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Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro, which it says is "a step forward in core reasoning", for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers; the .1 increment is a first for Google (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/19/google-announces-gem…

Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro for ‘complex problem-solving’
In November, Google introduced Gemini 3 Pro in preview. Google today announced Gemini 3.1 Pro "for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough."

How the other 1% lives...
"No Lines, No ‘Regular’ People: Flying Ultra-Luxury From Paris"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/travel/first-class-luxury-flight-air-france-la-premiere.html

What Does an Ultra-Luxury First Class Ticket Get You? Flying in a Frictionless Bubble.
A writer reports from inside the premium bubble, where there’s no such thing as too much, petty annoyances are nonexistent and the real world never intrudes.

In his first term, Trump appointed a record-setting 54 federal appellate judges.
Circuit judges are nominated by presidents and, if confirmed by the Senate, serve lifetime appointments.
This analysis provides an early look at how those appointments will likely reverberate nationwide in terms of dismantling or failing to uphold environmental laws and policy, legal scholars said.
“Long term, it’s going to set a lot of precedent that pushes the law away from environmental pr…

Man v. Nature: Trump Appointees Are Shredding Environmental Protections
Federal appellate courts are enacting an anti-environment agenda—especially in the ultraconservative 5th Circuit, new analysis shows.

🖼️ Native vision-language design with early multimodal fusion trained on massive text-image-video data
🌍 Expanded multilingual coverage to 201 languages & dialects
🤖 Demonstrates visual agent workflows across mobile & desktop interfaces beyond passive chat
📊 First open-weight release: Qwen3.5-397B-A17B ultra-sparse MoE model
🔬 Large-scale reinforcement learning across multi-agent environments for real-world adaptability

The nonstop parade of luxury that is
La Première, Air France’s first-class trans-Atlantic service,
begins when a Mercedes limousine collects you from your hotel and whisks you to an exclusive entrance at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
It ends at J.F.K., when an Air France employee personally escorts you from your seat through a special customs line.
Each new indulgence seems more lavish than the one before.
The bespoke departure lounge, where you can or…

What Does an Ultra-Luxury First Class Ticket Get You? Flying in a Frictionless Bubble.
A writer reports from inside the premium bubble, where there’s no such thing as too much, petty annoyances are nonexistent and the real world never intrudes.

#CoronaDischarges Glow on Trees Under Thunderstorms: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL119591 -> Thunderstorms conjure ghostly coronae in treetops, observed outdoors for the first time: https://news.agu.org/press-release/thunderstorms-conjure-ghostly-coronae-in-treetops-observed-outdoors-for-the-first-time/ - the weak electric discharges may set off ultraviolet sparkles over large swaths of forest under storms, potentially impacting canopy health (this is fringe geophysics but some amateur astronomers are going after corona discharges - esp. in webcam images from mountain sites - with a vengeance, so here goes).

Replaced article(s) found for physics.acc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.acc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Classical and quantum beam dynamics simulation of the RF photoinjector test bench
Dyatlov, Kobets, Levichev, Maksimov, Nikiforov, Nozdrin, Popov, Sibiryakova, Yunenko, Karlovets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00732 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsaccph_bot/115139328955562484
- First Experimental Demonstration of Beam Storage by Three-Dimensional Spiral Injection Scheme for...
Matsushita, Iinuma, Ohsawa, Nakayama, Furukawa, Ogawa, Saito, Mibe, Rehman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01504 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsaccph_bot/116005767460963446
- Generation of high-OAM ultraviolet twisted light for RF-photoinjector applications
Dyatlov, Dolgintsev, Gerasimov, Kobets, Nazmov, Nozdrin, Sergeev, Shokin, Yunenko, Karlovets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08442 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115694829644210242
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It’s only a matter of time before some idiot P-plater annihilates a stretch of the Hume Highway—mark my words—and Benalla disappears in a burst of gamma rays.
#GrouchyOldMan https://

Physicists moved volatile antimatter by truck for the first time ever — paving the way for groundbreaking new
CERN scientists transported antimatter by truck for the first time, enabling ultraprecise studies that could reveal why matter dominates the universe. …

Unabashed viciousness
is part of the appeal of the Maga administration for its fans,
and might seem like a refreshing return to plain speaking.
But you can, of course, speak plainly while lying.
Trump and Hegseth’s vivid wallowings in industrial ultraviolence are in reality no more honest than regular political dissembling.
But while this maniacal, no-bullshit posturing,
this chest-beating fiesta of blood and guts, takes centre stage,
the real bulls…