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Sources: to fight critics on social media, DHS sent platforms hundreds of subpoenas and asked posters to sign letters saying speech about ICE "may" be a crime (Wall Street Journal)

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements

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Bootstrap

What is Bootstrap? Bootstrap is a CSS framework. It is used to build websites faster without writing everything from the beginning.

  • Bootstrap provides pre-made classes for design elements like buttons, cards, and forms.
  • Grid system consists of 12 columns for balanced layouts.
  • Utility classes simplify modifications to spacing, colors, and Flexbox layouts.

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Extreme Combinatorial Optimization in VRAM: Architecture and Engineering of AETPC

The Challenge of Combinatorial Complexity Large-scale combinatorial optimization problems—such as the classic Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSPLIB)—exhibit an exponential growth in the search space…

  • AETPC is a GPU-centric engine performing optimization in VRAM
  • Thermodynamic Swarm Particle Collision Architecture eliminates CPU-GPU communication
  • Direct VRAM access reduces data transfer overhead and improves convergence

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