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The sun's out again in Ōtautahi! The local skink community is taking full advantage!
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Vantage Studios: Ubisoft lagert "Assassin's Creed" und "Far Cry" aus
Ubisoft hat eine Tochterfirma gegründet, um die lukrativen Dauerbrenner wie "Assassin's Creed" zu verwalten. Der Publisher spricht von einem "Kreativhaus".

Modified logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for CSS codes
Sebastian Stengele, \'Angela Capel, Li Gao, Angelo Lucia, David P\'erez-Garc\'ia, Antonio P\'erez-Hern\'andez, Cambyse Rouz\'e, Simone Warzel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03090

Modified logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for CSS codes
We consider the class of Davies quantum semigroups modelling thermalization for translation-invariant Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes in D dimensions. We prove that conditions of Dobrushin-Shlosman-type on the quantum Gibbs state imply a modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality with a constant that is uniform in the system's size. This is accomplished by generalizing parts of the classical results on thermalization by Stroock, Zegarlinski, Martinelli, and Olivieri to the CSS quantum setting. …

Regulating Big Tech is like regulating a malignant tumour. You don’t regulate a malignant tumour. You cut it out, with enough of a surgical margin to ensure you get every last putrid bit to avoid regrowth.
(This is moot, of course, as we’re not even regulating Big Tech, we’re feeding it with subsidies, government contracts, and access to national healthcare and other sensitive data while the folks who should be regulating them eye their next lucrative gig beyond the revolving doors of …

Alex Vindman here.
The Wall Street Journal broke the news that Trump’s chief negotiator,
Steve Witkoff,
met with Russian oligarchs about lucrative post-war business opportunities.
It’s clear:
Trump’s so-called “peace plan”
is a vehicle for appeasement and personal gain for those in and around the Trump Administration.
The objective isn't peace and stability for Ukraine — it’s money.
There’s no other way to look at this but as corruption at…

Logarithmic jets and the chiral de Rham complex of a pair
Emile Bouaziz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04515 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04515

Logarithmic jets and the chiral de Rham complex of a pair
To a smooth variety $X$ with simple normal crossings divisor $D$, we associate a sheaf of vertex algebras on $X$, denoted $Ω^{ch}_{X}(\operatorname{log}D)$, whose conformal weight $0$ subspace is the algebra $Ω_{X}(\operatorname{log}D)$ of forms with log poles along $D$. We prove various basic structural results about $Ω^{ch}_{X}(\operatorname{log}D)$. In particular, if $X^{*}=X\setminus D$ has a volume form then we show that $Ω^{ch}_{X}(\operatorname{log}D)$ admits a topological structure …

This is an example of why our class action systems must be changed.
Class actions are good things for certain kinds of cases.
But many lawyers have found them to be a lucrative way to generate prodigious fees (while leaving the victims with only paltry amounts.)
Here's a case where the law imposed a terrible, and unjust, penalty on many small businesses. Like in many class actions the defendants settled, despite having a meritful defense. But did that settlement money…

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000295220/groesstes-spinnennetz-der-welt-in-lichtloser-schwefelhoehle-entdeckt

Größtes Spinnennetz der Welt in lichtloser Schwefelhöhle entdeckt
Eine einzigartige Spinnenkolonie von etwa 110.000 Tieren bevölkert ein mehr als 100 Quadratmeter großes Netz. Forscher rätseln über das ungewöhnliche Zusammenleben der Einzelgänger

"Verband schlägt Alarm - Warum immer mehr Altfett aus Restaurants verschwindet" #SimpsonsDidIt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LgKGwrHd3k

For all you nature lovers (especially herpetological sorts, i.e. lizards, and more specifically, geckos here in Aotearoa) get a load of this: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-strange-beautiful-lizard-at-the-bottom-of-the-world/ Stunning. I tried t…