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We've reached the point in the evolution of cyber scamming where military units are blowing up buildings to stop the digital crimes.
Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up
https://apnews.com/artic…

Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up
A Thai regional army commander say that the number of people fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand after Myanmar’s military shut down a major online scam center has slowed to a trickle. The news on Tuesday came after more than 1,500 people had left in the past week. The KK Park site was identified by Thai officials and independent experts as housing a major cybercrime operation. It was raided by Myanmar’s army in mid-October as part of operations starting in early September to suppress cross-bor…

"I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing on the way that a signboard had one word spelled wrong, and wondering in his headlong flight why nobody had thought of correcting it. In a sense, we all are crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall."
— Nabokov

My latest haul, for anyone interested, contains the following volumes:
Test Driven Development by Example: https://www.powells.com/book/test-driven-development-by-example-9780321146533
Building Serverless Applications on Knative:

Day 6: Kamome Shirahama
Before I wander much father afield, I'd be remiss not to include at least one Mangaka (I've got 8 on my planning list; if you think Manga is pushing it just wait until you see what the next few days have in store).
I'm currently following "Witch Hat Atelier," and it's absolutely amazing in several dimensions: first class world-building, deep philosophical themes, nuanced diverse cast, tightly-constructed interwoven plots, deep mysteries that keep everything churning and show up in unexpected places, absolutely stellar art both in terms of in-panel depictions and page layouts (some are Watchmen-quality), especially if you are sartorially inclined, and general kindness of its core messages. This is a series I wish every programmer would read, because it includes excellent advice about software design in multiple ways (did I mention there's an intricate and logical magic system within which the main character innovates in legible-to-the-reader-as-innovation ways?). Also, I bet I would have enjoyed this just a much as a 10-year-old as I'm enjoying it in my 30's, which is something that takes well-honed skill to pull off.
Shirahama is a master of her craft, and I'm honestly kinda surprised to see Witch Hat is only her second series. Definitely thinking how I can get my hands on her earlier work in English.
#20AuthorsNoMen

CrediBench: Building Web-Scale Network Datasets for Information Integrity
Emma Kondrup, Sebastian Sabry, Hussein Abdallah, Zachary Yang, James Zhou, Kellin Pelrine, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Godbout, Michael M. Bronstein, Reihaneh Rabbany, Shenyang Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23340

CrediBench: Building Web-Scale Network Datasets for Information Integrity
Online misinformation poses an escalating threat, amplified by the Internet's open nature and increasingly capable LLMs that generate persuasive yet deceptive content. Existing misinformation detection methods typically focus on either textual content or network structure in isolation, failing to leverage the rich, dynamic interplay between website content and hyperlink relationships that characterizes real-world misinformation ecosystems. We introduce CrediBench: a large-scale data processing …

DyMoDreamer: World Modeling with Dynamic Modulation
Boxuan Zhang, Runqing Wang, Wei Xiao, Weipu Zhang, Jian Sun, Gao Huang, Jie Chen, Gang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24804 …

DyMoDreamer: World Modeling with Dynamic Modulation
A critical bottleneck in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is sample inefficiency, as training high-performance agents often demands extensive environmental interactions. Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) mitigates this by building world models that simulate environmental dynamics and generate synthetic experience, improving sample efficiency. However, conventional world models process observations holistically, failing to decouple dynamic objects and temporal features from static backg…

Concrete Jungle II 🏗️
水泥丛林 II 🏗️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
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Lamar Jackson injury: John Harbaugh rejects idea that Ravens QB could have returned against Chiefs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/lamar-j

Instead of the CHIPS Act money being tied to Intel actually building fabs,
the money is now tied to the government buying into Intel.
That is a different thing.
The specific deal is also different from the concept of the government getting shares as part of a grant to build fabs.
According to the SEC filing, there is less emphasis on fab building and more emphasis on government ownership.
The actual Intel deal is a major change to CHIPS Act purposes
and…

The U.S. Now Owns 10% Of Intel. What That Means For America's Chip Supply.
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Key takeaway is at end of this article [gift link].
Sales of new exurban houses are falling, but there's unmet demand for urban infill. If cities & inner suburbs repeal offstreet parking mandates & cut minimum lot sizes, builders will keep building.

As Housing Demand Continues to Fall, Builders Get Creative
A slow start to the home building market this year has prompted some builders to increase incentives and build on smaller lots.