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…
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
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…
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://
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
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/