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Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible.
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/11/18/vulnerabilities-show-why-starttls-should-be-avoided-if-possible/
saved 2021-11-18

Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: Study finds more than 40 STARTTLS-related security flaws in many different software products, both client-side and server-side.

i'm drinking cheap bordeaux and spinning old wax tonight
what are you up to?

UMG shares jump 10% following Pershing Square's €56B offer, which is a 78% premium to their April 2 close; UMG is down nearly a third since its 2021 listing (Mateusz Rabiega/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ackmans-pershing-squa…

Leaked Thrive deck: $26.8B in AUM as of June 30, 2025, deal value peaked in Q4 2021, positive DPI for four early funds, including 2.4x for 2016's Thrive V, more (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/exclusive-thrive-netted-24x-dpi-from

SCOOP: Thrive Netted 2.4x DPI from 2016 Fund. Here's Thrive's $10 Billion Pitch.
We've got an inside look at Josh Kushner's Thrive Capital's performance

Ballot Box Scotland: Allan has started profiling parties.
Lib Dems: https://ballotbox.scot/sp26-party-profile-lib-dem/
"The smallest party to be elected to Holyrood in 2021, the Lib Dems have been suffering a second era of near-wipeout in their history. ..…

SP26 Party Profile: Liberal Democrats
The Lib Dems have had a decade of stagnation in the Scottish Parliament, born of an oddly FPTP-obsessed strategy for a proportional voting system. This time around that approach may actually bear …

Weiterer toller Aspekt von #calisthenics
Durch die #Altbausanierung hab ich so viel Holz und Metallreste und entsprechend Werkzeug um Sportgeräte selber zu bauen (so zumindest der Plan)
Z.B. diese Liegestützgriffe (also die Anleitung ist nicht von mir):

Sony schließt Bluepoint Games nach weniger als fünf Jahren
Mit erstklassigen Remakes machte sich Bluepoint Games einen Namen. 2021 wurde das Studio von Sony gekauft – jetzt wird es überraschend geschlossen.
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It’s worth noting that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originator of the bad deductive rule in question, spent his later years falling for and vehemently defending a variety of hoaxes involving fairies and communicating with the dead:
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-175-ghost-racket-crusade-10-22-2021/

Sony just killed Bluepoint games, a studio that worked marvelously. Stupid industry.
https://www.theverge.com/games/881578/sony-close-bluepoint-games-studio-remaster-remake-demons-souls-shadow-colossus-god-of-war…

Sony is closing the studio behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes
Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation studio behind well-received remakes like Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls. Sony purchased it in 2021.

The idea for the program started back in 2021,
as severe drought conditions enveloped agricultural powerhouse states across the country.
The $400 million, according to Montaño Greene, was set to be distributed through the Commodity Credit Corporation,
a financial institution used to implement specific agricultural programs established by the federal government.
By the close of 2024,
she said the Biden administration had entered final agreements with selected r…

Did the USDA just forget about $400M in drought aid for farmers?
More than a year later, not a dollar has been spent — and no one knows what happened to the money.

Does Order Matter : Connecting The Law of Robustness to Robust Generalization
Himadri Mandal, Vishnu Varadarajan, Jaee Ponde, Aritra Das, Mihir More, Debayan Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20971
arXiv:2602.20971v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Bubeck and Sellke (2021) pose as an open problem the connection between the law of robustness and robust generalization. The law of robustness states that overparameterization is necessary for models to interpolate robustly; in particular, robust interpolation requires the learned function to be Lipschitz. Robust generalization asks whether small robust training loss implies small robust test loss. We resolve this problem by explicitly connecting the two for arbitrary data distributions. Specifically, we introduce a nontrivial notion of robust generalization error and convert it into a lower bound on the expected Rademacher complexity of the induced robust loss class. Our bounds recover the $\Omega(n^{1/d})$ regime of Wu et al.\ (2023) and show that, up to constants, robust generalization does not change the order of the Lipschitz constant required for smooth interpolation. We conduct experiments to probe the predicted scaling with dataset size and model capacity, testing whether empirical behavior aligns more closely with the predictions of Bubeck and Sellke (2021) or Wu et al.\ (2023). For MNIST, we find that the lower-bound Lipschitz constant scales on the order predicted by Wu et al.\ (2023). Informally, to obtain low robust generalization error, the Lipschitz constant must lie in a range that we bound, and the allowable perturbation radius is linked to the Lipschitz scale.
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Irgendwie sind es immer wieder Mitglieder der gleichen Partei, bei denen sowas passiert. Aber das ist sicher nur Zufall 🤡
'In Friesoythe haben #CDU-Mitglieder im Stadtrat jahrelang mehr Sitzungsgelder abgerechnet als die Vertreter der SPD. Der Vorsitzende der Ratsfraktion sieht darin kein Fehlverhalten. [...] Seit Herbst 2021 gab es laut der Stadtverwaltung 20 Abende, an denen die CDU/FDP-Fr…

Kommunalpolitik im Oldenburger Münsterland: CDU-Stadträte kassierten doppelt
Im niedersächsischen Friesoythe haben CDU-Mitglieder im Stadtrat jahrelang mehr Sitzungsgelder abgerechnet als die Vertreter der SPD. Der Vorsitzende der Ratsfraktion sieht darin kein Fehlverhalten.

$10,000 stolen via Apple Pay, no unlocking required. And it's been doable since 2021.
(Specifically only impacts iPhones using a Visa card in Express mode/transit slot.)
▶️ Exposing the flaw in tap to pay - Veritasium
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PPJ6NJkmDAo&amp…

A look at Hyundai's Atlas humanoid robot, slated for assembly tasks in 2028; Hyundai has invested billions in robotics since acquiring Boston Dynamics in 2021 (Hyonhee Shin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

There are a few sites using the UK government API for fuel prices, but I suspect, based on military choices, the crowdsourced "availability" reports may actually be the thing that's critical.
(Not sure why availability wasn't part of the API, given the chaos of September 2021.)
https://checkfuelprices.co.uk

Check Fuel Prices – Find the Cheapest Petrol & Diesel Near You
Live UK fuel prices from thousands of petrol stations including Shell, BP, Gulf, and more. Compare prices for E10, E5, B7, and SDV near you using our interactive map or postcode search.

Sources: Bill Ackman proposes merging UMG with his SPAC and naming Michael Ovitz as chair, an offer UMG is likely to reject; UMG stock is down 20% since 2021 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

The Glorious Exclamation Mark: Carla Bley Interviewed | The Quietus (2021)
https://thequietus.com/interviews/carla-bley-interview/