GW241011 and GW241110 - Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-spin #BlackHole Coalescences: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0d54 -> Colliding black holes might have formed from earlier cosmic smashups: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/colliding-black-holes-might-have-formed-from-earlier-cosmic-smashups and https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20251028 and https://www.ozgrav.org/news/twin-black-hole-mergers-reveal-secrets-of-cosmic-evolution/ - two recent detections have given the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration new insights into black hole formation and evolution -> Gravitational Wave Detectors Spot Merging Black Holes That Have Merged Before: https://aasnova.org/2025/10/28/not-their-first-rodeo-gravitational-wave-detectors-spot-merging-black-holes-that-have-merged-before/
I need to read it properly, but this looks 🔥 https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16652
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Braids:
🎵 Evolution (Radio Edit)
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NFL Evaluating Dak Prescott Incident in Cowboys Christmas Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/nfl-evaluating-dak-prescott-incident-game/
Sources: Intel may start shipping a portion of Apple's lowest-end M chips as early as 2027; Apple is evaluating Intel's 18A process for the chip production (@mingchikuo)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/1994422001952555318
If anyone knows how to subscribe to Microsoft #Exchange calendars of colleagues using #Thunderbird (and Owl), I'd appreciate a tip. It works in #Evolution, but that one struggles with modifying recurring events...
We've reached the point in the evolution of cyber scamming where military units are blowing up buildings to stop the digital crimes.
Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up
https://apnews.com/artic…
Ugh why is this always the way. I evaluated like 25 authentication servers for a small scale web project — I do want to support things like OIDC and Passkeys, so this is not something I really want to make myself like the old days of “use crypt() on the passwords and just make a simple database”.
5 of them are just dev mode garbage that will never see the light of day as a thing people use.
2 of them are home network nonsense for people who want enterprise login for their family, but where One Nerd controls the whole user-list.
15 of them are freemium "open source" where they withhold features for their enterprise tier and make them so unfortunately difficult to deploy, all requiring postgresql databases and a complex containerization setup and helm charts and oh so much.
and then there's kanidm, which is great except its opinions make it completely unusable for a community project, it's really more trying to fit the ‘enterprise unix authentication' space. Kudos to them for communicating it but it's the wrong tool, even if it is really good.
And then there's rauthy. Which is exactly what I want, well built and delightful, uses a lightweight embedded database, and even has a peer-to-peer sync for scalability. But customizing it is going to be a lesson in building it from source repeatedly, and its configuration is just a bit strange, and its frontend is extremely Backend Developer Wrote A Web UI. I guess I got a second project. And maybe a third to make debian packages of it.
Yet it really is the best of the options _by far_.
NLNet supported projects continue to punch above their weight class.
Lawyers at the
"Office of the Legal Adviser" at the State Department, worry they will face repercussions if they suggest the administration’s plans could break domestic or international law,
and suspect they may be evaluated based on their apparent loyalty to Donald Trump and his political vision,
not their expertise and judgment, officials said.
They noted that leadership in the office has steadily and atypically become dominated by Trump’s political appo…