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In January, Microsoft disclosed that it had been breached again,
this time by Russian state-sponsored hacking group Midnight Blizzard.
The group was able "to compromise a legacy non-production test tenant account" to gain access to Microsoft's systems for "as long as two months."
All of this culminated in a report from the US Cyber Safety Review Board, which castigated Microsoft for its "inadequate" security culture, its "inaccurate pub…

Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches
Microsoft has been criticized for "preventable" failures and poor communication.

Spanish (neo-)Falangist leader meets and expresses support for Israel's PM, 2 days after the #Rafah nighttime massacre. i.e. on the day when Spain recognised #Palestine as a state with East Jerusalem/Al Quds as capital, calling for a return to 1967 border with land corridor from West Bank to

Abascal se reúne con Netanyahu en Israel dos días después de la matanza en Rafah
El presidente de Vox, Santiago Abascal, ha viajado este martes a Israel para reunirse con el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu. El líder de la extrema derecha ha acudido a la cita el mismo día en que España ha anunciado el reconocimiento del Estado palestino y apenas 48 horas después de una nueva matanza en la Franja de Gaza, en esta ocasión en el campo de refugiados de Rafah, donde murieron al menos 45 personas. Unas horas después del Consejo de Ministros en el que el Gobierno…

Anthropic’s Claude AI now available across Europe.Both Claude.ai and the Claude iOS app are available for free and claim “strong levels of comprehension and fluency in French, German, Spanish, Italian, and other European languages.” A Pro version of Amazon’s favorite chatbot unlocks all models and is available for €18 plus tax per month.
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Claude is now available in the EU
We’re excited to announce that Claude, Anthropic’s trusted AI assistant, is now available for people and businesses across Europe to enhance their productivity and creativity.

A new paper with our current findings on the #xz case and potential mitigations is now online at @…: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08987
Please treat as work-in-progress, and there are multiple lines of analysis that we are still following up on. A future submission of an extended version to a peer-reviewed venue is quite possible.

#MastodonPoll: You are given the power to prevent one of the following assassinations or groups of assassinations. Which do you choose to save?
(Choosing one of the grouped options means saving all members listed in that group)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Yitzhak Rabin
1960s US leaders (JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, Medgar Evers)
Abraham Lincoln
India's Gandhis (Mahatma, Indira, Rajiv)
Leon Trotsky
Benazir Bhutto

Non-Abelian and Abelian descendants of vortex spin liquid: fractional quantum spin Hall effect in twisted MoTe$_2$
Ya-Hui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12126

Non-Abelian and Abelian descendants of vortex spin liquid: fractional quantum spin Hall effect in twisted MoTe$_2$
The recent experimental observation of a potential fractional quantum spin Hall (FQSH) state in the twisted MoTe$_2$ system has sparked theoretical explorations at total filling $ν_T=1$ of a pair of $C=\pm 1$ Chern bands from the two spins (locked to valley). One intriguing candidate is a vortex spin liquid (VSL), which can be viewed as an exciton version of composite fermi liquid (CFL). The VSL insulator is incompressible in the charge channel, while compressible in the spin channel. Here we …