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Dutch Caribbean islands' government agencies have been knocked offline by ransomware attacks
https://nltimes.nl/2025/08/02/ransomware-attacks-cripple-government-services-across-dutch-caribbean-islands

Ransomware attacks cripple government services across Dutch Caribbean islands
Several major government institutions across the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands were hit by cyberattacks last week, including a ransomware attack on Curaçao’s Tax and Customs Administration that temporarily disabled critical services, NOS reports.

Nyldon Factorization of Thue-Morse Words and Fibonacci Words
Kaisei Kishi, Kazuki Kai, Yuto Nakashima, Shunsuke Inenaga, Hideo Bannai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23659 https://…

Nyldon Factorization of Thue-Morse Words and Fibonacci Words
The Nyldon factorization is a string factorization that is a non-decreasing product of Nyldon words. Nyldon words and Nyldon factorizations are recently defined combinatorial objects inspired by the well-known Lyndon words and Lyndon factorizations. In this paper, we investigate the Nyldon factorization of several words. First, we fully characterize the Nyldon factorizations of the (finite) Fibonacci and the (finite) Thue-Morse words. Moreover, we show that there exists a non-decreasing product…

Jetzt mag ich Steve Martin noch etwas mehr:
https://www.newyorker.com/m…

An S-matrix Formalism for the Nonclassical Optical Response of Plasmonic Sphere Aggregates
Xin Zheng, Christos Mystilidis, Christos Tserkezis, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Xuezhi Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04589

An S-matrix Formalism for the Nonclassical Optical Response of Plasmonic Sphere Aggregates
A computational method for the scattering of light by multiple nonclassical plasmonic nanospheres, each of which has multiple (non-)concentric dielectric or metallic layers, is presented. The electromagnetic (EM) response of the free electrons in the metals is described by three popular mesoscopic models: the nonlocal hydrodynamic Drude model (NLHDM) and its diffusive variant, namely the generalized nonlocal optical response (GNOR) model, as well as the surface response model (SRM). The main eq…

They say the human brain doesn't settle into adulthood until around age 30.
So two teenage Dutch boys were arrested for walking a route past Europol, Eurojust, and the Canadian embassy with a Wi-Fi sniffer at the behest of someone on Telegram.
https://nltimes.nl/2025/09/26/two-…

Two Dutch teens arrested in rare Russian espionage case
Dutch authorities have arrested two 17-year-old boys suspected of performing espionage tasks for a Russian intelligence service, in what officials call a “unique case” in the Netherlands, De Telegraaf reported.

It's been an interesting conference in Aarhus on digital methods in #NeoLatin studies. What I find strinking is that the focus has shifted from text analysis/stylometry to data analysis. There's a rather strong interest now in generating, sharing and reusing data. At least one positive effect of the AI hype.

Dutch army to deploy hackers to front lines to gain battlefield advantage
https://nltimes.nl/2025/09/13/dutch-army-deploy-hackers-front-lines-gain-battlefield-advantage

Dutch army to deploy hackers to front lines to gain battlefield advantage
The Royal Netherlands Army is deploying hackers to the front lines as part of the newly formed 101 CEMA Battalion, officials said Thursday. According to De Telegraaf, the unit, officially established in Stroe, merges companies specialized in electronic warfare and cyber operations.