develop a general random matrix theory for matrix-valued spectral estimators of the form \[\boldsymbol{D}_n=\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n\boldsymbol{T}(\boldsymbol{y}_i)\otimes\boldsymbol{x}_i\boldsymbol{x}_i^\top,\] where $\boldsymbol{T}$ is an arbitrary bounded symmetric matrix-valued preprocessing map of fixed dimension. As $n,d \to \infty$ with $n/d\to\alpha$, we prove that the empirical spectral measure of $\boldsymbol{D}_n$ converges almost surely to a deterministic compactly supported distribution characterized by a matrix-valued self-consistent equation. We then establish a spectral phase transition for the largest eigenvalue: below threshold it sticks to the bulk edge, while above threshold an outlier emerges. We characterize the outlier location through a finite-dimensional deterministic equation and show that the associated spectral estimator achieves weak recovery of the latent subspace. Finally, we prove that the AMP-derived preprocessing of [Defilippis et al., 2025] is optimal among all bounded matrix-valued preprocessing maps of any fixed dimension. Its transition coincides with the AMP weak-recovery threshold, proving the general spectral conjecture of [Defilippis et al., 2025].
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Cowboys Urged to Cut Ties With All-Pro Amid Roster Shuffle https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cut-ties-with-all-pro-amid-roster-shuffle/

Brian Schottenheimer: Cowboys will 'absolutely' make changes, adjustments https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-cowboys-will-absolutely-make-changes-adjustments

Brian Schottenheimer: Cowboys will 'absolutely' make changes, adjustments https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-cowboys-will-absolutely-make-changes-adjustments