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Russia is coming apart at the seams: sanctions, isolation and an ultimatum from the West: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/russia-is-coming-apart-at.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/house-of-commons-data-breach-1.7608061
House of Commons hit by cyberattack from 'threat actor': internal email

House of Commons hit by cyberattack from 'threat actor': internal email | CBC News
The House of Commons and Canada’s cybersecurity agency are investigating a significant data breach caused by an unknown “threat actor” targeting employee information.

Coming to America -- Trump invites a war criminal to a meeting on U.S. soil (Dan Rather/Steady)
https://steady.substack.com/p/coming-to-america
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p17#a250815p17

Facets of Non-locality and Advantage in Entanglement-Assisted Classical Communication Tasks
Sumit Rout, Anubhav Chaturvedi, Some Sankar Bhattacharya, Pawe{\l} Horodecki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10830

Facets of Non-locality and Advantage in Entanglement-Assisted Classical Communication Tasks
We reveal key connections between non-locality and advantage in correlation-assisted classical communication. First, using the wire-cutting technique, we provide a Bell inequality tailored to any correlation-assisted bounded classical communication task. The violation of this inequality by a quantum correlation is equivalent to its quantum-assisted advantage in the corresponding communication task. Next, we introduce wire-reading, which leverages the readability of classical messages to demonst…

FedBiF: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning via Bits Freezing
Shiwei Li, Qunwei Li, Haozhao Wang, Ruixuan Li, Jianbin Lin, Wenliang Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10161

FedBiF: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning via Bits Freezing
Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training without sharing local data. Despite its advantages, FL suffers from substantial communication overhead, which can affect training efficiency. Recent efforts have mitigated this issue by quantizing model updates to reduce communication costs. However, most existing methods apply quantization only after local training, introducing quantization errors into the trained parameters a…

Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey is coming for GOAT status -- and an NFL record may be weeks away

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Global Communication:
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https://trsnt.bandcamp.com/track/global-communication-14-31-transient-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/31NqxiLbyEYuH2voZoHk61

Fairness-Aware Secure Integrated Sensing and Communications with Fractional Programming
Ali Khandan Boroujeni, Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, Stefan K\"opsell, Ghazal Bagheri, Rafael F. Schaefer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11224

Fairness-Aware Secure Integrated Sensing and Communications with Fractional Programming
We propose a novel secure integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system designed to serve multiple communication users (CUs) and targets. To that end, we formulate an optimization problem that maximizes the secrecy rate under constraints balancing both communication and sensing requirements. To enhance fairness among users, an entropy-regularized fairness metric is introduced within the problem framework. We then propose a solution employing an accelerated quadratic transform (QT) with a …

Denmark to provide European-produced satellite communication services to Ukraine's military: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/denmark-to-provide-europeanproduced-satellite.html

Practical Routing and Criticality in Large-Scale Quantum Communication Networks
Cillian Harney, Stefano Pirandola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10908 https://…

Practical Routing and Criticality in Large-Scale Quantum Communication Networks
The efficacy of a communication network hinges upon both its physical architecture and the protocols that are employed within it. In the context of quantum communications, there exists a fundamental rate-loss tradeoff for point-to-point quantum channels such that the rate for distributing entanglement, secret keys, or quantum states decays exponentially with respect to transmission distance. Quantum networks are the solution to overcome point-to-point limitations, but they simultaneously invite…