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Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for a ton of critical infosec developments you should know, including
--UK to spend $1.1 billion relocating Afghan helpers following data breach
--DOGE worker published the private key for four dozen-plus LLMs,
--US gov't IT contractor to pay $14.75m fine for overstated cyber services,
--Italian cops arrest Romanian behind 'Diskstation' ransomware gang,
--OMB readies post-quantum standard,
--MSFT'…

UK to spend $1.1 billion relocating Afghan helpers following data breach
DOGE worker published the private key for four dozen-plus LLMs, US gov't IT contractor to pay $14.75m fine for overstated cyber services, Italian cops arrest Romanian behind 'Diskstation' ransomware gang, OMB readies post-quantum standard, MSFT's 'digital escorts' leave DoD vulnerable, much more

Efficacy of Galaxy Catalogues for following up gravitational wave events
Tamojeet Roychowdhury, Harsh Choudhary, Varun Bhalerao, David O. Cook, Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Harsh Kumar, Surhud More, Gaurav Waratkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11635

Efficacy of Galaxy Catalogues for following up gravitational wave events
The detection of gravitational waves (GW) by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network has opened up a new era in astrophysics. The identification of the electromagnetic counterparts of GW sources is crucial for multi-messenger astronomy, one way of which is to use galaxy catalogues to guide optical follow-up observations. In this paper, we test the utility of galaxy-targeted approach with mass prioritised galaxy ranking for the ongoing LIGO O4 run. We have used the simulated results for the expected …

Thermal scalar field stress tensor on a two dimensional black hole and its near horizon properties
Saurav Samanta, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11174

Thermal scalar field stress tensor on a two dimensional black hole and its near horizon properties
We calculate the thermal renormalized energy-momentum tensor components of a massless scalar field, leading to trace anomaly, on a $(1+1)$ dimensional static black hole spacetime. Using these, the energy density and flux, seen by both static and freely-falling observers, are evaluated. Interestingly for both these observers the aforementioned quantities in Unruh and Boulware vacua are finite at the horizon when the scalar field is in thermal equilibrium with the horizon temperature (given by th…

Ransomware Group Anubis has leaked what they extracted from Disneyland Paris
#ransomware

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Ransomware.live tracks ransomware groups and their activity. It was created by Julien Mousqueton, a security researcher. The website provides information on the groups' infrastructure, victims, and payment demands. It also includes a live map that shows the latest ransomware attacks.

Early Modern Women: Figures, Labors, Afterlives (RSA 2026)
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Following Supreme Court Order on Federal Employee Layoffs, Ranking Member Markey Introduces Legislation to Prevent Workforce Cuts at the Small Business Administration (Bill Text/U.S. Committee on Small Business ...)
https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=005D76A0-BF59-4406-B83F-1F85BA0AC2CD
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p89#a250711p89

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Stress-induced Martensitic transformation in epitaxial Ni-Mn-Ga thin films and its correlation to optical and magneto-optical properties
M. Make\v{s}, J. Z\'azvorka, M. Hubert, P. Ve\v{r}t\'at, M. Rame\v{s}, J. Zemen, O. Heczko, M. Veis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04907

Stress-induced Martensitic transformation in epitaxial Ni-Mn-Ga thin films and its correlation to optical and magneto-optical properties
The optical and magneto-optical properties of thin epitaxial Ni-Mn-Ga films, with thicknesses ranging from 8 to 160 nm, were investigated across the spectral range of 0.7-6.4 eV. The films were deposited by DC magnetron sputtering on MgO substrate with stress-mediating Cr buffer layer. Structural and magnetic characterization revealed an stress-induced martensitic transformation for the films thicker than 80 nm, while thinner films remained in austenite structure deformed by substrate constrain…

Shifting from Ranking to Set Selection for Retrieval Augmented Generation
Dahyun Lee, Yongrae Jo, Haeju Park, Moontae Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06838 …

Shifting from Ranking to Set Selection for Retrieval Augmented Generation
Retrieval in Retrieval-Augmented Generation(RAG) must ensure that retrieved passages are not only individually relevant but also collectively form a comprehensive set. Existing approaches primarily rerank top-k passages based on their individual relevance, often failing to meet the information needs of complex queries in multi-hop question answering. In this work, we propose a set-wise passage selection approach and introduce SETR, which explicitly identifies the information requirements of a q…

Nonmention:
If you are victim to a ransomware attack and your data gets leaked on the darknet, you shouldn't write a press release that this happened "despite your high security standards", when everyone can see your standards in your password file PW.docx.
#infosec #ransomware