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So #Partiful, which can build a full graph of people’s social life with email phone number… is a startup from former employees of #Palantir

from my link log —
VBARE / versioned BARE: A simple alternative to Protobuf & Cap'n Proto for schema evolution.
https://www.rivet.dev/blog/2025-09-24-vbare-simple-schema-evolution-with-maximum-performance
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VBARE: A simple alternative to Protobuf & Cap'n Proto for schema evolution
At Rivet, we're building an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects — a tool for running stateful compute workloads. VBARE is a small but crucial component in meeting the demanding performance requirements of Rivet Actors.

8 coax lanes, DC - 70 GHz, solderless compression fit... *drool*
https://www.hubersuhner.com/en/newsroom/blog-and-literature/blog/introducing-mxpd70-the-next-step-in-multicoax-test-solut…

AFFORD2ACT: Affordance-Guided Automatic Keypoint Selection for Generalizable and Lightweight Robotic Manipulation
Anukriti Singh, Kasra Torshizi, Khuzema Habib, Kelin Yu, Ruohan Gao, Pratap Tokekar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01433

AFFORD2ACT: Affordance-Guided Automatic Keypoint Selection for Generalizable and Lightweight Robotic Manipulation
Vision-based robot learning often relies on dense image or point-cloud inputs, which are computationally heavy and entangle irrelevant background features. Existing keypoint-based approaches can focus on manipulation-centric features and be lightweight, but either depend on manual heuristics or task-coupled selection, limiting scalability and semantic understanding. To address this, we propose AFFORD2ACT, an affordance-guided framework that distills a minimal set of semantic 2D keypoints from a…

Bayesian Surrogates for Risk-Aware Pre-Assessment of Aging Bridge Portfolios
Sophia V. Kuhn, Rafael Bischof, Marius Weber, Antoine Binggeli, Michael A. Kraus, Walter Kaufmann, Fernando P\'erez-Cruz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25031

Bayesian Surrogates for Risk-Aware Pre-Assessment of Aging Bridge Portfolios
Aging infrastructure portfolios pose a critical resource allocation challenge: deciding which structures require intervention and which can safely remain in service. Structural assessments must balance the trade-off between cheaper, conservative analysis methods and accurate but costly simulations that do not scale portfolio-wide. We propose Bayesian neural network (BNN) surrogates for rapid structural pre-assessment of worldwide common bridge types, such as reinforced concrete frame bridges. T…

Active region upflows in various coronal structures and their coupling to the lower atmosphere
Yingjie Zhu, Louise Harra, Krzysztof Barczynski, Nils Janitzek, Joseph Plowman, Slimane Mzerguat, Fr\'ed\'eric Auch\`ere, William Thompson, Susanna Parenti, Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta, Hardi Peter, Terje Fredvik, Tim Grundy, Yi-Wei Ni, Peng-Fei Chen, Gherardo Valori

Active region upflows in various coronal structures and their coupling to the lower atmosphere
Plasma upflows with a Doppler shift exceeding -10 km/s at active region (AR) boundaries are considered potential sources of the nascent slow solar wind. We investigate the driving mechanisms of a pair of coronal upflow regions on the western and eastern peripheries of an AR, which have different magnetic topologies and surroundings. It is aimed to explore how these upflows couple to the lower atmosphere. Using observations of the Fe XII 19.51 nm line from Hinode, we identified two upflow region…

Let's be honest. I've been a strong supporter of #OpenPGP (or #PGP in general) for a long time. And I still can't think of any real alternative that exists right now. And I kept believing it's not "that hard" — but it doesn't seem like it's getting any easier. The big problem with standards like that are tools.
#WebOfTrust is hard, and impractical for a lot of people. It doesn't really help how many tools implement trust. I mean, I sometimes receive encrypted mail via #EvolutionMail — and Evolution makes it really hard for me to reply encrypted without permanently trusting the sender!
The whole SKS keyserver mess doesn't help PGP at all. Nowadays finding someone's key is often hard. If you're lucky, WKD will work. If you're not, you're up for searching a bunch of keyservers, GitHub, or perhaps random websites. And it definitely doesn't help that some of these may hold expired keys, with people uploading their new key only to a subset of them or forgetting to do it.
On top of that, we have interoperability issues. Definitely doesn't speak well when GnuPG can't import keys from popular keyservers over lack of UIDs. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Now with diverging OpenPGP standards around the corner, we're a step ahead from true interoperability problems. Just imagine convincing someone to use OpenPGP, only to tell them afterwards that they've used non-portable tool / settings, and their key doesn't work for you.
That's really not how you advocate for #encryption.

In case you ever wondered how album covers are embedded in audio files:
MP3 supports it since ID3v2.3. The "attached picture" frame can have one of 20 predefined types. (Front, Back, …)
FLAC has a METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE which has a very similar structure to the ID3 tag. It supports the same 20 types.
OGG only supports it indirectly through VorbisComments. Convention is to use the FLAC format, but Base64 encoded.
AAC only supports it through a video stream.…

Future launches Collab, an initiative that integrates creator-led content across its portfolio; creators are hand-selected and paid flat fees as contributors (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/marie-claire-future-collab-creator-program…

Exclusive: Marie Claire publisher Future launches creator program
Future's new initiative taps creators for long-form content.

Financial Risk Relation Identification through Dual-view Adaptation
Wei-Ning Chiu, Yu-Hsiang Wang, Andy Hsiao, Yu-Shiang Huang, Chuan-Ju Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18775 ht…