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Check out today's Metacurity for a comprehensive run-down of crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea,
--CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,'
--Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season,
--Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled,
--Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money …

Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea
CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,' Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season, Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled, Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money laundering, Firefox gets anti-fingerprinting fix, much more

Grid Restoration Under Uncertainty Considering Coupled Transportation-Power Networks
Harshal D. Kaushik, Roshni Anna Jacob, Souma Chowdhury, Jie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10399

Grid Restoration Under Uncertainty Considering Coupled Transportation-Power Networks
A stochastic mixed-integer programming model is developed to address the power distribution system repair and restoration following failures caused by extreme events such as natural disasters. This model addresses the complex challenge of efficiently assigning and dispatching repair crews to minimize both downtime and the extent of outages, following the crew sequence constraints. By incorporating a realistic transportation network, our model accounts for uncertainties in repair times, repair d…

Apparently conductive materials can have a dielectric constant. How do you polarize a material if it has a non negligible current flowing through it? Doesn't make sense to me.

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis constraints on space-time noncommutativity
Teodora Maria Matei, Cristian Croitoru, Tiberiu Harko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10685 https://

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis constraints on space-time noncommutativity
We consider the implications of the modified dispersion relations, due to the noncommutativity of the spacetime, for a photon gas filling the early Universe in the framework of the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) processes, during the period of light elements formation. We consider three types of deformations present in the dispersion relations for the radiation gas, from which we obtain the low temperature corrections to the energy density and pressure. The cosmological implications of the modi…

In March, Trump told NBC’s Kristen Welker that he was “not joking” about considering a third term.
There are “methods” by which he could do so, he claimed,
one being if Vice President JD Vance was to win the presidency, then pass the baton to Trump.
In May, however, Trump declared to Welker that he will be “a two-term president”
—though he seemingly couldn’t help but add,
“There are ways of doing it.”
In August, he said he would “like to run” again but “pro…

Amy Coney Barrett Gives Least Reassuring Answer on Trump Third Term
This Supreme Court is failing us.

Proof of the exact diffusion constant via first passage time in quasi-periodic potentials
Ming Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10435 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Proof of the exact diffusion constant via first passage time in quasi-periodic potentials
Brownian motion in terms of Lifson and Jackson (LJ) formula has been widely explored in periodic systems and it has been believed for a long time that the LJ formula only applies to periodic potentials. Recently we show that for the following Brownian motion $γ\dot{x} = -U'(x) + ξ$, where $U(x)$ is the quasi-periodic potential, the effective diffusion constant can still be described by the LJ formula $D^* = D/(\langle \exp(βU)\rangle \langle \exp(-βU)\rangle)$, where the average is redefine…

Hybrid MAC Protocol with Integrated Multi-Layered Security for Resource-Constrained UAV Swarm Communications
Dhrumil Bhatt, Siddharth Penumatsa, Vidushi Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10236

Hybrid MAC Protocol with Integrated Multi-Layered Security for Resource-Constrained UAV Swarm Communications
Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) present unique challenges due to high node mobility, dynamic topologies, and strict resource constraints. Existing routing protocols often optimize for a single metric, such as path length or energy, while neglecting the complex dependencies between network performance, security, and MAC layer efficiency. This paper introduces a novel hardware software co design framework for secure and adaptive UAV swarm communications, featuring an energy aware protocol stack. …

Reactive Model Predictive Contouring Control for Robot Manipulators
Junheon Yoon, Woo-Jeong Baek, Jaeheung Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09502 https://ar…

Reactive Model Predictive Contouring Control for Robot Manipulators
This contribution presents a robot path-following framework via Reactive Model Predictive Contouring Control (RMPCC) that successfully avoids obstacles, singularities and self-collisions in dynamic environments at 100 Hz. Many path-following methods rely on the time parametrization, but struggle to handle collision and singularity avoidance while adhering kinematic limits or other constraints. Specifically, the error between the desired path and the actual position can become large when executi…

The president of the United States is invading multiple US cities and liberal strongholds, in troop deployments that are now the primary component of his vast, lawless, smash-and-grab efforts to shred the nation’s constitutional and democratic order, all in the service of his personality cult.
And his enthusiasm for doing so is partially, and meaningfully, fueled by how mad he gets while binge-watching hours and hours of TV, current and former Trump advisers tell Zeteo.

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy
Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.