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Extended Version: It Should Be Easy but... New Users Experiences and Challenges with Secret Management Tools
Lorenzo Neil, Deepthi Mungara, Laurie Williams, Yasemin Acar, Bradley Reaves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09036

Extended Version: It Should Be Easy but... New Users Experiences and Challenges with Secret Management Tools
Software developers face risks of leaking their software secrets, such as API keys or passwords, which can result in significant harm. Secret management tools (SMTs), such as HashiCorp Vault Secrets or Infisical, are highly recommended by industry, academia, and security guidelines to manage secrets securely. SMTs are designed to help developers secure their secrets in a central location, yet secrets leaks are still commonplace, and developers report difficulty in learning how to setup and use …

Mittwoch: Musikerprotest gegen KI-Chatbots, Spiele-Neuheiten zur Gamescom 2025
Neil Young gegen Meta Übersicht zur Gamescom Datenschutz für Filesharer Opels Corsa-Elektrorenner LibreOffice mit KI-Bildern Trailer für Fallout-Serie

Optical Design Pathways to Fluidic Space-Assembled Reflectors & Dual-Configuration Spectrographs for Characterizing Exo-Earths
Enrico Biancalani, Edward Balaban, Ruslan Belikov, Eduardo Bendek, Valeri Frumkin, Israel Gabay, Guangjun Gao, Qian Gong, Christine Gregg, Tyler Groff, Joseph Howard, Omer Luria, Michael McElwain, Lee Mundy, Rachel Ticknor, Sylvain Veilleux, Neil Zimmerman

Optical Design Pathways to Fluidic Space-Assembled Reflectors & Dual-Configuration Spectrographs for Characterizing Exo-Earths
$\textbf{Fluidic Telescopes}$ | We present a conceptual framework for optically designing space-assembled telescopes whose primary mirror is formed $\textit{in situ}$ via the enabling, scale-invariant technology of fluidic shaping. In-space assembly of optical reflectors can solve light-gathering aperture scaling, which currently limits space-borne optical telescopes. Our compass reduces the top-level optical design trade to three types of avenues -- a fluidic pathway, a legacy one buildin…

Evaluation Guidelines for Empirical Studies in Software Engineering involving LLMs
Sebastian Baltes, Florian Angermeir, Chetan Arora, Marvin Mu\~noz Bar\'on, Chunyang Chen, Lukas B\"ohme, Fabio Calefato, Neil Ernst, Davide Falessi, Brian Fitzgerald, Davide Fucci, Marcos Kalinowski, Stefano Lambiase, Daniel Russo, Mircea Lungu, Lutz Prechelt, Paul Ralph, Christoph Treude, Stefan Wagner

Evaluation Guidelines for Empirical Studies in Software Engineering involving LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into software engineering (SE) research and practice, yet their non-determinism, opaque training data, and evolving architectures complicate the reproduction and replication of empirical studies. We present a community effort to scope this space, introducing a taxonomy of LLM-based study types together with eight guidelines for designing and reporting empirical studies involving LLMs. The guidelines present essential (must) criteria…

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