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Underdog and Crypto.com launch a sports prediction market to let US users in 16 states bet on the NFL, the NBA, and other leagues via Underdog's app (Contessa Brewer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/cryptocom-and-underdog-partne…

Crypto.com and Underdog partner to offer sports prediction markets
Underdog will partner with Crypto.com to offer sports prediction markets in 16 states, the first tie-up involving an online sports gaming operator.

https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/08/senate-confirms-sean-cairncross-be-national-cyber-director-under-trump/407178/
Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to be national cyber director under Trump

Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to be national cyber director under Trump
Sean Cairncross, a former RNC official, is the first person to head the Office of the National Cyber Director under Donald Trump.

Ukraine says stabilization under way in Pokrovsk, denies Russian claim that GUR commandos were wiped out: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/ukraine-says-stabilization-under-way.html

Understanding traffic
I bike to work and to lots of other places because I don't like traffic (and the Boston area has traffic) and I don't like looking for parking.  Lots of other people choose to drive despite the traffic, but almost every single person in traffic complains about traffic.  I don't want to just go with the glib "you ARE traffic", but instead, maybe help people understand what causes traffic congestion and why, because if we don't understand t…

Understanding traffic
I bike to work and to lots of other places because I don’t like traffic (and the Boston area has traffic) and I don’t like looking for parking.  Lots of other people choose to drive des…

"Thief VR" erscheint im Dezember: Kaum Unterschiede zwischen Quest 3 und PS VR2
"Thief VR" hat nun einen konkreten Veröffentlichungstermin. Zwei neue Trailer zeigen kaum Unterschiede zwischen den Versionen für Quest 3 und PS VR2.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 28, the number is 100%.
Happy Labor Day.
https://bsky.app/profile/sundaedivine.bsky.soc…

NFL Betting recap: Week 9 is revenge of the underdogs led by Panthers, Vikings wins https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/46824574/nfl-betting-week-9-underdog-wins-panthers-vikings

Strong random unitaries and fast scrambling
Thomas Schuster, Fermi Ma, Alex Lombardi, Fernando Brandao, Hsin-Yuan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26310 https://

Strong random unitaries and fast scrambling
Understanding how fast physical systems can resemble Haar-random unitaries is a fundamental question in physics. Many experiments of interest in quantum gravity and many-body physics, including the butterfly effect in quantum information scrambling and the Hayden-Preskill thought experiment, involve queries to a random unitary $U$ alongside its inverse $U^\dagger$, conjugate $U^*$, and transpose $U^T$. However, conventional notions of approximate unitary designs and pseudorandom unitaries (PRUs…

STaR-Attack: A Spatio-Temporal and Narrative Reasoning Attack Framework for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation Models
Shaoxiong Guo, Tianyi Du, Lijun Li, Yuyao Wu, Jie Li, Jing Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26473

STaR-Attack: A Spatio-Temporal and Narrative Reasoning Attack Framework for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation Models
Unified Multimodal understanding and generation Models (UMMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in both understanding and generation tasks. However, we identify a vulnerability arising from the generation-understanding coupling in UMMs. The attackers can use the generative function to craft an information-rich adversarial image and then leverage the understanding function to absorb it in a single pass, which we call Cross-Modal Generative Injection (CMGI). Current attack methods on mali…

A book excerpt details Tonga's 2022 internet outage after a colossal underwater volcanic eruption ripped apart the cables connecting the country to the world (Samanth Subramanian/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/