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🚬 Cars Are Caught in an Endless Cycle of Bigger Screens Nobody Really Likes
https://www.thedrive.com/news/cars-are-caught-in-an-endless-cycle-of-bigger-screens-nobody-really-likes

Cars Are Caught in an Endless Cycle of Bigger Screens Nobody Really Likes
J.D. Power's 2025 Initial Quality Study is out, and infotainment is once again the villain.

Dolphins' McDaniel breaks up skirmish vs. Bears https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45927444/mike-mcdaniel-breaks-dolphins-bears-skirmish-joint-practice

Check out my latest CSO piece that examines how Trump's civilian agency cyber budget cuts for FY2026 could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.
Thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance, Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Munish Walther-Puri of NYU's Center for Global Affairs, and former US cyber official Amélie Koran for their insights.
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Trump seeks unprecedented $1.23 billion cut to federal cyber budget
Trump’s 2026 budget would slash cyber spending by over $1 billion from 2024 levels, a move that could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.

scikit-package -- software packaging standards and roadmap for sharing reproducible scientific software
S. Lee, C. Myers, A. Yang, T. Zhang, S. J. L. Billinge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03328

scikit-package -- software packaging standards and roadmap for sharing reproducible scientific software
Scientific advancement relies on the ability to share and reproduce results. When data analysis or calculations are carried out using software written by scientists there are special challenges around code versions, quality and code sharing. scikit-package provides a roadmap to facilitate code reuse and sharing with minimal effort through tutorials coupled with automated and centralized reusable workflows. The goal of the project is to provide pedagogical and practical tools for scientists who …

Incredibly chaotic scene Los Angeles as LAPD is pushing forward a skirmish line and violently arresting anti-ICE protesters.
You can also hear me grunt when police shoot me in the abdomen with some kind of projectile.
https://bsky.app/profile/jeremotograph

VLAI: A RoBERTa-Based Model for Automated Vulnerability Severity Classification.
This paper presents VLAI, a transformer-based model that predicts software vulnerability severity levels directly from text descriptions. Built on RoBERTa, VLAI is fine-tuned on over 600,000 real-world vulnerabilities and achieves over 82% accuracy in predicting severity categories, enabling faster and more consistent triage ahead of manual CVSS scoring. The model and dataset are open-source and integrated…

VLAI: A RoBERTa-Based Model for Automated Vulnerability Severity Classification
This paper presents VLAI, a transformer-based model that predicts software vulnerability severity levels directly from text descriptions. Built on RoBERTa, VLAI is fine-tuned on over 600,000 real-world vulnerabilities and achieves over 82% accuracy in predicting severity categories, enabling faster and more consistent triage ahead of manual CVSS scoring. The model and dataset are open-source and integrated into the Vulnerability-Lookup service.

An #infosec drama, in two screenshots.

Enhancing Swarms Durability to Threats via Graph Signal Processing and GNN-based Generative Modeling
Jonathan Karin, Zoe Piran, Mor Nitzan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03039

Enhancing Swarms Durability to Threats via Graph Signal Processing and GNN-based Generative Modeling
Swarms, such as schools of fish or drone formations, are prevalent in both natural and engineered systems. While previous works have focused on the social interactions within swarms, the role of external perturbations--such as environmental changes, predators, or communication breakdowns--in affecting swarm stability is not fully understood. Our study addresses this gap by modeling swarms as graphs and applying graph signal processing techniques to analyze perturbations as signals on these grap…

Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.
https://www.wired.com/story/bill-atkinson-apple-engineer-dies/

Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.