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Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers:
--A hacking gang extorted Italy's elite,
--An Indian backwater became a wealthy cybercrime locale,
--The nature of China's espionage threat to the UK,
--Cybercrime laws are used to censor the press,
--The dark side of Apple&…

Der Brite mit den Stachelhaaren: Billy Idol, Sänger, Musiker und Schauspieler wird 70
#music #Musik

Dem Popmusiker Billy Idol zum 70. Geburtstag
Er kam aus dem britischen Punk und zeigte dann Madonna, Prince und Michael Jackson, was eine Harke ist: Der Popmusiker Billy Idol hat sich trotz Krisen gut gehalten. Jetzt wird er siebzig.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RecordReview
- Berlioz: Harold in Italy
A chance to hear in full yesterday's Building a Library recommendation of Berlioz's Harold in Italy.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mk23

Idly working on my Quamina state-machine-based pattern matcher. (https://github.com/timbray/quamina)
Hit a bug that smells like an infinite loop. Looked closer. Hmm, seems like my code traversing a dinky little 4-state automaton thinks it needs to consider 25,165,824 possible state transitions. Need …

GitHub - timbray/quamina: Home of Quamina, a fast pattern-matching library in Go
Home of Quamina, a fast pattern-matching library in Go - timbray/quamina

I had a cracking time at https://www.supercarexperienceireland.com today.
Highlights for me were the manual 997 Carrera and the 458 Italia. Along with time behind the wheel of an Aston Martin Vantage, a Mercedes AMG GT-R and a 991 GT3 RS, it was the perfect day out for the petrolhead in your l…

RUSSIA FEARS THIS JET! Why the JAS 39 Gripen is ideal for Ukrainian army| Weapons with @StarskyUA: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/31/russia-fears-this-jet-why.html

Complexity of the Zero Set of a Matrix Schubert Ideal
Laura Escobar, Cesar Meza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00131 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00131

Complexity of the Zero Set of a Matrix Schubert Ideal
$T$-varieties are normal varieties equipped with an action of an algebraic torus $T$. When the action is effective, the complexity of a $T$-variety $X$ is $\dim(X)-\dim(T)$. Matrix Schubert varieties, introduced by Fulton in 1992, are $T$-varieties consisting of $n \times n$ matrices satisfying certain constraints on the ranks of their submatrices. In this paper, we focus on the complexity of certain torus-fixed affine subvarieties of matrix Schubert varieties. Concretely, given a matrix Schube…

The last few Christmases, I've idly daydreamed about setting up a siphon to make it easier to water the tree. This year I finally did it, and I love it.
I have a small bucket tucked under a branch between the tree and the wall with a flexible piece of clear tubing running into the tree stand. Now instead of awkwardly laying down and filling the stand, I can just pour water into the bucket, up to the fill line I drew with a sharpie.

Energy-density-driven ultrafast electronic excitations in a cuprate superconductor
Alessandra Milloch (Department of Mathematics and Physics, Universit\`a Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy, ILAMP), Francesco Proietto (Department of Mathematics and Physics, Universit\`a Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium), Naman Agarwal (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Trieste, Italy), Laura Foglia (Elettra - Sincrot…

Energy-density-driven ultrafast electronic excitations in a cuprate superconductor
Controlling nonequilibrium dynamics in quantum materials requires ultrafast probes with spectral selectivity. We report femtosecond reflectivity measurements on the cuprate superconductor Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$ using free-electron laser extreme-ultraviolet (23.5--177~eV) and near-infrared (1.5~eV) pump pulses. EUV pulses access deep electronic states, while NIR light excites valence-band transitions. Despite these distinct channels, both schemes produce nearly identical dynamics: above …