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Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites: #SatelliteCommunication: https://www.heise.de/en/news/US-Researchers-Intercept-Unencrypted-Satellite-Communication-10767672.html - US researchers have investigated satellite data traffic using commercial equipment; much of it, including security-relevant data, was unencrypted.

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Day 23: Thi Bui
Indirect CW: parental neglect, war, intergenerational trauma
Bui is the author of "The Best We Could Do", a graphic memoir which explores her relationship with her parents and unpacks some of the intergenerational trauma coming out of the Vietnam War. It has a lot of wisdom to offer about both dealing with troubled parents as a 1.5th-generation immigrant, and it delves deeply into her parents' histories in Vietnam and the complexities of the situation there both in the north and in the south. It's beautifully illustrated and very nicely plotted together given all the disparate threads it is working with.
I haven't read any of Bui's other work, but it looks like she's published a picture book for kids as well as a series of short comics during the pandemic. Besides Oseman who also writes non-illustrated fiction and the two manga artists Ice mentioned, Bui is the first graphic novel author I've included here, but I've actually got quite a few of them in my longer list, one of whom may make it into the 30 I'll include in this thread. These days I'm reading a bunch of graphic novels since they're easy to get through, and the variety of stories and perspectives in that space is wonderful these days, with a huge array of indie stuff that probably never would have gotten off the ground in traditional publishing/comics spaces.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Using STAR-IRS to Secure Indoor Communications Through Symbol-Level Random Phase Modulation
Yanan Du, Zeyang Sun, Yilan Zhang, Sai Xu, Beiyuan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11925

Using STAR-IRS to Secure Indoor Communications Through Symbol-Level Random Phase Modulation
This paper proposes a secure indoor communication scheme based on simultaneous transmitting and reflecting intelligent reflecting surface (STAR-IRS). Specifically, a transmitter (Alice) sends confidential information to its intended user (Bob) indoors, while several eavesdroppers (Eves) lurk outside. To safeguard the transmission from eavesdropping, the STAR-IRS is deployed on walls or windows. Upon impinging on the STAR-IRS, the incoming electromagnetic wave is dynamically partitioned into two…

We warned you MAGA would use Charlie Kirk’s senseless killing as a pretext to go after their political enemies. 
A few weeks later, and here we are…
🚩JD Vance promised to go after nonprofits and leftists orgs he blames for violence
🚩Stephen Miller vowed to use Homeland Security and the Justice Department to “disrupt” these groups 
🚩Trump threatened to slap a domestic terror label on 𝘢𝘯𝘺 group he chooses
That’s the entire White House ready to brand any Democrat-a…

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Fuck the United States of America.
And Israel, of course.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. https://norden.social/@stephie_hamburg/115555340426223090

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Linyi Yang, Yixuan Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12194 https://

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Current deep-research agents run in a ''fire-and-forget'' mode: once started, they give users no way to fix errors or add expert knowledge during execution. We present ResearStudio, the first open-source framework that places real-time human control at its core. The system follows a Collaborative Workshop design. A hierarchical Planner-Executor writes every step to a live ''plan-as-document,'' a fast communication layer streams each action, file change, and tool call to a web interface. At any …

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Another distro upgrade, another server not coming up after Debian bookworm -> trixie update.
As usual the box booted fine and the culprit was "predictable" network interfaces changing names again.
All of my configs refer to ens2f0 and ens2f1, while the NIC is now called enp25s0f0/1.

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps