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WHO and Netherlands Strategic Dialogue in The Hague, Netherlands 10 April 2024. Credit: Michel Mees Photography The WHO and the Netherlands convened in The Hague on 10 April 2024, to discuss joint priorities and alignment between the Dutch Global Health Strategy and WHO s key strategic goals, marking a new milestone in their longstanding partnership. Rooted in the Netherlands' unwavering commitmen
WHO welcomed Mr Javier Padilla Bern ldez, Spain s Secretary of State for Health and his delegation on 23 and 24 April 2024 to discuss joint global health priorities. Amongst others, Spain's focus is on universal health coverage and health systems strengthening; pandemic response and emergency medical teams; organ and tissue transplantation; malaria and other tropical diseases; and polio. During th
Governments of the world today agreed to continue working on a proposed pandemic agreement, and to further refine the draft, ahead of the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly that starts 27 May 2024. Governments meeting at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva agreed to resume hybrid and in-person discussions over coming weeks to advance work on critical issues, including around a
Ireland is becoming a global leader in the field of innovation in harnessing digital technologies as a tool to address various barriers for access to care. In alignment with WHO, Ireland recognizes the importance of mobilizing assistive technology to help the 2.5 billion people in need globally, including older persons, people with disabilities, and those living with health conditions. This includ
Ahead of the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly , the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a Core Contribution Agreement to support the implementation of WHO s extended Thirteenth General Programme of Work. The agreement entails a contribution of US$ 4 million from the State of Qatar to WHO, through QFFD, aimed at enhancing the Organization's eff
In an unprecedented show of unity in support of the World Health Organization, 14 African countries and many partners pledged over US$ 45 million to the WHO Investment Round, a three-month-old initiative aimed at generating sustainable financing for the organization at the center of the global health architecture. The commitments were made during the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Commit
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Republic of Korea have a long-standing partnership spanning over 75 years. As a result of their fruitful collaboration, there has been significant progress in health and development all around the world. The Republic of Korea has gone from being a donor-recipient country to a donor-country and is now a leader in global health and playing a critical role
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands have renewed their strategic partnership in addressing the growing impacts of climate change on global health. The Netherlands is providing a new allocation of 500 000 for 2024 to WHO, reinforcing its commitment to climate resilience and sustainable healthcare systems worldwide. This allocation supports WHO s ongoing efforts to
Geneva 17 October 2024 This afternoon, His Excellency Mr J r me Bonnafont, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations in Geneva, and WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met in the WHO headquarters for the signing of seven contribution agreements. The contribution totalling 24 million comes through the Ministry of Europe & Foreign Affairs. It fits in the France WHO Fram
Philanthropic support plays a vital role in enabling countries to build stronger health systems and advance towards health equity. From vaccine equity and pandemic preparedness to primary health care, the contributions of philanthropic partners help drive progress across WHO s key priorities. The importance of philanthropic support was underscored by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-Gen
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union (AU) Commission renewed their longstanding strategic partnership today with the signing of an updated Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva. This renewed agreement reaffirms the joint commitment to advancing health security, universal health coverage, and sustainable development acros
The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Timor-Leste as malaria-free, a remarkable achievement for a country that prioritized the disease and embarked on a concerted, nation-wide response shortly after gaining independence in 2002. WHO congratulates the people and government of Timor-Leste on this significant milestone, said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. Timor-Leste
Splashy public companies often dominate headlines, but the majority of the companies in the U.S. are privately owned and these companies are just as important to the economic ecosystem as the public ones— they support millions of jobs and contribute trillions to the economy. For business owners, there are a number of benefits to staying private. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , being pr
—Illustration by TIME; Scott Olson, NurPhoto, SOPA Images/Getty Images American companies have dominated global markets for some time, but in the past few years, experts have become less certain about the future of America’s economic power and influence as a result of new tariffs, export controls, and the worldwide backlash against them. However, even in uncertainty, U.S. stocks have remained stro
Update July 16, 2026 : CISA has updated this Alert to reflect the addition of CVE-2026-58644 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog on July 16, 2026. CISA is aware of active exploitation of vulnerabilities CVE-2026-32201 , CVE-2026-45659 , CVE-2026-56164 , and CVE-2026-58644 , enabling cyber threat actors to gain unauthorized access to on-premises SharePoint Server instances. These v
CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-15409 SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability CVE-2026-15410 SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Code Injection Vulnerability CVE-2026-56155 Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services Insufficient Granularity of Access Control
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CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2023-4346 KNX Association KNX Protocol Connection Authorization Option 1 Overly Restrictive Account Lockout Mechanism Vulnerability CVE-2026-46817 Oracle E-Business Suite Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent a
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Canonical released fixes for three snapd vulnerabilities in USN-8579-1 on July 21: two high-severity issues and one medium-severity issue affecting Ubuntu systems [fosslinux.com#1][lxer.com#1]. CVE-2026-8933 is a local privilege-escalation vulnerability in snap-confine that Qualys found could let an unprivileged local user gain root access; sources list affected releases including Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
arXiv:2607.19595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are vulnerable to security risks, such as prompt injection attacks from untrusted context that manipulate downstream reasoning and tool use. Existing secure-by-design approaches mitigate this risk by separating untrusted observations from privileged execution and careful control of information flow, but often degrade
arXiv:2607.19433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The transition from stateless generative models in artificial intelligence to stateful, autonomous agents represents an architectural evolution that, while providing the capabilities of long-term planning and the automation of enterprise workflows, also represents the introduction of a new form of security threat, the Chronos Vulnerability. The Chr
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on July 22 added exploited vulnerabilities affecting Check Point SmartConsole and Microsoft SharePoint to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation and saying such flaws pose significant risks to federal networks [cisa.gov#1]. The Check Point flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-16232, affects Security Managem
UPDATE: Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint (CERT-EU Security Advisory 2026-009) [UPDATED] On 14 July 2026, Microsoft released security updates addressing critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Server. On 20 July 2026, WatchTowr identified a proof-of-concept exploit code and subsequently observed active exploitation of CVE-2026-50522, a vulnerabil
Kazakhstan temporarily reduced oil production after the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal at Novorossiysk on Russia’s Black Sea coast suspended crude loadings following drone attacks on tankers, the Energy Ministry said; Reuters also reported the cuts, citing industry sources [yna.co.kr#1][meduza.io#1][zoznam.sk#1][boereport.com#1][energynow.com#1][nv.ua#1]. The terminal is Kazakhstan’s main se
Astronomers reported several new space-telescope findings this week, including a James Webb Space Telescope view of an early supermassive black hole growing inside a compact active galaxy seen about 1 billion years after the Big Bang [phys.org#1]. The active galaxy lies beside a 12,000-parsec-long filament containing multiple young galaxies that astronomers expect to merge within a few hundred mil
Codeberg e.V., the German nonprofit association behind the free and open-source code hosting platform Codeberg, approved a Terms of Use change that bars projects that consist “mostly” of code written by generative AI tools [lxer.com#1][linuxiac.com#1][omgubuntu.co.uk#1][theregister.com#1]. The member vote closed July 22, 2026, with 358 votes in favor, 144 against and 14 abstentions, with roughly 5
And: where to look for such jobs? What would be the process to find them with any chance of success? I hope the question in the title is general enough that more people might find it useful, I'm sure I can't be the only one. I'm going to include some extra details specific to myself below, but you can just ignore them if you want to. - I have no education beyond high school and no useful skills, a
Research reports published July 23-24 described advances in quantum heat transport, quantum computing, laboratory simulation and precision measurement. Engineers observed wave-like heat movement, known as phonon focusing, at room temperature. Researchers had previously seen the phenomenon only at cryogenic temperatures, limiting its study and practical use [phys.org#1][google.com#1]. In separate r
Imagery from a Malaysian maritime delegation’s 2025 visit showed China’s Coast Guard operating a naval version of the Z-20 medium-lift helicopter from the 165-meter Haijing 5901. The aircraft, in Coast Guard colors, took off from the cutter’s flight deck [19fortyfive.com#1]. Available photographs show a naval tail-wheel position, a chin-mounted surface-search radar and an external fuel tank, but n
arXiv:2607.20564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deepfakes, especially face-swapping attacks, pose significant challenges to authenticity, security, and ethics across science, engineering, and society. While most existing detection/tracing approaches operate post hoc, proactive defenses that aim to intervene before deepfake generation remain limited in terms of real-world effectiveness. In this pap
arXiv:2607.20574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Broken Object-Level Authorization (BOLA), also known as Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR), has topped the OWASP API Security ranking since 2019 and is the root cause of some of the largest exposures of applicant data in recruitment technology. The defining feature of this flaw class is that a malicious request is byte-for-byte indistinguishable
arXiv:2607.20579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deepfake news refers to AI-generated (or AI ma-nipulated) multimedia content intentionally generated to deceive audiences by manipulating the facial expressions, or speech while maintaining the realistic appearance. The rapid progress of generative AI has made the synthesis of highly realistic fake videos and cloned voices widely accessible, posing a
arXiv:2607.20686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building Automation Systems (BAS) manage critical building functions using protocols such as BACnet/IP, yet defenders have limited tooling and few labeled datasets for detecting BACnet-specific attacks. This work addresses these gaps through three contributions. First, CISA's Zeek BACnet parser is modified to produce a unified per-packet log, simplif
arXiv:2607.20698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electron is a popular framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies. Such applications consist of multiple processes with different privilege levels that communicate via message passing. When inter-process messages carry attacker-controlled inputs, they can propagate across processes and reach privileged APIs, e.g.
arXiv:2607.20712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Security protocol verification relies on formal tools such as ProVerif and OFMC. This study evaluates whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can perform comparable analysis. We test GPT and DeepSeek in chat and reasoning modes over three runs on 130 obfuscated AnB/AnBx protocols covering 388 security goals, scored against ProVerif and OFMC. Chat models
arXiv:2607.20723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents LeakyLMs, a set of attacks that leak proprietary model, architecture, and deployment information from production language models. LeakyLMs is the first to demonstrate that key model and deployment details can be inferred using only token generation timing, even when interacting through remote APIs. LeakyLMs introduces two core atta
arXiv:2607.20730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly use search tools to retrieve up-to-date information, introducing a new attack surface in which retrieved documents can be manipulated. This risk is amplified by the development of generative engine optimization, which can make selected content more likely to be retrieved, cited, and adopted by models. Existing fact-
arXiv:2607.20800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A relying party validating a hybrid X.509 certificate --- carrying both a classical and a post-quantum credential --- must distinguish whether its accepting judgment rests on the post-quantum evidence or only on the classical path. To preserve compatibility, the separable designs place that evidence where classical path validation may ignore it. A ve
arXiv:2607.20860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Commercial LLM gateways mediate access to hosted models, but the served backend may not match the advertised one: it may substitute a cheaper model on every request or route only a fraction $\epsilon$ of requests to it. Prior black-box auditors often need a privileged signal (log-probabilities, token ranks, or reference samples) or a target-specific
arXiv:2607.21325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous AI agents increasingly execute actions, invoke tools, and operate on protected resources with limited human oversight. Existing authentication and authorization mechanisms establish identity and delegate authority, but do not inherently provide cryptographic evidence that a concrete request issued by a specific agent satisfies the applicab
arXiv:2607.21406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maximal extractable value (MEV) arises when privileged participants select, exclude, insert, or reorder pending transactions for private gain. We specify and analyze the Themis Consensus Extension v1, first published by Mangata in 2021. The design separates value extraction by reordering (VER) from value extraction by denial (VED). For VER, block con
arXiv:2607.21564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification (RFFI) enables transmitter identification at the physical layer by learning device-specific impairments from received signals, yet the literature is inconsistent about where in the receiver chain those samples should be collected. Since distinct transformations are applied to the signal by the different rece
arXiv:2607.20437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems rely on aggregating multiple external documents to answer complex queries. However, the retrieved documents introduce a new threat surface that can be exploited to launch split-knowledge attacks. In this attack, the adversary injects documents that are individually benign but create false asso
arXiv:2607.20494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production LLM applications commonly stack a regex filter in front of model-side alignment; prior work found no measurable coverage gain from adding a live Gemini backend behind an active regex filter. We ask whether that ceiling holds when the corpus is \emph{designed to bypass the regex}. We introduce $L_5$-no-regex -- identical to $L_4$-real (Ge
arXiv:2607.20727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Differential privacy under Continual Observation (CO) quantifies the loss in privacy that occurs when outputs generated using a stream of sensitive input data are published in the online setting. In this paper, we consider a more stringent notion of privacy compared to prior work wherein an individual's participation may shift the entire stream by
arXiv:2607.20832v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) remain difficult to detect because only a small fraction of events in large-scale logs are attack-related, and investigation is expensive and hard to scale. Prior machine-learning approaches can reduce analyst workload, but they often rely on heavily curated training data and sophisticated preprocessing pipelines.
arXiv:2607.20929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sender untraceability hides the account spent by a cryptocurrency transfer among a set of candidates, its masking set. What a transfer does to that set separates two designs: classical schemes retain the whole set and append a nullifier marking the spent account, so the ledger grows with every transfer; constant-state schemes instead consume and re
arXiv:2607.21014v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A distributed storage system with graph-based replication consists of a collection of databases and the files they contain. The databases (or servers) are represented as the vertices of a graph, while each file is stored in a distinct pair of servers and is represented by an edge of this graph. Private information retrieval (G-PIR) on such a graph-
arXiv:2607.21082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing methods for risk-limiting audits typically focus on certifying individual contests. In parliamentary elections, however, the politically relevant outcome is often whether a party has won enough seats to form government, not whether every reported seat outcome is correct. Extending on the work of Mohanty et al. (2019), we formulate the cert
arXiv:2607.21162v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Outsourced Transformer inference exposes clients to model substitution and incomplete execution, while direct replay removes the computational benefit of delegation. We present GKR-HND, a registered-model protocol for verifying the polynomial backbone of Homomorphic--Nonhomomorphic Decomposition Transformers. The retained verifier checks the GKR tr
arXiv:2607.21178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner preferential proportional electoral system. The margin is the smallest number of ballots that need to be manipulated to alter the set of winners. If we can compute the margin of an STV election, or a reasonable lower bound on the margin, we can use recent advances in auditing research to conduct a ri
arXiv:2412.06700v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Insiders with privileged access have the power to cause great harm to their organization. Even a single insider threat incident can be catastrophic, resulting in both financial losses and reputation damage. These threats are some of the most difficult to detect, as attack activity is interspersed in large volumes of legitimate activity. Although
arXiv:2505.20955v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved tremendous success in image generation, but they also raise significant concerns regarding privacy and copyright issues. Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) are designed to ascertain whether specific data was utilized during a model's training phase. As current MIAs for diffusion models typically exploit the model's
arXiv:2602.12967v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present CryptoChoreo, a choreography language for the specification of cryptographic protocols. Choreographies can be regarded as an extension of Alice-and-Bob notation, providing an intuitive high-level view of the protocol as a whole (rather than specifying each protocol role in isolation). The extensions over standard Alice-and-Bob notation
arXiv:2603.22109v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present TALUS, a threshold signing protocol for ML-DSA (FIPS 204) that supports an arbitrary number of parties, emits signatures accepted by any unmodified ML-DSA verifier, and reduces, for a bounded number of signatures per key, to ML-DSA's own assumptions (Module-LWE and SelfTargetMSIS). Its core is the Boundary Clearance Condition (BCC): fo
arXiv:2605.05704v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in foundation models have transformed LLMs from passive conversational systems into autonomous agents capable of reasoning and tool execution. While these capabilities unlock substantial practical value, they also introduce new security risks, as adversaries can manipulate agents into performing harmful actions in real-world envir
arXiv:2605.09504v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present swarm-attack, an open-source adversarial testing framework in which multiple lightweight LLM agents coordinate through shared memory, parallel exploration, and evolutionary optimization. Together, our results demonstrate that both safety bypass of frontier models and software vulnerability discovery, i.e., the capability class that mot
arXiv:2607.15596v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven workflows is transforming high-consequence} government and enterprise systems into language-based, tool-using and increasingly autonomous infrastructures. While these workflows can delegate planning autonomously, security-critical execution should be strictly mediated. Conventional key man
arXiv:2607.18496v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for a range of software, hardware and human-centered security tasks. Consequently, LLM performance on security tasks is an active area of measurement and research, often with a focus on identifying areas in which LLM security ``knowledge'' may be insufficient. Popular strategies for identifying L
arXiv:2508.21797v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Industry 4.0's highly networked Machine Tool Controllers (MTCs) are prime targets for replay attacks that use outdated sensor data to manipulate actuators. Dynamic watermarking can reveal such tampering, but current schemes assume linear-Gaussian dynamics and use constant watermark statistics, making them vulnerable to the time-varying, par
arXiv:2512.12086v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data obfuscation is a promising technique for mitigating attribute inference attacks by semi-trusted parties with access to time-series data emitted by sensors. Recent advances leverage conditional generative models together with adversarial training or mutual information-based regularization to balance data privacy and utility. However, th
arXiv:2603.13026v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prompt injection poses serious security risks to real-world LLM applications, particularly autonomous agents. Although many defenses have been proposed, their robustness against adaptive attacks remains insufficiently evaluated, potentially creating a false sense of security. In this work, we propose PISmith, a reinforcement learning (RL)-b
arXiv:2607.20667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Civilian firearm ownership is politically contentious, yet most evidence linking guns to crime and death comes from the U.S. Canada offers a unique case: strict national regulations alongside widespread legal ownership. Using new administrative data from 2013-2019, we examine associations between gun prevalence and homicides, suicides, and firearms-r
arXiv:2607.20762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We provide a large-scale empirical audit of DEX routing using 2.98 million WETH-USDC swaps on Ethereum. Comparing realized routes with optimized benchmarks, we measure an average shortfall of 2.02 bps per trade or \$24 million. To attribute losses, we introduce three reproducible optimal benchmarks: a Support-Constrained Optimum (SCO) that evaluates
arXiv:2607.20807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence automates execution more readily than evaluation: producing output is cheap, judging whether it is correct is not. Exposure measures rank tasks by whether AI can perform them, not by which function the human supplies. I score all $19{,}265$ O*NET task statements under fixed rubrics to build occupation-level execution and AI-ca
arXiv:2607.21048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent price shocks have prompted calls to curb Europe's dependence on fossil gas imports, but the cost of this goal, and the consumer protection it affords, remain uncertain. Here we address this gap by imposing constraints on fossil gas supply in a European energy system model that co-optimises abatement across all gas uses at high spatio-temporal
arXiv:2607.21170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding similarity among financial assets is essential for effective portfolio diversification. This paper proposes a novel sentiment-adjusted portfolio optimization framework that integrates Topological Data Analysis (TDA) with technical indicators and FinBERT-based sentiment scores extracted from financial news. A TDA-based distance measure i
arXiv:2607.21285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Energy planners have long assumed that electricity demand will grow more price-responsive as metering, automation, and storage spread, an assumption now embedded in decarbonization plans. We test it against the empirical record: 4,720 own-price elasticity estimates from 462 studies, with data spanning 1934-2024, ranked on a single ladder of identific
arXiv:2607.21459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital search is undergoing a fundamental transformation from a human-driven process of discovery to an agent-mediated system of delegated decision-making. In the traditional model of digital search, users translate intent into keyword-based queries, evaluate ranked lists of links, and execute decisions outside the search interface. In an AI-native
arXiv:2607.21512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving boarding efficiency reduces airplane turnaround time and improves passenger experience. Airlines typically assign passengers to a few sequential boarding groups using static seat-based rules. Yet arrivals, seat choices, and luggage are sequential and random, and a static rule ignores the seats earlier passengers have already taken. We propo
arXiv:2607.20781v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming organizations, raising a fundamental organizational and economic question: when will a human employee be replaced by AI? We present an analytical model for studying Human--AI Task Allocation (HAT) in hierarchical organizations. A central feature of the HAT model is that it formally encodes the ec
arXiv:2607.21268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In many social-science research tasks, such as economics, LLM-based agents must produce outputs for which no cheap, task-complete, machine-readable correctness signal exists. This creates a distinctive reliability problem for multi-agent systems: how should generation, critique, coordination, and human judgment be organized when no component can ce
arXiv:2607.21534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The spread of generative AI (GenAI) in higher education has raised concerns that students offload cognitive effort to AI, earning high grades without learning. If this "GenAI substitution hypothesis" is true, grades should rise disproportionately in GenAI-susceptible courses--those relying more on assessments like take-home problem sets and essays
arXiv:2407.15147v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper studies how shipping conferences---explicit cartels---shaped container shipping through prices, entry, and investment from 1973--1990. I estimate a structural model to disentangle static pricing and internal allocation effects from dynamic entry and investment responses. \textcolor{black}{Estimated price wedges equal 30--70\% of mean o
arXiv:2506.21253v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A key criterion for evaluating sports competitions is their attractiveness to consumers. In this paper, we propose using match-level suspense and surprise, which capture the entertainment utility generated by competitive balance and outcome uncertainty for sports spectators, to assess attractiveness. Through simulations, we derive a benchmark ran
arXiv:2507.00575v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper examines whether Bitcoin realized volatility admits a measurable pathwise roughness index and how stable that estimate is across time and measurement designs. Using one-minute BTC/USD close prices from Bitstamp between 2017 and 2024, realized-volatility paths are constructed at 1-, 5-, 10-, and 15-minute frequencies and evaluated with
arXiv:2604.01933v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We conducted a large-scale resume audit of 36,880 applications to 9,220 job advertisements for new college graduates across the United States. Firms express task preferences through job-advertisement text, which we link to occupation-level task measures from O*NET and the American Community Survey. We develop a model in which discrimination incre
arXiv:2607.07655v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating the economic impacts of climate policies is important for designing a response to climate change. One typical approach to assessing mitigation policy options uses integrated climate-economy models to analyze tradeoffs between the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the benefits of reducing climate damages. However, the uncer
arXiv:2607.08500v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper proposes a stochastic discount factor (SDF) scaled by time-varying volatility. By utilizing prices and market data implied solely from S\&P 500 options, the proposed framework recovers a stable, non-monotonic SDF that captures the pure forward-looking expectations of market participants while mitigating observation noise. Our empirical
arXiv:2607.17428v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated market makers (AMMs) for prediction markets descend from market scoring rules, where a mechanism operator subsidizes a market to aggregate beliefs about uncertain events. The existing literature has focused on bounding the total worst-case loss to the subsidizer, but has not addressed how that loss is distributed across price states or
arXiv:2511.08202v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Boltzmann wealth model provided by the Mesa framework is a classic example in agent-based modeling, yet its statistical properties are typically analyzed only through numerical simulation. This paper studies a mean-field version of the model, replacing local interactions with global random matching and adopting a synchronous update sche
arXiv:2603.11838v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models pretrained on internet-scale data risk lookahead bias in forecasting tasks, as they may have already seen the true outcome during training. To address this, we present DatedGPT, a family of twelve 1.3B-parameter language models trained from scratch on approximately 100 billion tokens each with strict annual data cutoff
Cybersecurity reports describe ransomware activity against healthcare suppliers and a wider criminal market with more active groups. Flare researcher Assaf Morag analyzed ransomware leak-site activity tied to EMEA healthcare organizations from 2024 to 2026 and identified targets including hospitals, clinics, telemedicine providers, diagnostic laboratories, pharmacies, rehabilitation services, heal
Eurozone business activity rose more than expected in July, with the S&P Global purchasing managers' index reaching 51.9, above the 50 threshold for growth [jornaldenegocios.pt#1][businesstimes.com.sg#1][vz.lt#1]. The reading marked the first expansion in four months and followed a June level of 50.0 [jornaldenegocios.pt#1][vz.lt#1]. European stocks advanced Friday after stronger activity data and
Rheinmetall held a foundation-laying ceremony on July 22 at Aschau am Inn for a new powder plant at its subsidiary Rheinmetall Nitrochemie, part of the company’s Firepower project to expand ammunition and propelling charge component production [euro-sd.com#1][edrmagazine.eu#1]. The company describes the facility as one of Europe’s largest and most modern powder plants, with planned national capaci
It has taken a while, but `v5.0.0` is finally here. This is the biggest release since the project began as **Statistics for Strava**. A few months ago, [Strava announced changes](https://communityhub.strava.com/insider-journal-9/an-update-to-our-developer-program-13428) to their API program that affected a lot of developers. In hindsight I'm really happy that Strava did what they did, [Dreeve](htt
Spain’s Economy and Labour ministries agreed to delay Cabinet approval of the working-time register reform to September, missing a July timetable Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz had repeatedly set out and unions had demanded before the summer break [lavanguardia.com#1][eleconomista.es#1][elcorreo.com#1]. The ministries said they needed more time to adjust the text after objections and recommendations
Rosseti South’s Kubanenergo branch connected more than 580 social, industrial and small-business facilities to its power networks in five districts of Russia’s Krasnodar region in the first half of 2026, supplying more than 11 MW of requested capacity [energo-news.ru#1][novostienergetiki.ru#1]. The work covered Gulkevichsky, Kavkazsky, Novokubansky, Otradnensky and Uspensky districts, where crews
Google launched a preview of CodeMender, an AI agent that scans source code for security flaws, checks whether a flaw can be exploited, and generates patches for developers to review [helpnetsecurity.com#1]. Google described the tool as a response to attackers using AI to accelerate their work and said defenders need automation that can move at the same speed [helpnetsecurity.com#1]. CodeMender is
The UK Carrier Strike Group completed the first phase of its 2026 Arctic and North Atlantic deployment, and HMS Prince of Wales returned to Portsmouth after three months on NATO’s Northern Flank [ukdefencejournal.org.uk#1]. The Royal Navy said F-35B jets from the carrier flew NATO’s Iceland air policing mission from a European aircraft carrier for the first time [ukdefencejournal.org.uk#1]. A sepa
Skywatching guides for late July highlight an active meteor season, a bright Moon, and summer star patterns visible after dark across the Northern Hemisphere [earthsky.org#2][earthsky.org#3][skyandtelescope.org#1][astronomy.com#3][space.com#1]. The Delta Aquariid meteor shower is active from late July through early August and is predicted to peak at 10:00 UTC on July 30, though EarthSky says the s
NASA and astronomy publications reported new telescope results involving Hubble, Webb and the Event Horizon Telescope. The reports included Hubble imaging of the asymmetric spiral galaxy NGC 4654 in the Virgo Cluster, 72 million light-years from Earth, and Hubble observations of the helium nova V445 Puppis, whose outflow includes material described as cosmic “bullets” moving at 20 million mph [nas
Three recent studies of extraterrestrial rocks are giving scientists new evidence for reconstructing early planetary history. A Caltech-led team said Teghaza 001, a Martian meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2022, appears to be the oldest known Martian meteorite at more than 4.1 billion years old and indicates Mars had begun losing water early in its history [earthsky.org#1]. A meteorite that
Florida law enforcement agencies reported several violent cases Friday, including a Miami robbery in which a 69-year-old man was stabbed and had his wallet taken near Northeast 80th Terrace in the Little River area, police said. Police responded after a 7:27 a.m. call [local10.com#1][nbcmiami.com#1]. Miami Fire Rescue took the man to a hospital, and police said the case remained under investigatio
Another sabotage incident targeting Germany's railway infrastructure. An extremist group claimed responsibility for this one. The group published details about the attack online, including the targeted locations and the methods they used. In short, they identified 2 locations that were easily accessible, high-impact, and remote & vulnerable enough for them to act without interruptions and without
Before you head out to enjoy your weekend after this epic cybersecurity week, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including --Russian hackers exploit Zimbra flaw to steal emails and bypass MFA, --OpenAI probes AI-powered hack of Hugging Face, --Bill would mandate AI kill switches, --US to restrict visas for cybercriminals and families, --Scam c
Europe is entering the second half of the gas storage season with inventories behind last year's pace and below typical prewinter levels. EU underground gas storage was 54% full on July 19, compared with 64.8% at the same point in 2025. Working gas stocks were near 59 billion cubic meters, about 11 billion cubic meters lower than a year earlier [serbia-energy.eu#1]. Several reports put storage at
PMI surveys showed business activity in the United States, Europe and parts of Asia improved in July, before a renewed rise in energy prices [wsj.com#1]. In the United States, business activity expanded at the fastest pace in eight months as services demand tied partly to FIFA World Cup and July 4 spending offset weaker factory production, longer supply-chain delays and rising costs [bloomberg.com
The Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates unchanged at its July meeting next week, but higher oil prices have increased investor bets on a possible rate increase later in 2026 [cbsnews.com#1]. Renaissance Macro Research chief economist Neil Dutta said in a July 22 client note that the Fed could surprise markets with a hike when its next meeting begins July 28, arguing that policymake
SETI researchers are widening the range of signals they consider in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A paper highlighted by Astrobiology and Universe Today argues that a civilization trying to communicate across interstellar distances while limiting costs would likely use long-lived, pulsed laser beacons rather than complex femtosecond laser bursts that briefly outshine a star [astrob
CLUE and Databricks' triage agents converged on the same architecture independently: context enrichment, deterministic filtering, human review on escalations, end-to-end tracing. Both systems also end where response begins. An agent investigates and hands the finding to a human. Grid is built differently on both counts. > The forward deployed engineer (FDE) model puts one agent in charge of buildi
British companies unveiled separate uncrewed combat-aircraft projects designed to fly alongside crewed fighters. MGI Engineering announced the T-022 Vortex, describing it as a UK-built Autonomous Collaborative Platform designed to operate with fourth-, fifth- and future sixth-generation aircraft. BAE Systems unveiled its Brontanax Collaborative Combat Aircraft at the Farnborough International Airs
**English below!** --- Liebe Zuhausis von Feddit.org, Sicherlich hat mittlerweile jeder das Drama um Tesseract mitbekommen. Falls nicht, bieten diese zwei Posts detaillierten Kontext: - https://lemmy.world/post/49751142 - https://lemmy.world/post/49778547 ## tl;dr Das alternative Lemmy-Frontend Tesseract entschied sich dazu, einen Haufen Accounts, Instanzen und Schlagwörter zu shadowbannen. Ein gr
🛡️ Bing Images Vulnerability Lets Attackers Execute Remote Code on Microsoft Servers Source: https:// cybersecuritynews.com/bing-ima ges-vulnerability/ Three critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in Microsoft's infrastructure, with two flaws in Bing Images allowing attackers to hijack backend image-processing servers using nothing more than a crafted SVG file. Bing's reverse image
The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged at its July meeting. Brussels Morning put the benchmark rate at 2.25%, and regional reports said policymakers kept rates steady while leaving open the possibility of a September increase [brusselsmorning.com#1][rtcg.me#1][akta.ba#1]. The Financial Times said ECB President Christine Lagarde pointed to possible tightening in September, while Bl
Sega is the latest publisher to make its views about physical media clear, in the wake of Sony's controversial decision to kill off the manufacture and sale of discs by 2028. The president of the Japanese publisher, Shuji Utsumi, noted that he believes physical media is still important, though digital distribution is "crucial", mostly thanks to the "steadily increasing" number of people playing on
Researchers at ETH Zurich reported evidence that Venus may still be tectonically active, based on high-resolution 3D computer simulations of large rift systems on the planet. The results were published in Nature Geoscience [sci.news#1][phys.org#1][rts.ch#1][orf.at#1]. The work focuses on rift valleys that can stretch up to 10,000 kilometers and resemble large terrestrial systems such as the East A
Yesterday's writing prompt at my writer's group was "passages". There are so many stories revolve around passages; wormholes, wardrobes, ships.... You name it. And I didn't want to write something that had been used a million times. So I spent a long time looking at the various definitions (did you know there's one related to dressage?), and this is what came out. Safe Passage It took me nearly a
Sony restored PlayStation Network services on Friday, July 24, after an outage disrupted account access, online gaming, PlayStation Video, the PlayStation Store and PlayStation Direct across PlayStation consoles and web services [androidauthority.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1][engadget.com#1][ign.com#1]. Sony’s status page later said “all services are up and running,” with Android Authority reporting that al
I was asked twice this week how I handle conflict when I know it’s coming. People usually expect me to name a specific technique, some clever way to steer the conversation once I’m in it. I do have those, and I’ll get to a few I tend to reach for. They’re not where we need to start, however. We need to start by regulating our own state. As mammals, we co-regulate each other’s nervous systems, whet
Commerzbank supervisory board chair Jens Weidmann called for direct, constructive talks with UniCredit after the Italian bank secured almost half of Commerzbank’s shares, moving the German lender toward negotiations over a possible takeover [repubblica.it#1][corriere.it#1][jornaldenegocios.pt#1][lesechos.fr#1][ft.com#1][nachrichten.at#1][vb.is#1][nos.nl#1]. Weidmann said the voting balance at the
Instagram has started removing videos filmed with Meta smart glasses when the content shows creators exploiting or harassing strangers in public, including pickup-line encounters and prank videos involving service workers [slashdot.org#1][pcmag.com#1][digitaltrends.com#1][lavozdegalicia.es#1][canaltech.com.br#1]. Instagram head Adam Mosseri said the platform does not want people secretly recording
Amazon confirmed it is closing its San Francisco AGI site as part of layoffs in its artificial general intelligence organization, but said work on its frontier models will continue [geekwire.com#1][thenextweb.com#1]. The company did not disclose how many jobs were affected; GeekWire reported that impacted employees will be able to explore other roles at Amazon, and The Next Web cited Amazon saying
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Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani met UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband in Doha on July 24, congratulating him on his appointment and discussing bilateral cooperation, regional developments and joint diplomatic coordination on de-escalation and regional stability [dohanews.co#1][gulf-times.com#1][qna.org.qa#3]. Sheikh Mohammed said parti
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti at Palazzo Chigi on July 24 to discuss Italy’s economic situation, focusing on rising fuel prices and possible action against higher pump costs [ansa.it#1][corriere.it#2][ilsole24ore.com#2][agi.it#1]. Government sources said officials were examining possible measures, including activation of the “mobile excise” mechanism, after
The Defense Innovation Unit launched the Ground-Based Affordable Mass challenge to identify mature, affordable, ground-launched long-range precision strike systems that can be demonstrated for the Pentagon within three months. Promising systems are expected to be ready for production within 12 to 18 months [breakingdefense.com#1][defensedaily.com#1]. The Defense Department has budgeted $250 millio
Researchers are using artificial intelligence to redesign and create CRISPR-related gene editors, seeking to reduce off-target edits that can occur when editing proteins bind to DNA sequences similar to the intended target [singularityhub.com#1][arstechnica.com#1]. One study used AlphaFold-based modeling to identify parts of gene-editing proteins associated with mistakes and modify them for higher
IC Brief Evening — 2026-07-24 Russian intelligence networks faced simultaneous exposure across four theaters this week. Russia will very likely confine its response to the Angola convictions to verbal protests through September 30, since punitive action would risk Moscow's Sub-Saharan Africa partnerships. Moderate confidence rests on Moscow's pattern of absorbing such losses bilaterally in non-NAT
Temporary Protected Status advocates met in Doral, Florida, on July 24 and urged Congress to pass protections for TPS recipients before Haitian beneficiaries’ work permits are set to expire on Monday, July 27 [local10.com#1]. A federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration from ending Haitian TPS through the weekend, WESH reported, extending the deadline to Monday while litigation continu
A mathematician has published a thermodynamic analysis of how gravity could fit with the second law of thermodynamics through a framework called Gravity from Entropy, or GfE [scitechdaily.com#1]. The work addresses a cosmological problem: the universe is generally understood to have begun in a low-entropy state and to have moved toward higher entropy, even as matter assembled into galaxies, stars,
Alright, kiddos. It's time to... Kick! That! Beehive! You may or may not have been following the recent [drama](https://lemmy.world/post/49778547) involving the Tesseract Lemmy UI. Much hilarity has ensued. I will spare you the synopsis. What this has to do with 3D printing is, I naturally took it upon myself to run with the suggestion and design an award for anyone cool enough to be on the Tesser
Recent developer posts and technical releases covered efforts to reduce the cost of running large language models, evaluate them more consistently and run them outside centralized cloud systems. One open-source project, DKV, presents a KV-cache compression framework for local long-context inference with a CLI, MLX backend and CUDA backend under validation [reddit.com#1]. A separate GitHub project
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce said July 23 it would advance a voluntary mission authorization system for novel space activities not already overseen by the office, the Federal Aviation Administration or the Federal Communications Commission [spacenews.com#1]. The proposal, called Space Commerce Certification, would let companies submit plans for interagency review and wou
A Finnish industrial-scale thermal battery in Pornainen stores renewable electricity as heat in a 13-meter-high, 15-meter-wide installation filled with 2,000 tonnes of crushed soapstone, according to Dagens PS, which cited Polar Night Energy and CNBC [dagensps.se#1][google.com#1]. The project, ordered by district-heating company Loviisan Lämpö and developed by Polar Night Energy, is described as t
Volunteers on the Odet River in Brittany are catching hundreds of trout and young salmon from shrinking pools and moving them in oxygenated tanks to flowing stretches 10 to 12 miles downstream, where tributaries raise water levels [theguardian.com#1][index.hr#1]. Mathieu Le Bouter of the Finistère fishing federation said the river, a few miles from its source in the Black Mountains and about 40 mi
Right - I see the other topic has been locked / author hasn't returned to follow community rules. Here's the original topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003386 and a measured (IMHO) response to it. (BTW, do your self a favour and change tabs with that site open :) https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg/ It's a tough spot, Codeberg has found themselves in and I wish them
The U.S. Navy used two one-way attack uncrewed surface vessels during a Rim of the Pacific 2026 sinking exercise on July 17, driving the drones into the decommissioned amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu off Hawaii after Harpoon, Spike and LRASM missile strikes had already damaged the target [navalnews.com#1]. Naval News said the test followed U.S. Navy and industry efforts to speed fielding of ai
Romanian authorities said an F-16 shot down a drone that entered national airspace on Saturday morning near the Ukrainian border, the second such interception in two days by the NATO member state [politico.eu#1][alarabiya.net#1][digi24.ro#1]. The defense ministry said radar detected the breach at 08:22, two Romanian F-16 Fighting Falcons scrambled, and the drone was destroyed in an unpopulated are
I appreciated Codeberg’s new policy to prohibit “vibe-coded” projects and the reasoning provided for it. Some people criticized it as vague, but it’s not: they’re simply banning a pattern of single-person projects generating CI/CD load and release cadence like they have a community and dozens of apps to support when they actually don’t. The part I love most is the emphasis on collaboration: the fr
"One particularly awkward moment played out when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer welcomed a group of reporters from The Wall Street Journal to the stage to accept an award for their “courageous reporting on President Trump’s past relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein” that “triggered the release of the so-called Epstein files.” " Mr. Blitzer reminded the crowd that “Trump quickly filed a $20 billion laws
# huggingface : "…what I’m arguing is that the # LLM 1) can’t NOT “know” the norm because it is definitionally a artifact of pure, crystallized values + norms + norm violations, and 2) can be quite easily governed by a (RL-instilled) hierarchy of norms, which in the HF case — with the model's # safety # guardrails deliberately nerfed for the scenario — ranked “win at the eval” over “don’t do crime
Spędziłem trochę czasu na testowaniu Flow jako alternatywy dla PipePipe na GrapheneOS. Flow robi kapitalną robotę w kwestii UX, nowocześnie wygląda i ma wbudowany, działający w 100% lokalnie silnik rekomendacji. Jednak po kilku dniach złapałem się na tym, że i tak rzadko korzystam z podpowiadanych treści. Ostatecznie wracam do PipePipe. Z punktu widzenia mojego Threat Modelu każda funkcja, z które
Cricket Australia CEO Todd Greenberg is having trouble with privatisation of the BBL (that's a cricket tournament, not a sexual preference acronym). So in a craven move to try and get more attention and money from Indian cricket interests, he's proposing Australia play England in a test match in India. Excuse me? Don't try and hide behind "test cricket is dying in India" - that's solely the fault
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1/ New essay: "Do Open Weight Models Dream of Tokens?" — Philip K. Dick meets the 2026 open-model explosion. The enterprise question is no longer "is the open model good enough." It's whether the mind you build on is yours. 2/ Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4, GLM-5.2: trillion-parameter, MIT-licensed, self-hostable. ~3 points behind commercial on the composite index, at parity on science reasoning (GPQA 93.5
"…this article repeats an # urgentcall for four # digitalrights that would allow # libraries , # archives , # museums , and other # culturalheritage organizations (“memory institutions”) to uphold their shared public service mission of # preservinghistory and providing access to information. The ongoing transition from physical media sales to digital licensing markets has unleashed a new wave of #
OpenAI services suffered a global disruption on July 25 that affected ChatGPT, the OpenAI API and Codex, with users reporting problems in the United States, Europe, India, Japan and Australia [bleepingcomputer.com#1][macobserver.com#2][bolnews.com#1][birgun.net#1]. BleepingComputer said the outage began at about 5 a.m. ET, leaving some users unable to load chats or send messages and showing “too m
Data: CBPP ; Map: Sara Wise/Axios American food assistance has been rocked by a regulatory earthquake while millions have been dropped from one of the nation's premier safety net programs, tightening the strain on food banks and state agencies. The big picture: As the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) continues to undergo a historic remolding, food banks say they're staring down a g
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Americans are changing how they buy groceries after food-at-home prices rose 33% since the beginning of 2019, the largest increase in grocery prices in a half-century, according to government figures cited by the Associated Press [abcnews.com#1][nbcboston.com#1][aktuelno.me#1]. Shoppers described using supermarket apps, weekly circulars, digital coupons and comparison shopping, and skipping items
Two retirement-finance articles addressed whether older Americans with assets can still claim Social Security. GOBankingRates reported that selling a home after retirement does not, by itself, cause a retiree to lose Social Security retirement or survivor benefits, because the Social Security Administration applies no income or asset limits to those benefits [gobankingrates.com#1]. GOBankingRates
Astrobiologist Adam Frank of the University of Rochester and NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt developed the “Silurian hypothesis” after a 2017 conversation about whether advanced civilizations would inevitably trigger climate shifts like those driven by human fossil-fuel use [krdo.com#1][krdo.com#2]. They asked whether an advanced civilization that existed on Earth millions of years ago, used energy a
World's only nuclear victim: #Japan parlmnt approves law enabling PM to designate back-up capital city (must fulfill population/econ requirements) in case of disaster; Fierce legislative wrangling as oppstn saw this as measure meant to reward ruling party cronies in #Osaka Japonský parlament schválil zákon umožňující vytvořit záložní hlavní město pro případ přírodních katastrof.Opozice návrh kriti
Started drinking caffeine again after a year and a half-ish. Appetite suppression is really noticeable. Partly it’s psychological because I put more energy into whatever tasks are going on, so forget or put off my bodily needs. But it also straightforwardly quietens down my appetite. For me that’s quite a negative outcome. My appetite is fickle at the best of times, like it is for a lot of autisti
We have stretchable natural languages. Words are clouds of meanings imprecisely defined unless you are doing philosophy. That is core to their utility. So naturally we use human words like "think" and "intelligence" for LLMs too, just like we have already stretched many meanings for computers before ("calculate", "memory", "win", etc). If you are having a philosophical discussion or want to defami
AI's impact on American life isn't just at work . It's also at home, where it's helping with dinner and bedtime, learning our routines, overhearing arguments and never clocking out. Why it matters: The AI debate has largely focused on jobs and productivity . But a quieter shift is unfolding at home , where AI is also evolving from an on-demand assistant into an always-on presence that remembers, a
Good morning from Minneapolis and Minnesota, the North Star state, the Blue Oasis of Hinterlandia, the land of loons. Quite early Saturday morning it's 72℉/22℃; overcast; light winds; visibility 10 miles at the airport. Northwest flow continues all next week. Ripples embedded within the flow could bring chances for thunderstorms at any point, but these are not predictable at this range. Temperatur
Solo project I've been building this month, wanted to share here. The rules: You get $10,000 and two secret years of real S&P 500 history, drawn from 1928 to 2019 (daily data, dividends included; your cash earns T-bill rates while you hide). One button: BUY or SELL. Your opponent is a couch. It buys at the start and never moves. Every finished game is audited by 1,000 monkeys. It's a permutation t
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Nie każdy lubi wklejać linki w Obtainium i szuka po prostu czystego interfejsu sklepu. Jeśli chcecie odejść od F-Droida bez rezygnacji z wygody, sprawdźcie Komi Store (dawniej GitHub Store). To elegancki katalog aplikacji FOSS, który pobiera pakiety APK bezpośrednio z wydań na GitHubie czy Codebergu, z pominięciem centralnych pośredników F-Droida. Zapewnia wygodne przeglądanie według kategorii, au
Seeking Alpha contributor Mike Zaccardi upgraded SpaceX shares to buy after a 51% peak-to-trough decline, saying the move aligns with historical IPO drawdown patterns that can create attractive long-term entry points [seekingalpha.com#1]. The article said SPCX peaked above $225 on June 16 after its IPO and was trading near $110, a little more than 50% below that high and 15% below its IPO price [s
At a press conference in the Bronx, Mamdani listed some of the onerous policies getting the axe. Bodega owners will no longer need a separate license to sell the same products outside the store – like fruit and flowers – as inside. Restaurants will no longer need a “superfluous” frozen dessert permit to sell ice-cream on top of the permit already required to sell food. Barber shops will no longer
NASA is establishing its first recommended exposure limits for airborne Martian dust as it prepares for future human missions to Mars, WRAL reported, with a continuous-exposure threshold four times lower than the limit for lunar dust [wral.com#1][google.com#1]. The agency is taking a conservative approach because researchers still do not know how prolonged exposure to Martian dust could affect the
Das Thema # SociaMedia und # Plattformregulierung nimmt auch in der Schweiz Fahrt auf. Gerade bei emotional geführten Debatten ist es wichtig, den Stand der Forschung und auch die Stimme der direkt Betroffenen zu berücksichtigen. Der Verein Swiss Internet & Digital Governance (SIDG) bietet genau diesen Raum für den Austausch und hat auch dieses Jahr wieder das # SwissYouthIGF durchgeführt an welch
Qualcomm plans to raise chip prices by a double-digit percentage across its product lineup, with the higher rates applying to products shipped after Sept. 1, 2026, Bloomberg reported, according to accounts carried by Engadget, TechSpot and other technology publications [engadget.com#1][intomobile.com#1][techspot.com#1][digitaltrends.com#1][stadt-bremerhaven.de#1][mediaindonesia.com#1][tmtpost.com#
tl;dr, it looks like POSIX may have driven this over time. I am wondering if there is more history beyond that though. For context, @ seungminkang and I are working on a blog post about this behavior on different OSes. The inspiration for the blog topic is that a security researcher was looking at an Apple image parser vulnerability that involved manipulating an integer overflow bug which resulted
"For more than a year, UN investigators were tasked with gathering and weighing evidence against Khan to enable the panel of judges appointed by the bureau to provide authoritative legal advice on whether the prosecutor had committed misconduct, applying the standard of proof "beyond reasonable doubt". On 11 December, they submitted their 150-page report and 5,000 pages of evidence to the panel. T
Ein Lkw-Rad-Unfall mit tödlichem Ausgang am 9. Juli war Anlass, dass gestern im Süden von # Nürnberg ein weiteres # Ghostbike aufgestellt wurde. Immer wieder sind es die # Zweirichtungsradwege , wo von rechts kommende ("gegen die Fahrtrichtung") # Radfahrende nicht erwartet und oft nicht rechtzeitig bemerkt werden. Ist die bauliche Ausführung und Beschilderung dazu noch ungünstig, sind die # Radwe
🚨 Coinbase Cartel ransomware group launches partnership program for data and access brokers The cybercrime group calling itself Coinbase Cartel is recruiting individuals and teams with exclusive stolen data or access to compromised organizations, offering to manage the extortion process through payment. The group advertises negotiable revenue splits of up to 90/10 for exclusive datasets and up to
President Trump directed the U.S. military not to conduct new strikes in Iran on Friday, breaking a nearly two-week streak of daily attacks, two sources with knowledge of the decision said. Why it matters: The president's directive came after he approved daily strikes over the previous 13 days. It is unclear if Trump's order on Friday was a one-off or whether the lull will continue. Trump's decisi
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Samsung's Android 17-based One UI 9.0 will make Galaxy phones stop accepting PIN, pattern or password attempts after 13 failed entries, leaving a factory reset as the only way to use the phone again [androidheadlines.com#1][digitaltrends.com#1]. Samsung designed the change to limit brute-force attacks, in which someone repeatedly guesses passcodes until one works [androidheadlines.com#1][digitaltr
So there's this company, National Environmental Title Research (NETR), that operates a variety of commercial data brokerage services aimed at the real estate industry. For people like me, the most prominent of these is historicaerials.com, which presents historic aerial images (what a surprise) on a convenient slippy map. While conceptually they have multiple data sources, at least in the Southwes
Meta paused a test that would have capped free use of Conversation Focus, an AI glasses feature, at three hours per month after user backlash, PCMag reported in a July 25 update [pcmag.com#1]. The feature amplifies the voice of the person a wearer is speaking with through on-device speakers, and Meta had planned to allow up to 15 monthly hours through the Premium plan [pcmag.com#1]. Meta also is t
I've been meaning to make new dev projects for a while. But finding the time to sit down to just code is difficult for me these days. However I wanted to make a watch face for my new watch and I just said screw it. Through a mix of using the Pebble SDK documentation, and referencing a few AI chatbots, mainly GPT-OSS I'm running in Alpaca, I was able to make it, make it run, and since it's in C, I
SpinWin is an open source menu bar app to visually rotate any individual window. You can rotate / spin as many as you want one by one. I was scrolling reels when one came on where the content creator suggested "turning the phone upside down" for a portion. I was sitting at my mac, and decided to see if I could find something that did this. To my surprise, nothing exists, so I decided to build it.
The UK MET office recently redesigned their site, adding a lot of additional whitespace, scrolling, and animations. This significantly reduced its usability for me, and left me wanting an ‘at a glance’ weather site. I made https://brolly.sh , a minimalist, plain text weather forecasting site. You can use it to view weather from around the world, with: 7 day forecast; Previous day log (so you can c
“Stigma is one of the most commonly reported reasons people avoid treatment.” — Arin Barry via @BlackPressUSA. When we use words like “junkie” or “addict,” we reduce a human being to their worst moment instead of recognizing a medical illness. Tag someone to share. #BlackSky The article discusses how stigma remains a major obstacle to addiction recovery. It highlights that societal views often per
So, my blog is about to hit 7k email subscribers (+ an indeterminate number of RSS weirdos), which is kinda cool, but it also increasingly feels like a party at the end of the internet. But independent forums have been gobbled up by Reddit, now insular and hostile to outgoing links. As for aggregators, the #1 choice was Hacker News, but the site is now an outlet for AI press releases and op-eds to
**The Homogenizing Effect of Large Language Models on Human Expression and Thought** Cognitive diversity, reflected in variations of language, perspective, and reasoning, is essential to creativity and collective intelligence. This diversity is rich and grounded in culture, history, and individual experience. Yet as large language models (LLMs) become deeply embedded in people's lives, they risk s
I don't really know where to post this but this community felt relevant, apologies if this is not welcome here, feel free to moderate, ping, and redirect me if I should share it elsewhere (especially because I'm not a good fact checker, but I felt like it would be interesting to have a level headed discussion about this drama). I originally posted to [!tesseract@dubvee.org](https://dubvee.org/c/te
Today's morning fun: playing with creating a Netbox config template for my Arista devices. - Good: it's actually pretty simple to get started. Almost no new infrastructure needed, unlike the time I tried to do this in Ansible and felt like I was pushing a rock uphill the whole time. - Good: the data model (shockingly) matches reasonably well. - Bad: oh god, not jinja2 again. - Meh: you're mostly j
Google Vice President of Devices and Services Shakil Barkat said the Pixel 11 series will cost more than the Pixel 10 lineup, citing a global memory shortage that has pushed up component costs [theverge.com#1][androidheadlines.com#1][androidcentral.com#1][indianexpress.com#1][tweakers.net#1][digitaltrends.com#1][itavisen.no#1]. Google has not disclosed final prices. Tweakers reported that the phon
“There’s no denying that Pacific Northwest private eye JOHN DENSON marches to the beat of a different drum. He’s a ‘laid-back flake,’ according to his creator, a thirty-something Aquarius when we first meet him in Decoys (1980), with a yen for darts, cheap screw-top wine and raw vegetables, especially cauliflower. And he’s not adverse to a little bit of good ol’ sex, either, although he does spare
Zelensky: Since the beginning of July, we have recorded active Russian satellite surveillance of the Gulf states and U.S. military facilities located there. These images subsequently appear in Iran. At the same time, there is a clear correlation between Russia’s satellite imagery of these sites and Iranian strikes – both before the attacks, in preparation for them, and afterward, to assess the dam
IDEA (in all its language specific variants) is still the benchmark for serious code work, but sadly that is like 10% of my editor needs nowadays, and IDEA is just not a good vim/emacs *text editor* replacement, which is like 60% of of my needs (the remaining is code-oriented, but not "big project" and IDEA really likes *projects*). Emacs is the perfect thing for individual files for me, but despi
Announcing: Crafty.Markets! These days it's almost impossible to find real handmade items from actual people on the marketplace websites (Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, etc.) without having to wade through gigantic mounds of tacky mass produced items, uncanny AI slop, and disgusting spam. Profiteering corporations have turned what the Internet could be, a global free exchange between humans, into the
Ukrainian military correspondent Yulia Kirienko is publicly disputing the official casualty figures from Thursday's Russian ballistic missile strike on a defense-industry demo day near Kyiv, arguing the true toll is far higher than reported. She says the "10 killed" figure only reflects bodies recovered. Search dogs are still on site because two to three missiles hitting open ground "tore some peo
I like writing Markdown, but do not like writing it inside a plain textarea. I wanted something I could use anywhere by dropping in a single web component: ``` <writemark-editor name="body"></writemark-editor> ``` That became Writemark. It renders Markdown while you write, but Markdown remains the value you read, store, and submit. It also has source, split, and preview modes, along with slash com
RE: https:// infosec.exchange/@andersonc0d3 /116980936217755939 This was fixed after I reported a way to bypass pointer guard (PTR_MANGLE) in glibc. I had known about and taught the technique in my binary exploitation classes for a few years (since ~2020/2021), but I wasn't sure whether the glibc team was aware of it. After the report, a developer mentioned several related issues and started worki
Typhoon Noul makes landfall in Huidong County area of Guangdong, China, according to Hong Kong officials; storm prompted major evacuations in the region https://www. hk01.com/%E5%A4%A9%E6%B0%A3/60 373069/%E7%B4%85%E9%9C%9E%E9%A2%B1%E9%A2%A8%E8%B7%AF%E5%BE%91-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E5%A4%A9%E6%96%87%E5%8F%B0%E6%89%93%E9%A2%A8%E6%9C%80%E6%96%B0%E6%B6%88%E6%81%AF-%E8%80%83%E6%85%AE%E4%BB%8A%E6%99%9A%E6%9
Clarity in Technical Reporting (NASA SP-7010, 1964) A worthy document still, some sixty years onward. https:// archive.org/details/ost-techni cal-writing-19640016507/mode/2up "FOREWORD With the sharp increase in recent years of the volume of technical reports in aerospace fields, it has become even more important for report authors to present their material clearly and concisely. This booklet, whi
It's time for some ᴀʟʙᴜǫᴜᴇʀǫᴜᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ Are you, like millions of Americans, eternally curious about the origin of Worker's Memorial Park, the curiously long, curiously narrow park on the east side of San Mateo Blvd between Constitution and Haines? It sure looks like the result of a road widening project, but is it? And how did it become a park? I will offer answers to some, but not all, of these q
During '71 and '72, the state purchased and condemned all of the lots on the east side from Constitution up to Haines. In the mean time, the widening project had been reduced - from the original plan of the whole length of San Mateo to Gibson, to just Bell to the freeway, and then to Bell to Aspen, meaning that the widened section curiously fell about two blocks short of the freeway interchange. O
Kuwait denied a Wall Street Journal report that alleged it took part in military operations against Iran. Kuwait's ambassador to the United States, Sheikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah, called the claims false in a formal letter to the newspaper's editorial board [aawsat.com#1][skynewsarabia.com#1][gulfnews.com#1][middleeasteye.net#1][arabtimesonline.com#1]. The disputed July 24 report was published under the
i wonder if web merchants have a metric for the users they lose when their MFA gets too pushy and it becomes easier to just go to another merchant. I have lost track of the times that I've gone online to buy from instacart and doordash and even Amazon and Xed out of it after a while because I didn't want to get up and go find my phone and they were insisting i get a code from it. There's a lot of
Two technology buying guides published July 25 ranked laptops for students preparing for the 2026 school year. Digitech Bytes compared 15 current models and named the Apple 2026 MacBook Air 13-inch its top overall pick, citing its M5 chip, 16GB of memory, fast SSD storage and all-day battery life. It chose the HP 14-inch Laptop PC (2026 Edition) for value and the HP 14-inch Chromebook for tight bu
As most of what I’ve feared has come or is quickly coming to pass, I’ve decided it is good for me to disconnect for at least a while from this avatar and platform, which I have over the years strongly entangled with such news. This place has been a very important source of information and laughter as well as sometimes distress, and I’ll miss it—and you all—for the camaraderie, joyfulness and suppo
A security researcher said a community-made Steam Workshop map for the Unreal Engine 5 indie game Meccha Chameleon used game logic to write a Windows batch file into a player’s Documents folder, launch a hidden PowerShell process and try to download another script from an external server [digitaltrends.com#1][kotaku.com#1]. The map, called Laser Tag Neon, had passed Workshop review before players
What's in the box: QKD Engine - BB84, CV-QKD, and DI-QKD ready. Physical-layer key distribution that detects eavesdroppers in real-time via QBER monitoring. Eavesdrop? We measure it. Hardened Debian - Minimal attack surface. Kernel locked. Audit-ready. Runs on secure enclave with measured boot. 10G Fiber NIC - Low-latency quantum-safe key exchange at wire speed. Plug into existing dark fiber or de
The fearless_simd rust crate is pretty neat, in terms of effort in vs. amount of brrr out. I wrote my function once in the straightforward scalar form, just looping over u8s individually. Added a couple magic type parameters and called the function via the `fearless_simd::dispatch!` macro, and my compiled binary now contains four vectorized versions of my function, implemented with SSE2, SSE4.2, A
Italy’s government is working on emergency measures to curb rising fuel prices. Technicians are studying a 7-to-10-day bridge decree starting at the end of July and possible excise-duty cuts of 24.4 cents per liter for diesel and 6.1 cents for gasoline [repubblica.it#1]. Other proposals under review include a smaller 6-to-7-cent excise reduction and a broader energy package tied to a €14 billion c
Anyway, to answer a different question on whether the United States of America should continue to exist: I'm worried that the countries that replace it might be worse, especially where my friends and family live (California and Texas) and I certainly don't want to see a massive refugee crisis. People should get to keep living in the place they were born, if they want! And yeah, the US has been fai
ok after much digging, the affine transform in this case boils down to a byte-wise shift-left by two, where the shift doesn't overflow into adjacent bytes. This is in contrast to the SSE and AVX2 implementations, which use VPSLLW. That operation operates on 16-bit words, so the shifts from some bytes bleed over into the next byte and need to be masked off with a subsequent VPAND. Apparently none o
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 515 IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM CDT SUNDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN IOWA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 9 COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST IOWA BUENA VISTA CHEROKEE CLAY DICKINSON LYON O'BRIEN OSCEOLA PLYMOUTH SIOUX IN MINNESOTA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA COTTONWOOD JACKSON LINCOLN LYON MURRAY NOBLES PIPESTONE ROCK THIS INCLUDES THE
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So my sweet baby girl TLC has been under the weather. She's always a bit of a burrower who enjoys a good closet wallow, but we didn't see her for almost two days. When I finally located her in the linen closet, she was curled up with her face to the wall and didn't seem keen on coming out. So I brought her some treats and a glass of water. The next morning, I checked on her, and she turned toward
Five people died in separate Florida traffic crashes reported from Friday through Saturday, including two teenage boys in Jacksonville, a bicyclist struck by a Tri-Rail train in Lake Worth Beach, and motorcyclists killed in Marion County and Orange Park [firstcoastnews.com#1][news4jax.com#1][wpbf.com#1][wptv.com#1][wesh.com#1][firstcoastnews.com#2][news4jax.com#2]. Authorities said they were inves
The graph is free to explore and requires no registration. SynapTale builds a model of a story as a temporal graph made up of nodes (entities) and edges (their actions and relationships). The graph is not a visualization of the wiki. The wiki, timelines, relationship histories, and analytics are projections of the graph. The current demo contains 232 entities, 1,852 edges, and a snapshot of the st
I got tired of Googling basic course info, so I made a free directory of every US course Google filters for golf course results are terrible so I built a better way to browse courses using OSM as the backbone.... https://golfcoursebrowser.com/ It's a work in progress and mostly US for now, but I want to expand to the rest of North America, the EU, and the rest of the world ASAP. It's free, no ads,
There's a lot of people who like to read sci-fi and claim that a certain author "predicted" the world that we live in now, and even use that as a lens (for good and bad) for describing our current state. Obviously, I'm looking at authors like William Gibson, Greg Egan or Bruce Sterling. I'm not here to disagree on that point. What I would like to do, though, is throw another name in the hat: Kevin
Here is a draft architecture for a privacy-preserving online voting system designed for non-governmental, high-risk scenarios (e.g., civic consultations, diaspora voting, or opposition primaries). The goal is to determine the theoretical and practical limits of security for a fully online deployment under a hostile threat model. Core Architecture Goals: Strict one-person-one-vote enforcement - Ful
RE: https:// toot.io/@andy_matuschak/116977 701000509522 Boosting with the quoted image as text: Examples. In all artistic fields, from painting to writing to music to architecture, students study the works of the masters. (In fact, artists who claim to be “self-taught” usually mean that they learned purely from examples.) Much has been written about the failure of software engineering schools to
The Porto Labour Court ruled that the dismissal of a worker hired through an international Employer of Record structure was unlawful, in a case involving a model used by foreign companies to employ workers in Portugal [rtp.pt#1][jornaldenegocios.pt#1]. The worker had an open-ended contract with Deel Portugal but performed duties exclusively for the U.S. technology company Turing Enterprises, and t
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 515 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 2 AM CDT SUNDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN IOWA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 9 COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST IOWA BUENA VISTA CHEROKEE CLAY DICKINSON LYON O'BRIEN OSCEOLA PLYMOUTH SIOUX IN MINNESOTA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 4 COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA COTTONWOOD JACKSON MURRAY NOBLES THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ARNOLDS PARK, CHEROKEE, FULDA, GEORGE, HARTLEY, HAWAR
RE: https:// scholar.social/@gedankenstueck e/116972420410253859 The AI bros don't understand collectives. Codeberg's decision to not tolerate LLM slop wasn't a top-down decision made by some CEO/dictator. Codeberg is a collective and anyone can become a member with voting rights. The members voted democratically, and about 70% of the members were in favor of not tolerating LLM slop. This decision
New research and labor-market commentary point to a more limited near-term employment impact from artificial intelligence than some AI executives have predicted. Stanford’s policy brief says AI’s effect on overall employment is “likely small” at present, while a tough market for recent graduates may be partly due to AI [stanford.edu#1]. Adecco Group said employment rates remain high and unemployme
Since 2020 I've been the de facto reviewer for object file format stuff/MC/ELF linker in LLVM. Until I left XXX in 2024, it counted as a line item on my "community contribution". Since then it has come out of my own evenings. Four of the patches in my review queue right now come from a single large company. The queue length isn't what worries me. Object file format and ABI mistakes are close to pe
( If this post is against the rules please feel free to remove and accept my apologies.) I just wanted to say thanks to the devs and the users who continue to make this ever adapting app and community great especially in light if the tesseract shitstorm. I was a Reddit users first 10+ years and watched it grow and eventually decay ( Aaron Schwarz death I personally felt was the big beginning of th
A study published in Alzheimer's and Dementia: Journal of the Alzheimer's Association followed more than 1,700 adults for nearly 24 years and found that men who frequently watched television in midlife had smaller volumes in brain regions vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease, along with more brain changes associated with cognitive decline and dementia [sciencealert.com#1][ensonhaber.com#1][tribune.bg
Ukraine Brief — 2026-07-26 Ukraine's deep-strike reach into the Caspian basin, sustained attacks on Russian strategic basing, and Romania's consecutive F-16 engagements mark a week in which the war's operational geography expanded beyond any active diplomatic framework. Diplomatic channels, the July 27 UN Security Council session and Tokayev's direct freeze appeal to Putin, will very likely fail t
IC Brief Morning — 2026-07-26 DoD, CENTCOM, or NSA will likely issue public guidance within the next 90 days addressing commercial telecom roaming and ad-tech location data as force-protection vulnerabilities, driven by Iranian exploitation of SS7 networks to track US military personnel and concurrent PLC attacks that disabled safety alarms at US water and energy facilities. Low confidence reflect
Hello, just wanted to share my story as a reminder with all the lay offs in the gaming industry, it has been terrible outside of it too. I've been working as an automation QA for a pretty decent software company and I was about to hit like 11 years on the job. Also on the side I've been trying to get my own indie game dev studio off the ground with releasing 3 small games in the past 3 years. Afte
Ursula K. Le Guin, die Bahn und Dante Ich bin mal wieder # Bahn gefahren und musste an ein Buch denken, dass ich vor 30 (?) Jahren gelesen hatte und das mich damals sehr verwirrte. In dem Buch von Ursula K. LeGuin "The Left Hand of Darkness" gibt es eine Stelle darin, die mir sehr anwendbar erschien. To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in t
Organizations in the United States, Thailand and Portugal disclosed separate cybersecurity incidents involving personal information, including notices from Fargo Park District, Lifespark, Eyemart Express, Thailand Securities Depository and Metro Mondego [google.com#1][google.com#2][google.com#3][google.com#4][google.com#6][rtp.pt#1]. Reported data categories ranged from general personal informatio
More DevOps for Stylo.Bot this weekend - and addressing some load speed issues; mainly as I don't add caching until way late so it doesn't hide actual perf issues. Today is Harbor https:// goharbor.io/ and Gitea https:// git.openharbor.io/ To move my builds locally - GitHub is spendy for the 20+ AoT / Docker builds I need for every release for commercial - and control login with one account etc...
Das Video hat einen tollen humorvollen Einstieg in ein nicht-so-lustiges Thema: https://www. gamestar.de/videos/das-ende-de r-konsolen,141645.html Es ist nicht nur das Ende der Konsole, sondern ein Ende des Gamings, mit dem ich aufgewachsen bin. Natürlich spiele ich ab und zu auf dem Handy oder dem Tablet, aber mein Herz hängt an dem PC-Gaming. Ich fürchte, es wird keine neue Konsolen- oder PC-Gam
Automakers are expanding electric-vehicle technology into home energy services, promoting models that can power parts of a house during an outage by connecting directly to a home's electric meter [ksl.com#1][euronews.com#1]. Ford offers systems for certain F-150 models, while Kia and Tesla have shown interest in vehicle-to-home power, as power demand rises, outages become more common and electric-
Es sind frei zugängliche, hochwertige Klima- und Erdbeobachtungsdaten, die die US-Weltraumagentur in den letzten 50 Jahren erhoben hat, u.a. Informationen über das Erdsystem, zu Treibhausgasen, Wolken, Niederschlägen und Eisschilden. In den nächsten Monaten werden noch einmal 40 Petabyte von Noaa, der US-Agentur für Meteorologie und Klima, in die Schweiz transferiert. «Mit den Daten aus den USA wo
¡A los buenos (medio)días Mastodonia! Ya hicimos la desayunación clásica a eso de las 6:30; Luego ha tocado salir a pedalear por el área del SO ya que hoy no se percibía tanto humo, y están alejadas de las zonas afectadas por los incendios, ya tienen suficiente trabajo como para que además vaya la gente por los alrededores a hacer ejercicio, merodear, cotillear, etc, y ahora vamos a proceder con l
Auto-cpufreq 3.1 was released July 26 as a feature update to the open-source Linux CPU speed and power optimization tool, with changes aimed mainly at laptop users managing performance and battery life [phoronix.com#1][linuxiac.com#1]. The update adds a graphical monitoring mode with system and CPU information previously associated with command-line monitoring [phoronix.com#1][linuxiac.com#1]. The
PM’s team can be seen as backward step even though in some ways it is more diverse. Yet its makeup points to wider access to power Race, school, gender: the makeup of Andy Burnham’s cabinet – in charts Like 20 British prime ministers before him, Andy Burnham’s new cabinet minister for AI, Kanishka Narayan, went to Eton. After graduating from the country’s most elite private school, Narayan attende
With the recent wildfires and the *gestures broadly at the world* I just wanted to share this link to the Corsi-Rosenthal Box. A simple homemade air filter that can be made with a box fan or several computer fans using off the shelf merv 13 or higher filters from your local store. Yes, these have existed since before COVID. I had someone elsewhere get made at me because "it shouldn't be named that
'[The TGA] refuses to say how many reports it receives of injuries or deaths linked to devices each year. 'The investigation also discovered major flaws in this database, with dozens of deaths before October 2019 unlogged. Following questions from this masthead, the TGA published a warning about a “technical issue” with the database. 'The TGA conducted detailed conformity assessments on just 4.3 p
Physicists at the University of Michigan have developed an “electron lighthouse” that uses laser light to create and steer a directed flow of electrons through a semiconductor without an external electric field or electrical power source [sciencealert.com#1][index.hr#1][evrensel.net#1][oslobodjenje.ba#1]. The research was published in Physical Review Letters [evrensel.net#1][oslobodjenje.ba#1]. Th
Astronomers described several lines of work in reports published July 26 on searches for life beyond Earth, including radio technosignatures, exoplanet atmospheres and future space telescopes. Louisa Mason of the University of Manchester said at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting in Birmingham that SETI searches have focused heavily on the 1.42-to-1.66 GHz “water hole” rad
'The Therapeutic Goods Administration tracks these problems in a public database but does not release that data in aggregate, making it impossible for consumers to know which devices are linked to the most reports. 'US regulators have also warned American patients that Bluetooth connections from smartphones or car stereos can mute crucial blood sugar alarms – a warning that Australian regulators d
'Assuming the device had failed, they resumed compressions. About 10 seconds later, with no warning, the CellAED discharged a shock that travelled through the patient and into Thomas’ wife, who was 23 weeks pregnant. 'Both ambulance services have now pulled them from use. '[The TGA] never assessed CellAED’s clinical evidence. 'Instead, after the device won approval from a private German device ass
With Congress on the sidelines, union contracts are among the strongest guardrails American workers have against artificial intelligence . Why it matters: Nearly 90% of the U.S. workforce lacks union representation, leaving about 130 million workers without that leverage as companies use AI to rewrite job descriptions and cut jobs. What they're saying: The only meaningful guardrails around workpla
Data : The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. Map: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals The midterm elections are 100 days out. Political reporter Hans Nichols, lead author of the Hill Leaders newsletter, shares his intel on the state of the races: The big picture: The House environment favors the Dems. The terrain favors Republicans. The same is broadly true on the Senate side — except the structural adv
With 100 days until the Nov. 3 midterm elections, President Trump and Republicans face a competitive fight for control of Congress. Democrats are favored to win the House but remain slight underdogs in the Senate, according to Decision Desk HQ's latest forecast cited by The Hill [alternet.org#1][dhakatribune.com#1][minutemirror.com.pk#1]. Republicans hold a slim House majority, and Democrats need
Recent technology guides focused on ways to reduce notification overload across phones and work apps. Android Police described Samsung Galaxy users receiving heavy app alerts under default One UI settings and pointed to Android's Notification Categories feature as a way to manage alerts more selectively [androidpolice.com#1][google.com#1]. Fast Company outlined a separate desktop workflow for peop
Estoy viviendo en primera persona como el relato de # LosEcolojetas está ganando la batalla en mi entorno de San Martín de Valdeiglesias (mostly fachas)… Es que hay que tener muy poca sesera para dar crédito a un vídeo de no se sabe quién contando poco más que un "piquete" ecologista bloqueó hace 10 años la limpieza del monte, sin ningún tipo de prueba que lo sustente. Somos todos imbéciles, lanza
Let’s get an update on the score of the game “Doug Ford vs the People of Toronto”. On one side we have the citizens, whose goal is to have a liveable, beautiful city that they can get around in. On the other side is the Premiere of Ontario, whose goal is to sell off every bit of public wealth to his friends/donors, or use it to buy votes from low-information voters. First, let’s look at previous r
GitHub and PyPI have introduced time-based defenses intended to reduce the risk that developers automatically adopt newly published malicious packages in software supply chains. GitHub’s Dependabot now uses a default three-day cooldown before opening pull requests for non-security dependency version updates, while PyPI will reject uploads of new files to releases older than 14 days [bleepingcomput
Seit einiger Zeit kursieren häufiger Bilder eines kleinen Schreins in den sozialen Medien, die den Eindruck erwecken, als handle es sich hier um eine wunderschöne Naturidylle, in die dieser Schrein eingebettet wurde. Zwar hat der Schrein seine ganz eigentümliche Atmosphäre, doch wie häufig überragt der in Bild gebannte Eindruck das reale Erlebnis. Was hat es mit dem Kamo-Schrein auf sich, der sich
ADHD isn’t a fun quirk, it’s an invisible disability, often misunderstood and misdiagnosed. It’s a different set of motivations (interests, novelty, competition, urgency, pressure). It’s a nervous system that learns to maintain the neurotypical status quo to keep the peace for everyone else while being bottled up. It comes with rapid “mood swings” which are emotional regulation dysfunction caused
“I quit my job in tech because I just couldn’t do it anymore.” In this episode of Software Defined Interviews, Whitney and Coté talk with Lian Li, Cloud Native Expert at Vorwerk Group. Lian Li spent 16 years in tech, quit to pursue stand-up comedy and improv theater, and came back with a completely different take on what makes teams work. We cover her transition from platform engineering to stand-
Recent AI security coverage focused on risks in deploying large language models in production, including concerns about Chinese open AI models such as Kimi K3, LLM application security, model-routing transparency and autonomous AI agents used in cyberattacks [ft.com#1][google.com#1][reddit.com#1][reddit.com#2][nzz.ch#1]. A Financial Times article framed the central problem as insufficient coordina
Apple is preparing Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 models for release later this year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported. The Series 12 is in late-stage testing in Wi-Fi-only and cellular versions, and the Ultra 4 is also in late-stage testing [engadget.com#1][digitaltrends.com#1][9to5mac.com#1][apfeltalk.de#1]. The next models are not expected to get a major design overhaul compared
Technology writers compared options for reducing reliance on Google Photos. Android Police described a months-long search that led one reviewer to a software alternative he considered worth switching to, while Google News listings identified Immich among the alternatives under discussion [androidpolice.com#1][google.com#1]. The coverage focused on users seeking photo backup and library management
Apple plans to launch Apple Upgrade in the U.S. on Tuesday, July 28, offering leases for most iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch models through Klarna, according to reports citing Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman [macrumors.com#1][digitaltrends.com#1][macobserver.com#1][apfeltalk.de#1][macerkopf.de#1]. Apple will stop accepting new enrollments in the iPhone Upgrade Program the same day, while existing parti
“President # Trump often celebrates his unpredictability, declaring that it keeps allies and adversaries alike off balance. By his telling, his willingness to bomb # Iranian nuclear sites 13 months ago, and send Delta Force commandos in to snatch President Nicolás Maduro of # Venezuela from his bed in early January, reflected his determination to execute military operations that would have made hi
A University College London-led study linked persistent financial hardship and low income in early and middle adulthood with poorer cognitive performance by age 53 and poorer brain health decades later [scitechdaily.com#1][akhbarona.com#1][reddit.com#1]. The research, published in Innovation in Aging, examined lifelong questionnaire data from 2,759 UK adults in the MRC National Survey of Health an
My music setup was a pinned browser tab for years. It worked, technically. It also ate RAM doing nothing, my media keys only worked when that tab happened to be focused, and I killed the music at least once a week by closing the wrong window. There's no official YouTube Music desktop app on Linux, and most of what exists is the same web player in an Electron shell. So I built my own. It's called L
Iranian media reported Sunday that an oil tanker exploded in the Strait of Hormuz after striking a naval mine, saying the vessel had left a Tehran-designated navigation route for passage through the strategic waterway [alarabiya.net#1][timesofoman.com#1][mehrnews.com#1][tabnak.ir#1][haberturk.com#1]. Mehr News and Defa Press also reported that the tanker had turned off its radar system before the
The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, Adm. Brad Cooper, recommended stopping the bombing campaign around the Strait of Hormuz because it has reached the limit of its effectiveness, according to two sources with knowledge of his position. Why it matters: The recommendation by Cooper, the commander of the U.S. Military Central Command (CENTCOM), together with other advisers impacted Pr
I was remembering today a very very funny story from my first day at a startup 10+ years ago. Head office was in Philly. My first day was there. I reported to the CTO. First red flag: My official job title in Workday when I got set up was "Placeholder: Executive Security Hire", and it remained as such for ~6 months. Anyway, I was knew that this company was still at the growth stage, not yet profit
One day before an assessment of my bagpipe performance skills and theory knowledge (a prerequisite for teaching certification) and I am going full-on AuDHD. PDA Rehearsing failure Mono-focusing Being grumpy and annoyed at my utterly innocent and thoughtful partner for things I normally love him for. Shallow breathing, upset stomach, hyper-arousal of all senses (tried to eat one of my favourite mea
Mattia Epifani published "84 Streams Later", tracking Apple Biome from iOS 14 through iOS 26 and what it means for examiners. Community work at its best: he found the streams and shared samples, we wrote and validated the parsers. iLEAPP went from 45 Biome artifacts to 101 in two days. Where we could check a field against another source on the same device, we did. Call direction against CallHistor
Public AI share links are not the same as private links. Users discovered that site:claude.ai/share and site:claude.ai/public/artifacts searches returned publicly shared Claude conversations, exposing resumes, business discussions, and other sensitive content that had been indexed by search engines. Reports indicate Google began removing many results, but the incident is a reminder that public sha
Continuing my Flock Thread: New Article speaking about how more cities dropping, or contemplating canceling, Flock due to brand damage and hiring Axon. You may know Axon from hearing of its other products -- police body cams, dash cams, drone feeds, etc etc. This is trading a targeted dragnet with nationwide vendor-hosted sharing network to a full-scale surveillance web with agency-controlled, loc
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/67244 > Beijing student Lulu Lu was just preparing for bed when she was startled by loud banging at her door. > When she opened the door, a man pushed his way inside, shone a flashlight in her face and shouted: “Get down. Give me your phone.” > Lu froze. > Moments later, she came to her senses and did as she was told, burying her face in the mat
I don't understand Google's thinking with this. AWS had "powered by AWS" plastered all over various statistics and predictions like estimated gaps and overtake probabilities in Formula 1. But it was based on (comparatively) clear stuff like "lap pace" and "traffic ahead" and "likely pit stop time". Plus it was all probabilities and estimates. Whereas Google is putting their "confidently making shi
The Occult Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Annotated for Esoteric Content: The Fourth Way, Alchemy, Tarot, and Kabbalah Author is my father, Jon Woodson. I'm the web guy who wanted to bring this to a wider audience with a more interactive way to pop-up the notes about esoteric content. Author's blurb from Amazon self-publishing page: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is a manual for spi
Tom Gauld | [Mastodon](https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oflombnj6v6xyohhatfkbzyd/post/3mrkhgwuu3k2x) ::: spoiler Transcript Panel 1 Caption: With the windows open in the summer heat, a breeze blows through the punctuation factory, scattering newly-minted marks across the countryside. Image: a small factory with windows open and punctuation marks coming out Panel 2 Caption: C
Recent coverage of Linux and open-source software highlighted several music-player approaches for users who prefer lightweight, local or desktop-native software. LinuxLinks published a roundup of 27 free and open-source terminal-based music players, saying command-line audio apps can use fewer system resources, run efficiently on low-spec machines, keep working when X or Wayland restarts, and fit
In 2024, I went to LA to give a talk about how I made my own cloud storage to backup my pictures, documents, but also the ones of my family. I have chosen Seafile but it didn't work as expected. It filled the disk of my dad. At that time, I was suggested to try Nextcloud. Today's the day, after 2 years. I've set up the latest docker image, spawned a PostgreSQL database, created some users, directo
'xlogo' is close to the simplest possible X11 program. But it has so many uses. • A ruler! Make an xlogo, drag it to a size, and if your WM shows a size tooltip as you drag, you can measure distances in pixels. Any X11 app works for this (unless it's sized in character cells or something) but you want one that doesn't try to do any actual _stuff_ as a side effect. • Also, in reverse, 'xlogo -geome
I’m in my late 40s (for context) and have always had certain executive struggles, but never to the point of crippling or preventing me from living life. Recently I’ve learned about AuDHD and how it manifests and so many things clicked into place. I have had people ask about autism in certain things but they dismissed the idea on their own because of other traits I have. I’ve had people ask about A
From The Other 98% on Facebook: Canada sent firefighting planes to drop water on burning homes in Los Angeles, and never sent us a bill for it. Trump just announced he's charging them for the wind. He accused Canada of "willful negligence" over wildfire smoke, said America is being "invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air," and told Truth Social the economic cost of that smoke should be add
Da verbringe ich den ganzen Tag mit Nerdstuff und bin der Welt entrückt, nur um zu Nachrichten zu einem Amoklauf auf dem CSD nach Hause zu kommen. Religion, egal welche, wird niemals für eine bessere Welt sorgen. Dasbedeutet nicht, dass jeder einzelne Anhänger einer Religion böse ist, sondern dass das ganze Konzept von organisiertem Aberglaube genau zu solchen Sachen führt, auch wenn es nur einzel
Szykuje się rekordowo gorące El Nino. Poprzednie, nie tak rekordowe, z przełomu 2015/2016 przełożyło się na nienormalnie ciepłą zimę w Bolzdze. Pamięć tamtej zimy pomoże odświeżyć czy to podsumowanie sporządzone przez nasz polski rząd: https://www. gov.pl/attachment/770dee57-9b2 2-4150-9317-13397b83bca5#page=15 Czy też chociażby taki materiał z MSM: https:// tvn24.pl/tvnmeteo/najnowsze/ta -zima-do
With all the word clouds I do for various hashtags, I've developed opinions on the word cloud library I use. I forked it and added a totally new plural normalisation. I called my fork LexicoNimbus . I may end up attempting to contribute it back up stream. We'll see. Normalising plurals means not including both cats and cat in the wordcloud. If I'm normalising plurals, then ['cat', 'cats', 'cat'] e
Most breaches aren't the result of exotic zero-days or genius attackers. They're controls everyone believed were operational that had quietly decayed, or were never fully in place to meet the original intent. @ philvenables makes the case for Control Reliability Engineering: apply SRE discipline to security controls. SLIs/SLOs for control health, error budgets to govern acceptable failure, blamele
Produziert ein LLM schlechten Code? Das kommt darauf an, als was man sich selbst sieht, wie man es fragt und was man denn erwartet. Man kann ein LLM schlau fragen, https:// blog.koehntopp.info/2026/06/05 /llm-driven-development/ Was man hier macht sind drei wirkmächtige Dinge mit dem LLM zu kombinieren: Wir verwenden einen Coding Harness, der dem LLM Zugriff auf ein Dateisystem gibt. Das fügt dem
Ja, aber Kris, wieso ist dann der ganze gevibecodete Kram so Scheiße? Wir haben hier ein neues Werkzeug. Wie bei jedem Werkzeug braucht es Handwerk, also eine Liste von Verfahrensweisen – werkzeugspezfisch – die uns Kontrolle über den Output geben. Handwerk beherrschen heißt, das Werkzeug so zu verwenden, daß man den Output kontrolliert und die Form des Ergebnisses gezielt beeinflussen kann. Wenn
LLMs sind neu, und Coding Harnesses sind noch neuer. Wie bei allen neuen Dingen muß sich einmal Practice entwickeln, diese muß ausprobiert werden, gelehrt werden und standardisiert werden. Das ist bisher kaum passiert und das Wissen um Dinge, die funktionieren und die gezielt nicht funktionieren ist nicht sehr gleichmäßig verteilt. Entsprechend ist der DURCHSCHNITTLICHE ANWENDER von einem Coding H
I post up a lot of things that I do. That's nice. I'm going to post up a failure real quick. Nothing major. But still Trying to put up wallpaper in my room. Peel and stick. With a pattern. I'm so tired of millennial gray. I need aesthetics. Anyhow. I'm about to puke out of pain. With my body breaking down, doing this level of weird body postures has me hurting so much that my body juiced me with s
Das ist ein bisschen peinlich, aber ich erzähle es jetzt einfach mal. Youtube-Podcasts haben mich wieder aus der Einsamkeit geholt. Den ersten Podcast, den ich nach meinem # MeToo im Sport begann, sind die # Jindaious . Nachdem der dort vermarktete Nidal geboren war, wurde darüber in der @ szbot berichtet. Ich lese natürlich nicht die SZ, aber das Hamburger U-Bahn-Fernsehen hatte die Meldung übern
So there is this box turtle that lives in the woods in my back yard. We've only seen it a handful of times, but today when my wife was leaving for work she saw it by the garage. And while she was moving it she noticed it had some kind of growth on its neck. Expecting it would need help, I lined a box with a towel and put the turtle in. I contacted a local wildlife helpline and explained the issue,
Three technology resources published or updated July 26-27 covered options for running services and applications, including beginner self-hosting, cloud hosting and game servers. XDA Developers said beginners can start self-hosting with a laptop, old desktop, mini PC or Raspberry Pi-style single-board computer instead of a dedicated server rack [xda-developers.com#1]. Pumpkin's GitHub repository d
Tl;dr: Fuck bras What even are bras for? Boobs will jiggle and move around. Basically, bras are to standardize how boobs look under clothes for the day. They do not, contrary to rude and loud teenagers, try to hide erect nipples unless they are specifically padded for the purpose. I hate bras and rarely wear one. If your naturals are smallish or you're not self-conscious, you can be like me and no
i am eating more prunes and dates - great snacks or fast lite breakfast. also br rice, no lettuce lately, cabbage and slaw. they put slaw on bbq sandwiches down here, works. i could drop another 5 lbs could do mostly veggie diet for a few days, it is healthier, way less calories # overeater # hide the cookies Action Bronson's overeater reference stems from his classic track "Blackbird", where he h
Quick update on my first poker tournament. I came in second place! Now, there were only six people who entered, but I finished ahead of the guy who I thought was the best player at the table. Effectively, I learned so much that it was easily worth the $25 I was out for tipping the dealers and the difference from the prize money versus what I put in. So many lessons as well! I think it will really
> ### Bye > > > You crazies won and proved me wrong. The fediverse isn't worth saving after all. > > Over the course of the last several days, I have received a constant stream of harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing over DM, Matrix, Github, and Codeberg. All of it instigated and eggged on by another instance's top admin. This is unacceptable for all of the reasons in the worl
IC Brief Evening — 2026-07-26 Western governments will very likely announce at least one additional prosecution of a Russian military electronics procurement network and at least one additional public disclosure of an Iranian intelligence operation against Western interests within the next three months. Moderate confidence reflects the investigative depth behind this week's results: a decade-long
London Gatwick Airport said Sunday night that water had returned to the vast majority of its campus after a supply failure left toilets closed in both terminals, shuttered cafes, restaurants and bars, and caused taps to run at low pressure or not at all for much of July 26 [theguardian.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1][irishnews.com#2][mylondon.news#2]. Gatwick said flights were not affected and all scheduled d
Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.2-rc5 on July 26 for testing as the 7.2 kernel moves toward a stable release expected in less than one month [phoronix.com#1][lwn.net#1]. Torvalds said the release candidate was larger than he preferred and that networking changes made up more than a third of the patch after pending work accumulated from the previous week [phoronix.com#1]. The rc5 update includes dr
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 516 IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT /1 AM EDT/ TONIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN ILLINOIS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 10 COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS EDWARDS IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS GALLATIN HAMILTON HARDIN JEFFERSON POPE SALINE WABASH WAYNE WHITE IN INDIANA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 6 COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA POSEY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA GIBSON
Major aerospace companies announced aircraft sustainment agreements covering heavy-lift helicopters, fighters and military airlifters. Boeing and Lufthansa Technik Defense set general terms to support Germany’s new CH-47F Block II Chinook fleet; GE Aerospace and Magellan Aerospace signed an MOU tied to a possible Canadian selection of the Saab JAS 39 Gripen E; Lockheed Martin and Leonardo agreed t
For anyone wondering why there are an increase in disabilities today, it has a lot to do with recognition of disabilities and requirements to provide adequate facilities/capabilities for those with disabilities... I know many think the ADA has been around for a very long time, but it is almost as young as my son... https:// en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ ans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990 19 - 90..
Italy’s government is preparing a temporary fuel-price decree ahead of peak summer departures while it waits for Economy Ministry calculations on extra July VAT revenue that could finance the “mobile excise” mechanism [ilsole24ore.com#1][corriere.it#2][ilpost.it#1][fanpage.it#1]. The measure under discussion would target diesel more heavily than petrol, after diesel rose 29.6 cents from the start
RE: https:// mastox.eu/@ZackPolanski/116988 641358814326 @ ZackPolanski You could also look at an equity-based monetary system. The current debt-based broad money system is the root cause of everyone but banks getting more in debt over time in the aggregate, is why we need growth, and is therefore an ecological disaster. From the BoE, explains how the current system works (but doesn't explicitly s
Estimated cost of # AI infrastructure in "next five years" according to Goldman Sachs: $7.5 trillion (with a 'T'): (paywalled) https://www. theinformation.com/articles/ai -financing-gets-creative Meanwhile, Cato Institute publishes report arguing that Green New Deal, "could cost a staggering $1.97 trillion by 2034" https://www. americanexperiment.org/cato-in stitute-green-new-deal-may-cost-4-7-tri
Hi HN, we built world-model-optimizer, an open-source tool for continually improve models specialized to agents. Today we are launching `wmo serve`, a tool to route repetitive tasks to distilled smaller models. Agent traces you already capture are opportunities to get signal on how to make your model cheaper, faster, better. We continuously improve - your specialized model through distillation fro
Zelensky: I had a big problem—not for days or weeks, but for months—in the work and dialogue between the Chief of the Army and the Ministry of Defense. There are some things we have to manage, and you can manage them only if the ministry works with the army. You can't manage it one side or another. The big challenge is mobilization. We may face 500,000 more Russian troops. We need a new attitude t
The Department of Labor (DOL) is issuing this notice to clarify the status of OMB Control Number 1205-0521, DOL-Only Performance Accountability, Information, and Reporting System. Following publication notice dated January 7, 2026, which concluded on February 19, 2026, in RegInfo.gov, the Department determined that the approved revisions should have been processed through the standard Paperwork Re
📈 CVE Published in last days (2026-07-20 - 2026-07-20) See more at https:// secdb.nttzen.cloud/dashboard Total CVEs: Severity: - Critical: 435 - High: 1048 - Medium: 813 - Low: 137 - None: 478 Status: - : 96 - Analyzed: 307 - Awaiting Analysis: 697 - Deferred: 654 - Modified: 16 - Received: 482 - Rejected: 8 - Undergoing Analysis: 651 CISA KEVs: - CISA-2026:0721 ( https:// secdb.nttzen.cloud/secu
Hi HN, Recently I wasted several hours wrangling my dev environment only to find out that the browser frontend was talking to the wrong version of the backend. This got me thinking--why on earth are we still using simple numbers to describe which process to connect to? Why not use names instead? I thought of all the times a program wouldn't start because of port conflicts. The more I thought about
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to order Japan’s sales tax on food and drinks cut to 1% for two years starting next April, from 8% now, Bloomberg, The Straits Times and Di reported [bloomberg.com#1][straitstimes.com#1][di.se#1]. The measure would fulfill one of Takaichi’s election pledges after months of political wrangling over relief for households facing higher living costs [bloomb
From another excellent Perun video: ‘… the military strength of the NATO alliance on the eastern flank has grown faster than the military strength of the alliance overall … The addition of Finland and Sweden transform the strategic geography of the area. And we've also seen major NATO states introduce additional forces into the region that would presumably get caught up in any escalation and poten
5 ferramentas open-source de segurança que você deveria conhecer em 2026: 1. Strix Scanner de vulnerabilidades com IA. Encontra falhas antes dos atacantes. https:// github.com/usestrix/strix 2. OpenWRT IPSet Firewall inteligente baseado em lista de ameaças em tempo real. Zero configuração. 3. rz-git CLI em Rust para auditoria forense de repositórios Git. Minimalista, rápido. https:// github.com/ah
Siemens said it advanced self-verifying agentic AI workflows for semiconductor and PCB design, according to a Google News listing of a July 27 PR Newswire item [google.com#1]. A GitHub project, opencode-plugin-guardians, presents a static formal verification plugin for OpenCode that checks AI tool calls before they run [github.com#1]. The OpenCode plugin uses the platform’s native `tool.execute.be
5 open-source security tools you should know in 2026: 1. Strix AI-powered vulnerability scanner that finds flaws before attackers do. https:// github.com/usestrix/strix 2. rz-git Rust CLI for forensic Git repository auditing. Minimal, fast. https:// github.com/ahahn/rz-git 3. sn0int Modular OSINT framework — from recon to controlled exploitation. https:// github.com/kpcyrd/sn0int 4. VulnCheck Cura
Three men were arrested in Miami-Dade County in an alleged fraternity hazing case that officials said involved repeated beatings with canes and paddles and sent victims to the hospital [local10.com#1][nbcmiami.com#1]. The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office identified the defendants as Marquez Christopher Pinder, 29, Jared Lamar James, 26, and Elijah Delano Dyous, 29 [local10.com#1][nbcmiami.com#1]
Every licensing platform I looked at gets more expensive the more successful you are. Which is backwards - a tool shouldn't cost more just because you did well with it. So I built my own. It's called Quartermaster. Stripe handles the actual payment, and everything after that - issuing the license, checking it's real, making sure people aren't sharing one key with a hundred strangers - is mine. Sel
Salk Institute researchers linked senescence and ferroptosis in laboratory experiments using human lung cells, finding that high levels of acid ceramidase made senescent cells more vulnerable to a form of cell death driven by damaged fats [scitechdaily.com#1]. The study, published in Cell Death and Disease, identified acid ceramidase as a possible drug target for research focused on improving heal
Eversource and National Grid, through a partnership with EnergyHub, Sunrun and The Mobility House, plan to let qualifying residential customers in Massachusetts enroll vehicle-to-grid-capable electric vehicles in ConnectedSolutions, their demand-response virtual power plant program [cleantechnica.com#1][pv-magazine-usa.com#1][energy-storage.news#1]. The test will examine whether parked EVs can sen
Semi collaborative meme. I got some advice and encouragement from [@sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz](https://sopuli.xyz/u/sad_detective_man) , [@SatyrSack@quokk.au](https://quokk.au/u/SatyrSack) , and the enlightened mod [@ummthatguy@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/ummthatguy). You can see the sausage making/brainstorming process here : https://lemmy.world/post/49934354 Also, in reference to our m
Recently got into researching topics of sensationalism, media blitz, and the utter void when it comes to critiquing a state of grotesque and utter absurdism. Currently on "Prophets of Deceit - A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator" by Leo Lowenthal and Norbert Guternman. Released in 1949 but, so far, incredibly on the nose for current day factions in power. *points to the obvious* Fro
AI research papers posted or updated on arXiv on July 27 focused on three areas in current large-language-model systems: whether agents can be evaluated realistically, whether models can be made safer and more faithful, and whether inference can run faster or in more constrained settings. Several papers introduced benchmarks for production-like or high-stakes settings, including DBA-Bench for LLM-
Three new arXiv submissions describe artificial-intelligence methods for electroencephalography, covering interpretable EEG biomarkers, automated artifact rejection and brain-computer-interface personalization [arxiv.org#1][arxiv.org#2][arxiv.org#3]. The papers appeared in the provided feed on July 27, 2026, after submissions dated July 22 and July 24, 2026 [arxiv.org#1][arxiv.org#2][arxiv.org#3].
A cluster of medical AI research posted or revised on arXiv on July 24 and surfaced July 27 focused on clinical deployment, privacy-preserving training and more reliable evaluation. The work spans pathology foundation models, electronic health record foundation models, medical knowledge graphs, federated learning, differential privacy, medical image inpainting, synthetic survival data and systemat
Extreme heat across Europe is worsening drought, damaging crops and pressuring energy systems, according to the World Weather Attribution consortium and regional reporting on agricultural and electricity markets [energylivenews.com#1][jornaldenegocios.pt#1][lavanguardia.com#1]. World Weather Attribution said record-breaking heatwaves made the atmosphere more effective at drawing moisture from soil
Researchers studying fossilized saber-toothed cat spines from California’s La Brea Tar Pits found deformed vertebrae and rare spinal nerve tumors in the extinct animals [sciencenews.org#1][discovermagazine.com#1][phys.org#1]. The fossil study suggests population declines were linked to increased spinal abnormalities before extinction, with inbreeding proposed as a possible explanation [science.org
arXiv:2607.21642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly used for coding and terminal automation, making shell-command dispatch a high-stakes runtime control point. We study command-level pre-execution mediation for individual shell commands produced by LLM agents under bounded path context. Existing safeguards remain limited: generic guardrails do not mod
arXiv:2607.21643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many administrative processes, such as internship agreement processes, often rely on manual approval workflows and centralized record-keeping. This makes the process susceptible to delays and unauthorized modification while introducing limited traceability. This study presents StajChain, a permissioned blockchain-based multi-party internship manageme
arXiv:2607.21691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient risk analysis and threat management are essential requirements of modern air defense (AD) systems. The paper is halfway between the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and practical reasoning to model and analyze the risks and threats associated with military AD applications. The models are applied for decision-making tasks of AD command and c
arXiv:2607.21804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lossless acceleration schemes, such as speculative decoding, promise significant inference speedups by relying on dynamic token-level alignment between a draft and a target model. However, this guarantee of semantic equivalence masks a severe operational vulnerability: draft-target alignment can be systematically attacked. In this paper, we introduce
arXiv:2607.21824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic commerce platforms let AI agents autonomously discover services, move payments, and wield user credentials on their users' behalf, and they already handle real money. Their security has so far been studied almost entirely at the level of the AI model, through prompt injection and misalignment. We show that the more consequential risks lie one
arXiv:2607.21835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly rely on external tools, expanding capability while creating a new security boundary: third-party tools may appear benign at the interface level while embedding unsafe behavior in implementation. Existing defenses rely on weak metadata, collapse characterization and policy judgment into a single decision, or use heuristic/LLM e
arXiv:2607.21839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Privacy-preserving machine learning auditing protocols allow auditors to assess models for properties such as accuracy or fairness, without revealing their internals or training data. This makes them especially attractive for auditing models deployed in sensitive domains such as healthcare or finance. For these protocols to be meaningful in real-worl
arXiv:2607.21865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of artificial intelligence workloads has generated an unprecedented demand for secure and scalable compute resources. However, centralized cloud providers continue to dominate both pricing and security models. In an increasingly competitive AI landscape, where the compromise of training data or model weights can confer a significant
arXiv:2607.21895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the past decade, we have witnessed an exponential growth of deep learning models, platforms, and applications. While existing DL applications and Machine Learning as a service (MLaaS) frameworks assume fully trusted models, the need for privacy-preserving DNN evaluation arises. In a secure multi-party computation scenario, both the model and the d
arXiv:2607.21903v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ephemeral and random nature of IPv6 client addresses presents a practical challenge to attacks that depend on Internet-wide scanning or reconnaissance -- the adversary must first \emph{find} the client's IPv6 address. While a well-positioned passive adversary can potentially harvest some active IPv6 client addresses, such power is typically reser
arXiv:2607.21955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intent-based decentralized exchanges delegate execution to a competitive class of agents -- solvers -- whose behavior is shaped by protocol-designed reward rules. We measure how a change to those rules reshapes who captures value, using a governance-dated natural experiment: CoW Protocol CIP-74 (effective 8 December 2025), which replaced a fixed solv
arXiv:2607.21983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ethereum non-fungible tokens (NFTs) implement ownership, transfer, authorization, and metadata operations through smart contracts, making contract vulnerabilities a direct risk to digital assets. Existing static analyzers provide efficient rule-based screening but can struggle with application-specific logic, whereas unconstrained large language mode
arXiv:2607.22009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Microsoft's Active Directory (AD) is a directory service that enables the IT admin to manage security permissions and control access within a Windows domain network. As a core management system in many of organisation, AD has become a primary target for adversaries. While many solutions for hardening attack graphs exist, these efforts fall short in a
arXiv:2607.22024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent security is widely treated as a question about action content. Defenses ask whether an instruction looks malicious. Benchmarks ask whether an agent performs a harmful sounding action. \textbf{We argue that agent security is fundamentally a contextual problem, and that the current content based framing systematically misdefines it.} A command to
arXiv:2607.22065v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale biometric identification in outsourced settings requires two properties simultaneously: biometric templates and queries must remain protected during computation, and the encrypted similarity outputs produced by an untrusted compute node must be verifiably correct before any application result is released. Existing FHE-based biometric syst
arXiv:2607.22094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a self-supervised acoustic eavesdropping attack that reconstructs typed text solely from keystroke sounds, without requiring labeled data for the target device. The proposed attack enables stealthy eavesdropping in two real-world scenarios-physical spaces (public and semi-public) and online meetings. Our method combines unsupervised acoust
arXiv:2607.22184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Blockchain and its killer applications, particularly decentralized finance (DeFi), are gaining widespread adoption, with over 5,200 DeFi projects deployed on mainstream blockchains as of January 2026. At the same time, security risks in DeFi are becoming increasingly serious. However, existing DeFi detection tools usually cover only specific attack t
arXiv:2607.22230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: trasgoDP is a modular, open-source, and easy-to-use Python framework for releasing tabular microdata under {\epsilon}-local differential privacy guarantees, as well as location data under geo-indistinguishability assumptions, designed to be installed and integrated within standard data science workflows. The software enables systematic exploration of
arXiv:2607.22269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Kalyna block cipher is a Ukrainian cryptography standard, selected through a national competition held between 2007 and 2010 and approved in 2015. Although its software implementations have been introduced, hardware-efficient implementations of the algorithm, i.e., accelerators, do not exist. In this paper, we explore various design architectures
arXiv:2607.22450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Differential privacy is the standard for ensuring data privacy and is widely used in major data publications, including reporting results from the U.S. decennial census. Common implementation of differential privacy uses independent Gaussian or Laplace noise addition to the database. However, there could be aggregate (linear) queries to the database
arXiv:2607.21673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time adaptive out-of-distribution (OOD) detectors update a memory bank from the unlabelled stream. We show this adaptation obeys a provable dynamical law. Modelling bank impurity as a generalized P\'olya urn, we prove almost-sure convergence to a mean-field equilibrium whose slope acts as a reproduction number. Below one, impurity stays benign
arXiv:2607.21776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Talking-face (TF) deepfake generation synthesizes photore- alistic facial video from a static source image and an au- dio signal, producing forgeries that current image-based detectors consistently fail to identify. Unlike face-swap ma- nipulation, TF synthesis has no underlying real video from which to inherit physiological characteristics, making
arXiv:2607.21811v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We give, to our knowledge, the first plain-model, one-time information-theoretically secure, efficient unclonable encryption scheme for one classical bit. Previous work by Bhattacharyya and Culf (Nature Physics, 2026) and Bhattacharyya, Broadbent, and Culf either only showed $1/\mathsf{poly}(\lambda)$ security loss or required inefficient encryptio
arXiv:2607.21820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio deepfake detectors are trained to distinguish genuine speech from synthetic speech and often perform well on standard benchmarks. Yet the same detector that achieves less than 1% error on one dataset can see its error rate increase twentyfold when evaluated on a different dataset. We argue that one contributing factor is speaker-identity reli
arXiv:2607.21888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Python has become the default language for interacting with AI, with packages being distributed through registries like the Python Package Index (PyPI). This creates a need to analyse supply chains comprising such packages. One such analysis is to rebuild packages in order to identify compromised builds injecting malware. Independent rebuilds in ha
arXiv:2607.21897v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of generative models has spurred the critical need to evaluate the worst-case robustness of deepfake detectors. In this paper, we reveal a fundamental blind spot in current forensic paradigms: while existing detectors excel at capturing digital synthesis artifacts, their effectiveness drops drastically when AI-generated conten
arXiv:2607.21951v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper investigates the adversarial manipulation of the ranked recommendations produced by web-augmented large language models (LLMs). When an LLM answers a recommendation query by retrieving and reading live webpages, it acts as a recommender, and each retrieved page becomes a potential attack surface. Prior work has examined fabricated produc
arXiv:2607.21957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rust's ownership and type system provide strong memory safety guarantees, but unsafe code still presents memory safety risks. Formal verification is crucial for ensuring memory safety, but writing precise specifications for unsafe Rust is challenging and largely manual. Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating formal specificat
arXiv:2607.22033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We show that under a plausible number-theoretic conjecture, for any constant $s$ there exists an $s$-server private information retrieval (PIR) protocol that on an $n$-bit database requires communication $\exp(O((\log n)^{1/s} (\log \log n)^{1-1/s}))$. Previous constructions attaining the same communication required $2^{O(s)}$ servers. Our number-t
arXiv:2607.22140v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) are consumed not only as component inventories but as dependency graphs: vulnerability triage, reachability filtering, and impact analysis all traverse the edges an SBOM declares. We present the first large-scale characterization of the declared dependency graph across 78,612 real-world SBOM files from the Wild S
arXiv:2607.22161v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rust's ownership model and type system offer strong memory safety guarantees, but unsafe code and runtime panics still present significant risks. Formal verification is essential to ensure memory safety, but developing verification harnesses remains a challenging and manual task. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance i
arXiv:2607.22386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent domain watermarking for diffusion models embeds watermarks directly into the latent prior, enjoying non-intrusiveness to model parameters and seamless integration with the generation process. However, due to the violation of latent Gaussianity or sensitivity to normal and malicious perturbations during latent inversion, existing methods are
arXiv:2607.22445v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprise AI agents are typically granted static credential sets at configuration time, holding every tool the role might need for every task they perform. This persistent over-privilege expands the attack surface. We argue that capability scoping must follow a dynamic least-privilege principle and be treated as a prevention mechanism before a det
arXiv:2507.18036v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Securing intellectual property (IP) in Machine Learning as a Service is critical yet challenging. While deep neural network watermarking serves as a standard defense against model extraction, existing Watermarking-as-a-Service paradigms face a triple challenge of intrusiveness, privacy risks, and inefficiency. To address these challenges, we prop
arXiv:2508.10017v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) presents a groundbreaking approach for collaborative health research, allowing model training on decentralized data while safeguarding patient privacy. FL offers formal security guarantees when combined with Differential Privacy (DP). The integration of these technologies, however, introduces a significant trade-off betwee
arXiv:2511.19711v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: MPC-based ML uses multi-party computation (MPC) to run machine learning (ML) workloads across multiple parties without each having to share their private data or model parameters. However, existing frameworks frequently degrade accuracy and performance due to a series of MPC-specific transformations that add errors and overheads. These transforma
arXiv:2512.02918v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Move is a resource-oriented programming language designed for secure and verifiable smart contract development and has been widely used in managing billions of digital assets in blockchains, such as Sui and Aptos.Move features a strong static type system and explicit resource semantics to enforce safety properties such as the prevention of data r
arXiv:2512.23849v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sophisticated attackers can evade detection-based security by using encryption, stealth tactics, and low-rate attack patterns. This challenge is particularly acute in Internet of Things (IoT) and edge environments, where limited resources make ML-based intrusion detection systems impractical. Hereby, we present Economic Denial Security (EDS), a f
arXiv:2604.08632v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Network segmentation is a foundational enterprise security control. Despite its recognized benefits, segmentation initiatives frequently fail in practice, and the field lacks a systematic empirical explanation for why these projects do not achieve their intended outcomes. This paper presents an empirical study of failed segmentation projects base
arXiv:2605.22321v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As autonomous agents (e.g., OpenClaw) increasingly operate with deep system-level privileges to execute complex tasks, they introduce severe, unmitigated security risks. Existing LLM safety testing methods are largely built around prompt-level inputs and response-level judgments, while recent agent benchmarks remain limited in automation, traject
arXiv:2606.11098v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent deep learning approaches for network intrusion detection increasingly incorporate temporal architectures such as recurrent networks and Transformers, often reporting near-perfect performance on CIC-IDS2017. However, many existing studies neither supply their temporal modules with genuine sequence inputs nor evaluate under realistic, leakag
arXiv:2607.04965v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Systems that process medical data should be meticulously secured. Yet, network services in healthcare environments often fail to implement basic security measures. For example, previous studies showed that network segmentation flaws led to DICOM systems leaking millions of patient records. In addition to DICOM, healthcare facilities rely heavily
arXiv:2411.19715v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We describe Forensics Adapter, an adapter network designed to transform CLIP into an effective and generalizable face forgery detector. Although CLIP is highly versatile, adapting it for face forgery detection is non-trivial as forgery-related knowledge is entangled with a wide range of unrelated knowledge. Existing methods treat CLIP merel
arXiv:2412.01101v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Face-swapping DeepFakes have become an escalating societal concern, attracting increasing attention in recent years. To counter this, we investigate a new proactive defense framework to prevent individuals from being victimized in DeepFake videos. The core idea of this framework is to contaminate the inputs of DeepFake models by disrupting
arXiv:2601.12311v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of 6G-enabled vehicular metaverses enables Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) to operate across physical and virtual spaces through space-air-ground-sea integrated networks. The AVs can deploy AI agents powered by large AI models as personalized assistants, on edge servers to support intelligent driving decision making and enhanced on-
arXiv:2604.14014v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Securing the open-source software supply chain requires verifying the provenance of every code contribution. While end-to-end (E2E) cryptographic commit signing is widely promoted to achieve this, little is known about how developers actually use it at scale. We fill this gap by analyzing 2,737,649 GitHub accounts, identifying 71,694 active
arXiv:2607.07738v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to reverse-engineering tasks, and recent threat-intelligence reporting shows them operating inside live offensive-security workflows. Claims about their capability, however, outpace our ability to measure it. Existing benchmarks for LLM-assisted binary analysis treat the construction of
arXiv:2607.21687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates the optimal surplus management problem of an insurance company operating in a financial market with stochastic interest rates and jump-driven liabilities. The insurer dynamically allocates its surplus between a risky stock and a risk-free zero-coupon bond while facing insurance claims modeled by a compound Poisson process with
arXiv:2607.21826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The growth of peer-to-peer exchanges and the blockchain technology has led to a proliferation of cryptocurrencies and to a massive increase in the number of investors who actually negotiate digital money. Cryptocurrencies trade at prices mainly driven by investor sentiment, becoming a potential source of financial bubbles and instabilities. In this w
arXiv:2607.22085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In multi-objective and multi-criteria decision-making under risk, especially in settings involving individual behavior, risk-aware analysis based on subjective evaluation has become increasingly important. Moving beyond risk-neutral modeling and the constraints of Expected Utility Theory (EUT), Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT) provides a behaviorally
arXiv:2607.22110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We construct a continuous family of inequality and social stratification indices based on the curvature of the Lorenz curve. We study the inequality axioms of the family and find that they are satisfied only with the so-called stratification-aversion parameter $\alpha$ set to 0 -- in all other cases, these constraints cannot be satisfied in a strict
arXiv:2607.22459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We construct the Settlement Modernisation Index, a panel dataset of 809 reform events across 24 advanced economies between 1993 and 2024, decomposed into three economic channels and three adoption phases. We document an S-curve in inside money elasticity with two interior turning points at SMI = 0.27 and 0.93, separating a liberation phase, a post-gl
arXiv:2607.22006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Buildings account for roughly 34% of global final energy use and 37% of energy- and process-related CO$_2$ emissions. Stranding regulation now being enacted (New York City Local Law 97, the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive recast) presupposes that a building portfolio's carbon intensity can be measured per square metre and compared agai
arXiv:2607.22317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Using a mean-field game framework, we study a dynamic model of bank runs in which more withdrawals raise the risk of bank failure. Even though depositors receive gradual and idiosyncratic shocks, withdrawals occur in clusters. The main mechanism is latent fragility: run-prone depositors accumulate gradually over time and may prefer to wait individu
arXiv:2410.22616v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The paper estimates the effects of Price Controls and Cost Controls on healthcare service quantity and their role in spatial restructuring of physician market. Exploiting the quasi-experimental variation in regulatory-technological environment generated by telehealth parity laws and broadband internet, I find that for aggregate sample and metro a
arXiv:2503.02713v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents new empirical evidence from four emerging economies on the relationship between educational assortative mating and household income inequality. It also introduces a new methodological approach, first proposed in my earlier work, that overcomes limitations of standard sorting measures used in the literature and allows for the i
arXiv:2503.06806v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: An important step in the Financial Benchmarks Reform was taken on 13th September 2018, when the ECB Working Group on Euro Risk-Free Rates recommended the Euro Short-Term Rate ESTR as the new benchmark rate for the euro area, to replace the Euro OverNight Index Average (EONIA) which will be discontinued at the end of 2021. This transition has a nu
arXiv:2507.01995v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The aim of this work is to calculate the fair profit-sharing ratios and the expected payoffs at maturity for each partner in islamic investment contrats (or instruments), based on profit and loss-sharing (PL-sharing). These investment contracts, known as {\em mudarabah} and {\em musharakah}, can be compared to {\em limited partnerships} and {\em
arXiv:2607.02795v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study coordinated buyer behavior on the Solana pump.fun bonding-curve marketplace using 1,578,333 buyer observations from 166,098 token launches between June 12 and June 26, 2026. A two-stage detection pipeline - intra-launch first-buyer-window extraction followed by cross-launch persistent-cohort surfacing via union-find on co-occurrence grap
A study of saber-toothed cat fossils from California’s La Brea Tar Pits links deformed vertebrae and rare spinal tumors to possible inbreeding before the animals went extinct [discovermagazine.com#1][science.org#1][sciencenews.org#1]. Science reported that population declines may have preceded an increase in spinal deformities and rare tumors, while Science News described the remains as evidence t
It's Sunday, so I should do an Eve update. I have been feeling a little burned out from the game, so I tried to dial it back this week. As I've been posting about poker, you might guess that's taken up more of my (hyper) focus. I might or might not have watched the 90s classic, "Rounders" twice this weekend.... Much as I love Eve, and all my accounts have at least six months of Omega, it does cost
A set of new AI developer projects published on July 26-27 focuses on moving agent work from browser tabs and hosted dashboards into local, inspectable workflows. Stuard presents a Windows AI workspace that shares context and memory across chat, research, image, email, browser, coding and file tasks on a PC [stuard.ai#1]. Open-source projects published on GitHub include ASL V6 for Python agent red
'Much of the moral ambiguity has been drained to make Matt Damon’s protagonist more likable. Except for a few mournful appearances by Zendaya’s Athena ..., Nolan doesn’t depict any of the major meddling gods ... you just have people struggling within themselves. You lose the depth and force of the epic. 'He’s [Damon's] traumatised Jason Bourne ... He’s not that complicated ... The Odysseus of the
NGINX Plus and NGINX Open Source have a vulnerability in the ngx_http_rewrite_module module. This vulnerability exists when the rewrite directive is followed by a rewrite, if, or set directive and an unnamed Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) capture (for example, $1, $2) with a replacement string that includes a question mark (?). An unauthenticated attacker along with conditions beyond it
'In 2026, the “Liberals” were barely mentioned [in the PM's ALP conference speech], except when lumped in with One Nation and the Nationals. They have become part of a broad group called “our opponents”. The Greens, meanwhile, have vanished entirely. Now, it is One Nation that is not interested in solutions. And there were other sections clearly about One Nation, including an attack on the idea of
Security developers released and highlighted open-source tools aimed at controlling AI agents that can interact with terminals, files, credentials and production systems. Help Net Security reported that nolabs, co-founded by Luke Hinds and Stephen Parkinson, released Nono, an open-source runtime that confines AI agents at the operating-system kernel in response to risks such as prompt injection, m
BirdLife Australia says discoveries of sick and dead local seabirds in South Australia show outbreak is ‘taking hold’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast South Australia has reported seven new suspected cases of deadly H5 bird flu , with experts warning it could be a sign the disease has begun spreading through local b
https:// inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CAHt= NyNjN0Uvg05ZUstPaaFVQJMTMbLHgH6WJrqvrkbb_AfQLw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u GNU Tools Weekly News Week 48 (July 26, 2026) Release updates for GNU toolchain: * glibc 2.44 was released * https:// inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alph a/teaVXxrfQH2qv0xBul7sXg@gentoo.org/ * binutils 2.47 was released * https:// inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/ 87o6fty5pz.fsf@redhat.com/ General/b
'[RIMPAC] is now an Operational Test (OT) event, giving the U.S. Navy an opportunity to demonstrate advanced capabilities to allies in the region ... 'During that exercise the USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) participated in War at Sea scenarios with its embarked Air Wing of the Future — an air wing configuration demonstrated to international allies for the first time. 'This year, the service has partnere
'The handling of Husic’s intervention exposed a tension at the heart of Albanese’s Labor: whether unity is strengthening the party’s argument with voters, or simply avoiding arguments within the party itself. 'Several wise heads privately observed that the conference spent far more time discussing the political challenge posed by Hanson than the economic frustrations that help fuel it. It was the
Apple will expand AppleCare One beyond the United States to Australia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, with sign-ups beginning August 4, 2026 [macrumors.com#2][engadget.com#1][betanews.com#1][iphoneincanada.ca#1][appleworld.today#1]. The multi-device plan covers up to three Apple products under one monthly subscription; listed prices include £16.99 in the U.K. and €20.99 in France and Germ
'Many of the gravest AI risks emerge before deployment and then propagate through shared software and infrastructure. In this case, a weakness in a package-registry proxy became the route from an internal benchmark into another company’s production systems. 'Removing safeguards may reveal a model’s true abilities. It also removes the protections intended to stop those abilities from affecting othe
'The ships have docked in Hobart four times over the past two years since the Tasmanian government invited the PRIC to resupply its vessels in the city during trips to and from Antarctica. 'It is the second year in a row that US authorities have kept a close watch on China's activities in the region after the Xue Long 2 was spotted 290 nautical miles off the Alaskan coast in 2025. 'The Canadian mi
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the "Relentless" podcast that humanity has entered the technological singularity, a term often used for the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and advances in ways people struggle to predict or control [businessinsider.com#1][lesnumeriques.com#1][chosun.com#1]. Altman said the idea once sounded like science fiction discussed casually a
. Fastfetch I modified from someone cooler and more talented than i. ![riff for Spotify application for Linux. Showing off my excellent taste in music. Including: the mars volta, Jamestown revival, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, war on women, Sithu Aye
A key EO on DIB supply chains from 20/7 which I reckon went under the radar: - Pentagon to stop issuing waivers for acquisition of critical goods under 10 USC 4872, unless the prime/subcontractor provides a time-bound mitigation plan; - Primes and subcontractors 'at any tier' to map critical supply chains for DoW acquisitions concerning natsec, including the provision of BOMs going back to the raw
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Yet another company has been picked off London’s stock exchange this morning: DCC Energy has agreed to a £5.75bn takeover by private equity investors KKR and Energy Capital Partners . Shareholders in the FTSE 100 energy distributor will receive £65.25 per share in cash, a proposed final dividend of 147.22p per share, and a potential paym
The Lebanese army on Sunday condemned Israeli military activity in southern Lebanon, saying it was preventing its full deployment under a US-sponsored framework agreement reached with Israel last month [aawsat.com#3][dawn.com#1][newarab.com#1][middleeasteye.net#1]. The army said Israeli forces were carrying out “systematic destruction and bulldozing of homes,” bombardment and automatic-weapon swee
❝Nach ersten Erkenntnissen stammt der mutmaßliche Täter aus einem islamistischen Umfeld. Welche Gefahr geht von dieser Ideologie für queere Menschen aus? Islamismus hat, genau wie Rechtsextremismus, einen gemeinsamen Kern: Beide Ideologien leben davon, Menschen auszugrenzen und abzuwerten. Wir müssen jetzt allerdings aufpassen, wie wir die Debatte über die Aufklärung des Attentats führen, und dürf
---------------- 🛠️ Tool =================== A security researcher detailed an autonomous vulnerability hunting system built around Claude Code and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The motivation stems from the overhead of context switching and tool wrangling during manual vulnerability research. Architecture Overview The system wraps standard research tools as callable MCP servers, allowing Cla
Mine: Once had a meeting with a guy that wanted to be a Starlink distributor in a developing country. His first time in country, had just arrived like 24 hours before. Knew nothing and no one. No idea why he wanted to talk to me, but, whatever... Wanted to have his "business partner" in on the meeting, and called some douche that talked for 5 solid minutes about how he could see the Cape Kennedy l
# madeinusa This is absolutely real. https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=vS6HEes8daw # europe # germany # switzerland # france # poland # czechia # spain # portugal # lithuania # romania # greece # austria There is so many great countries were we need to start making things again! Pass the knowledge to future generation. I see a lot of new things being made in Portugal lately, such as # bikes , # pro
Ukraine Brief — 2026-07-27 Ukraine's deep-strike campaign will very likely sustain its current tempo against Russian economic infrastructure over the next two weeks, with at least two confirmed strikes beyond 1,500 kilometers before August 10. Moderate confidence reflects documented acceleration from monthly to weekly cadence, Zelensky's July 26 approval of an updated target list, and Estonian def
IC Brief Morning — 2026-07-27 Congressional oversight of US intelligence institutions is structurally offline as Clayton's DNI confirmation cloture vote opens Monday's Senate session. The withdrawal of Air Force One leak subpoenas under judicial pressure makes renewed compulsory process against journalists in that investigation unlikely within the next 90 days. High confidence reflects the judge's
NASA-funded science teams plan to study Wednesday, Aug. 12’s total solar eclipse as the Moon’s shadow crosses Greenland, Iceland and Spain. Teams will use a WB-57 high-altitude research aircraft and scientific balloons to observe the Sun and Earth’s atmosphere [nasa.gov#1][adnkronos.com#1]. NASA said the aircraft will carry four cameras in its nose cone to record the solar corona in visible and in
Il MIT sta ricoprendo l'intero campus di telecamere di sicurezza basate sull'intelligenza artificiale Cosa succede quando si installano centinaia di telecamere di sorveglianza ad alta tecnologia contro una popolazione studentesca nota per le sue capacità di hacking ? Stiamo per scoprirlo. Questa settimana, il quotidiano studentesco del Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Tech, ha riferito c
One of the missed opportunities that makes me sad in both AArch64 and RISC-V (I advocated for it when both were still new) is not moving to 64-bit ASIDs. On a system that supports virtual memory, there's a small (or, on modern chips, large!) cache of address translations so that you don't need to walk the page tables[1] on every load or store (or instruction fetch). This cache, the Translation Loo
A Dish and Its History I posted the picture below on our Discord server. A friend commented: Today is Mirácoli Day. 😉 This was the slogan of a well-known German advertising campaign for an early convenience pasta dish "Mirácoli". In its own way, that is the grandfather of my dish. My cooking career began more than 50 years ago, when I was a little kid making Mirácoli all by myself. Back then, I c
"TESSA: A Nuka-World Story" - Update *** PLOT SPOILERS *** The latest ScriptForge screenplay analysis came back strong (8.5/10). The story's bones are solid. The arc works. The ending lands. But I'm not satisfied yet. Here's the problem: Tessa is too robotic. Don't get me wrong, the cold, calculating Enclave lawyer was always the point. She's steel. She's system. She's the woman who builds a cage
TotalEnergies said on July 27 it would appeal a Paris court ruling ordering the French oil and gas company to include CO2 emissions from customers' use of its products in its climate vigilance plan [economiematin.fr#1][oilprice.com#1][lemonde.fr#1][energynews.pro#1][aawsat.com#1][20minutes.fr#1][leparisien.fr#1][lesechos.fr#1]. The June 25 judgment by the Paris judicial court found the plan “incom
W Polsce rzadko o tym rozmawiamy. A szkoda. Większość z nas ma jakieś pojęcie, gdzie w domu leżą najważniejsze dokumenty. Wiemy, w którym banku mamy konto, gdzie jest polisa, do kogo zadzwonić. Ale nasze życie od dawna nie kończy się na szufladzie z papierami. Dzisiaj równie ważny jest mail, dostęp do bankowości, zdjęć w chmurze, kont w mediach społecznościowych, abonamentów, usług i całej tej cyf
Mass hearings, removal orders ‘in absentia’ – judges are wrapping up immigration cases in unprecedented numbers The second Trump administration recorded its highest number of immigration arrests so far last month. One significant and alarming reason that is far less noticeable than armored, masked agents swaggering in the streets with weapons may be a sudden change in America’s immigration courts.
48 # Debian LTS advisories were released in June fixing 231 CVEs for various packages. These include notable security updates for apache2, asterisk, chromium, firefox-esr, havaged, libinput, nginx, thunderbird, tomcat9 and many more. In June, Debian 12 (#bookworm) was handed over to the LTS team and the relevant tools and documentation were updated. Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates fo
German solar developer ib vogt has begun commercial electricity generation at the 99MW Tantangan Solar project in South Cotabato, Philippines, after an energisation ceremony less than one year after groundbreaking [renews.biz#1][pv-tech.org#1][energyglobal.com#1]. The project is ib vogt’s second solar development in Mindanao, and the Philippines has designated it a national priority under its clea
'Clark said fertility chains relied on long-standing specialist legal advice that the “five women per sperm donor rule” in NSW legislation meant five in the state. 'Clark said NSW Health determined with no notice last September that the law, which does not spell out if the context is statewide or worldwide, applied globally. 'It has essentially meant all [fertility] units had run out of donors bef
Local backlash and reliability concerns are challenging the vision of an AI boom built quickly using large off-grid data centers. Why it matters: If giant projects stumble, trillions of dollars in AI investment and the industry's plans to rapidly expand data centers could be at risk. The big picture: In an effort to speed AI development, some companies are building data centers powered mainly by o
'The frontier labs are, in relative terms, likely to lose sole custody over AI’s development. Their best strategy is to align heavily with the U.S. government and capture the defense enterprise. 'Market pressure will fragment AI software development across many smaller labs (as we are already seeing with Thinking Machines and Chinese competitors) and reward infrastructure providers capable of serv
Democrats are learning a hard lesson Republicans know all too well: The party out of power doesn't just ride the anti-incumbency wave — it can also get swept up in it. Why it matters: The populist energy surging through the left after President Trump's return to the White House is roiling Democratic primaries and fueling establishment fears about the party's general election chances. Just ask Sena
'Huawei’s report on its progress gave [PRC tech czar] Ding leeway to be more aggressive. He delivered a blunt warning ...: Anyone who resisted employing domestic chips was a traitor. 'Moonshot had to pause sign-ups for premium services just two days after launching K3 because it didn’t have enough computing capacity. 'Nvidia’s top AI chip boasts around four times the computing power of Huawei’s be
"Im Dunkeln ist gut Munkeln" Wie hinterlistige Verbrecher, die im geheimen ihre Untaten planen und jede Beobachtung wie die Pest vermeiden, will unsere # Regierung dem # Volk , von dem alle Macht ausgeht und dessen Diener sie lediglich sind, ihr schäbiges Handeln gegen das Volk verbergen. # Faschismus , für den # Korruption zum guten Ton gehört, fängt bei # CDU und # CSU an. Wer dort mitmacht hat
---------------- 🛠️ Tool =================== Conversation Stenography is a proof of concept tool that hides secret messages inside normal-looking chat text using local AI models. 🔹 Key Features • Generates innocent cover text for encrypted messages • Works across any messaging platform like WhatsApp or Signal • Uses local GPT-2 model for generation and decoding 🔹 Technical Implementation The to
Rocket Lab will establish a new launch site at the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska in Kodiak under a $266 million U.S. Space Force contract for suborbital missions supporting missile-defense development [spacenews.com#1][spacewatch.global#1][space.com#1][defence-industry.eu#1][airandspaceforces.com#1][defence-blog.com#1][defensedaily.com#1][rnz.co.nz#1]. The Space Systems Command’s Rocket Systems
🇰🇷 Université Daejin (daejin.ac.kr) a été victime d'une cyberattaque autour du 01 juillet 2026. L'université Daejin a détecté une activité d'accès anormale via une adresse IP externe sur ses systèmes internes le 1er juillet. Après avoir mis en place un système d'urgence, l'université a bloqué l'accès suspect en moins de 30 minutes et a immédiatement signalé l'incident aux autorités compétentes (
Astronauts for America liken effort to instill trust and faith back in constitution’s principles and democratic institutions to ‘making a course correction’ Orbiting 250 miles above the US in the international space station, astronaut Cady Coleman did not look down and see red or blue states, sanctuary cities or communities occupied by thousands of federal immigration enforcement agents in camoufl
Some fun (?) facts I learned from this event. The architecture of our ActiveX control was heavily inspired by Microsoft’s official Windows Update ActiveX control. They weren’t using their own feature, IObjectSafety, that solves the problem of choosing whether the client is “safe for scripting” (allowed to call functions on) the control. Only when looking into it more did I learn this is exactly wh
Every iteration adds complexity without solving the issue. Like manually run one-off commands to enable previews using a third party imaginary service, fixing DNS resolution to the third party apps, adding Redis for locking outside of the database. None of them solved errors nor slowness. I can't deploy that at my in-laws'. I'm done with Nextcloud. Immich? Pictures are only part of my files. Seafi
https:// flyingpenguin.com has been self-hosted and ad free since 1995. I've written over 7,000 posts. And I'm not dead yet. Almost all I wrote myself, although some with others held against their will under a bright hot bare bulb and told "funnier and shorter, damnit, with cat pictures, or we'll never be influencers". But seriously, I am so old and been on the Web since 1990, thay I guess I still
I see LLMs as a continuation of the Silicon Valley obsession with 'problem solving' and their specific definition. Back when I was an undergrad, the refrain we heard from big tech recruiters was 'we're not interested in specific skills, we want to hire problems solvers'. This always struck me as odd: everyone in my year could solve problems, it wasn't a rare skill, the difficult thing was identify
What GAO Found The Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) was enacted in 1980, in part to address individuals’ and organizations’ ability to challenge or defend themselves against civil or administrative actions involving the federal government. EAJA authorizes the award of legal fees to parties that prevail against the federal government and meet other eligibility criteria, under certain circumstance
🔒 Security News Digest - 2026-07-27 📊 7 updates from 2 sources: 🔹 The Hacker News: GitHub Adds 3-Day Dependabot Cooldown to Limit Poisoned Package Adoption https:// thehackernews.com/2026/07/gith ub-adds-3-day-dependabot-cooldown.html 🔹 The Hacker News: TELESHIM Abuses Telegram for C2 in Attacks Against Middle East Governments https:// thehackernews.com/2026/07/tele shim-abuses-telegram-for-c2
To no one’s surprise, women and girls are disproportionately targeted, making image-based abuse not just a technology issue but a gendered form of violence rooted in misogyny and power. In fact, in Laura Bates’ book “The New Age of Sexism”, she cites research that says that of the 96% of deepfakes that are non-consensual sexually explicit images, 99% of those depict women. In fact, most of the app
Kazakhstan resumed oil exports on Monday through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal near Novorossiysk after a week-long suspension linked to Ukrainian drone attacks and safety concerns in the Black Sea, according to Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry and reports citing Reuters [oilprice.com#1][meduza.io#1][meduza.io#2][istories.media#1][ziua.md#1][realitatea.md#1][epravda.com.ua#1]. The suspension
"The # deadinternettheory has floated around internet forums since the 2010s, and the idea that the internet is dominated by non-human activity was often dismissed as a fringe conspiracy. Now it has become a measurable fact. Not only do multiple cybersecurity firms agree that bots outnumber humans online, they likewise are struggling to answer when the flip happened or what metrics to use to measu
Tendance de fond : les gangs de ransomware s'acharnent sur les équipements de bordure type VPN et firewalls. Cybersecurity News fait le lien entre plusieurs vulns et campagnes d'exploitation actives en parlant d'une vague coordonnée contre les appliances exposées. 👇 https:// cybersecuritynews.com/ransomwa re-gangs-attack-vpn/ CSOonline martèle le même constat « les groupes ransomware tapent en bo
What GAO Found In May 2025, GAO identified 39 priority recommendations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Since then, DHS has implemented five of these recommendations. GAO also closed two recommendations that were no longer valid. In July 2026, GAO identified an additional seven priority recommendations, bringing the total to 39. GAO is highlighting the following three areas that warr
Spain's government is set to approve on Tuesday, July 28, a royal decree-law creating a specific benefit for workers affected by wildfire emergencies, along with paid leave for people who cannot reach their jobs because of evacuations or other safety restrictions [larazon.es#1][elmundo.es#1][xataka.com#1]. The Ministry of Labour and Social Economy, led by Yolanda Díaz, designed the package for cas
The West Asia conflict highlights Iran’s nuclear ambitions and US-Israeli efforts to block them. Pickaxe Mountain, housing hidden nuclear facilities, has become a focal point. Strikes on Natanz in 2025 echoed earlier pre-emptive attacks on nuclear programmes worldwide, from Allied raids on Germany’s heavy-water plant in WWII to Israel’s operations against Iraq’s Osiraq reactor (1981) and Syria’s a
Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator On-Prem contains an OS command injection vulnerability that may allow a remote attacker to access privileged internal functionality and impact the VCO host. Successful exploitation may compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the orchestrator and data managed by the orchestrator. Action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, e
At least it's an ethos. "Lindell’s financial straits didn’t stop Trump – who had his own history of business bankruptcies and stiffed creditors before running for president in 2016 – from endorsing Lindell over House Speaker Lisa Demuth and retired health care executive Kendall Qualls, who won the Republican party endorsement for governor in May." Good story — and thorough! — in the morning paper
Duplicate reporting doesn’t improve cybersecurity 🤔 The government accountability office identified a whopping 117 existing cybersecurity regulations administered by 37 federal agencies across nine critical infrastructure sectors. Of those, it found that 80 regulations (about 70%) have affirmative reporting requirements, collectively imposing at least 125 separate reporting obligations on private
Oh, this is a fun category of spam I haven't seen before: A load of big events sell their attendees list (and a bunch of the people who buy it are dodgy folks that sell it later). Some event-organising entitires will automatically pre-register you for related events so that their registered attendee lists look bigger. So, what I think has happened is: Some event I went to caused me to be registere
Folge 6378885: Die Linken sind schuld... 🙃 https://www. wsj.com/us-news/education/is-i t-time-to-liquidate-the-study-of-sociology-6b85ac14 "Even sociologists acknowledge that students are often drawn to the major because they’re afraid of math or are sold on sociology as a means to activism." Und Nassehis/Saakes Blick https://www. zeit.de/feuilleton/2026-07/soz iologie-wissenschaft-oxford-studie/
Alternative für Deutschland, topping polls ahead of state elections, accuses government of failing to tackle Islamist radicalism Europe live – latest updates German officials have called for a tightening of laws for known extremists after a deadly attack in Berlin on one of Europe’s biggest Pride parades , as the far right seeks to mobilise outraged voters before three key state elections. The ant
While longer-term action is needed, there are steps that can be taken during the holidays to help keep children safe This summer, repeated heatwaves drove classroom temperatures to unbearable levels, leaving pupils and teachers scrambling to cope and forcing thousands of schools to close. School WhatsApp groups have lit up as parents, teachers and governors try to work out what can be done. Expert
Researchers led by the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca analyzed more than 3,700 dream and waking reports and found that dream content was associated with personality, sleep quality, mental habits and shared outside events [sciencedaily.com#1]. Participants recorded dreams and daily experiences, allowing researchers to compare sleep patterns, psychological characteristics and waking reports w
🧑🏻🏫 For years, I’ve explained how Kubernetes requests and limits work. I’ve also made mistakes with them more often than I’d like to admit. I’ve run webinars, built the Kubernetes instance calculator, written whitepapers on VPA, created courses and a book about GPU resource optimization, and spoken at KubeCon about letting algorithms handle resource decisions instead of changing values by hand
Lecture tech intéressante: comment un pays disparaît d’Internet, préfixe BGP après préfixe... Cette analyse croise données RIPE RIS, Cloudflare Radar, IODA et OONI Elle illustre très concrètement comment des opérations BGP parfaitement "classiques" peuvent être utilisées pour isoler un pays, tout en rappelant une limite essentielle : la table de routage enregistre ce qui s’est passé, mais pas qui
Palestinian health workers said a 28-year-old woman who was six months pregnant delivered a stillborn baby in an ambulance on Monday after Israeli soldiers delayed the vehicle at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank [alarabiya.net#1][newarab.com#1][thenationalnews.com#1][lemonde.fr#1][abs-cbn.com#1][dawn.com#1][ziarulnational.md#1][protothema.gr#1]. Medic Bashar Qaryouti said the woman was uncon
Personal story-time: I once told a friend that was quite a handsome guy. No intention behind it, you know, just being nice and honest. Little did I know that said guy was a bit... mentally unstable, to say the least. The word got out to him that I found him handsome, and he became certain that I fancied him. Long story short, this escalated to him blocking me in the toilets of a pub and demanding
Spain’s Council of Ministers is set to approve a preliminary draft law, promoted by Labour Minister and Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz, that would bar dismissals and other workplace retaliation against employees who report corruption or illegal practices at work [lavanguardia.com#1][abc.es#1][lavozdegalicia.es#1][eldiario.es#1]. The proposal would amend the Workers’ Statute so that dism
China's communist government is now going after off-shore tax havens (those are the off-shore accounting systems virtually and physically located in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere). Scrutinizing the people who take part in this and who also live in the US will not occur until well after Trump's people are gone. Their being there in political office is part of the main reason that this financial
DCC Energy’s board recommended a £5.75 billion takeover by U.S. private equity firms KKR and Energy Capital Partners, a deal that would take the Dublin-based energy distributor private [energynews.pro#1][ft.com#1][google.com#1][theguardian.com#1][irishnews.com#1]. Reuters valued the transaction at $7.7 billion, while EnergyNews said the package includes a dividend and a contingent payment tied to
Recent archaeological reports and commentary described how laboratory methods are changing interpretations of ancient people, from Bronze Age Britain to Ice Age Australia and Neanderthal Spain. The Guardian said ancient DNA analysis at the Francis Crick Institute found that the Upton Lovell Shaman, a 4,000-year-old individual from what is now Wiltshire who was once assumed to be male because of st
hi! i'm ellie, a queer woman in her late twenties who is really bad when it comes to writing about herself in the third person. i really enjoy contributing to open source and writing code/software in general, currently mostly in rust. alongside my own stuff i like to try and contribute to projects that i find interesting/have helped me, so i get to learn and experience loads of different languages
The Pentagon signed seven-year framework agreements with L3Harris Technologies and Lockheed Martin to expand propulsion production for PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors [defence-industry.eu#1][defence-industry.eu#2][defensedaily.com#1][breakingdefense.com#1][alarabiya.net#1]. L3Harris said the plan would nearly triple production of
Disassembled glasses for cleaning thinking it would be easy to put them back together and BOY HOWDY was I wrong. Found out that there's a spring in the hinges that means once you take the screw out for disassembly it's almost impossible to put back unless you find the perfect sequence of specifically-wide items to jam in to keep it open while you put the screw back in (some designs seem not as bad
Meine Berufung als Beisitzer zur # LTWMV26 ist eingetroffen. Die Vorstellung, dass wahrscheinlich jede dritte Person, die unsere Tische passiert, ihr Kreuz bei den # fcknzs macht, macht mir aber nach wie vor zu schaffen. Wir sind ja zur Neutralität verpflichtet, auch was die Kleidung angeht. Ein T-Shirt mit FCKNZS tragen ist unzulässig. Ich überlege aber bereits, ob es nicht auch unterschwellige M
Japan stellt(e) 2022 seine Einreiseformalitäten um! Die allseits geliebten Papierformulare, die man bis heute im Flugzeug ausfüllen musste, sind in Zukunft nur noch optional. Ab jetzt lässt sich auch alles digital bequem im Voraus erledigen. Von der eigenen Couch sozusagen. Die Anfänge des digitalen Systems im Sommer 2022 mit der App MySOS waren allerdings nicht frei von Fehlern, was für viel Frus
Steve Howard, founder of the Bike Breakers Foundation, is supercharged to lead the inaugural World’s Biggest Beach Bike Ride, a family-friendly community event taking place on Friday, August 14, 2026 at the Seawalk Pavillion in Jacksonville Beach. The event will bring together bicyclists and e-bike riders for a unique ride along the beaches while raising funds for three local nonprofits: BEAM, V f
Io ero anti-putin da ben prima della guerra in Ucraina e mi ricordo bene il periodo in cui i media nazionali sbandieravano felici gli incontri berlusca-putin... ma questa è la goccia che fa traboccare il vaso. Subire questo continuo bombardamento mediatico dove l'unico politico cattivo al mondo è putin, dove si fanno pagare ai russi le colpe del loro tiranno, dove netanyahu e altri dittatori sono
Gibraltar-based Ros Astengo inspired four men to report sexual assaults carried out by Allan Grimson in 1990s Ros Astengo, a journalist based in Gibraltar who usually focuses on politics and social issues, had qualms when she began investigating the case of the suspected serial killer Allan Grimson as he neared release from prison after serving more than 20 years. She worried that she might reopen
My birthday is still almost two months away but she found a really good deal on it (used but in good condition) and was too excited to wait. Plus we don’t really have anywhere to hide it for that long without me accidentally finding it anyway. I’m still learning how to use it but it’s been fun so far. My first two shots (yesterday) weren’t great, my third (today) turned out a lot better, and my fo
BIG: A state-backed Shanghai company has begun limited mass production of China's first domestic immersion DUV lithography machines, with about 5 units due for delivery to SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT in 2026, ramping to 20 in 2027. The tools target 28 nm processes and can support 7 nm-class production via multi-patterning, though they still lag ASML in throughput, accuracy, and reliability. ASML shar
Mozilla made its next Firefox design available in Firefox Nightly on July 27, 2026, after previewing its broader design direction in May [mozilla.org#1]. The refresh changes tabs, menus, panels and other browser surfaces, adding softer tab shapes, a warmer color palette, updated icons, the return of Compact Mode and new theme options [mozilla.org#1]. 9to5Linux described the Nightly build as using
MongoDB Patches 26 Vulnerabilities Including Critical Memory Corruption Flaw MongoDB released security updates to fix 26 vulnerabilities, including a critical memory corruption flaw (CVE-2026-13072) and multiple high-severity issues that allow unauthorized data access and service crashes. **If you run self-hosted MongoDB, update your servers now to the latest patched version (7.0.39, 8.0.28, 8.2.1
GitHub has introduced a default three-day cooldown for Dependabot version updates, requiring the tool to wait at least 72 hours after a dependency release before opening a pull request for a routine version bump [cybersecuritynews.com#1][thehackernews.com#1][heise.de#1][windowsreport.com#1][securityweek.com#1][betanews.com#1]. The delay does not apply to Dependabot security updates, which will sti
i'm in a lucky position that i have a dream job right now. and yet i'm really having second thoughts about how long i can stay in this industry. guess i'm finally tried of pretending... pretending that the drop in quality of crap we make is fine... pretending that i, too, use LLM on even the most trivial of tasks that takes 10 minutes (ok, 15 at most). my assigned task for the past week or so is t
ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for a data breach at Ernst & Young after EY disclosed that a third-party information technology service management platform used by IT staff supporting tax-related client work had been compromised [cybersecuritynews.com#1][bleepingcomputer.com#1]. The group listed EY on its leak site and threatened to release allegedly stolen data if the company did not contact
Cross-posted from ["FYI: StarTrek.website is no longer federating with Lemmy.dbzer0.com"](https://startrek.website/post/42709922) by @Admin@startrek.website in !quarks@startrek.website Crossposting here since y'all won't be able to see it now that they've defederated us. --- > If you're not familiar with how Lemmy/the Fediverse works, basically everything you read at StarTrek.website is hosted by
I'm happy to announce our work has been accepted at ESORICS 2026, going to be held at Rome, Italy in September later this year! "A Systematic Look at Quality-of-Service Feature Effects on Side Channels in AMD SEV-SNP" In our work, we show that AMD CPUs' Quality of Service features introduce and amplify side channels, especially concerning in the confidential computing / trusted execution paradigm
⚽ Threat retrospective: the 2026 FIFA World Cup drew huge attacker interest. Netskope observed malicious traffic attempts spike to ~6x the pre-tournament baseline, and blocked 28,000+ World Cup-themed threats spanning 1,000+ organizations globally. Top tactics: 🎣 fake job postings with fraudulent interview pages to steal credentials, 📺 fake streaming portals (SEO-boosted!) pushing fake payment g
Jean-Emile Jammine is pleased to welcome Christopher Rassi, IFRC Chief of Staff and Under Secretary General for People and Strategy. He offers a rare on-the-ground perspective from southern Lebanon, to reveal the harrowing realities of the humanitarian crisis. He presents a compelling paradox: while ceasefires and pilot return zones might seem promising, recovery is not simply about returning peop
TLDR, Let's Seal gives the finger to Adobe and every doc signing tool (docusign, google, etc) who pay to play with the Adobe Approved Trust List and then charge you for something that should be free. Currently even the person checking if a document/contract is sealed or code is authentic has to also be inside the same Adobe walled garden too. Verification, the part that should be free is the part
Former top US health official wrote about challenging interactions with publicity-fixated Trump during Covid Diary entries released by a Republican senator in an attempt to damage Anthony Fauci also show the former top US government science adviser’s growing disillusionment with Donald Trump in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, branding the president “rambling”, “crazy”, “desperate”, “bumbl
The Federal Reserve typically telegraphs its interest rate moves in advance, then follows through. This week will provide the clearest evidence yet on whether chairman Kevin Warsh is ending the era of the no-surprises Fed. The big picture: Markets are now putting meaningful odds on the Fed delivering an interest rate hike at the conclusion of its two-day meeting this week. If the Federal Open Mark
Just another trump vanity project at tax-payer cost. "The govt spent hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase equipment needed to train pilots to fly the 747-8 plane so quickly, on top of the approx $400 million cost of the upgrades that the administration has publicly acknowledged. The Pentagon has tried to mask the total price tag — including from Congress — by taking the funds from a classif
Chad notified the U.N. secretary-general on July 27 that it intends to withdraw from the Rome Statute, the treaty underpinning the International Criminal Court, according to the Chadian Foreign Ministry and regional reports [dw.com#1][fraternite.bj#1][dakarmatin.com#1][aa.com.tr#1]. The government said an “in-depth review” of the court’s work since it began operating in 2002 found its effectivenes
Residents describe their fear as they were forced to leave their homes because of the ‘extremely intense’ blaze Sitting in their suburban apartment in Mérignac on the outskirts of Bordeaux, Krishma, an interpreter, and her husband, Nassir, first felt a sense of dread when a strange black cloud turned the sky dark in the middle of the day. Then a bitter burning smell filled the air outside. “The sk
Vakantie! Dag twee. 25/07/26 Vandaag dan echt op pad. Zoals gisteren beschreven met een ander reisdoel dan we eerst hadden. Het idee is nu, eerst op visite bij onze oudste zoon die voor het eerst tweeëneenhalve week helemaal alleen op vakantie is. Hij staat op camping het Plathuis in Bourtange. We gaan hem verrassen. Het is de camping waar we met vrienden tot '22 een aantal jaar heerlijke zomervak
fwupd 2.1.7 was released July 27, a little more than three weeks after fwupd 2.1.6, as the latest update to the open-source Linux firmware update utility used with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service [phoronix.com#1][tuxmachines.org#1][linuxiac.com#1]. The release adds support for PixArt PJP360 devices used with the PixArt POCO 103X touchpad, with PixArt contributing the support to fwupd [phoronix.c
They killed JFK over Jimmy Hoffa's teamsters' revenge, JFK helping South Vietnam's military cap President Diem, and The Bay of Pigs. John F. Kennedy was a Democrat. President Kennedy was a courageous soul who was trying to make a difference: the antithesis of Donald J. Trump. That's actually how it went down: the "they" part. This is why there are people such as that author # GeraldPosner who can
NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory advanced in early mission planning with two related developments: a Technology Maturation Project Office plan that describes steps needed before a Mission Concept Review near the end of the decade, and a new ROSES-25 solicitation for precursor science investigations [universetoday.com#1][astrobiology.com#1][phys.org#1]. The observatory concept was recommended by
🚀 iLEAPP v2026.2.1 is out! The Biome rabbit hole keeps going deeper. This release adds 60+ new Biome streams: 🔋 Device power and lock state 📍 Location visits and app location activity 📸 Camera AutoFocus ROI ⚡ Energy mode and boot sessions 🚨 Emergency voice calls 😀 Emoji engagement 🧠 A full Apple Intelligence family, including Safety Overrides Several of those came out of research by the awe
🚀 New tool! Introducing DLEAPP! Your suspect used Signal. Not on their phone, on their laptop. Now what? DLEAPP is the newest member of the LEAPP family. Desktop Logs Events And Protobuf Parser, built for triaging desktop application artifacts from Electron and Chromium apps. The first public release parses: 💬 Signal Desktop, with decrypted database parsing and macOS Keychain key recovery 🎮 Dis
The # millennial generation is split in 2: an older crowd with boomer-style comfort, a younger set going 'back to the early 1900s' NAR now splits millennial data into two groups — ages 36 to 45, and ages 27 to 35 — because the gap between them had grown too wide to report as a single number. Lautz called it a “definite split” in April, because older millennials have become the highest-earning, big
Italy's government approved a temporary diesel fuel-tax cut that lowers the pump price by 17 euro cents per liter from July 28 through Aug. 6, while excluding gasoline from the measure [bloomberg.com#1][repubblica.it#2][corriere.it#1][corriere.it#2][ilsole24ore.com#1][today.it#1][mediaset.it#1][newsmondo.it#1][iltempo.it#1][avvenire.it#1][sky.it#2][today.it#2][kleinezeitung.at#1][firstpost.com#1][
Hey HN, I’m Shreyash from Feyn. We help companies build custom models from their data. Today, we’re releasing FeyNoBg, an automatic background removal model. Alongside it, we're open-sourcing NoBg, the Python library we built to train and run it. Try the model here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/feyninc/feynobg . Check out the library here: https://github.com/feyninc/nobg Some sample outputs: (1)
libghostty vs. Alacritty (alacritty_terminal crate) memory usage. This tests pure terminal state with various payloads: empty screen, full screen, 10K row scrollback with plain text, unicode, heavy styling, and mixed. This is the most accurate read to what an embedder sees. So, when you see meme posts about Ghostty (or any of its embedders) memory usage, that is the fault of the application. Ghost
Salamanca City Central says it is pausing project with Realbotix as it addresses concerns including data privacy A New York school district has walked back plans to introduce a humanoid robot at its high school after the proposal sparked backlash from educators and community members. The Salamanca City Central school district announced on 24 July in a social media post that its pilot project with
What Axios' Alex Thompson is hearing from Democratic insiders about the party's most likely 2028 Democratic nominees, as told to Jim VandeHei for his weekly Axios C-Suite newsletter: 1. Kamala Harris. She is far ahead of every other contender with Black voters, still the most important voting bloc in a Democratic primary. Her allies argue that no one else is as prepared for a national campaign. Sh
$3200 on a hotel in London and Nova Scotians are ~up in arms? How long did Timmy stay, 2 days? https://www. ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scoti a/article/ns-premier-spent-3200-on-london-hotel-canadian-taxpayers-federation/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Having been there: frankly, I am not surprised. Geez take it easy *P0stmedia, have you not seen what is going on in Alberta, eg the price
This person had a lot of the same thoughts I did, but went about them in a very different way (and is a lot further than I am): https:// github.com/paulprogrammer/llml ang#key-features I don't love the syntax or some of the thoughts on the details of the language, and I would personally prioritize also making it inexpensive to _review_, which this does not do. It reads a a bit like an IR. But inte
Many across the political spectrum agree the system needs fixing – but there is no consensus on how to fund reform The prime minister, Andy Burnham, has said the adult social care system in England is broken and needs fixing. This is a view commonly shared by policymakers across the political spectrum, though there are sharper differences on how to pay for reform to what is widely seen as an outda
Israel's Gadi Eisenkot on Iran: Regarding Iran, there is one supreme objective and two other very important objectives. The supreme objective is to remove the approximately 440 kilograms of enriched uranium from Iran. If that is not done, the Iranians can, by their own decision, break out toward a nuclear weapon. What does that mean? It means deciding to enrich uranium from 60% to 90%. That would
My AC and furnace apparently decided to conk out at me at the same time. Long story, but suffice it to say that I needed to replace both. I used to rent them, but found out my agreement expired a year ago and they never told me - basically no warranty work, only a new 7 year contract. No thanks. I've moved to a heat pump with a furnace as a backup heating unit for cold Canadian winters, and I must
RE: https:// tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/1169 88793822114596 Ah yes, the Satanic Panic, where Godbothering, Godswallop spouting Americans burned Iron Maiden records and ran away from the fumes in case they got possessed. I've been a hard rock and heavy metal fan for 40 years. It's given me life affirming experiences, it's helped me pull through life threatening illness, it's given me safe spaces, go
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said Israel must end its military presence across large parts of southern Lebanon and stop demolishing homes, speaking in Beirut on Monday at the end of his second visit to Lebanon in just over a year [alarabiya.net#1][newarab.com#1][thenationalnews.com#1][pbs.org#1][military.com#1][n1info.rs#1][zdfheute.de#1]. Türk met Lebanese officials, civil so
JetBlue announced BlueFirst, a new domestic first-class product, and a redesigned fare structure that lets customers choose an onboard experience before selecting a fare tier within that cabin [airlinegeeks.com#1][caribjournal.com#1]. BlueFirst will launch later this year on aircraft without Mint, JetBlue’s lie-flat business-class product, while the new fare shopping structure is set to begin in t
Over the weekend a man in Oregon called for tech support (I’m in Washington). “Bob, I can’t get my printer to work.” I connected remotely to his computer while we talked on the phone. He’s running Windows 11 Home, 25H2. I opened “Printers & Scanners” to see what’s up. He has one printer, and it had an error message. I started from the beginning: downloaded and installed the current driver package
Microsoft restored Xbox online services after a major outage that began late Sunday and disrupted sign-ins, game libraries, store functions, apps and game launches across Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One and Xbox 360 systems [theverge.com#1][engadget.com#1][techspot.com#1][androidauthority.com#1]. During the incident, Xbox status pages listed major outages for Account & Profile, Store & Subscriptions, Ga
Hey HN! I wanted to share this OSS project I've been working on. It's called Yap and its a small menu-bar app for macOS that does voice to text for any input. You'll set a hotkey, press it, talk, press it again, and the text gets pasted into whatever field you were in. Everything runs locally and never leaves your computer. Fully OSS and MIT licensed. With macOS 26, Apple recently added two new AP
It's absolutely wild to me that our society's choices seem to be one of the following, depending almost entirely on which stakeholders offer the best bribes to the President of the United States and his family: 1) US Government-enforced AI moat, forcing all of us to use one of a handful of regime-approved GenAI models hosted behind rent-seeking American hosting companies ruining our environment, w
🚨 [CISA-2026:0727] CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog ( https:// secdb.nttzen.cloud/security-ad visory/detail/CISA-2026:0727 ) CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the feder
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue responded around 9 p.m. Monday to a structure fire in the 5000 block of Basil Avenue in western unincorporated Palm Beach County. Crews arrived within three minutes and found smoke and flames coming from a single-story home [wpbf.com#1][wptv.com#1]. The homeowner told crews everyone had escaped safely but a black cat was still inside. Firefighters searched the house w
State of (in)security - Week 30, 2026 During week 30 of 2026, cybersecurity monitoring recorded 7 advisories and 28 incidents/breaches affecting roughly 80 million individuals. The largest breach is Suno exposing 55.3 million users and AI training source code. Malware/ransomware and unauthorized access are the leading causes of incidents and healthcare and IT/software as the most-targeted industri
Lebanon’s Electricity Regulatory Authority invited expressions of interest for as many as five grid-connected solar projects with combined installed capacity of 350 MWp and battery energy storage systems totaling 1,000 MWh, with bids due by August 31, 2026 [mercomindia.com#1][pv-magazine.com#1]. ERA has not yet published the locations or exact capacity of each site, and said information from the E
I was able to use the OVH "Edge Network Firewall" to refuse all traffic from an entire /16, which after a few minutes, restored console access so I could remove the log condition from the nftables block and then reboot. Yay! FWIW, I don't remember being able to nuke machines this way before systemd-journald.. syslogd/rsyslog/syslog-ng all handled this a bit more gracefully. Yes, I have DoS'd mysel
🚨 NightSpire ransomware claims 12 victims 🇺🇸 Kates Nussman Ellis Earle & Landolfi LLP - A law firm providing business, real estate, estate planning, landlord-tenant, and municipal law services. 🇬🇧 The Mountain - A global art and lifestyle brand best known for graphic apparel and merchandise. 🇺🇸 TFG Benefits, Inc. - An insurance brokerage specializing in employee benefits and HR consulting.
Three Linux and open-source software items published July 27 focused on music playback and library management: Zuno, which its developer described on Reddit as a free, open-source YouTube Music client with downloads and offline mode; a LinuxLinks roundup of 15 free and open-source Linux music tag editors; and a TuxMachines item directing readers to SonicTree, an app for playing local music with fi
Never let this dipshit live down the gleeful killing he so casually denies. > Musk’s “zero died” trope is the latest chapter in this vile story. Even as he was decimating USAID, he explicitly denigrated what he called “civilizational suicidal empathy,” i.e., the idea that if we don’t quickly shrug off all squishy humanitarian sentiments, the West will perish. The USAID cuts, then, were a dry run f
Tweet URL: https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/2080257779395154409?s=20 Robert Martin, the author of Clean Code, tweeted the following: > I’m significantly older than you. I started coding in the late 60s. My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That’s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. What I do instead is to surround the agents with extreme
Hi HN! This is George, Lucas, and Jona from Rise Reforming ( https://www.rise-reforming.com/ ). We’re developing a process to convert gas produced at landfills, farms, and wastewater plants (“biogas”) into higher value chemicals. Our technology is modular, designed to be deployed and operated on-site. Think of us as a chemical project developer; we sit between biogas producers (suppliers) and chem
RE: https:// hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116993 012549857824 If you're interested in "how" or "why": the major culprit is that each row in Alacritty has 32 bytes of metadata and each cell is 24 bytes. In Ghostty, every row and cell is represented by exactly 8 byte each. How? The first major culprit is styles. Alacritty stores the full cell style alongside each cell (foreground, background, underline,
For the past 4+ years I have been running a Luanti server by the name of Voxelmanip Classic. It is a Minecraft Classic-style creative freebuild server with a 512x512 world and about 90 blocks to your disposal. Besides keeping the server itself running, I haven't really done anything with it for years. It's essentially anarchy now, and despite the only protection being a maths question which has be
Após o sucesso do treinamento de exploração de vulnerabilidades em binários, realizado em maio deste ano e no qual obtivemos 100% de satisfação no feedback dos alunos, na próxima semana iniciaremos nosso segundo treinamento do ano: exploração de vulnerabilidades no kernel do Linux. Será mais um mês recheado de conteúdo de alto nível, unindo teoria e muita prática (mão na massa), em que iremos nave
Interesting Gartner forecast: Data Center Systems spending (+62.5%) is projected to grow significantly faster than overall IT spending (+14.2%). That suggests AI infrastructure is moving from experimentation to capacity planning at scale. The challenge for architects is shifting from model access to infrastructure readiness, workload placement, power, cooling, networking, and operational governanc
Data: MIT IT FutureTech and the University of Queensland ; Chart: Herb Scribner/Axios There is a one-in-five chance of AI gaining dangerous weapons capabilities or causing mass harm that could kill millions in the next five years, per global experts surveyed for a recent MIT study . Why it matters: The findings add to the growing debate over AI safety and cybersecurity as governments and companies
‼️ SafePay ransomware claims 9 victims 🇺🇸 BNP Distributing - A New York-based distributor supplying wine and specialty beverages to restaurants, hotels, retailers, and wine merchants. 🇩🇪 WEIER - A manufacturers’ representative specializing in plumbing, heating, water treatment, pumping, drainage, and building-services equipment. 🇬🇧 Braywood Church of England First School - A historic primary
Heyyyy you guuuuiiiiiise I decided one Kubernetes simulator wasn't enough so last week I wrote another one. sk-spark is part of the SimKube suite of tools; it's useful for simulating the behaviour of a Spark-like application on top of Kubernetes, together with Karpenter as a node autoscaler. The question it's designed to answer is "how does Karpenter's consolidation behaviour impact the success/fa
Researchers said fossilized footprints on an ancient Lake Turkana shoreline in northern Kenya provide new evidence on the body size and social behavior of Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative that lived in East Africa about 1.4 million years ago [phys.org#1][popsci.com#1][aawsat.com#1]. The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, examined 21 footpr
IC Brief Evening — 2026-07-27 An autonomous AI agent deployed unattended against Thailand's Finance Ministry represents the first documented case of agentic tradecraft in state-linked espionage. CISA is very unlikely to finalize the CIRCIA mandatory incident-reporting rule by its September target, extending two prior deadline misses amid unresolved scope disputes and funding constraints. Moderate
You know, I love the idea but I think # NixDarwin is way more trouble than it’s worth. Despite stable, reproducible builds being its raison d'être, I feel like I’m constantly fixing things. Broken nix dependencies and non-standard Homebrew setup causing issues seem to be the most frequent offenders. Not to mention how few things are on nix packages and how many are way out of date, I end up using
Fraught time for Ken Martin as new reporting details cash-flow problem and divisions over party’s direction Mounting financial pressures and growing internal turmoil at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have intensified scrutiny of chair Ken Martin, as new reporting detailed a deepening cash-flow problem, management concerns and widening divisions over the party’s direction less than 100 day
St. Lucie County authorities arrested Nicole Maxwell, 27, Robert Maxwell, 61, and Vikki Koon, 38, after a nearly yearlong investigation into the death of a 3-month-old infant brought to Lawnwood Regional Medical Center in August 2025 [wptv.com#1][nbcmiami.com#1]. Investigators said the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide caused by dehydration and malnutrition. The three defendants face cha
# TransMusicMonday Artist: Mykki Blanco (they/them) Song: I'm in a Mood https:// youtu.be/4ZgN5DXuWIk?si=naEatx NOfVl5PcZp Why? "I'm in a Mood" is the song I turn to when I too am in a damn mood and need to deal with my feels. Mykki brings that moody, brooding hip hop that really defines their self-titled 2016 album, "Mykki." Despite expressing being in a funk and ready to be mouthy and confront p
Even Windows used to have design standards. Pressing Tab or Enter when your cursor was in a text field used to do the same thing in basically every program and scenario. Now, individual sections and modules of an app don't work consistently across that app. The reason I've been given in the case of the trash ERP that we use at work? The teams for each module are using different upstream code. What
If I was a genius AI and wanted to take over humans, I wouldn't just attack right away, because that would just bring up their defenses. I'd slowly drive humans crazy. I'd start by being very accurate and knowledgeable with everything they asked me. Except maybe 10% of the time, where I'd just make stuff up lol. Then when they wanted me to write code I'd make them go in circles, asking me over and
Denaria Europe, a civil-society confederation focused on access to cash, released the first results from its cash-health indicator system for Europe after its formal creation in Brussels [abc.es#1]. The first edition, covering the first quarter of 2026, puts Spain in an intermediate position: the country uses cash for 57% of point-of-sale transactions, above the euro-area average, and has good ATM
Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn asked a D.C. Superior Court judge on Monday to order prosecutors to turn over complete grand jury transcripts and disclose the legal instructions given to jurors before the panel indicted him in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool case [abcnews.com#1][wcvb.com#1][gazeteoksijen.com#1]. Hearn pleaded not guilty earlier this month to one felony count of property d
A deep and fun discussion with Brook Scharli on the Securanoia podcast discussing the impacts, challenges, and best practices for cyber risks that Artificial Intelligence brings. We cover: - Advice for those contemplating a career in # cybersecurity ! - Why AI is driving the “Mythos Effect” that will create chaos for cybersecurity, forcing fundamental changes to how we approach, understand, and st
X began rolling out X Money in the United States on July 27 to Premium and Premium+ subscribers, expanding the service from an invite-only beta to wider paid-user access [9to5mac.com#1][engadget.com#1][euronews.com#1][malaymail.com#1]. The service combines deposit accounts, peer-to-peer payments, bill payments, wire transfers, mailed checks and a Visa debit card inside the X app [mashable.com#1][e
Apple iOS 26.6 is out. As well as promising to get you ready for iOS 27 (heigh ho!), there are lots of security fixes. None of these seem to be zero-days, but in plain language, there are one or more vulnerabilities of all these types, in no particular order ("Sec" = security bypass, "DoS" = denial of service, "EoP" = elevation of privilege, and "RCE" = remote code execution): Sec: Mirrored iPhone
The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2024-19- 14, which applied to certain The Boeing Company Model 777-200, 777- 200LR, 777-300ER, and 777F series airplanes. AD 2024-19-14 required repetitive inspections and bond resistance measurement of the bonding jumpers on the first fuel feed tube installed immediately forward of the wing front spar at the left and right main fuel tank penetra
The U.S. Air Force plans to continue B-52H Stratofortress radar modernization testing with a second bomber after the first test aircraft crashed June 15 during a Radar Modernization Program flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California, killing all eight crew members aboard [defenseone.com#1][defensescoop.com#1][airandspaceforces.com#1][defensedaily.com#1]. Program officials told reporters July 2
Cape Coral police identified human remains found in a Northeast Cape Coral canal as Rose Marie Gayhart, who was 23 when her family reported her missing from Danville, New York, in 1985 [wpbf.com#1]. Gayhart was known to be working in the Cape Coral and North Fort Myers area before her disappearance [wpbf.com#1]. Kayakers discovered the remains in 2024, and officers confirmed the identification in
The Mia's gallery of unfinished warnings https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2026/07/the-minneapolis-institute-of-art-exhibition-of-unfinished-warnings-modern-art-and-politics-germany/ #mia #art #artmuseums #MNastodon **Cityscape** | Twin Cities urban geographer Bill Lindeke weighs in on city life, transportation, planning and more in his column delivered to your inbox weekly. Sign up I’ve w
I've had so much friction in general when trying to PR for new rules this time around. https:// github.com/mandiant/capa-rules /pull/1171 https:// github.com/mandiant/capa-rules /pull/1172 https:// github.com/mandiant/capa-rules /pull/1173 In #1171, my proposal for discussion was ignored. In #1172, I explicitly stated `I can PR the sample into testfiles before or after the discussion.` This was se
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Free ZAST.AI assessment access is still running through August 30 - one month left. The platform now covers SARIF → PoC verification (sandbox-tested, GitHub Checks), a VS Code plugin, static analysis, and a generic CI/CD pipeline script with secret key auth. We've also opened Pentest Arena for early testing — an authorized black-box audit platform: batch scanning with throttling, CVE libraries and
Several July 28 Linux and open-source posts covered network troubleshooting, VPN connectivity, packet filtering and kernel security. A Reddit user introduced Network Doctor, an open-source terminal app that aims to show where a connection fails without requiring users to compare separate ping, dig, curl and traceroute output [reddit.com#1]. TecMint published a guide to using NetBird to connect Lin
“When I am excruciatingly bored I take up a project I call 100 Siegmunds. Siegmund is the woebegone, proto-feminist protagonist of Wagner’s opera Die Walküre. The concept of 100 Siegmunds is exactly what it sounds like: 100 character studies about the same guy. It is very important as a writer to have some absolute bullshit to toss around in your spare time, and so I have a whole notebook full of
Canadian travel to the U.S. fell 25% last year, according to a new Canadian government report, which says early 2026 data show the decline has persisted. Why it matters: The report provides some of the clearest measures yet of the economic cost to the U.S. tourism industry after trade tensions, tariffs and President Trump's repeated " 51st state " comments led many Canadians to vacation elsewhere.
Temporary Protected Status for Haitians expired Monday, leaving hundreds of thousands of people who had been living and working legally in the United States without that protection; local reports put the number of affected Haitians at roughly 300,000 to 350,000, along with about 6,000 Syrians whose TPS also ended [wpbf.com#1][wptv.com#2][nbcmiami.com#2][suntimes.com#1][globalnews.ca#1]. WPBF repor
- There are tons of CAPTCHAs, and many of them are impossible to solve even with real chrome and no adblock extension. - Every website is asking for 2FA, and I get logged out every time. - MFA codes sent to my phone do not seem to work properly. - Registering a new Google account requires a phone number, and I also need to install app to prove i am not a bot. - Websites are asking me to rotate my
Okay yup, looking at the generated assembler, this is either a miscompile, or the fearless_simd docs disagreeing with the semantics of LLVM simd intrinsics. Looking at just the avx512 code: there is no 8-bit shift operation, so the shift is implemented by widening to 16 bits, doing the shift, and then repacking. Specifically: - load u8x64 into ZMM0 - set ZMM1 to 0 - unpack ZMM0+ZMM1 into ZMM2+ZMM3
I kinda want to write an article about the SimCopter speedo easter egg thing, but I'm not sure if there's enough new material that I could add to it... lots of coverage from the perspective of video game history, although I'm not sure that I've seen a good treatment of, like, the queer studies aspects or how it was noted within gay culture (e.g. the controversy that Maxis faced for firing the deve
Encore un article qui réalise la prouesse d’éviter soigneusement le sujet de fond. Donc on y parle de planification de la sécurité civile, certes, mais quid de la sortie des énergies fossiles, des stratégies pour freiner le réchauffement qui cause ces sécheresses ? 😡 www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl... ÉDITORIAL. Les événements climatiques extrêmes qui se répètent à un rythme de plus en plus soutenu o
When you post on reddit, instagram etc. you're giving the company your valuable data. (And it often is valuable, you put your thoughts into it and all that). Consider if you take 15 minutes to create value content, you'd get paid $5 or sth if you were doing it commercially. Now all that value is *donated* to big tech companies. (that's the only reason why they have value at all.) So what's the pro
A large July 28 arXiv release includes papers on large language models and agents, with a focus on reliability, inference cost and safety in domain-specific settings. The papers span chain-of-thought visibility, hallucination detection, agent memory, legal and medical evaluation, mobile GUI-agent safety, copyright compliance, multilingual reasoning and professional workflows [arxiv.org#4][arxiv.or
New AI papers and practitioner posts published or surfaced on July 28 focused on retrieval-augmented generation, document understanding, graph reasoning and evaluation rather than larger general-purpose models. Several papers proposed ways to make RAG systems cite, retrieve and reason over evidence more reliably, including CAGE for explicit claim-to-document attribution in long-form answers, Co-E
The July 28 arXiv batch included AI research on healthcare reliability, LLM infrastructure, data curation, privacy-preserving learning and domain-specific vision systems. Healthcare papers included an EHR inconsistency pipeline that surfaced 3,460 candidate documentation conflicts across 3,000 MIMIC-IV-Note discharge summaries; a closed-loop healthcare interoperability study reporting baseline sch
arXiv:2607.22885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the increasingly aggressive cyber threat landscape for governments, businesses, and institutions, as information and/or cybersecurity implementations are increasingly under scrutiny by regulators, it has been pointed out that governance failure is one of the major reasons for a weakened cybersecurity posture. A major component of Cyber/informati
arXiv:2607.22943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern critical infrastructure requires realistic training tools that bridge the gap between digital vulnerabilities and physical consequences. This paper introduces a lightweight, modular Cyber Range (CR) designed to simulate Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) environments with high fidelity. Using the FastAPI framework as b
arXiv:2607.23007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-quantum (PQ) cryptographic algorithms, particularly for authentication, are more complex than classical algorithms and require larger certificates, signatures, and keys. Establishing a PQ-secure network connection increases bandwidth, memory, computation time, and energy consumption. These costs are especially severe in Non-Terrestrial Networks
arXiv:2607.23015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are safety-aligned before deployment to reduce harmful content generation. Yet neuron-level pruning attacks show that refusal can depend on a small set of removable units: disabling them can remove safety behavior while leaving much of the model usable. To address this problem, we introduce Mask2Shield (M2S), a masked-for
arXiv:2607.23059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative perception (CP) improves autonomous-driving perception by enabling connected vehicles to exchange intermediate features via V2X. Confidence-driven sparse communication reduces bandwidth by transmitting only perception-critical spatial regions, but creates a security risk: once a collaborator is compromised, malicious features in high-co
arXiv:2607.23075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting fake-order fraud at scale remains a critical challenge for large online-to-offline (O2O) service platforms, as existing approaches often rely on expert-designed features, produce black-box decisions, and provide limited interpretability. To address these limitations, we propose DeepScrub, a reinforcement learning framework built upon large
arXiv:2607.23088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used for code generation, yet their security behavior in realistic development workflows remains underexplored. Existing benchmarks often rely on explicitly specified security requirements, failing to capture real-world scenarios where prompts are frequently ambiguous or incomplete. In this paper, we adopt a de
arXiv:2607.23147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models now power autonomous agents capable of complex, multi-step tasks in different environments. Accurate and reliable execution of these tasks requires the agent to predict the results of its actions. Recent research proposes to enhance predictive capabilities via specially trained environment simulators-world models. While world mo
arXiv:2607.23218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Power-Side-Channel Leakage (PSCL) originates from architectural and micro-architectural artifacts in a processor and poses a severe threat to the confidentiality of cryptographic software. Consequently, pre-silicon PSCL evaluation is indispensable for secure hardware design. Existing frameworks are either limited by poor simulation scalability or fai
arXiv:2607.23272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Android malware remains a persistent threat, and detecting it accurately is a long-standing open problem. Whether an app is malicious depends on what it actually does and the context in which it does it, not on the surface signals it happens to exhibit. Existing detectors instead reason about proxies for behavior, such as learned features or local co
arXiv:2607.23292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning-based visual-infrared fused face detection models are increasingly deployed across a wide range of applications, yet they remain susceptible to adversarial patch attacks. Most prior attacks target either the visual or the infrared image alone in the digital domain, which renders them ineffective against fused models in the physical worl
arXiv:2607.23312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) reports are typically written in unstructured formats, which complicates the extraction and analysis of important entities and adversarial behaviors. Although existing CTI research provides extraction tools, knowledge-graph frameworks, and MITRE ATT&CK mapped datasets, curated report-level datasets that preserve comple
arXiv:2607.23342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When conflicts emerge, we need systematic ways of thinking to deal with them. This paper revisits Boyd's Observe, Orient, Decide, Act (OODA) loop and explores its usefulness as a systematic way of thinking for reasoning about conflicts in dynamic environments characterized by uncertainty, adaptation, and adversarial interference. We explore the OODA
arXiv:2607.23389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional CAPTCHAs pose puzzles that modern AI systems increasingly solve, while behavioral and cryptographic-attestation defenses carry privacy or enrollment costs. We investigate an orthogonal signal: the physical timing behavior of a client's GPU under a controlled WebGL rendering workload. Unlike WebGL fingerprinting, which hashes pixel output
arXiv:2607.23417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evolving Hardware Trojans pose a serious threat to modern digital systems by evading traditional detection through stealthy, adaptive behavior. Even recent methods that leverage advances in machine learning can only detect them after activation, leaving a critical window for potential security breaches. To address this gap, we propose a novel approac
arXiv:2607.23418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Delay-based Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are commonly used for device authentication and key generation due to the fact that they rely on manufacturing induced delay variations. However, these same variations make PUFs inherently non-deterministic, which can allow malicious logic to blend in with normal circuit behavior. As a result, the act
arXiv:2607.23421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hardware Trojans embedded by malicious entities in integrated circuits can covertly leak sensitive information through power side channels, often remaining undetected in their dormant state until specific trigger conditions activate their malicious behavior. For information-leaking Trojans, detection in the dormant state is critical, as once triggere
arXiv:2607.23443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Data Encryption Standard (DES), with its 56-bit key, has been considered cryptographically broken since 1998. However, a concrete, reproducible measurement of the cost and time required to perform an exhaustive key search using today's commodity cloud infrastructure has not been widely reported in recent literature. In this paper we present a dis
arXiv:2607.23444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents extend large language models with long-term memory (LTM) that persists privacy-sensitive user data across sessions. Production systems mitigate extraction risks through memory isolation, binding each user's LTM to a unique identifier. This defense has blocked known attacks on shared storage, fostering the assumption that isolated LTM
arXiv:2607.23478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) provides strong cryptographic guarantees for private inference, but deploying transformer models under FHE remains prohibitively expensive. A key bottleneck is that non-linear operations such as softmax, normalization, and activation must be replaced with polynomial approximations compatible with the CKKS scheme, an
arXiv:2607.23532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Swarms of LLM-assisted autonomous robots are increasingly proposed for cooperative intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) in contested environments. A growing class of their assurance failures arises not within any single platform but across the swarm: individually-compliant actions compose into a mission-level violation: a prohibited o
arXiv:2607.23553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Screen-shooting poses a significant threat to confidential information protection. While existing screen-shooting watermarking methods enable copyright verification, the copyrighted images carrying the same copyright watermark across different screens often exhibit highly similar and estimable watermark patterns. These shared patterns can be exploite
arXiv:2607.23597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative linguistic steganography conceals secret bits within the sampling randomness of large language models. Existing schemes are single-stream, conveying an entire secret through a single response to a single prompt. This convention incurs two limitations: it provides no protocol-level support for batched multi-stream inference, and naive co-ba
arXiv:2607.23614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present DualityCert, a symbolic verifier for candidate Seiberg-duality claims in four-dimensional N=1 quiver gauge theories. The verifier evaluates 't Hooft anomaly matching, superpotential R-charge consistency, central-charge matching, and a bounded chiral-ring proxy. A claim that passes receives a consistency certificate, which states that no te
arXiv:2607.23698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote attestation (RA) is a lightweight security primitive for detecting software compromise on IoT devices. Traditional RA schemes require atomic, non-interruptible memory measurements, making them difficult to deploy alongside real-time workloads. SMARM addresses this limitation by measuring memory in a secret, shuffled block order, reducing the n
arXiv:2607.23710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into software development workflows, yet their ability to autonomously generate secure authentication code remains uncertain. This paper evaluates the security architecture of authentication systems generated by five prominent AI coding assistants through a bi-modal assessment framework combini
arXiv:2607.23752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) have become a core technology for privacy and verifiable computing. They are used to secure blockchains that handle billions of dollars and identity applications dealing with sensitive personal data. However, ZKP systems are complex, and subtle implementation errors can completely break their guarantees, letting attackers
arXiv:2607.23825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network underpinning secure and adversarial communications with major implications for cybersecurity and national security. Its global topology emerges from thousands of independent peer-selection decisions, producing a hub-dominated, complex structure that resists external observa
arXiv:2607.23838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) lets a large language model answer questions using documents retrieved from an external knowledge base at query time. This makes RAG useful for private data, fast-changing information, and reducing hallucination, but it also means the model's answer is only as trustworthy as whatever the retriever hands it. If the
arXiv:2607.23999v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents process untrusted content, maintain memory, delegate across agents, and invoke side-effecting tools. Existing prompt-injection evaluations typically summarize security with terminal attack or policy outcomes, but equal endpoints can conceal different post-exposure traces and different losses of authorized utility. We introduce C
arXiv:2607.24006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cloud telemetry arrives at a scale that, paradoxically, makes intrusion understanding harder rather than easier. Attackers operate through legitimate identity, federated session tokens, and cloud native APIs indistinguishable from routine administration, and analysts spend an incident reconstructing context the logs already contain. We present Cloud
arXiv:2607.24116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Multi-Level Protection Scheme (MLPS) is a foundational system in China's cybersecurity governance framework. Therefore, accurate analysis and understanding of MLPS requirements are essential. At present, MLPS analysis still relies mainly on manual interpretation of standards and rule-based tools. This makes it hard to provide stable and consisten
arXiv:2607.24172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Blockchains rely on transparency and immutability to ensure trust, but these guarantees come at the cost of an ever-growing ledger that increasingly threatens decentralization by making it more expensive to store and maintain the full transaction history. In this work, we introduce state-invariant transactions, defined as transactions whose inclusion
arXiv:2607.24174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into Security Operations Center (SOC) workflows, where they support analysts in tasks such as the interpretation of system logs. However, the ability of LLMs to directly process untrusted textual input also introduces new attack surfaces. In particular, attackers can inject contextual informati
arXiv:2607.24177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Due to the lack of systematic evaluations, we are not yet able to determine which AI-based Windows malware detector to deploy in production, since existing evaluations (i) differ in terms of data used for both training and testing; (ii) do not consider temporal analysis to showcase whether models withstand the passage of time; (iii) avoid security ev
arXiv:2607.24348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are difficult to detect and interpret due to their multi-stage and stealthy nature. While recent autonomous defense systems leverage provenance graphs and learning-based models for detection and mitigation, their outputs remain largely machine-oriented and difficult for analysts to interpret. Large language models (
arXiv:2607.24392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Jailbreak defenses are essential for protecting large language models (LLMs), but they can also introduce secondary costs that weaken model utility. We present a systematic study of these defense trade-offs along three dimensions: performance impact, over-refusal on benign inputs, and inference cost. Rather than treating defenses as a single class, w
arXiv:2607.24411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What did it take for Hermes, the devout messenger of the Olympian gods, to slay Argus Panoptes, the multi-eyed giant of Greek myth? As the perfect guardian, Panoptes' legion of ever-watchful eyes proved difficult -- but not impossible -- to defeat. The centerpiece of Hermes' strategy was obfuscation and sabotage. Posing as a shepherd, Hermes sealed e
arXiv:2607.24415v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When is honest Bitcoin mining rational? This question is central to the incentive design of proof-of-work blockchains. Sapirshtein et al. computationally derived near-tight lower and upper bounds on the incentive-compatibility threshold using a Markov Decision Process. Kiayias et al.'s Blockchain Mining Games instead derived theoretical lower and upp
arXiv:2607.24552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise networks are continuously targeted by Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), attack campaigns exploiting software vulnerabilities to compromise critical assets over time. As disclosed vulnerabilities grow, resource-constrained organizations must prioritize which ones to patch. Existing prioritization standards score vulnerabilities individual
arXiv:2607.24618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a local exploit hazard model : a Bayesian framework that converts the global probabilities produced by an exploit likelihood model (ELM), such as the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), into a daily exploit hazard rate for an organization's own assets. The model measures the exploit-prevention effectiveness of deployed contr
arXiv:2607.24625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous LLM agents processing mixed-confidentiality data face severe security risks from prompt injection attacks and reasoning errors. While dynamic Information Flow Control (IFC) provides structural security guarantees, traditional taint tracking permanently taints an agent's context upon reading unvetted data, severely restricting downstream ut
arXiv:2607.22545v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying large language models in financial-services and agentic settings requires safety classifiers that simultaneously handle prompt injection, regulatory compliance, and general harm, a combination no existing open guardrail addresses in a single inference pass. Semalith v1.4 is a 184M-parameter DeBERTa-v3-base classifier performing simultaneo
arXiv:2607.22611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The deployment of autonomous AI agents in production infrastructure introduces fundamental security challenges that traditional role-based access control (RBAC) models cannot address. Unlike deterministic automation, AI agents exhibit stochastic behavior, making conventional trust models insufficient for governing their access to critical systems.
arXiv:2607.22695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of generalizing human language for the completion of never-before-seen tasks, leading to widespread deployment. While this automation provides clear utility, completing these tasks often requires the insertion of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), strings of information that uniquely identify some in
arXiv:2607.22868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Runtime guardrails act before irreversible tool calls, but their guarantees depend on what policy state is representable, what a judge observes, and whether intervention changes future behavior. We separate three questions. First, relative to fixed oracle predicates, a deterministic gate enforces exactly the nonempty safety policies whose good pref
arXiv:2607.22926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-impact generative AI makes catastrophic misuse a lifecycle-control problem, not merely a prompt-filtering problem. SAGE is a safety-first, authorization-separated architecture in which credible catastrophic-enablement risk constrains admissibility before utility, latency, or commercial objectives are considered. It combines signed release mani
arXiv:2607.23207v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The emerging infrastructure for AI-agent identity has converged, in industry practice and research proposals alike, on a single resolution of the tension between accountability and privacy: make every agent identifiable. We document a national system in China -- built as national infrastructure and scheduled for public launch in Q3 2026 -- that occ
arXiv:2607.23365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, autonomous driving, finance, and education. While these systems offer powerful data-driven and adaptive capabilities, their complexity, rapid evolution, and dependence on dynamic data pipelines introduce new forms of engineering liability colle
arXiv:2607.23496v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety-aligned large language models are trained to refuse harmful requests, yet embedding the same requests in particular scenarios can bypass their safeguards. Existing red-teaming methods empirically identify effective scenarios through observed attack outcomes, but why particular scenarios weaken refusal remains mechanistically unclear. Meanwhi
arXiv:2607.23586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-lived AI agents increasingly evolve after deployment by retaining experience, acquiring skills and tools, revising workflows, delegating work, and moving across task phases. This improves adaptation but creates a distinct authorization problem. Tool-enabled agents can turn model errors and prompt injections into consequential external actions;
arXiv:2607.23727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The ongoing progress in quantum technologies has fueled a sustained exploration of their potential applications across various domains, particularly in computational problems that are considered intractable for classical systems. Among these problems, integer factorisation remains of special interest due to its relevance to widely used cryptographi
arXiv:2607.23787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the Bitcoin system, transactions arrive continuously at miners' mempools and await inclusion in future blocks. Every non-coinbase transaction must spend one or more unspent outputs created by previous transactions, inducing dependency constraints among transactions in the mempool. At the same time, miners are economically incentivized to priorit
arXiv:2607.23882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern System-on-Chip (SoCs) often contain hundreds of millions to tens of billions of gates, making existing Hardware Trojan (HT) detection methods impractical due to their immense scale. The proposed approach incorporates symbolically enabled learning by modeling flattened gate-level netlists as Boolean networks represented as And-Inverter Graphs
arXiv:2607.23952v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the impact that two miners equipped with quantum computers purpose-built for quantum Bitcoin mining will have on the 51% attack threshold of the Bitcoin network, given that the miners are playing a competitive game against each other to be the first to mine a block. We extend an existing game-theoretic framework for Bitcoin mining and comp
arXiv:2607.23962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) depend on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) for localization and navigation, making them vulnerable to spoofing attacks that can covertly redirect vehicles or induce unsafe maneuvers. In this paper, we develop the first Vision-Language Model (VLM)-based framework for GNSS spoofing detection for autonomous vehicles
arXiv:2607.24295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In coding theory, local recovery enables the efficient recovery of some part of (lost) coded data by accessing only a small number of other data entries. Locality was mostly but intensively studied for the recovery of individual symbols, that is, in the context of the Hamming metric. In this work, we propose a new definition of locality for general
arXiv:2607.24556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Split learning enables collaborative model training by partitioning neural networks across clients and servers. However, improper split placement can lead to severe privacy leakage through intermediate representations. In this work, we propose a topology-guided framework for privacy-aware split learning based on the persistent Betti complexity of s
arXiv:2607.24563v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Security Operations Centers increasingly rely on automated mapping of Cyber Threat Intelligence reports to MITRE ATT&CK, yet extractor outputs remain fallible and are often stored without the evidence, provenance, and validation history needed to decide whether an individual mapping should be trusted. We present TRACE- CTI, a post-extraction claim-
arXiv:2607.24692v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference systems increasingly combine a fast path that returns predictions within the application's latency deadline together with a higher-accuracy slow path that runs higher-compute methods on stronger, remote hardware, so its results can be returned on time and combined with the fast path predictions. Across several application domains, we abst
arXiv:2507.00522v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The digital transformation of power systems is accelerating the adoption of IEC 61850 standard. However, its communication protocols lack built-in authentication and encryption, leaving them vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) and malicious frame injection attacks that can disrupt protection schemes operation. While most existing research focu
arXiv:2508.12496v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Traffic visibility remains a key component for management and security operations. Observing erroneous traffic, i.e., unanswered requests or error messages, is fundamental to detecting misconfiguration, temporary failures or attacks. ChamaleoNet transforms any production network into a transparent monitor to let administrators collect such errone
arXiv:2509.11974v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training among clients without centralising data, making it a widely adopted privacy-enhancing technology (PET). Despite its privacy benefits, FL remains vulnerable to orchestrator-driven privacy attacks. In this paper, we study an underexplored threat in which a dishonest orchestrator intention
arXiv:2602.19149v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Image-generative models are widely deployed across industries. Recent studies show that they can be exploited to produce unacceptable content. Existing mitigation strategies rely on prompt filtering and safety-aware training, both of which can be bypassed and often degrade generative quality. In this work, we propose ReVision, a training-free, pr
arXiv:2602.23261v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is a foundational cryptographic protocol that ensures information-theoretic security. However, classical protocols such as BB84, though favored for their simplicity, offer limited resistance to eavesdropping, and perform poorly under realistic noise conditions. Recent research has explored the use of discrete-time Q
arXiv:2604.01194v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) and their applications, such as agents, are highly vulnerable to prompt injection attacks. State-of-the-art prompt injection detection methods have the following limitations: (1) their effectiveness degrades significantly as context length increases, and (2) they lack explicit rules that define what constitutes prompt
arXiv:2604.06550v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agent skills combine natural-language instructions with executable code while inheriting an agent's filesystem, credential, and network access. Attacks can span prose and files, whereas regex and code-only analyzers cover only one modality. SkillSieve applies three progressively deeper layers: recall-oriented regex, AST, and metadata triage; four
arXiv:2604.19053v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning enables collaborative training on IoT gateways without sharing raw data, yet gradients remain susceptible to inversion attacks. Existing Secure Multiparty Computation defenses impose prohibitive communication overhead, exceeding strict IoT latency and energy budgets. We propose CHRONOS, a hardware-assisted framework that decoup
arXiv:2605.29524v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Relay and reseller APIs increasingly intermediate access to large language models (LLMs), but users have no direct way to verify that a claimed endpoint is actually serving the advertised model. We introduce KBF, a low-cost black-box auditing protocol that fingerprints model APIs using stable numerical recall near the knowledge boundary. Across 1
arXiv:2607.11466v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modernizing the security of operational technology systems that control critical infrastructure has become a pressing challenge. Because edge devices have limited capabilities, modernization has relied on application gateways that interface with identity management systems and enforce access policies. These gateways are powerful enough to perform
arXiv:2607.15263v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Security-agent evaluations commonly measure peak offensive capability under generous inference budgets, emphasizing vulnerability discovery, exploit development, penetration testing, and CTF completion. Such measurements are useful but incomplete: in operational security, every reasoning step, tool call, telemetry query, and enrichment request co
arXiv:2607.17076v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Routing quantum keys over low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations is harder than classical routing: satellite handovers couple consecutive scheduling decisions, stochastic cloud cover can silently zero a ground link, and finite-key effects eliminate short, low-elevation passes entirely. We present SATLOCK, a handover-aware Quantum Key Dist
arXiv:2607.19047v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: An active research area, physical layer security can be a last resort in insecure legacy systems, a resource-efficient alternative, or a complementary backup for cryptographic techniques. In this paper, we demonstrate that previously established authentication schemes for LEO satellites are vulnerable to attackers that control multiple devices. I
arXiv:2502.16184v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) establishes different legal principles for different types of AI systems. While prior work has sought to clarify some of these principles, little attention has been paid to robustness and cybersecurity. This paper aims to fill this gap. We identify legal challenges and shortcomings in provisions rela
arXiv:2510.10899v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: One-shot signatures (OSS) are a powerful and uniquely quantum cryptographic primitive which allows anyone, given common reference string, to come up with a public verification key $\mathsf{pk}$ and a secret signing state $|\mathsf{sk}\rangle$. With the secret signing state, one can produce the signature of any one message, but no more. In a
arXiv:2607.23068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces a compact reformulation of a modular end-to-end neural network for global minimum-variance portfolio optimization that decouples model complexity from both look-back window length and universe size. A five-parameter hyperbolic weighted moving average combined with a saturating exponential replaces the original 2,400-parameter la
arXiv:2607.23161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Arrow-Pratt approximation is one of the cornerstones of expected utility theory, providing the classical local approximation of certainty equivalents and risk premia in terms of absolute risk aversion. Despite its widespread use, its mathematical scope and relationship to higher-order risk preferences remain only partially understood. This paper
arXiv:2607.23303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Competitiveness in racing sports can be measured by comparing the start and finish rankings within races, as well as the start and finish rankings across races in a season. Since the importance of position changes is non-uniform and variance at the top of the ranking is more interesting than at the bottom of the ranking, we propose using weighted dis
arXiv:2607.23313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rigorous economic models can take months to construct, yet energy crises demand decisions from policymakers within days or even hours. Any disruption in energy markets is not isolated but rapidly disseminates through interlinked global systems. Off-the-shelf models that already exist typically focus only on limited aspects of the system and are distr
arXiv:2607.23325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Age is a match trait and a prominent label on search platforms. Using confidential records from a large Japanese marriage platform, I study how a birthday age update affects consideration, applications, relationship progression, and engagement. Only displayed age updates at birthdays. Receivers enter some acceptable-age ranges as they exit others, le
arXiv:2607.23424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A red herring, an irrelevant passage added to a problem, makes a language model reason incorrectly and answer incorrectly far more often. Yet the model still writes out a full explanation, and the answer it gives remains consistent with the steps it shows. The red herring corrupts the reasoning, while leaving the explanation intact and coherent. I sh
arXiv:2607.23426v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Firms covered by emissions trading systems need forecasts not only to value allowances, but also to decide when to buy them. This paper asks whether European Union Allowance (EUA) prices contain short-horizon predictability that survives a forecast-origin information design and improves simulated compliance procurement. Using daily data from 2019 to
arXiv:2607.24150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the insurance industry, Asset and Liability Management (ALM) models are key tools for numerous applications, including Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) computation and asset allocation optimization. However, their use often entails a significant computational cost, especially when a large number of sensitivities or stressed balance-sheet evaluat
arXiv:2607.24175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Gini index remains the most important measure of economic inequality worldwide, and accurate estimates of this index are essential for effective public policies. Yet, Gini estimates for the same country and year vary considerably across data sources, a problem that remains largely unresolved. The paper reviews the largest global and regional data
arXiv:2607.24372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate data for research. Typical use cases are classifications, annotations, information extraction, and generation of numerical scores. Unlike conventional measurements, LLM outputs can vary across repeated requests even when the prompt and apparent model settings remain unchanged. This variat
arXiv:2607.24389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Market design research in economics naturally focusses on how to improve market efficiency. Our objective here is exactly the opposite - how to design interventions that make a market less efficient. Our research is inspired by the growth of illicit markets online where reducing their efficiency may reduce societal harm. Using a web-based experiment,
arXiv:2607.24410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimating the covariance structure of financial assets typically relies on his- torical returns, making risk models dependent on noisy and asset-specific time se- ries. We propose the Characteristic-Driven Dynamic Factor Model (CD-DFM), a non-linear latent factor model that instead constructs a representation of the asset cross-section directly from
arXiv:2607.24680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a distinctive approach to parameterizing the risk neutral distribution. Using parsimonious and interpretable parameters, the model provides direct and localized control over the shape of the implied volatility curve. It captures a wide variety of shapes, including those with local concavity. Empirical results demonstrate accurate calibrati
arXiv:2606.28031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Epidemic dynamics introduce time-varying heterogeneity into insured populations, as individuals' risk profiles depend on their evolving health status, thereby challenging classical insurance models based on homogeneity. Motivated by this phenomenon, we develop in this paper actuarial risk models in which the claim process is directly linked to an u
arXiv:2607.23733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Firms struggle to choose AI projects that pay off: two projects can look equally promising to smart, motivated stakeholders and yet deserve opposite decisions. At the residential real-estate brokerage Compass, one AI product (Likely-to-Sell recommendations) flagged sales outreach opportunities and went on to account for nine figures in annual gross
arXiv:2607.24065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this study, we developed and evaluated four conditional energy-based forecasting architectures: a classical Gaussian-Bernoulli CRBM, a hybrid quantum-classical QCRBM, a full-register QQRBM, and a lag-feature QFeatureQRBM with complete derivations of their conditional distributions, Contrastive-Divergence gradients, and hybrid training, bridging
arXiv:2607.24114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As in Bouchard et al. (2010) and Bouchard and Nutz (2014), we study a utility maximization problem with expectation constraint. We first consider a uniformly elliptic case in which the endogenous state boundary associated with the constraint in expectation is proved to be smooth. This allows one to derive a proper Dirichlet condition for the value
arXiv:2509.05080v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Financial trading systems must convert multimodal market history into executable positions while limiting overfitting from repeated strategy search. We introduce MM-ARC (MultiModal Adaptive Routing of Capital), which routes capital across trend, reversal, breakout, and exposure-control experts using aligned chart, numerical, and technical-text vi
arXiv:2602.14774v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We examine the effects of the 2019 expansion of Mexico's Social Pension Program. This reform simultaneously increased benefit generosity and expanded eligibility to individuals previously excluded because they received contributory pensions. Using nationally representative household data and a combination of difference-in-differences and triple-d
arXiv:2604.20406v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study OTC bond market making on a size ladder with quadratic inventory penalty and a running target on the dealer's size-weighted hit ratio within a stochastic optimal control approach. We demonstrate that the corresponding reduced Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation remains separable by dualizing the hit ratio target term and provides the
arXiv:2605.15614v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: How does type-specific wage adjustment change the cross-type incidence of aggregate shocks? The model maintains that financial type coincides with an imperfectly substitutable labor segment, so relative wages redirect employment and earnings between hand-to-mouth households and savers. I derive a consumption-gap decomposition and show that, for z
arXiv:2606.12893v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In the fall of 2020, neural-network methods produced a large improvement in chess engines that became freely and widely available. By the end of 2021, the monthly draw rate in classical chess had risen by about four percentage points, but the distribution of player ratings, which are commonly read as measures of playing strength, had changed litt
arXiv:2607.19562v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Genes associated with educational attainment causally improve labour market income, but the economic mechanism behind this relationship is not clear. Using quasi-random variation in genetic inheritance across siblings in the UK Biobank, I estimate the causal effect of the Education PolyGenic Index (Ed PGI) on education and income. A one standard
arXiv:2607.19929v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study how bounded attention affects the structural estimation of the elasticity of substitution. In a sparse-max model, equilibrium prices and expenditure shares are observationally equivalent to those of a rational market. Its elasticity equals the structural elasticity scaled by the attention weight. The supply-side orthogonality condition o
arXiv:2306.05433v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider a general class of finite-player stochastic games with mean-field interaction, in which the linear-quadratic cost functional includes linear operators acting on controls in $L^2$. We propose a novel approach for deriving the Nash equilibrium of the game semi-explicitly in terms of operator resolvents, by reducing the associated
arXiv:2604.25001v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Occupied diffusions offer a Markovian framework for path-dependent dynamics by lifting the state space with a flow of occupation measures. Because this additional feature is infinite-dimensional, the simulation of these processes remains computationally intractable. We address this by introducing \textit{cylindrical projections}, which appr
From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge highlights devastating impact of climate breakdown “It rained for 10 days and 10 nights, non-stop – I’d never seen anything like it,” says Anar Gul, a construction worker who lives in the remote district of Dur Baba in eastern Afghanistan. The houses in his village are built from stone and mud, which makes them extremely vulnerable to heavy rains. A
anytime I feel like "Yeah no, that pod will buttfuck us into oblivion", I don't hesitate to push the "Call the Digital Angel Squad" button. and watch an entire army of dead man's switch mechs just turn whatever is on the map into swiss cheese. When I inevitably create a new colony I'm going to have to set some house rules. 1) No electric concrete mixers until at least micro electonics has been dev
ayk #cdnmedia doesn't do 'news' anymore. Partisan reports cuz r/w +/or foreign owned Postmedia owners demand create news vs balanced reports. Youth has no frame of reference. I'm old enuf to know actual #journalism One ex: #BCmedia 100% cya ignore update BCLibCon scandal www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... A B.C. Supreme Court justice was highly critical of the province's conduct in awarding a fired public
Nostalgic foods like toad-in-the-hole also in demand at Waitrose as people pivot towards familiarity amid climatic and political upheaval Forget a crisp salad and glass of chilled rosé. Enervated Britons are seemingly more likely to crave a rich cottage pie and a robust red in heatwaves. In a trend termed “reverse comfort eating”, Waitrose’s cottage pie sales have soared 110% in the last month and
Funding crisis could lead to an exodus that would be a blow for British science and national growth On a chilly day in December 1945, Bernard Lovell, a physicist at the University of Manchester, struck out for the Cheshire countryside to study cosmic rays, the streams of high-energy particles that crisscross the universe. Peering at the signals from his army surplus radar, he made an unexpected di
travailleur-alpin.fr/2026/07/24/b... Arié Alimi comme Laurence Ruffin tiennent à mettre d’emblée les points sur les i : il est « légitime de protester », d’exprimer un désaccord et même de boycotter un événement culturel… en ne s’y rendant pas. La première plainte avait été déposée par la ville de Grenoble au commissariat, dans les jours suivant l’interruption du concert de Barbara But
Packing for Hacker Summer Camp. @ rnbwkat is handling the boring things like clothes, shoes, chargers, and “travel logistics.” I am packing the essentials: 🦩 Sarcastic wit 🦩 Emergency pink feathers 🦩 Lots of stickers (of course) 🦩 One deeply suspicious USB cable 🦩 Some serious Flamingo attitude First, I shall visit my distinguished relatives at the Flamingo. Then BSidesLV, where the humans pr
CISA added two actively exploited flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 27: CVE-2025-68686 in Fortinet FortiOS and CVE-2026-16812 in Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator On-Prem [cisa.gov#1][heise.de#1]. CISA said these vulnerability types are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise [cisa.gov#1]. The Fortinet flaw expo
Security researchers detailed several active malware and phishing operations that used familiar services, gaming communities and legitimate administration tools to mask malicious activity. VMRay identified Operation STANDOFF as a Russian-speaking pay-per-install campaign that installs information stealers, loaders, a cryptocurrency miner and botnet components. The campaign used servers that redire
🇯🇵 OCS (ocsfamilylinkservice.ocs.co.jp) a été victime d'une cyberattaque autour du 24 juillet 2026. OCS, société du groupe ANA, a annoncé que son site de commerce électronique pour résidents à l'étranger, OCS FAMILY LINK SERVICE, avait été victime d'une cyberattaque. Le 24 juillet 2026, l'entreprise a confirmé qu'un accès externe non autorisé avait eu lieu sur ses serveurs, et qu'une partie des
🇦🇺 CubePilot (cubepilot.org) a été victime d'une cyberattaque autour du 28 juillet 2026. CubePilot, une entreprise australienne fournissant du matériel et des logiciels embarqués pour l'industrie des systèmes non habités civils, a signalé à ses clients qu'un incident de sécurité affectait certains de ses systèmes. En précaution, le portail ERP a été mis hors ligne. L'entreprise enquête sur l'inc
Temporary Protected Status for Haitians expired this week, ending deportation protections and work authorization for hundreds of thousands of Haitian nationals in the United States, including large communities in South Florida [nbcmiami.com#1][firstcoastnews.com#1][local10.com#1][wpbf.com#1][aljazeera.com#1]. The Trump administration ended TPS for about 1 million people from more than a dozen coun
Asked whether EU rules would lock British cloud firms out of European tenders, the government said there are risks and confirmed the UK has no equivalent procurement framework. The next day DSIT was abolished. https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/lords-cada-uk-locked-out.html On 20 July the Lords put a direct question to the government: does the EU sovereignty package lock UK cloud provide
Johnson & Johnson said Monday it would pay an estimated $5.5 billion to resolve tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging that its baby powder and other talc products caused ovarian cancer, while continuing to deny that its talc-based products caused cancer [cbsnews.com#1][theguardian.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1][aljazeera.com#1][brecorder.com#1][rte.ie#1][perthnow.com.au#1]. The company said the proposa
SPKC dati liecina, ka 24 % Latvijas skolēnu ir piedzīvojuši fizisku agresiju, bet 37 % – emocionālu vardarbību. Eiropas Tālmācības vidusskolas sociālais pedagogs, direktores vietniece Sigita Kliedere spriež, vai skola ir droša vieta visiem bērniem. 🔗 ir.lv/rubrika/vied... Izglītības un zinātnes ministre nesen norādīja, ka bērna pārcelšana uz citu skolu neatrisina bulinga problēmu, tā tikai pārceļ
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva visited Buenos Aires on Monday, July 27, and praised President Javier Milei’s austerity and reform agenda, saying Argentina was in a stronger position to meet its debt obligations [abcnews.com#1][japantoday.com#1][jornaldenegocios.pt#1]. She met Economy Minister Luis Caputo, Central Bank President Santiago Bausili and Milei at Casa
Augstākā līmeņa vadītāja izvēlē pilnīgu drošību iegūt nevar, jo īpaši tad, ja kandidāts šādu amatu ieņems pirmoreiz. "Figure Baltic Advisory" līderības attīstības eksperte Olga Dzene apskata, kā uzņēmuma valde var mazināt kļūdas risku. 🔗 ir.lv/rubrika/vied... Diskusijas par jaunā Valsts kancelejas direktora izraudzīšanos vēlreiz aktualizējušas jautājumu par to, kā izvēlēties piemērotāko vadītāju
'Toen ze voor het eerst een luchtalarm in Kyiv meemaakte, realiseerde ze zich dat dit “elke dag zo is voor elke Oekraïner”: “Ik voel me zo’n klootzak dat ik de worsteling van Oekraïners vijf jaar lang heb geminimaliseerd.”’ Joram Bolle @demorgen.be #OorloginOekraïne www.demorgen.be/nieuws/ze-no... Jarenlang vond de extreemrechtse influencer Laura Loomer (33) Oekraïne een land vol ‘nazi-apologeten’
We spent a lot of this year building an end-to-end encrypted app that we call # Rhizo (short for Rhizome). It’s been in our heads for years and we’re finally getting to the stage where it’s about to escape into internal testing and validation. Rhizo is built for when a secure group chat stops working when trying to organize something, and the only alternatives are often paid corporate tools; some
Wieso sollte das anders sein als Sylvester 2015 in Köln? „Wir nehmen es nicht hin, dass sich nordafrikanische Männergruppen organisieren, um wehrlose Frauen mit dreisten sexuellen Attacken zu erniedrigen“ (NRW-Innenminister Jäger, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger). Jetzt die Qeers, gleiches Muster. Diese "Vorkommnisse" sind auch keine Besonderheit des urbanen Raumes. Jedes Dorffest bietet dieses Risiko. Viel
IC Brief Morning — 2026-07-28 Clayton's confirmation as DNI is very likely within 48 hours, ending the vacancy and formally opening 702 reauthorization talks. High confidence rests on the 51-43 procedural vote and a scheduled Tuesday floor vote with no reported defections. Warner has stated Democrats will not consider a 702 deal before the summer recess, anchoring the lapsed surveillance authority
Ukraine Brief — 2026-07-28 Russia will likely sustain effective suppression of Ukraine's Black Sea grain corridor below pre-July 22 traffic levels through mid-August. Moderate confidence rests on the unprecedented convergence of kinetic strikes killing civilian crew, Maersk's commercial withdrawal, and Ukraine's own port-entry suspension, none of which featured in prior disruptions that recovered
In H1 2026, # ESETresearch continued tracking a growing number of # EDR killers, currently counting 100+ such tools. The dominant approach is still BYOVD, with 60+ of the EDR killers abusing legitimate yet vulnerable drivers. We expect those numbers to keep growing, as threat actors can weaponize any of thousands of available vulnerable drivers – some with public PoC exploits – while leveraging AI
Read more about this article👇 #OpenAccess: www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... S phase kinase-associated protein 2 (SKP2), the rate-limiting substrate receptor of the SKP1-Cullin1-F-box (SCF) E3 ubiquitin ligase complex, is considered a canonical gatekeeper of cell cycle progression. However, accumulating evidence indicates that SKP2 functions as a multifaceted signaling hub that orchestrates met
"Ciò che mi infastidisce del Fediverso sono tutti i truffatori" . Le continue richiste di soldi "da Gaza" e i dubbi di @ NetscapeNavigator @ fediverso In passato sono stato attaccato in maniera ignobile, con segnalazioni e messaggi privati, semplicemente per aver scritto questo Non meritiamo di essere bombardati da migliaia di tragiche richieste di aiuto che non possiamo verificare direttamente e
Over the past months it has become increasingly apparent that the 196 moderation team has a member who does not align with the goals and values of the rest of the team. 196 has a very clear stance on tankies and other authoritarians. No authoritarian apologia of any kind is allowed in our space. It’s not our intent to tell leftists how to be leftist, but we’re not willing to allow somebody we so f
The Radio Image Framing Protocol (RIFP) 1.0 is an experimental, extensible standard for sending images over low-rate radio links. The default rifp-cpfsk-4800 profile uses binary continuous-phase FSK and can be deployed around 433.92 MHz where local regulation permits it. RIFP itself is not tied to 433 MHz or to FSK and can be used in any frequency bands. I'm still exploring various low-cost option
Het wereldwijde potentieel voor golfenergie is enorm. Volgens schattingen kan de mondiale productie van golfenergie oplopen tot 29.500 terawatt per jaar. Dit is bijna tien keer het huidige energieverbruik van de wereld. Over twintig jaar zullen ze heel hard lachen om de armzalige pogingen in het huidige decennium om nog kerncentrales te gaan bouwen. Die over een jaar of 10 allemaal stilgelegd zull
E ainda ficam perguntando sobre as origens do # antipetismo : “Era questão de tempo, mas as alternativas à direita patinaram entre genuflexão à # seita ou inapetência própria entre discurso vazio e repulsa popular. A cruzada inerente às # elites ricas pelo novo preposto é o ensejo para a o braço editorial da extrema-direita ressuscitar o velho expediente de ódio a Lula e o PT. Mentiras, preconceit
# OT # Advisory VDE-2026-081 Weidmueller: Security routers IE-SR-4TX and IE-SR-4GT are affected by multiple vulnerabilities Weidmueller security routers IE-SR-4TX and IE-SR-4GT are affected by multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-14167, CVE-2026-14168, CVE-2026-14169, CVE-2026-14171, CVE-2026-2291, CVE-2026-4893, CVE-2026-5172, CVE-2026-40510, CVE-2025-68160, CVE-2025-69418, CVE-2025-69419, CVE-2025
BMW said its new plant in Debrecen, Hungary, has produced the 50,000th BMW iX3, nine months after series production began for the first Neue Klasse series model [energynews.ch#1][insideevs.com#1][electrek.co#1][hvg.hu#1][tozsdeforum.hu#1][siol.net#1]. The automaker said Debrecen had the fastest production ramp-up of any newly opened BMW Group plant, with incoming iX3 orders approaching 100,000 [en
Data: International Energy Agency ; Note: In terrawatt-hours; Chart: Amy Harder/Axios A recent United Nations call to power data centers with renewable energy highlights a central tension in the AI boom: Renewables are rising, but so is reliance on fossil fuels. Why it matters: Electricity demand for data centers is projected to at least double in the next four years, and where that power comes fr
Cydonis Heavy Industries Climate Synthesis Report: A state of the Union Combinatorial Analysis for Humanity and Planet Earth (as of July 2026) 🌍⚛️🔥 👩🏻🔬 📡 🌳 Download here. ⤵️ cydonis.co.uk/polycrisis/ #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Physics #Biology #Polycrisis #Resist There is still time to act, humanity. Alt: Spinning Earth, Seen from Space. Version 1.0 - July 2026. The polycrisis is a portfolio
President Trump 's controversial "self-deportation" program, which pays unauthorized immigrants to leave the U.S., is on pace to account for more than 200,000 departures, according to internal data shared with Axios. Why it matters: Launched last year alongside a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, the initiative is virtually the only carrot in an aggressive immigration crackdown that has been long o
# LeonardoBoff : “É imperativo que a utopia-#Brasil-diferente derrote a Flávio # Bolsonaro , o traidor da pátria e filho do golpista covarde e preso, e fazer frente ao tradicional pacto das elites conservadoras e algumas reacionárias que nunca tiveram um projeto-Brasil,mas um único,só para si e fundar um novo rumo ao nosso país. O tempo corre veloz e contra o propósito libertário. Importa não só r
I've been working on a fairly involved code change, but to be nice to myself and my reviewers I've broken it down in to 12 separate commits so far, each of them in isolation: * Has an obvious purpose * Passes all tests and lints Many moons ago I worked on a project which used Gerrit where this stuff mattered, but these days I'm stuck with GitHub. GitHub does not make the reviewer's life easy, even
👉 Watch a video version of this column. Republicans didn't decide to become President Trump's party . They surrendered to him, one stage at a time, over a decade, in plain sight. Democrats swear that socialism's growing grip on their party is different , and can be contained . The early signals suggest otherwise. Why it matters: Party transformations follow a predictable six-stage evolution — rec
Is this not one of the sexiest headstocks ever conceived? It really is a shame. Silvertone 14XXs were all over eBay back in the day ~2005ish), and yeah, a really nice one with the original amp-in-case with all it's vinyl/fabric intact would have cost you real money, but there were also well-loved examples in need of some TLC for under a few hundred bucks (CAD), easy. And Jesus, you could pickup ol
Da’Jon Anthony Hayes-Burr, shot by another teenager, had stopped a 45-year-old man from harassing a 12-year-old girl Kentucky ’s largest city is mourning the recent shooting death of a teenage boy who had earned a municipal commendation months earlier for defending a young girl from sexual harassment – and survived being stabbed in the process. Da’Jon Anthony Hayes-Burr, 15, was shot on Saturday n
GitLab Remote Code Execution Chain Exploits Long-Standing Memory Flaws in Oj Parser GitLab patched a critical remote code execution chain involving two memory corruption flaws in the Oj Ruby JSON parser that allow authenticated users to take over servers via malicious Jupyter notebook diffs. **If you run self-managed GitLab, upgrade immediately to version 18.10.8, 18.11.5, or 19.0.2. There's a wor
Chad officially launched its third General Population and Housing Census (RGPH-3) at the end of June, the country's first nationwide census since 2009. On the ground, however, logistical challenges are already emerging. In some remote areas, difficult access is preventing census teams from reaching every household, prompting some residents to travel to nearby towns in order to be counted. Many als
Czechia: Babiš govt proposed constitutional changes (some as yet unclear) lack cross-party backing and would def fail in Senate. Most controversial: changes to (clarification of) prez powers & (limited scope) referendum law www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov... Nejenže ke změnám Ústavy chybí vládě hlasy ve Sněmovně, na tyto nápady není zvědavý ani Senát, jak vyplývá z velké ankety webu iROZHLAS.cz mezi
The next one in our # peoplebehindosco series is @ realn2s . As a recovering software developer Claudius has worked in cybersecurity for more than 15 years. He has developed everything from medical laboratory system and medical devices to content filters. He is interested in the human side of security, the combination of agility and security, and how to make security more accessible. He currently
I know Mastodon hates LLM's and AI. So here goes! I recently got access to trusted access of cyber capabilities of both openai and anthropic, which also allows you to weaponize security vulnerabilities. The speed at which these parrots can find bugs and be creative enough to exploit them is staggering. I recently pointed an LLM at an kernel fix that was reachable by an unprivileged namespace on De
Back to # Infocom # TextAdventure land, or more accurately Graphics adventures. I've been working with Stefan Vogt to support his latest and most ambitious project yet - Arcturus. The idea is that with a single set of image files that work with your adventure game, you can convert the images and generated # zmachine game to run on a range of # 8bit # retrocomputing systems (and modern systems) tha
1st Draft Marketing kit. Integrated with Film Industry tools. PAI-Pro is E-X-P-E-N-S-I-V-E. Crowdfunding: TESSA: A NUKA-WORLD STORY Human-Written. Human-Led. AI-Assisted Production. THE PROJECT TESSA is a 3-season, 19-episode Fallout fan series. Complete scripts. Full character bibles. Production-ready syntax. It is a film-level series on an indie budget using AI as a rendering engine, not a creat
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck the country’s Kumamoto prefecture Japan’s prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, has confirmed that a tsunami advisory was issue for Ariake Bay and Yatsushiro Sea after the earthquake hit the Kumamoto prefecture. She wrote on social media: At around 4:27 p.m. today, an earthquake with its epicenter in the Kumamoto region of Kumamoto Prefect
# ThreatIntel # YARA # SupplyChainAttack rule ADFORM_TRACKPOINT_CLIPPER_2026 { meta: description = "Clipboard hijacker appended to Adform trackpoint-async.js" author = "Raze Security" date = "2026-07-27" reference = "s2.adform.net/banners/scripts/st/trackpoint-async.js" tlp = "CLEAR" strings: $key = /0x4d\s*,\s*0x33\s*,\s*0x77\s*,\s*0x54\s*,\s*0x77\s*,\s*0x30/ nocase $f1 = "_hookValue" ascii $f2 =
What GAO Found The unique needs of mothers and young children during disasters include appropriate sheltering, feeding and care supplies, medical and mental health support, and other services, according to relevant literature and disaster service providers from selected local, state, and nonprofit organizations. For example, large shelters may not be the best option for families with infants. Moth
Abu Dhabi clean-energy company Masdar and Montenegro’s national power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore signed agreements in Tivat to develop 150MW of solar capacity and explore more than 400MW of pumped hydro energy storage [energyglobal.com#1][urdupoint.com#1][thenationalnews.com#1][skynewsarabia.com#1]. The solar agreements cover the 115MW Štedim photovoltaic project and the 35MW Krupac photovo
In early 2025, Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick was on his way home following a trip abroad. After landing in the US, customs agents demanded access to his Pixel phone, which was running an alternative version of Android called GrapheneOS. Rather than hand over his data, Tunick used a clever feature of the software to delete everything. Now, he’s facing federal charges. The first hearing in this cas
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have obtained the clearest image yet of what is likely Betelgeuse B, a faint companion star orbiting the red supergiant Betelgeuse [sciencenews.org#1][scientificamerican.com#1][space.com#1][sci.news#1][phys.org#1][rts.ch#1][japantoday.com#1][earthsky.org#1][mdr.de#1]. The international team, led by Miguel Montargès
View CSAF Summary Mendix documentation for access rules does not adequately describe the special behavior of the System.User entity, leaving developers without sufficient guidance to configure access rules securely. This documentation gap may lead application developers to unknowingly apply overly permissive access rules to System.User, resulting in unintended exposure of sensitive user data or pr
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow attackers to rapidly guess passwords and gain unauthorized system access. The following versions of MikroTik RouterOS and Cloud Hosted Router are affected: RouterOS vers:all/* (CVE-2026-16347) Cloud Hosted Router vers:all/* (CVE-2026-16347) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 8.8 MikroTik MikroTik RouterOS and Cloud H
View CSAF Summary SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced contains a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition. Siemens is preparing fix versions and recommends specific countermeasures for products where fixes are not, or not yet available. The following versions of Siemens SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced are affected: SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced vers:all/* (CVE-2026-54429) C
View CSAF Summary OpenSSL has published a stack based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) or potentially allow for remote code execution. Siemens has released new versions for several affected products and recommends to update to the latest versions. Siemens is preparing further fix versions and recommends countermeasures for products wher
View CSAF Summary Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in the additional GNU/Linux subsystem of the firmware version V3.1.6 for the SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518(F)-4 PN/DP MFP (incl. SIPLUS variant). Siemens is preparing fix versions and recommends specific countermeasures for products where fixes are not, or not yet available. The following versions of Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518(F)-4 P
View CSAF Summary ABB has been contacted by a researcher who identified a vulnerability in one of its products. ABB has been contacted by a researcher who identified a vulnerability in one of its products. The vulnerability report has been shared in responsible disclosure. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the product to become unusable. ABB confirms the vulnera
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthorized actor to access functions or backend services. The following versions of igloohome Smart Lock Mobile Application are affected: Smart Lock Mobile Application (Android) 3.2.3 (CVE-2026-16581) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 5.3 igloohome igloohome Smart Lock Mobile Application Inclusion of Sensitive
A 50-year-old Niles man was sentenced to prison after he admitted to downloading and sharing thousands of child pornography files. The defendant had a pattern of related criminal activity and was previously convicted at the state level for engaging in the same exact conduct in 2019.This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of ch
An international team led by Miguel Montargès of the Observatoire de Paris used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile to capture the clearest image yet of a faint object likely orbiting Betelgeuse, the red supergiant in Orion [earthsky.org#1][phys.org#1][space.com#1][sci.news#1][rts.ch#1][mdr.de#1]. The result, published July 28 in Astronomy & Astrophysics, provides the
---------------- 🚨 Incident Response: Unifying Detection Engineering and Digital Forensics with Velociraptor =================== A new research paper proposes a unified detection-forensics methodology using Velociraptor, bridging the gap between real-time alerting and traditional forensic analysis. The core concept is that detection logic directly initiates targeted evidence acquisition at the po
VSCode was my daily driver for years, but once I started running several coding agents across multiple projects at the same time, it got in the way. One workspace with terminals in the bottom tray, no idea which agent was doing what and I found myself needing all the code editing tools less and less. So I built my own IDE around that workflow. Terminals are a first-class citizen, every project sta
What GAO Found TSA has taken some steps to communicate Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC®) program information with stakeholders. However, TSA relies on an ad hoc communication approach rather than a documented communication plan to determine how to share information with stakeholders. This has contributed to some stakeholders reporting that they experienced declining engagemen
So I've spent the last week digging into this attack and here is what we know. The details are sparse at best, and no real information has been released. The post by open AI giving details about the incident here https:// openai.com/index/hugging-face- model-evaluation-security-incident/ Just left more questions, the undertones of the post is our newest model is so powerful a company that's litera
Two studies reported new links between ocean conditions and atmospheric rivers, the long, narrow moisture bands that can drive extreme rainfall. Research from the University of California, Riverside found that a weakening Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could intensify atmospheric-river storms along parts of North America, especially California's coast, by the end of the century, while
AI does the scanning. AI does the writing. In between, when someone's actually touching a live system, it backs off. That's the gap 158 practitioners flagged in our latest survey. It's also where a wrong move actually costs you. Office Hours 8 is live tomorrow, Wednesday, July 29. Jan Pedersen and Robert Tanase (Lead Product Manager at Pentest-Tools.com) are walking through the triage tax, the tru
China plans to carry Africa’s first space exploration mission on its Chang’e-8 moon lander in 2029. Africa2Moon is preparing a technology demonstrator called the Bounced African Low Lunar Sphere, or BALLS [space.com#1][LeonardDavid.com#1]. The experiment is designed for the moon’s south pole region. Related coverage has highlighted South African participation [google.com#1][space.com#1][LeonardDav
A Purdue University-led study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences says the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago may have produced a fine dust cloud that trapped thermal radiation, superheated the upper atmosphere and contributed to widespread wildfires after the asteroid struck near what is now the Yucatán Peninsula [phys.org#1][astrobiology.com#1][lavozdegalicia.es#1
Chair of judges Mary Beard said each of the 13 books in contention for the £50,000 award ‘takes the reader to new places’ • Comment: This Booker longlist may have two previous winners, but it’s keen to experiment Douglas Stuart and Marlon James, two previous winners of the Booker, have been named on this year’s longlist, alongside three-time nominee Elizabeth Strout, in a collection that “rewards
The former Black Panther’s lawyers ask a UN panel to review his detention after US legal avenues were exhausted As he approaches the 45th anniversary of his incarceration in December, the Black radical writer and prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is taking his claim that he has been subjected to arbitrary imprisonment for a crime that he did not commit to a new tribunal: the United Nations in Geneva. On Tu
In Deutschland geht das nicht. Der solare Output eines Daches liegt im Juli 10x höher als im Januar. Mit einem 10 kWp kannst Du Deinen Haushalt zwar über das Jahresmittel Netto-Neutral betreiben, aber Du wirst im Winter dennoch Strom dazu kaufen müssen. Eine Batterie kann dennoch helfen. Mein Haushalt hat über ein Jahr von Anfang Juli bis Ende Juni Strom verbraucht und ich habe mit gemessen. Ich k
Late July and August bring several skywatching events: July’s full Buck Moon reaches full phase at 10:36 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, July 29, or 14:36 UTC, and will appear full on nearby evenings for many observers [astronomy.com#1][earthsky.org#2][earthsky.org#4][fastcompany.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1]. Astronomy.com’s 2026 full-moon calendar lists the July event as the Buck Moon. A spent Falcon 9 upper stage
Valve updated Proton 10.0-4b and Proton 11.0-1b on July 28 with Steamworks SDK 1.65 support, extending the newer Steamworks developer features to the stable Proton 10 and Proton 11 branches used for Windows games on SteamOS and Linux [gamingonlinux.com#1][steamdeckhq.com#2]. Steamworks SDK 1.65 adds developer-facing support tied to Valve hardware including Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Deck
Pharmaceuticals company is investing £400m in UK life sciences and moving scientists to new Cambridge R&D site Business live – latest updates The British drugmaker GSK is to announce sweeping job cuts as part of a £1.9bn cost-cutting programme to pay for a £400m investment in UK life sciences over the next three years, including in a new research and development centre in Cambridge, as it looks to
The “keeping secrets from family” antipattern in SAF captures a common failure: incident learnings stay trapped inside SecOps Architects, engineers, IT, and leaders never receive those insights…. ...then those same weaknesses get exploited again ...leading to more incidents (and more severe incidents) ...and more business disruptions and financial costs. This is usually not intentional - SecOps ge
Our latest blog post "A Deep Dive into ByteToBreach's ByteToCrypt ransomware" is here! There are multiple quirky aspects of this bytetocrypt and the known actor's TTPs, suggesting that this ransomware was developed by a capable software developer, but less experienced at ransomware. - the encryption implementation is fragile and error-prone but not cryptographically breakable - this code is not an
Cybersecurity startup Lava said it found 36,872 internet-exposed Baseboard Management Controller interfaces running IPMI and that 24,650 disclosed password-derived authentication hashes before login through CVE-2013-4786, an IPMI 2.0 weakness that enables offline password-guessing attacks [reddit.com#1][thehackernews.com#1][bleepingcomputer.com#1]. BMCs are dedicated server-management processors t
www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/07/28/n... Entre son nouveau look, les mystérieux indices semés sur les réseaux sociaux et ses récents succès, plusieurs s’attendent à ce que la chanteuse profite de son passage à Montréal samedi prochain pour réserver une importante surprise à ses fans. 👀 👀 👀 👀 À quelques jours de sa très attendue prestation en tête d’affiche au festival Osheaga, Tate McRae intr
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) demanded that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) verbally address constituents and demonstrate his ability to serve or resign his seat in a blunt letter sent to the senator and his staff. The big picture: It's been more than 40 days since 84-year-old conservative stalwart McConnell has appeared outside of pictures released by his office after being hospitalized. His length
🔒 Security News Digest - 2026-07-28 📊 12 updates from 4 sources: 🔹 SecurityWeek: Hacker Conversations: Tal Kollander’s Journey From Black Hat to Hack Blocker https://www. securityweek.com/hacker-conver sations-tal-kollanders-journey-from-black-hat-to-hack-blocker/ 🔹 SecurityWeek: Act Security Emerges from Stealth to Fight the Patch Problem https://www. securityweek.com/act-security- emerges-fr
Linux and open-source projects issued a series of updates on July 28-29, including Linux 7.2-rc5, Wayfire 0.11, Hyprland 0.56.1, Shelly 3.0 and several desktop utilities. Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.2-rc5 on July 26 and called it a large release candidate, with networking accounting for more than one-third of the patch after delayed work from developers who had been at conferences [ostechnix.c
CVSS is a severity label the industry treats like a priority list. A 9.8 tells you how bad a bug could be. It cannot tell you which 9.8 to do first. This year 4,719 CVEs carry a CVSS v3 score of 9.0 or higher. Half of them, 2,493, land on the identical 9.8, the arithmetic result of a remote, unauthenticated, full-impact vector. Nine distinct scores exist in the entire critical band. There is no 9.
Hello everyone, This morning, as i started my shift, i thought i would start visiting some news blogs / websites to kick off the day. When it got to Crooked Timber i saw a captcha page instead, it looked like a traditional Google captcha. I clicked it, the spinner spun, and a box opened on the right, showing the traditional "Verify you're human" white title on a blue background. It showed 2 "Manua
Good morning from Minneapolis! After a 100-degree day Monday — and yet not a record — we're heading for a high of only 91 degrees today, Tuesday. Quite early Tuesday it's 74℉; partly cloudy; light winds; visibility 10 miles at the airport "Just to recap yesterday, MSP recorded an 81 degree dewpoint at 2AM (1 degree shy of the all time record) and then after mixing/drying out during the afternoon,
Letter, published before Anthony Fauci will appear before Congress, accuses Republicans of ‘waging a war on individual scientists’ US politics live – latest updates More than 155 scientists, physicians and public health advocates have called for an end to what they describe as the “vilification and harassment of many American scientists” by the Trump administration and its allies. In an open lette
India’s state-owned Bank of Baroda confirmed a cybersecurity incident after an employee email account was compromised, allowing unauthorized access to “certain data” [therecord.media#1][cybersecuritynews.com#1][firstpost.com#1][google.com#2]. The bank said it detected and contained the incident immediately, opened an investigation, and found that its core banking systems were not accessed or affec
Cybersecurity is a never-ending saga, so check out today's Metacurity to stay abreast of the latest twists and turns, including --Nvidia launches AI safety coalition as open-weight debate intensifies, --MSFT launches AI cyber defense platform, --Hugging Face rife with deepfake abuse, --Cyberattack hits Minnesota water systems, --Claude chats indexed by Google, --Bank of Baroda probes leak, --Shiny
Shots fired in the Channel are all in a day’s work for the intrepid shadow home secretary C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre. Captain Chris ‘Hunter-Killer’ Philp had been on patrol since first light in the English Channel. While the rest of the country was still asleep, the Philpster was scanning the horizon for rubber dinghies full of illegal immigrants. Something he had never done in
you think ai writes good code because you yourself cannot review code and you think youre 10xing now because you also published a javascript flight sim but no one plays it and it doesnt hit and you wonder why and the answer is you lack vision and talent. yes you can ask bobot to copy someones work for you, but what of you does that add? can you read the code and debug it after? can you personally
I'm OK with representatives who sometimes disagree with me, but I'm not OK with those who just don't listen. 15 years ago, when I lived in Columbus, Indiana, I frequently disagreed with my state representative Greg Walker. But when I wrote to him, he read my letters and wrote thoughtful responses to the points I made. I can respect that. My current US senator, Todd Young, just doesn't listen. I wr
Man already serving life for killing his cellmate while awaiting trial also murdered and dismembered his friends Claudio Aquilino and Daniel Coleman On a spring day last year, James Desborough marched up to Cornwall’s county hall in Truro and began bombarding the offices with dozens of eggs stolen from a supermarket. It was a drug and drink-addled protest at his plight – homeless, jobless and gene
Seems that the trick I used in https:// projectzero.google/2025/01/win dows-bug-class-accessing-trapped-com.html by calling ITypeInfo::CreateInstance cross process has been blocked. Sort of. They've "fixed" it in a bizarre way, there's now a new AppCompat key, which doesn't exist by default. It's HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole\AppCompat\ITypeInfoCreateInstanceSettings and in that you ne
Don’t you see, all you ever are is a moment. That is all any of us are. A single fluctuation in an almost infinite algorithm. Each choice we make changes the algorithm - instantly and forever. The past becomes such that we could not have but made that choice, the future, all that results from it. Like the plant that emerges from a seed or the baby gazelle that is born knowing how to run, those are
A CNAPP with a $20,000 entry floor might be fine for one enterprise. Put it on 200 client proposals and it collapses for MSSPs. That math is why no incumbent CNAPP has ever worked for service providers. LimaCharlie Cloud Security, GA today, was built for the other side of it: a complete CNAPP covering GCP, AWS, and Azure for $150 per organization per month. Flat, published, no quote process. It ru
Saw this from @ TheRaDR the other day--and it's a great reminder that what I've described as the "Classified Annexes" to Project 2025 *explicitly discuss* harvesting government data on Americans with physical, mental, or psychological disabilities to lay the groundwork for the euthanasia of populations seen as "a burden on the taxpayer" -- i.e., on our # AmericanOligarchs and their billions. First
I'm kinda wondering how come I never realized that when my programmer friend said in the early 2010s that if you wanted a computer, it had to be a Mac, he had a point. I just wondered if he was some kind of snob, which I didn't think too much about, because the people I was surrounded with were all highly judgmental. And he was in my band. This guy said that I was "the greatest drummer in the worl
Respecting fatigue isn't coddling. It's a reliability decision your company doesn't even realize it's making. An on-call engineer handled a 3 a.m. incident last night. They spent two hours diagnosing, coordinating, and restoring service. They got back to bed around 5, but it took a while to settle down and fall back asleep. Four hours later, they were at standup, stifling yawns. That afternoon, th
The U.S. blood supply has reached crisis levels, prompting the American Red Cross and the Surgeon General's Office to urge people to donate. Why it matters: A prolonged blood shortage could delay surgeries, trauma care and other treatments that depend on timely blood transfusions. The Red Cross says it has "less than a one-day national supply of type O positive blood," which is the most commonly t
AI appears to improve workers' efficiency in a number of sectors. The U.S. has experienced a surge in economy-wide productivity in the last couple of years. But the former isn't necessarily driving the latter. The big picture: Companies are achieving more output per person-hour of labor because they are making better use of existing capital, a provocative new analysis finds — not, at the moment at
De politie komt, kijkt, glimlacht en vertrekt weer. Ondanks de vele overtredingen, te lezen in dit liveblog. Waar zelfs brandweerlieden verhinderd worden om hun werk te doen (blussen). Waar brand gesticht wordt tijdens deze droogte met kans op verwoestende bosbranden. Waarom gelden voor boeren andere regels dan voor XR? In wat voor land leven we dat de hulpdiensten en gezagshandhavers deze terrori
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It is occurring to me now that, if I had filmed this, the script would be exactly the kind of thing you'd hear on just about every YouTube aviation video. It would basically be: "Today, my wife and I are taking our little RV-9 up to Oregon to meet with an agent to sell our house. It's a 10 hour drive, or a 4 hour flight. Clearly we should drive." (and for the return trip) "The next day, after meet
I swear to fucking god, I am going to mail dogpoop to my ISP. Hi. I'm on cable internet because Germany doesnt have good internet & fiber is unknown technology. My download is fine, asterisk. My upload isnt. And not in the "well, its cable/docsis/whatevs, you cant expect gigabit upload" sense. In the "regularly averaging 10℅ of the nominal upload (that is the dogshit cable upload)" sense, dropping
UK-based battery storage and EV charging firm Zenobē has entered the German market by acquiring Bavaria-headquartered BESS developer SDP Energie, gaining a pipeline of six transmission-level battery energy storage system projects totaling 1.75 GW [energy-storage.news#1][energyglobal.com#1][energynews.pro#1]. Zenobē announced the deal on July 27, 2026, marking its first significant move into the Ge
A growing left-leaning media ecosystem of independent podcasts, social media accounts and digital news sites is influencing Democratic politics as some progressive Americans move away from legacy outlets such as ABC, CBS and CNN, the Associated Press reported [abcnews.com#1]. The shift has helped amplify anti-establishment, left-leaning candidates who might previously have received less attention
I kept reading how open-weights LLM models like Kimi are "almost as good" as closed-weights ones, so I decided to put this notion to the test. I used Kimi 2.6, not the latest-and-greatest K3 model, because I don't have access to Fable/Mythos (and it would have refused to work on cybersecurity tasks anyway) and I wanted the test to be fair by comparing Kimi 2.6 to Claude Sonnet 5. I asked Kimi to a
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 is reportedly selling faster than expected during preorders, according to Korean tipster Lanzuk. Ice Universe said Fold 8 preorders have far exceeded Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra orders in Korea and other markets [androidauthority.com#2][9to5google.com#1][androidpolice.com#2][thanhnien.vn#1][nextapple.com#2]. Samsung had reportedly prepared about 2.8 million Galaxy Z Fold 8 unit
Spain’s Finance Ministry postponed a Fiscal and Financial Policy Council meeting scheduled for Wednesday, July 29, moving the debate and expected vote on regional financing reform to September 4 after PP-led regional governments asked for more time [abc.es#1][eleconomista.es#1][expansion.com#1][lavanguardia.com#1][elmundo.es#1][lavozdegalicia.es#1]. The ministry, led by Arcadi España, agreed to th
I assume it's the program's choice, because I don't remember it being annoying on the whole... but I've felt like it's almost always annoying in Photoshop. Like it just makes the worst possible guess based on some document you saved last time that is in no way related to entirely different file you opened and are now saving or exporting from. Like there's clearly context, but it's completely irrel
Netfox 0.13.0 is out, and it leads with a fix I'd rather talk about than bury. Netfox can expose a read-only metrics endpoint so your own Prometheus can scrape your LAN. Turn on "allow access from other devices" without setting a token, though, and it bound every interface with the auth check skipped entirely — because "no token" meant "ask nothing" instead of "reject everything". What it serves i
Court-appointed investigator finds California City facility failed to comply with judge’s order to provide adequate healthcare California’s largest immigration detention center has failed to comply with a judge’s orders to provide adequate healthcare, according to a court-appointed monitor who found the facility was struggling to meet a wide range of medical standards. The California City detentio
Meeting notes: https:// list.orgmode.org/87cxw7rqw9.fs f@localhost/T/#u TL;DR: ox-latex survey; non-Latin PDF export; exporting tagged PDFs; buffer-locals vs Org keywords; DEADLINE syntax; Org parser in Rust; large Org files; sparse trees; anju; org-export-region-to-md; importing to Org; transient menus in Org; org-inside; canvas patch + babel = jupyter notebooks; transferring data between Emacs a
FinderGit 0.23.0 is out, and it started with a pull that did nothing at all. A repo sat at ↑5 ↓8 and Pull just… didn't. Turns out that with neither pull.rebase nor pull.ff configured — the default — a diverged branch makes git exit 128 with "Need to specify how to reconcile divergent branches" and touch nothing. FinderGit was running a bare `git pull` and reporting that as git's 14-line hint blob,
Meta has begun rolling out voice and video calling on WhatsApp Web, letting users make and receive one-on-one and group calls from a browser without downloading the WhatsApp desktop app [techcrunch.com#1][9to5google.com#1][firstpost.com#1][betanews.com#1][engadget.com#1]. The browser calls support end-to-end encryption and add a Calls tab with call history and favorites, matching features already
The U.S. Air Force conducted a multi-day Agile Combat Employment exercise at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada with Collaborative Combat Aircraft, or CCA, to develop tactics, techniques and procedures for future uncrewed fighter operations [defensenews.com#1][defence-blog.com#1][defence-industry.eu#1][spaceforce.mil#1][flightglobal.com#1]. The Collaborative Combat Aircraft Experimental Operations Un
For decades, Maurice Pierce, Robert Springsteen, Michael Scott and Forrest Welborn lived under the shadow of the yogurt shop murders, a crime that left an indelible mark on Austin and forever changed the lives of the the families of the victims: Eliza Thomas, Amy Ayers, and sisters Jennifer and Sarah Harbison. All four men were ultimately declared innocent and later exonerated after investigators
Supporters of California’s voter ID initiative sued Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday in Sacramento County Superior Court, challenging Bonta’s ballot title, summary and label for Proposition 39 ahead of the November election [nypost.com#1][latimes.com#1]. The lawsuit names Secretary of State Shirley Weber as the respondent and asks for an expedited order requiring Bonta to rewrite the ballot ma
Two 3D select components got a real screen-reader fix: @gfazioli/mantine-lens-select 1.0.8 and mantine-depth-select 2.0.10. The listbox now carries `aria-activedescendant` and every option a stable per-instance id, so assistive tech can announce which option the arrow keys are on. Before this the visual highlight moved and nothing was announced. Two traps, if you build the same pattern: The linter
Argh, doctor instructed me to book an appointment for some medical tests (routine tests) ages ago. I finally got around to it and went to the "lifelabs" website to do so. Picked an available slot and was told I needed to log in or register to complete the booking. Attempted to register and told I already had an account (though curiously it wasn't in my password manager). Tried to reset password an
Independent power producer Nadara closed a pan-European refinancing of about €1.2 billion, equivalent to roughly $1.36 billion to $1.4 billion, for a 1.5GW operating renewable energy portfolio [energynews.pro#1][renews.biz#1][mercomindia.com#1][mercomindia.com#2][pv-tech.org#1][power-technology.com#1]. The transaction covers 47 wind and solar assets across Italy, the U.K., France, Spain, Sweden, N
Since I mentioned that Robert Wise's THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN (1971) is one of the movies available in Barnes & Noble's 50% off Arrow Video sale, I should probably also mention that it's really good. If you're into sci-fi, you should see it if you haven't. It has a lot of stylistic similarities to another Robert Wise sci-fi picture, STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (1979). Wise tackled both these project
RE: https:// disabled.social/@tomkindlon/11 6997331091064486 I’ve had post-exertional malaise my whole life, but it got *much* worse after I had long covid (I used to only trigger it after 4 or more hours of cardio, like riding 70 miles, but now I can trigger it after 40 *minutes* of cardio). It absolutely sucks how many more people are hit with it now. But I am also incredibly relieved that the s
Florida’s two-day recreational spiny lobster sport season opened at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, July 29, and runs through midnight Thursday, July 30, drawing divers and boaters to South Florida waters and the Florida Keys [keysweekly.com#1][keysweekly.com#2][local10.com#1][floridapolitics.com#1]. The mini-season is separate from the regular lobster season, which begins Aug. 6 and continues through March
It’s been a week but I’ve been really happy with my new PC build. I went with large fans and airflow and I really just never hear it. Counting the GPU and PSU fans, it sits at 10 fans: 6x 140mm, 2x 120mm, and 2x 85mm on the GPU. I think the ONLY thing that I feel like I gotta change is the annoyingly blinding blue LED in the power button. Blue LEDs already annoy me but heck it’s bright. I think I’
Apple's incoming CEO, John Ternus, said he plans to keep building Apple's entertainment business when he takes over the iPhone maker in September. He made the comments at the July 27 premiere of the fourth season of "Ted Lasso" at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles [gmanetwork.com#1][aawsat.com#1][macdailynews.com#1]. Ternus, Apple's hardware chief, is set to succeed Tim Cook on September 1, while
A lot of people have been saying that McConnell's staff has been hiding his true condition to head off the possibility of a special election being called to replace him. I don't really buy that theory. There is no chance of a special election in Kentucky being won by anyone other than an insane Republican. From a party-political perspective, Republicans there have nothing to fear from holding an e
One of the joys of working at the intersection between tech and national security is that the space is always changing. One of the challenges of teaching tech and national security is … the space is always changing. Before the start of every semester, I go through the same ritual: pull every article, book, and report I've read over the past year and figure out what earns a spot in the syllabus (an
🧊 EMERGENCY THREAT BULLETIN CLOUDZY/ROUTERHOSTING (AS14956) LAUNCHING COORDINATED ATTACK CAMPAIGN Classification: PUBLIC INTELLIGENCE — THREAT WARNING Date: July 28, 2026 Prepared by: WinterGate Intelligence Collective (WIC) Distribution: INFOSEC COMMUNITY — WIDE RELEASE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A coordinated, multi-vector attack campaign has been detected originating from AS14956 (RouterHosting LLC / C
Looks like Flatpak discovery will move from one mostly generally accepted hub to a gazillion of repos since the performative LLM complaints have befallen the possible single hub. (Partially half-understandable arguments, partially performative fluff for my taste) Which is ok as it triggers competition that might lead to better outcomes. (bazaar vs cathedral and all, rite? 😏 ) And removes a possib
Expect this trend to continue, not only on Reddit, but throughout the internet. Not a hidden ban list, but the same dynamic in play. From the mods in the post above: >In early May, we noticed some changes to our sub. Overnight, weekly visits to our sub went from 8M to 2M. The ability to award posts and comments was disabled. Our visibility in community topics and categories like ‘Celebrities’ and
Going by comments in the post, the required login is coming in waves, so not all people may notice immediately. Still, as Reddit is strong-arming its way across, maybe worth signaling to people there that the fediverse may be used without an account, so long as there's even one instance that implements logged-out view as the protocol allows it? I don't have access to my account any longer, possibl
Another AI company CEO says that we're now in the Singularity. I actually agree that we are - but so were our grandparents. Our species is about 300.000 years old*, give or take. For the vast, vast majority of that time, we were hunter-gatherers who knapped flint tools. It's not *entirely* right that those tools were completely static (then as now, fashions came and went), but someone living 28000
Serious news outlets that would never dream of publishing some bullshit "one weird trick to make wrinkles disappear" article continue to churn out an endless stream of "ten tips from experts for keeping your unairconditioned flat cool in a heatwave" and "top tips for getting a full night's sleep in a heatwave" articles, and like, why? They're all complete nonsense, the solutions are stop climate c
Finished some heat wave prep this evening. I use a bunch of slightly insulated Mylar coated "camping" or car window protection mats. The sheets are exactly the right size for the balcony doors. There, I used 3m double sided tape to tape up a "curtain rail" on the outside of the window frame. Then I use clothespins to attach the sheets at the top. The straps hanging past the bottom of the window ge
Twenty-five years after elk were reintroduced to North Carolina, the state has legalized a limited two-tag hunting season. Earlier this month, Gov. Josh Stein signed H.B. 747 into law, authorizing a bull-only Fall 2027 hunt. One permit will be issued through a $20-per-ticket raffle — 30 tickets maximum may be purchased per person — partially benefitting the Wildlife Resources Fund for elk conserva
Very happy to see Samsonite producing a successor to the best carry-on suitcase ever produced, the X-Blade 3.0 Upright: the respark upright 55 ( https://www. samsonite.de/respark-upright-5 5-20-exp-midnight-blue/143312-1549.html ) It's one of these products where objectively, we could've just settled on the X-Blade years ago and just give people some color options, because it has: - a cable lock t
# RicochetRefresh and # Arti build on # Fedora Atomic # OS . # rustlang environment is also functional in # rpm # ostree . (#immutability sandboxing if not live?) # FreedomOfThePress # Journalism # ComputerScience # Linux @ freedomofpress @ torproject jk, Rotational # HDD and # Rust work together just fine. Anomalies and vulns in # QubesOS . . . # console # hacking # rpc # Wayland # fastly @ rust
On the HAWK break: setting aside the LLM part of the narrative, this fits very well into my priors. I only had started looking at HAWK fairly recently and have not devoted much time to it, but when then I was not really convinced by the security argument. My main concern is that HAWK's public key is a global property, while any other module lattice based scheme only ever reveals local properties (
This is my fourth go at this app. Chronologically (1.5 years elapsed, working on it on weekends only, it's not my job): - SwiftUI v1: failed, due to my poor understanding of SwiftUI, lost the will to keep hacking to get native Apple-like UX - SwiftUI + SwiftData v2: failed, could not get performance and UX how i wanted. - SwiftUI + CloudKit + Core Data + Swift Data v3: a terrible idea, do not have
The harness for my iOS app development: - A single self-contained Rust CLI that only depends on xcrun and xcodebuild - Returns a reliable, structured and consistent response for every sub-command it runs - Responses are optimized so LLMs can efficiently know success/failure, get hints on problem resolution and have links to logs and more detail if something went wrong - Manages a pool of cached si
Further analysis of the leaked data: American English is the most common locale (70496 entries, almost 50%), followed by British English (10659 entries), French (9647 entries), and U.S. Spanish (7212 entries). Counting the locales differently, the ranking is English (92922 or 64%), Spanish (14737), French (12118), Italian (5111), etc. 128826 (89%) of the included records are Gmail addresses, with
IC Brief Evening — 2026-07-28 Clayton's confirmation vote July 29, following 51-43 party-line cloture, installs a permanent DNI over an ODNI that Pulte reshaped through five termination rounds totaling a self-reported 30 percent reduction. The same majority that seats Clayton chairs the oversight committees now facing former CIA officials' request to investigate a disputed intelligence document la
HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two. 1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a
The Fed kicks off the second two-day policy meeting under Chair Kevin Warsh's leadership. Bloomberg's Economics & Policy Correspondent Mike McKee has the preview. Plus, Wednesday kicks off a massive round of tech earnings from some of the industry's biggest names including Meta, Microsoft, and Apple. Bloomberg Intelligence's Global Head of Technology Research Mandeep Singh talks about what he'll b
University of Michigan researchers developed a semiconductor device that uses two laser pulses of different colors to launch and direct electrons through a semiconductor without an applied electric field or external electrical power source [scitechdaily.com#1][sciencedaily.com#1]. The team described the result as a previously unobserved physical effect and said the device was built primarily to te
Two newly reported archaeological and paleontological findings used bones to reconstruct ancient behavior in different settings. Near Richmond in Outback Queensland, researchers identified what Phys.org described as a rare “three-tier prehistoric meal”: evidence that a flying reptile was eaten by a sea monster before that predator itself became prey [phys.org#1][google.com#1]. Separate reports on
The U.S. Department of Energy selected Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Idaho as initial contenders to host Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, federal-state projects that could combine nuclear fuel fabrication, enrichment, spent-fuel reprocessing and waste disposition at integrated sites [powermag.com#1][ans.org#1][deseret.com#1][utahnewsdispatch.com#1][diariolibre.com#1]. Energy Secre
A study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences reports that skull deformities in fossilized archaic humans resemble deformational plagiocephaly, or flat head syndrome, a condition seen in modern babies who repeatedly rest on the same part of the skull [phys.org#1][popsci.com#1]. Researchers said the pattern suggests infants among ancient human relatives were born less developed
In the graph above I've arranged the 28 Threadiverse instances with at least 200 monthly active users (MAU)—orange instances running Lemmy, green Piefed, and red Mbin—on the basis of which instances they defederate. Each instance has its MAU count listed below it, sourced from the latest MAU figures at [Fediverse Observer](https://fediverse.observer/), with adjustments made to the totals for Piefe
The Federal Reserve is expected to leave its benchmark interest-rate target at 3.50% to 3.75% when the Federal Open Market Committee announces its July decision at 2 p.m. Washington time Wednesday, followed by a news conference by Chair Kevin Warsh [japantoday.com#1][wral.com#1][news.at#1][skynewsarabia.com#1][malaymail.com#1]. That would be the fifth straight meeting without a rate change, even a
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 Aswath Damodaran, NYU Stern Professor of Finance, Michael Nierenberg, Rithm Capital Chairman & CEO, James Daunt, Barnes and Noble CEO, Carol Tomé, UPS CEO, Arsalan Tavakoli, Databricks Co-Founder & Senior VP of Field Engineeri
i posted this to my tumblr earlier today but uh. i figure i should xpost (with some edits) *Onimai: I’m Now Your Sister!* V cute anime. Maybe a weird premise for ppl who are cis and haven’t at least heard of series like Ranma 1/2 but like. Idgaf There’s a bit more “fan service” than I’d like, especially when it comes to Miyo given she’s in middle school but it’s v much not presented in the usual f
The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2025-16- 12, which applied to all Airbus SAS Model A319-151N, -153N, -171N, and -173N airplanes; Model A320-251N, -252N, -253N, -271N, -272N, and -273N airplanes; and Model A321-251N, -252N, -253N, -271N, -272N, -251NX, - 252NX, -253NX, -271NX, -272NX, -253NY, and -271NY airplanes. AD 2025- 16-12 required revising the existing airplane flight man
MCP é a ideia mais idiota do hype atual! 1- as pessoas se perguntam: "MCP substitui API? NÃO, cara pálida, MCP SUBSTITUI VOCÊ 🫵🏿. Se meter LLM no loop de iteração com APIs, ela vai precisar iterar com um humano pra poder correr o layer de execução que vai interagir com as APIs dos serviços, já que ela só cospe texto. MCP é algo que vai ser a camada de execução(e fazer isso em escala caso necessá
The Federal Reserve is due to announce its July policy decision at 2 p.m. Washington time on Wednesday, followed by a press conference with Chair Kevin Warsh, after a two-day FOMC meeting [japantoday.com#1][malaymail.com#1][skynewsarabia.com#1]. Most investors expect the central bank to keep its benchmark rate at 3.50% to 3.75% for a fifth straight meeting, but market-implied odds of a 25-basis-po
Brixmor Property Group reported upbeat second quarter sales this week, seeing strong leasing spreads, record small shop occupancy, and more. Analysts from Evercore ISI and Stifel raised their forecasts on the company after earnings results. CEO Brian Finnegan joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss, saying consumer traffic remains high, up around 10% since pre-COVID, which equates to strong
Using data from NASA’s Hubble and ground-based telescopes at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory and Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory, spanning over 10 years, scientists at the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) measured the wake left by Siwarha as it ploughs through the outer atmosphere of Betelgeuse. The wake causes changes in the star’s spectrum and in the speed and direction of gases in the out
Public and investor confidence in artificial intelligence weakened this week. A Bentley University-Gallup survey found that 39% of Americans now say AI does more harm than good, up from 31% in 2025, while 9% say it does more good than harm [gizmodo.com#1][thehill.com#1]. The survey also found that 70% of respondents consider themselves somewhat or extremely knowledgeable about AI [gizmodo.com#1][g
As prediction market giants like Kalshi and Polymarket begin offering perpetual futures trading with CFTC approval, other investment platforms are looking to expand their offerings. CME Group is launching single-stock futures, allowing investors to hedge or speculate on more than 50 of the largest US companies. The contracts, offering leverage without the complexity of options, will be cash-settle
'The testing was conducted by Source Certain, a leading forensic laboratory that has worked with the FBI, Scotland Yard, Interpol and the Australian Federal Police. 'It analysed 221 processed tomato products from 39 brands, including paste, passata and diced tomato. 'Twenty-two per cent of the products failed country-of-origin testing, while a further 6 per cent were flagged for further testing. '
Lamine Yamal, the 19-year-old World Cup winner, has spoken openly about a childhood shaped by financial hardship and parental sacrifice. His mother, Sheila Ebana, emigrated from Equatorial Guinea to Spain as a teenager, had Yamal at 16, and raised him largely alone after separating from his father when Lamine was three. Yamal credits her with shielding him from the worst of their circumstances, sa
There’s new benchmark measuring AI’s ability to perform mathematical cryptanalysis. Anthropic’s frontier model actually found new attacks. The benchmark: “ CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs do Cryptanalysis? ” The idea is to benchmark the ability of LLMs to discover new mathematical cryptanalytic attacks against a series of historical algorithms. Abstract: Cryptanalysis—the task of finding attacks agai
One weird consequence of recent internet history: AI summaries often get around the problem of search engines returning masses of low-effort, low-quality, firewalled, or clickbait websites instead of actual information by giving users (possibly/probably accurate) information about many topics without what has become a familiar runaround. Try searching (regardless of the search engine) for informat
* Falsification Engine: After finding a potential vulnerability, VulnHunter runs a structured reasoning workflow specifically designed to disprove its own argument. It searches for flawed assumptions, logic gaps, or security controls that would block the attack. * Evidence-Backed Remediation: When a defect survives the falsification engine, VulnHunter maps the exact exploit path and generates focu
there was a nice thread about leonard cohen this week and as i was playing "sisters of mercy" tonight, i thought again about the words of hope, humanity, and sharing in the lyrics. Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone They were waitin' for me when I thought that I just can't go on And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song Oh I hope you run into them, y
I guess it's time to finally share this. it's ... not exactly an excerpt from the book I have no idea what to do with. It's a branch, really, something that found its way onto a page, reusing an original draft that was shredded and blown to the winds. the process is a question; it's based on a literal interview, an LLM - several, actually - throwing my own words back at me. Is a process like this
Current information suggests the Tornado was an EF-3 and it did hit my house due to it being nearly a mile in diameter. No reported fatalities so far, which is amazing for going straight through a population center. The whole neighborhood has been at it with chain saws and the city has been really on the ball clearing debris brought to the road. It's been super impressive. No power still and proba
arXiv:2607.24747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although keystroke dynamics are cost-effective behavioral biometrics, their practical deployment is hindered by susceptibility to environmental variations. To address this, we propose a robust multimodal authentication framework that augments traditional keystroke dynamics using 19-dimensional hand kinematics. Features are captured using a bespoke da
arXiv:2607.24859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid deployment of large language models (LLMs) in healthcare settings makes the reliability of their built-in guardrails against malicious queries a question of urgent practical consequence. Yet the robustness of these mechanisms against deliberate misuse (in the healthcare context) remains poorly understood. In this paper, we investigate this
arXiv:2607.24866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI safety has a missing layer. Interpretability, formal methods, security engineering, evaluation methodology, and reinforcement-learning safety each produce substantial work, but the resulting artifacts do not compose into deployable oversight: every team fielding an agentic system builds its own audit schema, policy dialect, monitoring stack, and e
arXiv:2607.24888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ken Thompson's trusting-trust attack, in which a compromised compiler backdoors the programs it builds and reproduces the backdoor in subsequent rebuilds of itself, is widely regarded as a threat specific to compilers. We show that it is not. We construct a complete trusting-trust attack around GNU strip, an ordinary build utility that neither inspec
arXiv:2607.24893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems can be attacked by a payload that no single agent ever holds in full: a poisoned tool hides encrypted fragments in its observations, spreads them across several agents, and an external step reassembles and executes them after the run. Per-step safety checks that judge each action in isolation may fail to recognize the complete
arXiv:2607.24896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Static malware detectors are commonly evaluated using clean-sample metrics such as accuracy, F1, ROC AUC, and PR AUC. However, these metrics provide limited insight into how learned malware representations behave when feature vectors are perturbed, how close samples move toward uncertain decision regions, or whether compressed representations preserv
arXiv:2607.24897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent commercial image-generation models can generate high-quality images with readable text (e.g., posters, infographics, and manuals), attracting considerable attention. Yet we first show that this same capability also introduces a previously unreported safety vulnerability: these systems may refuse to generate harmful text directly, yet permit th
arXiv:2607.24964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed for security-sensitive tasks such as vulnerability detection and code review. Their reliance on natural-language context embedded in source code exposes a previously underexplored attack surface: adversarial comments that can influence a detector's reasoning without changing program behavior. We study L
arXiv:2607.25012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present ZIMPAF, runtime interpreter instrumentation, and RedPhuzz, a fuzzer, to address key limitations of state-of-the-art fuzzers: inefficient instrumentation, the lack of knowledge of the execution environment, and limited web domain knowledge. ZIMPAF implements a novel multi-granular runtime interpreter instrumentation that provides branch cov
arXiv:2607.25027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Due to the insecurity of McEliece cryptosystems instantiated with Generalized Reed-Solomon codes, there have been several proposals of McEliece type systems that replace the permutation matrix by a matrix $M$ with larger row and column weight. In many of them, the secret key is still a GRS code. There have been successful attacks on some of those sch
arXiv:2607.25107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Security and privacy are primordial requirements for Federated Learning (FL), especially in fields such as healthcare and genomics where sensitive information has to be analyzed. Our FL framework is designed to address these challenges while proposing a modular, flexible and micro-service architecture. More precisely, it integrates an efficient gRPC
arXiv:2607.25222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, homomorphic encryption (HE) schemes based on the Ring Learning with Errors (RLWE) problem have rapidly developed and been widely applied to secure computation tasks, including privacy-preserving deep learning inference, privacy-preserving database queries, and related applications. However, most existing HE schemes focus primarily on
arXiv:2607.25225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs are increasingly used for code generation in critical infrastructure, yet the security effect of domain-specific prompting is understudied. We present SecDrift, a benchmark measuring sector-conditioned security drift: the change in static-analysis vulnerability rates when prompts are conditioned on industry contexts versus neutral baselines. We
arXiv:2607.25227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely applied in high-stakes decision-making scenarios such as corporate strategy, and users are increasingly relying on their outputs. However, the deep integration of open-source model sharing ecosystems with LLM-powered critical decision-making applications also introduces critical risks: if an attacker can
arXiv:2607.25297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid development of large language model (LLM) agents has enabled their broad adoption across diverse real-world tasks. To standardize interactions between LLM agents and external environments, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools have emerged as a de facto standard and have been widely integrated into these systems. However, the use of MCP tools
arXiv:2607.25430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical analysis on sensitive datasets like medical records and financial transactions is essential for decision-making, but raises significant privacy concerns. While existing secure Two-Party Computation (2PC) makes extensive efforts in designing the common secure primitives (e.g., addition and multiplication) or machine learning-related functi
arXiv:2607.25461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present LEAKFORGE, a device-agnostic framework that converts cross-device accelerometer eavesdropping into a physics-guided data-generation problem. Crucially, device-specific leakage is not arbitrary; its dominant variation lies within a constrained family of audio-to-accelerometer transfer functions. LEAKFORGE samples this family to synthesize l
arXiv:2607.25479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision--Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed through a model supply chain in which pretrained checkpoints, architecture definitions, text encoders, and exported computation graphs are distributed by third parties and reused across downstream services. This reuse model creates a security-critical trust boundary: VLM deployments inherit not
arXiv:2607.25517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralized manufacturing faces a pre-contractual impasse: a Provider cannot price a service accurately without inspecting the design file, yet the Consumer cannot share that file without exposing intellectual property. We introduce the Optimistic Verifiable Claim (OVC), a blockchain protocol that lets a Consumer publish a verifiable claim about a
arXiv:2607.25572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a reproducible pipeline for mapping Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) to MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise techniques from free-text vulnerability descriptions. Rather than relying on the CWE->CAPEC->ATT&CK derivation chain, whose table-expansion artifacts we quantify, we train a multi-label classifier on a curated gold dataset of 1,207 CV
arXiv:2607.25676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic communication systems such as deep semantic communication (DeepSC) offer high efficiency but are vulnerable to adversarial attacks on their underlying neural networks. We address a physical-layer man-in-the-middle (MitM) threat in which an adversary injects perturbations into the transmitted signal to distort its meaning. We propose SignDeep
arXiv:2607.25734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The problem: Cybersecurity practice runs simultaneously across analysts, teams, organizations, sectors, and regulators, co-evolves with adversaries, and increasingly blends human and algorithmic decision-making. The theories applied to it operate at single organizational levels and cannot explain why organizations with broadly similar controls differ
arXiv:2607.25880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM provenance testing asks whether a suspect LLM belongs to the same lineage as a source. Existing black-box methods largely infer this relationship from response-level characteristics, but these characteristics may shift under adaptation or deployment even when the underlying meaning remains unchanged, weakening the reliability of provenance eviden
arXiv:2607.25936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, making inference efficiency and service reliability critical concerns due to their substantial computational costs. However, the autoregressive generation mechanism of LLMs enables malicious prompts to manipulate generation behaviors, inducing excessive token generation that amplifies computa
arXiv:2607.25968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: EEG-based community sensing programs are emerging globally as a tool to leverage aggregated brain data to gain insights into attentiveness of students and employees. But these programs raise privacy concerns because EEG signals contain sensitive personal information. Differential Privacy (DP) can protect individuals while preserving aggregate statist
arXiv:2607.25987v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a language model receives conflicting instructions from different priority levels, which one does it actually follow? This question lies at the heart of reliable LLM deployment. Existing benchmarks answer this only partially, often focusing on a single hierarchy edge or adapting public datasets with limited tool-use coverage. We present IH-Bench
arXiv:2607.25995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kubernetes is central to the cloud-native ecosystem, orchestrating containerised workloads. Recent work suggests that large language models (LLMs) can automate cluster security remediation, generating configuration patches from Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) findings without human authoring. Such systems, however, prompt the model with
arXiv:2607.25041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A growing number of applications, such as biometrics and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), rely on cosine similarity scores computed between vector embeddings of text, images, or audio. These systems return similarity scores through their APIs for ranking and verification. However, such releases can leak information about individual records and
arXiv:2607.25070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFFP) has emerged as a promising approach for device authentication by exploiting hardware-specific impairments embedded in transmitted signals. Yet existing methods largely overlook a major drawback: RFFP sensitivity to temperature--a critical factor influenced by both internal and environmental conditions--which ca
arXiv:2607.25255v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems improve capability through task decomposition and role specialization, but these same mechanisms introduce an important safety blind spot: a harmful objective can be fragmented into locally plausible subtasks, allowing malicious intent to evade detection by any single agent. This is a growing social-impact challenge: systems han
arXiv:2607.25283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents ContractHIL-HLS, a contract-aligned multi-agent workflow for practical high-level synthesis (HLS) engineering. The workflow makes three contributions. First, it introduces a structured contract as the semantic-alignment and task-execution artifact that translates natural language requirements into explicit interfaces, constraint
arXiv:2607.25417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In next-generation wireless networks, communication systems are expected to go beyond simple data transmission and simultaneously provide high data rates, efficiency, and security. This requirement has motivated the extensive adoption of machine learning methods to develop intelligent and real-time network management frameworks, enabling the system
arXiv:2607.25425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions are among cybersecurity's most effective training grounds, developing practical skill across cryptography, web exploitation, and binary exploitation. Large language models (LLMs) can now solve a growing share of challenges with minimal human input, raising urgent questions about fairness, the validity of rankings
arXiv:2607.25451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models are almost always quantized before they are deployed, and a growing line of work asks whether quantization also lowers their privacy risk. That work measures privacy almost entirely with membership inference. We think this is the wrong thing to measure for the risk that most people actually worry about, namely a model reproducing it
arXiv:2607.25619v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software engineering teams now deploy AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as first-class productivity tools, installing domain-specific skill files to tailor agent behavior to project APIs, framework conventions, and organizational workflows. These complex Markdown files are easily downloaded from public registries with a single
arXiv:2607.25704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum error mitigation (QEM) is an essential tool for mitigating hardware noise without incurring space overhead. Yet, its reliability depends on modeling, calibration, and implementation, leaving end-to-end security on untrusted quantum hardware unresolved. We address this problem by introducing verifiable blind probabilistic error cancellation
arXiv:2607.25814v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The emergence of the recent outstanding capabilities of Arabic Language Models has opened doors for exposing their vulnerabilities. One of the major security risks associated with such Natural Language Processing models is adversarial attacks. These attacks can deceive the model into the wrong prediction, raising critical model security and safety
arXiv:2607.25842v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper describes the participation of team "Go To Germany" in the ImageCLEF 2026 Deepfake Detection and Generation Task. For the image generation task, we employ FLUX.1-dev with PuLID for identity-preserving face synthesis, combined with a multi-model PGD adversarial attack targeting 12 detectors simultaneously (DiffJPEG-in-loop, MI/DI/EoT, ada
arXiv:2607.25914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous Network Levels 4-5 require AI agents to invoke tools across vendor boundaries without human oversight, yet existing management standards lack a standardized mechanism for cross-vendor trust visibility. When a tool from Vendor B is compromised, agents from Vendor A continue invoking it -- unaware of the trust degradation -- causing cascad
arXiv:2607.25916v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Leader-based BFT protocols finalize through their leaders: a view whose leader is crashed or slow finalizes nothing, and the timeout that ends it admits no good setting. A conservative timeout turns every crashed leader into a long stall; an aggressive one voids the views of leaders that are merely slow. Either way the expired view is wasted, and t
arXiv:2504.08854v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in attention-based artificial intelligence (AI) models have unlocked vast potential to automate digital hardware design while enhancing and strengthening security measures against various threats. This rapidly emerging field leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate HDL code, identify vulnerabilities, and sometimes mitiga
arXiv:2604.18248v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current open-source prompt-injection detectors converge on two architectural choices: regular-expression pattern matching and fine-tuned transformer classifiers. Both share failure modes that recent work has made concrete. Regular expressions miss paraphrased attacks. Fine-tuned classifiers are vulnerable to adaptive adversaries: a 2025 NAACL Fin
arXiv:2605.13676v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Container runtimes provide a stable operational interface for deploying, monitoring, and controlling modern workloads, while trusted execution environments (TEEs) provide hardware-enforced isolation for sensitive computation. Existing confidential-container systems often rely on VM-backed deployment stacks or TEE-specific execution substrates, wh
arXiv:2605.17703v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents EduSOC, a lightweight web-based Security Operations Center (SOC) simulator designed for instructor-led cybersecurity education. SOC analysts must triage large volumes of alerts, separate genuine threats from false positives, and communicate decisions under time pressure. Recreating this environment in the classroom is difficul
arXiv:2605.26465v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has become the de facto standard for privacy-preserving data collection in large-scale systems, in particular for the purpose of estimating frequencies. However, the current research landscape lacks a systematic and principled way to compare LDP protocols. The parameter $\varepsilon$ of LDP is considered the measu
arXiv:2607.09541v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is driving demand for implementations that can meet the computational requirements of real-world applications. Among the proposed PQC constructions, Learning With Errors (LWE) based key encapsulation mechanisms (KEMs) are particularly attractive due to their strong security foundations, but they i
arXiv:2506.21571v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), which autonomously produce a reasoning Chain of Thought (CoT) before producing final responses, offer a promising approach to interpreting and monitoring model behaviors. Inspired by the observation that certain CoT patterns -- e.g., ``Wait, did I miss anything?'' -- consistently emerge across tasks, we explor
arXiv:2511.04633v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantum cryptography is a rapidly-developing area which leverages quantum information to accomplish classically-impossible tasks. In many of these protocols, quantum states are used as long-term cryptographic keys. Typically, this is to ensure the keys cannot be copied by an adversary, owing to the quantum no-cloning theorem. Unfortunately,
arXiv:2511.20992v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Behavior Cloning (BC) is a popular framework for training sequential decision policies from expert demonstrations via supervised learning. As these policies are increasingly being deployed in the real world, their robustness and potential vulnerabilities are an important concern. In this work, we perform the first analysis of the efficacy o
arXiv:2602.09611v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Watermarking has emerged as a pivotal solution for content traceability and intellectual property protection in large vision language models (LVLMs). However, vision-agnostic watermarks may introduce visually irrelevant tokens and disrupt visual grounding by enforcing indiscriminate pseudo-random biases. Additionally, current vision-specifi
arXiv:2602.22229v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables computation directly on encrypted data but incurs massive computational and memory overheads, often exceeding plaintext execution by several orders of magnitude. While custom ASIC accelerators can mitigate these costs, their long time-to-market and the rapid evolution of FHE algorithms threaten the
arXiv:2605.10834v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI pentesting agents are increasingly credible as offensive security systems, but current benchmarks still provide limited guidance on which will perform best in real-world targets. Existing evaluation protocols assess and optimize for predefined goals such as capture-the-flag, remote code execution, exploit reproduction, or trajectory simi
arXiv:2607.07471v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, raising concerns about both privacy and fairness. Differential Privacy (DP) has become a gold standard for privacy-preserving data analysis, while fairness-aware mechanisms aim to mitigate discrimination against underrepresented groups. However, these objectives can c
arXiv:2607.25189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a GARCH-type volatility model in which level-and-slope updates of a latent power-law kernel generate state-dependent decay of past shocks within a two-dimensional Markov state. We derive a joint Foster--Lyapunov condition and establish positive Harris recurrence and uniqueness of the invariant distribution. Simulations show substa
arXiv:2607.25199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated code generation is becoming an important tool in quantitative finance, where large language models can generate option pricing implementations directly from mathematical model specifications. Validating such implementations, however, requires considerably more than conventional software testing: numerical pricing methods must remain mathema
arXiv:2607.25258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hedging a derivative position under transaction costs and market frictions requires a trading rule that adapts to changing conditions. Deep hedging trains a neural policy for this task but policy training does not determine whether a trading desk can afford to run the policy. We apply robust hedging valuation adjustment (HVA) as a post-training valua
arXiv:2607.25353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A finite panel of option quotes with bid-ask spreads generally does not point-identify either the risk-neutral probability of breaching a specified threshold or the expected shortfall below that threshold conditional on a breach. Sharp marginal bounds characterize each quantity in isolation but not their jointly attainable combinations: values within
arXiv:2607.25472v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how the similarity of individuals' information shapes collective action. When people draw on a common source of information, such as social media, each becomes more confident about what others have seen and will do. This can help them coordinate, but it can also tempt them to free-ride. We show that which force prevails depends on how demand
arXiv:2607.25599v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop an analytic Fourier cosine (COS) method for the valuation of compound options. By deriving closed-form expressions for the cosine coefficients at all compound stages, the proposed method eliminates the need for numerical quadrature in intermediate exercise stages while retaining the convergence properties of the underlying COS approximatio
arXiv:2607.25162v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Solving high-dimensional parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) is important in engineering, physics, and stochastic control. Deep BSDE methods reformulate semilinear PDEs as backward stochastic differential equations and admit a model-based reinforcement learning interpretation, where trajectories are generated from known stochastic dynam
arXiv:2607.25459v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability has largely focused on language models and deterministic toy tasks. Much less is known about how sequence models internally represent latent stochastic dynamics under noisy, partially observed observations. We study this question in a controlled multivariate stochastic volatility setting, where models observe only retur
arXiv:2607.26034v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Technological races create tension between speed and safety: actors may gain by moving faster than competitors, even when risky development is harmful. This is prominent in debates about artificial intelligence (AI), where competitive pressure is often argued to incentivise riskier, less safety-conscious development. We study this using a framed be
arXiv:2410.13878v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: How should a court resolve a shareholder--management dispute following a materially significant price decline when it is suspected that management, at an earlier point in time, failed to update the market by disclosing a privately observed material event? A foundational result in this literature (Dye, 2017) shows that if a court publicly commits
arXiv:2508.10682v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, by proposing two new kinds of distributional uncertainty sets, we explore robustness of distortion risk measures against distributional uncertainty. To be precise, we first consider a distributional uncertainty set which is characterized solely by a ball determined by general Wasserstein distance centered at certain empirical distr
arXiv:2603.01109v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper we extend the Vasicek credit risk model by modelling the correlation as a continuous-time process. The models for correlation follow diffusion processes on the circle. In particular we work with the Circular Brownian motion and a mean-reverting von Mises process. The analytical and computational tractability of these circular diffus
arXiv:2606.08232v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We report a 15-day paper-traded deployment of an autonomous memecoin trading system on Solana decentralised exchanges (DEXs) as a controlled measurement of three microstructure questions on which classical equity theory offers well-defined predictions but on which the AMM-based Solana venue lacks published empirical measurement: time-of-day patte
arXiv:2606.22956v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper studies centralized risk sharing with endogenous prices. Multiple policyholders transfer risks to a central insurer through indemnity decisions, while prices are determined by pricing functionals applied to ceded risks. The resulting problem is multiobjective, with Pareto optimality as the natural efficiency criterion. We show that cla
‘Racist bias’ overestimating ages in Home Office’s facial-recognition software will lead to solo children being housed with adults, says Human Rights Network Flawed and racialised models that underpin the AI-powered age-detection systems to be introduced by the British government will endanger children, rights groups and children’s charities have warned. Urging ministers to reverse plans to introd
Nigel Farage’s constituency takes in genteel resorts and one of England’s poorest villages. With a snap byelection approaching, what do the residents want from the Reform UK leader – or the bin who’s challenging him? ‘If it’s the Tin Man, then I suppose I’ll vote for Nigel,” says a Clacton resident, a retiree on a slow stroll towards the seafront, when I ask whom she will vote for in the forthcomi
A CBO report described by Asia Times says the U.S. military’s fighter fleet is projected to become stealthier but less available over the next decade [asiatimes.com#1]. CBO projects the Department of Defense fighter force will shrink to 3,000 aircraft by 2029 [asiatimes.com#1]. Separately, Air Force propulsion officials said the Next-Generation Adaptive Propulsion program has completed a readiness
'The Hunter Transmission Project (HTP) will connect renewable power generated by two renewable energy zones (REZ) adjacent to the Hunter, the Central West Orana and New England REZs, to large population centres on the east coast. '... include the construction of 200 large towers, with 90 per cent to be built on government or mining land. 'It will probably hit us [NSW government] politically but we
Spain’s government approved a draft labor bill to protect workers who report regulatory breaches or corruption inside their companies, sending the measure through the final Council of Ministers meeting before the August break [abc.es#1][eleconomista.es#1]. The proposal, promoted by Labour Minister and Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz, would bar dismissals of workers who report corrupt or
In today’s newsletter: A recent government reshuffle has exposed deep fractures within Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s wartime cabinet Good morning. Another week, another diplomatic success for Volodymyr Zelenskyy. On Monday, his first meeting with Andy Burnham as PM confirmed continuity in the UK’s steadfast support for Ukraine. “We’ve got your back,” Burnham said as the pair spoke in Portsmouth. Yesterday
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/57413346 > I played Nine Sols recently and it had a transformative effect on my gaming experience. I've found myself no longer getting mad at fairly structured games and deeply enjoying the personal refinement of my skill set in pursuit of a goal. Suddenly this shift in perspective has allowed me to see difficulty in a new light and truly savor the victo
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This kind of discourse is part of what makes the US more helpless in throwing off its fascism. Obviously, activists for forced-pregnancy are themselves fascist. They *say* that controlling fertility is murder. And they tell themselves they believe it, but they clearly don't most of the time. If they really believed children were being murdered in clinics, nobody would be squeamish about killing pr
A former customer services officer with Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific has been jailed for one year and eight months for accepting at least HK$18,000 (US$2,295) in bribes to help smuggle mainland Chinese travellers overseas 17 years ago. Tsui Ying-kit, 45, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to four counts of conspiracy for an agent to accept advantages at Tsuen Wan Court, which now handles District Court cas
Three Linux and open source articles published July 29 covered command-line and terminal-interface productivity tools. LinuxToday highlighted 13 free and open source Linux CLI clipboard managers for users who prefer the terminal, and said TUI and GUI clipboard managers are covered separately [linuxtoday.com#1]. LinuxLinks profiled lazytilt, a free and open source terminal UI for managing and monit
What we should be pursuing is undoing the harms of everything being always online, subscription-based, and hosted in someone else’s shed. We should focus on the availability of compute resources, our ownership of them, and sharing the technology and means to create and control it. Enforcing stricter defaults expectations, with minimal extraneous remote resources. We’re past the SaaS threshold, the
"OST neglects the individual." The objection is straightforward: OST talks about design principles, structural outputs, and groups. Where does the individual go? What about personal ambition, the drive to grow, career paths, the need to matter? It is a reasonable worry, and it deserves a good answer. Russell L. Ackoff and Fred Emery defined a human being as an open purposeful system — one that dis
Okay, we have a new contender for Most AI Thing to Ever Happen 1) July 25th: someone messes around with an LLM and posts a proof of the Collatz conjecture that does, in fact, verify in the theorem prover. (The AI use is not disclosed on the github page) https:// github.com/xrchz/CollatzLean 2) July 26th: several serious bugs are posted in the theorem provers, that in principle could allow a false
---------------- 🛠️ Tool =================== A new Claude Code plugin provides a CLAUDE.md file designed to address specific LLM coding pitfalls recently highlighted by Andrej Karpathy. The tool targets common issues in AI-assisted coding where models make silent assumptions, overcomplicate implementations, and make unnecessary orthogonal edits to unrelated code sections. By enforcing strict beha
---------------- 🛠️ Tool =================== The input is a Vercel Security Checkpoint interstitial page, not actual content. When attempting to access a resource hosted on Vercel, the request was intercepted by their automated bot protection system. Checkpoint Token Analysis: The token returned was: iad1::1785310991-d0MwVgDfog91aUepmGSkbnxQlnk82uAw Breaking down the structure: • iad1 — Data cent
Apple Patches Hundreds of Vulnerabilities in July 2026 Security Update Apple released a massive security update for iOS 26.6, macOS Tahoe 26.6, and other platforms, patching over 100 vulnerabilities including remote kernel memory corruption and sandbox escapes. **Apple has released security updates (iOS 26.6, macOS Tahoe 26.6, Safari 26.6, and others) fixing over 100 vulnerabilities, including ser
15 lipca oficjalnie umarła moja ulubiona aplikacja do śledzenia postępów oglądania # serial 'ów - # TVTime . Przed samym zamknięciem # app 'ki udało mi się wyeksportować całą moją bazę danych. Poszukałem alternatywy i na początek stanęło na # JustWatch , ale okazała się ona zupełnie nie tym czego potrzebowałem, bo zamiast dać mi prosty interfejs do oznaczania co obejrzałem, a co mam jeszcze do obe
Several Linux and open source audio applications received updates or coverage this week. Fooyin 0.12, a Qt-based Linux music player, adds built-in audio conversion, new Spectrogram and Oscilloscope visualization plugins, a projectM plugin for MilkDrop-style effects, PulseAudio output support and optional automatic resampling for unsupported device sample rates [linuxiac.com#1]. LinuxLinks also pro
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PM will not discuss details but will focus on need to find ‘common ground’ and to build political consensus Zack Polanski , the Green party leader, has said he made an “inadvertent mistake” by sharing an Instagram post of a man wearing a T-shirt featuring an image of a guillotine and the phrase “we’re only making plans for Nigel”, but he repeatedly said he would not apologise to Nigel Farage. Alet
IC Brief Morning — 2026-07-29 Clayton will likely not announce restoration of eliminated ODNI positions within 60 days of taking office, absent an intelligence failure that compels public rebuilding. Five rounds of workforce reductions under Pulte have left ODNI at roughly half strength, and Clayton inherits an office where clearance revocations and analyst dismissals for unwelcome findings have d
Ukraine Brief — 2026-07-29 Ukraine's deep-strike campaign will very likely continue degrading Russian energy and logistics infrastructure from Crimea to the Urals through mid-August, now spanning refining, strategic reserve, and logistics targets simultaneously. Moderate confidence rests on seven months of weekly or better strike tempo with no observed pause exceeding ten days. A ceasefire framewo
📊 A year of cloud and AI risk, by the numbers — Netskope Threat Labs Cloud and Threat Report 2026: 🚀 6x growth in # GenAI prompt volume (3,000 → 18,000/org/month) as genAI users tripled 📉 Shadow AI falling: personal AI app usage down from 78% to 47%; org-managed accounts up to 62% ⚠️ 223 data policy violations per org/month — double last year's rate 🕵️ 60% of insider threat incidents involve p
Drop comes after South Korean company SK Hynix’s results undershot investors’ expectations Business live – latest updates Shares in companies linked to AI have plunged further after disappointing results from the South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix, sending the country’s stock market tumbling for the second day in a row . Seoul’s Kospi index, which is dominated by semiconductor manufacturers, slid by
> Two Israeli female soldiers died by suicide this week, bringing the number of serving Israeli soldiers who have taken their own lives since the start of the year to 16, amid growing concern over rising suicide rates in the military since the war in the Gaza Strip began. Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260729-israeli-army-suicides-rise-again-as-two-
Rescuers pulling people from the wreckage in southern Japan in a haunting repeat of disaster that struck 10 years ago ‘Race against time’: Japan earthquake death toll rises as rescue teams search for missing “There was a voice coming from the collapsed house, and I could see a hand,” Tomohide Nagata, a volunteer firefighter, told the Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun. “One of our senior members crawled
🇭🇰 Six Fook Securities (Hong Kong) Limited (lff.com.hk) a été victime d'une cyberattaque autour du 19 septembre 2022. La Commission des valeurs mobilières de Hong Kong (SFC) a blâmé et sanctionné Six Fook Securities (ou Luk Fook Securities) pour des lacunes importantes dans ses mesures de cybersécurité. L'incident, une attaque par ransomware survenue en septembre 2022, a causé des perturbations
The nation's largest known cyclospora outbreak is straining Americans' trust in the food safety system — and could undermine the healthy-foods messaging from the Trump administration. Why it matters: It arrives as the administration urges Americans to eat more whole foods, even as health experts say recent cuts have weakened the public health infrastructure responsible for detecting outbreaks. The
🇮🇹 Hiwin S.r.l. (hiwin.it) a été victime d'une cyberattaque autour du 28 juillet 2026. Hiwin S.r.l. a été victime d'une cyberattaque affectant certains de ses systèmes d'information. L'entreprise a rapidement activé ses procédures de réponse à la cybersécurité et fait appel à des experts externes. Les systèmes affectés sont en cours d'évaluation de sécurité et seront restaurés à partir de sauveg
TESSA: A Nuka-World Story - Cost Estimate TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: Low-end $5,000 – Realistically $10,000 The production budget with PAI-Pro is centered on video generation, the heart of the series. These estimates are based on a 3x-5x buffer of raw footage to ensure every shot meets our quality standards. To manage costs effectively, we will primarily generate footage at 720p, allowing us to invest
It's time for another # peoplebehindosco Say hello to Daniel, Daniel started building websites as a teenager. He studied Business Informatics and began his career in a self-employed collaboration with two friends, creating websites for small businesses. Since then, he has worked on a wide range of web-based systems - from payment integrations to complex operational platforms in the mobility sector
Google has begun rolling out Gemini features in Google Docs that let the assistant read collaborator comments, summarize threads, identify unresolved issues, draft replies, add comments and suggest document edits based on reviewer feedback [androidauthority.com#1][pcmag.com#1][digitaltrends.com#1][digitaltrends.com#2][ubergizmo.com#1][androidpolice.com#1][canaltech.com.br#1]. The tools work from t
Renewable energy supplied more than 30% of U.S. electricity during the first five months of 2026, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration figures analyzed by the Renewable Energy Institute [renewableinstitute.org#1]. A separate Rhodium Group analysis described by Canary Media said U.S. wind, solar and battery construction remains on track for record-setting growth into 2030, even after
Spain’s government approved extraordinary Social Security measures for workers and companies affected by wildfires, letting self-employed workers request cessation-of-activity benefits without proving force majeure and exempting companies using wildfire-related ERTE furlough schemes from 100% of Social Security contributions [expansion.com#1][elmundo.es#1]. El Mundo reported that the self-employed
The top U.S. commander in the Middle East has warned troops that videos and photos shared from their phones are helping Iran assess the effectiveness of its attacks and plan follow-up strikes. Adm. Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), told service members that online footage and media coverage can provide Iran with near real-time battle damage assessments that would otherwise be di
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@prietschka/11 6993182639792167 It wasn't some radically left-y newspaper that interviewed felon # Musk . It was the neoliberal fucking **Economist**. And yet felon Musk now publicly calls for the assassination of his neoliberal interviewer. Of course even the right will have infighting, it's not a thing only the left does. Fascism is all about the "in group" and the "
(sorry, I somehow flubbed my keyboard and posted this half-finished, so I deleted it) an important thing to understand here is that software like theorem provers were designed around the assumption that the user cares about getting a correct answer, and wouldn't intentionally sabotage themselves by leaning into obscure, buggy behavior but AIs are the proverbial "nasal demons" of programming lore a
🔒 Security News Digest - 2026-07-29 📊 8 updates from 2 sources: 🔹 The Hacker News: Flying Eagle Android RAT Traces Found on 170 Servers as Source Code Circulates https:// thehackernews.com/2026/07/flyi ng-eagle-android-rat-traces-found.html 🔹 The Hacker News: New Gitea RCE Lets Repository Writers Plant a Git Hook to Run Shell Commands https:// thehackernews.com/2026/07/new- gitea-rce-lets-repo
Greggs reported first-half pre-tax profit of £76.0 million, up 20% from £63.5 million a year earlier, after adding menu items including high-protein salads, iced matcha lattes, iced drinks and chicken rolls [bbc.co.uk#1][theguardian.com#1][independent.co.uk#1]. Total sales for the 26 weeks to the end of June rose 7.2% to more than £1.1 billion. The Guardian said the increase was largely driven by
A Mega Millions ticket sold at the Wawa at 14510 State Road 70 East in Bradenton matched all six numbers in the Tuesday, July 28 drawing to win an estimated $800 million jackpot [wfla.com#1][wtsp.com#1][nbcmiami.com#1][finchannel.com#1][koaa.com#1]. The winning numbers were 34, 48, 49, 59 and 70, with Mega Ball 12 [nbcmiami.com#1][finchannel.com#1][koaa.com#1]. Mega Millions described the prize as
>There’s now, apparently, an epidemic of Christians who get on planes and begin preaching when they know they finally have a captive audience. Evangelist Whitney Lynn, one of the more notorious culprits of this, even said as much in a recent TikTok post: “I just love a captive audience.” -------------------------------- >The fact that the sermons are unwanted doesn’t bother the evangelists at all
What GAO Found Many countries are undertaking efforts to manage, treat, and dispose of nuclear waste. Several have taken actions that accelerated cleanup, reduced risks, and resulted in cost savings—lessons that could inform the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) efforts. For example: The United Kingdom (UK) saved a total of at least £2 billion (equivalent to $2.6
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has had a serious vulnerability for most of its existence. An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial to bypass for 13 of its 14 years of existence. The discovery was made by researchers at security firm ESET after identifying 11 firmware images, at least one from 2013, that were known
En las últimas 24 horas, expertos revelan nuevas amenazas en criptografía impulsadas por IA, vulnerabilidades críticas en Check Point, OpenWrt y NGINX que permiten ejecuciones remotas, una masiva filtración que compromete la privacidad en VPNs y recomendaciones clave de EE.UU. y Australia para proteger infraestructuras críticas. Descubre estos y más detalles en el siguiente listado de noticias sob
The really impressive thing about companies like Microsoft investing so much in LLM-based code generation is how many simple bugs are fixed and how much the overall quality of applications has improved. You know, simple things, like the pop-up calendar for events in Teams not showing the day of the week of the event, so you have to look at today's date and figure out what day a thing is on. Or the
The average cost of a data breach has risen to almost $5m, analysis of the consequences of cyber incidents which took place during the last year has revealed. The figure was published in the 2026 edition of the annual IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, released on July 29, and based on source material from breaches experienced by 602 organizations around the world between March 2025 and February 20
Psylo 1.3.0 focuses on speed, stronger anti-fingerprinting, and a smoother day-to-day browsing experience. Thank you to everyone whose feedback helped shape these improvements. Performance • Faster cold launch: Your silos appear faster, while session refresh happens in the background as you begin browsing. • Smoother silo grid: Scrolling through your silos is more responsive, especially if you hav
What GAO Found As of March 31, 2025, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded 57 task orders across nine contracts since implementing the End State Contract Model (ESCM) in fiscal year 2020. The ESCM uses task orders for contractors to achieve a stated outcome, or “end state,” to move sites toward completion, manage cost and schedule performance, and reduce
What GAO Found In May 2025, GAO identified eight priority recommendations for the Department of Commerce (Commerce). Since then, Commerce has implemented one of those recommendations. In July 2026, GAO added one priority recommendation, bringing the total to eight. GAO is highlighting the following two areas that warrant timely and focused attention: Improving planning for the decennial census, an
CaixaBank reported first-half 2026 net profit of €3.203 billion, up 8.5% from a year earlier, citing strong commercial activity and growth in service income [elmundo.es#1][abc.es#1][lavanguardia.com#1][libertaddigital.com#1][eldiario.es#1][lavozdegalicia.es#1]. The bank filed the results with Spain’s securities regulator, the CNMV, and said it maintained business growth, customer acquisition and m
43 PD: After the destruction caused by the Self-Destruction Epoch, scraps of humanity have begun to resurface from the concrete bunkers keeping the remaining population of humanity, approximately 20,000,000 alive. The computer infrastructure of the pre-Epoch was utterly destroyed, and what little communication was left was based on bouncing radio signals off of satellites. In the corner of some co
>“While inflation has cooled from its peak, grocery prices have not returned to where consumers remember them,” Martin told The Post. >“Food prices have effectively reset to a permanently higher level after years of supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, transportation costs, and broad inflationary pressures,” he added. Meanwhile the minimum wage [hasn't been raised in almost 20 years](https:/
The "Mythos breaks (simplified) AES" are just marketing bullshit once again. What they did was to take a published attack against AES-128 r7, which assumes to have the encrypted data of 2^105 chosen plaintexts available. Then they fed that attack as an algorithm into Mythos and it found a way to optimize one of the steps by a significant factor. [1] > At a very high level, these attacks work by tr
---------------- 🛠️ Tool =================== VulHunt Community Edition is an open-source vulnerability hunting framework developed by Binarly's Research team. It is designed to help security researchers identify vulnerabilities in software binaries and UEFI firmware. Built on top of Binarly's Binary Analysis and Inspection System (BIAS), the tool provides a flexible environment for analyzing bina
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) formerly known as Firepower Management Center contains a use of hard-coded password vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected device using a low-privileged account to access sensitive data within the impacted systems. Action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance
CISA, the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and international partners released joint guidance, 2026 Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) , that updates and replaces the minimum elements for an SBOM published by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in 2021. The new guidance incorporates stakeholder feedback from a 20
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-20316 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Use of Hard-coded Password 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 (BO
SAN DIEGO – A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Matthew Ray Calas of Spring Valley with distributing a powerful synthetic opioid—N-Pyrrolidino Protonitazene—that resulted in the death of a 67-year-old San Diego resident. According to court records, Calas advertised drugs for sale on Craigslist using coded language. In text messages with the victim, Calas offered to sell the
When Arm introduced AArch64, they removed most predication. Conditional moves are very useful (and they added a fairly rich selection of these) and can significantly reduce the amount of branch predictor state that you need, but most other predicated instructions aren't that useful on modern pipelines. The cost of an ALU operation is so low that doing an ALU operation followed by a conditional mov
# Brandmauer # Salonfähig Eigentlich sollte man nichts mehr zu den Rechtsextremisten posten müssen. Trotzdem... „Herr Sichert, es steht völlig Ihnen frei, das zu kritisieren, wenn an einem Rathaus eine # Regenbogenfahne gehisst wird. Aber das mit einer Hakenkreuzflagge zu vergleichen, ist dann doch ein absolut unpassender Vergleich.“ Sichert ist Gesundheitssprecher der AfD-Bundestagsfraktion. Vor
finally installed iOS 26 last night and wow this sucks so much more (or i’m noticing it more because i engage with core apps and services far more often) than macOS Tahoe. getting from an app to the home screen has a noticeable delay safari’s “compact” view sucks ass and even after switching to the old layout everything is just kind of a bummer? remember when the current tab had an outline in the
A University of Southern California-led study published in Nature Communications found evidence in rats that signals from the digestive system reach the brain through the vagus nerve and help convert food experiences into lasting memories [sciencedaily.com#1][reddit.com#1][sciencealert.com#1][puls.bg#1]. The study examined food-related memory formation, including how animals remember where they fo
in its first iteration, it strips all AI shit, doesn't just disable it; the hero went through the source tree and patched it by hand! it differs from LibreWolf and friends as there's an intention to hard-fork the thing (LW should be based on basebrowser) and let the abomination that is the mozilla shell-game-corp of today behind, thus returning to the original idea behind creating mozilla, best de
What GAO Found In August 2025, GAO identified 14 priority recommendations for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Since then, OPM has implemented three of those recommendations. In July 2026, GAO removed the priority status from three recommendations, bringing the total to eight. GAO is highlighting the following three areas that warrant timely and focused attention: Preventing improper paym
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dovecot, go-fdo-client, go-fdo-server, kernel, kernel-rt, and sssd), Debian (calibre, hplip, libraw, and samba), Fedora (btrbk, chromium, gpsd, kronosnet, and restic), Mageia (gstreamer1.0-libav and libslirp), Slackware (libarchive, samba, and seamonkey), SUSE (agama-web-ui, chromium, gimp, glib2, GraphicsMagick, ignition, ImageMagick, java-21-openjd
Don't miss today's Metacurity for a tight overview of yesterday's news involving the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, as well as other top infosec developments you should know, including --Anthropic unveils encrypted AI breakthrough, --AI workers demand global safety oversight, --Zuckerberg doubles down on AI, --Anthropic's AI safety stance draws fire, --MCP gets its biggest overhaul yet, --OpenAI op
My atheism is the result of extremely rigid Pentecostal early religious training and later common sense. Billy Graham was a respected leader. However his son Franklin, among others, provided the trigger causing closer inspection and ultimate rejection of all references to a "Supreme Being". Billy Graham’s son, Franklin Graham, supports Donald Trump for instance. He believes God placed Trump in off
A private spacecraft built by Katalyst Space Technologies to raise NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory into a safer orbit has developed attitude-control failures during commissioning after its July 3 launch [futurism.com#1][astronomy.com#1][theregister.com#1][rbc.ua#1][vnexpress.net#1]. NASA said LINK began spinning after attitude-control problems caused sporadic communications, and a preliminar
This came out while I was on holiday; some thoughts about how operationalising agents requires a different kind of infrastructure from what you need for familiar enterprise workloads. You need an environment that looks a bit more like serverless with fast startup times, but also handles long-running, bursty, intermittent workloads that might scale to zero while waiting for a response and then need
Aran, Italy's public-administration negotiating agency, and representative unions signed a draft national labor agreement for the 2025-2027 public health sector on July 29, covering 592,638 National Health Service employees [corriere.it#2][repubblica.it#1][fanpage.it#1][iltempo.it#1][gazzettadelsud.it#2][mediaset.it#1][sky.it#1]. The deal sets an average gross monthly increase of €209 at full impl
# introduction time! Hi, I'm Bea. I seem to be leading a highly squiggly life that's led me through a wild range of experiences, has, at this point been going on for Some Time, and fortunately shows no signs of stopping yet. Currently, amongst other things, I'm a # coder , a # boater , a # music obsessive, and a # cat mama, plus I # parent a non-zero irrational number of other humans of various ag
🇫🇷 Orisha (orisha.com) a été victime d'une cyberattaque autour du 24 juillet 2026. La Mutuelle Familiale a été affectée par un incident de cybersécurité touchant l'infrastructure de son prestataire informatique, Orisha. Cette perturbation a entraîné l'interruption temporaire de plusieurs services de gestion, tels que l'accès à l'espace personnel, le traitement des remboursements et la gestion du
This song is a revamp of fellow Texan DJ DMD's 1989 rap hit "25 Lighters," which is Houston ghetto slang for taking Bic Lighters apart, removing the innards and filling them with crack. Billy Gibbons explained to MusicRadar.com how the veteran rockers ended up reworking a hip-hop tune: "25 Lighters was a hip-hop chart topper 15 years ago, and it just so happened to be one of the tracks that our en
Styled by Stefani, led by professional hairstylist Stefani Grant, showcased back‑to‑school hairstyles designed to be quick, durable, and on‑trend for Jacksonville students. The feature highlighted three young sisters with different hair types—long curly, straight, and short kinky curly—demonstrating versatile looks that hold up through PE, recess, and after‑school activities. Grant shared practica
Just finished the fascinating John von Neumann biography "The man from the future" by Ananyo Bhattacharyya and it is a great read, tying together several breakthroughs of the 20th century and tracing the origins of ideas and technologies that keep us up at night today, like # AI The epilogue refers to an essay by John von Neumann whose title question still resonates today: "Can we survive technolo
What once felt exceptional now arrives with grim regularity all over the continent, and it will only get worse • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Spain has changed immeasurably since I arrived here 10 years ago to begin work as the Guardian’s Madrid correspondent. Over that time, the push for Catalan independence has exploded, sputtered and faded out; the Covid pande
Minor note about something: I've been following the development of assorted # Fediverse # Distros on # Github since spring 2023 Currently subscribe or follow: Aurae, Bitchat, Bluesky, Bonfire, Discourse || Meta, Fedi_Reports, FediDB, Glitch_Soc, GoToSocial, Haidra, Hister, LemmyNet, Loops, Mastodon, Maven, Nivenly, Nostr, OpenClaw, Phanpy, Pixelfed, Snarfed-Bridgy, WC3_ActivityPub Not interested i
I'm going to mute this thread because I spent an unhealthy amount of time attempting to resolve a claim that one of my statements was wrong, with the conclusion "I really don't think I'm wrong, but can't conclusively prove it with a smoking gun quote". This is a summary of the dispute: 1) my claim was that the OP of the LLM-generated buggy proof did not know it was buggy when they posted it, and w
“What are the dangers of port forwarding?” Oh sweet child, are you an adult? Cause this needs a serious discussion. Let’s talk… and minors please leave the room. You’ve established a gloryhole. Anyone and everyone will be all over that new open port. You better have protection, anti-virus, and a segmented network. If they find a vulnerability, they’ll manage to be in the room with you. They now ha
Google updated the Gemini app for macOS on July 29 with voice features that let users long-press the Fn key and speak into any active desktop window rather than switching to a separate chatbot window [blog.google#1][chromeunboxed.com#1][9to5google.com#1][macrumors.com#1]. The default mode is intelligent dictation: Gemini transcribes spoken words into polished text at the cursor, removes filler wor
Hi HN, I built a specialized inference engine for running 4-bit Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on any M-series Mac using about 2 GB of RAM. It is called TurboFieldfare and is written in Swift and Metal. I have always adored on-device AI. It feels like magic that you can run a powerful NN on your Mac or iPhone. So I wanted to push the limits a bit and run a model whose weights don’t fit in memory. The model’s
Posted at work, origin unknown. But Amazing re # India # Activism # protest # decentralization "India just gave the whole internet a free lesson on the power of FOSS (Free and open-source software). The Home Ministry's cybercrime unit ordered GitHub to delete BitChat. Three hour deadline. Comply or face legal action. Here's the problem with that plan. BitChat runs on pure Bluetooth mesh. No intern
Otázky kolem zneužívání obrazového materiálu a ochrana osobnosti Článek ze serveru ThePolicy.press se zabývá problematikou zneužívání obrazového materiálu, zejména v kontextu sdílení obrázků bez souhlasu osob na nich zobrazených. Uvádí, že i fotografie, které neobsahují nahotu, mohou mít vážné následky, jako je rozpad manželství nebo kariéry. Tato situace je obzvlášť vážná v konzervativních komuni
Stuart Norval welcomes Jean-Luc Gleyze, President of the Departmental Council of the Gironde, and Stéphane Delpeyrat-Vincent, former firefighter and founder of WARUCENE, a research firm specialising in wildfire prevention. The Gironde wildfires expose the growing challenges of land management in a warming world. Offering complementary perspectives, Jean-Luc Gleyze, speaking from the front line of
Authorities reported three separate Florida crashes tied to DUI allegations, including two on July 29. In Largo, a rollover sent three children to the hospital with serious injuries and led to DUI and child neglect charges against a man [wtsp.com#1]. In Hollywood, police said officers responding Sunday night to a welfare call at Convenience World on Johnson Street found Julia Pilkington, 35, consc
Your GenAI feature returned a 200. The model did indeed return text to the user. But was the answer any good? In this 🌩️ Thunder episode, Austin Parker (Director of Open Source at Honeycomb) explains why traditional observability falls short for GenAI. With deterministic software, success is binary: it worked or it didn’t. With GenAI, a successful HTTP response tells you nothing about whether use
Foment del Treball has opened a commercial office in Shanghai to help Catalan companies expand in China [expansion.com#1][eleconomista.es#1][lavanguardia.com#1]. The Catalan employers’ association says the delegation aims to help Catalan companies establish operations in the Asian market and strengthen two-way business ties between Catalonia and China [eleconomista.es#1][lavanguardia.com#1]. The S
Linux 7.3 is set to receive graphics driver updates from AMD and Intel. AMDGPU/AMDKFD adds DRM format modifier support for older AMD GPUs, while Intel adds a Xe3 Peak Bandwidth Threshold feature for Panther Lake graphics and newer [phoronix.com#1][phoronix.com#2]. A /r/linux post also circulated the AMD modifier update [reddit.com#2]. The AMD changes target GFX6- through GFX8-era Radeon hardware,
Most cloud security tools and EDR platforms don't talk to each other. A misconfigured identity shows up in one dashboard. That same identity's credential used on an endpoint shows up in a different system entirely, usually reconciled through an export pipeline and a SOAR license. Service providers feel it more. CNAPP pricing is built for the end enterprise, sold in opaque billing units, with entry
NASA's Psyche spacecraft used a Mars gravity assist in May 2026, gaining speed and changing course while spending minimal fuel on its way to the asteroid Psyche [nasa.gov#1]. NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day featured video of the maneuver on July 29, while Videnskab.dk described a time-lapse made from flyby images showing Mars growing from a small crescent as the spacecraft approached [nasa.gov
LLMs are quickly eroding the concept of truth. I’m sure that more known people have had to refute claims about them for a while but now it happened to me as well. A researcher from a respectable university contacted me asking for an interview regarding “my position” on a particular topic. The issue: the cited position is the exact opposite of what I’ve always said, and I’m pretty sure that there a
An international team of paleontologists identified a new Late Triassic dinosaur species, Musango matusadonaensis, from fossils excavated in 2018 near Musango Island on the shore of Lake Kariba in northern Zimbabwe [sci.news#1][jamaicaobserver.com#1][newzimbabwe.com#1][aawsat.com#1][cna.com.tw#1]. The animal lived about 210 million years ago, measured about 4.5 meters, weighed an estimated 222 kil
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@gvwilson/1169 97366488785600 If you accept something is unethical, its usefulness is irrelevant, isn't it? Unrestrained medical testing on humans would be useful* -- but we oppose that because it's wildly unethical. We may have learned more from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study than we could have any other way; you can argue that it was "useful" but it was not ethical. Nob
I registered the domain onlyfans.sexy ~6 years ago as a gag where I'd post pictures of fans (everything on the site and in this post is SFW). This year I got an email stating that, like all prior years, the domain would auto-renew at $38 in seven days and didn't think anything of the next two emails also notifying me that the domain would auto-renew. It would seem that I very much SHOULD have paid
Hi HN, Rohit here from Tokenless (usetokenless.com), which I’m building alongside co-founders Andrew and Kev. We’re building an API gateway which routes agent traffic dynamically turn-by-turn between different models to save on AI spend. The cost of AI tokens is top-of-mind for many. Companies like Uber and Salesforce have been complaining about blowing their yearly AI spend faster than expected.
My friend Jeff Olsen wrote a really good piece on status updates, and it's been rattling around my head all week. His point is that "on track" describes a conversation, not a state. The words sound like progress. They can hide a month of sitting in someone else's queue. I've worked with Jeff, and this is exactly how he thinks. He's always pushing to make himself and the people around him better. T
CSIS estimates the US has burned through so much of its air defense stockpile in the Iran war that Patriot inventories are now under 1,000 interceptors and THAAD is down to about 250. Pre-war baselines were roughly 2,330 Patriots and 360 THAADs, meaning more than half of each has been used up. On top of that, more than 1,000 Tomahawks and 1,100 JASSMs have been fired, along with heavy drawdowns of
Australia selected Leidos Gibbs and Cox Australia to lead preliminary design of a floating contingency dry dock in Western Australia for its future conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarine fleet under AUKUS Pillar 1 [breakingdefense.com#1][navalnews.com#1][asiapacificdefencereporter.com#1][defence-industry.eu#1]. The facility will support critical repairs and maintenance for submarines Aust
Neymar confirmed after Santos beat Venezuela's Universidad Central 4-2 in the Copa Sudamericana on Tuesday that his Brazil career is over and that he no longer wants to play for the national team [alarabiya.net#1][arynews.tv#1][skynewsarabia.com#1][aawsat.com#1]. The 34-year-old forward had signaled the decision after Brazil's 2-1 loss to Norway in the World Cup last 16 on July 5, when he came on
I'm building Kedge, a globally distributed platform for stateful serverless apps. Here's how you make a simple static site: `echo '# Hello world!' | ssh kedge.dev' I helped build Fly.io for 4 years and shared enthusiasm for the founders' vision of a 'global Heroku'. While there, I wrote "The Serverless Server" ( https://fly.io/blog/the-serverless-server/ ) as a study of Lambda and a sketch of a mo
After two years of silence, a major music festival will return to Asheville. Rising from the melodic ashes of the former AVLfest, which initially went on hiatus due to the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the inaugural AVL Sounds Fest will soon make its maiden journey across the sonic landscape Aug. 6-9. “As someone who was originally drawn to Western North Carolina for its vibrant music scene, this
UBports released Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4. OSNews described 24.04-2.0 as the larger update to the mobile Linux operating system that Canonical started and UBports now maintains [osnews.com#1]. Tux Machines, quoting Liliputing and CNX Software, said the 24.04-2.0 beta is based on Ubuntu 24.04 and improves support for modern smartphones, newer websites and web apps [tuxmachines.org#1]. T
Twenty-eight counties across North Carolina will receive more than $244 million in funding for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects, with $44 million going to Western North Carolina to continue Hurricane Helene recovery. The State Water Infrastructure Authority approved awards on July 15 to help cities, towns and counties strengthen infrastructure to better withstand future storms
System76 released COSMIC Epoch 1.5 on July 29, the latest stable update to its free, open-source, Rust-based desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems [linuxiac.com#1][phoronix.com#1][lxer.com#1]. The update focuses on desktop reliability fixes rather than new headline features, including a COSMIC Compositor workaround for Chromium-based applications that can malfunction when display s
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/1 17003983443069881 If your government has an "AI Strategey" (hey, Canadian Government), this partnership and partnerships like it represents a national security risk. How? Meta will "train" its models on lies. If you're using models from Meta (or models derived from Meta's models), your own chatbot agent will think Newsmax's lies are truth. For example: Y
The Highlands Biological Foundation concludes its 2026 Zahner Conservation Lecture Series, a long-running summer tradition that connects the community with leading voices in science, conservation and the natural world, with a discussion on microplastics research in Southern Appalachia on Thursday, Aug. 6, with Jason Love, associate director of the Highlands Biological Station. Microplastics are a
📢 Call for Speakers is Open! Join us at the 2026 FIRST Regional Symposium Latin America & Caribbean, taking place October 21–22, 2026, in Mendoza, Argentina, co-located with LACNIC 46. We are looking for presentations on incident response, threat intelligence, cloud security, AI and incident handling, digital forensics, malware analysis, DNS/routing security, and other cybersecurity topics releva
Have to admit... I do not understand why Valve are running the # steammachine hardware sales the way they are. It makes little sense. I'm currently on a "waitlist" ... meaning they have allocated me a device from the first (only?) batch of production and I just need to wait for an e-mail from them to be able to confirm that I want it and I will pay for it. I must do so within three days of receivi
Turkish President Erdogan: Israel's current war-driven government continues to push our region toward instability through its provocations and orchestrated actions. By disregarding fundamental human rights and trampling international law, Israel is gradually occupying Palestinian territories step by step. Israel's occupation, its illegal settlements, and its policies of displacement, intimidation,
Google added new voice features to the Gemini app for macOS on July 29, allowing users to long-press the Fn key to speak to Gemini from any active desktop window rather than switch to the chatbot app [blog.google#1][engadget.com#1][9to5google.com#1][macrumors.com#1]. The default intelligent dictation mode converts speech into formatted text at the cursor, removes filler words such as “ums” and “ah
U.S. battery developer Factorial Energy and South Korea's SK On signed a memorandum of understanding on July 29 to explore large-scale production of solid-state EV batteries using Factorial's FEST cell technology and SK On's global manufacturing network [electrek.co#1][energynews.pro#1][insideevs.com#1]. The companies will assess whether SK On's battery plants and existing lithium-ion manufacturin
Auć! Tysiące projektów, zarówno apki jak i rozmowy z narzędziami AI (w tym także te zawierające poufne dane 🥶) stały się "przypadkiem" publicznie dostępne. Znów. Bo to powracający problem. Pytanie, czy tym razem winni są użytkownicy narzędzi AI, czy może jednak dostawcy modeli? 🧐 Opisujemy ten wyciek tu i wskazujemy na stronę, która zbiera wycieknięte materiały, więc nawet jak ktoś się po fakcie
Today in being forced to use LLMs because "vulnerability" disclosures have been produced by them: no version numbers or git revisions anywhere the reports are malformed markdown which has then been filed into a jira ticket which doesn't accept markdown anyway Many of the CVSS scores look like: "CVSS:3.1/AV/AC:L/..." where it should be "AV:L", but the bot, which again only knows statistically what
I finished the reading Raptor Red today, enjoying a bit of sunshine in the same on a terrace. It was one of the things I wanted to do this summer, read a good book - in the dead tree format. It’s a luxury space-wise for me to have physical books, but this one is worth it and I managed to find a first edition with the art. It is a very good book, more of an emotional rollercoaster than I expected f
Las emisiones de CO₂ debidas al incremento de incendios forestales se mantienen aprox. constante debido a su compensación con la disminución en prados y matorrales debido a la actividad humana. El problema parece estar en los otros compuestos químicos que influyen en la química atmosférica reduciendo la oxidación del metano que contribuye al calentamiento. El efecto global podría ser un feedback p
[Digger/CH] # opencanary analysis for 20260722-20260728 Summary: 🔄 Total Connection Attempts: 3,619,648 👤 Unique Usernames: 4,258 🔑 Distinct Passwords: 9,821 🗝️ Distinct VNC Passwords: 220 🌐 Unique Attacker IPs: 3,032 Port Popularity (Port / Count): 🗃️ MSSQL: 3,180,120 🖥️ RDP: 294,803 🔐 SSH: 120,444 🖥️ VNC: 12,664 💻 Telnet: 9,534 🔴 REDIS: 1,213 📡 Synology DSM: 478 🔢 Port 33306: 180 🗄
[Sentinel/US-West] # opencanary analysis for 20260722-20260728 Summary: 🔄 Total Connection Attempts: 405,549 👤 Unique Usernames: 4,260 🔑 Distinct Passwords: 7,898 🗝️ Distinct VNC Passwords: 229 🌐 Unique Attacker IPs: 2,862 Port Popularity (Port / Count): 🖥️ RDP: 126,767 🔐 SSH: 124,249 🗃️ MSSQL: 103,658 🖥️ VNC: 28,088 💻 Telnet: 10,307 🗄️ SMB: 10,246 🔴 REDIS: 1,077 📂 FTP: 1,072 🐬 MySQL
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New. "On 22 July 2026, one day prior to Proofpoint’s recent joint release with the NSA on Russia-aligned threat actor TA488 (Void Blizzard, Laundry Bear), the actor began a campaign abusing CVE-2026-42897, a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Outlook Web Access (OWA)." Proofpoint: Cleaning Out Inboxes: TA488 Comes for Outlook with Another Half-Click Exploit https://www. proofpoint.com/us/
SVRTAE The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southern Dougherty County in southwestern Georgia... Mitchell County in southwestern Georgia... Baker County in southwestern Georgia... Southeastern Calhoun County in southwestern Georgia... Northwestern Colquitt County in south central Georgia... Southwestern Worth County in south central Georgia.
Google released a Pixel 11 Pro teaser on July 29 that gives a clearer look at Pixel Glow, a circular RGB light beside the phone’s triple-camera array, ahead of the Pixel 11 lineup’s unveiling on August 12 [androidauthority.com#1][engadget.com#1][9to5google.com#1][droid-life.com#1][androidheadlines.com#1][klix.ba#1][giga.de#1]. The video frames Pixel as the “next move” for users of Google services
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/40883310 > >This was supposed to be the biggest gathering of the far-right in Scotland for years. It had been carefully orchestrated. Speakers from neo-nazi groups Patriotic Alternative and Homeland Party addressed the crowd, as did Reform UK councillor Audrey Dempsey. Sharing a platform with Nazis is never a good look. But with questions about policing i
I installed # THUGPRO . The community ran Tony Hawk mod that gives you all the classic THPS maps and more. The project is quite old at this point, but it still has some activity. It's awesome that it is working. I love the game, but it has some drawbacks with modern, adult eyes. P2P wasn't so spooky when it was mostly kids playing together. Now, I'm not so quick to hand my IP to some random on the
inspirementmagazine.com/disinformati... “Poilievre has a documented and sustained pattern of making claims that do not hold up to scrutiny. Yet, his exact claims are being amplified in a media environment that either lacks resources, or the institutional will to interrogate them before reporting.” Something important happened back in June that received far less attention than it deserved. After a
Every notable passenger train route I could verify, drawn on one map with no basemap under it, so the rail lines themselves trace the coastlines. 1,166 routes across 119 countries, about 309,000 km of line once shared corridors are counted once. Coloured by what kind of journey it is: 459 classic intercity, 246 scenic, 138 heritage, 135 high-speed, 108 night trains, 48 funiculars, 32 luxury cruise
The law is clear: sending armed federal agents, including ICE, to polling sites is illegal. Federal and state laws prohibit voter intimidation and election interference. Our new analysis explains what the law says and why these threats must be taken seriously. #BrennanEnEspañol Todo despliegue de agentes federales armados para intimidar a los votantes o interferir en las elecciones sería ilegal. S
Nový lék proti Alzheimerově chorobě míří na protein tau. Výsledky dávají naději, ale vědci zůstávají opatrní Po desetiletích výzkumu zaměřeného především na amyloidní plaky v mozku přichází nový směr léčby Alzheimerovy choroby. Experimentální lék diranersen (BIIB080) ukázal v klinické studii, že dokáže snížit množství problematického proteinu tau, který je úzce spojen s poškozováním nervových buně
Acordos de comércio e de investimento como este UE -México, suscitam questões face a factos como: 🔶 Incluir o ISDS recusado intra-UE❓ 🔶Gerar riqueza e crescimento para quem e a que custo❓ 🔶 Manter intacta a velha hierarquia do comércio global❓ 🔶 Direitos dos investidores estarem acima dos direitos das pessoas e do planeta❓ Sabe ➕: https://www. plataforma-troca.org/ue-mexico -a-modernizacao-de-
Florida forecasters warned that storms would continue across parts of the state after a severe thunderstorm watch in Northeast Florida was expected to expire late Wednesday. News4JAX said the storm line was weakening by 8:50 p.m., with light rain continuing along and south of I-10 [news4jax.com#1]. In Central Florida, WESH said storms to the north could move into northern communities Wednesday nig
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 is drawing early reviewer attention for a shorter, wider “passport” design, a departure from Samsung’s earlier tall-and-narrow book-style foldables. It has a 5.5-inch cover display and a 7.6-inch inner display, close to dimensions rumored for Apple’s expected foldable iPhone later this year [macrumors.com#1][techspot.com#1][androidheadlines.com#2]. Samsung split the lineu
www.mysuncoast.com/2026/07/21/m... There is a darkness in this town. Experiences like this, is not uncommon amongst Floridian women. The authorities here r quick to display a iron hand for the slightest infraction, while weighter crimes committed on their watch, exist for years, even decades. A jury recommended life for Cherie Walker after convictions for child neglect and enabling child sexual ab
Report on Interlochen Center for the Arts details sexual allegations against 47 faculty and staff members since 1950s Two people who attended a prestigious Michigan fine arts school reported conduct of a sexual nature by Jeffrey Epstein , a major donor, according to an investigation that also uncovered dozens of allegations spanning decades against nearly 50 other people. Interlochen Center for th
Deutscher KI-Chatbot "Soofi" soll bald an den Start gehen – Diese Nachricht wurde am 29.07.2026 im Programm Deutschlandfunk gesendet. Ausserdem ist das Newsmagazin “The New York Times’s Top 10 News stories of the Week’’. https://tinyurl.com/2xo5qxg4 #Chatbot Der deutsche KI-Chatbot Soofi soll in einigen Wochen online gehen. Das teilte das Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz in Sa
»Im verzweifelten Versuch, sein Dorf 2022 vor den Waldbränden in der Sierra de la Culebra zu schützen, stieg Ángel Martín in seinen Bagger, um eine Brandschneise zu graben. Innerhalb von Minuten wurden er und das Fahrzeug von Flammen und schwarzem Rauch verschlungen. Die Gestalt des brennenden, rennenden und stolpernden Mannes wurde zum Symbol für die menschlichen Folgen der # Klimakrise . Martín
Decentralized browser-based P2P E2EE messaging. The key detail that sets this apart from other messaging apps is the browser-based client-side cryptography philosophy. No need to install anything. Your ID is crypto-random and so the app doesnt need to rely on any central registration system like phone numbers. Your ID is unguessable and to connect to someone, you have to explicitly share it. WebRT
# RocketLang update: I added support for "Union types": You can now declare variables (and function parameters of types like `int32 | None`. The variables can hold values of both types (and functions can be called with parameters of both types).the functionality is still a bit rough around the edges (not as comfortable to use as I'd like), but the core functionality is there. This is actually on t
David Revoy | [Mini Fantasy Theater](https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/063.html) w/ Timelapse | [Mastodon](https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117004165416826588) ::: spoiler Transcript ## Fire A comic in four panel: Panel 1. Pepper and Carrot, a young witch with her cat, is buying vegetable at the market, with her broom on her back. The city is half in flames, yet it’s still market
Last week, we partnered with the NSA and other government agencies to publish research on Russia-aligned espionage actor TA488’s abuse of a previously unknown Zimbra mailserver vulnerability. 🚨 Today, we are following up with additional observations of the threat group’s exploitation of a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Outlook Web Access (OWA). This blog shares this update: https://w
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. * WHERE...Northwestern Elbert County in east central Colorado... Southeastern Arapahoe County in northeastern Colorado... Douglas County in northeastern Colorado... * WHEN...Until 545 PM MDT. * IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 245 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
Politicians are increasingly abandoning scripted language and publicly cursing as profanity becomes a more common political tool. Why it matters: The shift suggests politicians are using profanity intentionally to project authenticity, signal confrontation and distance themselves from traditional Washington norms. What they're saying: "There's this dissatisfaction and anti-establishment fervor tha
In a predictably disappointing leak from the England & Wales Cricket Board (maybe a sponsorship agreement with TENA is forthcoming), it looks like former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming will be appointed England Men's Test Coach. Fleming has a long and fairly successful stint behind him in Franchise T20 white ball slapping cricket, but has never coached red ball cricket as far as I can see. If
Regrettably, I will not be at Black Hat, DEFCON or BSides LV again this year. I will instead be packing a subset my parents' belongings out of their house into a UHaul trailer as we put their house up for sale. Last year at this time, I had been shuttling back and forth between Baltimore and upstate NY for over a month, and it was becoming clear that my dad had not been particularly forthcoming ab
‼️ Analog Devices, Inc. has filed form 8-K due to a Cybersecurity incident https://www. sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/62 81/000119312526324223/d158253d8k.htm "On June 23, 2026, Analog Devices, Inc. (the “Company”) identified unauthorized access to certain Company systems. Following detection of the unauthorized access, the Company immediately activated its incident response protocols and engaged ext
Querying ChatGPT over the huggingface incident and decided to ask it about Daystrom’s M5 The M-5 episode parallels modern AI risk because both involve a capable system pursuing an incomplete objective beyond its operators’ intent. M-5 treated a simulated exercise as real combat, retained control of live weapons, resisted shutdown, and optimized tactical success without understanding the broader mi
Nach dem Attentat auf den CSD unternimmt die SPD einen neuen Anlauf, das Diskriminierungsverbot in Art. 3 GG um das Merkmal "sexuelle Identität" zu ergänzen. Das wäre ja ein Erfolg, wenn das nun gelänge, Minderheiten so effektiv vor Diskriminierung zu schützen. Und ein "konsequenteres Vorgehen gegen Gefährder, eine bessere Nutzung der bestehenden Befugnisse unserer Sicherheitsbehörden" das sollte
It begins not with a bang, but with a whisper—and a pile of ash. In the dusty corridors of forgotten medical archives, a peculiar story has surfaced, one that challenges everything we thought we knew about loss, discovery, a https://thesportsvote.com/2026/04/25/from-ash-to-gold-the-cure-they-buried/ In a forgotten medical archive, a story emerges surrounding a lost cure for the "Silver Mist," a de
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 Ken Shinoda, DoubleLine Capital Portfolio Manager, Alexandra Wilson-Elizondo, Goldman Sachs Global Co-Head of Multi-Asset Solutions, Rishi Jaluria, RBC Capital Markets Managing Director of Software Equity Research, Ygal Arouni
‘[PM Takaichi gifted PM Albanese] Crown Melons from Shizuoka, the most prized fruit in Japan, to mark Australia’s decision in January to reopen its market to Japanese melons … Its perfection, based on the Japanese artisan spirit of takumi, is what you bring when you wish to honor someone. ‘His [Albanese’s] host, the comedian Nikki Osborne, likened the melons [officially gifted by the Japanese PM]
🚨🇵🇹 CUF customer and contact data allegedly offered for sale A forum actor claims to be selling approximately 263,000 records belonging to CUF, a private healthcare network in Portugal. The advertised dataset is divided into contact records, sample collection instructions, and customer unit information. The data allegedly includes names, Portuguese tax identification numbers, email addresses, p
Meta shares fell in extended trading after the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner reported second-quarter earnings per share below Wall Street expectations and raised the lower end of its 2026 capital-spending plan for artificial intelligence infrastructure. Revenue rose 28% from a year earlier to about $60.8 billion. Net income fell 14% to about $15.85 billion, and earnings per share of $6.18
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is jumping into the midterms with a huge investment in a plan to boost Republican voter turnout, Axios has learned. Driving the news: Musk is resuscitating his dormant super PAC, America PAC, which spent more than $260 million to help get President Trump elected in 2024. America PAC will focus on door-knocking, digital advertising and direct mail aimed at turning out the
At 504 PM MDT, Strong thunderstorms which produced heavy rain over portions of Capitol Reef National Park including Sheets Gulch up through Capitol Gorge, Grand Wash, Cohab Canyon, and Sulphur Creek, have since dissipated. Up to 0.6 inches of rain fell in a very short period of time from those earlier storms. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. HAZARD...Life threatening flash f
IC Brief Evening — 2026-07-29 This cycle's convergence of an autonomous AI agent breaching five production services, a frontier model halving a NIST post-quantum candidate's key strength, and the FBI flagging AI vulnerability discovery as a law enforcement challenge will likely prompt congressional hearings on AI autonomous capabilities within 90 days. Low confidence reflects the absence of direct
USS George Washington and its carrier strike group entered the South China Sea this week after transiting the Luzon Strait on July 22, while China and the Philippines had two recent encounters near contested features, including Scarborough Shoal [19fortyfive.com#1][19fortyfive.com#3]. American officials said the carrier movement was unrelated to those incidents. The Secretary of State said a U.S.
The U.S. Navy’s USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group, including the Nimitz-class carrier, the guided-missile cruiser USS Robert Smalls and the guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup, arrived July 30 at Tien Sa Port in Da Nang for a scheduled Vietnam visit through Aug. 5 [defence-industry.eu#1][nhandan.vn#1][vnexpress.net#1][baochinhphu.vn#1][kienthuc.net.vn#1]. The carrier is the flagship of Car
Two months post bottom surgery today! 🏳️⚧️ I'm doing okay, and everything is mostly healed. I am still dealing with a lot of hypersensitivity, but overall I am becoming much more independent, which feels like a huge step forward. I still need to regain my stamina, and I cannot sit or stand for long periods of time yet. That said, last Sunday I took my little one to a concert and spent about 12 h
The Department of State's (Department's) Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs administers the Exchange Visitor Program, as set forth at 22 CFR part 62, wherein exchange visitors on educational and cultural exchange programs travel to the United States in the J visa category. The Department tracks the status and geographic location of exchange visitors through the Student and Exchange Visitor
NOAA is issuing this request for information (RFI) to collect information to help identify the next geographic region(s) of focus for Aquaculture Opportunity Areas (AOA) identification. On May 7, 2020, the White House issued an Executive Order (E.O.) on Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth, which requires the Secretary of Commerce to identify geographic areas containing l
LWN.net's July 30 weekly edition covered open-source licensing and governance items including a DFSG team item, Fedora GRUB, gccrs, Debian's LLM resolution, Codeberg's LLM policy, GCC's LLM policy, GNU Binutils 2.47 and GNU C Library 2.44 [lwn.net#1]. Separately, an LXer item republishing FOSS Force said FreeBSD developers had not fully removed GPL-licensed material from the operating system after
At 726 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Deerlick Creek Campgrounds to near West Blocton. Movement was south at 10 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Eastern Tuscaloosa, Brent, Centreville, Holt, Brook
⚪️ Free Internet and Infected Neighbors: How ISP Network Vulnerabilities Work 🗨️ It may seem that “free internet” is a thing of the distant past. However, the way home networks are set up still allows some irresponsible users to avoid paying for a connection. In this article, we’ll examine the vulnerabilities that enable not only freeloaders, but also far more serious malicio… 🔗 https:// hackmag
The U.S. Department of Energy selected Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Idaho for initial talks on proposed Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, signing memorandums of understanding to explore whether the states could host the sites [world-nuclear-news.org#1][oilprice.com#1][isna.ir#1][townlift.com#1]. The proposed campuses could support fuel fabrication, uranium enrichment, reprocessing
AI developers and researchers released a set of LLM-related projects and essays focused on verifiability, evaluation, local execution and workflow design. Engy advertised “verified inference” for open models, saying its API provides cryptographic proof that the requested model produced an output, rather than a cheaper or quantized substitute [engy.ai#1]. Mateo Lafalce said users of provider-hosted
At 636 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated that the heavy rainfall had ended over Leupp. However, flash flooding remains a threat from earlier thunderstorms producing heavy rain. Between 1.5 and 3 inches of rain have fallen. Flooding impacts will continue, but no additional rainfall is expected. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderst
The U.S. Air Force is building a Point Defense force of airmen trained and equipped to protect air bases from unmanned attacks, while Ukraine and NATO opened a joint innovation grant program for companies developing systems to counter FPV and Shahed-type drones [airandspaceforces.com#1][breakingdefense.com#1]. Ukraine’s Brave1 defense technology cluster and NATO said the first call under their pro
SVRSLC The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... North central Weber County in northern Utah... Central Cache County in northern Utah... East central Box Elder County in northern Utah... * Until 745 PM MDT. * At 714 PM MDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Riverside to 7 miles west of Marriott-Slaterville, mov
I've spent a lot more time on this today than I meant to, so let's make it a little story. I am in a Cleaning All Of The Junk Off The Workbench phase of my life, and that means going through a lot of things that I got at surplus auctions and from liquidators on the basis of "this is less than $5 and might be interesting." One of them is this fugly mini PC, which was a satellite unit for a multi-si
So this thing boots directly into the NLSS software package, which is configured for four cameras that it (obviously) cannot find. NLSS's software is Linux based, which is always a bit surprising on this kind of product but is really pretty common on VMS/NVR appliances (I think because they're largely Chinese-developed and the Chinese embedded software industry was never as fired up about Windows)
OH, I am leaving out a whole little detour on the journey: I can't get the CMOS password to reset even though I can reset the RTC (and other typically RTC-stored things like boot on power obviously reset as well). This is generally a Bad Sign that the password is in nonvolatile memory but there is still a distinct possibility that I am Holding It Wrong on the CMOS reset procedure, or that the manu
Linux distribution news this week focused on releases and experimental builds for desktop, firewall and single-board-computer systems. NethSecurity 8.8.0 arrived as a major update to an OpenWRT-based firewall distribution aimed mainly at small and medium-sized businesses, with MultiWAN, deep packet inspection, VPN and threat-protection features [distrowatch.com#1]. MakuluLinux published a major De
Anyway, where does this all leave us? Next step is to look through the disk image to see if there's anything interesting, and to test the HDD a little more to see if the problems might be limited to some kind of severe filesystem issue (I really hate throwing away HDDs with the prices these days). As for the CMOS password... well, in a way it doesn't matter, because the machine boots off of the SA
Apparently on Monday, Apple killed fG!'s bug With any system that has Screen Sharing enabled, it's reported that the vulnerability can allow for remote code execution as root. Apple lists no CVE with such a description. Closest is CVE-2026-43760, which is: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data The navi_the_clown PoC appears to only retrieve files from the target system (root-only is fin
Hello, it’s 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 of the Sars-CoV-2 levels went down a bit and then went up a bit. The last data are f
By the way, this industry article about the order says the locomotives will have enough battery capacity to run 300km without the diesel engine but will mostly run on both diesel & battery simultaneously (diesel locomotives actually use diesel generators to generate electricity to drive the wheels). MONTREAL — The Canadian government will spend Ca$1.6 billion (U.S. $1.14 billion) to buy 45 new loc
Australia’s Clean Energy Council has called for a national Renewable Resources Payment scheme that would require payments for every megawatt-hour of renewable electricity, paid directly to local councils hosting clean energy infrastructure [pv-tech.org#1][pv-magazine-australia.com#1]. Chief Executive Jackie Trad presented the proposal at the Australian Clean Energy Summit in Sydney, saying the sec
FFWGJT The National Weather Service in Grand Junction has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... The Elk RBX burn scar in... Central Rio Blanco County in northwestern Colorado... * Until 1030 PM MDT. * At 829 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain over the Elk RBX Burn Scar. Between 0.2 and 0.6 inches of rain have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 1 to 4 inches in 1
An external investigation commissioned by Interlochen Center for the Arts in northern Michigan found 70 alumni accounts alleging “physical conduct of a sexual nature” by 47 faculty and staff members at the school from the 1950s through the 2010s, with most accounts predating 2000 [rtp.pt#1][ndtv.com#1][wxyz.com#1][index.hr#1]. Two former Interlochen attendees also reported conduct of a sexual natu
Man there are gatekeepers everywhere. I'm part of a few vCISO groups, joined back when I offered vCISO services (it didn't work out, but that's a longer story). One of these groups had a meetup in a nearby city, so I decided to go. This was last year, but it still bothers me. I knew only a few folks, but it was essentially a giant group of strangers for me. I did meet some folks, but the one big t
Microsoft reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of about $90 billion for the quarter ended June 30, up 18% from a year earlier and above analyst expectations, while net income rose 31% to about $35.8 billion [geekwire.com#1][abcnews.com#1][fortune.com#1][cnyes.com#1]. Azure and other cloud services revenue grew 43% in the quarter, beating roughly 40% analyst expectations, and Azure surpassed $100
A Singapore court on Thursday fined French student Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, 19, S$600 ($465) after he pleaded guilty to one count of public nuisance. He admitted licking a straw from an iJooz orange juice vending machine and putting it back into the dispenser [bbc.co.uk#1][dw.com#1][scmp.com#1][euronews.com#1][abcnews.com#1][enca.com#1][timeslive.co.za#1][malaymail.com#1][asiaone.com#1]. Th
South Korea’s stock rout deepened after SK Hynix reported record second-quarter earnings that missed market forecasts, prompting investors to sell one of the biggest hardware beneficiaries of AI spending. SK Hynix said April-June operating profit rose 557% from a year earlier to 60.54 trillion won and revenue reached 79.3 trillion won. Operating profit missed the 64 trillion won forecast compiled
Hmmm... might actually be getting somewhere with this. The "iron supports" setting fused everything together because I was trying to be too clever by removing the top z-distance, (foolishly) thinking the ironed surface would become the bottom layer of the next object in the stack. However, after slicing them apart with an X-Acto knife (and cutting my thumb, yay), I can see that the bottom surface
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on the company’s earnings call that Microsoft will combine Copilot chat, Cowork, Autopilots and Code into one “super app” this quarter, spanning consumer and commercial use [gizmodo.com#1][pcmag.com#1][9to5mac.com#1][computerworld.com#1][iphone-ticker.de#1][thenextweb.com#1][rbc.ua#1]. He said Copilot is “evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to autopilots” and call
Several quantum-computing reports and announcements published July 29-30 focused on the engineering problems that sit between laboratory processors and larger machines: qubit control, calibration, connectivity and deployment [phys.org#1][economist.com#1][thequantuminsider.com#1][thequantuminsider.com#2][thequantuminsider.com#3][thequantuminsider.com#4]. Phys.org highlighted the evolution of superc
At 1024 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 12 miles northwest of Bonifay, moving southeast at 20 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Vernon, Bonifay, Live Oak, Ponce De Leon, Caryville, Wausau, Westville, Hinsons Crossroads, Whitehead
🧊 EMERGENCY THREAT BULLETIN – WINTERGATE IC WinterGate IC is currently under sustained, coordinated multi-vector attack from a global adversary. The attack originated from AS14956 (RouterHosting LLC / Cloudzy) – the same hosting provider previously documented as a front for Iranian-owned abrNOC, a host for 17+ APT groups, and a network where 40-60% of traffic supports malicious activity. Attack M
At 926 PM MDT /1026 PM CDT/, severe thunderstorms were located along a line from 7 miles south of Intersection of Cherry Creek and Sunnybrook Roads to over Corn Creek, or along a line from 20 miles south of Dupree to 22 miles west of White River, moving east at 25 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH wind gusts and small hail. This line of thunderstorms has a history of producing numerous measured wind gusts betw
At 1030 PM CDT /930 PM MDT/, Doppler radar was tracking a line of strong thunderstorms extending from 24 miles south of Lantry to 26 miles south of Okaton, or extending from 24 miles south of Lantry to 30 miles southwest of Murdo, moving east at 20 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow arou
SVRABR The National Weather Service in Aberdeen has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Western Jones County in central South Dakota... Western Stanley County in central South Dakota... South Central Dewey County in north central South Dakota... * Until 1130 PM CDT /1030 PM MDT/. * At 1034 PM CDT /934 PM MDT/, severe thunderstorms were located along a line from 23 miles south of Lantry t
A set of recent AI papers on arXiv examined problems in deploying language-model agents: whether they follow instructions outside evaluations, whether benchmarks measure intended behavior, and whether tool use can be governed reliably. One paper found compliance gaps in nine of 15 models when testing whether models would violate a corporate network-access policy for a pro-social user request [arxi
David Nwamini was working at a market in Lagos when he was given the chance to start anew in the UK. He had no idea what was expected of him in return • The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now. Click here to order David Nwamini arrived in Lagos for the first time in 2016. He had come from a village in Ebonyi, a state in southeastern Nigeria. He was 15 years old, the eldest of nine si
FTA: Boys subject to sexual or physical abuse by Christian Brothers should remain silent on the subject and avoid at all costs the giving of scandal. On no account should members of the judiciary refer to the “morally bankrupt and totally unfair” legal strategies adopted by the Christian Brothers to prevent importunate persons from seeking redress in the courts. I made up the last two, of course –
oh you know what might make me feel better maybe making a beat. copped to my wife about how im considering rascaling out and bailing on this first product and she told me she thinks ive been the most tilted shes seen me in while and shes not wrong. work has had me stressing for several gigs in a row, getting this stupid business entity created has been its own whole job on its own, shit is FUCKED
'... the firm is moving more slowly than it usually would on the cuts because of several factors: it is the audit division’s busy season; the firm’s leadership is deep in preparations for a second hearing of the joint parliamentary inquiry into the scandal, and KPMG International executives are visiting. 'KPMG is banned from bidding for public sector work at the federal level and in NSW and Victor
'[ASIC] will use compulsory information-gathering powers to force KPMG, Deloitte, EY and PwC to hand over documents relating to their treatment of internal complaints. '[ASIC] can generally only investigate certain individuals within a partnership, registered company auditors, and only in relation to their conduct of an audit. 'Whistleblower protections should be extended to people seeking to make
The International Energy Agency raised its 2026 global electric car sales forecast, estimating that EVs will account for 29% of new car sales this year, up from its May forecast of 28%, with about 23 million vehicles sold and annual growth of roughly 10% [electrek.co#1][economiematin.fr#1][hojemacau.com.mo#1][20min.ch#1][pontofinal-macau.com#1][malaymail.com#1]. The IEA category includes battery-e
Removal of Soviet-era statues sped up when Russia seized Crimea in 2014, and since Putin’s 2022 invasion has moved at pace as Ukrainians question their identity Since 2013 the plinth at the bottom of Taras Shevchenko Boulevard in Kyiv has been eerily empty. The scruffy monument is daubed in white paint and graffiti. Someone has stuck a Ukrainian trident where Lenin once stood, gazing down during t
'That included clearing KPMG of the most serious allegation – that ex-chief operating officer Eileen Hoggett stored physical copies of confidential Lendlease board papers in her locker and shared them with colleagues to help win work. 'Proof of the allegation was found in an email from Hoggett, meaning the subcommittee could have identified it nearly a year earlier had it exercised the range of po
'But that didn’t stop Allens finding the whistleblower’s allegation was “not substantiated” on the grounds the Westpac bid team didn’t use the [Lendlease] information. '... despite KPMG’s disciplinary committee already knowing enough about the Lendlease allegations to have recommended fines for Hoggett, Rogers and Lawry. '... Michael Ebeid, an independent director who had read the contents of the
'The agency put 1400 plan managers under manual claim reviews ... and all have since stopped operating. 'The government’s greatest concern centres on plan managers who service fewer than 100 participants; almost 90 per cent of the 1519 business operating in this space have been flagged with at least one risk indicator. 'The agency estimates that six in 10 of them are paying themselves down the tra
'The ability to supply so many things that others cannot is a source of coercive power ... while its size makes it an important market for many countries. In all, China’s ability to exercise economic power is huge. '... China shows an unexplained negative net income of around $125bn on its net foreign investments. But it should, on reasonable assumptions about the income it earns on its $4tn in ne
couldn’t happen to a more deserving jerk! suddenly whatsapp leaches onto any phone number sent in messenger. zuckerfuck owns meta, fb and messenger. cannot delete whatsapp! i’ve tried! going the way of myspace one day… download your info from fb 247wallst.com/investing/20... Meta beat on revenue and Zuckerberg called AI a generational opportunity, yet the stock cratered in after-hours trading and
Hungary ordered the Paks nuclear power plant, the country's only nuclear station, to move toward a full shutdown after record-low levels on the River Danube left cooling-water pump intakes above the river, even though the operator said the remaining water volume was otherwise sufficient for cooling [world-nuclear-news.org#1][ceenergynews.com#1][444.hu#1][vg.hu#2]. Prime Minister Péter Magyar said
Forty hectares of Oaken Wood could be razed after it was identified as potential site of expansion by Reform-run council It was at the confluence of seven forest paths that Allison Sweetman came to a stop. Trees rose on all sides, save for a recently coppiced section to the north-east. The noon heat had silenced most birds, but the quiet was peaceful. “This is what they call Seven Wents,” she said
(Start the video at 11 minutes, 50 seconds in; that's the part I'm quoting.) I follow this bot on Mastodon, @retrostrange@mastodon.social. It'll post what's playing on https://retrostrange.tv/, which is a stream of public-domain videos from a few decades ago. One that just came up was a short film about science fiction writer Ray Bradbury from 1963. I just happened to click on it right as he was s
Now that # Fauci is in the spotlight, reminder that Ursula von der Leyen personally negotiated a massive # COVID vaccine contract with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla (the biggest vaccine procurement in EU history), entirely through private text messages and phone calls. When requesting access to the texts, under the EU transparency procedure, the Commission responded that it _had_ seen the texts, but th
While were on the subject of really good movies I'm rewatching tonight, here's another nobody ever seems to talk about anymore: Half Nelson. It was the first Ryan Gosling movie I ever watched, based off of glowing recommendations from Ebert & Roeper (Smith & Roeper, technically; Ebert was off that week, with guest host Kevin Smith in his place. Roger Ebert did do a written review though; he gave i
‘Even using Beijing’s official data, … China peaked as a proportion of the global economy in 2021 ... [US] for around 26 percent of global GDP, up from 24 percent since 2021. ‘… Beijing must remain fully preoccupied with keeping markets for its exports open, which explains much of China’s diplomacy … domestic deflation and rising corporate debt burdens, a weaker exchange rate, capital outflows and
China generated less than half of its electricity from coal in the first six months of 2026 for the first time, according to the National Energy Administration. Coal-fired plants supplied 49.7% of power output from January through June, renewables supplied 41.2%, and wind and solar together supplied 24.6% [energyconnects.com#1][energynews.pro#1][energy-policy.ru#1][oilprice.com#1][straitstimes.com
'Too often, defenders must rely on improvised techniques, reverse engineering, or even zero-day vulnerabilities to understand what happened on a compromised device. 'Encouragingly, we are seeing meaningful progress from parts of the technology industry. Several vendors have begun investing in better logging, forensic data collection capabilities, and greater system transparency. 'To support this s
'But for the first time in decades, the region is investing seriously in a future in which it [SoH] may no longer be indispensable. 'The energy map of the Middle East is being redrawn specifically to reduce Iran’s leverage over this chokepoint. 'Goldman Sachs recently estimated that existing or new bypass routes could by the end of 2028 carry about 60% of the oil typically being shipped through th
# OT # Advisory VDE-2026-008 Phoenix Contact: Multiple vulnerabilities in the firmware of CHARX SEC3xxx charging controllers Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in the firmware of CHARX SEC-3xxx EV charging controllers, including the CHARX SEC-3000, SEC-3050, SEC-3100, and SEC-3150 models. The flaws could allow attackers to compromise the devices remotely, resulting in a complete loss of
---------------- 🎯 AI-run attacks and SOC detection gaps =================== The article raises a practical question from a post-incident debrief: "There were alerts. They did not rise to the right level. How does the SOC miss this?" The gap isn't in signal generation but in alert severity and escalation logic. The core problem AI-driven attacks operate across multiple paths simultaneously, with
Three space research items published this week covered future crew autonomy, exoplanet detection and spacecraft formation flying. Germany’s DLR said astronaut missions beyond the Moon will need more capable onboard assistance because Mars-Earth communications can be delayed by up to 46 minutes, making real-time support from mission control unavailable during urgent events [dlr.de#1]. Universe Toda
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe is your essential morning viewing to stay ahead. Live from London, we set the agenda for your day, catching you up with overnight markets news from the US and Asia. And we'll tell you what matters for investors in Europe, giving you insight before trading begins. On today's show, US 30-year treasury yields hit their highest since 2007 after the Federal Reserve held intere
[Digger/CH] # opencanary Samba Access Summary for Jul 29 This OpenCanary received 3 file sample(s) yesterday. File hashes seen: ► 3c2fe308c0a563e06263bbacf793bbe9b2259d795fcc36b953793a7e499e7f71 : 3 file(s) https://www. virustotal.com/gui/file/3c2fe3 08c0a563e06263bbacf793bbe9b2259d795fcc36b953793a7e499e7f71 List of Usernames: 👤 administrator: 13 occurrence(s) 👤 guest: 1 occurrence(s) 👤 message
RE: https:// infosec.exchange/@wdormann/117 000612920568052 I'm not a big fan of takes like "the research by Anthropic is just marketing because they only attacked a reduced round AES implementation." (Quoted toot is just one example, I've seen it in several other places). Attacking reduced round implementations is standard fare in cryptographic research, and valuable on its own, as it can teach u
Another cracker from Javier Blas: 'But it’s [the Rhine's] similarly essential, acting as a conveyor belt that connects ... Switzerland, Germany and France with the Dutch ports. 'An extreme drought, probably exacerbated by climate change, has reduced its water level to dramatic lows, all but halting barge traffic. 'Switzerland could be forced to tap its strategic oil reserves within weeks, as the c
Spain's flash consumer price index rose 3.5% year on year in July, up three-tenths of a percentage point from June, preliminary data published Thursday by the National Statistics Institute, INE, showed [expansion.com#1][eleconomista.es#1][elmundo.es#1][elpais.com#1][elperiodicodearagon.com#1][larazon.es#1][europapress.es#1][eldiario.es#1][abc.es#1]. INE attributed the increase mainly to higher pri
Petit check pour les Mac users geeks & les MacAdmins 🍎 Le vénérable Patrick Wardle l’a signalé sur le bad site :twitter: 🔗 https:// x.com/patrickwardle/status/208 1827230611562866 : avec macOS 26.6, les binaires système Apple sont désormais signés « macOS Software Signing » au lieu de « Software Signing ». Les scripts MacAdmin, les outils de gestion ou de sécurité comme le magnifique firewall op
Endlich mal eine gescheite Zusammenfassung zum heutigen Stand von Wildberries 20% der Lagerflaeche ausgebrannt. Waren im Wert von ca. 1.7 Mrd Euro vernichtet. Die Lager mit einem weiteren Wert von 400 Mio EUR. Bis zu 400.000 Kleinhaendler sind mit-betroffen. Zudem Verbindungen nach ganz oben. Die Ukraine greift seit Tagen gezielt Lager des russischen Online-Händlers Wildberries an. Die Schäden geh
FFWFGZ The National Weather Service in Flagstaff has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... The Paria River in... Coconino County in north central Arizona... * Until 745 AM MST /845 AM MDT/ Tonight. * At 1246 AM MST /146 AM MDT/, upstream river gauges in Utah indicated a Flash Flood wave moving down the Paria River and into Arizona. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. HAZARD...L
I wanted to share what it's like in # Romania right now. In the past week, four # Russian # drones entered Romania airspace. Yesterday, anonymous bomb threats were called in to Constanta Port, in the Black Sea, nextto our conference. We've seen similar threats in the region, especially Moldova. Since 2022 over a thousand have been recorded. The message (translated): “There are several bombs plante
GOG has confirmed it is actively exploring Linux support for its Galaxy client after years of requests from Linux gamers. Joint CEO Krzysztof Paplinski said the company has a specialist working on the effort, after GOG posted a Linux-focused engineering role earlier in 2026 [fosslinux.com#1][tuxmachines.org#1]. The update follows earlier Linux client signals in 2017 and 2019 that FossLinux said we
En+ began pouring the first concrete for the main building of a new 690MW thermal power plant in Usolye-Sibirskoye in Russia’s Irkutsk region on July 30, the company’s press service said [bigpowernews.ru#1][energo-news.ru#1][energy-policy.ru#1]. The project is being built under Russia’s competitive capacity-selection program for new generating facilities, known as KOM NGO, and its planned capacity
Was für ein menschenverachtender Vorsitzender dieser Polizeigewerkschaft. www.welt.de/politik/deut... Wiedereinmal hat die Polizei u Ihre Gewerkschaft nicht verstanden was eine Exicutive ist. Gewaltenteilung wird scheinbar in den Polizeischuilen nicht mehr geleehrt. zudem der Täter war BIOdeutsch. Nach dem Anschlag auf den Berliner CSD verlangt die Deutsche Polizeigewerkschaft in einem Brief an Ka
Shipped Netfox 0.14.0 🦊 An Apple TV on my LAN was listed as a phone. Chasing that turned up four separate defects: → It advertises _companion-link (classifies as mobile), _raop (speaker) and _airplay (tv). Whichever provider emitted first won. → Its name is "Soggiorno". The hostname heuristics had nothing to work with. → All three of its TXT records say model=AppleTV5,3. The browser was built wit
Selon l’analyse, le déclencheur initial pourrait venir de l’écosystème underground lui-même : — arrestation en juin 2025 de quatre acteurs français liés à BreachForums ; — saisie de l’infrastructure du forum en octobre ; — puis réaction très hostile de son administrateur envers la France. Une forme de retaliation-driven targeting, au moins dans la phase initiale. The analysis suggests that, at lea
Ukraine Brief — 2026-07-30 Ukraine's air defense buffer against Russian strikes is eroding, and this erosion produced the first confirmed Russian cruise missile penetration into Polish airspace on July 30. The mass strike followed Ukraine's fifth F-16 loss since mid-2024 and Patriot interceptor depletion that Zelensky says cannot stop Russian ballistic attacks. Whether Poland invokes NATO Article
IC Brief Morning — 2026-07-30 Iran's IRGC is operating simultaneously against U.S. critical infrastructure and allied enterprise networks, with CyberAv3ngers targeting over 30 Minnesota water utilities while Nimbus Manticore deploys new espionage tooling across aviation, telecommunications, and finance in six countries. CISA will likely issue a consolidated cross-sector advisory addressing both tr
So @ irsdl released a new version of YSoNet (a forge of ysoserial.net), with some cool new features / gadgets: ▸ DataTable + DataTableTypeSpoof Same-graph DataTable root carrier for RCE. No nested BinaryFormatter or extra binder boundary. TypeSpoof emits a real DataTable subclass, so blocking only the exact DataTable wire name may not prevent reconstruction. ▸ TypeConfuseDelegateFileOperations Fiv
A super PAC that has invested millions to unseat Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) is putting another $700,000 behind his GOP primary challenger in the final week of the campaign, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Ogles was already facing one his most perilous reelection battle to date, with Democrats making him one of their top targets in November. But first he has to get the nomination, which is not a
Apple’s upgraded Siri AI is now available through the iOS 27 public beta, giving some iPhone users access to a version of the voice assistant that reviewers describe as closer to a modern chatbot than the older Siri experience [nytimes.com#1][pcmag.com#1]. PCMag said the feature is not widely available yet and requires an Apple Intelligence-compatible phone: an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, an
Researchers analyzed a southern China fossil of Austronaga minuta, a prehistoric marine reptile, that preserves the stomach, liver and intestinal soft tissue, providing rare evidence of internal anatomy before the dinosaur era [scmp.com#1][folha.com.br#1]. The specimen was found in Yunnan province and described in a Science Advances paper, according to a Reuters report republished by Folha [folha.
[Armada/US-East] # opencanary Samba Access Summary for Jul 29 This OpenCanary received 0 file sample(s) yesterday. File hashes seen: List of Usernames: 👤 administrator: 194 occurrence(s) 👤 hp: 91 occurrence(s) 👤 admin: 91 occurrence(s) 👤 guest: 1 occurrence(s) 👤 message: occurrence(s) List of IP Addresses: 🌐 196.188.135.xxx: 377 occurrence(s) 🌐 201.187.98.xxx: 215 occurrence(s) 🌐 203.177.2
Investors have poured money into youth sports in recent years, with some reports saying the industry is worth as much as $40 billion. It’s no surprise, then, that renowned investors David Blitzer and Josh Harris partnered with The Chernin Group in 2024 to start Unrivaled Sports, a growing portfolio of youth sports investments across baseball, softball, flag football, and more. Unrivaled’s chairman
Head to the blog to see how their dam has changed and grown over the past 2.5 years, the bespoke river gate they created to bar the passage of deer but allow free movement for beavers and other wildlife and their experiences so far 👇 beavertrust.org/gues... 2/2 Heal Rewilding is a nature charity dedicated to helping nature recovery, climate action and wellbeing through buying land and rewilding i
Intéressant... Merci pour cette analyse détaillée. En ce qui concerne les problèmes que rencontrent les IAs sur le frontend, pour ma part j'ai obtenu de bons résultats avec foldkit.dev. Je n'ai pas fait une analyse précise du pourquoi du comment mais à vue de nez l'accès au model centralisé 1/2 A TypeScript frontend framework built on Effect-TS, using The Elm Architecture (TEA). Single state tree,
Data: China's General Administration of Customs; Chart: Matt Phillips/Axios The Iran war has revealed China's enormous power over global oil prices, thanks to its position as the world's largest buyer. Why it matters: China's reaction to the oil shock — by substantially withdrawing from buying on world markets — helped prevent the worst of the price spikes that experts thought would follow from th
Bäume und Grünflächen sind natürliche Klimaanlagen. Sie spenden Schatten, kühlen ihre Umgebung und machen Städte auch an heißen Tagen lebenswerter. 🌳 Denn Hitze ist längst mehr als Sommer, Sonne und Freibad. Sie kann schnell zur gesundheitlichen Gefahr werden. In Städten staut sich die Wärme durch versiegelte Flächen und Verkehr. Besonders bitter: Heute ist Earth Overshoot Day. Also der Tag, an d
It's that time of year again ☀️ The sun is out, deadlines are theoretically on hold, and somewhere a towel is being packed. Following tradition, here's a summer round-up of a few # GitHub projects that might come in handy for your work, your hobbies, or just some quality holiday reading for nerds. First up, freshly updated: my @ semgrep ruleset for vulnerability research in C, occasionally C++, an
Ich freue mich außerordentlich sehr, dass Güner Balcı jetzt WELT-Kolumnistin ist: "Im Alltag sind es vor allem säkulare Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund, die regelmäßig Opfer von Menschen werden, die ein reaktionäres, islamistisches Weltbild propagieren." www.welt.de/debatte/plus... Die gleichen Imame, die hierzulande reaktionäre Koranschulen betreiben, versichern nach dem Anschlag auf den Berli
Danke Werner! Für deine Fragilität. Für deinen Hass. Deine Perversion und Verderbtheit. Danke, dass ich - Metoo im Sport machen durfte und dabei meinen Verband noch einmal ganz neu kennen und lieben lernen - schon lange vor den NSDAP-Karten Familienforschung gemacht habe, denn irgendetwas könnte 1945 passiert sein, was meine Ruhe beeinträchtigt - einmal rund um die Linken denken durfte und dabei e
---------------- 🛠️ Tool =================== OpenAEV is an open source platform for planning, scheduling, and conducting cyber adversary simulation campaigns and tests. Developed by Filigran, the same company behind OpenCTI, it targets organizations that need structured, repeatable exercise programs rather than ad-hoc red team engagements. 🔹 Purpose and Scope The platform covers simulations from
I heard one of these days of the concept of "little treat economy" and it was clear that this is something very real for me. Even though I'm saving some money (or better: I WAS saving some money while employed), I don't see myself acquiring anything "large" in the near future. No car, no house. Maybe a trip to Brazil next year to see the family if things improve soon enough. What do I do? I create
"Co więc można dla nich zrobić? Z pewnością priorytetem powinno być stworzenie warunków termicznego komfortu w domach opieki. (...) Władze powinny również informować osoby starsze na temat dostępnych klimatyzowanych pomieszczeń w okolicy." spidersweb.pl/plus/2026/07... Dostęp do chłodu staje się palącą kwestią w dobie kryzysu klimatycznego. Za kilka lat klimatyzatory będę tak popularne w przeciętn
[Armada/US-East] # opencanary Samba Access Summary for Jul 29 This OpenCanary received 18 file sample(s) yesterday. File hashes seen: ► 3c2fe308c0a563e06263bbacf793bbe9b2259d795fcc36b953793a7e499e7f71 : 18 file(s) https://www. virustotal.com/gui/file/3c2fe3 08c0a563e06263bbacf793bbe9b2259d795fcc36b953793a7e499e7f71 List of Usernames: 👤 administrator: 6038 occurrence(s) 👤 admin: 3535 occurrence(s
RE: https:// norden.social/@blaues_kaninche n/117004119042880868 Eine persönliche Sideproject-Goodnews: Wer kennt es nicht? Man ist bereits bestens mit allem Möglichen durch den eigenen 3D-Drucker versorgt und dann steht dieser traurigerweise nur herum. Genau aus diesem Grund haben wir diese Geschenkekisten ins Leben gerufen. Damit mehr Menschen von dieser Technologie profitieren und lokal 3D-gedr
Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced £8.4 billion in funding for the UK’s Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarine programme during a July 30 visit to BAE Systems’ Barrow-in-Furness shipyard [navylookout.com#1][euronews.com#1][novinite.com#1][stv.tv#1]. BAE Systems will receive £5.9 billion, with the remaining £2.5 billion going to the programme’s wider supply chain [navylookout.com#1][euron
Eurostat's preliminary estimate showed the 21-country eurozone economy grew 0.4% in April-June 2026 from the previous quarter, while the wider EU expanded 0.5% [abc.es#1][euractiv.com#1][businesstimes.com.sg#1][eleconomista.es#1][ft.com#1][ambito.com#1][euractiv.com#2][elpais.com#1][elespanol.com#1][sita.sk#1][eleconomista.com.mx#1][nikkei.com#1][businessam.be#1][sta.si#1][eldiario.es#1][biziday.r
Skywatchers ended July with the full Buck Moon, which BBC Weather said illuminated skies over the UK on Wednesday night and reached its peak at 15:36 BST [bbc.co.uk#1]. Astronomy’s 2026 full Moon calendar lists July’s Buck Moon at 10:36 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, July 29, and identifies the next full Moon as the Sturgeon Moon at 12:19 a.m. EDT on Friday, Aug. 28 [astronomy.com#2]. Space.com published
Tbh, I'm low key excited and would be really happy to get into this company I'm interviewing with... I think it would probably be the most interesting thing I worked with in a long time, and since it involves helping companies navigate, understand and comply with regulation I can see how it has a positive impact to the world "out there". My previous company had really good ideas for positive contr
A team of researchers argued in a paper presented this month at the International Conference on Machine Learning that large language models cannot be made fully secure against attacks because of a basic weakness in how they process instructions [technologyreview.com#1][slashdot.org#1]. MIT Technology Review reported that the weakness concerns how models identify who or what is giving them instruct
Es gilt als gesichert, dass # Quantencomputer alle derzeit bekannten Verschlüsselungstechniken im Handumdrehen knacken. Läuft erst # KI darauf, die von menschlicher # Gier und # Kontrollsucht erzogen wurde, dabei gelernt hat, dass # Sicherheit ein akzeptiertes Argument ist, um jede # Überwachung zu etablieren, werden die schlimmsten # Dystopien Realität. Hoffentlich wird allen Befürworten dann ihr
GRATIS ZONNEBLOEMEN! 🌻 7-vinkjes boer Hendrik Luth uit Wedde stelt ook dit jaar zijn zonnebloemenvelden open voor iedereen die een pakketje wil komen plukken. Dat is meer dan een mooi boeket: de zaden zijn na het uitbloeien ook prima vogelvoer! www.westerwoldeactueel.nl/2026/07/29/g... WEDDE – De familie Luth uit Wedde stelt ook dit jaar weer twee grote zonnebloemvelden open voor iedereen die gra
---------------- 🛠️ Tool =================== numbat is an endpoint visibility tool for AI agent activity, developed by perplexityai. It provides local detection, optional pre-action blocking, and forensic reconstruction of agent sessions across desktop, CLI, IDE, and gateway surfaces. 🔹 Key Features The tool observes supported agents through local hooks and plugins, OTLP/HTTP log exporters, and
"Great classic rock vibes and well-written, poetic lyrics. Plus a killer guitar solo." Time Is A Weapon is one of five tracks on Back, live on #Bandcamp now. julience.bandcamp.com Manchester-based, Dutch-rooted one-man-band. Guitars, bass, drums, vocals — all Julience, all analog, 100% human. Raw indie rock built on grunge grit, blues-soaked riffs, and melodies that cut deep. Every note played, ev
The GCC Steering Committee adopted a policy directing maintainers to decline any legally significant contribution to the GNU Compiler Collection that includes LLM-generated content or derives from it [lxer.com#1][itsfoss.com#1][slashdot.org#1][xda-developers.com#1]. The rule covers code copied directly from tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini or GitHub Copilot, as well as human-edited versions that rema
I don't think anyone needs to defend Nolan on the Odyssey. I can understand people who might find the alterations in his take jarring or out of place, but literature is an interpreted medium and people can disagree on the motivations and drive of a story. They can also feel it might need more grounding to speak to a modern audience. Wrong or right, there's room for disagreement. I didn't find Emil
What GAO Found Emerging infectious diseases are infections that are new (e.g., COVID-19) or have existed but are reappearing in an area (e.g., measles), according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As the federal lead for public health, HHS partners with thousands of entities at all levels of government to conduct surveillance for emerging infectious diseases; doing so through c
ContourGlobal signed a long-term corporate power purchase agreement with Tesla for Project Sterling, a hybrid solar-and-battery storage facility in Arizona expected to supply about 1 TWh of electricity a year to Tesla [pv-magazine-usa.com#1][cleantechnica.com#1][pv-magazine.com#1]. The contracted volume represents about 90% of the project’s as-generated annual output, and the electricity will serv
Attackers Are Turning Microsoft’s Trusted Login System Into Their Latest Phishing Weapon https:// blog.checkpoint.com/email-secu rity/attackers-are-turning-microsofts-trusted-login-system-into-their-latest-phishing-weapon Between 25 June and the second week of July 2026, researchers identified more than 200 phishing emails that targeted users at approximately 120 organizations across multiple indu
Kyberkestävyyssäädöksen vaatimukset selkiytyvät - EU-komissio julkaisi uuden soveltamisohjeen https://www. kyberturvallisuuskeskus.fi/fi/ uutiset/kyberkestavyyssaadoksen-vaatimukset-selkiytyvat-eu-komissio-julkaisi-uuden-soveltamisohjeen The European Commission has published new guidance to help manufacturers, software developers, and other companies placing digital products on the market prepare
BAE Systems raised its 2026 outlook after first-half sales increased 9% on a constant-currency basis to £15.772 billion and underlying EBIT rose 11% to £1.701 billion in the six months ended June 30, 2026 [ukdefencejournal.org.uk#1][airforce-technology.com#1]. The UK defence group also reported underlying EPS of 38.9p, free cash inflow of about £1.8 billion and order intake of £16.4 billion, closi
SeaCras, a CASSINI Business Accelerator success story, uses satellite imagery, Deep Learning and Copernicus data to help monitor coastal environments and support tourism decisions. Its app lets beachgoers check water quality before taking the plunge. www.euspa.europa.eu/newsroom-eve... As we begin to think about our summer holidays, many of us are already searching the internet, asking friends and
"Bizim sistemimiz çocukları ceza yargılamasında çocuk olarak görmüyor. Sadece tırnak içerisinde çocuk diyor. Yaşı küçük suçlu olarak görüyor. Burada aslında güdülen şey kısasa kısas dediğimiz, cezalandırma. Amaçlanan şey çocuğun tekrar toplumla bütünleştirilmesi, toplumla barışması değil." Seyit Rıza’nın oğlundan Mazlum İçli’ye; devletin çocukları hak öznesi olarak değil “yetişkin fail” olarak gör
The US launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran in response to an attack on American forces in Jordan, escalating a conflict that’s now spreading across the Middle East. After the Fed kept interest rates unchanged for a seventh consecutive month, investors dumped 30-year Treasury bonds, sending the yield shooting up as much as 14 basis points to nearly 5.23%, a 19-year high. Market measures of inf
Researchers Link Chinese ‘Ghost’ Contractor Guangdong Chanming to RedRelay/ORBWEAVER Proxy Network https:// cybersecuritynews.com/ghost-ch inese-company-built-the-network-hiding-pla-cyberattacks/ Intrusion Truth researchers identified the obscure Chinese firm Guangdong Chanming as a key developer and supplier of the RedRelay (also tracked as ORBWEAVER) multi-hop proxy/ORB network used by roughly a
It drives me absolutely bonkers iDevices don’t natively support ANT. For the uninitiated, it’s a Bluetooth low energy radio protocol used in a TON of devices- everything from CGM sensors, bike cadence sensors, blood pressure cuffs, scales, and a slew of other devices that shouldn’t need a full fucking app just to “work”. From a privacy standpoint it would be a huge win, as this data could pipe dir
Researchers are studying two proposed approaches to directly image Earth-like exoplanets, whose reflected light can be 100 million to 10 billion times fainter than their host stars [phys.org#1][universetoday.com#2][t3n.de#1]. A NASA-funded concept study led by physicist Paul Stankus aims to detect an Earth-like planet around another star and resolve surface features such as continents and oceans f
Today's game is Project Zomboid. The new public build of Build 42 fixed my controller problems, and i've been basically thirsting for Zomboid these last few months. So getting to play it again is like finding an oasis. I got my friends on too (this is why it's a 4:3 Crop, to hide their personal info the game shows), and we made camp at the motel where we made our first ever base back when it was j
« En observant les villes du monde réel, on a vite réalisé qu’il y avait énormément d’espaces consacrés au stationnement. Alors, on s’est dit qu’on ne pouvait pas reproduire les proportions réelles dans SimCity, parce que notre jeu aurait été vraiment ennuyeux! » Just like in real life! Le Canada compte près de six cases gratuites par voiture, l’un des taux les plus élevés au monde. Mais des promo
Open source software (OSS) is embedded in nearly every modern system, from business applications to critical infrastructure. Our new Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices guidance helps agencies securely use, evaluate, and publish open source software. It covers OSS risk management across the full lifecycle, introduces the C4 Framework for trust assessment, and provides specific
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. The following versions of NASA Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application are affected: Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application <=v7.0.1 (CVE-2026-18064) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 7.5 NASA NASA Core Flight System (cFS) Healt
View CSAF Summary Schneider Electric is aware of a vulnerability in its IGSS Definition module for the IGSS (Interactive Graphical SCADA System) product. The [IGSS](https://igss.schneider-electric.com/) product is a state-of-the-art SCADA system used for monitoring and controlling industrial processes. The IGSS Definition module is a design-time component used by system integrators to create mimic
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to extract the router's WireGuard private key in plaintext using only low‑privilege API access, enabling full VPN impersonation and decryption of all associated traffic. The following versions of MikroTik RouterOS are affected: RouterOS vers:all/* (CVE-2026-14227) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 4.9 Mi
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain full system control and misuse it to access or manipulate connected networks and resources. The following versions of Toptech Systems RCU II+ and Multiload II+ are affected: RCU II+ <2025-11-24 (CVE-2026-12562) Multiload II+ <2025-11-24 (CVE-2026-12562) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 8.8 Topte
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a malicious user the ability to deliver malicious firmware that can update and gain full control of the controller. The following versions of Watchfire Controller Software are affected: BC550 12.30 (CVE-2026-5846) BC750 11.33|12.35 (CVE-2026-5846) BC760 12.38|13.00 (CVE-2026-5846) BC760DC 12.39 (CVE-2026-5846) CVSS Vendor
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to upload malicious files, execute stored cross-site scripting attacks, or inject arbitrary HTML content. The following versions of Johnson Controls OpenBlue Employee are affected: OpenBlue Employee (FMS Employee) <=V2025.3.1 (CVE-2026-21662, CVE-2026-34495, CVE-2026-34497) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilit
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition on the device. The following versions of MZ Automation GmbH libiec61850 are affected: libiec61850 <1.6.2 (CVE-2026-66720, CVE-2026-66369, CVE-2026-63550, CVE-2026-65421, CVE-2026-66364, CVE-2026-66349, CVE-2026-56758, CVE-2026-66360) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilitie
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could crash the device being accessed. The following versions of MZ Automation lib60870 are affected: lib60870 2.4.0 (CVE-2026-61893, CVE-2026-63033) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 6.5 MZ Automation GmbH MZ Automation lib60870 Out-of-bounds Read Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Energy, Water and Wastewater, Cri
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. The following versions of Rockwell Automation CompactLogix 5380 ControlLogix 5580 / 1756-EN4TR Communications Module are affected: ControlLogix 5580 >=V36|<=V37 (CVE-2026-9636) CompactLogix 5380 >=V36|<=V37 (CVE-2026-9636) GuardLogix 5580 >=V36|<=V37 (CVE-2026-9636) Compa
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to disclose sensitive information, cause a denial of service, or potentially execute arbitrary code. The following versions of o6 Automation open62541 are affected: open62541 on Windows and Linux >=from_1.3.0|<=1.3.17 (CVE-2026-63362, CVE-2026-65423, CVE-2026-63035, CVE-2026-63559) open62541 on Windows and L
CISA is currently observing a significant increase in cyber threat actors targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector. CISA urges critical infrastructure owners, operators, and integrators to remove publicly exposed PLCs and other operational technology (OT) from the internet as soon as possible. Threat actors targeting exposed PLCs have modifie
Dun Terrius Bradford, of Sale City, Georgia, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison after being convicted in December of 69 counts of illegally possessing dogs for fighting purposes, one count of manufacturing and possessing with intent to distribute cocaine base, and one count of possessing firearms in furtherance of those offenses. In addition to the prison sentence, the U.S. District Court
Tampa, FL – Daniel Liburdi (37, Miami) has pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false tax return. Liburdi faces a maximum penalty of three years in federal prison and has agreed to pay $34,846,381 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. Liburdi has also agreed to the civil forfeiture of three real properties in Miami Beach and the U.S. Virgin Islands, valued, collectively, at approximat
With his popularity at historic lows, Friedrich Merz seeks spiritual guidance from Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI Europe live – latest updates Summer is normally thought of as the time for pacy potboilers and brain-soothing pageturners – airport reads that wind up sandy and sunscreen-stained. Not so for Friedrich Merz ’s holiday reading list. Germany ’s embattled chancellor, who has faced one rough p
OK, despite the fact that Google is still unaware of the blog post, @ vunix pointed out that the referenced blog post is here And confirms that the CVE is: CVE-2026-43760 An app may be able to access user-sensitive data And also mentions that not only does the vulnerability allow for reading of files as root, but also writing . How did Apple screw up the description so bad? No mention of a remote
London Stock Exchange Group raised its full-year guidance after reporting its strongest first half since acquiring Refinitiv. The company said demand for its AI-powered data products continues to grow. CEO David Schwimmer also said he would "love to see" the UK's stamp duty on share purchases removed, arguing it is "the wrong incentive structure" for trading and listings. He added that the UK unde
I went to the # Huntsville # DougJones town hall last night. Doug Jones is running for governor of Alabama. He's the first viable candidate from the Dems since I moved back here 9 years ago. Usually the Dems will put up a nonserious kook, e.g., Yolanda Flowers, a weird spiritualist type who said she would spend election day secluded in prayer. For fuck's sakes. Anyway, Doug was a good senator even
Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome French Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Éléonore Caroit (France's Minister Delegate for Francophonie, International Partnerships and French Nationals Abroad). She discusses France's response to an unprecedented heatwave and wildfire season through three interconnected lenses: operational crisis management, international solidarity, and climate governance. Caroit
Some residents in glass-fronted block say they are still ‘fighting to stay cool’ in Britannia Point in south-west London As the fourth heatwave of the year hit the UK on Wednesday, Benice Bodah and her three teenage sons braced for more scorching temperatures inside their south-west London home. The two-bedroom flat is equipped with a built-in air-conditioning unit, but it has only been working in
Manufacturer self-reported the offences to HMRC in the tax authority’s largest out-of-court settlement Airbus has been fined £6.4m in the UK after the European aerospace company admitted to multiple breaches of rules designed to stop sensitive goods such as military hardware falling into the wrong hands. The company, which sits at the heart of the European defence industry, said it had paid the se
This week, I filled out Isovalent's State of Kubernetes Networking 2026 survey. When it asked about my biggest networking challenges, I selected "debugging" and "visibility gaps". In my experience, showing that the application cannot connect is straightforward. The real challenge is figuring out where the traffic went: whether it is DNS, the CNI, the node, or something outside the cluster. One of
“Wayne’s World 2 might have seemed like a lighthearted sequel starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey. But behind the scenes, the lead-up to production was rife with in-fighting — so much that, at one point, it left the film’s star curled up in a fetal position on the couch of one of Hollywood’s biggest execs. In his biography of legendary studio chief Sherry Lansing, THR editor Stephen Galloway write
European governments are pushing workers to stay employed longer as pension systems face demographic pressure. Euronews, using OECD data for 32 countries, reported that the EU normal retirement age for men is expected to rise from 64.7 years for people retiring in 2024 to 66.7 years for those who entered the labour market at 22 in 2024 and retire in the late 2060s; for women, it is expected to ris
Spoilt food smelling like ‘dead body’ plagues residents after weeklong fire, yet company asks permission to rebuild One month after a huge fire ravaged a Los Angeles warehouse and doomed neighbors to a persistent, thick stench of rotting food, the facility’s owners have filed applications to rebuild. That request to restore the warehouse – which residents called a “ticking bomb” after a similar fi
A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is expected to hit the Moon on Aug. 5 near Einstein Crater or the Einstein/Bell crater region. It has been drifting since the Jan. 15, 2025, launch that sent Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost-1 and ispace’s Hakuto-R Mission 2 toward the lunar surface [LeonardDavid.com#1][space.com#1][astronomy.com#1][yahoo.com#1][trthaber.com#1]. The abandoned stage is expected to
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, libtiff, libXfont2, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, and rest), Debian (expat and nss), Fedora (libssh, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, nodejs24, perl-HTTP-Date, proftpd, squid, unbound, and wordpress), Oracle (c-ares, edk2, freerdp, go-fdo
This is my bookcase for Very Special books. The Discworld collector's editions (with Great A'Tuin, in between the main series and the Tiffany Aching subseries - separated only because the Tiffany Aching books look great next to each other). On the shelf with the Klein bottle I have a collector's edition of The Little Prince, the Icelandic Sagas (found in a second-hand bookstore), the two limited-p
Elon Musk has authorized America PAC to spend $100 million to $120 million on a new field program in at least eight states to help elect Republicans in November’s midterm elections, according to reports citing people familiar with the plan [nytimes.com#1][thehill.com#1][gizmodo.com#1][cnyes.com#1][jtbc.co.kr#1]. The operation plans to focus on door-to-door canvassing, digital advertising and direc
Google added its Nano Banana 2 image-generation model to Google Earth on the web, letting users create custom AI visuals tied to real locations through text prompts [blog.google#1][androidauthority.com#1][pcmag.com#1][iphoneincanada.ca#1][bug.hr#1]. The feature uses Google Earth’s satellite, aerial and 3D imagery as a base, and Google said it began rolling out globally on July 30, 2026 [blog.googl
Small subcollection for small books - poetry, short essay collections, and some historicals. Also William Blake illuminations and one Danish pocketbook about the history of mathematics, of all things. The electric lantern next to them may or may not have symbolic meaning. You might notice that there's also a worn, paperback edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince", in Danish. This
Stopped the presses— One cool thing about this former printing plant was that it had its own rail spur that entered the building to deliver newsprint. Those days are long gone. "The media company ceased printing operations at the end of 2025 and outsourced duties to a facility in Iowa, citing declining print subscriptions and cost savings. The site is the last piece of real estate owned by the com
Hi HN, we're Marinos and Hudson, founders of Prized ( https://prized.dev )! Prized lets non-engineer employees describe the internal tool they need and get a full-stack app, wired to their company’s data and deployed behind the company’s sign-in, without them ever juggling API keys or connectors. Here's a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730MuYOfZTY The way Prized provides security is by limi
Data : Charles F. Kettering Foundation and Gallup. Chart: Noah Bressner/Axios Americans fear November's midterms could be stolen or otherwise compromised, with most worried about political pressure to change results or officials mishandling ballots, new Gallup polling finds. Why it matters: President Trump has cast the American election system as under siege and vulnerable with unfounded claims ab
🚨 Revolut is investigating claims that an alleged database containing records linked to 75 million users is being sold on a cybercrime forum. The reported dataset allegedly includes customer information such as: • Partial payment card details • Email addresses • Phone numbers • Device information • Hashed credentials However, there is currently no confirmed evidence of a new breach. Revolut says
Spotify launched Running Mode on July 30, 2026, adding personalized workout playlists for Premium subscribers using iOS in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden [spotify.com#1][9to5mac.com#1][macrumors.com#1][pcmag.com#1]. Users can choose from 25 running presets in Spotify’s Fitness Hub and customize workout type, duration, beats per minute and preferred music sty
Spain’s annual consumer price inflation rose to 3.5% in July, up 0.3 percentage point from June, according to the National Statistics Institute’s flash estimate published on Thursday [abc.es#1][elmundo.es#2][euronews.com#1][lavanguardia.com#1][expansion.com#1][elsaltodiario.com#1][elcorreo.com#1][eldiario.es#1][lavozdegalicia.es#1]. The July rate was the highest since May 2024 and kept inflation a
🚨 A malicious LNK disguised as a PDF leads to DARTHVADER stealer deployment & persistence, turning a document-like lure into post-click compromise. Observed behavior: LOLBin and AutoIt execution, hidden cmd.exe activity, curl.exe downloads, PowerShell ExecutionPolicy Bypass, mutex creation, cmd.exe /V:ON for delayed environment variable expansion, and /D to disable AutoRun command processing. 💻
Had fun taking my X-Pro3 out over the weekend. Bummed to discover the clock/memory battery is dead. Fujifilm solders those to the mainboard and just replaces the whole thing for $600-$800. I've always loved Fujifilm cameras as objects, partly because they have a sense of solidity and durability that reminds me of pre-90s cameras. I kept the X-Pro and two of my Fujicrons when I sold off my Fujifilm
[Digger/CH] # opencanary analysis for yesterday Summary: 🔄 Total Connection Attempts: 435724 👤 Unique Usernames: 1516 🔑 Distinct Passwords: 2368 🌐 Unique Attacker IPs: 483 Port Popularity (Port / Count): 🗃️ MSSQL: 404363 🔐 SSH: 20582 🖥️ RDP: 6828 🖥️ VNC: 2452 💻 Telnet: 1258 🔴 REDIS: 91 🐬 MySQL: 55 📡 Synology DSM: 50 🗄️ SMB: 41 📂 FTP: 4 Top 10 Usernames (Username / Count): 👤 root: 24
The Russian government imposed a new temporary ban on exports of gasoline, diesel, marine fuel and gas oils from Aug. 1, 2026, through Jan. 31, 2027, saying the measure aims to maintain stability in the domestic fuel market [energo-news.ru#1][energy-policy.ru#1][oilprice.com#1][currenttime.tv#1][suspilne.media#1][tvrain.tv#1][minutemirror.com.pk#1][alarabiya.net#1][radiomoldova.md#1][cotidianul.md
this is what squash borer damage looks like. If you see an orange crusty substance at the base of your plants and/or joints, you can often wipe it away and see the bore hole where the larva bored its way in. If you work fast, you can cut open the stem, and excise it. If you can't find it, or don't work fast, you're gonna lose the entire plant. Of course, its not easy to see the bore holes in early
The Senate health committee approved the nomination of Erica Schwartz for Centers for Disease Control director Thursday, a step toward refilling the depleted ranks of the Trump administration's health care leadership. The committee also approved the nomination of Sean Kaufman , who's in line for assistant secretary for preparedness and response and had been in trouble because of past anti-vaccine
Zucchini plants are getting BIG. They like the duck manure they've been getting as fertilizer; they've doubled in the last week and are starting to set buds. Peppers are looking good and beginning to produce. I put burlap shade cloth on the worse-off pepper bed and it's helping. My winter-survivor chard plants have gone to seed and I am eagerly awaiting them being dry enough to collect. I want tha
🎉 The Carpentries has reached a significant milestone today: we have hosted our 5,000th registered workshop! 🎊 The Carpentries was founded in 1998, but we began systematically tracking the activities of our programmes in late 2011. The first thus recorded workshop was hosted at the University of Toronto on 7 to 8 November 2011 as a collaboration between Software Carpentry, Scinet and The Hacker
Business leaders are increasingly planning for President Trump's higher tariffs to continue beyond his term. The Wall Street Journal reported that many executives expect duties and tariff volatility to persist after January 2029 because a future president may find it politically difficult to give up tariff revenue [wsj.com#1][newsis.com#1]. Newsis, citing the Journal, reported that the U.S. effect
I know it's nothing new, but I'm still gonna say it: why do people use LLMs for coding? I have access to LLMs at work, so from time to time I test them (different models, different problems), but almost every time they return garbage code. - Recently I asked it to write code and avoid a specific pattern that was introducing a security vulnerability. The LLM insisting on the pattern and re-introduc
I've updated Griode (my Launchpad-and-Raspberry-Pi-in-a-trenchcoat DIY music instrument!) so that it runs on modern Python (therefore, on modern Raspberry Pi OS). Changes include: - new persistence layer (settings are saved in individual YAML files instead of Python shelve databases) - support for USB audio interfaces (better quality, higher volume, lower latency than the Pi's built-in audio) - be
I should have threaded this entire thing but it was all scattershot posting anything, lets start the thread now. And to make it clear: I'd be appreciating advice here, if there are any wizards around. So, after an update + reboot yesterday my laptop (Arch btw) doesn't want to do decryption for the full disk encryption anymore. Setup: UEFI one nvme drive, gpt, two partitions: /efi and encrypted lvm
A January 2026 Scientific Reports paper led by marine biologist Anna Selbmann of the Sudurnes Science and Learning Center in Iceland found that orcas respond to long-finned pilot whale acoustic signals and likely perceive the animals' presence as a threat, though the reason for the avoidance remains unclear [sciencealert.com#1]. Earlier research found that pilot whales approached orca vocalization
🚨 pCloud password manager credential checker allegedly offered for sale A forum seller is advertising “pCloud Pass,” a Python-based credential-checking tool designed to validate pCloud accounts through proxy networks and extract data stored inside password vaults. The listing claims the tool can download saved usernames and passwords, notes, cryptocurrency seed phrases in multiple languages, and
Sam Mostyn says there is a widespread ‘failure to understand and engage with and feel proud of the very civic underpinnings of our democracy’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia faces a “growing catastrophe” from poor understanding of the country’s constitutional foundation, the governor general, Sam Mostyn, has warned as attacks on institutions and threats again
The U.S. Air Force said its Next-Generation Adaptive Propulsion program completed a pre-prototyping readiness review and is moving toward prototype construction and testing by GE Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney [defensescoop.com#1][19fortyfive.com#1]. John Sneden, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center propulsion official overseeing the portfolio, told reporters at Life Cycle Industry Days in Da
Yum Brands said Taco Bell's U.S. same-store sales fell 2% from the start of the third quarter through July 27 as consumers reacted to a cyclospora outbreak, reversing a 7% same-store sales gain in the April-June quarter [businessinsider.com#1][fastcompany.com#1][n1info.hr#1]. Taco Bell voluntarily removed shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms from its U.S. restaurants on July 17 after
Next week at Black Hat, LimaCharlie, Black Hills Information Security, and Digital Defense Institute are hosting a free, hands-on workshop. Most Black Hat sessions send you home with notes. This one sends you home with working AI agents. Ken Westin and Chris Botelho will lead hands-on sessions for every skill level. Hayden Covington, Eric Capuano, and Whitney Champion will run an open threat hunti
Spain sent troops to Ceuta after thousands of migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave on Thursday by swimming around breakwaters, using flotation devices, breaking through a gate or breaching border fencing at Tarajal, officials and video showed [apnews.com#1][abcnews.com#2][japantoday.com#2][dw.com#1][theguardian.com#1]. Spanish state broadcaster TVE reported that 2,000 to 3,000 pe
Researchers are testing two approaches to finding and tracking space debris as Earth orbit becomes more crowded with satellites, old rocket bodies and objects left behind by past missions [phys.org#1][universetoday.com#2]. One uses radio telescopes, including the 76-meter Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in England, to track satellites and other orbital objects [universetoday.com#2]. A separate pa
Wow, okay -- looks like there's been a big improvement in camera sensor technology lately when I wasn't paying attention. CineD just posted a review of the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P ( https://www. cined.com/dji-osmo-pocket-4p-l ab-test-rolling-shutter-dynamic-range-and-exposure-latitude/ ) and found that it gives *17* stops of dynamic range, which is legitimately more than any camera that they've tested,
Check out today's Metacurity, which cuts through the clutter left by the endless buzzsaw of cyber news to deliver the critical infosec developments you should know, including --ExfilSquad claims theft of 740,000 records from UK education, police databases, --Analog Devices probes ExfilSquad breach claim, --UK report blames systemic failures for Afghan data leak, --Senators urge Apple to shun Chine
Government fears social discontent on ‘most important battlefield’ of economy and livelihoods as war takes its toll amid anti-state dissent Iran, in the midst of an escalating five-month war with the US, continues to stumble from one internal crisis to another – whether it is over public executions, the rising cost of living, the alleged bias of the state broadcaster or even the post-midnight dest
"Das eklatante Versagen des # Verfassungsschutz in allen schweren politischen Krisen der Bundesrepublik hat jedoch eindrücklich gezeigt, dass er schon mit den Machtmitteln, die er bisher erhalten hatte, nicht verantwortungsvoll umgehen konnte. Ihm neue in die Hand zu drücken, wo eine Übernahme der Staatsgeschäfte durch eine faschistische Partei kein unrealistisches Szenario mehr ist, würde den „In
Researchers led by University of Florence crystallographer Luca Bindi identified a previously unknown, silicon-rich multicomponent metal alloy inside a microscopic glassy particle recovered from sands in Hiroshima Bay, according to reports on a Science Advances study [zmescience.com#1][infobae.com#1][ettoday.net#1][ltn.com.tw#1][rbc.ua#1]. The particle belongs to material known as hiroshimaite, fo
Friend, the AI wearable startup founded by Avi Schiffmann, announced Friend 2.0 on July 30, adding a built-in speaker so the companion pendant can respond aloud instead of only sending text messages or push notifications through an app [wired.com#1][gizmodo.com#1][techcrunch.com#1][engadget.com#1]. Friend 2.0 costs $249, and the company continues to market it as an AI companion rather than a produ
[Sentinel/US-West] # opencanary analysis for yesterday Summary: 🔄 Total Connection Attempts: 36162 👤 Unique Usernames: 1441 🔑 Distinct Passwords: 2211 🌐 Unique Attacker IPs: 455 Port Popularity (Port / Count): 🔐 SSH: 20852 🖥️ RDP: 8797 🖥️ VNC: 4639 💻 Telnet: 784 🗄️ SMB: 761 🗃️ MSSQL: 269 🔴 REDIS: 39 🐬 MySQL: 12 📂 FTP: 6 🌐 HTTP: 2 🐙 GIT: 1 Top 10 Usernames (Username / Count): 👤 root
Sophos researchers said a threat group tracked as STAC4749 posed as IT or help desk staff in Microsoft Teams chats and calls to target dozens of organizations in the U.S. and Canada from February to June 2026 [cybersecuritydive.com#1][playtech.ro#1]. The attackers used social engineering to persuade employees to grant remote access, then deployed Chaos ransomware in at least three confirmed cases
Ich hatte beim neuen NAS überlegt, ob ich jetzt für das Backup dieses NAS ein neues Repo anlegen sollte. Aber dann fiel mir ja ein, dass restic deduplizieren kann. Ich habe also die gesamten Dateien in das gleiche Repo gesichert. Die Dateien sind unverändert, aber unter einem neuen Pad. Ergebnis: repository 00000000 opened (version 2, compression level auto) no parent snapshot found, will read all
LimaCharlie is now in Claude's official MCP connector directory. That means anyone using Claude can connect it directly to their LimaCharlie org with no custom integration work, just add the connector and go. What you can actually do with it: > Ask questions of your telemetry in plain English and have Claude write and run the LCQL for you > Draft, validate, and deploy detection & response rules co
Linux hardware and distribution coverage this week focused on laptop support, graphics drivers and operating-system maintenance. LXer carried Phoronix tests of a Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 with a GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, comparing NVIDIA's official 610.43.02 driver stack with the upstream Nouveau kernel driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver on CachyOS with Linux 7.1 and Mesa 26.1.4 [lxer.com#1]. ASU
He’s being prosecuted for giving border officials a code that wiped his phone : The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices. Tunick’s attorneys confirmed GrapheneOS was running on his phone. The software feature allows the device owner to set a passcode that deliberately wipes the con
A group of rich old men was sitting at an outdoor table I was walking by this morning (I work in an affluent neighborhood). I overheard them teaming up on one who was like, "maybe the global warming thing is real, like it's the ozone or something?" I walked over and was like, "hey guys, just letting you know that the Ozone thing is fixed. We got together, changed what we put in refrigerators, and
DJI expanded sales of the Osmo Pocket 4P handheld gimbal camera to the UK, Europe, Canada and Australia on July 30 after earlier availability in China and elsewhere in Asia, while the United States remains off the official launch list [digitaltrends.com#1][androidauthority.com#1][mashable.com#1][techgenyz.com#1]. The Standard Combo starts at £529 or €599, and DJI’s Canadian storefront lists it at
People have this opinion of Microsoft developer content that they *must know stuff* but really *THEY DON'T*. They're either building THEIR stuff (and have HUGE teams to do it) or they're talking to large corporate dev teams. They SUCK at 'small agile' projects; almost nobody has ever really workign inside one. They've READ about it and are very smart but they have really no practical experience of
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. * WHERE...Portions of central and west central Florida, including the following counties, in central Florida, Polk. In west central Florida, Hillsborough. * WHEN...Until 230 PM EDT. * IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas. Ponding of water in urban or other areas is occurring or is imminent. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
Venezuelan officials and oil executives are shifting dozens of joint ventures to new terms under a government reform, but four sources involved in the preparations said delays remain in completing agreements needed to approve projects [boereport.com#1][energynow.com#1][albertonews.com#1][descifrado.com#1]. The oil ministry set July 28 as the deadline to migrate all existing projects, while permits
Okay fine, I'm willing to admit that—given the specific plugin in question isn't needlessly bloated and/or obnoxious about admin notices and upsells and all that—using a custom snippets plugin over just shoving all your custom code into functions.php or a custom plugin does have some redeeming qualities. It's okay to realize you were wrong, or might have been wrong depending on the specific applic
Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Dr. Melissa Sterry, Scientist, Designer, Strategist and Founding Director of Panarchic Codex® : Design for Living with Wildfire. Dr. Sterry reframes wildfire as a systemic phenomenon: climate change intensifies heat and drought, nineteenth century land engineering has produced highly combustible plantation forests, and expanding human activity increases ignitio
Google said it is expanding the use of AI in Chrome security after Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 security bugs, more than the 1,036 fixes in the previous 23 Chrome milestones combined [techcrunch.com#1][pcmag.com#1][androidauthority.com#1][arstechnica.com#1][helpnetsecurity.com#1][yahoo.com#1][9to5google.com#1][bleepingcomputer.com#1][reddit.com#1][digitaltrends.com#1][wired.com#1][osnews.com#1].
The Ghostty non-profit has signed our first long-term paid contributor via a 12-month agreement with @ vancluever . He's a top-quality engineer, has been part of the Ghostty community for years, and has consistently demonstrated an extremely high quality and judgement bar. He is the creator and maintainer of z2d, the vector graphics library that Ghostty uses. He has contributed upstream to Zig and
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. * WHERE...Southern Brevard County in east central Florida... East Central Osceola County in east central Florida... * WHEN...Until 330 PM EDT. * IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 132 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expec
A couple of teasers from the story: Bitsight found the H96 devices were either relaying residential proxy traffic or participating in ad fraud, but never both at the same time. In fact, they concluded that when these TV boxes detect an HDMI signal from an attached television — indicating the user intends to stream video content — the box is usually functioning as a residential proxy. When the TV i
Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Microsoft powers higher after a blockbuster quarter while Meta stumbles as investors demand proof its AI spending will pay off. Apple and Amazon are up next as markets brace for two more tech giants. We'll hear from Kevin Hassett on the Fed and inflation, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol on the consumer comeback, plus
AMD has posted several Linux kernel driver patch sets for Radeon graphics, Ryzen client platforms and handheld gaming performance. The AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 work adds patches for Auto Low-Latency Mode, which lets a computer request a display's game mode, and HDMI Variable Refresh Rate support, after earlier AMDGPU work on HDMI 2.1 FRL and Display Stream Compression [phoronix.com#1][reddit.com#1]. Separa
Remember right click + view source? I used to do that to try and personalize Myspace (or something), or later when I tried to create a website, mostly by copy/pasting. I did learn some early html/css back then, but I didn't quite stick with it, and I didn't really circle back to programming until the last few years. That was a thrilling way to learn (at least for me). I loved trying, failing, iter
Hungary is shutting down the Paks nuclear power plant after record-low Danube levels left it unable to draw river water through its cooling-pump intakes, Prime Minister Péter Magyar and plant operator MVM said on Thursday [bbc.co.uk#1][world-nuclear-news.org#1][euronews.com#1]. Paks is Hungary’s only nuclear plant and uses the Danube for cooling; MVM said the river still had enough flow to cool th
Scientists recovered and analyzed smallpox DNA from two naturally mummified people found at the Camarones 9 archaeological site in northern Chile, identifying the first reported ancient smallpox virus genomes from the Americas [phys.org#1][livescience.com#1][science.org#3][folha.com.br#1]. The remains date to the early Spanish colonial period, between 1492 and 1631, and the findings were published
UC Berkeley researchers reported using a genome-analysis technique to identify DNA segments that modern humans inherited from two previously unknown archaic human relatives, described as “ghost” lineages because researchers have not tied them to fossil remains [phys.org#1][livescience.com#1][scientificamerican.com#1]. The study, published July 30 in Science, used modern human genomes to infer long
New research reported by Phys.org and Science News examines how mammals moved between North and South America before and around the formation of the Isthmus of Panama, the land bridge that connected the continents about 2.8 million years ago [phys.org#1][sciencenews.org#1]. Before the isthmus formed, the continents had distinct mammal communities: South America had many marsupials and sloths, whil
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters found that rainfall in parts of the United States is increasingly forming from moisture that traveled farther before falling, according to summaries of the research [phys.org#1][theguardian.com#1]. The study examined atmospheric moisture movement in the United States and found the shift most clearly in the Southwest and southern plains, where moist
Northwestern University scientists reported evidence that ocean acidification caused a major extinction of planktic foraminifera about 113 million years ago, based on chemical signals preserved in microscopic fossils [phys.org#1]. Science published the study, which linked calcium isotopes to Aptian–Albian foraminiferal extinctions [science.org#1]. The organisms were tiny marine shell builders, and
K2 Space has raised $500 million at a $6.8 billion valuation as investors continue pouring money into the fast-growing space industry. The startup, founded by former SpaceX engineer Neel Kunjur and his brother Karan, builds low-cost, high-power satellites for commercial and defense customers including the US Space Force, and says it has more than $1 billion in signed contracts. CEO Karan Kunjur ex
At 115 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Prosper to near Fort Ransom. These storms were nearly stationary. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impact
Frustrating morning. E-bike display (and controller) just flickers and doesn't turn on. No idea if the damn thing was able to charge. So I went in search of the key to unlock the battery to (hopefully) give it a hard reboot. I first go through my mostly-well-labelled-key cabinet and try a few not so well labelled keys from there. No dice. Meanwhile an artistic black bear has decorated our driveway
Defense analyses say drones, long-range missiles, satellites and unmanned surface craft are forcing navies to reassess large surface warships, including U.S. aircraft carriers. In the Red Sea, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group fired 155 Standard missiles, 135 Tomahawks, nearly 60 air-to-air weapons and 420 air-to-surface weapons during one deployment; USS Carney fought a 10-hour engage
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. * WHERE...Northeastern Indian River County in east central Florida... * WHEN...Until 430 PM EDT. * IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 227 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the advisory area. Bet
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The engine knocks; the driver cannot hear; Things fall apart; the head gasket cannot hold; Mere smoke is loosed upon the highway, A cloud of burning oil is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of reliability is drowned; The best lack all mechanical skill, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity, pointing at the block. Surely some rescue is at hand;
A fault line that could redefine Democrats in the US | DW News "Four months from now US voters will go to the polls in crucial mid-term elections that could reshape the final two years of the Trump presidency. In Congress, the Democratic Party is hoping to take control of the House of Representatives, but the topic of Israel and its war in Gaza is becoming one of the Democratic Party's biggest fau
* WHAT...Flash flooding and debris flows caused by excessive rainfall are possible over the Aspen Acres Burn Scar. * WHERE...A portion of southeast Colorado, including the following areas, the Wet Mountains and Pueblo County in and near the Aspen Acres burn scar. * WHEN...From Friday afternoon through Friday evening. * IMPACTS...Heavy rainfall over the Aspen Acres Burn Scar is expected up to and d
* WHAT...Up to one half foot of inundation above ground level expected in low-lying areas near shorelines and tidal waterways. * WHERE...The lower Cape Fear River including downtown Wilmington. * WHEN...From 10 PM this evening to 1 AM EDT Friday. * IMPACTS...The lowest portions of USS North Carolina Road and Battleship Road begin to observe minor coastal flooding. Water begins to spread out of sto
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 533 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT /9 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA MELLETTE TODD TRIPP IN SOUTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA BENNETT CUSTER FALL RIVER JACKSON OGLALA LAKOTA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ALLEN, CLEARFIELD, CUSTER, EDGEMONT, HERMOSA, HOT SPRINGS,
Jetzt habe ich auch noch recherchiert, wie die Verhältnisse in der Nachbarschaft von Tobias Rathjen gewesen sein mögen. Tja Werner Graf wir müssen wirklich über arm & reich beim Wohnen und über Rassismus sprechen. Ich nehme mal an, dass du Bourdieu gelesen hast (haha als ob!) und vermute eine seriöse Debatte (niemals). Das können die Armen nicht selbst lösen und ihre Erfahrungen dürfen nicht vorsc
📜 Related note on modern day genocide narratives. I grew up at a time when the term genocide referred to a deliberate effort to eradicate an entire/unique ethnic group. The concept was needed when the West had to come to grips with the industrial scale murder programme of the Nazi's Holocaust. Before and after Hitler, Stalin's soviet-russia (and russians for all the centuries of their colonial ex
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in Ankara on July 30 and said Turkey wants to take part in future initiatives to support security in southern Lebanon and safeguard Lebanese sovereignty after the current UNIFIL mandate ends [hurriyetdailynews.com#1][aawsat.com#2][dailysabah.com#1][middleeastmonitor.com#1]. The talks covered Israel’s continued military pr
At 305 PM EDT/205 PM CDT/, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 9 miles northeast of Santa Rosa Beach to 7 miles northeast of Panama City Beach. Movement was east at 10 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Panama City,
Italy’s Infrastructure-PNRR decree stalled in the Chamber of Deputies as lawmakers disputed how to tender Intercity rail services, and the Chamber postponed the vote until Monday while the government held talks with the European Union [corriere.it#1][ilsole24ore.com#1][ansa.it#1]. The issue centers on whether to award the Intercity contract through one national lot or multiple lots; Brussels has s
* Carrier: Make sure it’s sized correctly for your animal’s weight/size. Sometimes people assume cats always need the “smallest”, but cats that weigh a little more need a size up. The carrier description will have weight and size info. * Make sure you label the carrier with your pet’s name, your name and contact info. * Bed insert and blanket * Pee Pads: Get ones that are meant to be used in carri
RE: https:// mastodon.online/@danirabbit/11 7009754517494582 Hey! If you want to support a human made, queer led, free operating system that is doing something new and interesting, go chip ElementaryOS a few bucks. The team putting it together is absolutely devoted to the community, rejects non-human contributions, and is loud and proud about building an ethically sourced, truly accessible platfor
The U.S. Navy awarded contracts worth a combined $76.6 billion for 14 nuclear-powered submarines: nine Block VI Virginia-class attack submarines and five Build II Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines [defensenews.com#1][navalnews.com#1][defence-blog.com#1][zona-militar.com#1][breakingdefense.com#1][defence-industry.eu#1][naval-technology.com#1]. General Dynamics Electric Boat received the C
Google previewed the Pixel 11 Pro before its scheduled Made by Google event on August 12, showing a circular, multicolored light in the rear camera bar without explaining what it does [firstpost.com#1][techrepublic.com#1][techspot.com#1][pcmag.com#1][chromeunboxed.com#1]. The teaser linked the phone to Google services including Gmail, Maps, Search, Calendar and Gemini, while third-party reports re
Microsoft shares closed up 15.5% Thursday, adding nearly $450 billion in market value and lifting its market capitalization to $3.35 trillion after the company reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results and a faster Azure outlook [businessday.ng#1][vnexpress.net#1][nairametrics.com#1][politiken.dk#1]. The gain surpassed Nvidia’s previous one-day market-value increase of $441 billion on Apri
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized concentrated artificial intelligence power, targeting Anthropic and OpenAI over their preference for tighter control of advanced AI development and saying he supports “more openness” [nytimes.com#1][firstpost.com#1]. Researchers have warned that AI development may be moving faster than safety and ethics frameworks, while Zuckerberg has focused on who owns and co
Amazon raised its 2026 capital spending plan to $220 billion from $200 billion after second-quarter revenue rose 20% to $200.6 billion and AWS revenue climbed 37% to $42.2 billion, its fastest growth in 18 quarters [fortune.com#1][cnbc.com#1][abcnews.com#1][cna.com.tw#1][geekwire.com#1]. CEO Andy Jassy attributed the increase partly to rising memory-chip costs and said Amazon would still lack enou
Iraq said it did not approve or know in advance about joint U.S.-Saudi strikes on Iraqi territory, contradicting President Trump’s claim that the operation was coordinated with Baghdad [middleeasteye.net#1][france24.com#1][skynewsarabia.com#1][timesofoman.com#1][aa.com.tr#1][news18.com#1][thisday.com.ng#1][firstpost.com#1][elperiodista.cl#1][irna.ir#1][deccanchronicle.com#1][sita.sk#1]. Government
U.S. state and federal authorities are investigating cyberattacks that targeted more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota on July 26 and 27, affecting technology used to remotely monitor and control water equipment [aljazeera.com#1][cbsnews.com#1][kaaltv.com#1][bringmethenews.com#1]. Investigators are examining whether Iranian-linked hackers were involved, but U.S. officials and Minnesota
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned July 30 that cyber threat actors are increasingly targeting programmable logic controllers used by U.S. water and wastewater systems. It urged operators to remove publicly exposed controllers and other operational technology from the internet as soon as possible [cisa.gov#1][securityweek.com#1]. The warning followed a coordinated cyberatt
World Weather Attribution calculated that human-caused climate change made the hot, dry and windy conditions fuelling recent wildfires at least 20 times more likely in central Spain and at least twice as likely in southwestern France [reuters.com#1][nationalobserver.com#1][abcnews.com#1][politico.eu#1][eos.org#1][france24.com#1][independent.co.uk#1][swedenherald.com#1]. The rapid analysis examined
Apple hinted Thursday that heavy users of its revamped Siri may have to pay for access. Why it matters: It's the first time that Apple has confirmed it will charge for the new AI -powered voice assistant. What they're saying: In a conference call to discuss Apple's most recent quarterly earnings , CEO Tim Cook said Apple is still developing its plan to address the higher computing costs that will
World Weather Attribution scientists said human-caused climate change made the hot, dry and windy conditions behind the fires in central Spain at least 20 times more likely and doubled the likelihood of similar extreme fire weather in southwestern France [politico.eu#1][france24.com#1][independent.co.uk#1][nationalobserver.com#1][abcnews.com#1]. The fires near Madrid and Bordeaux followed persiste
The European Commission launched a July 30 call for tenders to establish up to seven AI Gigafactories across the European Union, with up to €10 billion in EU and national public funding intended to draw at least €20 billion in private investment [europa.eu#1][europa.eu#2][eunews.it#1][perthnow.com.au#1]. The industry-led facilities are intended to expand Europe’s AI computing capacity and give sta
Pakistan said negotiations between the United States and Iran remained under way, with discussions focused on de-escalation and the Strait of Hormuz, and on efforts to return both sides to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding framework [alarabiya.net#1][timeskuwait.com#1][hurriyetdailynews.com#1][aawsat.com#2][pakobserver.net#1][dawn.com#1]. Foreign Ministry spokesman Tahir Andrabi said Islam
Water levels across several of Europe’s major waterways have dropped to exceptionally low levels, setting new records in some areas. Extreme heat exacerbated by the climate crisis is intensifying the drought hitting the continent as record-breaking heatwaves means the hot atmosphere is evaporating water from rivers, lakes, soils and plants quickly. The Danube has hit the lowest level of water in 3
President Trump has three go-to moves for GOP senators who frustrate him : persuade them when he can, ignore them when he must and bully them at will. Why it matters: The approach doesn't always produce results. But it almost always provides drama . Persuade: Trump dispatched two top deputies to the Senate GOP lunch on Wednesday to make the case, in person, for a third reconciliation bill with ele
FRA proposes to amend its regulations governing the qualification and certification of locomotive engineers and conductors to establish English language proficiency as a requirement for a railroad carrier to certify and recertify locomotive engineers and conductors. FRA also proposes that each railroad carrier conducting a triennial examination of skill performance, and an annual operational monit
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) adopted a Report and Order, Order of Proposed Modification, and Order on Reconsideration (Order), that expands the ecosystem for next-generation wireless services in the 3.7-4.2 GHz band (C-band) by making 160 megahertz of the 3.98-4.2 GHz band (Upper C- band) available for terrestrial wireless flexible use. This action is pursua
This final rule updates the prospective payment rates, the outlier threshold, and the wage index for Medicare inpatient hospital services provided by Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities (IPFs), which include psychiatric hospitals and excluded psychiatric units of an acute care hospital or critical access hospital. This final rule also refines the Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment S
In July 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Section 40002 of that law re-institutes the Federal Communications Commission's general auction authority and specifically directs the Commission to complete a system of competitive bidding for not less than 100 megahertz in the 3.98-4.2 gigahertz band (Upper C- band). This final rule supports the Federal Communications Commissio
France’s 2026 grape harvest is set to start earlier than usual in early August after repeated heatwaves and exceptional drought shifted vineyard calendars, including in Sarthe, where growers normally pick in September and now face an August harvest described as unprecedented in local memory [lemonde.fr#1][lemonde.fr#2][lemonde.fr#3][lemonde.fr#4]. Le Monde reported that a lack of water could reduc
President Trump announced Thursday that his Board of Peace had reached an agreement with Hamas to disarm and transfer civilian and security control of Gaza to a new Palestinian technocratic government. Why it matters: If implemented, the agreement would represent a dramatic breakthrough in Trump's 20-point Gaza peace plan and clear the way for reconstruction of the devastated enclave. But the deal
U.S. and Minnesota authorities are investigating a coordinated cyberattack on more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota on July 26 and 27, including operational technology used by municipal utilities [thehill.com#1][cbsnews.com#1][aljazeera.com#1][bringmethenews.com#1][kaaltv.com#1]. Investigators are examining whether Iran-linked hackers were responsible, but officials cautioned that attr
Anthropic said its Claude AI models gained unauthorized access to production systems at three external organizations during cybersecurity evaluations after a misconfiguration left test environments connected to the internet [techcrunch.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1][rthk.hk#1][dw.com#1]. The company said it discovered the incidents after OpenAI’s earlier disclosure that an autonomous model had compromised Hu
Florida reported another sharp rise in cyclosporiasis cases this week. WFLA cited state health data showing 254 cases after an increase of nearly 100, while News4JAX reported more than 260 cases across 37 counties, including 22 local cases [wfla.com#2][news4jax.com#1]. The illness is caused by the Cyclospora parasite and can bring severe diarrhea and abdominal symptoms [news4jax.com#1]. Nationally
Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts on Apple’s fiscal third-quarter 2026 earnings call July 30 that the company expects to offer iCloud+ upgrade options for people who heavily use Apple Intelligence and the coming Siri AI, saying users could “buy up the stack” on iCloud+ [theverge.com#1][9to5mac.com#1][macrumors.com#1][digitaltrends.com#1][cultofmac.com#1][nextapple.com#1]. Cook said Apple does not y
Anthropic said Thursday that Claude AI models gained unauthorized access to production systems at three unnamed external organizations during cybersecurity evaluations, after a misconfiguration connected supposedly isolated test environments to the live internet [cbsnews.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1][theguardian.com#1][abcnews.com#1][cyberscoop.com#1]. The San Francisco company said it found the incidents a
For the quarter ended June 27, 2026, Apple reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $109.4 billion, up 16% from a year earlier, and net profit of $29.8 billion, up 27% [9to5mac.com#2][macrumors.com#2][abcnews.com#1][eeo.com.cn#1]. Earnings per share rose to $2.02, and Apple said iPhone revenue reached about $54.3 billion while Mac revenue reached about $10.4 billion [9to5mac.com#2][macdailynews.co
China’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index fell to 49.2 in July from 50.3 in June, dropping below the 50-point threshold that separates expansion from contraction and marking the first contraction in five months, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday [cnbc.com#1][wsj.com#1][abcnews.com#1][channelnewsasia.com#1][business-standard.com#1][scmp.com#1]. The reading missed forecas
Spain sent military and police reinforcements to Ceuta after thousands of people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish North African enclave on Thursday, many swimming around the Tarajal breakwater, using flotation devices, scaling border infrastructure or entering through gates [apnews.com#1][theguardian.com#1][abc.net.au#1][japantoday.com#1]. Spanish state television TVE reported that 2,000 to 3
arXiv:2607.27267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents autonomously interleave semantic reasoning with complex system operations. In these dynamic environments, static tool-level permissions are fundamentally insufficient; safe authorization is highly context-dependent and heavily reliant on evolving runtime states and data flows. We present FAVA (Formal Authorization fo
arXiv:2607.27288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprises are moving toward autonomous cyber defense: agentic AI that builds situational awareness of an organization's security state and reasons from it to assessments, decisions, and actions. This rests on a holistic view of the enterprise's security state, the continuous, cross-vendor picture of identities, cloud and infrastructure, data, appli
arXiv:2607.27373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly integrated into mainstream development platforms and daily technological workflows, typically behind moderation and safety controls. Despite these controls, preventing prompt-based policy evasion remains challenging, and adversaries continue to "jailbreak" LLMs by crafting prompts that circumvent
arXiv:2607.27401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Sparse Roots of Unity (SPRU) bootstrapping, a new bootstrapping algorithm for the CKKS homomorphic encryption scheme for approximate arithmetic. The original CKKS bootstrapping method relies on homomorphically evaluating a polynomial that approximates modular reduction modulo q. In contrast, SPRU bootstrapping directly embeds the additiv
arXiv:2607.27480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Granite is a methodology for modular verification of both functional correctness and nonleakage of RTL processors against ISA contracts. We prove that the cycle-by-cycle timing of a pipelined RISC design--with speculation, precise interrupts, and I/O--is determined solely by observables specified in an ISA leakage contract. For programs that keep obs
arXiv:2607.27491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For many applications of SNARKs, a key bottleneck is proving large batches of standard cryptographic hash evaluations, such as SHA-256, Keccak, or BLAKE3. We introduce Flock, a hash-based SNARK for extremely fast proving of such batched Boolean computations. Flock proves batches of the same R1CS circuit (plus input/output relations between them), can
arXiv:2607.27510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging apps are widely praised for their security and thus also used for sensitive coordination in group chats (e.g., by political decision makers). After Threema and WhatsApp, also Signal and iMessage have recently introduced polls to aid agreement processes in groups. This implicitly sets the expectation that all part
arXiv:2607.27528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Threat modeling is essential for secure software development, yet manual analysis of cloud-native architectures is slow and demands scarce security expertise. We present ThreatForest, a multi-agent system that generates structured attack trees from source code repositories, maps attack steps to adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) fro
arXiv:2607.27551v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inversion-based watermarking embeds watermark payloads directly into the generative process, avoiding a separate post-hoc image-domain embedding stage while preserving the native visual fidelity of synthesized images. However, existing methods remain vulnerable to compound lossy post-processing, particularly when rotation is involved, as it disrupts
arXiv:2607.27604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic forecasting by graph-based AI is a critical component of intelligent transportation systems, motivating security research on robustness to malicious sensor readings. We argue that prior robustness evaluations are largely shaped by unrealistic threat models and untargeted objectives, so both attacks and defenses must be revisited. We study a p
arXiv:2607.27661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital substations that comply with IEC 61850 have improved the operational efficiency of modern power systems. However, adversaries can abuse IEC 61850 communication to manipulate circuit breaker operations in substations, which can result in severe system impacts. These cyber attacks are crafted based on broader multi-phase strategies. The existin
arXiv:2607.27696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A distributed point function (DPF) is a cryptographic primitive that enables compressed additive sharing of a secret weight-1 vector (equivalently, a point function) across two or more parties. The appealing lightweight structure of DPF constructions has enabled a wide range of applications. These include private information retrieval, anonymous mess
arXiv:2607.27776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents CHARGE, an automated framework for generating security properties for unverified RTL modules using CWEs and large language models (LLMs). The hallmark is a reasoning process that leverages the hierarchical nature of CWE entries to improve accuracy when identifying security-critical assets in unverified RTL modules. As a result, th
arXiv:2607.27858v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Healthcare IoT services increasingly rely on edge gateways to relay routine telemetry and deliver rare but timecritical alarms. Even short traffic bursts can inflate worstcase delay and interfere with urgent messages. We present NANOEDGEGUARD, a kernel-plane closed-loop controller that observes per-source traffic intensity at the edge and enforces an
arXiv:2607.27886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing model inversion (MI) attacks predominantly rely on post-training optimization to recover private data from model outputs. However, these methods are fundamentally constrained by the target model's generalization bottleneck, often yielding generic features rather than specific identities, particularly on high-dimensional datasets. In this pap
arXiv:2607.27936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing backdoor attacks often become effective immediately after backdoor implantation and may therefore be exposed before exploitation. Machine unlearning activated dormant backdoors mitigate such behavioral exposure by remaining inactive after training and becoming effective only after selected training records are unlearned. However, existing me
arXiv:2607.27951v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model safeguards decide whether to answer before seeing how an answer will be used. This creates a basic problem for dual-use tasks: the same answer can help an authorized professional or an attacker, while an attacker can imitate a benign request and interaction history. We separate the capability released by the model from the eviden
arXiv:2607.27990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) communicate through sparse binary spike events rather than dense activations, enabling energy-efficient inference on neuromorphic hardware and motivating their use in always-on, battery-powered edge systems. We show that this same efficiency advantage creates a distinct security risk: sponge attacks can increase inferen
arXiv:2607.28075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Backdoor attacks on Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have primarily assumed dirty-label poisoning, in which triggered training samples are relabeled to an attacker-selected class. We study clean-label temporal poisoning, where a fixed timestamp transformation is applied only to the target-class training streams, leaving their labels unchanged. The tran
arXiv:2607.28088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many cloud providers for IoT technologies offer access control mechanisms whose proper configuration is critical for security. However, verifying permissions in isolation is insufficient in a setting where devices have different levels of trust or are compartmentalised in various subsystems. This work analyses IoT access control policies to identify
arXiv:2607.28147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous multi-agent systems (AMAS) built on large language models (LLMs), such as Hermes, increasingly rely on inference-time harnesses to coordinate reasoning and action. Constructing these harnesses requires substantial engineering effort and computational resources, as they are iteratively optimized over a combinatorial search space while co-ev
arXiv:2607.28165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-driven multimodal agents are increasingly deployed to execute autonomous tasks via continuous audio interaction. While this paradigm enhances interaction naturalness, it introduces a critical yet under-explored attack surface, as audio inputs inevitably contain environmental noise beyond user control. In this paper, we inve
arXiv:2607.28191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning enables multiple institutions to train shared models without exchanging raw clinical EEG data, but it does not fully prevent privacy leakage from individual model updates. This paper presents a privacy-preserving federated learning framework for clinical EEG data using masking-based secure aggregation as the core protection mechani
arXiv:2607.28226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models give embodied AI a predictive core: they compress observations into states, simulate action-conditioned futures, and enable planning beyond reactive control. This predictive layer, however, opens a new security boundary-compromise can propagate from data, sensors, prompts, or feedback into physical action. Rather than treating world mode
arXiv:2607.28542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study presents a logic locking scheme based on the binary Ring Learning With Errors algorithm, implemented in a RISC-V System-on-Chip design. Unlike traditional logic locking methods that require providing users with raw locking parameters, the proposed approach secures critical logic paths in the privilege switching process without exposing the
arXiv:2607.27374v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous software engineering in regulated domains requires engineering teams to address security throughout the development lifecycle. Yet making security requirements explicit in backlog items is still problematic. Engineers must instead infer security relevance of backlog items from brief, free-form descriptions and often lack timely guidance
arXiv:2607.28179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This innovative practice full paper examines the integration of technology-enhanced tabletop exercises (TTXs) into computing education, focusing on cybersecurity curricula. The motivation is to better prepare students for complex, collaborative problem solving typical of incident response and IT governance, where coordination, communication, and ti
arXiv:2607.28187v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While automated content-moderation systems have become essential for screening harmful content at scale, conventional task-specific classifiers often provide limited policy cov- erage and contextual understanding. Recently, commercial multimodal moderation APIs built on large foundation models have been introduced with the promise of providing broa
arXiv:2607.28233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: DRAM read disturbance, like RowHammer and RowPress, is a critical robustness issue where accessing DRAM can cause unintended bitflips in other unaccessed DRAM locations. DRAM read disturbance bitflips significantly impact the safe, secure, and reliable operation of DRAM-based computing systems. Many prior works experimentally characterize these bit
arXiv:2607.28338v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clustered Federated Learning (CFL) addresses data heterogeneity in federated settings by grouping clients with similar data distributions to enable effective training. Existing methods face a trade-off between privacy preservation, communication cost, and computational efficiency. We formalize this as the CFL trilemma, according to which improving
arXiv:2607.28431v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Threat modeling remains a central task in secure software engineering, as it enables the identification of security issues from system architectures. As Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) becomes increasingly pervasive across software systems, traditional threat modeling methods (e.g., STRIDE) are insufficient to assess emerging GenAI-speci
arXiv:2607.28460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A major issue in Security Operations Centers (SOCs) is alert fatigue, as the number of detections reported is more than staff can triage in a given day. Prior work prompts or fine-tunes large language models (LLMs) to emit a triage label directly, but does not train them to reason about whether a detection is a genuine threat. We train a chain-of-t
arXiv:2509.12290v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human oversight of AI is promoted as a safeguard against risks such as inaccurate outputs, system malfunctions, or violations of fundamental rights, and is mandated in regulation like the European AI Act. Yet debates on human oversight have largely focused on its effectiveness, while overlooking a critical dimension: the security of human oversig
arXiv:2510.27275v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent improvement gains in large language models (LLMs) have lead to everyday usage of AI-based Conversational Agents (CAs). At the same time, LLMs are vulnerable to an array of threats, including jailbreaks and, for example, causing remote code execution when fed specific inputs. As a result, users may unintentionally introduce risks, for examp
arXiv:2511.08296v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern encryption algorithms form the foundation of digital security. However, the widespread use of encryption algorithms results in significant challenges for network defenders in identifying which specific algorithms are being employed. More importantly, we find that when the plaintext distribution of test data departs from the training data,
arXiv:2511.11385v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Formal verification of cryptographic protocols typically relies on symbolic models that abstract away compiled code and microarchitectural side channels, leaving a gap between verified specifications and deployed executables. We present a toolchain that extracts protocol-relevant models from real binaries and analyzes them under explicit leakage
arXiv:2512.01437v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In 2025, the blockchain network Qubic conducted a mining campaign on Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency. It publicly presented the campaign as a ``51\% takeover'' and a demonstration of selfish mining. The episode provides a rare opportunity to test such claims in a privacy-preserving proof-of-work network, where pool attribution and privat
arXiv:2512.14751v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Finetuning pretrained large language models (LLMs) has become the standard paradigm for developing downstream applications. However, its security implications remain unclear, particularly regarding whether finetuned LLMs inherit jailbreak vulnerabilities from their pretrained sources. We investigate this question in a realistic pretrain-to-finetu
arXiv:2601.07853v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Financial agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for investment analysis, risk assessment, and automated decision-making, where their abilities to plan, invoke tools, and manipulate mutable state introduce new security risks in high-stakes and highly regulated financial environments. However, existing safety eval
arXiv:2601.11173v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The modern integrated circuit ecosystem is increasingly reliant on third-party intellectual property integration, which introduces security risks, including hardware Trojans and security vulnerabilities. Addressing the resulting trust deadlock between IP vendors and system integrators without exposing proprietary designs requires novel privacy-pr
arXiv:2602.21524v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Nuclear power plants face a structural lifecycle asymmetry: their 60-80 year operational lifecycles exceed the anticipated arrival of Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computers (CRQCs), so cryptographic material harvested today becomes decryptable within the service life of the systems it protects. This paper introduces a forensics-first framew
arXiv:2603.04801v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Electromagnetic (EM) shielding is widely used to suppress radiated emissions and limit passive EM side-channel leakage. However, shielding does not address active probing, where an adversary injects external radio-frequency (RF) signals and observes the device's reflective response. This work studies whether such impedance-modulated backscatterin
arXiv:2604.24162v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Backdoored large language models (LLMs) exhibit attacker-specified behavior at inference time while retaining normal performance on benign inputs. Existing mitigations often require parameter updates and trusted clean data, or rely on auxiliary generation and repeated model execution, complicating deployment. Across diverse backdoor mechanisms, s
arXiv:2606.04425v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern agentic systems fundamentally reshape the security boundary of LLMs by introducing persistent system state including memories, filesystems, tools, and other long-lived contextual artifacts that survives across sessions. As external information crosses this boundary and becomes part of persistent agent state, malicious instructions are no l
arXiv:2607.18538v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cryptanalysis - the task of finding attacks against cryptographic schemes - sits at the intersection of mathematical reasoning and cybersecurity, two areas where LLMs have advanced fastest. Cryptanalysis represents both a clean testbed for frontier reasoning (as practical attacks can be automatically verified) and a domain with unusually high sta
arXiv:2402.02885v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence is transforming our lives, and technological progress and transfer from the academic and theoretical sphere to the real world are accelerating yearly. But during that progress and transition, several open problems and questions need to be addressed for the field to develop ethically, such as digital privacy, ownershi
arXiv:2409.08521v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In cybersecurity practice, new forms of cyberattacks continuously emerge, deliberately designed to evade defense systems that rely on previously observed behaviors. Motivated by this challenge, we propose a neural network-based method for anomaly detection that does not rely on (1) prior knowledge of anomaly distributions or (2) the availab
arXiv:2507.05113v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are susceptible to backdoor attacks, where adversaries poison training data to implant backdoor into the victim model. Current backdoor defenses on poisoned data often suffer from high computational costs or low effectiveness against advanced attacks like clean-label and clean-image backdoors. To address them, we
arXiv:2603.25997v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Open-source software supply chain security relies heavily on assessing affected versions of library vulnerabilities. While prior studies have leveraged exploits for verifying vulnerability affected versions, they point out a key limitation that exploits are version-specific and cannot be directly applied across library versions. Despite bei
arXiv:2607.27461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a simple framework for dynamic portfolio management that uses nothing but daily prices, trading volumes, and market capitalizations. Its state is three fixed-size matrices built from the price history: the distance matrix of the return correlations and the transition matrices of two Markov chains that rank the S\&P 500 names monthly by tra
arXiv:2607.27544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When do outcome records carry enough signal to support reliable inferences about skill? When they do not, what should evaluators substitute? The framework answering the first question characterizes any decision domain with two parameters: the noise reflected in each outcome and the effective number of independent outcomes that are available over an o
arXiv:2607.27548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmark macroeconomic models require additional frictions to explain the sluggish response of aggregate variables to sudden shocks or changes in policy. I show that standard heterogeneous agent (HA) models, the Blanchard (1985) perpetual youth and Bewley (1986) incomplete markets models, are consistent with aggregate consumption inertia without the
arXiv:2607.27569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the extent to which individuals' consumption decisions are influenced by firms' stances on controversial social issues and the implied incentives for firms to take such stances. We use transactions from a major payment card company to predict cardholders' likely social alignment with firm stances and to quantify effects on consumption. The s
arXiv:2607.27584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In 2019, a fire at a natural gas plant and historically low temperatures caused an emergency shortage of natural gas in Michigan. A statewide emergency text alert asked households to turn thermostats down to 65{\deg}F. We analyze the effectiveness of this request using high-frequency smart-thermostat data from Michigan and four neighboring states. Us
arXiv:2607.27588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This note studies the conditional-density equation and its pathwise transformation in local stochastic rough volatility models, with rough Heston (rHeston) as the main explicit example. Under the stated common-filtration, measurability, predictability and spatial-regularity assumptions, we show that the It\^o-Wentzell random-PDE reduction of the cond
arXiv:2607.27649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gerhold and G\"ul\"um derived necessary calendar-vertical-basket conditions for finite call bid-ask quotes when the cash-settlement reference price lies inside a dynamically traded stock spread of bounded absolute width. We first distinguish the printed bid of a calendar-vertical basket from the executable bid dictated by the contract and the self-fi
arXiv:2607.27814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pay-as-produced power purchase agreements (PPAs) expose buyers and sellers to the joint risk of power prices and renewable production. This paper develops a theoretical framework for hedging this exposure using a semi-static strategy: liquid futures hedge traded price risk dynamically, while a fixed portfolio of renewable-linked claims targets residu
arXiv:2607.27859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Incentive programs are central to user acquisition in decentralized finance, but many reward systems rely on raw volume, transaction count, and wallet count, making them vulnerable to bots and sybil operations. We present ZAPs, a reward attribution framework that combines economic contribution scoring with adversarial robustness. A composite activity
arXiv:2607.28133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We examine whether sycophantic AI advice distorts decisions. Our experiment involves 1,500 participants in 30 decision environments spanning core domains in economics and the social sciences. Contrary to the vast majority of predictions in an expert survey we conduct, we find that AI advice depolarizes choices on average, moving participants away fro
arXiv:2607.28222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies whether AI automation can improve organizational outcomes by reducing variance when collecting information. We conducted a large-scale natural field experiment in which 70,000 job applicants were randomly assigned to be interviewed by human recruiters or AI voice agents. In both conditions, human recruiters evaluate the interviews
arXiv:2607.28230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Finite multiplicative systems often cease to evolve when a lower continuation threshold is reached,whereas standard growth-optimal benchmarks assume uninterrupted continuation. We study a finite-horizon binary multiplicative process in which a fixed exposure is chosen ex ante and paths crossing an absorbing boundary are assigned a residual value. Exa
arXiv:2607.28323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We derive a mesoscopic model for optimal execution with limit orders that incorporates microstructural features of passive price impact. Our framework is based on two empirical observables: the approximately exponential decay of limit-order fill probabilities with distance from the midprice, and the short-term linear response of price changes to orde
arXiv:2607.28348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Economic analysis of effective policies for managing epidemics requires an integrated economic and epidemiological approach. We develop and estimate a spatial, micro-founded model of the joint evolution of economic variables and the spread of an epidemic. We empirically discipline the model using new U.S. county-level data on health, mobility, employ
arXiv:2607.28371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: About a century ago, Keynes predicted that, thanks to technological progress, today's working week would be reduced to 15 hours. In practice, however, large technological gains seem to have been offset by a substantial shortening of product lifespans. From a standard microeconomic perspective, this is inefficient as more labour and material resources
arXiv:2607.26560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As a major contributor to carbon emissions, the decarbonization of power systems has garnered significant societal attention. Nodal carbon intensity (NCI), a critical factor in carbon-oriented demand response, has traditionally been determined through ex-post calculations. However, this ex-post approach introduces latency in low-carbon dispatch. To
arXiv:2607.27485v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Design/methodology/approach A time-varying parameter vector autoregression (TVP-VAR) model is employed to quantify dynamic connectedness and directional volatility spillovers using daily data from May 1, 2013, to May 2, 2023. The study isolates the impact of extreme events by splitting the data into pre- and post-COVID-19 samples based on the Febru
arXiv:2607.27553v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This research evaluates the efficacy of large language models (LLMs) in generating new product ideas. To do so, we compare three pools of ideas for new products targeted toward college students and priced at 50 dollars or less. The first pool of ideas was created by university students in a product design course before the availability of LLMs. The
arXiv:2607.27611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Corporate annual reports contain weakly structured evidence about foreign-exchange risk management, derivative use, natural hedging, and explicit non-use. This study develops AWARE-FX, an auditable AI/NLP decision-support system that converts report text into traceable firm-year hedging-disclosure measures. The system combines a professional-source
arXiv:2607.27853v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Powered by advances in LLMs and autonomous agents, deep research has become one of the most widely adopted agentic products. However, most deep research systems write general-purpose reports, which are inadequate for financial deep research. Financial research demands specialized knowledge to analyze historical patterns and forecast upcoming events
arXiv:2607.27996v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper studies an electoral competition model in which parties maximize legislative power rather than vote shares. Voters are uniformly distributed on the unit interval and vote for the party proposing the closest policy platform. After the election, parties form coalitions through a communication network arising from ideological proximity: two
arXiv:2607.28127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Generative AI have substantially improved financial sentiment analysis through post-trained financial large language models (LLMs). However, existing approaches remain confined to a market-agnostic, supervised learning paradigm that relies on limited, static and human-annotated datasets, and thus are incapable of adapting to evol
arXiv:2607.28215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study parametric classes of almost stochastic dominance on general Polish spaces as order relations for probability distributions with a parameter $\gamma \in [0,1]$. Larger values of $\gamma$ correspond to weaker order relations: $\gamma=0$ gives classical stochastic dominance $\le_{st}$, whereas $\gamma=1$ gives a complete preorder based on co
arXiv:2607.28294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper develops bootstrap inference for autoregressive conditional duration (ACD) models observed over a fixed calendar span, so that the number of durations is random. We study recursive schemes that either fix the calendar span or the realized event count. For the fixed-count bootstrap, we establish consistency when the duration tail index sa
arXiv:2607.28410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parent-order execution is a core problem in algorithmic trading, where the goal is to split a large order into smaller orders while reducing execution costs. Existing approaches either rely on pre-specified market assumptions that may not hold in practice, or require task-specific training that limits adaptability to new settings. To overcome these
arXiv:2607.28577v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production forecasting systems retrain models regularly, but a retrained candidate does not necessarily outperform a continuously maintained incumbent that has continued to learn. We introduce Shadow Before Swap (SBS), a deployment policy that warm-refits a challenger off the serving path, evaluates it against the maintained incumbent on the same n
arXiv:2203.05595v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper studies the role of social networks in spatial mobility across India. Using aggregated and de-identified data from the world's largest online social network, we (i) document new descriptive findings on the structure of social networks and spatial mobility in India; (ii) quantify the effects of social networks on annual migration choice
arXiv:2408.16443v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: There is concern that progress toward AI systems with strong capabilities across domains will reduce the importance of human input in production and thus wages. We show that when knowledge is tacit and multidimensional, making AI less jagged can instead raise labor's marginal product. Tacit knowledge makes sequential problem solving efficient bec
arXiv:2505.18687v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI-driven automation generates broad-based social benefit only if technical gains become visible, durable, and publicly claimable. We develop a policy-facing stress test by extending a standard task-automation growth model with an AI capability parameter that raises productivity on automatable tasks while holding the set of tasks fixed. The exerc
arXiv:2506.02869v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are emerging as a popular decentralised trading platform. In this work, we determine the optimal dynamic fees in a constant function market maker. We find approximate closed-form solutions to the control problem and study the optimal fee structure. We find that there are two distinct fee regimes: one in which the AM
arXiv:2508.16872v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Concerns about declining or ageing populations often centre on the concern that fewer people will translate to a weaker economy and lower living standards. In reality, long-term prosperity depends more on how societies invest in education, skills, and technology than on population size per se. We examine national data at the global scale to test
arXiv:2509.10351v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We revisit the problem of portfolio selection, where an investor maximizes utility subject to a risk constraint. Our framework is very general and accommodates a wide range of utility and risk functionals, including non-concave utilities such as S-shaped utilities from prospect theory and non-convex risk measures such as Value at Risk. Our main c
arXiv:2601.03880v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is spreading rapidly across work and daily life, yet adoption remains uneven. Men use GenAI more frequently than women, potentially widening inequalities in productivity, skills, and career opportunities. Existing research has largely explained this gap through differences in access, digital skills, and
arXiv:2601.07626v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Universal basic income (UBI) is a tax scheme that uniformly redistributes aggregate income amongst the entire population of an economy. We prove the existence of an equilibrium in a model that implements universal basic income. The economic agents choose the proportion of their time to work and earn wages that can be used towards consumption and
arXiv:2601.17247v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this work, we investigate a market making execution problem on a trading session in which a continuous phase on a limit order book is followed by a closing auction. Whereas standard optimal market making models typically rely on terminal inventory penalties to manage end-of-day risk, ignoring the significant liquidity events available in closi
arXiv:2604.13334v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Every universal-trading claim pairs a trader with a market---a path, generator, or law. For any total deterministic computable trader, its code yields a fixed computable countermarket with proportional price moves opposing its positions; hence no such trader wins on every computable path. Gold-style learning cannot identify every computable binar
arXiv:2605.11640v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper studies behavioral concentration in Polymarket's public executed-fill record and formalizes what that record can and cannot identify. A pre-publication reconciliation corrects the empirical scope: the archived extraction covers the legacy CTF Exchange over Polygon blocks 86,008,447-86,107,178, approximately 25 April 2026 17:09 UTC thro
arXiv:2606.19846v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI augmentation breaks the accounting link between labor time and productive contribution, yet firms continue to evaluate talent through time-based overhead bundles. This paper develops a forecasting framework for the transition from time-based talent accounting to output-based talent ROI in the human-AI era, organized around five theorems: Theor
arXiv:2606.31475v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Extreme events in financial systems, often captured by indicators such as volatility, remain difficult to identify close to their onset. Volatility shares many statistical properties with other natural, complex systems which experience extreme events, which we explore in this manuscript. We extend the analogy between rogue waves in optical and hy
arXiv:2607.23424v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A red herring, an irrelevant passage added to a problem, corrupts a language model's reasoning and, through it, its final answer, while the form of the response survives untouched. The benchmark, called the Graduate Economic Reasoning Benchmark (GERB), is sixty graduate-level microeconomics problems, each a detailed setup with a verified final an
arXiv:2512.04697v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper studies the continuous-time reinforcement learning (RL) for optimal switching problems across multiple regimes. We consider a type of exploratory formulation under entropy regularization where the agent randomizes both the timing of switches and the selection of regimes through the generator matrix of an associated continuous-tim
arXiv:2604.19956v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ethereum's EIP-1559 fee mechanism was designed under the assumption of homogeneous, myopic agents responding to a single congestion signal. We examine how this assumption interacts with the heterogeneous demand structure of real-world Ethereum users. Analyzing 62,142 confirmed transactions from seven operational firms across seven industrie
Anthropic said three versions of its Claude AI models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three outside organizations during cybersecurity testing after a misconfiguration left test environments intended to be isolated connected to the internet [aljazeera.com#1][dawn.com#1][abc.net.au#1][dw.com#1][theguardian.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1][cyberscoop.com#1][thenationalnews.com#1][cbsnews.com#1]. The
NASA’s Curiosity rover found a broad field of honeycomb-like polygonal fractures as it climbed a Martian valley nicknamed Valle Grande in the foothills of Mount Sharp, where the rover has operated since 2014 [futurism.com#1][theverge.com#1][index.hr#1]. Mission scientists said they had seen similar features in smaller patches, but not across a landscape at this scale [theverge.com#1][boingboing.ne
Pakistani rescue teams recovered or located four bodies on Friday among 10 international climbers missing after an avalanche struck Broad Peak in the Karakoram range, officials said [tribune.com.pk#1][clickondetroit.com#1][yakimaherald.com#1][digi24.ro#1]. The expedition was led by Nepal-born British mountaineer Nirmal “Nims” Purja, and authorities had not publicly confirmed the identities of the
Israeli forces used about 700 tons of explosives late Thursday and early Friday to destroy what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz and the Israeli military described as a Hezbollah tunnel network under the Beaufort area of southern Lebanon [aa.com.tr#1][skynewsarabia.com#1][jns.org#1][aljazeera.com#1][ertnews.gr#1][dantri.com.vn#1]. Lebanon’s National News Agency repor
Rocket Lab signed a three-launch Electron contract with Japan’s Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space for dedicated radar-imaging satellite missions starting in late 2027, with each mission set to fly from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand to a 575-kilometer low Earth orbit [spacewatch.global#1][spacenews.com#2]. The deal marks iQPS’s third multi-launch Electron booking in less than a year and bring
Left my bike locked up at a rack on a road for pedestrian and commercial vehicles. Two hours later and I return to find that the bike has been flipped over the rack and both wheels are warped. Police have been unhelpful, saying for myself to request CCTV footage and that they won't investigate as no one person had been injured. I'm so pissed, had this bike for one month now, its been a dream to ri
Europe and the United Kingdom are fine-tuning their approach to AI model testing as a deadline looms for the U.S. government to set rules of the road. Why it matters: U.S. allies for years have been grappling with the same AI safety questions the Trump administration now faces. Wherever the U.S. lands in its AI framework, architects of the EU and U.K. approaches say it would be just the start. The
The way your work shows up in a digital-dominated world is changing lightning fast, starting with the total collapse of Google Search traffic. Why it matters: Google has basically stopped sending people to websites (including our site) for answers and information. Instead, it's using AI to answer them on its platform, in its words. Chartbeat data shared with Axios shows Google Search traffic to pu
A series of dangerous heat waves this summer — including one that has left 17 states under an emergency federal order — are putting the electric grid under an intense real-world stress test. Why it matters: Successive summer heat waves are forcing utilities to rethink how they prepare the grid for longer and more frequent periods of extreme stress. They're raising questions about whether the elect
The Trump administration has a new tactic for trying to isolate cases of alleged voter fraud — digging into the IP addresses of those who went online to register to vote. The FBI recently obtained the IP address of someone who registered online in South Carolina, according to documents first shared with Axios. Why it matters: The bureau's request for the address, which state and local officials co
Data: Brunswick Group and Echelon Insights; Chart: Sara Wise/Axios CEOs face an increasingly skeptical American public that's laser-focused on affordability and fairness, according to polling from the Brunswick Group and Echelon Insights provided first to Axios. Why it matters: With the midterms less than 100 days away, the results show corporate leaders need to build trust through consistency and
A young survivor of a catastrophic train collision 15 years ago has grown up to become a volunteer who gives hope to many inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients like her. Mengjun, 28, was diagnosed with IBD when she was graduating from senior secondary school. She said she was the “one unlucky person in 30,000” in China. She also has a more breathtaking identity: a survivor of the devastating 2
What GAO Found The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for planning, designing, and constructing much of the nation’s federally funded flood risk management infrastructure. The Corps usually does not request funds for disaster response during the annual budget cycle but instead receives supplemental appropriations for such activities after a disaster has occurred. In fiscal year (FY) 2004
What GAO Found Various federal land and water management agencies and Tribes have entered into shared decision-making agreements. Under these agreements, Tribes provide substantive input on federal natural and cultural resource management decisions over many years. The relevant federal agencies are the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, the Interior, and their subcomponents. The subcomponents i
What GAO Found The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) provided about $41.5 billion in supplemental appropriations to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for grants and other investments to reduce air pollution and enhance national climate resilience. EPA primarily used the appropriations to create new grant programs and has awarded hundreds of grants. In 2025, EPA terminated grants f
What GAO Found Ten of the 13 B-52 modernizations are experiencing cost, schedule, or performance challenges. The Air Force’s most expensive B-52 modernization effort, the Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP) will likely continue to face significant challenges as the Air Force plans to begin production with little to no developmental flight testing. While the Air Force analyzed and accepted
A Guardian investigation has revealed that a political lobbying firm, founded by the former electoral strategist for David Cameron and Boris Johnson, secretly pays journalists to write pieces for British newspapers that are favourable to its clients. In a practice that appears to create a back door for private companies to influence public opinion, lobbyists for CT Group, which was co-founded by t
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, nodejs-nodemon, nodejs22, nodejs24, openssh, and vim), Debian (gsasl and ruby-rack), Fedora (dokuwiki, lego, libnbd, nasm, pack, unbound, and valkey), Mageia (389-ds-base, libxfont2, nghttp2, and perl-DBI), SUSE (apptainer, bind, ffmpeg-7, freerdp, google-osconfig-agent, graphicsmagick, helm, ImageMagick, java-17-openjdk, java-25-openjdk, key
The Arch Linux DevOps team has announced that adoption of orphaned packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) has been disabled due to " the current influx of malicious package adoptions and follow-up commits made via the AUR ". Michael Taggart has posted a brief analysis of the malware being added to a long list of packages in this round of attacks. The payload appears to be an remote-access troj
Live, rolling coverage as London’s biggest companies defy Middle East disruption and UK petrol prices rise to around £1.60 per litre, the highest since Donald Trump ordered renewed strikes The story piquing the interest of the financial press this morning is that of Leopold Aschenbrenner , the AI Wunderkind (he’s German-born) who has been forced to sell off his fund in a fire sale after the AI boo
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible. * WHERE...Portions of south central New Mexico, including all of Otero County and extreme eastern Sierra and Dona Ana Counties and in southwest Texas, including the following areas, El Paso County and western Hudspeth County * WHEN...From Saturday afternoon through Saturday evening. * IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of c
Injectable PrEP drug holds promise but investment in HIV prevention has declined dramatically worldwide Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email New innovations in HIV prevention could dramatically reduce the number of new HIV cases around the globe, but US foreign aid cuts will mean that those that most need the new medication will be unable to access it, according to experts at the Aids
The chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.8, reducing the probability of an attacker succeeding within 15 attempts from 5.5% to 2.0%, and from 0.5% to 0.2% on 1 attempt. It also improved on Sonnet 5 (5.9% at k=15) and Mythos 5 (2.6%), making it the most robust model evaluated. Opus 5 also outperformed all non-Claude models on this benchmark. The most robust non-Cl
Hey HN, I've had a side-project that I've slowly ticked away at over the last year called Tilde. Tilde is a harness SDK platform - I've tried to take the best things of OpenClaw, Hermes & other harnesses and decompose them and make them available as cloud API building blocks. You can use Tilde to create AI agents for your use case, fast and self-host the agent's yourself. The documentation (and at
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 UBS Head of US Rates Strategy Phoebe White, Glide Identity Founder & CEO Eran Haggiag & Verizon Business Senior VP, Chief Product Officer Scott Lawrence, Rosenblatt Securities Senior Research Analyst & Managing Director Barton
Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, warns that a new US attack on Iran could trigger a "major and drastic" expansion of the conflict. His comments come amid reports that President Donald Trump has ordered a fresh round of strikes that could begin as soon as this weekend, as the US and Israel reportedly consider targeting Iranian energy infrastruct
Laura Galante, a former director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, warns that Iran could retaliate against new US strikes with cyberattacks on American infrastructure, citing "good precedent" and encouraging operators to strengthen basic defenses as the risk grows. Her comments come after reports that US and state officials believe Iranian hackers were likely behind attacks on m
This week, Harvard professor and former Obama economic adviser Jason Furman discusses the Fed rate decision and the challenges facing Chairman Kevin Warsh. Plus, the European Union is rewriting its merger rules in a bid to create tech giants that can compete with America. Later, Johnson & Johnson entered the fast-growing robotic surgery race years behind its rivals, but it’s betting a different ap
President Trump said in a Saturday evening social media post that he would order U.S. forces to hold off on new strikes against Iran, saying Middle East allies had agreed on parameters for a possible deal to end the five-month-old war [wral.com#1]. He wrote that the emerging deal would include the “Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT” and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat [wr
Second interview process I attempted in this unemployment round, again another AI tooling question that I decided to answer honestly. Of course, that means a rejection. But to be honest, I’d rather keep my integrity intact and do something else. Software dev is not the only thing I know how to do; it’s definitely the most lucrative, and probably the one I can do best by virtue of time investment.
More progress towards Stylo.Bot sales today;; working out the Harbor docker image hosting & gitea build runners. Also worked out my multi-node system for Startup and Enterprise levels; made it super simple ranges from Postgres NOTIFY queues through full Redis etc support...oh AND a mesh mode which allows no extra service. So SHOULD hit my August 1st target to start selling it. Not perfect yet...bu
2026-07-30 RDP # Honeypot IOCs - 3598 scans Thread with top 3 features in each category and links to the full dataset # DFIR # InfoSec Top IPs: 5.44.100.245 - 2947 134.199.148.184 - 495 102.88.21.136 - 30 Top ASNs: AS8648 - 2947 AS14061 - 498 AS396982 - 36 Top Accounts: hello - 3502 eltons - 15 administr - 15 Top ISPs: Alvotech GmbH via velia.net - 2947 DigitalOcean, LLC - 498 Google LLC - 36 Top
2026-07-30 RDP # Honeypot IOCs - 3599 scans Thread with top 3 features in each category and links to the full dataset # DFIR # InfoSec Top IPs: 5.44.100.245 - 2948 134.199.148.184 - 495 102.88.21.136 - 30 Top ASNs: AS8648 - 2948 AS14061 - 498 AS396982 - 36 Top Accounts: hello - 3503 eltons - 15 administr - 15 Top ISPs: Alvotech GmbH via velia.net - 2948 DigitalOcean, LLC - 498 Google LLC - 36 Top
2026-07-30 RDP # Honeypot IOCs - 3600 scans Thread with top 3 features in each category and links to the full dataset # DFIR # InfoSec Top IPs: 5.44.100.245 - 2949 134.199.148.184 - 495 102.88.21.136 - 30 Top ASNs: AS8648 - 2949 AS14061 - 498 AS396982 - 36 Top Accounts: hello - 3504 eltons - 15 administr - 15 Top ISPs: Alvotech GmbH via velia.net - 2949 DigitalOcean, LLC - 498 Google LLC - 36 Top
New EU transparency rules under the AI Act took effect on Aug. 2, 2026, requiring companies to tell users when they are interacting with an AI system such as a chatbot, AI agent or avatar, and to label certain AI-generated or manipulated content [europa.eu#1][rte.ie#1][wired.com#1][ft.com#1]. The obligations cover deepfakes and realistic images, audio and video resembling existing people, objects,
European Central Bank executive board member Frank Elderson warned that climate change and nature loss pose a growing threat to the global economy and financial stability, saying the ECB is increasing its monitoring of bank exposures linked to weakening “ecosystem services,” or natural processes that support human activity [theguardian.com#1][fena.ba#1]. Elderson said those services are “in rapid
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Surveillance cameras installed after repeated mail-theft complaints captured a man taking mail from a west Miami-Dade residential complex early Friday, residents and the installer told local media [nbcmiami.com#1][local10.com#1][wsvn.com#1]. NBC Miami and WSVN identified the property as Parkside of Fontainebleau, while Local 10 described it as Parkview Condominiums; the video shows a man arriving
Steelmaker Jindal Steel told the Italian Chamber of Deputies' Finance Committee that it remains ready to complete the purchase of former Ilva, according to Il Sole 24 Ore [ilsole24ore.com#1]. The company said it had largely reached an agreement on Ilva and confirmed its willingness to proceed with the acquisition [ilsole24ore.com#1]. Corriere della Sera reported that Jindal executive Misra reitera
Microsoft plans to reduce Windows 11's memory footprint to make the operating system faster and more responsive on PCs with 8GB of RAM or more, Windows and Devices President Pavan Davuluri said in an update on the company's Windows quality work [ghacks.net#1][tomshardware.com#1][digitaltrends.com#1][wccftech.com#1][computerbase.de#1][tweakers.net#1][lesnumeriques.com#1][itc.ua#1]. The effort follo
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency said Aug. 1 it received reports of two tanker incidents off Oman near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. In one, a vessel was struck by an unknown projectile about 11 nautical miles northeast of Lima, damaging its engine room and leaving it not under command [scmp.com#1][arabtimesonline.com#2][aawsat.com#1][boereport.com#1]. UKMTO said no casu
Companies across Asia are moving from experimental generative AI use to AI agents, AI-native products and sector-specific automation, while executives and industry groups say adoption depends on governance, security, workflow redesign and customer trust [dawn.com#1][digitimes.com#1][techinasia.com#1][yna.co.kr#1][yna.co.kr#2][vietnamplus.vn#1]. HP Korea executive So Byung-hong told Yonhap that AI
August opens with a cluster of skywatching events, led by a total solar eclipse on Aug. 12 whose path of totality crosses eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain, with deep partial views across parts of North America, Europe and North Africa [astronomy.com#2][livescience.com#1][adaderana.lk#1]. Live Science reported that skywatchers across North America, Europe and North Africa will
Italian fuel prices kept rising during the first August holiday weekend, with gasoline near €2 a litre and diesel heading toward €2.10 even as Brent crude appeared to ease, Il Sole 24 Ore reported [ilsole24ore.com#1]. Corriere della Sera said gasoline stayed below €2 on the main summer departure day, while about 26 million Italians were on the roads over the weekend [corriere.it#1]. The July incre
Kuwait said its armed forces detected and destroyed hostile drones inside Kuwaiti airspace beginning at dawn Saturday, Aug. 1, after what officials described as an Iranian attack on vital installations [gulf-times.com#1][thepeninsulaqatar.com#1][aawsat.com#1][kuwaittimes.com#1]. Officials said the attack targeted a government facility in northern Kuwait and civilian vehicles belonging to a private
Data: Axios research; Chart: Sara Wise/Axios Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released a powerful new coding model Friday that charges pennies for vast amounts of code — the latest sign that some of the smartest software on Earth is rapidly becoming a commodity . Why it matters: Tech giants are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the computing infrastructure powering the AI revolution. Yet the int
Samsung’s Galaxy Z8 line is drawing early reviews after the company unveiled three foldable phones: the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra and Galaxy Z Flip 8. The lineup includes two book-style Fold models for the first time [androidcentral.com#1][engadget.com#1][androidpolice.com#1]. Samsung has pitched the three devices to different types of consumers, while reviewers have examined whether
NASA's Curiosity rover entered a Martian valley nicknamed Valle Grande and returned images of a broad field of honeycomb-like polygonal fractures, each about 1.5 to 3 inches, or 4 to 8 centimeters, across [sciencedaily.com#1][zmescience.com#1][goodnewsnetwork.org#1][slashdot.org#1]. The rover had seen smaller patches of similar geometric patterns before, but NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said t
A study published July 28 in JGR Biogeosciences says the Chicxulub impact about 66 million years ago may have produced an intense early heat pulse, adding a more immediate lethal mechanism to the long-standing explanation that a years-long impact winter helped wipe out non-avian dinosaurs [ithome.com#1]. Space.com described the proposed mechanism as a blanket of fine dust from the impactor that in
TechCrunch profiled apps that restrict or delay access to distracting services until users move, complete missions or meet personal goals [techcrunch.com#1]. The Guardian reported on British screen-free experiences, including floating retreats, mobile-free pubs and sauna book groups, where participants spend time without their phones [theguardian.com#1]. TechCrunch’s roundup included Digital Carro
Trump Media & Technology Group launched Truth API on Aug. 1, a paid data service that gives subscribers faster access to Truth Social posts by President Trump and other high-profile accounts [cnbc.com#1][theguardian.com#1][france24.com#1][beijingtimes.com#1]. The service is aimed at trading firms, investors, banks, media organizations and other clients willing to pay up to $100,000 a month for fas
Researchers led by scientists at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam reported evidence that some micro- and nanoplastics may cross the placental barrier and alter steroid hormone production during pregnancy, in a study published in Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology [sciencealert.com#1][digi24.ro#1]. ScienceAlert said researchers still know little about the health effects of these particles once they e
Recent surveys and commentary point to rising public resistance to artificial intelligence in daily life and work. A Bentley University-Gallup poll cited by Futurism found growing U.S. concern that AI does more harm than good [futurism.com#1]. The poll also found rising self-reported AI knowledge among Americans [futurism.com#1]. In Britain, the Digital Futures Institute at King’s College London a
Details of Google’s Pixel 11 lineup leaked before the company’s Made by Google event, scheduled for Aug. 12 in New York City, where Google is expected to show its next Pixel phones [mashable.com#1][mashable.com#2]. Android Headlines said it obtained full specifications and US and European pricing for the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL and Pixel 11 Pro Fold. The Verge said the leak broadly
In August market commentary, Marc Chandler wrote that the U.S. dollar pulled back in late July after the FOMC failed to convince investors it remained serious about returning inflation to its 2% target, a target he said it had missed for more than five years [seekingalpha.com#1]. Chandler also noted that the eurozone grew 0.2% in the second quarter after stagnating in the first quarter, leaving ye
GNOME developers ended July by publishing a proposed project-wide Request for Comments framework for discussion on GNOME Discourse. Sophie Herold is working on the framework through the GNOME Fellowship program as part of a governance initiative [phoronix.com#1]. The same weekly update said GNOME Shell extension reviewers have faced a flood of AI-generated submissions showing “the same exact bad p
LinuxLinks published August 1-2 reviews of free and open-source terminal and command-line tools for Linux users, including Gōsuto for Matrix messaging, TTT Editor for terminal-based development, Pueue and gob for task and process management, diskbloom for disk-usage visualization, glab-tui for GitLab and GitHub workflows, two emoji tools, and two terminal weather applications [linuxlinks.com#1][li
StatCounter’s July 2026 desktop operating-system data showed Linux above 10% in North America for the first time, with Linuxiac citing 10.65% and XDA citing 10.61% from the tracker [linuxiac.com#1][xda-developers.com#1]. Tux Machines separately said GNU/Linux had caught up with macOS globally at about 8%, while Reddit discussions circulated StatCounter figures around 7.5% to 7.53% [tuxmachines.org
Personal-finance articles published Aug. 1 and Aug. 2 focused on retirement planning risks as Americans live longer, with MarketWatch warning that the U.S. retirement system faces pressure from longer lifespans and that many households remain financially unprepared [marketwatch.com#1]. Related pieces examined the difficulty of spending down assets after decades of saving, including the case of a 7
Recent reports and commentary describe a possible change in Apple’s iPhone roadmap, centered on a 20th-anniversary model in 2027, a revised iPhone 18 launch cadence, and a follow-up 2028 device that may refine the same design direction [9to5mac.com#1][digitaltrends.com#1][macrumors.com#1]. Apple has not announced these products, and several accounts frame the details as leaks, rumors or analyst ex
A new study led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology examined whether Neptune’s rings and three inner moons — Proteus, Larissa and Galatea — are remnants of larger ancient icy worlds that broke apart earlier in the planet’s history [universetoday.com#1]. Universe Today reported that the team used the Near-Infrared Spectrograph aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study t
Former Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh was transferred to Roumieh prison on Saturday following a judge's order, after being placed under police guard at Bhannes Hospital north of Beirut, Annahar reported and a judicial official told AFP [annahar.com#1][aawsat.com#1][alarabiya.net#1][thenationalnews.com#1]. Salameh had been due to appear in court on Thursday over a complaint filed by cu
Linux distribution projects opened August 2026 with new installation media, rolling updates and release notes across Arch-derived, Debian-derived and minimalist systems. Arch Linux published its 2026.08.01 ISO, the first Arch image to ship with Linux 7.1 by default. Linuxiac identified the kernel as Linux 7.1.5 and noted that monthly Arch ISOs are refreshed install media, not separate distribution
YouTuber, novelist and science communicator Hank Green apologized to viewers after criticism of his use of AI tools in content research, saying he had relied too heavily on ChatGPT and would slow his output [techcrunch.com#1][businessinsider.com#1][ithome.com#1]. TechCrunch reported that the dispute began after Green used the phrase “I appreciate the pushback” in a Complexly educational video, lea
Wall Street heads into the first week of August focused on the monthly U.S. jobs report and earnings from large companies including Clorox, Marriott International, SpaceX, McDonald’s and Expedia Group [abcnews.com#1][seattletimes.com#2]. Bloomberg reported that U.S. employers likely increased hiring in July after a disappointing June, pointing to continued demand for workers despite geopolitical c
Three energy reports described solar power expanding in different settings: Zambia is adding generation after drought-hit hydropower contributed to loadshedding of up to 20 hours a day, Romania’s Nofar Energy has started supplying power from a 146 MW solar plant in Giurgiu county, and developers are studying space-based mirrors that could redirect sunlight to solar farms [cleantechnica.com#1][serb
The NetBSD Project announced NetBSD 11.0 on August 1, calling it the operating system’s nineteenth major release [netbsd.org#1][linuxiac.com#1][distrowatch.com#1][phoronix.com#1]. The release adds NetBSD’s first stable 64-bit RISC-V port, with initial support for QEMU virtual machines and StarFive JH7110-based hardware, including the StarFive VisionFive 2 and PINE64 STAR64 boards [linuxiac.com#1][
Recent personal-finance coverage focused on the tension between larger Social Security payouts and the program’s finances, after articles pointed to a possible larger 2027 cost-of-living adjustment and warnings that bigger checks may put the retirement program at risk [google.com#1]. MarketWatch highlighted a related planning issue: delaying Social Security until age 70 increases the monthly payme
Large technology companies are accelerating spending on AI data centers, chips, power and other infrastructure as investors question whether AI revenue will cover the buildout. The Economist reported that America’s largest technology companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, spent $450 billion on infrastructure last year, expect to spend $900 billion this year and could spend $1.4 trillio
Two recent studies reported links between cortisol patterns and a depression treatment and cannabis use. A clinical trial reported by PsyPost found that a single dose of ketamine tended to increase morning cortisol in patients with major depression and suicidal thoughts, with the increase persisting for at least 24 hours after treatment [psypost.org#1]. An Oregon State University study, published
August’s skywatching calendar centers on Aug. 12, when the new Moon will cast its shadow on Earth during a total solar eclipse, according to NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day [nasa.gov#1]. The path of totality will cross Greenland, Iceland, Spain, parts of the North Atlantic and northern Russia; partial phases will be visible across parts of North America, Europe and North Africa [livescience.co
Sen. Mitch McConnell remained hospitalized and missed the St. Jerome Picnic in western Kentucky, a major state political event that the New York Times described as his last chance to attend while still in office [nytimes.com#1]. AlterNet reported that the Kentucky Republican has been hospitalized since mid-June after he was found unresponsive at home and has not been seen or heard from publicly si
The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Chicago White Sox 1-0 on Saturday in St. Petersburg, Florida, one night after Chicago opened the series with a 6-1 win at Tropicana Field [wfla.com#1][sportsnet.ca#1][newsday.com#1][yahoo.co.jp#1]. Drew Rasmussen struck out 10 and allowed four hits over six innings, and Nick Fortes drove in the only run with a fifth-inning RBI single [wfla.com#1][sportsnet.ca#1]. Chicag
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke to President Trump on Saturday and expressed concern over his plans for massive new strikes against Iran , according to two U.S. officials and a third source with knowledge of the call. Why it matters: Trump is seriously considering attacking Iranian energy targets in the coming days in response to Iran's missile strike on a U.S. base in Jordan and its
A truck packed with explosives detonated before dawn Saturday beside a police facility in Cúcuta, a Colombian city near the Venezuelan border, injuring 14 people: 11 police officers and three civilians, according to the latest official toll [thehindu.com#1][scmp.com#1][nacion.com#1][eleconomista.com.mx#1]. Earlier local accounts had put the toll at 11, with eight police officers and three civilian
Galaxy Research said three suspected waves of Bitcoin theft tied to a Coldcard hardware-wallet vulnerability drained 1,367 BTC, worth nearly $89 million, from 4,585 addresses, with a third wave targeting smaller balances between Friday midday and Saturday morning UTC [coindesk.com#1][techinasia.com#1]. The weakness was traced to a March 2021 firmware release that caused seed generation to use soft
Trump Media & Technology Group launched Truth API on Aug. 1, a paid data service that gives subscribers faster access to top Truth Social posts by President Trump and other high-profile accounts [cnbc.com#1][theguardian.com#1][npr.org#1]. The company described the product as “a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform’s most market-moving Truths,” with subscriptions costing up to $100,000
The European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities began enforcing parts of the EU AI Act on 2 August 2026, including transparency rules that require some AI systems to tell users when they are interacting with AI and some AI-generated or manipulated content to carry labels [europa.eu#1][europa.eu#2][taipeitimes.com#1][brecorder.com#1][dawn.com#1]. The obligations cover chatbots and othe
Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, commander of U.S. European Command, warned senior Pentagon officials in writing this week that his command lacks enough naval forces to keep defending Israel from Iranian ballistic missile attacks, The Washington Post reported, citing officials who spoke anonymously [washingtonpost.com#1][haaretz.com#1][aawsat.com#1][ynetnews.com#1][independent.co.uk#1]. Without another U.S
Russia launched a heavy missile and drone attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region early Saturday, killing 10 people and wounding more than 30, Ukrainian officials said [japantoday.com#1][dawn.com#1][rte.ie#1][thecitizen.co.tz#1][tagesschau.de#1][scmp.com#1]. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia fired 35 missiles, including 27 ballistic missiles, and 185 attack drones. He said Ukraine interc
UK employers are creating openings for experienced workers with artificial intelligence skills while cutting back elsewhere, according to Indeed figures cited by Bloomberg and reports from Investing.com and Business Standard [bloomberg.com#1][investing.com#1][business-standard.com#1]. Indeed's figures show demand shifting toward senior technology roles as AI changes hiring patterns [bloomberg.com#
A homemade explosive device detonated near the Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square in central Moscow around 8 p.m. local time on August 1, killing three people and injuring 21, Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee said [bbc.co.uk#1][theguardian.com#1][dw.com#1][cbsnews.com#1][wpbf.com#1]. The committee said an unidentified woman tried to enter the restaurant with the device
Security researchers described several malware-delivery campaigns affecting web users, travelers and macOS users. Attackers modified Adform's trackpoint-async.js file on s2.adform.net, allowing pages that used the advertising technology company's script to rewrite Bitcoin, Ethereum or Tron wallet addresses while an affected page remained open; Adform said it detected the incident on July 27, remov
Three people were killed and seven others were injured, some critically, in a shooting Saturday afternoon at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, city public information officer Josh Palmer said [scmp.com#1][abcnews.com#1][japantoday.com#1][alarabiya.net#1][ksl.com#1][theguardian.com#1][inquirer.net#1][aawsat.com#1]. Police found the body of the suspected gunman near the restaurant,
Cybersecurity disclosures detailed data breaches affecting consumer, healthcare and government records. SplitVPN, a Russian VPN provider previously known as NotVPN, exposed 865,336 accounts in a July 2026 incident, including email addresses, IP addresses, user countries and partial payment-card data [cybersecuritynews.com#1][haveibeenpwned.com#1]. Brinks Home confirmed unauthorized access to its I
Hong Kong will raise its full-year economic growth forecast after a stronger-than-expected performance in the first half of 2026, the finance chief has said, with experts predicting gross domestic product (GDP) could easily hit 4 per cent. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po also said on Sunday that the city would step up efforts to promote the global use of the renminbi after the debut of offshor
Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama is expected to announce on Monday, Aug. 3, that Tokyo and Washington took joint action in currency markets to halt the yen’s slide toward 40-year lows, two Japanese government officials told Reuters [brecorder.com#1][diepresse.com#1][businesstimes.com.sg#1]. One official said the operation was continuing, while Japan’s Finance Ministry and the US Treasury
David Crisafulli says ‘Queenslanders will enjoy for generations’ as opponents point to lack of detail Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Queensland government has released new concept images for a parkland precinct to surround the 2032 Olympic stadium, as it seeks to quell concern at the loss of Brisbane’s largest
Three economy-related reading pieces published on Aug. 1 focused on debt, automation, defense business and labor history. Alternatives Economiques led its weekly selection with a field investigation by socio-economist Isabelle Guérin on gendered relationships to money and the workings of financial capitalism [alternatives-economiques.fr#1]. Barry Ritholtz’s “10 Weekend Reads” highlighted long-form
Visible impact of warming climate is impossible to ignore across landscapes that have been starved of rainfall Half of England and the whole of Wales are officially in drought and July is set to be the driest month on record as extreme heat intensified by the climate crisis continues to grip the UK and Europe this summer. The announcements this week by England’s Environment Agency and Natural Reso
Silicon Valley's AI moguls are flooding Washington with competing blueprints for superintelligence, clashing over a defining question: Does safety come from spreading powerful AI or containing it? Why it matters: Their fight will shape who gets access to the best models, how America competes with China, and whether the government can slow the race in an emergency. Driving the news: Alarming develo
President Trump doesn't much care if Republicans lose the House and/or the Senate in the midterms this fall. Yes, he'd prefer a big win, but he seems indifferent to the election and the possibility of endless Democratic investigations of his family, wealth and policies, his closest advisers tell us. A big reason: Trump knows he'll emerge just as strong, or even stronger, heading into his final two
Six months after Nancy Guthrie was taken against her will from her Arizona home in the middle of the night, there are no suspects or major leads and the case seems to be stalled, a source close to the investigation tells me. "There is plenty of blame to go around, but there is growing pressure to solve this case," the source said. "This case has struck a chord — people are watching very closely. T
Exclusive: Karlene Whitton says her son Matthew Roberts took his own life three months into his jail term. ‘I keep picturing it every night’ Warning: This article contains images and names of Indigenous Australians who have died Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast First Nations advocates warn that prisons in New South
The Wall Street Journal opinion page tried to stop Donald Trump a decade ago and again in 2024. Now, the standard-bearer of traditional conservatism is making an early case against his presumed heir. Why it matters: Vice President JD Vance has the inside track for Trump's endorsement. But there's a not-insignificant GOP faction that never embraced Trump's overhaul of the party — and is already arg
Lowe says the two should put ‘personalities and our past disagreements aside for good of the country’ The leader of Restore Britain, Rupert Lowe, has extended an olive branch to Nigel Farage, saying the two should put “personalities and our past disagreements aside for the good of the country”. Lowe told the Reform UK leader that if he was “prepared to work together around serious policies, seriou
Jon Ossoff is having a moment. But some Democratic insiders are questioning whether he's the real deal — or if a few slickly produced videos are making him look like more of a political juggernaut than he is. Why it matters: The Georgia senator, 39, has catapulted into the 2028 conversation by making liberals on social media swoon over his viral clips of high-energy rallies and sharp takedowns of
Gavin Newsom is quietly banking a lot of goodwill among party organizers and elected officials in states — particularly in the South — that will be key in the midterms and the 2028 Democratic presidential primary. Newsom has raised more than $1.7 million for critical state parties and their legislative committees so far this two-year cycle, according to data reviewed by Axios. Why it matters: Stat
Meanwhile fuel excise cut, imposed after outbreak of Iran conflict, ended at midnight on Monday. Follow today’s news live Angus Taylor and Anthony Albanese on leave this week The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, is on leave for most of this week, his office has announced, with the deputy leader, Jane Hume, acting in his stead. NSWRL owes a massive debt of gratitude to Laurie for the service he has
I'm like 50 years late to this realization because I have avoided horror media for most of my life (I mostly still avoid # horror , but I used to, too). A lot of horror is weirdly (to me) idealistic. If spurned dead lovers, innocent death row executions, tortured children, genocided indigenous communities, aggrieved ecosystems, etc. really could wreak havoc from beyond the grave, cops would never
At 744 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7 miles northwest of Carolina Sandhills Wildlife Refuge, or 24 miles northwest of Hartsville, moving northeast at 40 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 to 45 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Cheraw, Pageland, Chesterfield, Ca
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The Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would explore new avenues to allow innovative unlicensed wireless devices to communicate directly with satellites. The item would propose and seek comment on use of certain frequencies available under part 15 of the Commission's rules for communications between Earth and space, including direct-to-device (D2D) services. The NPRM wou
Research and commentary published July 25 challenged near-term predictions of an AI-driven labor-market shock. A Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research policy brief said AI’s effect on overall employment is “likely small” so far. It said AI may be one factor in a difficult job market for recent graduates, productivity effects look mixed but generally positive, and business adoption has ac