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As Cyber Threats Escalate, the National Vulnerability Database Is Falling Behind
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is struggling.
It faces a growing backlog to process data in its vulnerability repository, which publicly shares information assessing and detailing mitigation solutions against new cyber exploits.
With nearly 1,800 new reported vulnerabilities sitting in a queue for analysis this year, delays in processing leave the United States increa…

Looking for other people here who're interested in analog "alt process" photography (especially Kallitype & salt prints in general) and who are also making their own prints. There used to be a few more such people in my TL, but they all seem to have vanished or stopped posting in the past year, and generally it feels there's precious little interest in this topic on Mastodon... (I too have a feeling, either my own photography went drastically downhill over the past 3-4 …

Precise Attribute Intensity Control in Large Language Models via Targeted Representation Editing
Rongzhi Zhang, Liqin Ye, Yuzhao Heng, Xiang Chen, Tong Yu, Lingkai Kong, Sudheer Chava, Chao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12121

Precise Attribute Intensity Control in Large Language Models via Targeted Representation Editing
Precise attribute intensity control--generating Large Language Model (LLM) outputs with specific, user-defined attribute intensities--is crucial for AI systems adaptable to diverse user expectations. Current LLM alignment methods, however, typically provide only directional or open-ended guidance, failing to reliably achieve exact attribute intensities. We address this limitation with three key designs: (1) reformulating precise attribute intensity control as a target-reaching problem, rather t…

With the emergence of more processors with 64 cores or more, I'm thinking more about whether it makes sense to implement a hypercube virtualised on a single chip with a single vector of memory, or as a literal hypercube of 64 (say) RP2350s. I understand the problems of transferring data across a hypercube, but I don't have a good feeling of how the bus contention on a multicore processor scales. What should I read?

Implementing post scarcity hardware
Prototype work towards building a post-scarcity software system

Matchmaker: An Open-source Library for Real-time Piano Score Following and Systematic Evaluation
Jiyun Park, Carlos Cancino-Chac\'on, Suhit Chiruthapudi, Juhan Nam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10087 …

Matchmaker: An Open-source Library for Real-time Piano Score Following and Systematic Evaluation
Real-time music alignment, also known as score following, is a fundamental MIR task with a long history and is essential for many interactive applications. Despite its importance, there has not been a unified open framework for comparing models, largely due to the inherent complexity of real-time processing and the language- or system-dependent implementations. In addition, low compatibility with the existing MIR environment has made it difficult to develop benchmarks using large datasets avail…

Trajectory control of a suspended load with non-stopping flying carriers
Sofia Girardello, Giulia Michieletto, Angelo Cenedese, Antonio Franchi, Chiara Gabellieri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11413

Trajectory control of a suspended load with non-stopping flying carriers
This paper presents the first closed-loop control framework for cooperative payload transportation with non-stopping flying carriers. Building upon grasp-matrix formulations and internal force redundancy, we propose a feedback wrench controller that actively regulates the payload's pose while an optimization layer dynamically shapes internal-force oscillations to guarantee persistent carrier motion. Preliminary experimental results on multirotor UAVs validate the model assumptions, and numerica…

Really feeling the slowness of #fsharp compilation process. I am surprised they haven't made more progress in this area but I am sure I am not understanding the full complexities involved - or perhaps it's not a big enough issue to warrant too much attention. Either way. The only thing that's missing for this beautiful ecosystem of f#/.net world in my book.

Registration for HRM26 Hellenic Mountain Race 2026 is now live. May 23-30, 2026
https://themountainraces.eventrac.co.uk/e/hellenic-mountain-race-14449

Hellenic Mountain Race
Welcome to the application process for Hellenic Mountain Race 2026 The application process is divided into the following two stages STAGE ONE: Choose your entry category and submit your personal information to receive a confirmation email with a...

ACE-G: Improving Generalization of Scene Coordinate Regression Through Query Pre-Training
Leonard Bruns, Axel Barroso-Laguna, Tommaso Cavallari, \'Aron Monszpart, Sowmya Munukutla, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Eric Brachmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11605

ACE-G: Improving Generalization of Scene Coordinate Regression Through Query Pre-Training
Scene coordinate regression (SCR) has established itself as a promising learning-based approach to visual relocalization. After mere minutes of scene-specific training, SCR models estimate camera poses of query images with high accuracy. Still, SCR methods fall short of the generalization capabilities of more classical feature-matching approaches. When imaging conditions of query images, such as lighting or viewpoint, are too different from the training views, SCR models fail. Failing to genera…