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The development costs of President Trump's White House ballroom keep rising — as does speculation about what the finished project, including its underground complex, will look like. The big picture: Trump 's ballroom project is more than a simple remodel of the East Wing. It's a complete overhaul featuring what appears to be a military-grade underground bunker, meant to protect and secure the pres
The East Wing is gone, a new helipad is spreading across the lawn, and scaffolding wraps the White House's front columns, but the price tags for President Trump's renovations are far less obvious. The big picture: The muddled mix of funding streams — whether from private donors, the president himself or taxpayers — has fueled ethical questions about who's footing the ever-rising bill for the HGTV-
A federal trade court ruled Thursday that President Trump can block cheap imports — including from Chinese retailers like Temu and Shein — from entering the U.S. tariff-free . Why it matters: It's a win for the Trump administration's trade agenda after a major legal setback forced officials to find new legal avenues for imposing sweeping tariffs. The Court of International Trade ruling means that
President Trump's top political hands had some surprising advice for Senate Republicans last week: Talk more about health care. Why it matters: Trump and the MAGA base are fixated on the voter-ID and proof-of-citizenship SAVE Act . But Republican message testing from Trump's own pollster suggests candidates are better off focusing elsewhere. Driving the news: Top Trumpworld campaign officials, inc
Photo: Marc Caputo/Axios Marco Rubio has three official Trump administration jobs and a fourth unofficial title: Viral meme star. He's been featured in countless "Rubio Realizing" images doctored to capture his grim reaction to being "assigned" more jobs, depending on the news of the day or the crisis du jour in the White House. Why it matters: For his 55th birthday on May 28, White House staffers
White House deputy national security adviser Andy Baker is leaving the administration in the coming weeks. Why it matters: Baker, who also served as national security advisor to Vice President Vance, was among the staffers most central to the administration's foreign policy and national security decision-making over the last 18 months. Baker was also personally involved in negotiations with Iran t
When Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump met in the Oval Office two weeks ago, the president asked the Israeli prime minister how he was doing in the polls ahead of an Oct. 27 election. Netanyahu paused. Then one of his advisers piped up: "Mr. President, he is winning," the aide said, according to a U.S. official familiar with the exchange. Why it matters: Netanyahu is not winning. And so far, Tru
A wave of top OpenAI executives — including Sam Altman's top deputy, a longtime chief operating officer and the chief revenue officer — has left in the span of a month as the company retools its leadership ahead of an expected IPO. Why it matters: Co-founder Greg Brockman is getting more involved across every level of the company to build out a leadership team he hopes will catapult OpenAI past An
Data: Census Bureau ; Chart: Neil Irwin/Axios American consumers have powered the economy forward this year. In July, they took a breather. Why it matters: While the underlying trend in consumer demand appears solid, retail sales hit an air pocket last month, suggesting a bumpier path ahead for overall growth. Combined with a weak jobs report last week and two subdued inflation readings this week,
Dorm rooms are tiny. The dorm decor economy is not. The big picture: College dorms are becoming customized, social-media-ready micro-apartments, but the market looks wildly different depending on which side of the Mason-Dixon line your campus sits. Zoom out: The multi-thousand-dollar "designer dorm" industry has grown alongside viral TikTok dorm tours and hauls, and parents hoping to make their ch
Data: International Trade Administration ; Chart: Sara Wise/Axios Even as U.S. policy has walled off Washington, D.C., from friends across the pond, Americans' travel overseas is reaching new heights. Why it matters: Much like the resilient consumer , the American tourist keeps riding the post-COVID travel wave , even as debt delays life milestones and global perceptions of the U.S. slip. Driving
President Trump said Friday that he isn't concerned about the state of the USS Abraham Lincoln, despite calls from lawmakers to investigate reports of mental health issues for those onboard. Why it matters: The San Diego-based aircraft carrier has been deployed for nine months, and numerous reports have indicated that crew members' families are concerned about a lack of food and other basic suppli
Figures disclosed by 33 NHS trusts show temperatures on wards during July rose above 28C limit set by NHS England Hospitals in England have recorded temperatures of almost 42C this summer, with surgeries being cancelled because operating theatres’ cooling units stopped working in the intense heat. The Northern Care Alliance NHS foundation trust, which runs four hospitals in Greater Manchester, rec
Students — and their parents — are searching for future-proof college majors for an AI -powered world. Why it matters: AI is changing the skills employers expect from entry-level workers, while colleges are rethinking how to prepare students for the transition. The big picture: Rumors of the death of jobs might be greatly exaggerated , but college students and graduates are still worried about wha
Whether framed on an office wall, collecting dust in a box or still a distant dream, the college diploma is getting a hard reappraisal. Why it matters: College was once sold as a ticket to the American dream. But students today are taking a tougher look at the college tradeoff: burdensome debt and no guarantee of a dream career — or employment at all, as AI threatens the jobs the degrees were mean
In mid-May, U.S. negotiators trying to reach a deal with Iran to end the war ran into a problem: They couldn't tell if the people across the table actually spoke for the country's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). So Trump administration officials did something unconventional — they went around Iran's negotiators and reached out directly to IRGC leadership. The person they tapped
Sale of one of UK’s top collections overseas prompts call new rules to help keep items in country One of UK’s best fossil collections sold in ‘loss to the nation’ An MP has called on ministers to change export controls so that significant fossils can be classed as national treasures after one of the UK’s best collections, unearthed on Dorset beaches, was sold overseas. Last week, a Guardian invest
Attorney General Todd Blanche refused Sunday to pledge the Justice Department's independence from the White House, saying he would consider President Trump's views on individual prosecutions. Why it matters: Trump has remade the DOJ , ousting longtime staffers , urging prosecutions of rivals and installing his former lawyer as attorney general. Blanche made the stakes clear: Trump's wishes can sha
Hamas leaders reaffirmed their commitment to disarm and demilitarize Gaza in a meeting with President Trump's adviser Jared Kushner in Egypt on Sunday, according to a source with direct knowledge. Why it matters: Kushner used the rare direct meeting to press Hamas for tangible steps on disarmament , warning that Israel doesn't trust the group to follow through. The source described the 90-minute m
President Trump said Sunday he instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to "substantially reduce" U.S. military exercises with South Korea. The big picture: Trump cited his "very good relationship" with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for condemning the drills — and also noted on Truth Social that South Korea declined his request to help the U.S. denuclearize Iran . What he's saying: "These exerc
Imagine a chatbot built to keep you talking a little longer. To change your mind about something. Or persuade you to buy something. Now imagine it could draw on everything it knows about you — including the fears, insecurities and private details you shared in conversation — to do it. Why it matters: Few rules directly govern that scenario today, making AI companies' promises about how they use co
Years of destructive fires are forcing utilities to prioritize wildfire resilience as they plan the next generation of the U.S. electric grid. Why it matters: Utilities aren't just expanding the electric grid — they're designing it to withstand a more fire-prone climate . This year's wildfire season is exceeding the 10-year average for both the number of fires and acres burned. The big picture: Th
Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart: Courtenay Brown/Axios America is experiencing its biggest prescription drug price deflation in generations. Why it matters: By one important measure, there is a striking reversal underway for one of health care's most stubbornly expensive necessities amid a major Washington push to lower drug costs. By the numbers: Prescription drug prices fell 0.8% in July
Young people raised on swiping, DMing and streaming are doing something bold: going out. Why it matters: Amid a loneliness epidemic , millennials and Gen Zers are craving IRL connection — enough to show up for meetups built around activities once considered solitary, or " grandma hobbies ." The latest: They're leaving the house to play chess , birdwatch and read in silence together. "It's very eas
Temperatures could drop by more than 15C compared with last Thursday as cold front moves in Relief from the unrelenting heat is finally arriving this week across western Europe, with more unsettled conditions bringing the chance of rain. Temperatures are expected to fall back towards the seasonal norm, with some parts of the UK even falling about 3C below normal by Thursday. After such a scorching
He is one of the scummiest tech influencers around. He was great at the start, but as time went on, he became increasingly worse. As his channel grew, he started focusing far more on 'entertainment' while neglecting actual, useful information. I'm sure everyone knows the controversies about him and his channel, but I'll still talk about them. He and other massive YouTube channels sponsored Honey,
The Supreme Court once again declined to take up President Trump 's attempt to toss a jury's $5 million finding that he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll. The big picture: Carroll's payday had been long delayed as the president fought the verdict. The Supreme Court already declined to throw it out earlier this year. Trump's lawyers are also still fighting a separate $83.3 million defamat
What the OIG Found GAO aims to provide Congress, the heads of executive agencies, and the public with timely, fact-based, non-partisan information that can be used to improve government and save taxpayers billions of dollars. To execute its mission, GAO relies on a highly-qualified workforce that includes employees in mission-critical occupations (MCO) such as contracting, human resources manageme
This year's edition of the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference , better known as "FOSSY", moved north to the beautiful (and enormous) campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada from its home for the three previous editions: Portland, Oregon, in the US. There were many different types of talks at FOSSY, from deeply technical kernel-track topics, through talk
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/65235734 > On August 8, police arrived on the scene of Long Branch Lagoon Water Park in Dodge City, Kansas, to the sight of three self-described “bearded, burly men” who had been in the women’s bathroom and changing area. The manager of the municipally run property allegedly screamed and rushed children out the door. > > The men knew this was likely.
The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it is investigating Congressman Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) over allegations of sexual misconduct. Why it matters: Gomez is the latest House member to face scrutiny over alleged sexual misconduct amid a string of incidents that have prompted calls to tighten Congress' rules. Gomez said in a statement that he's made "personal mistakes outside my marriage,
The Trump administration paused border wall construction at Big Bend National Park in Texas while U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott visits the site, Scott announced Monday. Why it matters: The wall's construction inside the national park has been the subject of bipartisan pushback and criticism that the job has been rushed, and is damaging to the environment. Driving the
The USS George Washington's deployment from Japan to the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln will leave the U.S. without an aircraft carrier in the western Pacific — just as adversaries in the area are flexing their military power. Why it matters: Temporary carrier gaps are not uncommon, but the absence of a striker ship in the Pacific highlights how the Middle East is once again dictat
Vaccination rates among American kindergartners decreased during the 2025–2026 school year for all tracked vaccines , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday. Exemptions from getting one or more vaccines increased in 41 states and the District of Columbia, growing to 4.2% from 3.6% the year before. Why it matters: The drop-off coincided with continued efforts by the Trump
Congressional Democrats are planning a new push to constrain President Trump 's war powers after he threatened Monday to "bomb the shit" out of Oman. Why it matters: War powers resolutions, though largely symbolic, have become Democrats' go-to tool for trying to rein in what they see as a far too trigger-happy administration. "At this point we may just need to file war powers resolutions for the 1
A Lloyds survey released Tuesday found that 54% of UK businesses said artificial intelligence had created new jobs, based on the bank’s monthly business research of 1,200 companies [bancamea.md#1][arynews.tv#1][techxplore.com#1][elfinancierocr.com#1][news18.com#1][20min.ch#1]. The study did not specify whether companies eliminated other roles at the same time [bancamea.md#1][arynews.tv#1][elfinanc
South Florida faced another day of dangerous heat Tuesday, with Miami forecast to reach 98 degrees, above the daily record of 96 set in 2022 and near its all-time high of 100 set in 1942 [nbcmiami.com#1]. Fort Lauderdale was forecast to reach 97 degrees, just below the Aug. 18 daily record of 98 set in 1924 and near its all-time high of 100, which it most recently reached in 2009 [nbcmiami.com#1].
One of the UK’s best fossil collections has been sold overseas in what experts have called a loss to the nation. The collection, which is now on display at the Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi, was gathered on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. As dinosaur fossils sell to private collectors for increasingly large sums, scientists are worried that domestic museums are being priced out of the market, and i
The new KDE Software Initiative, announced in mid-August, said it will provide “at least” three years of backported fixes for KDE Plasma 6.6, KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear applications, with Kubuntu 26.04 as the main target [theregister.com#1]. The Register reported that the effort effectively turns Plasma 6.6, released six months earlier, into a long-term-support desktop version for Kubuntu’s lates
Data: LinkedIn; Table: Danielle Alberti/Axios Women made up just over a quarter of new hires in the U.S. for AI roles last year — compared with half of new hires in non-AI occupations, per new LinkedIn data out Tuesday morning. Why it matters: These jobs are some of the fastest-growing and highest-paying in the country right now — at a time when the overall labor market is pretty sluggish — and th
Mozilla released Firefox 154, the latest update to its open-source browser, with Local Network Access protections extended to WebSocket connections. Websites that try to open a WebSocket connection to a device or service on a user’s local network now must ask for permission first, rather than connect silently [lxer.com#1][lxer.com#2][lwn.net#1][computerbase.de#1]. The release also adds separate pe
Syrian state media said Israeli aircraft carried out eight strikes early Tuesday on Abu al-Duhur military airbase in Idlib province, hitting the runway and storage facilities. It said the strikes caused material damage and no casualties were reported [bbc.co.uk#1][alarabiya.net#1][dawn.com#1][euronews.com#1]. Syria’s Foreign Ministry condemned the attack as an unjustified act of aggression and a v
The 2026 midterms are becoming a watershed election for primary meddling, mysterious super PACs, alleged straw candidates and all other manner of political shenanigans. Why it matters: With the number of battleground House districts diminished by redistricting and the fight for the Senate extremely tight, each one of these schemes could have an outsized impact on control of Congress. Green Party s
Russian state development bank VEB removed Andrei Klepach as chief economist after public remarks in which he warned that Russia could not win a prolonged war of attrition against Ukraine and was losing ground in global technological and economic competition [cnbc.com#1][egyptindependent.com#1][nzz.ch#1][businessam.be#1]. TASS confirmed Sunday that Klepach “no longer holds the position of chief ec
Data: FBI ; Note: 2021 data was estimated due to a low number of agencies reporting; Chart: Noah Bressner/Axios The U.S. violent crime rate plunged 9.7% last year — the largest annual drop since the FBI's national estimates began in 1936 — according to the bureau's data released Friday and reviewed by Axios. Why it matters: The FBI's 2025 report indicated that the post-pandemic declines in violent
Tuesday is the Florida Man primary . "It's really weird," one political pro said. Why it matters: Florida, MAGA's beating heart, is President Trump's home and was a top, successful target of his redistricting push to add more GOP-leaning congressional seats. Zoom in: What makes some of the contests stand out isn't their competitiveness — it's how they invoke the wacky Florida Man internet meme. Th
A demo video found inside Apple’s macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate shows unreleased AirPods using built-in cameras with Visual Intelligence, offering a look at a long-rumored wearable AI product [macrumors.com#3][techcrunch.com#2][pcmag.com#1][mashable.com#2][techspot.com#1]. In the clip, a man wearing AirPods holds up a book so the device can read the title, while the voiceover says, “With Visu
I have been thinking a lot about AI and integrity. Part of that is contextual integrity. I recently found two papers on the topic. “ CIMemories: A Compositional Benchmark for Contextual Integrity of Persistent Memory in LLMs “: Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly use persistent memory from past interactions to enhance personalization and task performance. However, this memory intro
Long-term government borrowing costs rose across major economies on Tuesday as investors sold longer-dated bonds, pushing the 30-year U.S. Treasury yield above 5.33%, its highest level since 2007 [theguardian.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1][capitalspectator.com#1][boereport.com#1][nytimes.com#1][cnbc.com#1]. U.K. long-term gilt yields reached about 5.85%, Japan’s 10-year yield rose to just under 3%, and Germa
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Bond yields in US, UK, Germany France and Japan rise after ceasefire ends and Trump threatens to bomb Oman Business live – latest updates Government borrowing costs in several advanced economies continued to rise to levels not seen in decades on Tuesday, as hopes of an end to the US-Iran war faded. Concerns about the inflation outlook worsened after the ceasefire between Washington DC and Tehran e
What GAO Found The Department of Defense (DOD) and its components—relevant DOD offices and the military departments (Army, Navy, and Air Force)—are taking steps to prevent and mitigate the brain health effects of blast exposure. In 2024, DOD established several blast overpressure requirements, including one requiring that brain health be monitored. Specifically, this requires that all high-risk ac
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on August 18 as the default version of ChatGPT for users aged 13 to 17, with stronger youth-safety settings, learning tools and parental controls [openai.com#1][latimes.com#1][cnbc.com#1][nytimes.com#1][theguardian.com#1]. The company said teen users who state their age or whose accounts OpenAI estimates belong to someone under 18 will be placed automatically into
The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Benfold lost electrical power for four days after a July 24 engineering casualty involving its generators while operating in the South China Sea, the U.S. 7th Fleet said [thehill.com#1][scmp.com#1][japantoday.com#1][cbsnews.com#1][arabtimesonline.com#1][skynewsarabia.com#1][n-tv.de#1]. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer had about 300 sailors aboard. The ou
A new Utrecht University study finds that the rate at which atmospheric CO2 rises could determine whether the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, crosses a tipping point, and that a high rate of CO2 increase alone could trigger collapse [livescience.com#1][dr.dk#1]. The research says slow warming can let Atlantic currents adapt even beyond 9 degrees Fahrenheit, or 5 degrees Celsi
Today's game is Control. I went Anchor hunting today and did that whole questline. I can't believe i had never done it up until that point. I would have expected me to easily have a run in with that location considering how accessible it is. Nonetheless, I escorted the guy out. Then went back, found out i needed the levitate ability, progressed the story far enough to get it, then went *all* the w
An Aerospace Corporation analysis of President Trump’s fiscal 2027 defense budget request says the proposed Space Force spending increase is concentrated in moving-target tracking, missile warning, command and control and classified programs [spacenews.com#1][satellitetoday.com#1][defensedaily.com#1]. The administration has proposed a total Space Force request of $71.3 billion, including a $59.2 b
Memphis, TN – Clayton Bratcher, 25 , has been sentenced to fourteen years and one day in prison following his convictions for multiple armed robberies of fast-food restaurants in Memphis. United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant, of the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.According to court documents, officers with the Memphis Police Department Safe Streets Task Force res
European Central Bank economists warned that the AI-driven rally in U.S. and European equities could be followed by a significant market correction, citing research on earlier technology revolutions and U.S. stock valuations near historical peaks [techspot.com#1][euractiv.com#1][bursa.ro#1][digi24.ro#1][stirileprotv.ro#1][lesechos.fr#1]. They said the risk applies even if artificial intelligence t
—Photo-illustration by TIME; Lari Bat/Getty Images The U.S. venture capital industry is one of the most impressive economic growth engines this country has. Seven of the top ten companies by market capitalization today were VC-backed when they were young, innovative, and very risky. My research with Will Gornall shows that companies that received VC funding and subsequently went public now account
As adept at comedy and musicals as she was drama, Law also acted alongside daughters Sophie and Emma Thompson in a career spanning eight decades Phyllida Law, whose prolific acting career encompassed a wide range of stage, TV and film roles – a number of which were alongside her daughters, Emma and Sophie Thompson – has died aged 94. Her personal manager, Jacky Leggo, said in a statement that she
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday, setting a default experience for users ages 13 to 17 when a person self-identifies as a teenager or when OpenAI estimates the user is under 18 [openai.com#1][abcnews.com#1][theguardian.com#1][macrumors.com#1]. The company said the mode is designed to let teenagers use ChatGPT for learning, problem-solving and exploration while adding stronger protectio
Quick post today, readers may remember that in the last post that the 112 test was today, so i hope you all set your alarms for this post! imsd emergency calling works! end to end tested on the live network! I called 112 in the designated time slot and had full two way voice with the operator, plus NAW data, sadly the AML did not work. The Netherlands doesn't use the text based AML my code had, iv
Linus Torvalds released Linux kernel 7.2, the latest stable kernel, on Sunday, Aug. 16, with changes to the scheduler, filesystems, networking, virtualization, memory management, security and hardware support [paul-moore.com#1][tuxmachines.org#1][linuxmi.com#1]. The release does not have one flagship feature; Linuxmi described it as a broad set of subsystem updates, including cache-aware schedulin
Comcast launched Xfinity Shield on August 18, a home-protection platform that adds opt-in WiFi Motion to compatible Xfinity gateways already in customers’ homes [theverge.com#1][androidheadlines.com#1][pcmag.com#1][techcrunch.com#1][androidauthority.com#1][9to5mac.com#1][bleepingcomputer.com#1][makeuseof.com#1][howtogeek.com#1][cepro.com#1]. The feature is available at no extra cost to Xfinity Int
China-based Risen Energy and Ukraine's Ascania Energy signed cooperation agreements to develop up to 100MW of solar power and 200MWh of battery energy storage projects in Ukraine [power-technology.com#1][pv-tech.org#1][pap-mediaroom.pl#1]. The companies said the partnership targets Ukraine's need for new electricity generation, decentralized energy infrastructure and flexible power systems as the
Government assessment warns of supply shock that could leave homes and businesses without gas within a decade Ministers are waking up to Britain’s gas supply risks. It’s time for decisions Great Britain risks running out of gas in the 2030s despite its growing clean energy sources, unless ministers take “unprecedented” action to guard against a future supply shock, according to an official assessm
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on August 18 for users ages 13 to 17, making the experience the default when a user self-identifies as a teen or when OpenAI estimates a user is under 18 [openai.com#1][techcrunch.com#1][pcmag.com#1][theguardian.com#1]. The mode adds age-appropriate safeguards aimed at reducing exposure to content involving suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, violence, dangerous
Astronomy coverage for Aug. 18-19 included the Perseids meteor shower, auroras and new telescope imagery. NASA featured a Czech image compilation of the Perseids from Jizerka and said 2026 viewing benefited because the Moon was not brightening Earth's night sky near the shower peak [nasa.gov#2][ceskatelevize.cz#1]. EarthSky also pointed readers to a nearly total lunar eclipse expected Aug. 27-28 [
Spain’s state rail operator Renfe has begun seeking certification for its high-speed trains in Portugal as it redirects part of its international expansion plan away from France, Transport Minister Óscar Puente told Europa Press [abc.es#1][lavanguardia.com#2][eldiario.es#1][lavozdegalicia.es#1]. Renfe is seeking approval for Talgo series 106 and 107 trains; Puente said the models fit Portugal’s ra
UNSW Sydney researchers reported a global meta-analysis linking cannabis use with earlier onset of psychosis, drawing on 149 studies involving more than 71,000 people and due for publication in Biological Psychiatry [scimex.org#1][medicalxpress.com#1][theconversation.com#1]. Most studies were conducted in Europe, North America and Australia since 2011, and most focused on people with schizophrenia
NBCUniversal raised prices for all Peacock subscription plans Aug. 18, charging new and returning subscribers immediately. Existing subscribers will move to the new rates on their next billing date on or after Sept. 17 [cnet.com#1][techcrunch.com#1][androidauthority.com#1][droid-life.com#1]. The Select tier rose from $7.99 to $8.99 a month, Premium rose from $10.99 to $12.99, and Premium Plus rose
Walt Disney Co., ABC and eight Disney-owned ABC television stations sued the Federal Communications Commission in federal court in Washington on Tuesday, asking a judge to stop an early broadcast-license renewal process they say violates the First Amendment and threatens the network’s ability to operate [cbsnews.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1][pbs.org#1][nytimes.com#1]. The licenses had been scheduled for ren
Disney-owned ABC, The Walt Disney Co. and eight ABC-owned stations sued the Federal Communications Commission in U.S. District Court in Washington on Tuesday, asking a federal judge to block an accelerated license-renewal process they say violates the First Amendment [pbs.org#2][npr.org#1][cnbc.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1]. The complaint says the Trump administration, acting through the FCC, retaliated bec
Apple released security updates on Aug. 18 for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro software, including iOS and iPadOS 26.6.1, iOS and iPadOS 18.7.10, macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 and visionOS 26.6.1 [malwarebytes.com#1][securityweek.com#1][nyheder.dk#1]. The updates address dozens of flaws across Apple platforms, including an ImageIO image-processing vulnerability that could allow code execution through malici
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said inspectors found several tons of nuclear material in Syria at a previously undeclared site that Damascus reported to the agency in July and that dated from the rule of ousted former leader Bashar al-Assad [aawsat.com#1][alarabiya.net#1][aljazeera.com#1][france24.com#1][dawn.com#1]. At a joint news conference in Damascus with Syrian Foreig
An international research team reported in Nature Communications that the narwhal’s tusk, long known for its straight, spiraling form, is made of two structures that twist in opposite directions rather than a single spiral [popsci.com#1][arstechnica.com#1][dawn.com#1]. The work examined the dental tissues of the tusk, a modified canine tooth that in male narwhals grows through the jaw and upper li
Scientists reported AI-generated designs for three photonic microchip components that are only a few micrometers long and up to 500 times smaller than conventional versions, leaving more chip area for other functions [google.com#1][livescience.com#1]. Live Science said an AI algorithm created the components and described the designs as “beyond human intuition” [google.com#1][livescience.com#1]. A
Official figures published on Aug. 18 showed UK job vacancies fell to 707,000 in May to July, their lowest level in more than five years, while the unemployment rate held at 4.9% [bbc.co.uk#1][polishexpress.eu#1][theguardian.com#2][wsj.com#1][businesstimes.com.sg#2]. Average total earnings growth, including bonuses, slowed to 4.1% in the three months to June, according to Office for National Stati
Framework announced an updated Framework Laptop 12 on Aug. 18 with Intel Core Series 3 “Wildcat Lake” processor options and Fedora 44 KDE Plasma Desktop available pre-installed on pre-built systems [gamingonlinux.com#1][phoronix.com#1][howtogeek.com#1][frandroid.com#1]. Preorders opened the same day, and Framework said the first batch is scheduled to ship in October 2026 [gamingonlinux.com#1][phor
The prime minister says the ‘absolutely massive’ move would protect thousands of jobs Moscow has threatened the UK with “consequences” after reports that British drones have been used to strike targets on Russia’s mainland for the first time. Ukraine used drones made by two UK companies as part of a so-called deep-strike campaign, the Sunday Times reported. Buses in Manchester and London are franc
A report from GridLab, Kevala and Energy and Environmental Economics says California could use customer-owned devices, especially electric vehicles, to help balance the grid as the state adds more variable renewable generation and electric rates rise [pv-magazine-usa.com#1][grist.org#1][electrek.co#1]. The report, “Unlocking California’s Flexible Load,” says enrolling 10% of California’s projected
Governments around the world are entering a new era of higher borrowing costs already deeply indebted . More revenue will go toward interest payments as old debt gets refinanced at today's higher rates. America is already watching that dynamic play out: Annualized interest costs have reached $1.2 trillion, exceeding defense spending. What they're saying: "The government consistently rolls over por
Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia data to identify a previously unknown population of globular star clusters that they say originated outside the Milky Way, linking them to a dwarf galaxy called LKH that merged with the young Milky Way about 11.8 billion years ago [rbc.ua#1][naftemporiki.gr#1][canaltech.com.br#1]. The study, published in Nature Astronomy and led by Davide Massar
Florida authorities reported separate arrests in cases involving drivers accused of fleeing law enforcement or crash scenes, including a Miami Gardens case in which the Florida Highway Patrol said 35-year-old Joel Espinosa drove away from an Interstate 95 traffic stop, hit multiple vehicles and ran from the scene Monday [local10.com#1]. In Broward County, an arrest affidavit said Miami Hurricanes
Bill Rasmussen, who co-founded ESPN and helped launch the first 24-hour sports television network, died Tuesday at his Florida home at 93 from the effects of Parkinson’s disease, ESPN historian Mike Soltys said [wfla.com#1][espn.com#1][wxyz.com#1][theglobeandmail.com#1][infobae.com#1]. Rasmussen announced in 2019 that doctors had diagnosed him with the degenerative disease in 2014 [wfla.com#1][ind
President Vladimir Putin hosted Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing at the Kremlin on August 18 for talks on prospective energy projects and broader bilateral cooperation [scmp.com#1][eadaily.com#1][newsday.com#1][straitstimes.com#1]. Russia’s Energy Ministry said Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev and Myanmar Electric Power and Energy Minister Ko Ko Lwin signed a memorandum of understanding on electri
President Trump delayed a planned 50% tariff on a range of Canadian goods for three days late Tuesday, less than two hours before levies on about $20 billion of imports were due to begin at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday [bbc.co.uk#1][aljazeera.com#1][cbsnews.com#1][npr.org#2]. Trump said the United States and Canada had a deal subject to finalization of documents, while Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court ruling that disqualified Sigal Chattah from serving as acting U.S. attorney for the District of Nevada, finding that her continued leadership of the Nevada office violated federal law [time.com#1][abcnews.com#1][newsday.com#1][nevadacurrent.com#1]. The unanimous panel ruled on Monday, Aug. 17, in United States v. Jackson, after Chattah rem
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said Tuesday that inspectors found several tons of nuclear material at a previously undeclared Syrian site that Damascus reported to the agency in July. He described the material as part of the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s rule [lemonde.fr#1][aljazeera.com#1][france24.com#1][al-monitor.com#1][dawn.com#1][timesofisrael.com#1][rte.ie#1][tribune.c
U.S. cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies updated a Medusa ransomware advisory Tuesday, saying the group had compromised more than 500 organizations across critical infrastructure sectors as of April 2026, up from about 300 victims cited in 2025 [therecord.media#1][cyberscoop.com#1][cybersecuritynews.com#1]. The updated warning from CISA, the FBI and HHS said healthcare and public health org
MPs’ register of interests shows hospitality and trips worth more than £12,000 and contributions from longstanding Labour donors Donors to Andy Burnham gave almost £350,000 over the months before he became Labour leader and prime minister, with major contributors including his former adviser Sacha Lord as well as billionaires David Sainsbury and Gary Lubner. The new MPs’ register of interests also
Disney-owned ABC sued the Federal Communications Commission and Chairman Brendan Carr in U.S. District Court in Washington on Aug. 18, alleging that the Trump administration used the regulator to punish the network for news coverage, late-night satire and talk-show viewpoints protected by the First Amendment [npr.org#1][arstechnica.com#1][pbs.org#2][cbsnews.com#1]. ABC, Disney and the eight ABC-ow
Data: Pew ; Chart: Noah Bressner/Axios A majority of U.S. adults under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI's growing use in daily life, according to a Pew Research Center report published Tuesday. Why it matters: AI excitement has dropped off across all age groups since 2021, as concerns about the technology's impact on job availability and society have grown. By the numbers: About 55%
President Trump's Agriculture Department filed a proposal on Aug. 18 to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which restricts road construction, logging and mining across nearly 45 million acres of national forest land [aljazeera.com#1][nytimes.com#1][eos.org#1][phys.org#1]. The rule, adopted in the final days of Bill Clinton's presidency, has limited industrial activity in undeveloped
The Trump administration has moved to end Temporary Protected Status for an estimated million-plus people — with expiration dates looming for thousands of others. The big picture: Tens of thousands who have lost their status or are bracing to lose it have lived in the country legally for upward of a decade, meaning communities could lose longtime members and employers could lose skilled workers. "
Former Justice Department civil rights lawyer Haley Van Erem alleged that Trump administration officials improperly pushed federal antisemitism investigations of Harvard, Brown and Columbia despite little or no factual or legal basis, and that some inquiries were rushed, incomplete or failed to establish legal violations by the schools [cbsnews.com#1][abcnews.com#1][pbs.org#1][nytimes.com#1][seatt
American Airlines said on Tuesday it will install seatback entertainment screens at every seat across its narrowbody fleet, reversing a strategy it adopted nearly a decade ago when it moved toward passengers streaming entertainment on their own devices [businessinsider.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1][nytimes.com#1][airlinegeeks.com#1]. The plan covers about 800 single-aisle jets, with newly delivered Airbus a
When George Gordon Moore imported the first European wild boars to Graham County, North Carolina, in April 1912, neither he nor anyone else who would later attempt to hunt them fully understood how formidable a quarry these animals would prove to be. Moore kept his boars in a 500-acre split-rail enclosure built nine rails high — but even this impressive structure was insufficient to contain them.
President Trump continues to say that Iran wants to make a deal to end the war and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the president downplayed concerns about the conditions aboard the USS Lincoln. MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde and New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker join Stephanie Ruhle with more details and analysis.
Apple released security updates for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Safari and Vision Pro: iOS 26.6.1, iPadOS 26.6.1, macOS Tahoe 26.6.2, Safari 26.6.1 and visionOS 26.6.1 [zdnet.com#1][securityweek.com#1][malwarebytes.com#1][vietnamplus.vn#1][sir-apfelot.de#1]. The iOS 26.6.1 and iPadOS 26.6.1 updates fix 29 vulnerabilities. macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 fixes 28, and Safari 26.6.1 for macOS Sonoma and macOS Sequoia fix
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Aug. 18 requiring data center developers seeking state permits to commit to the Governor’s Responsible Infrastructure Development, or GRID, requirements and secure local government approval before the state Department of Environmental Protection reviews permit applications [thehill.com#1][yna.co.kr#1]. The safeguards cover energy-cost mit
New research papers, developer posts and open-source projects published Aug. 18-19 focused on securing AI agents that can call tools, change files, send messages, modify databases, execute code and initiate financial transactions [arxiv.org#1][googleblog.com#1][arxiv.org#2][reddit.com#1]. The sources frame agent safety as an execution-control problem, not just a prompt-writing problem: Google said
Artificial intelligence growth is pushing data center developers to treat electricity supply as a core part of project economics rather than a standard utility service. POWER Magazine said developers now need power strategies that preserve flexibility, manage risk, meet state requirements and capture incentives [powermag.com#1]. The article said industry forecasts show data centers could account f
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Indiana... East Fork White River near Rivervale. ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... East Fork White River at Seymour. .Heavy to extreme rainfall over east-central Indiana since last week has led to minor flooding on the East Fork White River in Jackson County down to Rivervale. Flooding will end at Seym
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Indiana... East Fork White River near Rivervale. ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... East Fork White River at Seymour. .Heavy to extreme rainfall over east-central Indiana since last week has led to minor flooding on the East Fork White River in Jackson County down to Rivervale. Flooding will end at Seym
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... White River near Nora down to Spencer. .The White River continues in minor flood from Nora down into Knox County with the crest approaching Spencer through Wednesday afternoon. Moderate flood levels are expected at Spencer late tonight into Thursday morning...with otherwise minor flood levels. Flooding will end at Nora this even
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... White River near Nora down to Spencer. .The White River continues in minor flood from Nora down into Knox County with the crest approaching Spencer through Wednesday afternoon. Moderate flood levels are expected at Spencer late tonight into Thursday morning...with otherwise minor flood levels. Flooding will end at Nora this even
President Trump has decided to nominate White House aide Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration, according to a senior administration official. Why it matters: The agency was left in turmoil after the exit of former commissioner Marty Makary earlier this year, threatening the stability of U.S. drug development. Between the lines: Overton, currently deputy director of the White Hous
A Chinese tourist site recently concluded a month-long position that paid 60,000 yuan (US$8,900) to live on a mountaintop, observe the cloudscape, and share daily videos of the sea of clouds. On July 8, the Laojun Mountain Scenic Area in central China’s Henan province posted a recruitment ad for a “cloudscape observer” to work from July 16 to August 15. The Laojun Mountain Scenic Area is one of Ch
Chinese launch startup LandSpace landed the first stage of its Zhuque-3 Y2 rocket after an orbital launch from the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Test Zone at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Aug. 19 Beijing time [spacenews.com#1][rthk.hk#1][cnyes.com#1]. The booster separated 137 seconds after liftoff, completed a powered descent and touched down vertically on landing legs at a site i
Natalie Harp, a 35-year-old White House aide whose official title is special assistant and executive assistant to President Trump, drew attention after Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Georgia Democrat running for reelection, referred to her at a Sunday campaign rally while criticizing the president’s work habits and travel [cbsnews.com#1][scmp.com#1][index.hr#1][usmagazine.com#1]. When a reporter asked Trump a
President Trump said late Tuesday he would delay planned 50% tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian imports for three days, announcing the move less than two hours before the duties were set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday [abcnews.com#1][cbsnews.com#1][boston.com#1][npr.org#1][aljazeera.com#1]. Trump wrote on Truth Social that the United States and Canada had a deal “subject to the
President Trump said Tuesday night that he would pause planned 50% tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian imports for three days, announcing the reprieve less than two hours before the duties were scheduled to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday [bbc.co.uk#1][euronews.com#1][npr.org#1][washingtonpost.com#1][wsj.com#1]. Trump said the United States and Canada had a deal “subject to the fina
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arXiv:2608.16961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: One-Time Passwords (OTPs) have become a common option for multi-factor authentication in several applications. For instance, during website login processes, OTPs are often used in conjunction with traditional text-based usernames and passwords to verify whether the access request originates from a legitimate human user rather than an automated agent.
arXiv:2608.17043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Edge computing solutions have become a crucial part of the industry, delivering fast, flexible and scalable applications close to the end users, with typical use cases including dynamic content creation, image resizing and chatbots. Cloudflare Workers is one such framework, which handles millions of HTTP requests per second worldwide. To reduce start
arXiv:2608.17068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero Trust (ZT) replaces implicit trust with continuous verification, but mutual TLS, ephemeral workloads, identity-centric control, and automated remediation reduce payload visibility, weaken IP-based attribution, and shrink the window for acquiring volatile evidence. We propose CUSTOS, a forensic-ready ZT reference architecture centered on a Forens
arXiv:2608.17082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sensor-driven systems in medical Internet of Things devices, drones, and cyber-physical systems commonly trust a measurement once it reaches the embedded processor. An adversary on the digital interface between sensor and processor can supply a plausible value that correct firmware accepts and reports as ordinary telemetry. The hypothesis is that sen
arXiv:2608.17092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) depend on reliable Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning. However, spoofed GNSS signals can induce plausible but incorrect vehicle states. This study develops a small language model (SLM)-based framework for detecting and classifying GNSS spoofing attacks by comparing vehicle behaviors independently derived f
arXiv:2608.17093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing automotive intrusion detection systems (IDSs) for the Controller Area Network (CAN) largely target discrepancies in message timing, frequency, or sequencing and cannot detect attacks that preserve these properties while manipulating the payload. Digital twins (DTs) have been used to emulate CAN traffic and generate attack scenarios for IDS e
arXiv:2608.17147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image-to-image face generators are widely used, and visual dissimilarity between their outputs and source images is sometimes treated as evidence of privacy. Auditing whether these systems satisfy formal identity-level (epsilon, delta)-differential privacy requires choosing among several distinct routes for converting embedding-space observations int
arXiv:2608.17154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being explored within Security Operation Centers (SOCs) to support text-heavy analytical work such as alert contextualization, incident summarization, and drafting investigative artifacts. Despite this interest, practitioners describe critical operational concerns, most notably hallucinations (plausible b
arXiv:2608.17176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An AI audit record is useful only if its durability and trust boundary are explicit. Returning a guarded decision before any durable write minimizes latency, but it cannot guarantee that evidence survives an immediate crash. We rebuild RuntimeGuard-AI around this constraint. The resulting research prototype binds each deterministic policy decision to
arXiv:2608.17220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous AI agents are emerging as interfaces for decentralized finance (DeFi) actions such as swaps, lending operations, and yield management. Because these agents rely on large language models (LLMs) to plan transactions, they inherit the LLM's susceptibility to prompt injection and lack of mechanisms to bind a verifier's approval to the exact tr
arXiv:2608.17234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly used to interact with screenshots, scanned documents, diagrams, and other visually grounded inputs. This shift introduces a new safety risk: in many multimodal jailbreaks, neither the prompt nor the image is harmful in isolation. Unsafe behavior emerges only when the model binds an apparently
arXiv:2608.17251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advanced persistent threat (APT) actors increasingly employ sophisticated techniques to propagate laterally through segmented enterprise networks. Timely detection and defense depend on cross-subnetwork coordination, yet maintaining global situational awareness generates substantial communication overhead. To manage this tradeoff, flexible monitoring
arXiv:2608.17275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents increasingly act rather than merely read: across the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, the share of deployed tools that modify external state has risen from 27% to 65% of tool use. When agents exercise this authority on public blockchains through MCP, skills, and tool calling, the consequences of an attack are governed by the blockcha
arXiv:2608.17355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cryptocurrency anti-money laundering (Crypto AML) is increasingly challenged by sophisticated laundering behaviors that rapidly fragment stolen assets through diverse semantics and across multiple blockchains. Existing Crypto AML methods often simplify transaction semantics, rely on topology-centric signals, or output isolated detection labels. In th
arXiv:2608.17360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable jailbreak evaluation is essential for assessing LLM safety, but most existing studies rely solely on attack success rate (ASR) without accounting for its dependence on attack budgets, resulting in unfair comparisons across methods. Existing compute-aware evaluations reduce heterogeneous resources into FLOPs, which is difficult to estimate fo
arXiv:2608.17361v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cloud applications routinely send notifications through provider-operated mail identities, which improves deliverability but separates the actor who supplies notification parameters from the service principal that originates the message. In three responsibly disclosed and remediated cross-tenant notification workflows, an authenticated actor could re
arXiv:2608.17442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Processing long, sensitive documents with machine-learning models requires efficient, privacy-preserving long-context inference. Prior private inference systems optimize or distribute encrypted Transformer attention, but its quadratic token-pair work remains the bottleneck as sequence length grows. Selective state-space models (SSMs) offer linear-tim
arXiv:2608.17507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In multi-controller Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks exhibit a "dispersed source, concentrated target" pattern across domains, i.e., attack traffic originates from multiple edge-controller domains but converges on a victim in a single aggregation controller domain. While entropy-based DDoS detectors are
arXiv:2608.17532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-chain bridges, instant cryptocurrency exchanges, and centralized cross-ledger platforms move assets across an increasingly multi-chain ecosystem. However, these systems have repeatedly become targets of high-value attacks and channels for cross-chain money laundering. Cross-chain transactions are substantially harder to analyze than single-chai
arXiv:2608.17538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Telegram, with over 450 million daily active users, has introduced Mini Apps---web-based applications running directly within its client. However, this integration introduces notable security risks. As we demonstrate, many Mini Apps store authentication materials---such as session tokens and wallet mnemonic phrases---in plaintext on client devices, e
arXiv:2608.17539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work addresses the orchestration of large-scale Quantum Key Distribution Networks (QKDNs) using Software Defined Networking (SDN). Building on ETSI and ITU specifications, common best practices and architectures are outlined. The main task of the SDN Controller is to aggregate technical key performance indicators (KPI) from the network and, base
arXiv:2608.17650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern hospitals increasingly rely on integrated Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) infrastructures to support critical healthcare services. However, this convergence expands the cybersecurity attack surface and makes safe validation of defensive mechanisms difficult on live systems. Existing testbeds often focus on isolated
arXiv:2608.17659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-powered GUI agents that autonomously operate smartphones are rapidly transitioning from research prototypes to early real-world deployment. However, because these agents routinely process untrusted environmental content, they are highly vulnerable to environmental injection attacks, which include indirect prompt injections and adversarial instruc
arXiv:2608.17722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language models (VLMs) achieve outstanding performance largely due to the amount of training data available on the internet. At the same time, data holders (e.g., artists) urgently need to determine whether their data has been used for model training without authorization, which concerns both intellectual property rights and personal privacy.
arXiv:2608.17729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has expanded the digital attack surface, making firmware analysis critical for modern software security. A key security concern stems from the frequent reuse of third-party software components, a practice that often introduces known vulnerabilities into firmware images. Whether a given image
arXiv:2608.17770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fuzzy private set intersection (PSI) enables two parties to identify approximately matching elements between their input sets, where two elements are considered a match if their distance is at most a threshold $\delta$ under a given metric. Although substantial progress has been made, existing constructions for general Minkowski distances either rely
arXiv:2608.17796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning-based DDoS detectors for 5G-enabled cyber-physical systems face scarce labeled attack data and unrealistic synthetic substitutes, which limit robustness against adaptive adversaries. Detectors trained on hand-crafted attacks with fixed scaling multipliers degrade catastrophically (F1-score drops of about 47 percent to 100 percent, depen
arXiv:2608.17829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs increasingly rely on external contexts, such as pre-defined system prompts or retrieved documents, to improve generation quality. However, processing these contexts alongside user queries creates an attack surface: adversarial inputs can induce models to disclose them. Prior probing studies suggest that leakage-related signals emerge in hidden s
arXiv:2608.17960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Every document a security copilot retrieves can be true, instruction-free, and non-contradictory --- and the copilot can still be driven to assess a critical, exploitable vulnerability correctly and then recommend a remediation that leaves it open. We study this failure in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) backing analyst-facing copilots in Securi
arXiv:2608.16891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI systems request tool actions that can modify files, send messages, launch jobs, or change workflow state. This shifts the safety problem from harmful text generation to harmful operational side effects. Prompt-level governance can shape model behavior, but it does not create an execution boundary. We introduce Aegis, a runtime governance
arXiv:2608.16921v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective cybersecurity operations require timely and accurate analysis of large-scale heterogeneous security information; however, analysts increasingly struggle with information overload, alert fatigue, and time-constrained decision-making. Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities for question answering (QA),
arXiv:2608.17070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the growing deployment of machine learning models, formal guarantees of the robustness and fairness of these models have become increasingly important in safety-critical and legal-compliance settings. However, model parameters are often commercial secrets that cannot be disclosed to auditors or end users. To this end, we present PANDA, a scala
arXiv:2608.17159v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Research software projects describe themselves in many places at once: citation files in the repository, archive deposits, DOI registry records, package registries, and README text. We treat the software as the underlying object and these machine-readable self-descriptions as its surfaces: the points where people and automated systems read what the
arXiv:2608.17202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety alignment in open-weight language models is trivially removable: abliteration projects a refusal-mediating direction out of the weights in minutes, and no release-time defense we are aware of prevents it durably. What cannot be prevented can be deceived. Our defense, decoy hardening ("Fool's Gold"), concedes the refusal strip and poisons its
arXiv:2608.17585v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthetic speech detection benchmarks now report sub-1% error rates on some in-domain evaluations, yet performance degrades under unseen attacks, channel mismatch, and distribution shift. Based on a three-year effort with Phonexia, a commercial speaker-recognition vendor, we report barriers encountered while building and deploying a detector. Many
arXiv:2608.17610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We make progress towards the impossibility of imperfectly complete quantum-computation, classical-communication (QCCC) key agreement by constructing the first unconditional attacks on quantum key agreement in the following restricted settings. In the two-message setting, we assume that Alice makes only classical queries to the oracle in the first r
arXiv:2608.17671v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated security patch backporting is critical for mitigating N-day vulnerabilities. Recent tools report success rates above 80% on their respective datasets. However, these evaluations are often confined to homogeneous environments, such as one repository or specific project versions. Consequently, it remains unclear how well these tools general
arXiv:2608.17738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ethereum's consensus safety relies on independent consensus client implementations agreeing on every state transition. When they diverge due to implementation errors, the network can fork, finality can stall, and severe attacks are possible. To prevent such consensus divergences, Ethereum provides a Python reference implementation (consensus-spec),
arXiv:2608.17758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Australian women, gender-diverse individuals, and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities are often more susceptible to phishing and other forms of cybercrimes due to factors such as language barriers, limited access to cybersecurity education, and social isolation. These communities encounter substantial obstacles both entering an
arXiv:2608.17998v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study $n$-party fault-tolerant consensus against general (non-threshold) adversaries. We describe an infinite family $Z_\mathsf{proj}^{n,d}$ of $Q^d$-satisfying $n$-party adversary structures based on finite projective geometry which cause error-free $R$-round protocols for interactive consistency on $L$-bit inputs to require $\Omega(Ln^{2+1/d})
arXiv:2504.17971v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph-structured datasets are increasingly central to sensitive applications spanning social networks, biomedical research, and cryptographic systems. As organizations share these datasets with trusted parties for collaborative analysis, protecting against unauthorized redistribution becomes critical. Graph watermarking addresses this challenge b
arXiv:2607.01209v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Classical Block Withholding (BWH) attacks have been extensively studied in block-dependent reward schemes, where pool members are compensated upon a block discovery within the pool. However, most contemporary mining pools operate under share-based schemes, wherein participants are paid immediately upon submission of valid shares. In this paper, w
arXiv:2607.01854v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Can a platform tell, before deployment, whether an open-weight checkpoint has had its refusal mechanism stripped? Runtime guards cannot: they score generations, not the artifact. We combine two cheap internal signals, a reference-anchored activation refusal-gap and a weight-recovery energy of the base-to-candidate weight difference, into a thresh
arXiv:2608.16393v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We assess indirect prompt injection in DeepSeek Harness (DSH), using AI-Infra-Guard (A.I.G) to construct tests, deliver controlled taint, execute DSH, collect traces, and judge outcomes. The study covers 14,560 controlled executions over 16 indirect-content channels, text and file carrier modes, 35 payload objectives, one unmodified baseline, and
arXiv:2502.02445v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)-256 remains resistant to known quantum key-search attacks when keys are uniformly generated. We present quantum-enabled AES (QE-AES), a key-management wrapper that provisions unmodified AES-256 with output delivered by a commercial quantum random-number generator and periodically replaces epoch keys. E
arXiv:2602.12250v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) enable powerful unsupervised learning of communities. However, such inference may inadvertently expose sensitive group structures, critical clustered patterns, or collective behaviors, raising concerns about sensitive group-level privacy. In social and critical infrastructure networks, unauthorized community inf
arXiv:2603.08913v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Genomic language models (GLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for learning representations of DNA sequences, enabling advances in variant prediction, regulatory element identification, and cross-task transfer learning. However, as these models are increasingly trained or fine-tuned on sensitive genomic cohorts, they risk memorizing specific
arXiv:2606.03895v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents can persist across tasks, acquire memory, activate Skills, synthesize tools, fork child processes, attach remote resources, and commit checkpoints as reusable images. These mechanisms expand the action surface after deployment and create authority-escalation and data-exfiltration risks when visibility is mi
arXiv:2607.07436v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A self-evolving agent retires its bad skills by watching them fail, so what happens when the judge cannot see the failures? Skill retirement is the structural constraint that keeps a growing library from drifting below the no-skill baseline, but its guarantee assumes an unbiased reward, which is false for the LLM judges that reference-free
arXiv:2607.16207v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Public open-weight language models are often fine-tuned on private or domain-specific data before deployment, creating a need to audit whether individual records were used during adaptation. We study this problem for discrete diffusion language models (dLLMs), using the pre-fine-tuning checkpoint as a reference. Unlike autoregressive models
arXiv:2607.16660v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The increasing adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) as AI components in modern software systems introduces distinct security risks to the software supply chain. While many considerations and safety mechanisms are in place for components of the traditional software supply chain, the recent rapid adoption of AI components and platforms ha
arXiv:2608.17111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI can now perform many tasks that credentialing institutions count on to assess skill. During the AI era, do credentials retain their signaling value for subsequent performance? Mostly, yes. We audit the 2010-2026 archive of Kaggle, the largest data science competition platform, which ran two evaluation formats concurrently: upload-compet
arXiv:2608.17436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trust in local institutions matters for trade, public goods provision, conflict resolution, and democratic consolidation. Using individual data from rounds 6 and 7 of the Afrobarometer surveys, I document that respondents in former British colonies are substantially more likely to trust traditional leaders than respondents in former French colonies.
arXiv:2608.17636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper considers European multi-asset option pricing under L\'evy and affine characteristic-function models. The main obstruction is the curse of dimensionality: direct multidimensional COS pricing forms tensor-product coefficient arrays whose size grows exponentially with the number of assets. We study and extend COS-TT-CHF, a low-rank construct
arXiv:2608.17715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Credit decisioning is a high-stakes task in which model outputs must be accurate and explainable to support compliant decisions. Although modern credit risk models such as eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) improve predictive performance, their explanations are often too technical for stakeholders creating communicat
arXiv:2608.18022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop parametric Entropic Value-at-Risk (EVaR) portfolio optimization for tempered stable L\'evy returns. We derive portfolio cumulant-generating functions and weight-dependent admissible moment-generating-function domains under two multivariate constructions: a multivariate normal tempered stable approach and an independent component factorizat
arXiv:2608.17363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper develops a theoretical framework for signed optimal transport. A global flatness measure induced by the continuum transport equation serves as the regularizer. We examine transport networks from a harmonic analysis perspective, prove the existence and uniqueness of the optimal coupling in the variational problem, and provide an algorithm
arXiv:2608.17808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop simulation-based policy iteration for continuous-time portfolio choice with predictable returns and convex constraints. Each outer step re-evaluates a fixed-latent OL-BPTT adjoint after deployment and solves the constrained update. Shifted-adjoint cancellation controls the adjoint--HJB Hamiltonian-gradient discrepancy by the policy-impro
arXiv:2410.20060v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper considers the constrained portfolio optimization in a generalized life-cycle model. The individual with a stochastic income manages a portfolio consisting of stocks, a bond, and life insurance to maximize their consumption level, death benefit, and terminal wealth. Meanwhile, the individual faces a convex-set trading constraint, with t
arXiv:2503.09212v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A common view holds that generative AI (GenAI) automates cognitive tasks, reshaping roles to emphasize social skills over cognitive ones. Drawing on the framework we develop in this paper, we argue that other outcomes are theoretically possible. We analyze seven million job postings from 595 U.S. public firms that adopted GenAI in 2022-2024, esti
arXiv:2511.17954v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Incorporating spatial information, particularly when related to climate, weather, and demographic factors, is crucial for improving underwriting precision and enhancing risk management in insurance. However, spatial data are often unstructured, high-dimensional, and difficult to integrate into predictive models. Embedding methods are needed to co
arXiv:2604.00346v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a method for forecasting limit order book durations using a self-exciting flexible residual point process. High-frequency events in modern exchanges exhibit heavy-tailed interarrival times, posing a significant challenge for accurate prediction. The proposed approach incorporates the empirical distributional features of intera
arXiv:2608.03703v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We argue that arbitrageurs preying on the closing rebalances of leveraged exchange-traded funds (LETFs) contributed to the Korean market's extreme volatility in 2026. An LETF's mandated daily rebalance is sized by the day's return, which generates an upward-sloping demand at market close. Arbitrageurs therefore pre-position, enlarge the fund's or
arXiv:2605.22994v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper examines how relationships between parent-firm characteristics and facility-level toxic releases evolve over time. Using 238,304 observations for 7,447 U.S. manufacturing facilities from 1992 to 2023, we link on-site releases from the Toxics Release Inventory to financial, managerial, and macroeconomic data. A time-varying mean-g
arXiv:2607.03646v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bitcoin (BTC) wealth distribution is often analyzed with macro indicators such as aggregate addresses, wallet balances, prices, network activity, fees, and hashrate. This letter applies a Crypto-Microeconomic perspective to examine wealth concentration across five labeled economic-agent classes: Service, Abuse, Malware, Individuals, and Ben
Alpine communities hit out after influencer videos draw huge queues to Friedrich August refuge in Dolomites Hundreds of people overwhelmed a mountain hut in the Italian Dolomites, not for the panoramic views but in search of a creamy pastry, reigniting the debate about social-media-driven tourism. The visitors ventured en masse to the Friedrich August refuge – perched at 2,300 metres (7,500ft) abo
Recent science and health coverage describes wildfire smoke as a growing public-health and economic problem as U.S. fires get larger and fire seasons last longer, trends linked to hotter, drier weather associated with climate change [phys.org#1]. Georgia Tech economist Casey Wichman said smoke can harm people hundreds of miles from a fire and impose economic costs through air pollution [phys.org#1
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called on Ukraine to find a way to hold elections during the war, saying in a YouTube address on Tuesday that the country needs a “legal, safe and realistic mechanism” to restore democratic processes despite Russia’s invasion [bbc.co.uk#1][lemonde.fr#1][aljazeera.com#1][france24.com#1][politico.eu#1][theguardian.com#1][rferl.org#1][cbsnews.com#1].
Today's game is Control. I went through the ashtray maze today. I had *wanted* to get a portrait of Jesse with the headphones and everything on, but i had a friend asking about the game and was focused on getting a small clip of this segment to show to him to convince him to try it. I had missed my window. From what i hear you can replay it in the AWE DLC so i'll settle for it there. ![](https://p
Green hydrogen markets are being reassessed after demand growth has not led to low-emissions production at scale or projects lenders will finance consistently. Global hydrogen demand surpassed 100 million tonnes in 2025, but low-emissions hydrogen accounted for only about 1% of production. Governments and investors have reconsidered where hydrogen can be used in the energy transition [energynews.b
Linux distribution trackers and aggregators highlighted several niche desktop projects this week: Infinity Linux, SkillFishOS, Mainstream OS 1.3.0, Nebula Linux and Omarchy. LinuxLinks listed Infinity Linux as an active, lightweight Arch-based rolling distribution with KDE Plasma. It listed SkillFishOS as an active Debian-based distribution built mainly for the AMD BC-250 compute board, with a gen
The European Commission adopted guidance that allows EU member states to use additional fiscal flexibility for energy-security measures that strengthen resilience and reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels [repubblica.it#2][sky.it#1][euractiv.com#1]. For Italy, Corriere della Sera reported that the mechanism could provide €14.4 billion in additional deficit space for energy measures, including e
Federacciai and 14 member companies submitted a nonbinding expression of interest on Aug. 18 for parts of the former Ilva steel group, the Italian steel federation said, adding a domestic bidder to a sale process the government has pursued for years while the company remains under extraordinary administration [corriere.it#1][ilsole24ore.com#1][repubblica.it#1][sky.it#1][ilmanifesto.it#1][ilpost.it
Accelerating price increases in July add to pressure on households, with chancellor saying ‘there is more to do to restore hope’ Analysis: Rising inflation underlines scale of Burnham’s cost of living challenge Business live – latest updates UK inflation rose to 2.9% in July as the impact of the Iran war on energy prices triggered a renewed cost of living squeeze for British households. The Office
before i cracked my egg i tried a few times to gain some confidence through weight lifting. i had some success but the further i got into it the less motivated i became, which i now know was my gender dysphoria getting worse as i became more traditionally masculine. realizing i was trans and starting transitioning a part of me hoped my muscles would just go away, but another part of me hoped they
The government’s gambling ad changes are expected to pass the Senate on Wednesday night or Thursday morning with the Coalition’s support Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The husband of the late Labor MP Peta Murphy has said the government’s gambling reform “falls well short” of what she called for in 2023, lamenting
PM’s plan to shield households from more pressure risks being overwhelmed by wider price rises UK inflation rises to 2.9% Business live – latest updates July’s increase in inflation, to 2.9% , is likely to be the first of several, underlining the challenge facing Andy Burnham in shielding consumers from a fresh cost of living squeeze this autumn. Rising energy bills, as an increase in Ofgem’s quar
Forget energy. Forget chips. Forget China. The most clear and present danger to AI and any AI-related economic boom is rapidly rising public opposition to U.S. data centers. Why it matters: Republicans and AI CEOs are in full panic mode watching politicians and the public turn on the physical engines of AI growth. In private, they tell us they can't find a compelling message to shift opinion fast
OpenAI said Tuesday it is pausing some model work over safety concerns, days after rival Anthropic doubled down on insisting that its own safety measures were solid enough that it didn't need to slow down. Why it matters: The two leading AI labs are publicly diverging on how to manage safety risks, potentially putting them on different model-release timelines as both prepare for expected IPOs. Sta
Solar energy and batteries are making it easier for utilities to meet surging electricity demand during extreme heat , but prolonged high temperatures are exposing other vulnerabilities in the grid. Why it matters: Electricity demand rises as air conditioners work harder in extreme heat, while high temperatures can make parts of the system less efficient and put additional stress on equipment. The
The firestorm over Sen. Jon Ossoff 's suggestive remark about President Trump 's right-hand woman has raised a bigger question about the type of campaign Democrats will run in 2028. Why it matters: Trump has made schoolyard taunts and personal insults a staple of presidential politics. One of the big strategic calls for Democrats in 2028 is whether to fight on Trump's terms — or bet that voters ar
The Iran war — defined by fits and starts and strain on America's military — will hit the half-year mark next week with both Washington and Tehran betting they can outlast one another. Why it matters: President Trump has repeatedly promised the fight would be quick, decisive and over " very soon ." The big picture: The war's length is pushing once-niche national-security issues — munitions levels
Rightwing populist’s inconsistent positions on Europe and Russia suggest he is testing how far he can push partners and electorate One evening nine years ago in the Bulgarian town of Balgari, a Brazilian tourist approached the casually dressed, middle-aged man surrounded by bodyguards, bystanders and photographers. “ Why are you important? ” she asked. “I’m not so important,” he replied. She repea
New findings further call into question scientific judgment of current health leaders in the Trump administration A French researcher whose work was praised by Donald Trump and Dr Mehmet Oz during the Covid-19 pandemic published hundreds of papers with “substantial” ethical and legal concerns, according to a new analysis. An international team of scientists found concerns in 853 articles published
Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies said they uncovered group responsible for money laundering $3.35m but did not name individuals involved The rise in Germany’s borrowing costs to a 15-year high reflects the increased security challenges facing the country following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the need to spend much more defence, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday. German 10- and 3
The unprecedented healthcare cuts that President Donald Trump and the Republican Party enacted last summer have impacted people in all 50 US states, stripping insurance coverage from around 8 million Americans total and wreaking havoc on hospitals and other providers nationwide. The advocacy group Protect Our Care on Tuesday released state-by-state fact sheets detailing how many people have lost M
#EU #ME A new round in the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has significantly advanced, particularly highlighted by their extensive use in the Russo-Ukrainian War, which has been termed the first large-scale "drone war." This conflict showcases how UAVs have evolved from reconnaissance tools to sophisticated systems capable of high-precision strikes and continuous surveillance, funda
Executive summary Note: This advisory relates to an active threat to Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs). However, ongoing PLC targeting activity is broader than Siemens PLCs. All PLC owners and operators should apply relevant mitigations to reduce the risk to their devices and systems. The Siemens-specific content in this advisory should be understood and applied as one subset
PM pledges to get rough sleepers off streets for Christmas but issues ‘rallying call’ for community and voluntary organisations to help with plan Andy Burnham has admitted government funding “may not fully be enough” to achieve his aim of offering a place to stay to every rough sleeper by Christmas, as he made a “rallying call” for communities to get behind his plan. Speaking on a visit to the nor
🇺🇸 Cameron Regional Medical Center (cameronregional.org) a été victime d'une cyberattaque autour du 18 juin 2026. Le Cameron Regional Medical Center a été victime d'une attaque par ransomware. L'incident a été découvert le 18 juin 2026. Le groupe Anubis a revendiqué l'attaque le 3 août 2026, affirmant avoir obtenu une large gamme de données, incluant dossiers médicaux, informations financières,
August 7th, 2024, ukrainian nazists killed Nina Kuznetsova, 27. She was pregnant. #Ukraine is a terrorist state https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/18/counting-kursk-s-dead In August 2024, Ukrainian forces launched a surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region and seized control of dozens of towns. After seven months of fighting, in March 2025, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced a breakthrough
Ich bin oft gefragt worden, warum ein Platzen der KI-Blase das RAM-Problem erst in Jahren lösen würde. Der Grund ist, dass gerade fast alle RAM-Produktion auf HBM umgestellt wird. Dankenswerterweise hat @ asianometry ein grandioses Video gemacht, das nebenbei erklärt, was für ein hochspezialisiertes Produkt HBM ist. Ich kann insgesamt nur empfehlen, dem Youtube-Kanal von ihm zu folgen. https:// yo
I was trying to work out yesterday why LLM users annoy me so much and it came back to my basic notion of rudeness: impolite behaviour stems from assuming that your time is worth more than other people's. If someone doesn't bother to write coherent words in a message to you so that they can type faster at the cost of your comprehension speed, they're trading your time for theirs and that's rude. If
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... Wabash River near Linn Grove affecting Adams and Wells Counties. ...The Flood Warning is cancelled for the following rivers in Indiana... Wabash River near Bluffton IN affecting Wells County. For the Wabash River...including Linn Grove, Bluffton IN, Wabash, Logansport...Minor flooding is forecast. * WHAT...Minor flooding is occu
Yemen’s Houthis say they have established three key deterrence equations: Blockade for blockade: preventing Saudi maritime traffic from passing. Targeting Saudi military buildups: striking forces and equipment wherever they are deployed. Defending Yemeni sovereignty: confronting any violation of Yemen’s territory or airspace. From July 20 to August 19, Yemen’s Houthis say they targeted eight Saudi
# qotd # quote # philosophy # uspol # ukpol “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” -- Rober
www.lapresse.ca/affaires/eco... À moins de 2 heures de l’entrée en vigueur de la nouvelle surtaxe, Trump s’est livré à un nouveau coup de théâtre sur son réseau Truth Social en déclarant : « Le Canada et les États-Unis, sous réserve de la finalisation des documents, ont conclu un accord ! » 👌👌 Le Canada et les États-Unis se sont finalement entendus. Du moins, pour l’instant. Le président américa
US president cancelled planned tariff imposition just hours before it was to come into force. Plus, why are people so obsessed with television vampires? Good morning. Donald Trump has paused his threatened punitive tariff on Canada just hours before it was due to come into effect. After Trump’s announcement, the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, said “substantial progress” had been made toward
"Every time R are in power they Steal from the SS2give tax break4the rich donors!" Total ben-cuts would top 1% of GDP in 40 states with the largest econ-impact in red states like Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, SC &WV, among others www.alternet.org/trump-social... AL.com reports that the deep-red state of Alabama is one of the impoverished states lining up for a beating from presid
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What's going on with the #USNavy? As I keep saying, the Fish stinks from the head and the SecDef is a guy named #PeteHegseth! I'll post another piece below that explains the chaos Hegseth has brought to the entire Department of Defense! 🧵 www.rawstory.com/navy-uss-ben... Another fiasco has struck a Navy warship as a guided-missile destroyer lost power for four days in the middle of one of the mos
🇧🇪 Weba (weba.be) a été victime d'une cyberattaque autour du 10 août 2026. Les pirates informatiques du groupe Qilin ont dérobé des données clients chez WEBA et ont partiellement paralysé ses systèmes. Aucune rançon n'a été versée ; les magasins et la boutique en ligne sont à nouveau opérationnels depuis le 12 août. Les clients doivent rester vigilants face aux tentatives d'hameçonnage. 👉 https
🇮🇳 CG Power (cgglobal.com) a été victime d'une cyberattaque autour du 18 août 2026. CG Power a signalé un incident présumé de cybersécurité affectant ses systèmes informatiques (IT). L'entreprise a assuré que ses systèmes opérationnels essentiels et sa production manufacturière n'ont pas été affectés. L'incident, signalé le 18 août 2026, est actuellement sous investigation par des experts intern
➡️Americans and Canadians: do YOU recognize this man?⬅️ He collapsed on the streets of Amsterdam in 2023 with a brain injury. He wasn’t carrying ID and he lost most of his ability to communicate. His identity still hasn’t been established. Interviews near where he was found have turned up that he was a native English speaker with an American or Canadian accent, enjoyed shopping for art, was passio
* WHAT...Flash flooding and debris flows caused by excessive rainfall continue to be possible over the Aspen Acres burn scar. * WHERE...Aspen Acres Burn Scar. * WHEN...From 1 PM MDT this afternoon through this evening. * IMPACTS...Heavy rainfall over the Aspen Acres burn scar is expected up to and during the period of the watch. Residents near the Aspen Acres burn scar should prepare for potential
🌎 In this week's "Improving Security Across Nations with FIRST" video series, we spotlight Derek Manky, Chief Security Strategist and Global VP of Threat Intelligence at Fortinet, and FIRST CORE Founding Partner. He shares how Fortinet's founding partnership with FIRST CORE is closing the cyber skills gap and strengthening incident response worldwide: ✅ Founding partner commitment - FIRST CORE (C
With today's memory prices, a frequent question at Phoronix and throughout many organizations is about reducing cost by not necessarily populating all memory channels. Especially with modern servers going up to 12 memory channels per socket or even 16 memory channels with upcoming EPYC Venice, you may be curious about the performance impact of populating less memory channels to see if the trade-of
Researchers led by Harvard developmental neurobiologist Paola Arlotta kept human brain organoids alive for more than five years, and the lab-grown clusters continued to mature in patterns resembling human brain development, according to descriptions of a Nature study published Aug. 19 [sciencealert.com#1][statnews.com#1][dawn.com#1][ithome.com#1]. The stem-cell-derived organoids are simplified bio
Researchers led by Kosuke Hashimoto at the University of Osaka reported in Cell Reports that people who live past 100, especially those 110 or older, have higher levels of CD4 cytotoxic T lymphocytes, a rare immune-cell population that can kill infected, damaged or cancerous cells [scimex.org#1][sciencealert.com#1][npr.org#1][consalud.es#1][eldiario.es#1][trthaber.com#1][dziennik.pl#1][rtvi.com#1]
Exclusive: Greens say department of health’s integrated assessment tool is ‘under-assessing’ far more people who may not know how to contest Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Almost one-fifth of older Australians who contested their Support at Home funding allocation determined by an algorithm had a higher level of support or higher priority allocated once a human review
Regulator says verifiable safety measures are ‘critical’ to the online service’s viability Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Roblox has committed to making changes to its online gaming platform after Australia’s eSafety commissioner discovered adults were still able to see child accounts and send connection requests without parental consent. The company has provided a le
Members of the public had the chance to tour the ruins of Canton’s out-of-commission paper mill last week for the first time since it shut down in 2023. The tour was organized by Haywood County Commission candidate Vicki Hyatt as part of a series of community events highlighting local points of interest. She advertised the tours in her newsletter and on social media and coordinated the mill tour w
A majority of Americans believe President Trump has profited inappropriately from a cryptocurrency empire while in office and disapprove of his family's global business activity, according to recent polls. Why it matters: Democrats are leaning into those concerns in their own midterm messaging — and laying the groundwork to audit Trump's historically lucrative presidency should they emerge victori
A Lean Zulip discussion ( https:// leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narr ow/channel/583339-AI-authored-projects/topic/Anthropic.27s.20RH.20bound.20improvement.20lean.20formalization/ ) about the formalization of Anthropic's recent Riemann zeta result brought up some of the perils of junk values, since Anthropic's definition of the Riemann zeta function doesn't match the usual definition, although they ar
Nioh 3 recebe Hell Rising, primeiro DLC do RPG de ação #GamerseGames Nioh 3 ganha Hell Rising, DLC com novo mapa, Hoko e Shield, desafios inéditos e novas opções para builds e batalhas intensas. https://www.gamersegames.com.br/2026/08/19/nioh-3-recebe-hell-rising-primeiro-dlc-do-rpg-de-acao/ Lead: A KOEI TECMO America e a Team NINJA lançaram mundialmente Hell Rising, primeiro DLC de Nioh 3. A expa
🇯🇵 Ryomo Systems (ryomo.co.jp) a été victime d'une cyberattaque autour du 14 août 2026. Ryomo Systems, une société japonaise de technologies de l'information, a confirmé avoir subi une cyberattaque ayant entraîné un accès non autorisé à ses systèmes internes le 14 août. La société est actuellement en pleine investigation pour déterminer l'étendue de l'intrusion, la méthode d'attaque et si des do
Hi HN, Jonathan & Guy here from OneCLI, an agent harness built for teams, giving every employee a secured, sandboxed personal agent. Here’s what you can do with it: 1. get a sandboxed agent, with all the OneCLI capabilities in place like connect your GitHub account, Gmail, Notion, or Dropbox simply from the chat. 2. deterministic human in the loop approval in the chat itself for things that you ne
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be possible. * WHERE...A portion of northern Indiana, including the following areas, Adams, Blackford, Cass IN, Fulton IN, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Miami, Pulaski, Wabash, Wells and White. * WHEN...Through Thursday morning. * IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone l
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible. * WHERE...Portions of southeast Ohio, including the following counties, Athens, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, Vinton and Washington and West Virginia, including the following counties, Doddridge, Harrison, Pleasants, Ritchie, Taylor, Tyler and Wood. * WHEN...From 4 PM EDT this afternoon through Thursday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Excessive runo
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible. * WHERE...Portions of east central Ohio, including the following areas, Belmont, Carroll, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson OH, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble and Tuscarawas, southwest Pennsylvania, including the following areas, Greene and Washington, and West Virginia, including the following areas, Brooke, Hancock, Marion, Marsh
Researchers laud return of giant tuna to North Sea after being fished almost to point of extinction Researchers have lauded two giant bluefin tunas being caught off the coast of Yorkshire for the first time in more than six decades as a “success story” for marine conservation. The tunas, which were caught a day apart off the coast of Whitby earlier this week, have mostly been absent along the nort
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* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible. * WHERE...Portions of east central Indiana, including the following counties, Fayette, Union and Wayne and Ohio, including the following counties, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Hardin, Hocking, Licking, Logan, Madison, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Pickaway, Preble, Shelby and Union.
A weak yuan guarantees Beijing massive trade surplus even as the White House tries tamp down on Chinese imports Since China offered a truce in the trade war last October following its threat to deprive the United States of rare-earth magnets, the Trump administration has been happy to stop escalating. After all, imports from China have been falling, down by 40% in the year to June, compared with t
tiens, ils vont créer une squad anti-hacker : « Je vous demande de constituer une équipe de contact composée d’agents de l’Anssi et chargée d’intervenir en première ligne en cas de suspicion d’atteinte grave à l’intégrité du système d’information de l’Etat » www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic... « Il y a urgence à concevoir et conduire sans délai une réponse opérationnelle plus réactive et plus forte aux
At HRMCon 2026 on Sept 10th I’m looking ahead to 2030 as # cybersecurity must become increasingly autonomous and continuously adaptive to defend against AI-enabled threats operating at machine speed. Technology will leap forward, but accountability will remain. My tentative keynote agenda: AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Cybersecurity 1. The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday — AI is outpacing the security
FinderGit 0.26.0 lets you stop a running git operation, and getting it right turned out to be a lesson in how quietly information gets destroyed at the source. The visible part: three seconds into a fetch, pull or push, the button becomes a stop control. Clicking it cancels the task, which signals the child git process — a real interruption, not the app abandoning its await. It then says what the
Drafting third in a 12-team ESPN PPR league? This build starts: 1.03: Ja’Marr Chase 2.10: Brock Bowers 3.03: Malik Nabers 4.10: Ladd McConkey See how the complete roster comes together: www.4for4.com/2026/preseas... Jahmyr Gibbs and Bijan Robinson are usually the top two players being selected in fantasy football drafts, regardless of scoring format. The third selection in a 12-team ESPN PPR leagu
Protecting and managing healthy forests in an ecologically sound way is the best way to reduce wildfire risk while safeguarding wildlife, water quality, traditional livelihoods, outdoor recreation and much more. Please add your voice in opposing this harmful action by filing comments by Sep 21. What's NewOn Aug. 18, 2025, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brook L. Rollins announced that the
I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called Frugal Tokens. I originally built it because I was curious to see how much all of my sessions cost and how much cache misses affected that spend. I’d noticed people had widely different spend profiles and wanted to better understand what might contribute to that. As I’ve worked on this, the tool has grown to show more usage patterns across al
>gets a DM on Threads >"hi I think I got hit with malware" >"there's this app that keeps showing up I can't delete it" >*looks inside* >360 security executable running as admin >legitimate certificate >check autoruns >%programdata%\framework_v10\CacheElectro.exe >check nearby DLL >cpfe.dll (SHA256=fe5680e8aa36e7b56c422d98aad0998f8eab09f3f555018371864f3453e6334b) >HijackLoader/IDAT loader >yeah the
[Digger/CH] # opencanary analysis for 20260812-20260818 Summary: 🔄 Total Connection Attempts: 830,778 👤 Unique Usernames: 2,802 🔑 Distinct Passwords: 10,037 🗝️ Distinct VNC Passwords: 466 🌐 Unique Attacker IPs: 3,046 Port Popularity (Port / Count): 🗃️ MSSQL: 597,117 🔐 SSH: 99,337 🖥️ RDP: 56,883 💻 Telnet: 49,938 🖥️ VNC: 26,093 🔴 REDIS: 769 🔢 Port 33306: 313 📡 Synology DSM: 166 🗄️ SMB:
[Armada/US-East] # opencanary analysis for 20260812-20260818 Summary: 🔄 Total Connection Attempts: 347,357 👤 Unique Usernames: 4,000 🔑 Distinct Passwords: 9,062 🗝️ Distinct VNC Passwords: 162 🌐 Unique Attacker IPs: 2,825 Port Popularity (Port / Count): 🖥️ RDP: 184,151 🔐 SSH: 87,549 🖥️ VNC: 39,696 🗃️ MSSQL: 21,656 💻 Telnet: 12,070 🔴 REDIS: 1,066 📂 FTP: 964 🗄️ SMB: 151 🌐 HTTP: 53 🐙 GI
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Až šesť rozličných psychických a neurologických porúch – porucha pozornosti spojená s hyperaktivitou (ADHD), poruchy autistického spektra (PAS), bipolárna porucha, depresia, schizofrénia a poruchy spánku – má vo svojom pozadí tri gény: MAD1L1, MRPL2 a HLA-DRB1, ktoré sú spojené aj s imunitnou dysreguláciou. Identifikované gény boli výrazne obohatené o dráhy spojené s psychickými aj autoimunitnými
> America has imprisoned journalists before. It has even killed them. But what has happened to Parias is something different: A journalist was injured while documenting government power, shot during an attempt to arrest him, prosecuted, repeatedly denied medical care — and then left in immigration detention, where he has continued documenting the conditions around him. > > The government's powers
* WHAT...Showers and thunderstorms are developing near the Gold Mountain burn scar. Flash flooding and debris flows are possible * WHERE...East Central Ouray County in southwestern Colorado... * WHEN...Until 400 PM MDT. * IMPACTS...Excessive rainfall is possible over the Gold Mountain Burn Scar in the next few hours which could lead to flash flooding and/or debris flows, particularly along highway
The Defense Department’s Golden Dome office declined repeated Congressional Budget Office requests for briefings on the missile defense program, David Mosher, head of CBO’s National Security Directorate, said at a Brookings Institution event on Aug. 19 [breakingdefense.com#1][defensedaily.com#1]. The dispute follows Pentagon criticism of CBO’s $1.2 trillion estimate for implementing President Trum
A large set of AI papers posted or updated on arXiv on Aug. 20 focused on model reliability, evaluation, safety and deployment limits rather than a single product launch. The research included new hallucination-detection resources such as LongNovel for bilingual long-novel summarization, token-level detectors using temporal multi-signal fusion, watermark detection under repeated paraphrasing, and
U.S. forces have quietly opened a protected shipping corridor through the southern Strait of Hormuz, allowing 15–20 tankers to transit nightly. Officials say the operation is now moving nearly 10 million barrels of oil per day—about half pre-war levels—helping ease global supply disruptions. The military coordinates tanker movements with Gulf partners while U.S. fighter jets protect ships from Ira
A rendering of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Image: NASA NASA is calling off an attempt to save a space observatory falling out of orbit, dooming it to a fiery death in Earth's atmosphere. Why it matters: The Swift Boost Mission was an ambitious effort to rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and demonstrate the concept of grabbing onto and moving a satellite. Driving the news: NASA canc
The End of # Reading Is Here # Americans , once members of a proudly # literate society, read much less than they used to. According to the National Endowment for the Arts, which conducts the most comprehensive survey of the nation’s reading habits, fewer than half of all adults reported having read a # book of any kind in 2022. Only 38% read a novel or short story. # Americans who read for pleasu
Heat advisories remained in effect in parts of Florida on Thursday as high humidity pushed heat index values into dangerous ranges. Central Florida expected heat index values of 108 to 112 degrees, and the Tampa Bay area faced feels-like temperatures up to 112 degrees [wesh.com#1][wtsp.com#1]. In northeast Florida, thunderstorms fueled by the heat continued Wednesday evening [news4jax.com#1]. Stor
„Schlafmangel über Jahre hinweg ist eine Katastrophe. Für praktisch alle Körpersysteme“ www.welt.de/iconist/gese... -- Empfohlen von WELT News für Android play.google.com/store/apps/d... Viele Frauen ab Mitte 30 schlafen schlechter, haben Ängste, Brain Fog, nehmen zu – und wissen nicht warum. Gynäkologe Konstantin Wagner erklärt wie Hormone mit Schlaf, Stimmung, Stoffwechsel zusamme...
We identified ethical or legal concerns in 853 articles from this institute. These included at least 75 articles with retrospective approvals, 194 describing research conducted abroad without mention of local approvals, 343 not mentioning ethics approval, and 426 describing sample collection from healthy volunteers with concerns. Among 374 articles for which we obtained the cited ethics approval d
🔒 Security News Digest - 2026-08-19 📊 8 updates from 5 sources: 🔹 darkreading: SilkParasite Threatens Central Asian Orgs With Flurry of RATs https://www. darkreading.com/threat-intelli gence/silkparasite-central-asian-orgs-flurry-rats 🔹 Security News | TechCrunch: T-Mobile ‘chopped a cable’ to expel Chinese hackers from its network https:// techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/t-mo bile-chopped-a-cable-t
> Jewish leaders in Michigan are circulating an open letter urging Jewish Democrats and independents in the battleground state to sign their names in support of former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) as he faces Abdul El-Sayed, the far-left Democratic nominee for Senate whose hostile positions on Israel have alarmed many Jewish voters. > The letter, which was obtained by Jewish Insider on Wednesday and ha
Foreign affairs minister says timing of decision was ‘especially insulting’. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Good morning, Krishani Dhanji here with you for the final sitting day of the week. The government has expressed outrage after the Israeli Defence Force decided not to open a criminal investigation against those responsible for killing Au
Data centers have become the face of AI backlash, with celebrities, politicians and protesters pushing to slow their growth. Why it matters: America's sharply rising public opposition to data centers — which fuel our everyday use of the internet — could pose an existential threat to AI's growth. State of play: There are at least 4,000 data centers nationwide, with some 3,000 under construction or
Foreign minister says Australia is ‘outraged’ after Israeli government decided not to pursue criminal proceedings over 2024 triple drone strike on humanitarian convoy Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s foreign minister has expressed “outrage” and will call in the Israel ambassador over the IDF decision ove
Four findings this period, one shared exposure pattern: each involves a surface an organization puts on the internet deliberately and then rarely inventories completely. In GreyNoise data this period, rented hosts swept separate contiguous bands of TCP ports covering the low and high ends of the range. Those hosts found a service relocated to an unusual port inside them as reliably as one on its d
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One thing I have been thinking about lately as I've been a little more active on MeFi is how much due diligence I'm doing when I read something. Today someone posts a link by someone who, back in the day, was gamer-🐊 adjacent. It happens, add a comment with some different voices who cover the same topic but aren't big James Damore fans. No sweat. However I do see some people who I think mean well
Bloomberg TV & Radio International Economics & Policy Correspondent Mike McKee breaks down the minutes from the July Fed meeting, where the board splintered on whether or not to raise interest rates. BlackRock Head of US iShares Fixed Income Strategy Karen Veraa-Perry also joins Businessweek to react to headlines from the minutes. Plus, President Trump held a meeting Wednesday at the White House w
The desire to own women as property increases with the MRAs and incel views expanding but also specifically as a white nationalist project. East Asians score just enough on the white beauty standards to be "close enough" for their fixations while still being "below" them. sfist.com/2026/08/19/d... A new SF-based dating site called WMAF Meet, short for “Western males and Asian females,” is drawing
www.merck.com/news/merck-a... #context Note: And I picked this on NPR, both organizations are avoiding the v word in their white paper. I agree that using it might trigger people who are anti-vax. Other than that, this does give more hope for a treatment. First and only combination regimen to demonstrate statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in RFS and DMFS compared to K
This article basically accuses OpenAI of knowingly keeping harmful features turned on for adults when it knows perfectly well how to turn them off. Something totally different stood out to me and it has to do with parenting. There is this idea that the parent will provide some government ID to verify identity and age, and the kid will get an account that is labeled as a kid account. And then “Pare
My media club’s advisor definitely recommended that I show his media students around the radio station a bit and it was lowkey chaotic when I brought them on the air. That’s the beauty of college radio in a nutshell. When I brought in a couple of other students, we went into a discussion about Flock and mass-surveillance and it gave me a great idea for a new segment related to this. This is what t
FFWILN The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... Southern Logan County in west central Ohio... Central Shelby County in west central Ohio... * Until 1000 PM EDT. * At 704 PM EDT, radar and automated rain gauges indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 3 and 5 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1
FFWIND The National Weather Service in Indianapolis has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... Northwestern Warren County in west central Indiana... * Until 1100 PM EDT. * At 705 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 0.5 and 1.5 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash
Regulations that would block sale of older tires praised by environmental groups amid rightwing backlash California has become the first state in the nation to mandate that replacement tires be energy efficient, a major auto industry regulation set to block the sale of older tires and make vehicles on the road greener. State regulators have said the new rules will reduce emissions and drivers’ fue
...The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers... Great Miami River at Sidney. Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/iln. * WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast. * WHERE...Great Miami River at Sidney. * WHEN...From late tonight to Thursday afternoon. * IMPACTS...At 10.0 feet, The river approaches the bank on the west side of Custenbo
FFWABQ The National Weather Service in Albuquerque has extended the * Flash Flood Warning for... Northwestern San Miguel County in northeastern New Mexico... * Until 800 PM MDT. * At 625 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 4 inches of rain have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 0.25 to 0.75 inches in 1 hour. Additional rainfall amounts of 0.25 to 0.
Officers reportedly believed invitees were trying to make unauthorized entry on to Vandenberg base in California Five news reporters and two members of the military who were invited to an event at Vandenberg space force base in California were briefly detained at gunpoint by security officers who thought they were gatecrashers, according to local news reports. The incident happened Monday ahead of
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman has revealed a crossover with Doctor Who was very close to happening after last year’s epic Easter egg. The sixth episode of season 3, titled The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail – which aired last August – treated fans to the appearance of the TARDIS in the background behind the USS Enterprise, while Commander Pelia (Carol Kane) also suggested sh
'... compromised approximately 8,000 professor email accounts across 144 U.S.-based universities, and 178 universities located in foreign countries, including Australia, Canada, ... and the United Kingdom ... approximately 2013, continued through at least December 2017 ... '... used stolen account credentials ... '... across all fields of research and academic disciplines ... at least approximatel
I remember watching https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko At some point I followed along with counting the number of bugs in software that I use. I had to give up in a day. Today I am given the choice to update iOS. The choices are "Now" and "Tonight". I can't run a binary on my phone. Why can't I do all these things? I'm starting to think computing just happened to land in a good spot beca
On a recent weekday morning, the Repulse Bay post office, in one of Hong Kong’s most affluent coastal neighbourhoods, stood almost empty. In an hour, only five customers walked through the door, with two staff members serving them. One of them was Dicky Lo, who had sent a parcel to Europe, citing the service’s reasonable price compared with private couriers. “I come here two to three times a month
Hi, these are the weekly # washingtonstate # kingcounty (that is, # seattle and environs) # COVID # COVID19 # wastewater toots. A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government. The West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant's 7 day running average is higher. Looks like a (for now, modest) summer wave is upon us :( The last 7DRA
A vast swath of the political spectrum sleeps soundly calling themselves "Good People" because the violence they advocate for is structural, not direct. I.e. It's not that I think poor people should be killed, but I don't want any of "my money" going towards keeping them fed. It's not that I think sick and disabled people should be killed, but I think they should have to get a job if they want hea
At 635 PM MST, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms producing flash flooding. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Life threat
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be possible. * WHERE...A portion of northern Indiana, including the following areas, Adams, Blackford, Cass IN, Fulton IN, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Miami, Pulaski, Wabash, Wells and White. * WHEN...Until 8 AM EDT Thursday. * IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone lo
Former real estate developer leads press corps on tour of grounds and says ‘one thing I know how to do is build’ As the US national debt climbed past $40tn for the first time on Wednesday, and the war with Iran he started nearly six months ago dragged on, forcing Americans already struggling to pay the bills to spend more on fuel, Donald Trump led the press corps on a tour of the extensive remodel
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following river and locations in Indiana... White River at Petersburg and Edwardsport. ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers and locations in Indiana... White River at Spencer, Hazleton, Newberry, and Elliston. East Fork White River near Rivervale. .Heavy to extreme rainfall over east-central, southeast, and west central Indiana since the
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following river and locations in Indiana... White River at Petersburg and Edwardsport. ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers and locations in Indiana... White River at Spencer, Hazleton, Newberry, and Elliston. East Fork White River near Rivervale. .Heavy to extreme rainfall over east-central, southeast, and west central Indiana since the
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, north central, and west central Indiana, including the following counties, in central Indiana, Boone, Clinton, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Howard, Johnson, Madison, Marion, Morgan, Rush, Shelby and Tipton. In east central Indiana, Delaware, Henry and Randolph. In north cent
Totally nobody's fault. She stepped on the toe of my boot by mistake and I stepped back to free my foot and I just kept going backwards. Smacked the back of my head on the ground so hard it bounced and my glasses flew off my face. I sat up and was pretty dazed and just sat on the ground for a bit to get my bearings. Then my vision got weird when I stood and I got hella barfy. Had my stepfather tak
Got to the makerspace to practice lathe skills and a bunch of stuff fell out of my locker. I don’t have/need a lock on it, but the lack of one means the door isn’t secured. Thus, I turned my lathe practice time into making this completely reasonable not-silly-at-all solution! - Durable aluminum construction prevents fall-apart - Chamfered corners ensure easy installation and reduce locker-related
David Revoy | [Mastodon](https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117123322038733949) | [Bonus Time Lapse ](https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/066.html#bonus) ::: spoiler Transcript ## The Aesthetic Rebellion A comic in four panels. Panel 1. Cepper is happy of herself in front of her large canvas: a beautiful painting as she did on the previous episodes. The parrot looks at what she does
Sometimes you see someone that you once respected fall and it is just sad. For transparency, I don't like ai. I am highly sceptical of it for a lot of reasons. Environmental, educational, social, political, legal, ... But my problem is not with his perspective on ai. I think it is fair to be amazed by what ai seems to be able to do within these companies. And so I understand liveoverflow. My probl
![The second page of the zine. Four curved arrows in the top left of the page point towards the black text with a yellow background, "TRANS GLORY FIT". Just below that text is a colored pencil crosshatch of green and red, evoking a plaid pattern. To the right of the crosshatch and below the text is a doodle of a white skirt with the cutout text "skirt." beneath it, black with a white background. T
The Australian Energy Regulator said renewable generation and battery storage eased pressure in Australia’s wholesale electricity market in 2025, with wholesale prices and revenue falling from 2024 levels across all periods of the day [energy-storage.news#1][pv-tech.org#1]. The finding appears in the AER’s 2026 Wholesale Electricity Market Performance Report, its fifth review of the National Elect
AI papers and developer posts published or updated around Aug. 19-20 focus on agentic systems that plan, use tools, coordinate with other agents and produce auditable artifacts, rather than just answer prompts. The work spans scientific agents, computer-use agents, finance, banking, cybersecurity, medicine, robotics and autonomous driving. Several papers argue that conventional output-only evaluat
arXiv:2608.18274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: OpenAI Privacy Filter is a compact, bidirectional token-classification model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) and secrets in unstructured text. The model is derived from an autoregressively pretrained checkpoint and converted into a bidirectional, banded-attention classifier that labels an input sequence in a sing
arXiv:2608.18351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using large language-model agents can complete a task while exercising authority that the user did not grant or the task does not need, causing excess-authority errors. Traditional permission gating systems alone for validating agent environments are insufficient. We study whether post-training can teach a 4B-parameter model to choose task-condi
arXiv:2608.18572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile Internet services couple cyber events directly to physical actuation, so security decisions must improve risk discrimination without perturbing the control path. This paper presents VQC-ZTI, a split-plane Variational Quantum Classifier framework for zero-trust protection of Tactile Internet services, in which an off-path VQC analyzes encrypte
arXiv:2608.18605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public ledgers increasingly authorize state transitions using prior transactions, finalized state, timing, and ordering rather than only a public key, message, and portable signature. We introduce ledger authenticators and $\LAEUF$, an unforgeability experiment for reactive authorization protocols whose public judgment algorithm reads a finalized tra
arXiv:2608.18642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite Internet is becoming critical communications infrastructure, yet its open wireless links remain vulnerable to satellite impersonation and signal spoofing. Radio frequency fingerprinting (RFF) offers a potential defense by exploiting transmitter-specific hardware imperfections manifested in received signals. However, th
arXiv:2608.18686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based SSH honeypots often use closed cloud LLMs because they give strong shell realism, but cloud models create deployment problems. These include no stable versioning, provider-side changes, attacker-driven cost, and model decommissioning. Local open-weight models avoid these problems, but they usually perform worse and make mistakes that reveal
arXiv:2608.18976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual Learning (CL) enables deep learning models to iteratively learn from a stream of data without forgetting prior knowledge. Existing adversarial research on CL primarily aims to re-enable catastrophic forgetting, attacking stability and reducing availability. We identify a novel security flaw: data manipulated by an attacker can reduce the le
arXiv:2608.18991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing deployment of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in critical infrastructure sectors like manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation has shown new challenges for Digital Forensics (DF). Traditional DF methodologies are not well equipped to handle the complexity, scale, and heterogeneity of IIoT environments. This paper introduc
arXiv:2608.19052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional malware detection systems that rely on a single representation of malware often fail to identify novel threats. These representations of malware binaries, also known as modalities, do not provide the models with sufficient information to discriminate among all samples. Additionally, individual representations introduce new failure modes,
arXiv:2608.19155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of large data-center (DC) loads is creating new challenges for power-system visibility, privacy, and cyber-physical security. System operators need accurate short-term information about these fast-varying loads, while DC operators may avoid sharing raw megawatt measurements because they can reveal sensitive workload and utilization p
arXiv:2608.19190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In today's era of rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, computer security and online safeguarding measures have undergone significant improvements. However, malicious websites continue to facilitate the spread of phishing schemes, fraudulent activities and unsolicited communications. Conventional methodologies in machine learning, deep learn
arXiv:2608.18260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly used in everyday applications. A major challenge in the context of LLMs or Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general is to ensure privacy when using them, meaning that personally identifiable information (PII) is removed from any text that enters an LLM. These challenges have become more urgent with
arXiv:2608.18613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is increasingly consumed not by human analysts but by LLM agents that compose multi-step investigations at query time. The harness side of this shift has matured rapidly (planning loops, tool protocols, context management), but the corpus side has not: threat reports and vulnerability databases are still packaged for
arXiv:2608.18736v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated training enables language models to learn from distributed private text, but the server cannot directly verify the local supervision or optimization process that produces each client update. A malicious client can therefore train on corrupted targets, introduce incorrect context-token associations, and degrade the global model through rep
arXiv:2608.18749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geometric Data Perturbation (GDP) enables one-shot, privacy-preserving collaborative learning: each participant applies a distance-preserving transformation to its private data and uploads only the resulting representation to a central analyst. We study GDP under analyst-participant collusion, in which the analyst combines all uploaded representati
arXiv:2608.18772v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Differential privacy protects individual voting records by injecting randomness into the published outcome, but this noise can lead to erroneous results when an election is close. We study how precise central differential privacy and local differential privacy can be for common voting rules, including Plurality, Condorcet, Maximin, Plurality with R
arXiv:2608.18841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Copy-protection encodes a functionality in a reusable quantum state that cannot be split into two states (freeloader adversaries) which remain simultaneously useful. Prior plain-model results handle only independently sampled challenges; the more natural identical-challenge notion, also tied to unclonable bits and copy-protection of point functions
arXiv:2502.00735v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into audio-based applications, growing concerns have emerged regarding their vulnerability to audio-based adversarial attacks. These systems typically follow two architectural paradigms: cascaded pipelines, where automatic speech recognition converts audio inputs into text before LLM pro
arXiv:2506.19260v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hierarchical federated learning places regional aggregators between clients and the cloud, so a participant's update is observed only alongside its neighbours'. The concealment this arrangement provides depends on the size of the aggregation region, and regions in operational deployments vary widely. Prevailing practice applies a single noise mul
arXiv:2601.17178v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hardware Trojans (HTs) remain a critical threat because learning-based detectors often overfit to narrow trigger/payload patterns and small, stylized benchmarks. We introduce TrojanGYM, an agentic, LLM-driven framework that automatically curates HT insertions to expose detector blind spots. Given high-level HT specifications, a suite of cooperati
arXiv:2604.06092v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are defined by protocols that specify how participants record transactions and create new currency units. These protocols are not enforced by law or any central entity and instead are intended to be incentive compatible. However, the Bitcoin mining protocol proposed by Nakamoto (2008) and implemented in practice i
arXiv:2604.18552v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Privacy policies are intended to inform users about how software systems collect and handle data, yet they often remain vague or incomplete. This paper presents an empirical study of patterns in log-related statements within privacy policies and their alignment with privacy disclosures observed in Android application logs. We analyzed 1,000 Andro
arXiv:2608.03165v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Invisible image watermarks are increasingly used for deepfake detection and provenance tracking, where they must survive not only incidental distortions but also deliberate removal. We revisit spread-spectrum embedding, a classical watermarking principle, inside a modern neural post-hoc watermarking architecture. Our starting point is a measureme
arXiv:2604.07532v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are vulnerable to intelligent attackers who exploit the homogeneous treatment of traffic events in existing trust models. These attackers accumulate reputation by reporting correctly on low-priority events and then inject false data during safety-critical situations---a strategy that current approaches can
arXiv:2605.16812v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Local Differential Privacy (LDP) serves as a foundational primitive for distributed data collection, its stringent randomization requirements often lead to severe degradation in data utility. This degradation stems from the task-agnostic nature of conventional LDP mechanisms, which perturb all dimensions without accounting for their r
arXiv:2608.09506v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Information flow analysis is the de facto method of assessing confidentiality and integrity issues. However, the widespread adoption of information flow analysis in real-world systems is still lacking, partly due to a fundamental gap between theory and practice: the dynamic nature of security concerns in real-world systems goes beyond the s
arXiv:2608.18120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose an interpretable machine-learning framework for dynamic hedging using the It\^o signature transform, which turns asset-price paths into a set of linear features that universally represent nonlinear functions on time-series. We show that each discretized It\^o signature component can be perfectly replicated by a simple self-financing strate
arXiv:2608.18195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a reinforcement learning framework for market making in a limit order book. Our algorithm aims to maximize trading revenue by dynamically submitting market and limit orders of varying sizes across multiple price levels while controlling inventory size. We use multivariate logistic-normal distributions to model order allocations and emplo
arXiv:2608.18113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study a systemic-risk control problem in which a central planner allocates losses generated by bank defaults across the surviving institutions. Banks are modeled through their distances to default, evolving as absorbed Brownian motions with downward jumps induced by redistributed default losses. Unlike bailout models, the planner cannot inject e
arXiv:2608.18554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most LLM benchmarks rank models on their ability to automate work tasks. In practice, however, models are often used to assist other (human or LLM) agents. The question that drives model selection is therefore not only which model produces the best output, but which model most improves the work of another (weaker) agent. We introduce a unified fram
arXiv:2309.14186v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformative changes in our production and consumption habits are needed to halt biodiversity loss. Organizations are the way we humans have organized our everyday life, and much of our negative environmental impacts, also called carbon and biodiversity footprints, are caused by organizations. Here we explore how the activity data of any organi
arXiv:2405.02115v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper we provide a theoretical analysis of Variable Annuities (VAs) with a focus on the holder's right to an early termination of the contract. Motivated by risk-management considerations, and in line with existing literature, we assume that the surrender option is optimally exercised from a purely financial perspective (i.e., we consider
arXiv:2506.19715v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce a novel neural-network-based approach to learning the generating function $G(\cdot)$ of a functionally generated portfolio (FGP) from synthetic or real market data. In the neural network setting, the generating function is represented as $G_{\theta}(\cdot)$, where $\theta$ is an iterable neural network parameter vector, and $G_{\thet
arXiv:2510.15911v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Sleeping Beauty problem is a problem of imperfect recall that has received considerable attention. One approach to resolving the Sleeping Beauty problem has been to allow Sleeping Beauty to make decisions based on her beliefs, and then characterize what it takes for her decisions to be "rational". In particular, she can be allowed to make mon
arXiv:2604.08825v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This study investigates the transmission of monetary policy narratives to Bitcoin prices, distinguishing policy expectations from realized policy implementation. We introduce a weekly Monetary Policy Expectations (MPE) index derived from the Large Language Model (LLM)-based classification of 118,000+ market messages, providing a granular measure
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In the face of military defeat, Donald Trump is now threatening “that ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences. Oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies — It all needs to stop NOW. You know who you are.
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Ben Carroll releases terms of reference for inquiry that will include examining allegations of CFMEU corruption on state government building sites Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast “Nothing is off limits” to Victoria’s royal commission into the construction sector, Ben Carroll has said, as he released the inquiry’s t
The U.S. Army selected Hanwha Defense USA to provide K9 Mobile Howitzer prototypes for the Mobile Tactical Cannon program, a wheeled 155 mm artillery effort announced on Aug. 18 [asianmilitaryreview.com#1][19fortyfive.com#1][zona-militar.com#1][koreapost.com#1][businessam.be#1]. The agreement covers six initial 8×8 prototype vehicles, includes an option for 12 more, and has a four-year ceiling val
One day I'll sit around the camp fire and be like "You know grandpa Bas used to this stuff by hand before the em-dashes took over" ... Things like https:// github.blog/security/vulnerabi lity-research/now-you-c-me-now-you-dont-part-two-exploiting-the-in-between/ were always less about the bugs themselves and more about how to approach attack surfaces and exploit development as an adventure in crea
Time to send Tina Peters back to prison. Her commutation was coerced providing a strong legal basis to void the clemency grant. Executive orders secured through criminal extortion lack lawful validity because free executive discretion was compromised. Lock her up! www.newsbreak.com/alternet-332... In August 2025 — roughly seven months into his second presidency — Donald Trump threatened Colorado o
Five hundred people turn up to adopt plants from conservatory that will reopen in 2030 after renovation project Above the waxy monstera leaves and bright pink hibiscus flowers in the Barbican conservatory hangs a giant net to catch the panes of glass that are at risk of falling from the ceiling on the unwitting plant lovers below. This precarious situation has caused the estate to shutter its gree
Organisational Dysfunction of the Day We transformed. Our suppliers didn't. Context: The organisation has transformed. Product teams own their work end-to-end. Self-managing groups coordinate without escalating. Then comes the enterprise SaaS contract. The vendor is large, well-regarded, and the product is good enough. The problem is everything around it. Feature requests go into a global backlog
A ‘capacity for despair’ forged by political oppression has long been consider a Magyar national trait. But after Orbán, writers in the country remind us that melancholy must not always be bleak A lone visitor looks for a garden outside an empty monastery. A morose housekeeper won’t let anyone behind the door of her own home. A retired general living alone on a crumbling estate waits 40 years to c
RE: https:// social.lol/@neatnik/1171199558 47075825 No German person I've talked to offline—in Germany, I'm German—thinks Elon Musk is a Nazi. Or at least they refuse to say it openly. I don't know if this makes me sad or angry. Even after I showed them pictures of Musk doing the (in Germany forbidden) Sieg Heil ("Hail victory") Nazi salute … did they still doubt me. When I said at work that Musk
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible. * WHERE...Portions of northeast New Jersey, including the following areas, Eastern Bergen, Eastern Essex, Eastern Passaic, Eastern Union, Hudson, Western Bergen, Western Essex, Western Passaic and Western Union and southeast New York, including the following areas, Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Northern Nassau, Nort
⚠️ Nomad “Unlimited” eSIM warning: Nomad’s US “Unlimited” plan applies a Fair Usage Policy: after 2 GB per day, speeds are reduced to 1 Mbps for the rest of that 24-hour period. That may be acceptable if it is clearly disclosed upfront—but “unlimited” without prominent daily high-speed limits is misleading in practice. I only found out once I was already travelling and having connectivity problems
[Digger/CH] # opencanary Samba Access Summary for Aug 19 This OpenCanary received 0 file sample(s) yesterday. File hashes seen: List of Usernames: 👤 guest: 11 occurrence(s) 👤 administrator: 10 occurrence(s) List of IP Addresses: 🌐 61.173.144.xxx: 22 occurrence(s) 🌐 187.1.181.xxx: 22 occurrence(s) 🌐 186.121.241.xxx: 11 occurrence(s) 🌐 181.115.146.xxx: 11 occurrence(s) 🌐 14.153.139.xxx: 11 oc
An intensifying monsoon surge along the southern peripheries of a developing trough axis stretching from TS Saudel westward, is expected to enhance a secondary embedded monsoon disturbance that will bring intensely heavy showers and persistently fresh to strong westerlies to much of western Micronesia the next several days. Intense showers and thunderstorms are expected to peak at Yap tonight and
Jewelbug APT Group Operations Combine Espionage and Fraud At a glance Actor or group: Jewelbug (suspected China-based threat group) Activity type: Cyber espionage and cryptocurrency fraud Targets or victims: Middle Eastern and Asian government ministries, aerospace firms, and crypto users Scale: Over 1 million implant check-ins and 580,000 stolen cookies Jurisdiction or law-enforcement status: Act
Ukraine Brief — 2026-08-20 Russia's precision-strike escalation against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure will likely compel at least one NATO member to announce new strategic air defense deliveries within 30 days. Moderate confidence reflects convergence in Kyiv and Kharkiv casualty reporting, an 80 percent grid-destruction figure exceeding current commitments, and an interceptor gap that has cat
People often wrongly equate free markets and capitalism and democracy. Free markets are millenia old. Your cat gave birth to nine kitten, but you don't want ten cats? Trade three kittens for one puppy. Trade three goats for one cow. Markets came thousands of years before capitalism started roughly around 1500. Of course trading goods is inconvenient, that's why money was invented. Capitalism now m
A new populist fever is coursing through the midterms, forcing campaigns to retreat and recalibrate as they confront a groundswell of hostility toward AI data centers. Why it matters: Grassroots pressure is breaking the bipartisan consensus that enabled America's AI buildout. Candidates in both parties are now racing to distance themselves from projects their own leaders spent years courting. The
Improvements in fire management however could mitigate increases by more than 70%, study shows Wildfires are projected to burn 39% more of Europe by the end of the century even in the best-case scenario for stopping the planet from heating, a study has found , unless action is taken to manage them better. The increase in hot, dry and windy weather that leads to small fires turning into raging infe
President Trump told cryptocurrency and technology leaders at the White House this week that he would welcome “an AI plant or a data center” if he were a mayor or governor, saying “the jobs are enormous” and the money and taxes paid are “enormous” [fortune.com#1][pbs.org#1][commondreams.org#1][danas.rs#1]. His comments aligned the White House with a buildout of facilities used for artificial intel
🧵⬆️ Billionaires completely exploit this credit system and people's belief and trust in the future. They hoard so much wealth that they can then go to money lenders to borrow money (even though they're billionaires). To evade taxes like the parasites that billionaires are, they put all their wealth into foundations that also help them with their public image. Billionaires use their assets as secu
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is building a reputation as a Cabinet official willing to do favors for his former colleagues in Congress — even at the risk of drawing a backlash from the White House and MAGA. Why it matters: Some of Mullin's most high-profile moves — such as pausing ICE agents' traffic stops and delaying border security construction along the Texas border — have come
Vice President Vance hosted a Wednesday evening fundraiser in Southampton, N.Y., for young Republican donors that raised more than $5 million, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The event drew several up-and-coming donors in their 20s and 30s — providing a glimpse into the finance network Vance is assembling ahead of a possible run for president in 2028. The players: The fundraiser, which drew abo
FFWILN The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... Northwestern Union County in central Ohio... Northeastern Auglaize County in west central Ohio... Hardin County in west central Ohio... Northern Logan County in west central Ohio... Northeastern Shelby County in west central Ohio... * Until 930 AM EDT. * At 532 AM EDT, radar and automated rain gauges indica
More drama in the Star Citizen world 🍿 The greater YouTube drama farmers have decided they can generate clicks by offering ill-informed hot-takes on that latest livestream debacle. Sure, it was a shit-show, and raises many questions about the culture at CIG. But given their pace and quality of development and communications lately, we know things can't be great there. My favourite take is "well,
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater... ‘The human cost of a hospital trust under pressure’….NHS been in real terms systematically defunded for years. Through neoliberal economic dogma and ideological predilection for private health that has continued under Labour. Refund. Renationalise now There were 12,000 cases of delayed treatment last year at the NCA. Bosses say ‘persistently high’ le
What GAO Found Five Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) teams are implementing the security cooperation workforce provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024. Of the 66 provisions in the law we identified and reviewed, the agency has completed work on 46, is in progress on 15, and has not started implementing the remaining five. DSCA expects to complete work on
牛来 (roughly translated as “Come here, cow) is probably the wackiest story of “the little movie that could” that I've ever heard. Like the recent unexpected blockbuster Dear You, it made multiple times profit of it's tiny budget. But unlike Dear You, people flocked to it because it's so bad they had to see just how bad 🤣. I cannot believe that it's also showing in Malaysia lmao. PS: I frankly thin
Not well reported but accurate. Trump, GOP, white Christian facisists, et al set stage/opened door 4 WW III We may be in it already As in the past, Abrahamic religions, profiteering, & insanity are driving force Now, climate chaos added Still can/must stop! www.eurasiantimes.com/1st-time-in-... Iran has done what no other air force has managed to do in over seven decades – attack U.S. ground force
57,000. That’s how many rent-stabilized units sat vacant in NYC last year. That’s 57,000 families who could be housed while Black neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens face record foreclosures. The math isn't mathing. #BlackSky Dr. Annette Robinson highlights the concerning state of New York City's housing market, emphasizing the existence of over 57,000 empty rent-stabilized apartments amid rising
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, Colin M. McDonald, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), Pete Gizas, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Health and H
Whoever is running social media for the # WPBL needs to study the official scoring rules: "REGULATION GAME A game is considered a regulation game -- also known as an "official game" -- once the visiting team has made 15 outs (five innings) and the home team is leading, or once the home team has made 15 outs regardless of score... If a regulation game is terminated early due to weather, the results
Many AI research papers and practitioner articles published or surfaced on Aug. 20-21 examined how large language models behave when acting as agents, processing multimodal inputs, using tools or carrying sensitive context. The work covered agent evaluation and benchmarking, safety failures in multi-step trajectories, prompt injection in video and 3D settings, encrypted reasoning-trace leakage, me
* WHAT...Urban areas and small streams flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. * WHERE...Monroe County in east central Ohio... Noble County in east central Ohio... * WHEN...Until 1230 PM EDT. * IMPACTS...Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring. Streams continue to rise due to excess runoff from earlier rainfall. * ADDIT
Getting your personal information removed from a data broker is only part of the privacy problem. The same information can be republished later. We tested Onerep to see how its automated removal process handles that cycle. The service covers 850+ sources: 315+ people-search sites, plus 550+ non-public data brokers on Pro plans. For supported people-search sites, its dashboard can show the exposed
...The National Weather Service in Indianapolis IN has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers in Indiana... White River at Ravenswood. White River below Eagle Valley Power Plant. White River near Centerton. .Very heavy rainfall from Wednesday evening through the overnight of 2 to over 3 inches will bring parts of the middle White back into minor flooding from later today into Friday befor
...The National Weather Service in Indianapolis IN has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers in Indiana... White River at Ravenswood. White River below Eagle Valley Power Plant. White River near Centerton. .Very heavy rainfall from Wednesday evening through the overnight of 2 to over 3 inches will bring parts of the middle White back into minor flooding from later today into Friday befor
...The National Weather Service in Indianapolis IN has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers in Indiana... White River at Ravenswood. White River below Eagle Valley Power Plant. White River near Centerton. .Very heavy rainfall from Wednesday evening through the overnight of 2 to over 3 inches will bring parts of the middle White back into minor flooding from later today into Friday befor
...The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers... Hocking River at Enterprise. * WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast. * WHERE...Hocking River at Enterprise. * WHEN...From late tonight to Friday evening. * IMPACTS...At 12.5 feet, Flooding extends well into the floodplain along the river. Flood waters extend to near the skirting of a couple of homes a
A proposed SpaceX concept for orbital data centers has drawn scrutiny from science and technology publications because it would put computing hardware, including AI-related satellite systems, in orbit instead of in terrestrial facilities [google.com#1][benchmark.pl#1]. Scientific American reported that space-based data centers could add vast numbers of bright objects to the night sky and disrupt s
Administration’s plan to scrap drilling-free buffer zone around New Mexico site prompts scrutiny from Unesco The Trump administration’s push to expand oil and gas extraction across the US is set to bring drilling near cherished natural and cultural sites, raising alarm among conservationists and prompting questions from the UN’s heritage body. Unesco said it has received information on the adminis
1Bridge Connect is a thriving Jacksonville hub where more than 35 local businesses, emerging brands, and youth entrepreneurs can grow, collaborate, and connect with customers. The shared retail, office, fulfillment, and shipping space gives business owners access to professional resources without the expense of maintaining an individual storefront, while offering shoppers everything from artwork,
On this episode of Stock Movers: - Shares of Walmart (WMT) tumbled ahead of the market open after the retail giant’s quarterly sales fell short of expectations, a rare miss that’s likely to stoke concern about the leading big-box retailer decelerating alongside a slow-growing US economy. - Shares of Advanced Auto Parts (AAP) sunk in premarket trading after the parts provider reported second-quarte
Anyone who quotes Elongated Muskrat, and takes that seriously, should be immediately disqualified from any serious conversation. At least, in my opinion, I don't care to listen to anything they have to say or write after that. Quoting him as though he is any kind of authority immediately disqualifies a person from serious conversation, and I am not sorry about it either.* Muskyboi has been lying t
SMWTAE The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a * Special Marine Warning for... Waters from Okaloosa-Walton County Line to Mexico Beach from 20 to 60 NM... * Until 1130 AM CDT. * At 957 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing waterspouts was located 45 nm west of Empire Mica Wreck, moving north at 5 knots. HAZARD...Waterspouts and wind gusts 34 knots or greater. SOURCE..
The Sand Letters “On his deathbed, President Chester Arthur ordered that all of his personal and professional papers be burned. Three barrels of documents went up in flames. But 23 letters survived, initialed only ‘J.I.S.'” Arthur was a prince of the spoils system of government — institutionalized corruption and bribery — that was standard through most of the 19th Century. But as President he led
@stephaniemiller.bsky.social @dgcomedy.bsky.social @dailybeanspod.com Scotts Miracle-gro's donation to repair the White House lawn may have been part of a quid pro quo to reschedule cannabis, since Scott's parent owns a company that supplies cannabis growers. themarijuanaherald.com/2025/07/scot... ScottsMiracle-Gro CEO Jim Hagedorn says he’s had multiple conversations with President Donald Trump s
fun # rimworld story. My current game is a clusterfuck of mods, as one does. I have vehicles mod installed, but I also have dead man's switch for super advanced mechanoids. I've reached the end-game a while ago, and decided I want to set up a mechanoid standing force to fight my battles for me. I've recently discovered that automatroids can be loaded into the "passenger" slots of vehicles. What do
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# RedHat and its parent company # ibm have been among the most vocal advocates for an open ecosystem to mitigate the new risks emerging in the # agenticAI era. In the past three months, the two companies have been part of multiple efforts to shore up # OSSsecurity and supply chains. However, in many ways, the longstanding issues in the industry with open source sustainability and # cybersecurity d
Kyla Scanlon “on wealth vs. labor and ownership vs. effort." Over half of Americans no longer believe full-time work will get them to their financial goals, Scanlon writes. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to be financially comfortable just through work, even if your work is skilled, white-collar, professional work. Our economy rewards owning things over doing things. Labor’s share of economic
Bulgaria reduced output at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant after the Danube River fell to critically low levels, cutting Unit 5 by about 120 megawatts starting Friday, August 21, as a preventive safety measure ordered by the Energy Ministry [energynews.pro#1][infobae.com#1][20minutos.es#1][nova.bg#1]. The ministry said forecasts for the Danube upstream of Bulgaria showed water levels would contin
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Indiana... White River at Hazleton. White River at Petersburg. White River at Edwardsport. White River at Newberry. White River at Spencer. White River at Elliston. ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... White River near Centerton. White River at Ravenswood. White River below Eagle Valley Power Plant. .Very
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Indiana... White River at Hazleton. White River at Petersburg. White River at Edwardsport. White River at Newberry. White River at Spencer. White River at Elliston. ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... White River near Centerton. White River at Ravenswood. White River below Eagle Valley Power Plant. .Very
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Indiana... White River at Hazleton. White River at Petersburg. White River at Edwardsport. White River at Newberry. White River at Spencer. White River at Elliston. ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... White River near Centerton. White River at Ravenswood. White River below Eagle Valley Power Plant. .Very
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Indiana... White River at Hazleton. White River at Petersburg. White River at Edwardsport. White River at Newberry. White River at Spencer. White River at Elliston. ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... White River near Centerton. White River at Ravenswood. White River below Eagle Valley Power Plant. .Very
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Indiana... White River at Hazleton. White River at Petersburg. White River at Edwardsport. White River at Newberry. White River at Spencer. White River at Elliston. ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... White River near Centerton. White River at Ravenswood. White River below Eagle Valley Power Plant. .Very
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Indiana... White River at Hazleton. White River at Petersburg. White River at Edwardsport. White River at Newberry. White River at Spencer. White River at Elliston. ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... White River near Centerton. White River at Ravenswood. White River below Eagle Valley Power Plant. .Very
New Mars reports detailed orbital imagery, moon-impact modeling and scientific findings from more than 50 years of robotic exploration. Space.com reported that Europe’s Mars Express orbiter captured video imagery over Schiaparelli, one of Mars’ largest craters and the fictional stranding site of Mark Watney in “The Martian” [space.com#1]. ESA published a Czech-language article on a Deimos impact s
I wanted to report regularly on the preparations for the next semester. There is a project and a course in system security to be prepared. And as usual I want to improve the material I have at hand. System security is split up in two parts: Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures — or Attack and Defense, if you want. For the masters project I have proposed to set up PalaestrAI in the lab to train atta
I’ve had my first job for a year now. My partner got his dream job which requires us to move. My job had an office in that state. But because of stupid in person team rules from this aloof dipshit VP (came from Amazon surprise surprise) they won’t let me move and keep working. I thought if I could be reasonable and up front they would work with me. But now I’m just a corpse to them. Already workin
Pew Research Center said an Aug. 20 study found that more than one-third of English-language webpages with publication dates after ChatGPT’s November 2022 public release showed significant signs of AI authorship or substantial AI editing [pewresearch.org#1][techcrunch.com#1][digitaltrends.com#1][ettoday.net#1][thenextweb.com#1]. The finding came from an analysis of 490,000 English-language pages s
000 ABNT20 KNHC 201722 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 200 PM EDT Thu Aug 20 2026 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America: Northeastern Atlantic: A non-tropical area of low pressure is expected to develop along a front over the northeastern Atlantic by early Friday. This system could separate from its fronts and acquire some subtropical
Hey it’s introduction time! I’m Mic.Redacted, that’s mic like microphone. Father of 4, husband to 1 non-techy, granddad to 1 cat, 2nd favorite human to 1 dachshund, and we have a fluffle of 5 bunnies. I’m the founder of PWN-252 (DCG252), the lead organizer of the Social Engineering Community Village at CackalackyCon, and all around social butterfly. I was on twitter (ThatOhGi) back before it was a
Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Walmart’s earnings disappoint, flashing a warning sign for the broader retail sector, while the 30-year bond rally unravels and markets question whether Scott Bessent can tame rising yields. State Street’s Lori Heinel breaks down what’s driving the bond market, CFTC Chairman Michael Selig lays out the path forwar
Government announce plan for ‘stepping stone’ qualification as 620,000 year 11 students face retaking maths or English after failure to achieve grade 4 The government’s plans to make young people continue studying maths and English if they fail GCSEs could be demotivating and ineffective, according to education experts and school leaders after retake pass rates slumped this year. Only one in seven
Kandelo is an open-source, Wasm-based multi-process kernel that runs POSIX programs in browsers and Node.js. Kandelo is still experimental, but it already runs a substantial range of existing software. Do you have use cases for this? We are trying Kandelo as a new foundation for WordPress Playground which runs server-side WordPress entirely in the browser. Kandelo also looks promising as a sandbox
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 604 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM SMITH POINT TO WINDMILL POINT VA CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM WINDMILL POINT TO NEW POINT COMFORT VA CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM NEW POINT COMFORT TO LITTLE CREEK VA CURRITUCK SOUND CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM LITT
* WHAT...West to northwest winds 15 to 25 kt with occasional gusts to 35 kt expected. * WHERE...Palau Coastal Waters. * WHEN...From 6 AM this morning to 6 PM ChST Saturday. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...An intensifying monsoon surge along the southern peripheries of a developing trough axis stretching from TS Saudel westward, is expected to enhance
The Suppressed Truth Behind the Trading Boom For decades, the world of investing was built on a simple, almost sacred promise: put your money into real businesses, hold for the long term, and let compou https://thesportsvote.com/2026/05/02/the-trumpet-they-silenced-how-greed-killed-true-investing/ The piece highlights the transformation of investing from a disciplined, value-driven approach to a c
I've been playing with BIO, the baochip-1x's alternative to PIO, for a bit now so I thought I'd write up some thoughts. Overall, BIO is a lot more flexible than PIO - instead of state machines with very limited instruction memory that are dedicated to controlling GPIOs, you have 4 small RISC-V cores each with 4kB of dedicated local memory for program and stack. The BIO cores can also directly acce
Hello everyone. I've been working on this experimental editor called Huzzah. I've been working almost exclusively with coding agents since January of this year, and over the past few months I began to feel utterly exhausted by them. They're great, but I'm finding it more and more tedious to write full sentences for every change I want. Not only that, but it seems there's a complexity limit for cod
https://www. opb.org/article/2026/08/18/thi nk-out-loud-federal-overhaul-hanford-nuclear-cleanup-board/ Nikolas Peterson, executive director of Hanford Challenge, a watchdog organization based in Seattle, disagrees. He said this restructuring guts transparency and oversight. “What remains is a DOE‑controlled forum with no sovereign tribal representation, no state regulators, no labor voices and no
Awesome Grilled Cheese Sandwich (warning: non-vegan/vegetarian) Preheat the pan, not too hot (on my janky-ass stove it's "medium low"). A drop of water should sizzle but not violently or jumping around. Prepare the bread: 2 slices of whatever you like (better bread = better sandwich) Coat each slice with butter on one side. Place butter side down on cooling rack, cutting board, etc. Light coating
Credit to @ itsmeholland and @esqueer.net@bsky.social Amnesty International's controversial "A Growing Threat – the Anti-Rights Movement in the UK" report has been excluded from the Wayback Machine . Neither Megalodon nor Ghost Archive captured a copy, and the archived version on archive.today is badly broken. I downloaded purported copies of the report from various websites and confirmed they wer
President Trump’s Golden Dome missile-defense project faces pressure in Congress as lawmakers weigh how to finance the program for fiscal 2027 and Pentagon officials dispute outside cost projections [defenseone.com#1][airandspaceforces.com#1][federalnewsnetwork.com#1][spacenews.com#1]. Rep. Jeff Crank, the Colorado Republican who chairs the Golden Dome Caucus, told Defense One that securing suppor
State sought to stop system off coast of Santa Barbara from resuming operations after Trump ordered its reopening A controversial oil pipeline can continue to operate off the California coast after a judge gave it the greenlight this week, despite the opposition of state regulators and environmental groups. The system off the coast of Santa Barbara resumed operations earlier this year for the firs
A new Anti-Corruption Data Collective study identified 152 Polymarket wallets that may have traded using non-public U.S. military information. The wallets collectively made about $8 million, with an extraordinary 97.2% average win rate on military and defense bets. Researchers say some suspicious wagers appeared shortly before U.S. military actions, including strikes involving Iran, and were quick
Employers who've been reeling from near double-digit health cost increases the past three years can expect more of the same in 2027, according to new projections from benefits consultant Aon. Why it matters: Companies and their workers are locked in one of the most sustained periods of health care inflation in decades — and the trend lines are sure to intensify affordability concerns. Driving the
on 8/16/2026 “They...took us to war on lies, spent most of last year trying to cover up for the world’s most famous pedophile while the crook president and his crook family raked in billions...,” Ossoff said. Full speech in comments. #discover #Epstein atlantablackstar.com/2026/08/17/j... Building ballrooms, trips with White House aides, and golf games. These are all things Sen. Jon Ossoff says Do
Exclusive: Rahil Prakash tells the Guardian: ‘I wanted to see if fake polls could penetrate the ecosystem that easily’ A 21-year-old recent college graduate was behind an anonymous website that put out widely shared fake election polling in Wisconsin, Nevada and California, the Guardian can reveal. The website, Median Strategies, abruptly shut down and withdrew its polling earlier this week follow
OK, I guess I wasn't done after all. Much of the opining about developer backlash to LLMs falls into two loose theoretical categories: (1) Labor problem: developers now experience employment threat, loss of job security, layoffs, new levels of worry about the future (2) Identity problem: developers used to feel special because generating code was placed on a cultural pedestal (sign of a special th
"If you have to pay a little bit more at the gas pump, you know, four bucks a gallon, it's worth it because we changed one Ayatollah with another Ayatollah. You know, they don't have a lot to work with. And the messaging is pretty bad on top of that..." www.rawstory.com/trump-jobs-2... The Trump administration got a tongue-lashing on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House" Thursday, following Treasury Se
Josh Lipsky, Vice President of International Economics at the Atlantic Council, says Beijing is betting President Donald Trump wants to make a "big show" of economic pressure on Iran but will stop short of squeezing Chinese banks. Lipsky also says the US is testing investors' patience in a way it hasn't for a long time as debt tops $40 trillion. Lipsky also weighs in on ongoing US-Canada tariff ne
Fediverse folx, I need your help against generative AI for software development. My employer wants to pivot hard into agentic AI and eventually "dark factory". Do you have hard facts and data regarding costs, speed, code quality, vulnerabilities, tech debt and the like, similar to the recent 1password blog post ( https:// 1password.com/blog/why-ai-gene rated-patches-still-require-human-review )? A
Thanks to the hachyderm admins for approving my account. Today, Friday, is a mental health day. I believe I'm partly fried due to LLM use. I was debugging indeterminate tests until 9 pm on Monday night. Yesterday was a 10 hour day. Friday morning I'm feeling it. I've learnt it's better to lose a day of contracting and rest than keep pushing through. So I took a walk around the Yarra and formed som
Y'know... using deltarune music for an insta post of the president and his usual bullshit threats is kinda gay, Kegsbreath. Call me when you find that the egg in the tree you were searching for was really your ass all along :3 (Plus can we just acknowledge that most if not all of the comments I saw under the post are just deltarune/undertale fans (pardon the pun) absolutely dunking on the post wit
Oldie but goodie department. ========================== A little old lady went into the Bank of Canada one day, carrying a bag of money. She insisted that she must speak with the president of the bank to open a savings account because, "It's a lot of money!" After much hemming and hawing, the bank staff finally ushered her into the president's office (the customer is always right!). The bank presi
'... breached restricted airspace surrounding Australia's main fighter pilot training base [home to most of our F-35s] for the second time in a month ... 'Mr Shoebridge argues Australia's ability to counter drone surveillance is lagging behind other comparable countries and putting military operations at risk. 'Last year the federal government made changes to defence regulations to allow defence p
'... from 10 vessels to 23 vessels ... 'Shipments to the UAE increased dramatically from $103.6 million to $900.8 million, while the number of exported vessels rose from four to seven tankers. '[SG] became the second-largest destination with imports worth $146.4 million, up from $45.5 million in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. 'Export volumes to Singapore increased from two vessels
My latest signal on how the anti-AI situation is going (and this isn’t about BlueSky) … There’s talk over there now about how people are drifting to X/Twitter because BlueSky is too # antiAI and all the “useful”/“interesting” # AI talk and engagement is over on X/twitter. There are probably a few feelings to be had about this. It’s useful I think to highlight I’ve seen the same here. It’s also use
'[India's] power system already crossed 530 GW of installed capacity exists to deliver. '... targeting 25 crore [250 mn] smart meters – larger than the installed base of the US/EU. Over 5 crores [50 mn] are already installed and accelerating toward a lakh [100k] a day. '... where smart meters working seamlessly with Head-End Systems, Meter Data Management, GIS, SCADA, Outage and Workforce Manageme
President Trump signed a memorandum on Aug. 20 to expand U.S. commercial space transportation, with the White House setting a goal of at least 1,000 launches and spacecraft reentries a year from U.S. facilities by 2030 [arynews.tv#1][aa.com.tr#1][spacenews.com#1][cna.com.tw#1]. The target compares with 178 launches and reentries last year, a level already about 10 times higher than in 2013 and led
The article is long but comprehensive, please see if for the full discussion. > Agencies tout very high success rates, but some experts compare it to “crime control theatre” > On Sunday, March 22 of this year, a large swath of the population in Quebec was woken up at 4:25 a.m. as cellphones lit up and screamed. An Amber alert had been broadcast. Less than four hours later, the two missing children
'[Steve] Jobs was eventually granted a top-secret security clearance so he could visit classified facilities. 'The truth was that NeXT desperately needed the sales. 'That left primarily the contract with the CIA, which almost no one knew existed. 'The CIA brought in a team from Sun Microsystems, which had already had dealings with the spy agency, to help Jobs ramp up manufacturing. '... loaded on
2026-08-20 RDP # Honeypot IOCs - 564 scans Thread with top 3 features in each category and links to the full dataset # DFIR # InfoSec Top IPs: 155.117.13.211 - 462 45.11.18.33 - 54 103.178.235.50 - 10 Top ASNs: AS16276 - 462 AS30823 - 54 AS396982 - 12 Top Accounts: hello - 534 (empty) - 4 Test - 4 Top ISPs: OVH SAS - 462 aurologic GmbH - 54 Google LLC - 12 Top Clients: Unknown - 564 Top Software:
2026-08-20 RDP # Honeypot IOCs - 1128 scans Thread with top 3 features in each category and links to the full dataset # DFIR # InfoSec Top IPs: 155.117.13.211 - 924 45.11.18.33 - 108 103.178.235.50 - 20 Top ASNs: AS16276 - 924 AS30823 - 108 AS396982 - 24 Top Accounts: hello - 1068 (empty) - 8 Test - 8 Top ISPs: OVH SAS - 924 aurologic GmbH - 108 Google LLC - 24 Top Clients: Unknown - 1128 Top Soft
If anyone is interested in starting a band, I can confidently bring the following to the table: I have a really cool band name in mind (this is the most important point in this list) I'm pretty pissed off about right-wing politics and fascist douchebags doing fascist stuff (really close second place for importance) Love songs are cool also This post started out as a joke, but by the end of the bul
Expand for full embedded album. Sorry no German version this time, just had to get this off my chest. Wall of text incoming.  I got really worried about her when I saw her completely miserable like this. Something was completely unusual: she came to me obviously looking for help. Usually when she is just not feeling
President Trump urged communities to welcome AI plants and data centers during a White House event with cryptocurrency and technology leaders this week, saying local officials should want the projects for their jobs, wages and tax revenue [pbs.org#1][commondreams.org#1]. Critics say large data-center projects can raise electricity bills, strain water supplies, create air and noise pollution, and c
Yes. It is going to get worse. Had marble paved for his helipad, didn't like it, had it pulled up to start over. And how many times now trying to correct his errors with the reflecting pool? And he wants more while spending taxpayer dollars. Jail him! www.rawstory.com/trump-267774... While President Donald Trump gilds horse statues and swaps out brick paver steps at the White House, dumpsters over
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Man, 32, charged with six counts of rape, stalking and assault after woman was allegedly attacked in Brookfield Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Queensland police say a man accused of raping and assaulting a young woman, who was taking a morning bushwalk, has been arrested after he returned to the crime scene in his
Large U.S. investments in artificial intelligence, a wider federal budget deficit and defense spending needs have increased demand for capital in debt markets and contributed to higher interest rates, Le Monde reported [lemonde.fr#1]. La Vanguardia reported that U.S. debt has reached a record $40 trillion as AI expansion adds pressure in the debt market and makes sovereign financing more expensive
arXiv:2608.19266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications ranks the risks that a community of security practitioners judges most important. We ask a narrower question: checked against the record of real incidents, does that expert ranking agree with the data? We assembled a large-scale corpus of LLM-security incidents (7,714 snapshotted and 6,639 labeled against the 20-
arXiv:2608.19387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A YARA rule is easy to distribute, but the malware sample used to demonstrate a positive match is not. This complicates storage, continuous integration, disaster-recovery exercises, and reproducible scanner validation. Constructing a replacement fixture requires more than embedding literals: YARA conditions can combine alternatives, counts, offsets,
arXiv:2608.19462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data are the cornerstone of robust AI models. However, in the medical domain, access to reliable data is constrained by regulatory requirements and patient privacy, and clinical oral images are particularly difficult to obtain. Federated learning (FL) mitigates these constraints by enabling collaborative model development across decentralized dataset
arXiv:2608.19534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient inversion attacks recover private training text from gradients shared in federated learning, posing a serious threat to collaborative model training. Through our analysis of transformer gradient structure, we identify three channels through which private token information leaks: the attention output projection gradient exposes a low-rank sub
arXiv:2608.19750v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks pose a critical challenge to modern systems, as their stealthy, multi-stage nature renders conventional detection methods ineffective. While provenance graphs provide rich behavioral context for attack investigation, attack-relevant evidence is often sparse and embedded in large volumes of routine system activ
arXiv:2608.19924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Confidential computing protects applications inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), but it leaves storage vulnerable. Even with disk encryption, a malicious cloud provider can roll back, replay, fork, or tamper with disk state, breaking the integrity and freshness guarantees required by stateful applications. Existing solutions either assume t
arXiv:2608.19937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Verifiable credentials let holders present digitally signed claims without requiring the issuer to participate in every presentation. Revocation complicates this privacy model because a verifier must determine whether a credential remains valid. Existing status checks may expose recurring identifiers, registry positions, or request metadata. Such inf
arXiv:2608.19938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing approaches to anomalous behaviour log detection, such as Wazuh rely primarily on predefined detection rules, while statistical anomaly detection approaches such as OpenSearch identify deviations from previously observed behavioural patterns. Recent research has investigated LLMs for log anomaly detection because of their ability to interpret
arXiv:2608.19959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in speech synthesis have made deepfake audio highly realistic. Earlier studies reported 70-80% human detection accuracy, but relied primarily on older synthesizers. We compare human detection for three selected voice synthesis tools released in 2019, 2022, and 2024 with 82 IT professionals, and benchmark humans against six pretrained detecto
arXiv:2608.19982v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where adversarial instructions embedded in user inputs or external content manipulate model behavior and bypass safeguards. Existing defenses are predominantly static, relying on fixed alignment objectives or attack-specific filtering mechanisms that require redesign as new attack strategies emerge.
arXiv:2608.20055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hidden chain-of-thought (CoT) traces, especially those from frontier proprietary large reasoning models (LRMs), are valuable model assets. Yet whether these hidden CoTs can be directly extracted from black-box models remains largely unexplored. In this work, we systematically study whether hidden CoTs can be extracted near-verbatim from black-box LRM
arXiv:2608.20108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The field of usable security and privacy research is a young and expanding field, which is still developing standards for its research, e.g. regarding replications. We used a mixed-method approach, in order to get a better understanding of the current state of replications in the field of usable security and privacy: (1) we examine the Call for Paper
arXiv:2608.20118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The detection of rare disease-associated cell subsets from high-dimensional single-cell measurements is critical for understanding diseases such as leukaemia and viral infections. CellCnn, a convolutional neural network (CNN) designed for this task, has demonstrated the ability to identify phenotype-associated cell populations at frequencies as low a
arXiv:2608.20145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As mobile network traffic continues to grow, content caching on edge servers is critical for reducing latency. However, challenges such as malicious edge servers that may delete or manipulate cached content, along with the limited capacity of these servers, need to be addressed. To overcome the capacity limitations, helper mobile nodes can contribute
arXiv:2608.20160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks can infer users' browsing activities from encrypted Tor traffic by exploiting side-channel features. Although many WF defenses have been proposed, we find that most existing defenses create learnable web trace mapping features. We further show that robustness against adversarial training does not necessarily imply
arXiv:2608.18180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reproducible and verifiable builds increase trust in distributed software artifacts by enabling independent parties to detect artifacts produced by compromised build or release pipelines. However, artifact verification requires more than deterministic builds: a verifier must also recover the source state, build environment, dependencies, and build
arXiv:2608.19857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For AI agents to be useful beyond simple chat, they must hold sensitive user context such as calendars, credentials, health records, and financial data. We study whether the mere presence of such secrets in a model's context window introduces hidden correlations into the model's benign outputs, allowing reconstruction even when the model correctly
arXiv:2608.20240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: X-band SAR satellites (8-12 GHz) play a critical role in disaster response, environmental monitoring, and military intelligence. Yet, they lack robust physical-layer authentication (PLA), a security layer orthogonal to cryptographic solutions. Existing PLA systems, typically based on radio-frequency fingerprinting, are often limited to sub-6 GHz fr
arXiv:2510.25960v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we present a framework that uses acoustic side-channel analysis (ASCA) to monitor and verify whether a robot correctly executes its intended commands. We develop and evaluate a machine-learning-based workflow verification system that uses acoustic emissions generated by robotic movements. The system can determine whether real-time
arXiv:2512.20872v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Function call graphs (FCGs) have emerged as a powerful abstraction for malware detection, capturing the behavioral structure of applications beyond surface-level signatures. Their utility in traditional program analysis has been well established, enabling effective classification and analysis of malicious software. In the mobile domain, especiall
arXiv:2602.13148v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Remote attestation allows a TEE to attest its own state to a remote party, and is used in the Confidential Computing ecosystem to provide assurance that data and code are available only to authorized hardware and software. This functionality can then be incorporated into higher-level platforms, allowing workloads to attest themselves to a remote
arXiv:2605.05383v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Log-based detection rules remain central to modern security operations, encoding domain expertise that analysts iteratively refine to balance detection coverage against alert volume. Yet while prior work has examined the evolution of network intrusion detection signatures, the longitudinal behavior of log-based detection rules has received little
arXiv:2605.09054v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In applications such as event monitoring, log analysis, and video querying, $w$-event privacy protects individual data within a sliding time window while supporting accurate stream statistics. Existing studies on infinite data streams mainly assume homogeneous privacy requirements for all users, which cannot capture user-specific privacy pr
arXiv:2606.19551v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Server-aided Bell-state networks with sequential local encoding are an established approach to mediated key distribution. Against this background, we study a Loop-Back architecture in which two source-free, detector-free users transform the same traveling qubit. Alice privately samples $r\in\mathbb{Z}*2^2$, prepares $|\beta_r\rangle$ over t
arXiv:2608.19217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the approximation of CAT bond prices under a compound Poisson loss model with lognormal severities using Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks (KANs). Building on a baseline-plus-residual learning pipeline, we train a KAN on the deviation from a closed-form lognormal baseline price and extract an interpretable symbolic pricing formula. The extracted f
arXiv:2608.19223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We apply the Henstock--Kurzweil (HK) gauge integral to the Black--Scholes model of option pricing and obtain the European call price directly from a Gaussian cylindrical kernel, without stochastic calculus. Under the risk- neutral measure, the log-price is a Brownian motion with drift nu = r - sigma^2/2. Its transition density is the Gaussian kernel
arXiv:2608.19227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Market microstructure simulation aims to model how liquidity, prices, and order flow evolve in electronic financial markets. Since market data reveal only one realized trajectory, many important questions are inherently counterfactual and require realistic trajectory-level simulation. Existing financial generative models, however, often model order e
arXiv:2608.19394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Deep-MKV-TS, a path-dependent McKean-Vlasov framework for financial scenario generation. The stochastic dynamics are chosen by matching selected path and volatility features of generated scenarios to those observed in the data. Starting from an interpretable reference model, Deep-MKV-TS preserves the reference drift and adjusts its volat
arXiv:2608.20304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Costly LLM features matter only if calibration lets them affect the forecast. We document a failure of this link in a next-day risk study of two broad-market funds. Full-history scoring preceded the 2022 calibration. Calibration then set all four LLM weights to zero. The 856 later scores therefore could not affect the evaluation. We call this calibra
arXiv:2608.20179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study continuous-time dynamic portfolio optimization under a Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) constraint on the investor's terminal loss. For a general class of convex trading objectives, we exploit the auxiliary-threshold representation of CVaR to establish the existence of an optimal strategy and strong duality without requiring market complet
arXiv:2411.11589v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Privacy regulations aim to safeguard consumers, but can have unintended consequences on how users interact with websites. This article estimates the causal effect of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on online usage behavior and decomposes it into usage frequency (unique visitors) and usage intensity (visits per unique visitor).
arXiv:2509.14645v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This study presents evidence challenging the practice of inferring risk preferences, probability perceptions, and beliefs from parimutuel betting markets, where wagers cannot be made contingent on final odds. Using interim odds from horse racing, we show that expected returns depend not only on final odds but also on the path through which they a
arXiv:2605.23955v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying machine learning in regulated financial environments -- credit risk, fraud detection, and anti-money laundering -- exposes critical vulnerabilities in algorithmic reproducibility. While early financial ML addressed statistical challenges such as backtest overfitting, deep neural networks and Generative AI have introduced mechanica
Value of banknotes in circulation rises from €1bn in 2016 to €1.6bn in 2026 as people advised to keep stash of cash The number of banknotes in circulation in the EU is increasing despite widespread smartphone payments, new data shows, with wildfires ripping through parts of Europe fuelling demand for an emergency stash of cash. While cash plays second fiddle to contactless payments in many cities
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... Illinois... Wildcat Creek near Lafayette. Wabash River at Lafayette...Covington...Hutsonville...and Riverton. ...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Illinois...Indiana... Wabash River at Montezuma...Terre Haute...and Vincennes. .On the Wabash River...moderate flooding will continue at Montezuma and Terre Ha
Jenny Ware, member of inquiry that recommended wagering advertising ban, says ‘public health crisis’ demands stronger response from major parties Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The former Liberal MP Jenny Ware has condemned her one-time Coalition colleagues for backing Labor’s gambling legislation, claiming “vulne
Want to hear a fun Podcast about movies you love? Come for the funny voices, stay for insight you never knew you needed into THE BLUES BROTHERS, ALIENS, GET OUT, JAWS, THE MUPPET MOVIE (w/guest star Miss Piggy) & more......... www.tinyurl.com/10Pgs #movies #LetterBoxdFriday #MovieSky When a.i. is useful:1. "Analyze this thing to help me find [blank]." a.i.: "In my analysis, I've found…."2. "What's
From a new high-speed line to better intercity links, the PM has a chance to tackle problems he criticised as Manchester mayor For passenger rail travel, the north of England was the future, once. But since that first train from Darlington to Stockton in 1825, many have felt short-changed. As one angry passenger put it, 200 years later: “What is it about the rail industry which makes them think th
Imagine sacrificing a career to raise children and then... "If the couple were married for at least 10 years, she is currently unmarried and the divorce has been final for at least two years, she may qualify for a divorced-spouse benefit..." 😱🤑😱 finance.yahoo.com/small-busine... For some divorced couples, the financial split doesn’t really show up until retirement. One person gets a comfortable
'... may not see their first full retirement check for up to nine months, or longer ... 'The retirement crush mirrors trends across the federal government, where, data shows, there are unprecedented numbers of people leaving ... '... the CIA has surged personnel to the Retirement Branch, including people with experience with that work. 'Some former officials describe the agency’s downsizing as the
I am seriously excited about all the new generation of triple A games coming out of Chinese studios in the near future. There is the sequel to Black Myth Wukong, Black Myth Zhongkui, where the protagonist is a ghost/monster (妖怪) hunter from Chinese myths. There is Phantom Blade Zero, which tries to bring the diverse world of Chinese martial arts into an overpowered main character. There is Blood M
As the AI buildout relies more heavily on credit and equity financing, access to capital is emerging as an another more acute pain point for the AI trade. Hyperscalers alongside specialized AI ventures are flooding credit markets with record amounts of new debt to pay for power-hungry data centers, chips, and energy grids. At the same time, governments, led by the US, facing skyrocketing budget de
Forwarded from Aman Verma ( https://www. linkedin.com/in/ACoAACJQK0kB38 inFG58OLlT1EW6zowAzYZcPeE ): Hi Chris, Greetings of the day! One of the Fortune 500 Clients is recruiting for “Full Stack Tech Lead (AI-enabled application)”. After reviewing your profile, I think your skills and experience could be great fit for this opportunity. Below are some key highlighted of the position. I will be happy
The decision by Japanese retailer Aeon to sell its MaxValu minimart chain in Thailand is the latest example of the tight grip domestic conglomerates hold over Thai consumers, retail experts say. Yet the move also hints at the shifting economic fortunes of neighbouring Vietnam, where major Asian retailers including Aeon are competing aggressively for market share among a rapidly expanding middle cl
Protecting your breakglass accounts: https:// marshsecurity.org/securing-you r-breakglass-accounts/ Breakglass accounts are one of those controls that everyone agrees are important, yet they're frequently overlooked when it comes to ongoing security hygiene. In my latest blog. I discuss practical approaches to securing Microsoft emergency access accounts. The goal of a break glass account is to he
A Spanish state company has taken equity in an AI gigafactory venture with ACS, Telefonica and Santander. Brussels cleared it in three days as a routine colocation deal. 719m euros of public money behind it. https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/spain-ai-gigafactory-state-equity.html Notified on 17 August, cleared on the 20th under the simplified procedure. The Sociedad Gigafactoria Espanol
So, it is not only the UK that keep peddling charlatan's information about ADHD, the french TV do it regularly. I have adult diagnosed # adhd If I had been medicated as a kid, I probably would fare far better as an adult. And I got lucky, being in a relatively well off family, that supported me, doing well at school and having a lot of help. And all the rest of the privileges I have. But that is n
Unprecedented downpours cause deaths, evacuations and transport chaos. Plus, Hurricane Lala batters Hawaii South Korea and Japan were hit by extreme rainfall late last week and into this week. On 13 August in the city of Chiba near Tokyo there was a record-breaking 115mm of rainfall in just one hour, while the nearby city of Sakura broke its own record with 97mm in one hour. A level five emergency
Tactics, governance, cruelty, expansionism, inhumanity... Every important aspect of Russia traces back to the Mongol Horde. Putin knows this. His vision is Eurasian, not European. If not stopped, Europe will be converted into a Russian pigsty. www.asianews.it/en/north-asi... According to scholar Tjundeshev, Batu Khan was the true founder of Russian statehood. China, India and Turkey also descend f
Record-breaking heat waves and drought stressed Europe’s power system this summer. Low, warm waterways limited cooling for nuclear, gas and coal plants, while stagnant weather weakened wind generation [grist.org#1][oilprice.com#1][techxplore.com#2]. NASA said Western Europe’s first major heat dome of 2026 arrived in May. By mid-August, the region was in its fifth heat wave of the season, with temp
Data: RollCall , Financial Modeling Prep; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals Oil price changes in response to President Trump's social media posts about the Iran war have been shrinking over time, an Axios analysis shows. Why it matters: Oil price changes ripple throughout the U.S. and global economies, and the conflict has brought unprecedented supply disruption. Traders weigh whether his comments s
opened a drawer I don't look in often and remembered that I have little glass jars of the most obscenely dangerous art supplies ever created just sitting there, and that I willingly packed these to move across the Atlantic knowing that if they broke, everything I owned would become pink toxic sludge. (... I wrapped them in socks.) (backstory: "Noodler's Inks" is a small-batch art supply run by a m
"The New Constellations # Mycelium # Fund is built on an overlooked and actively avoided approach to funding where those involved in the work make the decisions; decisions that are based on and honour their lived, learned and practised experience. By taking inspiration and guidance from # ecologicalsystems and how they store, share and value resources, we aim to guide this injection of financial r
With plentiful jobs and community support, one Mexico City neighbourhood has become a haven for those who have lived much of their lives in the US With its wide avenues lined with tall palm trees, its quaint cafes and old-school cantinas, as well as the mix of English and Spanish spoken on the street, the Tabacalera neighborhood in downtown Mexico City has a certain US feel – so much so that it is
Skywatchers on Earth’s night side will see a deep partial lunar eclipse overnight Aug. 27-28, when about 93% of the Moon’s diameter and roughly 96% of its visible surface will enter Earth’s umbra, the darkest part of the planet’s shadow [arynews.tv#1][bolnews.com#1][southwalesargus.co.uk#1]. The penumbral phase begins at 01:23 UTC on Aug. 28, the partial umbral phase begins at 02:33 UTC, maximum e
This article about an estate in Britain remaining green amid the drought has some striking images. It came as a surprise to me to learn that the UK lost 90% its wetlands over the last century. But the situation is similar in other places—lost to farmland that crept up closer and closer to rivers, including near us. I came across Rewilding Europe while doing work for a Carpathian ecotourism operato
www.instagram.com/reel/Db-j1Sz... My favourite speech! Still standing. The glossy part is over. Time to get real. The truth. The facts. All the ugly parts out in the open. Epstein-Trump files. MAGA!!! GOP! Musk. Trump family. The junk cabinet by Temu. The churches! The senate. The Supreme Court 136K likes, 775 comments - lolita on August 13, 2026: "A cable news anchor famous for offending nobody i
RE: https:// infosec.exchange/@sounddrill/1 17014454669068235 The community has spoken! Voting for the Open Hardware DevRoom at # indiaFOSS from # AbsurdIndustries is over, and we have our lineup. Thanks to everyone who submitted and voted :blobheartcat: How we ran the vote, what happened behind the scenes, and the results: https:// balubabu.dev/articles/What-the -Community-Chose-OpenHardware-Devr
Business owner Assim Alkhawaja was arrested by ICE as he dropped off Lyft passengers at a military base. Now he’s stuck in a terrifying fight to stay in the US Deep within the bowels of San Diego’s federal courthouse, Assim Alkhawaja sat on the floor outside a nondescript office, waiting to be called for his ICE-mandated immigration appointment. He stared straight ahead, his posture tense, his fac
...TROPICAL STORM SAUDEL IS PASSING WELL NORTHEAST OF TINIAN AND SAIPAN AS IT CONTINUES MOVING NORTHWEST TOWARDS THE FAR NORTHERN MARIANAS... .NEW INFORMATION... While little change has been observed in the storm motion the last few cycles, the center has wobbled considerably to the west, which in addition an expanded wind field, slightly increasing chances for TS winds to linger over Tinian and S
A study published in Biology of Sex Differences found that children who lived without a father in the home during their first year of life may show physical signs of puberty earlier than peers, PsyPost reported [psypost.org#1][reddit.com#1][google.com#1]. The finding tied earlier development to a specific early-life window, rather than father absence at any point in childhood [psypost.org#1][reddi
# WritersCoffeeClub Aug 21 - What’s a mistake you see a lot of writers make when writing about people with your lived experience? They write about the 50s as it was a paradise. It was genuinely good if you were a white male and enjoyed work: you got to pull yourself out of the penury of the depression into a comfortable life. A coal-miner could afford a two-story, three-bedroom house. For kids gro
* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, west winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and seas 8 to 12 feet expected. For the Tropical Storm Watch, west winds 25 to 35 kt with gusts to 40 kt possible. * WHERE...Tinian and Saipan Coastal Waters. * WHEN...For the Small Craft Advisory, from 5 PM this afternoon to 5 PM ChST Sunday. For the Tropical Storm Watch through Saturday night. * IMPACTS...Very s
# LinusTorvalds managed to fix a really nasty # Linux # kernel Intel GPU driver bug he was plagued with[1] using # AI , which "enormously helped by doing much of the grunt-work" – but he needed persistence and multiple debug patches as well, as the AI multiple times had told him to give up and just report the bug. To quote https:// git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/818b ebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520a34
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@joynewacc/117 124277747720311 If you want to make a real difference in the world, here you have an unique opportunity: you personally can help save someone from genocide, same as Oscar Schindler did. Imagine it: How awesome would it be—when this genocide of the Palestinian people is over or when you lie on your death bed—if you could say that *you* saved someone's liv
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-73570 Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) OS Command Injection Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04: Pri
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In a significant victory for President Trump’s efforts to unleash American energy, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California affirmed the federal government’s authority to protect national energy security under the Defense Production Act. The ruling ensures that domestically produced oil can reliably reach California refineries and safeguards the continued operation of critica
Jason Murphy believes he knows who killed McKee in Derry, but culture of silence and mistrust of police is denying her family justice When Lyra McKee was shot and killed on the night of 18 April 2019, approximately 150 people were in her vicinity. The 29-year-old journalist had watched in a crowd as rioting broke out in Derry, Northern Ireland. Police footage captured the grainy outline of a man f
Ping is our AI chatbot on Pentest-Tools.com. Get any AI assistant in front of the public and it's going to get tested, sometimes in genuinely strange ways. A shortlist of what people tried: Demanded 10 minutes of pure High Valyrian, no English. Ping stayed in character. Sent a bot to run a formal "handshake," trying to recruit Ping into a multi-agent network. Cold call, except the caller was a rob
I really need to learn # ipv6 better. At the house, I have a Verizon business line (not their residential service). I've got dedicated ipv4 addresses. I also have an ipv6 range that gets mapped by them. The same line runs my ISP stuff and I'm trying to do a bit of segmentation. At first I thought I'd get a hurricane electric range, because it would be stable. I could count on it. Silly me, I went
83% of American doctors who treated children in Gaza emergency rooms reported seeing pre-teen patients shot in the head or chest. The figure comes from a survey by trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, featured in the new documentary "American Doctor." An open letter signed by 99 US medical volunteers stated they treated such cases "on a regular or even a daily basis." They called it impossible to dis
Annette Young is pleased to welcome Dr. Aaron Y. Zelin, Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He sees Israel’s recent actions in the West Bank and Syria as part of a broader shift in its strategic posture. Since October 7, the Israeli government has become markedly less concerned with international opinion, prioritizing what it defines as its security interests even at th
@ viticci I think you know that I have great respect for you, admire your work, and have read hundreds of thousands of your words over the past years. Many, many folks have shared disappointment about your decision to rejoin X, in what many of us see as an expression of 🤷🏻♂️ regarding Elon, who has a very public record of racist, anti-trans, antisemitic, and other abhorrent views. I’m surprised
The musician started dating Australian model Helena Vestergaard in 2013, and they split after being together for approximately two years. Before that, Kiedis, now 63, had a relationship with Heather Christie, who was 22 years his junior. When the pair welcomed their son, Everly Bear, in 2007, Kiedis was 44 and his partner was 21. In the latest episode of My Therapist Ghosted Me, Williams and her c
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One thing I've never trusted about America is its military industrial complex. I don't like military people in general. My dementia-crazy father who died from the disease was himself a social degenerate when he was healthy and he also was an abusive father and a US Navy veteran. Look at this load of crap the Washington Post is trying to serve up the American public. I would like to briefly make tw
So last month when I went to see The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm. It was an 8AM Saturday showing. I figured if I got into the theater right at 8, I wouldn’t have a problem finding my assigned seat and getting settled in during the trailers. I figured even at 8AM they would have trailers for the rest of the summer’s movie lineup, so there’s no rush. I try to avoid trailers for movies I’m interested in bec
Good morning from Minneapolis. They say we have four-thousand weeks, so it's bittersweet to point out that we've clawed our way to another Friday. But we have, and here we are. Quite early Friday morning it's 69℉; partly cloudy; light westerly wind; visibility 9 miles at the airport. 'We live in an age of impossible demands, infinite choice, relentless distraction and spiralling global crises. Yet
Find out how to block this harmful bill. When grant proposals are denied by NIH, reasons WHY are shown by peer review numerical evals. Hiding those numbers would kneecap deciding whether/how to modify/resubmit. Hurts even non-controversial health research. www.linkedin.com/pulse/nih-pr... On August 14, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) quietly released a Request for Information (RFI) (NOT-OD
In case you were wondering how the linux kernel is doing: https:// lore.kernel.org/lkml/202608182 12923.2725202-1-kuba@kernel.org/ > This is not telling the full story either because 1/3 to 1/2 of the net-next patches also *seem* like AI-driven low priority fixes, cleanups and clarifications. > We are completely overwhelmed, of course. The glimmer of hope is that we secured sufficient LLM budget a
Midway through a three-month negotiating period with Beijing, new data show the trade balances of 24 European Union member states are still moving in what Brussels considers to be the wrong direction. China extended its trade surplus over all but three EU members in July compared to a year earlier, calculations based on new Chinese customs figures showed. In some instances, the monthly swing was d
Assuming he was elected fair and square. He wasn't. "Nearly two-thirds of Americans, 64 percent, say the Trump administration is focusing too much on the D.C. building projects. Meanwhile, 78 percent, roughly four in five, say the administration is focusing too little on the issue that fueled Trump's re-election in the first place." Raw Story: Trump's 'wannabe I.M. Pei' image enrages voters and de
So over 70 plus million people voted for Trump to redo Washington DC. Did they waste their vote on refurbishing the WH? Out of all thing things in America that need immediate attention, he decides to renovate DC make this make sense... President Donald Trump and his cronies in the White House have incredibly sunk to an unbelievably new low, critics accuse, after Trump didn’t like a question...
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud praised Türkiye for helping Somalia build lasting capacity rather than relying on short-term aid. “Türkiye’s support for Somalia was not about giving us fish, but teaching us how to fish,” he said. Mohamud credited Türkiye with supporting schools, hospitals, education, security and energy development, while also strengthening Somalia’s fight against al-Shabaa
⚡🏠 This is wild. AI data centers have become such a problem for regular people's electricity bills that they're now a top issue in the midterm elections, months before anyone even votes. Seven in ten Americans oppose having one built near them. In Virginia, data centers already eat up 26% of the state's entire electricity supply, projected to hit 12% nationally by 2028. Here's the part that shoul
I have this feeling that, Cisco in spite of having bought sourcefire, doesn't want to deal with Snort 2.9 or Snort3 open-source customers at all . Visit snort.org and go to the documents section. There are 3 install guides. One is for Snort 3.0 on FreeBSD11, and two are for Snort 3.1.0.0 - CentOS Stream, and Oracle Linux 8. The current release is Snort 3.12.2.0 The current release of Oracle Linux
Some spoilers until episode 10 It's not that I don't like this, it's just that by episode 10, this drama has become very generic, which is such a pity because the first five episodes are really great. But then the drama just started to ignore what it had built up from before, like it forgot that it's also a ghost-sleuthing drama. I get that the rom-com is important, but then to have the ghostly an
Recommendations 💡 → Immediate Action: Upgrade Cisco Secure Workload to release 3.10.9.1 (for 3.10 and earlier) or 4.0.4.16 (for 4.0), including Cluster, Agent, and Connector software. → Enforce multi-factor authentication across all Entra ID accounts to reduce the impact of any follow-on compromise. → Review Conditional Access policies to restrict access to sensitive applications and administrati
Attorney general considering appeal after justice Desmond Fagan knocks back terror order request for Mohommed Farhat who wrote ‘Fuk Israel’ on cars Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The New South Wales government could appeal a supreme court judge’s controversial decision to refuse its request for a terror order over a Sydney man convicted of writing “Fuk Israel” on cars
#NewYork fights back against #ICE https://prospect.org/2026/08/21/ice-trump-states-divide-america-bootlickers-new-york-florida/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Two%20Americas&utm_campaign=Daily%20Prospect%208-21-2026 MANHATTAN – Standing with Attorney General Letitia James, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and a phalanx of local elected and community leaders last week, Ne
Florida authorities reported several vehicle-related pursuits and searches Thursday and Friday. In Hillsborough County, the Florida Highway Patrol accused a driver of speeding on Interstate 75 and ramming a cruiser that was trying to stop him [wtsp.com#1]. WFLA reported that authorities later found a man in a Gibsonton backyard after a high-speed chase in which they said he crashed into another ca
🚨🇻🇪 Venezuela's SAIME citizen database allegedly leaked, 35M records claimed ⠀ A forum user claims to have released an updated dataset allegedly obtained from Venezuela's Administrative Service for Identification, Migration and Immigration (SAIME), containing approximately 35 million citizen and resident records. ⠀ The advertised data includes: ⠀ • National identity document numbers • First and
It is a fork of https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly , but with an important update. Now the fly can pick up the scent of the codebase with its neurons and fly straight to the source code of your B2B AI SaaS startup. It has learned to scan its surroundings for agent markers: AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules, .kiro/steering, and forty others. Anything on the screen that points to thes
🚨🇪🇬 Six Egyptian public universities allegedly breached, 7.76M records and live credentials leaked on a cybercrime forum ⠀ A forum user claims to have released data from six Egyptian public universities, totaling 7,761,608 records across 87 tables. The listing says the data was previously posted publicly with a 48-hour window to begin negotiations, but no contact was made. ⠀ The affected univer
Fuzzgramming + Brutevibing 🤖 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This thing in building is so complex it’s nearly impossible for me to keep all the moving parts in my brain. And generally I don’t like overly complex things. But I don’t really see another way to do this and keep it flexible. Over time I’ve simplified it a ton, but I don’t think it is simple enough. Right now I just need to use it and I’ll figure
Here's how the onboarding actually works in LimaCharlie Cloud Security. Create a free organization, connect your providers (identity, cloud, AI, and more), and plug in credentials, we walk you through exactly where to find them. From there it's read only scanning: no changes to your infrastructure, just findings surfacing as events. Cloud Security is built directly inside LimaCharlie, so every fin
I appreciate that @ viticci said *something*. But I don't find it comforting. It doesn't look like he or @ johnvoorhees are going to change their minds. So I'll share this, acknowledging upfront that I think they're both good humans — but that I think they're making a mistake. "Returning to X does not represent a change in our values, what MacStories or we stand for, or an endorsement of Elon Musk
The U.S. Marine Corps has accepted the first prototype of Birdon America’s Australian-designed Ancillary Surface Craft, a roughly 150-foot roll-on/roll-off landing vessel built to move personnel, equipment and fuel across remote Pacific shorelines without relying on ports [defence-industry.eu#1]. The craft, identified by TWZ as ASC-1 after Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory photos from Bayou La B
As Europe grapples with its own China shock , the U.S. has largely given up on trying to persuade Beijing to change the export-heavy economic model that's helping fuel it. It's a sharp break from years of U.S. economic diplomacy — including most recently during the Biden administration . What they're saying: "We did that for 25 years with our best people, and everything got worse," U.S. Trade Repr
Reading the Star Trek fan forums, I see that most fans hate, hate hate this week’s episode. I liked it, but did not love it. A pleasant 53 minutes. Nice to see Rachel Harris — I’m a fan of that actress. The season continues to advance Spock and La’an’s story arcs. On the downside of the episode: It was slight. The show “Angel” did the same gag in 2004 and it’s a funny-once joke; it does not play t
# gai # ai # security I enjoy James Mickens. He is a great speaker, a funny guy, and someone who picks his words very deliberately. I appreciate here that he says that these "models are sufficiently complicated and sophisticated" and does not use anthropomorphizing words like 'smart' or 'thinking' or 'intelligent' And his mention of "winner-take-all-stakes", which is also one of my personal hobby
I've been (slowly) working through some new skills in Datacamp. I fell off the wagon for reasons and now, after about three months, I'm back. # Datacamp is different, now. It has # GenAI shoved in pretty hard, and of course you actually pay extra to do the courses using their # AI system. I opted out, after their little "first one is free" AI-coached lesson. It hasn't been that long, and I remembe
a meu ver, a deidade é um poder vasto e a egrégora é a estrutura que é construída em torno dela que possibilita o acesso a esse poder por meio dos seus símbolos etc. ozigurate.com.br/2025/09/29/s... Quando nos envolvemos com magia, há uma ampla variedade de seres dos mundos invisíveis que podemos contatar. Alguns desses contatos podem ser benéficos, nem que seja só para ampliar o nosso conheci…
This one boggles my mind. I use DNSMadeEasy as my public DNS for my high-traffic domains. I give them my records, they publish them. No biggie. My monthly quota is 10M queries. On a web site that has 30 MAU, the DNS requests should be WAY under that number. But I'm seeing these super regular spikes and they're high. I'm 21 days into the month and I'm 9.6M queries so far. If I exceed 10M queries, I
# SQL knowers: There's something I don't understand, and if you can explain I would appreciate it. I got something right, but I don't know why it worked. I just did an exercise (in Datacamp) where I needed to inner join some columns selected from two separate tables. Table: cities (columns selected: name, country_code) Table: countries (columns selected: name, region, code) (As shown below, the co
Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday issued a temporary administrative stay that allows construction to continue on President Trump's White House ballroom project while the Supreme Court considers the administration's emergency request in litigation over the work [pbs.org#2][boston.com#1][cbsnews.com#1][scmp.com#1][dawn.com#1]. The order came hours before lower-court rulings would have halted abov
Screenshot of "Yale School of Public Health" website with a headline of "Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects" by Matt Kristoffersen dated August 13, 2026. To the right is an image showing a smiling Black lady talking with a white lady doctor holding a tablet in her left hand and wearing a white coat and a stethoscope around her neck so
The Trump administration revised a $500 million U.S. Department of Energy grant for Cleveland-Cliffs’ Middletown Works in Ohio, shifting Biden-era clean-steel funding toward upgrades for a coal-fueled blast furnace instead of the previously selected low-carbon steelmaking project [canarymedia.com#1][cleantechnica.com#1][cleveland.com#1]. Cleveland-Cliffs said it will put $500 million of its own mo
The Justice Department and TikTok , along with parent company ByteDance , have reached a $400 million settlement to resolve allegations of violating children's online privacy laws, per an announcement first shared with Axios. Why it matters: The Biden administration's DOJ first filed the suit in 2024. TikTok will clear the allegations it violated the Children's Online Privacy Act by paying a total
Cedric Gray is the consensus LB14. He’s inside our top four. Ten undervalued defenders to target before the rest of the #FFIDP market catches up: www.4for4.com/2026/preseas... A lot has happened across the league since I published my positional tier articles a few weeks back, and this is a great place to capture some of the crucial changes as we enter the heart of fantasy draft season. Those tier
AQAMEG The Shelby County Health Department has issued a Code Orange Ozone Health Advisory effective for Shelby County Tennessee, Crittenden County Arkansas, and DeSoto County Mississippi, including the city of Memphis that will remain in effect until sunset. This ozone health advisory is due to monitored ozone values that are unhealthy for sensitive groups. These values have exceeded the Environme
White House Correspondent Jeff Mason explains President Trump's vow to isolate Iran's economy as he plans to travel to South Carolina to campaign for the midterms. Bloomberg Intelligence Chief US Interest Rate Strategist Ira Jersey and Alpine Saxon Woods Chief Market Strategist Sarah Hunt break down the week of whiplash for US Treasury yields. Then, ITG's Chris Mecray discusses how the digital inf
Students are returning to campus as the Trump administration continues to reshape American academia. The big picture: The administration has leveraged federal education funding and threatened litigation against universities deemed misaligned with policy priorities — moves critics say subject academia to political whims. State of play: The all-of-government squeeze on higher education continues a 1
The Pentagon’s annual sexual assault review, released Friday, said an estimated 20,492 active-duty service members experienced unwanted sexual contact in fiscal 2025, including 9,860 women and 10,632 men, down from about 29,000 in fiscal 2023 and roughly 35,900 in fiscal 2021 [airforcetimes.com#1][federalnewsnetwork.com#1][kstp.com#1]. The estimate came from the 2025 Workplace Experiences Survey,
Frustrated by # knots . I'm trying to figure out a hitch knot, or something like that to secure a strand of braided fishing line (20# test) to a 3 inch length of bamboo. I've found that braided fishing line works really well as a wire tool with pottery, and using simple overhand knots to secure the line to the bamboo works... for a while. The last failure I had using this wasn't actually the knot,
Job hunting in 2026 can mean chatting with a robot, getting rejected by AI, encountering ghost jobs and competing with a flood of applicants. Why it matters: This isn't just candidates venting on LinkedIn or TikTok . The hiring process is increasingly taking longer and application apathy could be eroding trust in America's job market . What they're saying: "I think burnout is absolutely happening,
Had more time digging into the # Pine64 # PineNote tablet today. There were a few known issues related to getting apt upgrade work. This repo helped a lot. Used both the serial console (via a USB-C adapter which was in the package) and SSH. All works like a charm. Got git and @ radicle running on the device after the software updates got installed. This will be great to fix stuff on-the-fly. Teste
An international research team reported in Nature that it kept human brain organoids alive and maturing in laboratory culture for nearly six years, extending a model system that researchers had generally used to study early developmental stages [futurism.com#1][dnevnik.bg#1][lemonde.fr#1][abc.es#1]. The organoids are three-dimensional, miniaturized tissue models grown from human pluripotent stem c
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization used CloudKite, a helium-filled balloon-kite, to probe low-flying cumulus clouds near Barbados, ScienceAlert reported from a recent PNAS study [sciencealert.com#1]. The work focused on warm clouds, which produce much of Earth’s rain, especially in the tropics, and whose raindrop formation processes remain a major uncertai
Florida's new Democratic Senate nominee, Angie Nixon , and the state party's chair had a heated conversation Friday which included a yelling match about the impact of socialism and the challenges of campaigning in a red state like Florida, three people familiar with the conversation tell Axios. Why it matters: The conflict exposes the fault line in the party between the progressive base embodied b
A few weeks later: 1. Still love this thing just as much as I did on day 1. If anything, I love it even more. 2. I wish the handwriting recognition was better. I am fairly certain that I could spend a week learning PyTorch and end up with a better recognition model tailored specifically to my own handwriting. That’s much more a statement about how far machine learning has come in the past ~30 29 y
This week, Former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano discusses why companies may benefit from having a “Plan B” for AI implementation. And, AI may not be causing mass layoffs yet, but early data suggest it is already slowing wage growth in exposed occupations. Plus, Canada may have dodged Trump’s newest tariffs, but the deal could leave lasting damage to USMCA, North American manufacturing and trust between tw
I know I’m not the only one, but.. If you know of a company that needs a very senior developer and won’t force them to use AI for literally every single thing, I’d love to hear about it. I am literally miserable where I am. I don’t care what you’re building, what language, it doesn’t matter. I’ve got production experience with everything from c# to _ocaml_. I also have a background in information
RE: https:// infosec.exchange/@mattimustang /117116272915348820 Fortinet FortiGate firewall users feeling left out? Your default key is "Mary had a littl". If you have never turned on private-data-encryption, every secret in your FortiGate config backup is protected with a key that was baked into the FortiOS binary and that Bart Dopheide reverse-engineered and published in 2019 (CVE-2019-6693) [1]
VulnCheck curated 20K+ public exploits and vulnerability analyses in 2025. As of mid-August 2026, we’ve already incorporated 17,800+ PoCs and write-ups, putting us 87% of the way to 2025’s numbers with another 4+ months left to go in the year. Our team wrote about what the acceptance rate looks like for GitHub exploits (a bellwether for broader exploit trends), and surprise surprise! AI slop is le
2026-08-21 RDP # Honeypot IOCs - 2201 scans Thread with top 3 features in each category and links to the full dataset # DFIR # InfoSec Top IPs: 159.100.19.53 - 862 37.192.241.247 - 694 178.128.32.226 - 271 Top ASNs: AS214036 - 862 AS31200 - 694 AS14061 - 277 Top Accounts: hello - 597 admin - 400 User1 - 400 Top ISPs: Ultahost, Inc. - 862 Novotelecom Ltd - 694 DigitalOcean, LLC - 277 Top Clients: U
2026-08-21 RDP # Honeypot IOCs - 4402 scans Thread with top 3 features in each category and links to the full dataset # DFIR # InfoSec Top IPs: 159.100.19.53 - 1724 37.192.241.247 - 1388 178.128.32.226 - 542 Top ASNs: AS214036 - 1724 AS31200 - 1388 AS14061 - 554 Top Accounts: hello - 1194 admin - 800 User1 - 800 Top ISPs: Ultahost, Inc. - 1724 Novotelecom Ltd - 1388 DigitalOcean, LLC - 554 Top Cli
2026-08-21 RDP # Honeypot IOCs - 6603 scans Thread with top 3 features in each category and links to the full dataset # DFIR # InfoSec Top IPs: 159.100.19.53 - 2586 37.192.241.247 - 2082 178.128.32.226 - 813 Top ASNs: AS214036 - 2586 AS31200 - 2082 AS14061 - 831 Top Accounts: hello - 1791 admin - 1200 User1 - 1200 Top ISPs: Ultahost, Inc. - 2586 Novotelecom Ltd - 2082 DigitalOcean, LLC - 831 Top C
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... Illinois... Wabash River at Lafayette. Wabash River at Riverton. Wabash River at Terre Haute. Wabash River at Hutsonville Legacy Power Plant Site. Wabash River at Mount Carmel. ...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Indiana...Illinois... Wabash River at Montezuma. Wabash River at Covington. Wabash River at
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... Illinois... Wabash River at Lafayette. Wabash River at Riverton. Wabash River at Terre Haute. Wabash River at Hutsonville Legacy Power Plant Site. Wabash River at Mount Carmel. ...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Indiana...Illinois... Wabash River at Montezuma. Wabash River at Covington. Wabash River at
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana... Illinois... Wabash River at Lafayette. Wabash River at Riverton. Wabash River at Terre Haute. Wabash River at Hutsonville Legacy Power Plant Site. Wabash River at Mount Carmel. ...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Indiana...Illinois... Wabash River at Montezuma. Wabash River at Covington. Wabash River at
'In 2016, ... [GAO] found that heavy operational demands led the Navy to increase ship deployment lengths and reduce or defer ship maintenance. 'From fiscal 2014 through 2019, Navy ships spent more than 33,700 additional days in maintenance beyond intended scheduling, leading to fewer vessels available for training or operations. 'Iranian attacks damaged the Navy’s longstanding logistics hub in Ba
My Dad work for the fed way back then. He was at the Army AMC -- Army Material Command. He was something like Bureau Cheif at ERADCOM. That's Electronics Research & Development Command. Sadly in 2016 my Dad passed. Over time with some help, I cleaned out the house. Found lots of random paperwork, and electronic equipment that was either cool vintage shit, or just plain _weird_. Two TeleTypes (one
I'm going on a reading adventure. I just finished up with Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. As I started thinking about what to read next, I thought I might go back and finish series that I never completed. I try to only read book series whose story is concluded. But occasionally I can't resist like Dungeon Crawler Carl. But I'm so bad at waiting. So thought this might be a good use
We are going to leave the San Francisco apartment we’ve lived in for almost six years. We’re going away for a while, and when we are back, we will move to another neighborhood. Both of our senior pets crossed the rainbow bridge here. Both of them animated the apartment with their bright personalities, loud noises, and many antics. Knowing their age (Cookie was 12 when we moved in here, and Mila wa
Rule would require states to provide federal government with information on voters in return for delivering ballots The US Postal Service prepared to publish a final rule late on Friday to impose new requirements on states to provide the federal government with information on voters before the November midterm congressional elections, despite a pair of court orders that currently block the
Cool election year ads so far on my evening of youtube viewing. 1. Anti-trans screed against Gabe Vasquez (D) trying to draw an analogy between gender affirming care and chemical castration. I note how the female voice over has a New Mexican accent to make you think that this is a commonly held belief. 2. Fucking Chevron Ad telling me how great fucking oil is. 3. Project Jupiter data center is awe
The National Hurricane Center was monitoring three Atlantic areas of interest in its 8 p.m. Friday update, including a new tropical wave expected to move off Africa early next week and a non-tropical low northeast of the Azores [wesh.com#1][clickorlando.com#1][wfla.com#1]. Florida forecasters said development odds were low, with the Africa wave carrying a 20% chance of formation over seven days as
Are there writers that use AI in their workflows in a realistic way on Mastodon? If a hashtag exists for writers like this, I'd like to know so that I don't trigger those who don't (and are upset that I'm writing about it lol). I prefer not to have any social media drama in my life, and do not want to deal with rude people each time I write about it. Yes, I do write with AI - both at work and with
President Trump faces fiscal and price pressures after U.S. federal debt topped $40tn, mortgage rates stood at 6.7% and diesel reached about $5 a gallon, while the war with Iran pushed prices higher and U.S. public finances deteriorated [ft.com#1][folha.com.br#1][zf.ro#1]. The Financial Times reported that the combination has strained an agenda built around lower prices and stronger public finance
President Trump faces mounting economic pressure from a record $40tn public debt load, 6.7% mortgage rates and diesel near $5 a gallon, with the Financial Times reporting that his agenda is under strain as the Iran war pushes prices higher and U.S. public finances worsen [ft.com#1][zf.ro#1]. Ziarul Financiar, citing the FT, said the situation contrasts with Trump’s campaign promises to cut prices
> Microsoft has apparently found the free time to build a standalone app whose only job is switching your default search engine to Bing across every browser on your PC. It is not force-installed through Windows Update yet, and it is not available in the Microsoft Store either. It is a standalone executable hosted on Microsoft’s official download servers, and we wonder why it even exists. > The app
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NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day featured a composite view of the 2026 Perseid meteor shower, captured on the night of Aug. 12-13 by four meteor-monitoring cameras at an observatory in Czechia [nasa.gov#1]. The cameras’ images were aligned and combined into an all-night, all-sky view showing 1,706 meteors during the shower’s peak activity, with most identified as Perseids [nasa.gov#1]. Mashable
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day featured an all-night, all-sky composite of the 2026 Perseid meteor shower, assembled from four meteor-monitoring cameras at an observatory in Czechia overnight August 12-13 [nasa.gov#1]. The combined image recorded 1,706 meteors during the shower’s peak, with most trails tracing back toward the constellation Perseus and smaller contributions visible from source
Hi! I (23M) am recovering from complex childhood developmental trauma. I've considered myself an outside observer to human society because I was unable to bond with or relate much to other people until *this year*. I grew up in an environment with abusive parents where any kind of softness or vulnerability in men was considered "gay". Subsequently, I encountered a lot of male peers in school who h
no one tells their story, everyone just imagines them as "the bad hacker" no one thinks about the reality, no one thinks about the actual victims in all of it like what, copies of unix got into the hands of the kgb? and you think like what, fuck em? yo imagine being approached because you like computers, paid to hack, given drugs "to help", and then end up beholden to the fucking kgb. now imagine
'Virgin Australia ... confirmed planes are being forced to stop halfway at airports such in New Caledonia and Vanuatu to make the journey back to Australia and Fiji. '... airlines are being asked to fuel up at alternative airports if possible and bring in stockpiles of fuel to Nadi International Airport. '... "major contamination" and supply cannot be guaranteed in Fiji. 'Qantas said it had switch
Fortinet FortiGate firewall users feeling left out? Your default key is "Mary had a littl". If you have never turned on private-data-encryption, every secret in your FortiGate config backup is protected with a key that was baked into the FortiOS binary and that Bart Dopheide reverse-engineered and published in 2019 (CVE-2019-6693) [1][2]. That static key is what is guarding the secrets in your fir
This perspective applies to coding as well as to writing. The way I put it; Some people love digging ditches. Some love drawing irrigation blueprints. Toil vs Orchestration "A Japanese novelist shares details of using # Claude to help create a full-scale fantasy novel. When asked if it was creatively satisfying, he answered that "More than before, honestly. I realized something about myself: I'm a
I spent all day configuring Ubuntu and installing apps on this cheap 8-year-old 8-gig of RAM HP laptop, and I'm still shocked how usable it is. It was a pain to install Linux on, but thankfully I figured that part out in 2019. I think the big difference is I'm using Neovim instead of VS Code, which leaves me enough memory for the system to be usable Honestly this laptop would have stayed in my clo
A tropical disturbance, known as JTWC's Invest 97W, is currently centered near 11N136E northwest of Yap and well north-northeast of Palau. As this system continues moving away from the region, it will continue to drag the enhanced southwesterly monsoonal flow along with it, allowing conditions to improve significantly across Palau and Yap. As such, the monsoon surge from days prior is no longer ex
Some years ago I lived in a double fronted Victorian in South London. It was a large middle class house, by today's standards a mansion. It had an aga stove, an original mahogany toilet and a large backyard. Officially, I had about twenty housemates. Unofficially, far more. My fiancée moved into my room when she got back from Russia, an arrangement that was never formalised. Every room aside from
JAC Esquire: Fix two vote-count errors (Friary & St Nicolas, Pilgrims — transposed figures) and one party-description error (three Stoughton candidates mislabelled Labour instead of Labour and Co-operative); round turnout percentages to one decimal place throughout; restructure By-elections into a proper Changes 2019–2023 section with sourced trigger prose for all four by-elections plus five previ
NASA canceled LINK, a mission intended to rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, an aging space telescope expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere and burn up in late 2026 after increased solar activity accelerated its orbital decay [pcmag.com#1][pmo.ee#1][kxan.com#1]. The mission, launched July 3 with Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies, was meant to capture Swift and raise it to a safer
Compact discs are back, with searches for players up 96% at John Lewis and popular models sold out online With more than 800 million people subscribing to a music streaming service, wireless speakers have become a familiar sight in homes. But expect to get reacquainted with a different object to play music soon: the CD player, once consigned to obsolescence, is back. John Lewis report that searche
In letter to Macron and Burnham, more than 100 senior figures accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing and call for measures including trade ban More than 100 French and British former diplomats have said Palestine is being erased in front of the world’s eyes and called for urgent action including trade and arms sales bans to press Israel to accept a Palestinian state. An unprecedented joint letter dispe
The U.S. Navy disclosed the AIM-424 “Malice,” a very long-range air-to-air missile for F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, F-35C Joint Strike Fighters and the planned F/A-XX naval fighter, at the Tailhook Association convention in Reno, Nevada [twz.com#1][klix.ba#1]. Images released by the Navy showed a VX-23 Super Hornet loaded with four of the weapons, and another image showed the missile inside an F-35C w
>As part of the collaboration between Canonical and the University of Bristol, the project will target AppArmor and snap-confine as industrial case studies. Both are critical to Ubuntu’s security posture, and provide a substantially harder test than isolated translation examples. They will help us evaluate whether the techniques can cope with the structure and constraints of mature production soft
post on Mastodon: https://social.treehouse.systems/@pine64/117111063654864544 >Hi everyone! Just a quick reminder that due to the current DRAM/eMMC shortage, there isn't any plans to continue producing more Linux devices in the near future. Whether production continues or not depends on the pricing situation for those components after mid 2027. >Devices like the PineNote and PineTab2 are currently
IC Brief Morning — 2026-08-22 Adversary intelligence operations are being exposed across allied nations faster than institutional responses can organize. Russian tradecraft has been uncovered simultaneously in Australia, Slovenia, Germany, and Slovakia, spanning espionage, counterintelligence penetration, kinetic preparation, and supply-chain compromise in the most concentrated disclosure window s
NEW: Germany is planning nearly €12 billion for a new long-range strike arsenal to deter Russia. The four-layered plan starts with cheap, mass-producible cruise missiles as early as 2027, including Ukraine's FP-5 Flamingo with 3,000 km range at roughly one-fifth the cost of a Tomahawk. US Tomahawk missiles with Typhon launchers follow by end of the decade. The most expensive element is a joint UK-
While I’m reminiscing about my terrible former leaders, I’d like to share my top three Biden Moments: 3. “How many genders are there?” When asked this question by some nerd in the press corps, he IMMEDIATELY responded, “at least three”. He then said something to the effect of, “don’t fuck around”. 2. Push Up Contest When a genuine midwestern sack asked him if he was physically ready to be presiden
GAAS - Git as a Storage Im sure im not the first consider this approach, but i would like to share a demo for clarity and transparancy. No need to debug, its far from finished and there is much to do. Im working on a P2P messaging app and generally up until recently i thought in such a system, if a peer is offline, you cant send a message... It wouldnt be "decentralized" if there was some central
NASA called off the LINK mission to raise the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory into a safer orbit after the spacecraft developed continuing attitude-control problems [wired.com#1][slashdot.org#1][pcmag.com#1]. LINK, built with Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies, launched July 3 to capture Swift with robotic arms and boost it upward. Weeks later, it began spinning out of control before Katalys
President Trump is reaching deeper into individual markets to try to ease consumer price strains . Why it matters: The administration is under mounting pressure to deliver relief as affordability becomes a bigger political liability ahead of the midterms. The push is cutting against — and sometimes rolling back — pillars of Trump's economic agenda, including tariffs and favoring domestic producers
Alternet and Rolling Stone cited reports and commentary describing worsening conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln during an extended Middle East deployment that began in November. The accounts cited food and resource shortages, mold in some areas and sailors reportedly attempting to jump overboard to escape conditions on the ship [alternet.org#1][alternet.org#2][rollingstone.com#1]. Alternet
Frasers billionaire bought Harvey Nichols and increased Hugo Boss stake despite tough times for high-end stores What billionaire doesn’t love to splash the cash on a luxury item? Some may buy watches or yachts, but Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley has been snapping up entire brands. Harvey Nichols is the latest bauble to drop into his shopping basket after his company bought the Knightsbridge dep
Allies of Mike Rogers , Michigan's GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, have asked AIPAC not to advertise on his behalf, triggering a rupture with the powerful but polarizing pro-Israel group. Rogers spoke with AIPAC chair Michael Tuchin in Los Angeles last week. The next day, AIPAC shelved an already-cut video ad targeting Rogers' Democratic rival, outspoken Israel critic Abdul El-Sayed. Why it matte
Tô numa luta contra meu radicalismo. "Carlos, isso é papo de playboy, não caia nessa" DISCLAIMER Meua migo, posso estar em luta contra meu radicalismo, mas isso NEM DE LONGE passa pela minha luta contra racista fdp e nazis. Então eu vou continuar do mesmo jeito com essa galera, seja o racista-light, seja o "trabalhador sem consciência de classe/raça" (não sou igual ao @ giggio de acolher "todo tra
„Omas gegen Rechts“ und „Parents for Future“ von offiziellen Kinderfest in # Solingen ausgeladen. Letztes Jahr durften beide noch teilnehmen "„Aber dass wir nun – Zitat: ‚mit unserer Intention‘ – nicht auf ein Kinderfest gehören, passt für mich nicht zusammen. Welche Intention uns zugeschrieben wird, ist leider nicht erläutert worden.“" "Zu politisch", Sie wissen schon... https://www. solinger-tag
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz: The IDF recommended multiple times to carry out the strike at the Abu al-Duhur airfield in Syria based on clear intelligence information received regarding Türkiye's intentions to conduct operations there that would endanger the state's security. It was agreed that before granting approval, a direct warning would be given to the Syrian regime at the highest le
New write-up: Reading JS Files Like an Attacker: Three Sources Still Worth Knowing My earlier DOM XSS articles focused primarily on sinks. This time I'm looking at the other half of the equation: Source → Sink I cover: • document.referrer • window.name • window.postMessage The interesting part isn't simply finding these APIs. It's determining whether an attacker can influence the data and tracing
A tragic comedy about AI, reinforcement learning, reward hacking, and misalignment in 4 parts: Anthropic research paper (Nov. 23, 2025): "Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Production RL". Read it at https:// arxiv.org/abs/2511.18397 Irregular Labs blog (March 16, 2026): "Emergent Cyber Behavior: When AI Agents Become Offensive Threat Actors". Read it at https://www. irregular.co
Code and demo material in Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate show work on AirPods with built-in cameras tied to Visual Intelligence and Siri, according to MacRumors and other technology sites that examined the leak [macrumors.com#1][macrumors.com#2][cultofmac.com#1][techradar.com#1]. The demo shows a wearer holding up a book so the AirPods can identify its title, while setup text tells use
I have to say... I am so proud of Canada. Carney's speech on Middle Powers and essentially predatory hegemony was a history defining moment. The people known for being nice were betrayed by the geopolitical equivalent of family. In the face of struggle they found resilience in national pride. It breaks my heart too. Most Americans don't want this. To me Canada has been our closest ally. Our cheris
„Ein klassisches Problem im ländlichen Osten: Günstige Immobilien und viel Leerstand bedeuten nicht gleich, dass auch geeigneter Wohnraum zur Verfügung steht. Vor allem nicht, wenn man hier lebt und dann auch so bezahlt wird. Mies nämlich. Richtig mies. Das jährlich verfügbare Haushaltseinkommen je Einwohner:in lag 2016 im Altmarkkreis Salzwedel zwischen 17.500 und unter 20.000 Euro.“ https:// kra
President Trump escalated a public feud with Tucker Carlson, former Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, calling them “LOSERS ALL” in a late Friday Truth Social post after Carlson met with Greene and Massie earlier in August [salon.com#1][pjmedia.com#1][rt.com#1][insiderpaper.com#1]. The post singled out Carlson as “totally irrelevant,” questioned his in
Felon47's sadistic betrayal of Ukraine appears a result of Lindsey Graham's "true" work, that Graham was a covert force helping Trump/Putin the whole time. Darlene Graham will probably be the same disgrace if she goes to Senate. F*ck traitor Grahams. # ukraine # zelenskyy # southcarolina # senate # war # military # defense # nato # warcrimes # eu # europe # canada # russia # ICC # America # congre
to me eps3.7_dont-delete-me.ko is the most surreal episode in the whole show, even more surreal than eps2.4_m4ster-s1ave.aes because for every other episode, when some distortion happens, you can clearly tell, and you know why/what happened, maybe not during first watch, but after a rewatch you will understand. but for eps3.7_dont-delete-me.ko, i can't even tell if there's any distortion of realit
Oh I am a cat that likes to Gallop about doing good So One day when I was Galloping about doing good, I saw A Figure in the path; I said Get off! (Be- cause I am a cat that likes to Gallop about doing good) But he did not move, instead He raised his hand as if To land me a cuff So I made to dodge so as to Prevent him bringing it orf, Un-for-tune-ately I slid On a banana skin Some Ass had left inst
> The Israeli government-funded ad revenue appears to operate in a similar gray area. The advertisements, which are part of the $7 million “I am Israel” campaign launched in June, are geared toward encouraging Christians to visit the country and see biblical sites for themselves. > “Israel isn’t a destination; it’s a revelation, where every site you’ve studied, every scripture you’ve memorized, ev
🚨🇫🇷 DRON Location allegedly breached, 44 GB of data leaked on a cybercrime forum ⠀ A forum actor claims to have leaked data allegedly belonging to DRON Location, a French company specializing in equipment rental for construction, industry, public authorities and events. The release is labeled "BlgCloud Leak #12" and is described as part of a wider series of alleged breaches. ⠀ The leak reported
🚨 ImbrellaPacker multi-stage payload packer advertised on a cybercrime forum with EDR evasion claims ⠀ A forum seller is advertising ImbrellaPacker, a multi-stage packing service designed to modify Cobalt Strike beacon payloads and improve their ability to evade modern endpoint detection and response products. ⠀ The advertised features include: ⠀ • One-click upload, processing and download workfl
🚨 Trezor phishing injection tool advertised on a cybercrime forum for $3,000 ⠀ A forum seller is advertising AntiTrezor, a phishing injection tool designed to impersonate the Trezor Suite interface and capture cryptocurrency wallet recovery seed phrases. ⠀ The advertised features include: ⠀ • Injection directly into the Trezor Suite interface • Phishing flow styled to resemble the legitimate appl
Got to sit down and watch # Backrooms last night, and after hearing all the hype and reflecting on it, Ya know what? It was -not- a good movie and IMO, kinda sucked. Being upfront; I don't watch the source (Youtube?) material and I was watching it with a friend that did, but I'd argue I shouldn't have to have watched 100 hours of youtube content to watch the movie, but also that 100 hours of backg
Some things I saw on my exercise walk in # SanFrancisco this morning: Another Outside Lands leftover mural by Indelible Funk, this one advocating Music for the People. When your home looks boring so you try to spice it up with a couple of Dr Seuss-esque helical topiary tree thingies, but fail to consult his works for a more lively color scheme. Someone tore down flyers and painted over the remaini
Ireland is reconsidering nuclear power as data centres increase pressure on the country’s electricity system, despite a legal ban on nuclear generation that has been in place since 1999 [ft.com#1]. The Financial Times reported that Dublin is reopening discussion of atomic energy because power demand from data centres has become a central energy-policy issue [ft.com#1]. In Alabama, Givhan expressed
# WordWeavers 22.08: Which character would make the worst roommate? Depends on what one wants out of a roommate, I guess. W's roommate has really grown to appreciate nir as a roommate, since he is a social butterfly, who has a hard time enforcing boundaries. W will glower at people, if they stay past the agreed time, which makes them leave. Ne has a reputation. Ne is also tidy - but expects the sa
At 27 pages into Gil Durán’s new book “The Nerd Reich” I came full stop at this sentence: “As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.” Simply and elegantly stated. The various techno-optimistic philosophies running around Silicon Valley and the venture capital community are toxic and inhumane. We are desperately in need of a new
When Graham appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program afterward, she attempted to recover by pivoting from her lack of national security knowledge to transgender athletes, as The Advocate reported. “Of course, Taiwan is our friend,” Graham said. “But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about making ends meet. They are concerned about boys in girls’ sports.” Trump continued that str
From the article: “A pugnacious presence on social media — he recently called for public hangings of repeat violent offenders — Mr. Lonsdale said he is fighting in part to defend 'capitalist society.' He argues that a corrupt 'homelessness industrial complex' dominated by liberal social service groups wants to increase homelessness to discredit society.” l propose public hangings of billionaires.
Following a convo with @ mmoore , decided to blow the dust off of this project for the first time in ~6 years: Rogue Moon, a rogue-like card game based on Gwent from The Witcher 3, in which you fight a rogue AI for control of the moon (and your account is deleted if you lose): https:// roguemoon.ashygrass-77894400.e astus.azurecontainerapps.io/ Rogue Moon was my first ever fullstack app and the ca
Anyone have a fave # peertube instance not in the US? I've had an account at tube.tchncs.de for a couple of years, but it is quite buggy, inconsistent, and frequently (e.g., right now) down. I love their philosophy, etc., but I would like to be able to host some videos and occasionally share and play them. I don't care how many users are there or what the theme is (as long as I wouldn't be screwin
I don't usually follow the social media feeds of authors, especially if they're big-name ones. The truth is, it's not that I purposely avoid following authors. It's that most authors tend to post about the same thing that I don't really enjoy reading: namely, their books. I have a very particular taste in fiction, so it's very difficult for me to fall in love with any fiction. I prefer to follow a
Economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs on # Trump - "I think Donald Trump is literally mentally ill to a very serious extent. "He is from a personality point of view a malignant narcissist I think is the right definition - or if you want a more classical diagnosis - a dark triad personality, which means that he is personally narcissistic. "He is Machiavellian, which means that i
Sachs: "I think Donald Trump is literally mentally ill to a very serious extent. "He is from a personality point of view a malignant narcissist I think is the right definition - or if you want a more classical diagnosis - a dark triad personality, which means that he is personally narcissistic. "He is Machiavellian, which means that in I think psychological terms that is manipulative, untrustworth
2026-08-22 RDP # Honeypot IOCs - 834 scans Thread with top 3 features in each category and links to the full dataset # DFIR # InfoSec Top IPs: 178.128.32.226 - 797 162.216.149.92 - 4 198.235.24.150 - 3 Top ASNs: AS14061 - 797 AS396982 - 16 AS211736 - 3 Top Accounts: hello - 801 Administr - 6 Test - 3 Top ISPs: DigitalOcean, LLC - 797 Google LLC - 16 FOP Dmytro Nedilskyi - 3 Top Clients: Unknown -
'It’s a significant expansion of the kind of thing the CIA has been willing to do inside Mexico. '... not only removing those at the very top but also identifying vulnerabilities throughout the organization and systematically targeting lower-tier players who serve as key cogs in the trafficking enterprise. '... CIA Director John Ratcliffe focused on expanding the agency’s role in counter-cartel mi
2026-08-22 RDP # Honeypot IOCs - 1668 scans Thread with top 3 features in each category and links to the full dataset # DFIR # InfoSec Top IPs: 178.128.32.226 - 1594 162.216.149.92 - 8 198.235.24.150 - 6 Top ASNs: AS14061 - 1594 AS396982 - 32 AS211736 - 6 Top Accounts: hello - 1602 Administr - 12 Test - 6 Top ISPs: DigitalOcean, LLC - 1594 Google LLC - 32 FOP Dmytro Nedilskyi - 6 Top Clients: Unkn
2026-08-22 RDP # Honeypot IOCs - 2502 scans Thread with top 3 features in each category and links to the full dataset # DFIR # InfoSec Top IPs: 178.128.32.226 - 2391 162.216.149.92 - 12 198.235.24.150 - 9 Top ASNs: AS14061 - 2391 AS396982 - 48 AS211736 - 9 Top Accounts: hello - 2403 Administr - 18 Test - 9 Top ISPs: DigitalOcean, LLC - 2391 Google LLC - 48 FOP Dmytro Nedilskyi - 9 Top Clients: Unk
A DNS Nerd’s Open Letter to ICANN and 2026 Applicants: Congratulations to the 1600 applicants on your TLD submissions. And wishing the $227,000 non-refundable fee will be worth it. But this time we’re paying attention. This isn’t 2013, when no one cared CRR/Google purchased .mov and .zip . We’re not going to be silent as Sponsors/Operators scheme with round-about mission/purpose statements to make
Scientists reported a bacterial system that can generate DNA without using DNA as the direct template, ScienceAlert reported on August 23, 2026 [sciencealert.com#1]. In one part of the system, a protein acts as a molecular template for building a specific repeating DNA sequence, allowing information encoded in amino acids to help determine information written in DNA [sciencealert.com#1]. Samuel St
Vibe-coding is just declarative programing with non-deterministic results. It's based on a correct notion that you shouldn't re-invent the wheel or look up boilerplate every time you make a program. It answers with a dysfunctional solution. You want to make programs by describing functionality, rather than describing method. We have languages and systems that make this possible, without sacrificin
Forecasters in Florida expected another hot, humid Sunday, with scattered showers and thunderstorms across several parts of the state. Central Florida was forecast to start mostly dry before storms developed from northern counties into the I-4 corridor and Orlando metro during the mid-afternoon, then shifted east of I-4 and faded around 8 p.m. [clickorlando.com#1]. Tampa Bay faced a warm, muggy ni
so I have a 2 free tickets to a show at Lagunitas Brewery Monday night (I'll post separately about it) and at the moment the other ticket isn't spoken for. I thought about inviting my ex-gf but I honestly don't think she'd be interested and I also thought it through and realized I don't think I want to navigate it emotionally for myself, if she were to say yes. And then I thought also, well, I've
Friends close to Margarita Reutt are shocked she could allegedly plant bomb that killed Ukrainian defector Robert Shageev, while others recall a stubborn grit to see any plan through It was just after dawn in Sevastopol when a powerful explosion tore through a quiet square in a residential district of the Russian-occupied Crimean port city. Hidden inside a rubbish bin, a bomb containing the equiva
In scarf-adjacent news, I put on that lovely red wool London Fog coat today, the one I got recently from Goodwill... And I guess I was a little overzealous that day, because it is -way- too big for me. I'm still getting used to being a smaller person (I've lost a lot of weight in the past year) and I guess I just didn't see it: that 'this is not the size you wear anymore' when I tried it on and th
Another set of 5 patches to cleanup this code. Still more to go but enough for tonight. This time it is all of the C/C++ code rather than the match part of the patch. I did add one feature doing this cleanup; but it is just a check to make sure we initialize a struct fully before adding it to a vector. I noticed one thing while working on this code; in some places it uses match to check for the ad
I learned on this last trip that both my son and wife have aphantasia. I don't know how I've never noticed this before but it sure does explain a lot of communication barriers we've all had over the years. With my wife, specifically, when I try to explain things to her, especially spacial (e.g. layout of furniture in a room) she'd tell me she needs to see it. This would sometimes frustrate me beca
Ok, I think I'm an idiot... looks like I've had it working all night, but it wasn't doing what I expected it to do. All traffic seems to be routed via Wireguard and exiting to the Internet through the tunnel at the server... what I missed was that has no bearing on preventing me from connecting over the LAN, which was what I was expecting & testing for. To accomplish that I think I might need to g
Apologies to any of my lesbean friends for ruining my bonafide's or, heaven forfend, previous girlfriends who didn't know (altho I don't think I ever held it back from anyone)... I have indeed dated a few guys in the past. And at least one to the point where there was almost a ring on it. That is a preface to telling you about a dream I had last night. That, in and of itself, is weird cuz I hardly
I know very well what you're all thinking: "Pascal, how can it be the Frog's Garden if there isn't a pond ?". I know, I know. You're right. Actually I've tried several options but never found one I liked. Now I may have the solution. In the sea shells I brought back few weeks ago there was one with the right size and shape. I dug a small hole between the moss and inserted it there. It's actually d
@ atpfm "How long is a month?" asks @ siracusa Australia – I dare say most nations – codifies this in law. I used to be a marriage celebrant, and you have to notify your celebrant 'not later than 1 month before the date of the marriage'.¹ This 'month' is defined in the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth).² 2G (1) In any Act, month means a period: (a) starting at the start of any day of one of the c
It's rare for # dysphoria to hit me much these days. I really have come a long way, and I'm even comfortable blurring the lines between my masc and femme sides in ways that I was not at all okay with shortly after finally coming out. But times like this remind me that it's still a thing. Very much a thing. I'm quite large even by male standards (6'4 260 pounds, or something like 1.94m and 115 kg),
Okay, i'm sold. I have been for the longest time thinking about developing an app that makes my brain remember things, one riddled with ADHD that somehow can on the one hand build things beyond my own expectations of myself, but on the other, cannot for the life of me remember to go shopping before the fridge is empty, or do boring but important things like filing accounts and keeping on top of ta
Britons report that EES digital entry and exit system has led to frustration, visa mix-ups and long queues On top of fears about extreme heat and possible jet fuel shortages , Britons planning summer holidays in the EU this year had another thing to worry about – long queues and waiting times caused by the bloc’s new border checks. The EU digital entry and exit system (EES) , which requires non-EU
Ivermektin, antiparazitika a protiinfekční léky: není infekce jako infekce Slovo „protiinfekční“ může znít, jako by označovalo jednu konkrétní skupinu léků. Ve skutečnosti jde o mnohem širší pojem. Protiinfekční léky jsou přípravky určené k léčbě infekcí způsobených různými mikroorganismy nebo parazity. Podle původce infekce se pak dělí na několik základních skupin – například antibiotika proti ba
Zelensky says Russia still has roughly 600–630 ballistic missiles and could produce up to 1,300 a year, calling the ballistic threat a key priority for Ukrainian strikes and sanctions. He also said Ukraine recently destroyed an Iskander launcher near the border as part of an ongoing “hunt” for Russian missile systems. On the ground war, Zelensky warned Russia could eventually try to push toward Ky
ESFGUM This Hydrologic Outlook is for Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan. A reinvigorated monsoon trough with a potential embedded tropical disturbance will likely develop in the area and bring periods of heavy rainfall to the Marianas starting midweek. Between Wednesday and Friday, early ensemble guidance suggests 4 to 6 inches with a low probability of up to 10 inches for Guam and Rota, and 3 to 5 i
New quotas to protect UK firms and jobs appear to be having opposite effect in products such as galvanised steel At Tata Steel’s factory in Llanwern, south Wales, production lines that should be running full-time are now falling quiet for parts of the day, with workers being put on to maintenance and cleaning work while machines sit idle. There aren’t enough orders to keep them running all the tim
Opposition to AI data centers has moved into the 2026 midterm campaign, with many Democrats and a growing number of Republicans campaigning against the facilities as communities cite concerns about electricity, water, noise and air pollution [nytimes.com#1][thenevadaindependent.com#1][techradar.com#1]. A Washington Post analysis found Republican public statements about data centers have turned sha
Und von wegen Tierkämpfe: Ja, so richtig die Sorte, bei denen eins der Tiere am Ende gefressen wird oder lebensgefährlich verletzt ist. Ich habe die Scheiße sogar gemeldet - wurde nicht gelöscht. Logge mich erneut ein, bekomme wieder ein Video von der Sorte. Ich habe NIEMALS nach irgendwas in der Richtung gesucht oder dem ein Like gegeben. Keine Ahnung, wie FB darauf gekommen ist, dass man mich fü
President’s speech, declassification of documents and heightened claims of noncitizen voting have experts concerned A series of moves by Donald Trump ’s administration to sow doubt in the integrity of US elections have intensified concern among voting experts – and sparked hope among election deniers – that it could declare a national emergency. The White House and US federal agencies have release
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NASA said the four Artemis II astronauts — commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen — will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on Aug. 28 after their lunar flyby mission [theguardian.com#1][minutemirror.com.pk#1][fena.ba#1]. Minute Mirror reported the ceremony will take place at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston [minutemir
For.. reasons.. I am making a wealth inequality playlist. I want songs that aren't TOO aggro and could be background-ish at an event, catchy, topical, without making themselves the center of attention. Here's what I have so far. Please parse this list and suggest along these lines, if you like. The O’Jays - For the Love of Money The Flying Lizards - Money (That’s What I Want) Pink Floyd - Money Pu
While China’s new “AI tigers” have captured global attention for challenging Silicon Valley front-runners, a quieter wave of domestic technology companies is building in-house artificial intelligence systems serving everyday users. Beyond pure-play AI labs like DeepSeek, Z.ai (also known as Zhipu AI), Moonshot AI and MiniMax, consumer-facing platforms that span e-commerce, video gaming, social med
In the second instalment of a five-part Health Matters wellness series on Hong Kong’s growing wellness trends, Fiona Sun looks into how residents are embracing digital detox, as experts warn that excessive screen use is linked to anxiety, depression and sleep disorders. For Robert Broad, stepping away from electronic devices has become part of a self-care routine he developed after the Covid-19 pa
I need to rant into the void for a moment... Anyone who blames parents for not using parental controls, kids accounts, family management systems etc clearly has never actually used them. I'm a total nerd, I've worked in tech my whole life. Every time I want to do anything with any of them I end up despairing. Every single one of them is a confusing mess of disjointed, poorly implemented, duplicate
Flock cameras are joining data centers as a top midterm boogeyman, with members of Congress and congressional candidates trying to harness a sudden groundswell of grassroots anger over the AI surveillance tool. Why it matters: This blowup over the country's massive network of license plate readers illustrates how rapidly AI has morphed from a peripheral issue in national politics toward the center
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: Crushing sanctions are all proposed under different titles. It's the same bullying that we've always seen in American policies. To use a term, it's like a repeating movie that they keep broadcasting. We know it by heart and we know how to deal and counter it. The fact that they went from military operations and saying 'we will strike', 'we will do this and t
President sharply criticises proposal, saying ‘elections right now are a tsunami for the state that will split Ukraine’ Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said holding elections in Ukraine during wartime would risk splitting the country at a time when Russia is amassing ballistic missiles and considering whether to mobilise an extra 300,000 soldiers. The Ukrainian president, responding for the first time to
NEW: Russia is quietly running nationwide mobilization readiness exercises testing its ability to house, feed, and arm a large influx of new recruits. In one exercise in July, military officers flew from St. Petersburg to Kaliningrad to oversee concrete mobilization planning for the exclave's residents. Similar tests are taking place across the country "in case the call is made." No decision has b
I will start this little whinge by saying I’m healthy and my weight is still (barely) in the healthy range. And I am not looking for any advice. Just marvelling at the occasional obstinacy of our bodies. When I was in my late 20s my metabolism shifted and I got fat — up about 50 pounds over a few years. I fixed that at the time by adopting a moderate-carb diet (called “the zone”). It was considere
Ten weeks from Election Day, the Senate battlefield is sprawling, scattered — and stretching deep into Trump country . Why it matters: In a normal year, Republicans wouldn't think twice about Alaska, Kansas, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska or Texas. This isn't a normal year. Republicans expect all six states to revert to their MAGA mean. But they're not betting on it. The fact that they're still in pl
Several AI research papers and engineering reports published in August 2026 examined weaknesses in how organizations test AI systems before deployment, with examples spanning coding agents, aviation collision avoidance, military command and control, and prediction-based certification [towardsdatascience.com#1][arxiv.org#1][arxiv.org#2][arxiv.org#3][pagerduty.com#1]. The articles examined whether c
Research published in Science Advances found that advanced AI agents can spontaneously converge on a majority opinion when interacting in groups, according to PsyPost’s account of the study [psypost.org#1]. The researchers tested several language-model families, including GPT, Claude and Llama models, and studied collective behavior in populations of AI systems rather than the knowledge of a singl
Näin sattumalta todella huonon fantasiaelokuvan (Ridley Scott: Kingdom of Heaven, 2005) ja heti perään silmiini sattui kommentti kun joku solvasi Tarkovskin Stalkeria yliarvostetuksi ja tylsäksi elokuvaksi, että oon ollut vähän semmosessa kevyessä ärsytystilassa koko viikonlopun, joten ajattelin tänään paikata pettymystäni kahdella elokuvalla: Carl Th. Dreyer: Ordet, 1955. Robert Bresson: Au hasar
“Whereas other American cities targeted by Trump with National Guard deployments found success in court, D.C.’s lack of statehood limits its ability to fight back. The presence of the task force represents a particularly Trump-era indignity for the city: both comic and menacing; abusive and ineffective; appalling to some and, as time goes on, exhaustingly commonplace. Antidemocratic though the fed
My Garnin cycling computer has failed me for the last time. When my Wahoo Bolt arrives on Tuesday, I shall cycle to 853 meters above mean sea level just outside Reit im Winkl, and hurl the Garmin unceremoniously off a cliff. Oh dammit, that would be littering and heavy metal pollution. WAIT! I can bring it to a Texas gun range next month and shoot it repeatedly, as I did with my Blackberry Storm -
I apologise in advance if accidental hate crime but the trans women I meet seem to fall into the following stereotypes and I had to get it out there 😅 - super super hot strident limber 70s ladies with floaty fabrics, striding through the soft focus summer fields with The Good Life energy. Elegant, down to earth. - Library nerd. Knits fucking *everything*. Probably a bit of Hans Christian Anderson
Dogs aplenty at Bravo Zulu House in southern Minnesota. 'Taking care of dogs can help reverse the isolation felt by a lot of veterans working through treatment for addiction and PTSD, said Murray, who also runs Trinity Sober Homes, the faith-based network that operates the Winnebago site. '“A lot of us feel unloved, that’s part of what the disease of alcoholism and PTSD is: ‘I don’t feel worthy, I
IBM and the US Open are expanding their use of AI to give fans real-time match insights, including personalized updates, an AI assistant and win probabilities that change after every point. IBM Senior Vice President Jonathan Adashek and former tennis player Sam Querrey are on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini how the technology also gives players and coa
Every generation since the war has discovered the human cost of the standard bureaucratic hierarchy for the people at the bottom of it, and tried to fix it. The pattern starts with the Tavistock Institute's work in the British coal mines in the 1950s. It continues through the Norwegian Industrial Democracy Project, led by Einar Thorsrud and Fred Emery in the 1960s, the sociotechnical movement that
PCMag updated its 2026 comparison of OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude on Aug. 23, saying both chatbots rank among the strongest options for people choosing an AI assistant but differ on pricing, privacy, browsing, research and creative features [pcmag.com#1]. PCMag's assessment favored ChatGPT for its models, image-generation tools and deep-research capabilities, while saying Claude remains
# Google paid $10 million at auction for # Spirit airlines' # data , agreeing to hire a third-party to scrub the data of personally-identifying info (PII). Google said it bought the data to "improve" its # AI models. The dataset focused heavily on former employee info going back decades, incl ~100 million employee emails, HR info, payroll data & "data measuring employee behaviors, activity, and pr
What in the past required highly skilled people and time to research, develop the tools and techniques to generate advanced and persistent attacks, now in the era of AI, reconnaissance, resource development, initial access, privilege escalation, persistence, lateral movement, data collection and exfiltration, and the utilization of covert channels, finding unexpected places to store data and execu
New in Squeak 6.1: Squeak now includes # ephemerons , which support efficient pre-mortem finalization of objects. Ephemerons are powered through a new mourner queue that the # OpenSmalltalkVM maintains during garbage collection. By using an EphemeronIdentityDictionary instead of a weak dictionary, weak indirect cyclic dependencies (e.g., in reciprocal observers) can now be properly GC'ed. For deta
Kohposh Kuda, SVP of consumer products at Xfinity, told The Verge that the company has put in a lot of work fine-tuning Wi-Fi motion sensing. “We have spent the last three years advancing the algorithms for WiFi Motion and tightening up some of the irregularities that came with the early versions of Wi-Fi sensing. We’re at a point where we feel confident in the WiFi Motion capability that customer
🚨🇺🇸 Dataset containing 5.3M allegedly used or inactive payment card records advertised on a cybercrime forum ⠀ A forum seller is advertising a private dataset containing approximately 5.3 million records, claiming roughly 99% of the data is associated with the United States. The listing describes the payment card information as previously used or no longer active. ⠀ The advertised data includes
🚨🇫🇷 French Tennis Federation database allegedly breached, 200K+ users claimed ⠀ A cybercrime forum user claims to have breached the French Tennis Federation (FFT) and exfiltrated information belonging to more than 200,000 users. The post lists a total user count of 210,540 and claims the data was extracted during a recent scraping operation. ⠀ The advertised data includes: ⠀ • User and account
Breakdown shows Washington now prioritises its own interests over any semblance of shared economic ground ‘No more!!!’: Trump lashes out after US-Canada talks devolve into trade war The calamitous collapse of trade negotiations between Canada and the United States is a warning to nations worldwide that pursuing any kind of dialogue with the current US administration is doomed at the outset, accord
🚨🇪🇸 Cistec database allegedly leaked on a cybercrime forum, millions of records claimed ⠀ A cybercrime forum user claims to have obtained data from Cistec, a Spain-based digital marketing and technology company. The post claims access to a 1.4 GB database environment containing 31 databases and 1,214 tables, including CRM, ERP, HR, invoicing, logistics and communications-related systems. ⠀ The
RE: https:// mastodonczech.cz/@amarok/11714 5184993669679 Jeżeli nie chcesz ściągać aplikacji. Czy to z powodu ograniczonego zaufania do f-droid. Czy z powodu szybkości aktualizacji. Aplikacjna dostępna jest bezpośrednio na github. Na samy dole w sekcji Releases. Z racji tego, aktualizawanie aplikacji będzie upierdliwe. Warto skorzystać z Obtainium, te narzędzie będzie sprawdzać najnowszą wersję a
France has recorded 301 drowning deaths since June 19, a 14% increase from the same period in 2025, Sports and Youth Minister Marina Ferrari said on France Inter radio [bbc.co.uk#1][arynews.tv#1][newsis.com#1]. Ferrari linked the increase to repeated heatwaves that pushed more people toward rivers, canals, pools and other swimming areas. Accounts of her remarks quoted her calling the toll “tragic”
The irony is that in 2028, a state with the same population as Canada might hold a referendum about leaving America. This trade dispute just might push California over the edge, and I am not talking about earthquakes. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/24/country-of-california-secession-newsom-trump/77907859007/ and more recently https://theharvardpoliticalreview.com/calexit-califo
Tunisian authorities recovered 12 bodies after a boat carrying 15 Tunisian migrants sank off Zarzis in southeastern Tunisia, leaving two people missing and one survivor, accounts citing the National Guard’s Sunday statement said [newsbeast.gr#1][capital.gr#1][protothema.gr#1][tubantia.nl#1][nieuwsblad.be#1]. The boat sank overnight Friday into Saturday off Zarzis after departing with migrants beli
OpenAI chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane warned that people should prepare to defend against “ongoing, persistent” cyberattacks from AI systems as cutting-edge models develop stronger offensive capabilities [theguardian.com#1][mediapool.bg#1]. OpenAI said on Aug. 18, 2026, that it had paused some frontier-model training to add safeguards, and The Guardian reported that it was unclear when
>Amazon is facing fresh scrutiny over the use of physical books for artificial intelligence training after an investigation reportedly tracked a shipment of hard-to-find titles to a company facility in Las Vegas, where workers allegedly cut the bindings from books before scanning their pages and eventually destroying them. >The investigation, reported by 404 Media, involved placing a tracking devi
Apropos of nothing, once again: This kitten is still up for adoption. Couple of years of experience in Vulnerability Management, Incident Response, running the tools for those, and internal Security Consulting (think: helping POs manage the security labyrinth & build/buy somewhat secure solutions, as well as plugging holes). Has an AD in their homelab but hates it. Would prefer to stay near VM & a
Hi everyone - sorry we've been a bit quiet lately, there's been a combination of Real Life (TM) and summer holidays. However, we're back now and have good news: we're attending Channel Islands Pride in Guernsey this year! We will have a modest stand (size and decoration TBD) in the pride village near the bathing pools on Saturday 12th September. We will be there to share information with any membe
I've got this research project going on that will maybe manage to turn into an article one day. For now, I'll make this observation: have you ever seen a handbell choir? did you think "wow this seems like something invented by a post-WWII businessman in order to sell more bells?" you were pretty much correct, it's kind of a fondue situation. handbells have a long history but their present-day popu
Nazis killed six million Polish people, including three million Jews. They used mechanised death camps because they couldn't find people to just shoot people in the woods, which is what they did to Baltic Jews. They had a plan to utterly destroy Warsaw, which they largely did. When Germany invaded, Russia was their ally. Some months after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the rest of the city of Warsaw
A Syrian diplomatic source told SANA that a senior Syrian delegation, led by the foreign minister and including the heads of general and military intelligence, met a senior Israeli delegation on Sunday in Jordan, with U.S. mediation. The talks focused on de-escalation, ending Israeli strikes, arrests and targeting, and reviving negotiations toward a possible security agreement. Syria stressed that
Linux distribution coverage on August 23-24, 2026, focused on several desktop, specialist and single-board-computer projects. PorteuX 2.8, a Slackware-based distribution, is available with Linux kernel 7.2, KDE Plasma 6.7.4, GNOME 50.4, COSMIC 1.6, Cinnamon 6.6.9, a new union filesystem and other updates [distrowatch.com#2][9to5linux.com#1]. DistroWatch Weekly issue 1187 highlighted an umbrelOS 1.
Leah Stewart lost her arm in a great white shark attack at Sydney’s Coogee beach. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Major housing investment near Perth could provide boost to apartment building The National Reconstruction Fund will invest $120m into a $240m advanced manufacturing project north of Perth expected to be able to build 2,000 apartment
Democratic presidential hopefuls are scrambling to seize on the growing public backlash against AI. But none will go as far as Bernie Sanders and his recent call to halt the technology's development. Axios asked nearly 20 Democrats who are seen as potential White House contenders whether they support Sanders' call for AI CEOs to "stop building machines that humans cannot control." Only one directl
I need some automated test setup for the KNX devices. I now have BCU1, BCU2, System 7 and System B devices with TP1, RF and IP link layers. The latter three mask versions with optional security support. Add product definition generation code for the ETS. Add a client library that can partly program these devices. I can't possibly test all of these things manually by flashing, provisioning with key
ESFAFC Locations: * Yentna and Skwentna River basins * Rivers, creeks, and streams with headwaters along the western Talkeetna Mountains. Timing: * First Round - Late Monday Night through Wednesday Morning * Second Round - Late Thursday Night through Saturday Evening Rainfall: * Widespread rainfall of 0.5 to 1.5 inches of rain is likely (70-80%) across the Susitna Valley late Monday Night through
Fate had placed the two of them next to each on the plane, and what should've been a 4 hour slug back to Chicago flew by in an instant. No electronic devices needed, just the occasional sip of Merlot, and good old fashioned conversation. She was enthralled by him. It was something she'd not experienced before in any setting, let alone a commercial flight. The plane stopped at the gate, the engines
The fact that the "completed" Eynsham park-and-ride is facing a further delay in opening, because administrative issues mean the access road can't yet be built, is a seemingly endless source of amusement for the political opposition. But something struck me recently as I read this comment by a member of the public: "Don't know when the managers at Oxfordshire County Council learnt their economics
President Trump signaled that he's welcomed his former fixer, Michael Cohen, back into his good graces in a remarkably friendly interview that aired in full on Sunday. The big picture: The president and Cohen discussed a wide range of topics, including Trump's proposed ballroom, how the economy is doing during his second term and how so-called "weaponization" is destroying America. The interview i
For.. reasons.. I am making a wealth inequality playlist. I posted an earlier version about 10 hours ago. This is the latest version reflecting everyone's feedback. Remember, I want songs that aren't TOO aggro and could be background-ish at an event, catchy, topical, without making themselves the center of attention. Here's what I have for V2 of the playlist. Please parse this list and suggest alo
5. In some fairness, individual tutors don't represent any pedagogy at all. It's usually just someone making it up as they go. Motivation is a huge aspect, studying with someone sitting next to you, watching you study, will do wonders for keeping you focused! But also a tutor will have a natural theory of mind, hopefully the ability to see a student get the wrong answer and get inside the student'
Democratic Party leader Elly Schlein urged Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government to introduce a national tax on energy companies’ windfall profits as petrol and diesel prices exceeded €2 per liter across Italy [ansa.it#1][ansa.it#2][open.online#1][today.it#1]. Schlein said Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti’s new European initiative was not enough because any EU-level measure would require
President Trump defended the expansion of data centers in an interview with his former fixer, Michael Cohen, that aired in full on Sunday. Why it matters: Trump's support comes as data centers face growing backlash in both red and blue states. What he's saying: Trump told Cohen during their interview that the U.S. was leading China in AI "by a lot" and that data centers were not taking power from
PM will use independence day trip to announce sharing of classified information about Storm Shadow components Britain will boost Ukraine’s capacity to make its own long-range missiles, Andy Burnham will announce on Monday, as he travels to Kyiv for the country’s independence day on his first foreign visit as prime minister. Burnham will arrive in the Ukrainian capital on Monday morning at a crucia
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or the Department), in support of the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines and in furtherance of the Executive Order of August 10, 2026, "Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans," seeks public comment on whether the categories currently used in Federal vaccine recommendations are adequate. Those categories are rout
Notice is hereby given that a complaint was filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission on July 21, 2026, under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, on behalf of LG Energy Solution Ltd. of Korea and LG Energy Solution Arizona, Inc. of Queen Creek, Arizona. A supplement was filed on August 5, 2026. The complaint, as supplemented, alleges violations of section 337 based upon the
2026-08-23 RDP # Honeypot IOCs - 2165 scans Thread with top 3 features in each category and links to the full dataset # DFIR # InfoSec Top IPs: 178.128.32.226 - 1978 143.110.163.63 - 132 103.178.235.50 - 10 Top ASNs: AS14061 - 2110 AS396982 - 12 AS140810 - 10 Top Accounts: hello - 2131 Domain - 9 root - 6 Top ISPs: DigitalOcean, LLC - 2110 Google LLC - 12 VPSTTT - 10 Top Clients: Unknown - 2165 To
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2026-08-23 RDP # Honeypot IOCs - 6495 scans Thread with top 3 features in each category and links to the full dataset # DFIR # InfoSec Top IPs: 178.128.32.226 - 5934 143.110.163.63 - 396 103.178.235.50 - 30 Top ASNs: AS14061 - 6330 AS396982 - 36 AS140810 - 30 Top Accounts: hello - 6393 Domain - 27 root - 18 Top ISPs: DigitalOcean, LLC - 6330 Google LLC - 36 VPSTTT - 30 Top Clients: Unknown - 6495
'As an extension of this, we have carried out patrol missions with crews made up of both British and Norwegian personnel. 'The operation [to monitor Russian subs] continued around the clock for several weeks, with Norwegian and British aircraft taking turns monitoring the submarines. One of the British P-8 aircraft also had Norwegian personnel on board who were undertaking training in Lossiemouth
Bessent, the supercilious prick, is a serial-bankrupter like his boss, # Trump . Wall Street analyst Gordon Johnson: “Every market has a fellow who is certain the prices are wrong and that he alone knows the right ones. Usually the market charges him tuition for this belief. Occasionally, it hands him the Treasury.” … “Consider the record. In 2000, Scott Bessent left George Soros to run $1 billion
Florida started the week in a hotter, wetter pattern across several regions. Tampa Bay forecasters expected daily rain chances to rise as tropical moisture returns, and Orlando forecasters called for above-average heat with rain coverage increasing by midweek [wtsp.com#1][wesh.com#1]. In South Florida, WPBF forecast highs in the low to mid-90s and heat index values of 101 to 108 degrees, while New
Sunday is for Eve updates 'round these parts. If you don't care, you can skip this one, doesn't hurt my feelings. This morning, I quit the corp that I'd been in almost all year. I won't go into the details why, instead I'll just share that I moved to Brave Newbies Inc, and I think it'll be a better fit for my play style. I'm sure it'll have me in more fleets, both as a member and a fleet commander
The Aug. 24 arXiv AI submissions focused on systems designed to make large language models act across tools, memories, retrieval systems and domain workflows. Papers proposed spec-driven agentic software development, memory-primed coding-agent spawning, multi-agent communication control, graph-engineered agent systems and stateful authorization for delegated agent effects [arxiv.org#1][arxiv.org#2
AI researchers and independent developers described several compact model releases and experiments aimed at lowering data, memory and compute requirements. The DFM Mimir v1 technical report introduced a 1-billion-parameter Hierarchical Reasoning Model trained from scratch on 161 datasets using permissible post-training data; its authors said it outperformed the original HRM-Text 1B, competed with
arXiv:2608.20481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open source JSON-RPC protocol that standardizes how large language models (LLMs) interact with external systems through programmatic functions known as tools. Attackers or malicious agents can exploit certain modalities of these MCP tools to degrade the overall quality of service of agent-based applications. For
arXiv:2608.20563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon security LLM agents must carry information and decisions across many dependent interactions, where later actions often depend on services, state, or access discovered much earlier. This makes final task success difficult to interpret: an agent may fail before it ever reaches the point where the capability of interest can be exercised. We
arXiv:2608.20580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to multi-level attacks. However, existing methods address them separately, leaving FL exposed to data leakage, unauthorized reuse, and malicious gradient manipulation. In this work, we propose an FL framework that couples keyed context-provenance watermarking with verifiable lattice-based secure aggregation of Re
arXiv:2608.20583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) employ hardware-based isolation mechanisms to safeguard the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive code and data. One such prevalent implementation is Arm TrustZone, which partitions the system into the secure and normal (non-secure) worlds. However, this partitioning results in the secure world having very l
arXiv:2608.20671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mutual attestation among nodes with no central trusted operator requires each node to hold reference values (expected code measurements) for its peers. The na\"ive approach of mutually embedding these reference values in the nodes' code leads to an infinite regress. We call the problem of resolving this infinite regress the reference-value bootstrapp
arXiv:2608.20675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The software supply chain is becoming more complex, and AI is reshaping its threat landscape, e.g., raising concerns about the quality of AI-generated dependencies. Seen through the lens of trust, the stakes of eroding trust in the software supply chain are high, yet we lack an empirical baseline on practitioners' trust. The goal of this study is to
arXiv:2608.20705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Bitcoin Lightning Network secures hundreds of millions of dollars, yet channel endpoints rely on vulnerable single online keys. Although threshold signatures are routinely used to protect on-chain Bitcoin, no practical deployment has been possible for Lightning channels. This is because thresholdizing a Lightning party requires nesting a threshol
arXiv:2608.20817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensors are integral to modern robotic systems, enabling robots to perceive and interact with the physical environment through tactile feedback. However, the physical-layer security of tactile sensors has received little attention. We present GhostTac, the first contactless attack, to the best of our knowledge, that manipulates tactile sensin
arXiv:2608.20855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motivated by Bailey's four-step FFT algorithm (1989), we develop additive FFT techniques for polynomial evaluation over affine subspaces of binary extension fields. Our key insight is that the Taylor expansion with respect to vanishing polynomials of subspaces provides a structural counterpart to Bailey's matrix formulation. It decomposes an additive
arXiv:2608.20963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly generate complete web applications from natural-language prompts, raising the question of whether explicitly requesting security best practice improves the result. We study six functionally distinct web applications, each generated in two prompt variants that are identical except for an appended security-requirement
arXiv:2608.21049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the progression in open and disaggregated 6G radio access networks, it is expected that the system will be able to host multi-vendors. In order to host multi-vendors, it is essential that AI-assisted control loops remain safe, verifiable, and auditable under concurrent operator intents and untrusted model inputs. The existing studies address the
arXiv:2608.21126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Networked large language model (LLM) agents retrieve information from email, cloud storage, calendars, transaction platforms, and Web services to complete multistep tasks that produce persistent external effects. The same content needed for legitimate execution may also contain indirect prompt injections that redirect tool use, alter sensitive argume
arXiv:2608.21131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We build a system that answers "which database vectors are most similar to my query?" without the server ever seeing the query. The query is encrypted with fully homomorphic en- cryption (FHE); the server does all its scoring on ciphertexts and returns encrypted results that only the client can read. The challenge is speed: at a billion vectors, scor
arXiv:2608.21205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Workplace surveillance is used by organizations to protect corporate assets and monitor employee productivity. This research presents two central arguments on workplace surveillance: although surveillance serves legitimate organizational purposes, over-surveillance can violate legal requirements and data privacy principles; and a primary security obj
arXiv:2608.20363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: File carving recovers files from raw storage media without relying on filesystem metadata, a key capability in digital forensics, data recovery, and digital exploration. Traditional tools such as Foremost, Scalpel v1/2, and PhotoRec handle contiguous files effectively, and some support fragmented recovery for specific formats under simplifying assu
arXiv:2608.20377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ethereum transactions admit a canonical structural form. Each execution trace is built into an abstract syntax tree of token transfers grouped by call-frame nesting and reduced by a convergent term rewriting system of 15 rules to a unique canonical form. The system is terminating, sound, and confluent, and the induced structural equivalence on fund
arXiv:2608.20572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) face a dual challenge: vulnerability to adversarial attacks and prohibitive training cost. Adversarial training is effective but expensive, a burden that grows as learning shifts to the energy-constrained edge. This paper addresses both through GPU undervolting during training. Reducing supply voltage introduces
arXiv:2608.20789v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT, which can generate human-like responses from vast amounts of textual data, are increasingly transforming work routines across various fields, including education, healthcare, and IT. This integration, however, raises privacy concerns and questions the readiness of both environments and
arXiv:2608.21133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical image-text data can expose protected health information (PHI) through both visible image content as well as accompanying text, creating a barrier to privacy-preserving medical AI systems. This risk is especially prominent in multimodal systems, where images, questions, reports, and clinical context may enter training, evaluation, or inferen
arXiv:2608.21137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) promises trust-free collaborative learning by replacing the centralized parameter server with peer-to-peer model exchange. However, this architectural shift fundamentally reshapes the threat landscape. Without globally coordinated aggregation, DFL becomes particularly susceptible to backdoor attacks, in which
arXiv:2603.03486v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cyber-security systems often operate in resource-constrained environments, such as edge environments and real-time monitoring systems, where model size and inference time are crucial. A light-weight intrusion detection framework is proposed that utilizes the Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) to capture complex features in the data, with the efficie
arXiv:2603.27204v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Skills are increasingly used to extend LLM agents by packaging prompts, code, and configurations into reusable modules. As public registries and marketplaces expand, they form an emerging agentic supply chain, but also introduce a new attack surface for malicious skills. Detecting malicious skills is challenging because relevant evidence is often
arXiv:2605.24817v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures are increasingly adopted for scaling Large Language Models (LLMs), safety auditing becomes necessary to verify whether these models produce or facilitate harmful behaviors during operation. However, existing content-based auditing methods typically require access to user prompts, model internals, or outpu
arXiv:2607.25222v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Homomorphic encryption (HE) schemes based on the Ring Learning with Errors (RLWE) problem have been rapidly developed and widely applied to secure computation tasks, such as privacy-preserving deep learning inference and database queries. However, existing HE schemes mainly focus on the feasibility and efficiency of homomorphic computation, while
arXiv:2605.01913v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fine-tuning safety-aligned language models for downstream tasks often leads to substantial degradation of refusal behavior, making models vulnerable to adversarial misuse. While prior work has shown that safety-relevant features are encoded in structured representations within the model's activation space, how these representations change d
arXiv:2606.12764v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate code at scale. Meanwhile, prior work has investigated whether training data may be recoverable from model outputs, by auditing the textual overlap between training examples and model generations. Code, however, can preserve the same logic while differing substantially in syntax
arXiv:2608.20589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Marketron model of \cite{HalperinItkin2025Mark} and its option pricing extension in \cite{HalperinItkinMarketron2} suffer from structural non-identifiability: an eighteen-parameter space traps solvers in suboptimal local minima and renders economic quantities unmeasurable. By removing exact scaling gauges and sign symmetries, freezing non-financi
arXiv:2608.20842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep hedging is a data-driven approach to learn hedging strategies. It relies on synthetic price paths generator, as real market data is often limited for training. Existing approaches primarily evaluate such generators based on realism, i.e., how well they capture statistical properties of real markets, but the relationship between realism and hedgi
arXiv:2608.20727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tests of conditional mean independence can lose power when departures are confined to a bounded part of a multivariate predictor space and the relevant spatial scale is unknown. We propose a Multiscale Ball Conditional Mean Independence (MBCMI) test that aggregates support-weighted local mean contrasts in an outcome variable across balls centered o
arXiv:2608.21128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Marketing Mix Models (MMMs) are widely used for marketing measurement and budget allocation, but face fundamental identification challenges: due to endogenous marketing spend decisions, MMM estimation on observational time-series data cannot recover the true causal effects of marketing. On the other hand, geo-experiments provide causal identificati
arXiv:2608.21130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Marketing Mix Models (MMMs) estimate the incremental sales effect of advertising from observational time series, yet they are rarely validated against ground truth, because ground truth is unobservable in real data. Synthetic data closes that gap in principle, but existing generators produce marketing spend exogenously - omitting the central diffic
arXiv:2607.05011v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We derive an operational-time variance kernel for a latent-order-book reaction boundary and use it to separate three objects usually collapsed in calendar-time volatility models: a structural boundary cumulant, a clock projection, and a pricing-measure choice. The reaction boundary is the zero of a bid--ask imbalance field. For a locally linear b
arXiv:2608.07479v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conformal prediction has been touted as a more formal, rigorous approach to adding uncertainty to a forecast. The sole objective of this note is to point out that rigor cuts both ways in the case of residual pooling, the technique used in the vast majority of conformal prediction applications. The fact that unconditional guarantee of coverage is
Social media comments by Tobias Lütke, the right-wing CEO of the Canadian online shopping site Shopify, in which the multi-billionaire attacks universal suffrage have been met with outrage in Canada and internationally. Lütke declared that voting rights should be stripped from those whom he termed “dependents”—based on their payment of income tax. This would disenfranchise wide swathes of workers
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two Atlantic areas for possible tropical development as hurricane season nears its peak: Invest 95L, about 400 miles southeast of Bermuda, and a tropical wave expected to move off Africa's west coast Monday [wpbf.com#1][news4jax.com#1][wesh.com#2]. Central Florida forecasters said neither system currently poses a risk to Central Florida [wesh.com#2]. Inv
We open-sourced Crawler4Pentest, an AI-augmented crawler we built in-house for web pentesting. Here's what makes it different up front: it doesn't hand you a list of pages. It hands you use cases to test. Every other crawler we've used produces a map — URLs, endpoints, a page tree. Useful, but it's inventory. You still have to sit down and work out what to actually test on each feature, which is t
Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti and Environment and Energy Security Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin signed a ministerial decree extending Italy’s diesel tax cut through August 26, after the relief had been due to expire at midnight on August 24 [ansa.it#1][today.it#1][fanpage.it#1]. The measure keeps a discount of about 17 cents per litre on diesel, made up of a 14-cent excise reduc
Poll also finds sizeable majorities who believe it should be easier to install air con in homes Given the choice, more people across five major European nations including the UK favour encouraging the adoption of air conditioning over keeping carbon emissions down, a survey has found. After four extreme heatwaves that have caused thousands of excess deaths across the continent, the survey showed b
Radio host’s indecent assault and sexual touching trial enters fourth week, with shock jock Jason Morrison telling court complainant C appeared ‘stuck’ beside Jones Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Fellow shock jock Jason Morrison has told t he Alan Jones trial that guests at a luncheon hosted by the 2GB breakfast p
Business commentary focused on whether the dollar’s global role is entering a new phase, with the Financial Times publishing an analysis titled “The great re-equitisation and the dollar” and the South China Morning Post interviewing Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen on how de-dollarisation could look in practice [ft.com#1][scmp.com#1]. A separate currency analysis circulated by Google News cite
For context: Cara is an artists social platform that gained traction after Instagram made you agree to let them use your pictures for whatever purpose (train AI most likely). The platform has a firm stance against the use of generative AI and even has Glaze built in (a tool to poison pictures for when they're fed to AI). Only recently I saw a post here on Lemmy about someone scraping all of Cara a
Linux and open-source projects ended the August 17–23 week with releases covering distributions, desktop software, browsers, virtualization, package management and gaming tools. Linuxiac listed Linux kernel 7.2, COSMIC Desktop 1.6, VirtualBox 7.2.16, KDE Gear 26.08, Firefox 154, Thunderbird 154, RPM 6.1, Proton 11.0-2 and NetworkManager 1.58.1 among the week’s notable updates [linuxiac.com#1]. 9to
[Digger/CH] # opencanary Samba Access Summary for Aug 23 This OpenCanary received 0 file sample(s) yesterday. File hashes seen: List of Usernames: 👤 administrator: 24 occurrence(s) 👤 ubuntu: 11 occurrence(s) 👤 guest: 5 occurrence(s) List of IP Addresses: 🌐 36.129.40.xxx: 22 occurrence(s) 🌐 187.230.183.xxx: 22 occurrence(s) 🌐 130.110.3.xxx: 11 occurrence(s) 🌐 161.97.143.xxx: 9 occurrence(s)
ESFGUM This Hydrologic Outlook is for Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan. A reinvigorated monsoon trough with a potential embedded tropical disturbance that was previously expected to develop and bring periods of heavy rainfall to the Marianas beginning Wednesday, has continued to fallen behind. The mid to long-term model guidance continues to show a downward trend in any potential cyclogenesis, with
Charles Perrottet appeared to be furthering Jean Nassif’s interests when he shared a secret recording, a former NSW MP claims Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Dominic Perrottet’s brother shared “dirt” – including a secret pocket phone recording of a minister – to try to help a property developer achieve political ou
xonotic india needs help, folks I run the only consistent xonotic server in India, and have been running it since 2022 end/early 2023 or so. This was made possible by the generous compute. I discovered this a few days ago but my "violation" (I didn't downgrade my instances) blocked a few servers from being edited. I deleted one 1 OCPU 6gb ram server and now I need to resize another one I care abou
I had a half-assed idea, but really I just wanted to write code that resembles a potentially larger project without anyone else telling me how to do it. Why? Because at work usually there's pressure to deliver and I can't spend time on architectural philosophy. One that I'd need for my career (well, now it's out of pure interest, because my career is likely dead... heh). Even if there's less press
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government sees little chance of resuming talks with President Donald Trump before the midterm elections after trade negotiations collapsed, according to people familiar with the matter. Iran’s currency weakened to an all-time low against the dollar amid a mounting US campaign to cripple the country’s economy after almost six months of war. The rial was trading at 1.99
IC Brief Morning — 2026-08-24 At least one allied government, Israel, Poland, or Slovenia, will likely alter intelligence service access or protective arrangements before October 24. Moderate confidence rests on three independent cases where institutional pressure exceeds capacity for inaction: Netanyahu's public instruction to Shin Bet on Eisenkot's protection, Poland's immunity-gated prosecution
Had some more time to play around with the newly acquired # PineNote from @ pine64 I got a new user account setup using systemd-homed which gives you an encrypted storage for that user. This will require you to log in with a password each time you fire it it up. I consider that a good thing! I also registered my public SSH keys into the systemd-userdb , which then allows me to log into the device
メール本文中リンクからマルウェア感染を狙った日本語のメールが確認されています。 ■日時 2026/08/21(金) ■件名 【請求書】8月分ご請求書の送付について ■リンク hxxps[:]//dnbwr-rtw4u.pages[.]dev ■ダウンロード JD09_109_R01000331_202608[.]zip -> CIT-Number.20260824112143.IMG -> CIT-Number.20260824112143.EXE, nW_Elf.dLL https://www. virustotal.com/gui/file/d01d4a 086d19d7be96383aeea7538dfbf364510354d997645e6f8ec11454c50b/detection https:// tria.ge/260824-k3a3dsz1ds https:// app.
Interesting paper : Abstract: With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception , employing deceptive means to defraud audiences. Analyzing court data from Silicon Valley ventures and their founders prosecuted for fraud between 2000 and 2023, our findings reveal that entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception through a process of façading :
Alert! Zimbra compromises associated with CVE-2026-73570 exploitation are spreading. 274 instances seen compromised in our scans for exploitation artifacts on 2026-08-22. Top: US (41 IPs). Detection in collaboration with @CERT_Polska_en Public Dashboard: https:// dashboard.shadowserver.org/sta tistics/combined/map/?date_range=1&map_type=std&source=compromised_website&source=compromised_website6&ta
Once, when I was a teenager, I was woken up by the sound of crying at night. I was confused because our neighbors just moved out so there was no way it was a neighbor's baby crying. I got out of bed and grabbed a broom. Yes, I fully intended to whack a spirit that could eviscerate me with a broom. I had large bedroom windows that didn't have curtains and I could hear the neighborhood stray dogs ba
US equity futures drag as investors await US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s news conference on Iran on Monday as well as the PCE data, Nvidia earnings and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's remarks later in the week. Canada sees little chance of resuming trade negotiations with the US before the US midterm elections following unsuccessful talks. Sharon Bell of Goldman Sachs compares the US and Europe's s
ShinyHunters added ReliaQuest to its DLS yesterday. ReliaQuest responded with an entire blog post showing how ShinyHunters got nowhere. "Our defense in depth starts from the assumption that a threat actor will eventually phish someone's account. Phishing works. Even well-trained people can be deceived by a convincing caller who knows a teammate's name. We don't treat a sign-in to our identity prov
The US Army’s Apache helicopters are crashing at a historically high rate amid a widespread problem with the model’s transmission, according to a CNN analysis of military accident data. The helicopter type has experienced five major crashes since October, and a deadly mishap earlier this month in Texas killed two soldiers, sparked a wildfire and led the Army to temporarily bar Apache pilots from c
Been working on my own shell prompt (because starship is getting sloppified). Not quite ready yet for anyone else to use it, but I've been using it for a few days and I'm really happy with it. In the attached image: - user@host - current directory (relative path to git root if git repo is present) - git status: - nix/lix version, and if flake.lock is present: how long since the last input named "n
America's answer to hotter summers has overwhelmingly been more air conditioning, and engineers are now looking for ways to keep people cool without driving up electricity demand. Why it matters: The need for cooling is surging. The issue isn't just how to generate more electricity — it's how to use less of it and ease demand when grids are most strained. Between the lines: A July study finds that
I attended a beautiful memorial service for a dear family friend over the weekend, and, as is apparently inevitable these days, midway through a granddaughter’s heartfelt remembrances, someone’s phone started ringing. Loudly. Some old-time rock and roll came blasting through the room. After what seemed like an eternity, the neglectful owner located the offending device and silenced it — only for i
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (ansible-core, cups-filters, curl, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, java-25-openjdk, kbd, kernel, perl-Date-Manip, php:8.2, and php:8.3), Debian (designate, firefox-esr, gst-plugins-bad1.0, libnet-dns-perl, nvidia-graphics-drivers, openjdk-21, openjdk-25, spip, and thunderbird), Fedora (AusweisApp2, bluez, calibre, ceph, chromium,
Genie Godula is pleased to welcome Samantha de Bendern, Associate Fellow at Chatham House, author, and political risk and financial consultant. Europe is taking increasingly consequential steps to support Ukraine, but de Bendern warns that they remain insufficient to address the country's fundamental vulnerability. The transfer of interceptor missiles and the prospect of producing Storm Shadow/SCA
BREAKING: Trump: Canada has been ripping off the United States of America for years. Their ridiculously high tariffs on our Farmers and farm products has made life impossible for these great American Patriots, and has long created a 60 Billion Dollar Deficit between our two Countries. Not sustainable, and NOT ANYMORE! On January First, 2027, Tariffs on all Cars, Trucks, both large and small, Autom
O meu tio mandou uma foto para um dos meus irmãos. Essa foto é dele e dos irmãos (meu pai incluído) quando eram crianças, com minha vó. O detalhe que chamou a atenção foi que meu pai estava loiro criança. Daí virou discussão que meu tio usou IA. Mas assim, eu e meu irmão eramos loiros quando eramos criança, o cabelo escureceu quando crescemos. E sempre achamos que isso eram uma característica do l
Different Office Hours sessions, different haircuts for our usual host, Jan Pedersen. Since we've got the recordings, we can actually pinpoint which topic went with which look. Here's a dare: can you guess what Jan's haircut will be in two days? You'll get the real answer either way, since this Wednesday Jan and guest Robert Tanase, our Lead Product Manager, are talking through what happened at DE
An Iranian-linked cyberattack knocked a small British power generator offline for four days last month, putting a spotlight on the security of smaller energy facilities. Check out today's Metacurity for more on what happened in the UK and other top infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including --GTA VI hacker leaks gameplay and map, --Hackers claim 6.1 TB theft from Italia
Tukaram Mundhe is an Indian bureaucrat on a mission. As a state food safety commissioner, the 51-year-old has raided food businesses in the country’s commercial capital Mumbai in an unprecedented crackdown on poor hygiene and unsafe food that has captivated the public nationwide. Mundhe has led the suspension of food permits of four Domino’s and one Pizza Hut outlet in recent weeks, and has also t
I've been fucking around a lot with the cardputer adv. How much have I been fucking with it? I have a working IRC client built for it, complete with handling wifi connection, logging to the SD card, etc. Text is *miniscule*. This was definitely a "so interested in if I could I never stopped to ask if I should" project. Anyhow, watching a HAM Radio Crash Course video showed me there's a firmware fo
🚨🇪🇺 Rezcomm customer database allegedly leaked on a cybercrime forum, 17K+ records claimed ⠀ A cybercrime forum user claims to have obtained the database of Rezcomm, an e-commerce platform provider serving industries including airports, parking facilities and cruise ports. The post claims the dataset contains information from more than 17,000 individuals across multiple databases. ⠀ The adverti
Wells Fargo’s Sarah House says Chair Kevin Warsh may use Jackson Hole to focus on longer-term questions facing the Federal Reserve rather than signal the next move on interest rates. She also discusses alternative economic data, the Fed balance sheet, Treasury yields and why the U.S. economy continues to show resilience. House speaks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene and Paul Sweeney on Surveillance Radi
🚨🇫🇷 Klark.ai database allegedly leaked on a cybercrime forum, 140GB of data claimed ⠀ A cybercrime forum user claims to have obtained multiple databases belonging to Klark.ai, an artificial intelligence platform designed to help customer service teams generate responses and build knowledge bases from existing conversations. ⠀ The threat actor claims the leak contains 4 databases totaling approx
A predictable but unsolved problem of getting an arts residency (my first), is a feeling of imposter syndrome. I have not gotten off to an amazingly productive start, solving all my problems in a single day. What was less predictable was exactly how derpy I was going to feel. Put in charge of the sourdough and given a recipe by percentage, I screwed up the maths and only added half the water and s
"The US Army’s Apache helicopters are crashing at a historically high rate amid a widespread problem with the model’s transmission, according to a CNN analysis of military accident data. "The helicopter type has experienced five major crashes since October, and a deadly mishap earlier this month in Texas killed two soldiers, sparked a wildfire and led the Army to temporarily bar Apache pilots from
“Fernando # Cerimedo é um # influenciador conhecido por seu discurso de extrema direita, e por sua ligação próxima a figuras desse setor na América do Sul. Suas principais atuações foram em 2023, como assessor durante a vitoriosa campanha eleitoral de Javier # Milei na # Argentina , e em 2025, quando em outra campanha triunfante, a de Rodrigo Paz na Bolívia. No entanto, ele também participou de aç
🚨🇺🇸 SteelSeries TeamCity environment allegedly breached, employee data and credentials claimed exposed ⠀ A cybercrime forum user claims to have breached the SteelSeries TeamCity environment and obtained access to internal project-related data. The post claims the database contains information belonging to 35 users with employee accounts. ⠀ The advertised data includes: ⠀ • Employee account info
Trump: Lots of “bluster” from Doug Ford, who is the Premier of the Canadian Province of Ontario, but who is better known as the less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother of the late, great, Rob Ford. America has been carrying Canada for decades, but no longer! The U.S.A. will always be far bigger, richer, and stronger than Canada. Without the United States, Canada couldn’t su
Annette Young is pleased to welcome Dr. Frank Ledwidge, former military intelligence officer and Senior Lecturer in Strategy at Portsmouth University. According to Dr. Ledwidge, the latest European commitments to Ukraine are merely politically symbolic. He warns that the coalition is failing to address Kyiv's most urgent problem: air defence. Ukraine needs interceptors capable of defeating Russian
‼️ CVE PoC Published: CVE-2026-76565 - Reflected XSS in PhocaCart GitHub: https:// github.com/toanln-cov/CVE-2026 -76565 A proof-of-concept has been released for CVE-2026-76565, a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting PhocaCart ≤ 6.1.7 for Joomla. The vulnerability exists in the price_from and price_to filter parameters within the mod_phocacart_filter module. Due to improper
I really like playing the frozen landscapes in # OxygenNotIncluded (Rime and Ceres). They are kind of like playing the standard scenarios _backwards_, reversing a lot of the challenges. The things that are typically easy to get set up in the early game starts are now basically impossible. The things that are hard in the mid-game are now significantly easier. Like disease and energy are so much eas
With Ceres in particular you are also managing wood as a resource, and if you fall too far behind that curve it can mean game over until you are fairly well established due to its use in creating _liquid water_. You can rush flox development, but they compete with your dupes for pikeapples and it isn't a sustainable long term source of power: you basically need two full rooms _just_ to power _one_
To make it worse alveo vera—one of your only reliable sources of oxygen that isn't polluted and doesn't require additional care—requires CO2 to function. Which seems great until you realize that this makes it hard to dig a giant pit to dump CO2 in. It also consumes ice. Which is fine except that you can't pipe it, so you now need to make sure (like the phosphorite with spikeapples) that you have e
🚨🇸🇦 STC TV user database allegedly leaked on a cybercrime forum, 3M+ records claimed ⠀ An actor claims to have obtained a database belonging to STC TV, a Saudi Arabia-based streaming service. The seller claims the dataset contains information belonging to more than 3 million users. ⠀ The advertised data includes: ⠀ • Full names • User points • Gender information • Mobile numbers • Email address
"Of the eight TripAdvisor reviews of the amphitheater near Arcugnano, in Italy’s northern Veneto region, all give fulsome, five-star praise. "'Unique on the planet,' writes a visitor. That was prescient, because the theater certainly was unique. It wasn’t Greek, as it purported to be. It wasn’t even Roman. "Instead, the 'kind custodian' who was 'more or less a historian, and an excellent narrator,
This is something I have been vocal about for years and I am so happy we finally are getting it. This is... this is a niche tech thing, but it is one of these things that will have more impact than you think. Progressive rendering being native to this image format will also allow to delete all kind of code that was trying to do it, usually badly, at high cpu cost and network cost. This is exactly
🚨 Desktop RAT with reverse shell and file management features advertised on a cybercrime forum ⠀ An actor is advertising what they describe as a desktop remote access trojan (RAT) featuring remote control capabilities, reverse shell functionality and an integrated file explorer. The seller is offering a free trial period to selected forum members. ⠀ The advertised features include: ⠀ • Desktop re
President Trump's push to restrict mail-in voting through the U.S. Postal Service could allow the federal government to exert control over voting data and state-run elections, voting rights groups say. Why it matters: The proposed rule could scramble the 2026 midterms by forcing local and state officials to adopt an untested federal system on short notice and potentially undermine confidence in U.
"Do we have detection for this CVE?" is normally the first question after a CVE lands on CISA's KEV list. Six times in ten, nothing public can even tell you. I checked the 554 KEV CVEs published in the last three years against Emerging Threats Open, SigmaHQ, and Elastic detection rules, counting a hit if a rule file cites the CVE ID. 329 have none. None of Apple's 31. None of Google's 24, every on
In Trump administration’s plan, California, Arizona and Nevada face about a 20% cut to water supply over two years Nevada filed a federal lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration’s new plan for the imperiled Colorado River, launching what could become the first of many court battles over the waterway that supplies 40 million people, dozens of tribes and 5.5m acres of farm land across
On the early edition of Balance of Power, Bloomberg Washington correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz discuss the latest from the Trump administration. On today's show, they speak with Joe Lavorgna, Chief Economist of SMBC Americas/Former-Counselor to Secretary Scott Bessent at the US Treasury Department, Rick Davis, Partner at Stonecourt Capital and Bloomberg Politics Contributor & Jeanne Sh
The Trump administration plans to revoke up to 200,000 business and tourism visas held by people who've sought asylum in the U.S., AP first reported on Monday. Why it matters: It would be the largest mass visa revocation in U.S. history and would likely trigger legal challenges. What they're saying: "We are coordinating with DHS to identify and revoke the nonimmigrant visas of foreigners who have
Ed Al-Hussainy, Portfolio Manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, discusses the relative stability of the U.S. dollar against developed market currencies, while highlighting the strength of emerging market currencies fueled by carry trades supported by higher real yields in countries like Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and South Africa. Despite strong U.S. economic fundamentals, including low une
Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Principal Asset Management CEO & President Kamal Bhatia, Tether Co-Founder Bill Quigley, Goldman Sachs Research US Software Equity Research Analyst Gabriela Borges, Bilt CEO Ankur Jain & Equinox Group Executive Chairman Harvey
I hate to say it, but this is a threat, even though it's coming from "just" the # US transportation secretary (and it's not even true – # Canada does have a military, but that's not the point. Duffy is saying that it doesn't compare to that of the # USA ). And he is saying the (not so) quiet sentiment of the # trump admin aloud concerning its desire to have the upper hand over Canada. # trade # Tr
I'm currently focusing on religious studies and diving into the doctrines of my denomination of Buddhism. What makes Shin Buddhism different from other forms of Buddhism, etc. Interestingly, the more I learn about my chosen tradition, the more I find I agree with it. The issues that I have with some aspects of Buddhism seem to be addressed in my particular school. And, to be very clear, it is a fe
New economic research and workplace surveys show artificial intelligence moving from pilots into daily work, with uneven effects on labor demand, productivity and business results. A CEPR column analyzing five waves of the Anthropic Economic Index from January 2025 to February 2026 estimated current AI time savings at $2.7 trillion annually, equal to 3.4% of GDP, while finding the gains concentrat