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The DOGE team at SSA might have violated FISMA and other laws by not following security protocols as spelled out in NIST's SP 800-53, which are mandatory for all government agencies.
It's no surprise then that a whistleblower is warning that we have lost the ability to see who is accessing 300 million Americans' most sensitive information after DOGE moved SSA data to their own Amazon cloud instance.
Thanks to John Skinner, former project lead for 18F, for his expert i…

Whistleblower: DOGE put Social Security database covering 300 million Americans on insecure cloud
The complaint accuses DOGE of bypassing security protocols to move Americans’ sensitive personal data outside federal oversight and onto an insecure AWS cloud instance, potentially violating established security practices and several laws.

🤔 Looking at this UI, Forem could probably implement ActivityPub at this point.
Every logo is a server. "Forem feed" = Federated timeline. "Follow" = follow and adding their Local timeline to my Following timeline? 🤔
Related discussion: https://github.com/forem/forem/discuss

Line bundles and exact sequences for the ideal class group and the Picard group
Abolfazl Tarizadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19889 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Line bundles and exact sequences for the ideal class group and the Picard group
For any extension of commutative rings $A\subseteq B$ we first naturally define a group $\Cl(A,B)$, that we call the ideal class group of this extension (we will see that both the classical ideal class group and, surprisingly, the Picard group are special cases of this structure), then, as a first main result, we obtain the following exact sequence of Abelian groups: ...

Lions' unsung defense steps up, surprises even Dan Campbell: 'I had confidence, but nine points?' https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-unsung-defense-steps-up-surprises-even-dan-campbell-i-had-confidence-but-nine-points

Stretched Brownian Motion: convergence of dual optimising sequences
Walter Schachermayer, Pietro Siorpaes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20017 https://arxiv.or…

Stretched Brownian Motion: convergence of dual optimising sequences
We consider an irreducible pair $μ\leq_c ν$ of probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ in convex order. In arXiv:2306.11019, Backhoff, Beiglböck, Schachermayer and Tschiderer have shown that the Stretched Brownian Motion from $μ$ to $ν$ is a Bass martingale, that there exists a dual optimiser $ψ_{lim}$, and the following somewhat surprising convergence result: by adding affine functions, one can make any dual optimising sequence $(ψ_n)_n$ (satisfying some minor technical conditions) conve…

I mean, there's a reason the switch for "I have guests over, let's turn off the most surprising automations" is called "haunted house" in my HomeAssistant.
https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115424228795514864

Hey guys, let your path be always be filled with sunshine and a great view ahead.
Enjoy your weekend, stay safe, healthy and happy. Block the hate and be friendly to a random person. Often it's just a smile, a "good morning" that's a welcome surprise to someone.
#photography #landscape

Late fluid flow in a primitive asteroid revealed by Lu–Hf isotopes in #Ryugu: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09483-0.epdf?sharing_token=VL8QMH3tVOhYxVKrJmTozdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NPQK0_mk8K7IgOT-Cto7Eo7Wz9oQUxzQKpjpaa2UdwuGYA71rDYG1QYVuwa4CBanwmb6BgPdujtT03FRKF28qp9SvV40dGHc0Iym5wGaWv9y5L1cy7JRyggjQSwsNVGH3F-1iVtnCEQSNlhTHKNgPPvBXSpsvARNlTBSiShsCbG-LtNUXW4tLcBP54GvJC6VQ=&tracking_referrer=www.space.com -> Scientists find evidence of flowing water on Ryugu’s ancient parent asteroid: https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/scientists-find-evidence-of-flowing-water-on-ryugus-ancient-parent-asteroid-it-was-a-genuine-surprise

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Lilly Saini Singh, actor, comedian, author, television host, born on this day in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario. As a well-known Internet personality, Lilly Singh has amassed nearly 15 million subscribers and more than 3 billion views since launching her popular channel of #YouTube videos under the name IISuperwomanII in 2010. She has since appeared as an actor in films and TV series and published the book How To Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life (2017), which topped the New York Times Business Best Sellers list. In 2017, she ranked No. 10 on Forbes’ list of the world’s highest-paid YouTube stars. And occasionally, she lampooned our American neighbours.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Comedy
https://youtu.be/bcmbKN1aIOU?si=FDL23I5TZya_CWpp

In monochrome you can't see the iridescence of the plastic films in the Polyform sculpture in front of the Human Ecology building it making it look like a glass cube with a stainless steel foam inside
#photo #photography