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Bhutan announces that it is migrating its national ID system for roughly 800,000 residents from Polygon to Ethereum, with completion expected by Q1 2026 (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bhutan-migrates-ethereum-national-id

Mark Bray, a historian who has taught courses on anti-fascism at Rutgers university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport late on Wednesday when he was informed at the boarding gate that reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.
“‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared’.”
Th…

If only we had a name for countries that don't allow their citizens to leave....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/anti-fascism-mark-bray-rutgers-university

Revisiting FRB 20121102A: milliarcsecond localisation and a decreasing dispersion measure
M. P. Snelders, J. W. T. Hessels, J. Huang, N. Sridhar, B. Marcote, A. M. Moroianu, O. S. Ould-Boukattine, F. Kirsten, S. Bhandari, D. M. Hewitt, D. Pelliciari, L. Rhodes, R. Anna-Thomas, U. Bach, E. K. Bempong-Manful, V. Bezrukovs, J. D. Bray, S. Buttaccio, I. Cognard, A. Corongiu, R. Feiler, M. P. Gawro\'nski, M. Giroletti, L. Guillemot, R. Karuppusamy, M. Lindqvist, K. Nimmo, A. Possenti, W…

Revisiting FRB 20121102A: milliarcsecond localisation and a decreasing dispersion measure
FRB 20121102A is the original repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source and also the first to be localised to milliarcsecond precision using very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI). It has been active for over 13 years and resides in an extreme magneto-ionic environment in a dwarf host galaxy at a distance of ~1 Gpc. In this work, we use the European VLBI Network (EVN) to (re-)localise FRB 20121102A and its associated persistent radio source (PRS). We confirm that the two are co-located -- impro…

A buddy wanted to drive to Elkhorn tonight to try to find the Bray Road Beast, so here we are.

Crypto trading volume at Bitstamp, bought by Robinhood in 2024, grew 21% MoM in August to $14.4B, surpassing Robinhood's crypto volume, which fell 18% to $13.7B (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitstamp-flips-parent-robin…

"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow; the boundaries of acceptable identity and speech will shrink. I want you to think about elections in this future. I want you to understand that every issue you care about—any hope of participatory democracy—is downstream of this."

Instance-level Performance Prediction for Long-form Generation Tasks
Chi-Yang Hsu, Alexander Braylan, Yiheng Su, Omar Alonso, Matthew Lease
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07309 http…

Instance-level Performance Prediction for Long-form Generation Tasks
We motivate and share a new benchmark for instance-level performance prediction of long-form generation tasks having multi-faceted, fine-grained quality metrics. Our task-, model- and metric-agnostic formulation predicts continuous evaluation metric scores given only black-box model inputs and outputs. Beyond predicting point estimates of metric scores, the benchmark also requires inferring prediction intervals to quantify uncertainty around point estimates. Evaluation spans 11 long-form datase…

El Salvador has split its 6K bitcoin across 14 wallets, describing the move as a precaution against quantum attacks, a merely theoretical threat for now (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/el-salvador-splits-bitcoin-holdi…