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OYO Hotel & Casino Las Vegas (formerly Hooters Hotel & Casino) was hit by a ransomware attack in January. Apparently, LockBit was the culprit.
https://www.casino.org/news/another-las-vegas-casino-suffered-major-data-breach-in-january/

Another Las Vegas Casino Suffered Major Cyberattack — Back in January
The OYO Hotel & Casino Las Vegas (formerly Hooters Hotel & Casino) suffered a significant cyberattack in January 2025, according to court filings first reported by Crain's New York Business on October 14, 2025. The resulting data breach reportedly compromised the personal information of 4,700 casino and hotel guests and employees. The cyber attack surfaced

These days you can simulate anything you want
Driving a train or truck, flying a plane, surgeon, hotel assistant, motel operator, influencer, OF model, goat simulator, power wash simulator, football team manager, breakup simulator
When I was a kid, we barely had sim city, sim ant, flight stimulator, crazy taxi, and katamari
Now you can simulate being a tree or a rock, or a corporate slave tearing apart spaceships

one time when i was like 11 and we were living in a hotel in poland for a month it was my lil brothers birthday and i dont remember this perfect but for some reason i stayed behind while my family was out and i screamed and cried for hours feeling like every inch of me was being torn apart and later when i joined them for something else i was still like that prolly acted like that in public but then i got a lollipop with a smiley face on it and looking at it thru my tears made me smile so th…

This is wild.
EDIT:
https://castle-journal.com/sensational-claims-emerge-following-south-african-ambassadors-tragic-death-in-paris/

Lovely piece, and why I often take small hotel rooms in cities: so I'm forced out to go explore. I especially love this line: "I understood how a metropolis allows you to be solitary without being lonely." People who don't live in cities don't get this.
https://www.nytim…

Opinion | The Paris Métro Smell That Transports Me
A whiff of the Paris Métro flings me back to a summer I spent in France.

Interaction-Driven Browsing: A Human-in-the-Loop Conceptual Framework Informed by Human Web Browsing for Browser-Using Agents
Hyeonggeun Yun, Jinkyu Jang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12049

Interaction-Driven Browsing: A Human-in-the-Loop Conceptual Framework Informed by Human Web Browsing for Browser-Using Agents
Although browser-using agents (BUAs) show promise for web tasks and automation, most BUAs terminate after executing a single instruction, failing to support users' complex, nonlinear browsing with ambiguous goals, iterative decision-making, and changing contexts. We present a human-in-the-loop (HITL) conceptual framework informed by theories of human web browsing behavior. The framework centers on an iterative loop in which the BUA proactively proposes next actions and the user steers the brows…

Scam/phishing bericht binnen (!) de Booking.com app waarin wordt gevraagd om mijn betalingsgegevens te bevestigen, ik rook onraad, even hotel gebeld, het bleek inderdaad phishing, ik was al de twintigste die hem daarover belde.... Booking heeft beveiliging niet op orde. Via Whatsapp kreeg ik vanuit India 😆 hetzelfde verzoek, wel met vermelding van al mijn boekingsgegevens (!). Ik vrees echt dat er flink datalek is bij booking.com

Distribution Testing in the Presence of Arbitrarily Dominant Noise with Verification Queries
Hadley Black, Christopher Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17269 https://

Distribution Testing in the Presence of Arbitrarily Dominant Noise with Verification Queries
We study distribution testing without direct access to a source of relevant data, but rather to one where only a tiny fraction is relevant. To enable this, we introduce the following verification query model. The goal is to perform a statistical task on distribution $\boldsymbol{p}$ given sample access to a mixture $\boldsymbol{r} = λ\boldsymbol{p} + (1-λ)\boldsymbol{q}$ and the ability to query whether a sample was generated by $\boldsymbol{p}$ or by $\boldsymbol{q}$. In general, if $m_0$ sa…