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Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity quietly ended the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project, a program that offered free services to vulnerable critical infrastructure sectors and was first launched in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity end a 2022 project offering free cybersecurity tools to critical infrastructure sectors at risk from Russian attacks (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/…

Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.

Befürchtungen, bei digitalcourage.social könnte es sich um eine Free-Speech-Instanz handeln, haben sich als unbegründet erwiesen.
#Antizionismus

@… is this you? https://acoup.blog/2022/12/09/meet-a-historian-james-baillie-on-digital-h…

Meet a Historian: James Baillie on Digital Humanities and the Medieval Caucasus
Note from the Editor: I’m excited to feature another guest post with you all! This week we have James Baillie discussing how digital humanities and prosopographic methods can be used to bette…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,045,220 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Wealthfront, which uses AI to build investment portfolios, confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $1.4B in 2022 during a failed acquisition by UBS (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/wealthf

Arbiter says NFL urged clubs to limit guarantees https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45577695/arbiter-nfl-urged-clubs-limit-guaranteed-deals-collude

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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab reportedly raising $2B would be the largest seed round ever, far surpassing Yuga Labs' $450M seed round in 2022 (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/biggest-seed-ro…

Thinking Machines Lab’s $2B Seed Round Is Biggest By A Long Shot
The $2 billion Andreessen Horowitz-led financing that Thinking Machines reportedly just closed at a $10 billion valuation is by far the largest seed round in the Crunchbase dataset. We take a look at that, as well as the runner's up in seed funding.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,075,160 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

External Evaluation of Discrimination Mitigation Efforts in Meta's Ad Delivery
Basileal Imana, Zeyu Shen, John Heidemann, Aleksandra Korolova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16560 …

External Evaluation of Discrimination Mitigation Efforts in Meta's Ad Delivery
The 2022 settlement between Meta and the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve allegations of discriminatory advertising resulted is a first-of-its-kind change to Meta's ad delivery system aimed to address algorithmic discrimination in its housing ad delivery. In this work, we explore direct and indirect effects of both the settlement's choice of terms and the Variance Reduction System (VRS) implemented by Meta on the actual reduction in discrimination. We first show that the settlement terms…

I’m running CalyxOS on my old Fairphone4, not because it’s a bad choice, but precisely to observe how incredibly behind this OS is on security updates.
My primary device today is a Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS, not this outdated, insecure, and privacy-compromised Fairphone 4.
This Fairphone never became my daily driver once I realized just how far behind it is on security and privacy. I used it from October 2022 until I switched to my Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS in early May 2023,…

Understanding the Challenges and Promises of Developing Generative AI Apps: An Empirical Study
Buthayna AlMulla, Maram Assi, Safwat Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16453

Understanding the Challenges and Promises of Developing Generative AI Apps: An Empirical Study
The release of ChatGPT in 2022 triggered a rapid surge in generative artificial intelligence mobile apps (i.e., Gen-AI apps). Despite widespread adoption, little is known about how end users perceive and evaluate these Gen-AI functionalities in practice. In this work, we conduct a user-centered analysis of 676,066 reviews from 173 Gen-AI apps on the Google Play Store. We introduce a four-phase methodology, SARA (Selection, Acquisition, Refinement, and Analysis), that enables the systematic extr…

Unveiling Political Influence Through Social Media: Network and Causal Dynamics in the 2022 French Presidential Election
Ixandra Achitouv, David Chavalarias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16449

Unveiling Political Influence Through Social Media: Network and Causal Dynamics in the 2022 French Presidential Election
During the 2022 French presidential election, we collected daily Twitter messages on key topics posted by political candidates and their close networks. Using a data-driven approach, we analyze interactions among political parties, identifying central topics that shape the landscape of political debate. Moving beyond traditional correlation analyses, we apply a causal inference technique: Convergent Cross Mapping, to uncover directional influences among political communities, revealing how some…

High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta
Tony L. Farnham (University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy), Jessica M. Sunshine (University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, Department of Geology), Masatoshi Hirabayashi (Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology), Carolyn M. Ernst (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), R. Terik Daly (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), …

High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta
On 26 September 2022 the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, the moon of the near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, in a full-scale demonstration of a kinetic impactor concept. The companion LICIACube spacecraft documented the aftermath, capturing images of the expansion and evolution of the ejecta from 29 to 243 s after the impact. We present results from our analyses of these observations, including an improved reduction of the data and new absolute calibra…

General-domain FC-based shock-dynamics solver I: Basic elements
Oscar P. Bruno, Daniel V. Leibovici
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16076 https://

General-domain FC-based shock-dynamics solver I: Basic elements
This contribution, Part I in a two-part article series, presents a general-domain version of the FC-SDNN (Fourier Continuation Shock-detecting Neural Network) spectral scheme for the numerical solution of nonlinear conservation laws, which is applicable under arbitrary boundary conditions and in general domains. Like the previous simple-domain contribution (Journal of Computational Physics X 15, (2022)), the present approach relies on the use of the Fourier Continuation method for accurate spec…

New Bounds for the Ideal Proof System in Positive Characteristic
Amik Raj Behera, Nutan Limaye, Varun Ramanathan, Srikanth Srinivasan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16397

New Bounds for the Ideal Proof System in Positive Characteristic
In this work, we prove upper and lower bounds over fields of positive characteristics for several fragments of the Ideal Proof System (IPS), an algebraic proof system introduced by Grochow and Pitassi (J. ACM 2018). Our results extend the works of Forbes, Shpilka, Tzameret, and Wigderson (Theory of Computing 2021) and also of Govindasamy, Hakoniemi, and Tzameret (FOCS 2022). These works primarily focused on proof systems over fields of characteristic $0$, and we are able to extend these results…

Another light brigade becomes heavy mechanized: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/another-light-brigade-becomes-heavy.html

On the theory of supermodulation of the superconducting order parameter by supermodulation of the apex distance in optimally doped Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8 x}$
Albert M. Varonov, Todor M. Mishonov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15726

On the theory of supermodulation of the superconducting order parameter by supermodulation of the apex distance in optimally doped Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+x}$
Recently using Scanning Josephson Tunneling Microscopy (SJTM) in the group of Séamus Davis a super-modulation of the superconducting order parameter induced by super-modulation of the distance $δ$ between planar Cu and apical O was observed in [O'Mahony et al, On the electron pairing mechanism of copper-oxide high temperature superconductivity, PNAS Vol. 119(37), e2207449119 (2022)]. The authors conclude: "concurrence of prediction from strong correlation theory... with these observations ind…

Assessing the Influence of Pavement Performance on Road Safety Through Crash Frequency and Severity Analysis
Prathyush Kumar Reddy Lebaku, Lu Gao, Jingran Sun, Xingju Wang, Xuejian Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16485

Assessing the Influence of Pavement Performance on Road Safety Through Crash Frequency and Severity Analysis
Road safety is impacted by a range of factors that can be categorized into human, vehicle, and roadway/environmental elements. This research explores the connection between pavement performance and road safety, particularly in relation to crash frequency and severity, using data from the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) for 2022. By merging crash data with pavement inventory data, we conduct a spatial analysis that incorporates the geographical coordinates of crash sites with the conditi…

The good news from Alabama.
#Humanity #HumanRights #Juneteenth ht…

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Juhannusaattoni 2022.

Hunter Biden drops his Fox News lawsuit for airing explicit images of him in a 2022 miniseries, his second time filing and then dropping a lawsuit against Fox (Marshall Cohen/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/media/hunter-biden-drops-lawsuit-agai…

Hunter Biden drops lawsuit against Fox News — for the second time
Hunter Biden on Friday dropped a second lawsuit that accused the right-wing network of unlawfully airing sexually explicit images of him.

I’m concerned the Overlay Community Group has found a way to normalize overlays by influencing the W3C draft “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/09/accessibility-at-the-edg…

‘Accessibility at the Edge’ W3C CG Is an Overlay Smoke Screen
Another post where I lay it all out in the title. What follows is why I am making this assertion (with a handy table of contents). Timeline 26 May 2022 at 10:58am ET 26 May 2022 at 7:56pm ET 27 May 2022 at 7:38pm ET 28 May 2022 at 5:04pm…

https://www.wionews.com/world/israeli-hackers-breach-iranian-tv-urging-iranians-to-rise-up-in-protest-1750304429134
“The visuals displayed were of women tearing off their hijab and cutting their hair in defiance,…

Israeli hackers breach Iranian TV, urging Iranians to rise up in protest
During a live broadcast, footage from the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests, women cutting their hair in defiance, flashed across screens in Iran state TV (IRIB)

Hab bisschen mit 17 GB #MStR-Daten rumgespielt.
Kann das mal jemand nachrechnen? 🤔 🤪
#Balkonkraftwerk #Photovoltaik

Practical colinear chaining on sequences revisited
Nicola Rizzo, Manuel C\'aceres, Veli M\"akinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11750 https://…

Practical colinear chaining on sequences revisited
Colinear chaining is a classical heuristic for sequence alignment and is widely used in modern practical aligners. Jain et al. (J. Comput. Biol. 2022) proposed an $O(n \log^3 n)$ time algorithm to chain a set of $n$ anchors so that the chaining cost matches the edit distance of the input sequences, when anchors are maximal exact matches. Moreover, assuming a uniform and sparse distribution of anchors, they provided a practical solution ($\mathtt{ChainX}$) working in $O(n \cdot \mathsf{SOL} + n …

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Heute vor 2 Jahren: Am 14. Juni 2023 erklärte der belarussische Präsident Aleksander Lukaschenko in einem Fernsehinterview mit dem russischen Staatssender Russia-1, dass #Belarus, wie am 25.03.23 durch Putin angekündigt, #Kernwaffen von Russland erhalten habe.

Jetzt offiziell - Sport-Traumpaar! Tennis-Ass heiratet Eisprinzessin #News #Nachrichten

Addressing tokens dynamic generation, propagation, storage and renewal to secure the GlideinWMS pilot based jobs and system
Bruno Moreira Coimbra, Marco Mambelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07379

Addressing tokens dynamic generation, propagation, storage and renewal to secure the GlideinWMS pilot based jobs and system
GlideinWMS has been one of the first middleware in the WLCG community to transition from X.509 to support also tokens. The first step was to get from the prototype in 2019 to using tokens in production in 2022. This paper will present the challenges introduced by the wider adoption of tokens and the evolution plans for securing the pilot infrastructure of GlideinWMS and supporting the new requirements. In the last couple of years, the GlideinWMS team supported the migration of experiments and r…

BidenCash darknet forum taken down by US, Dutch law enforcement https://therecord.media/bidencash-cybercrime-darknet-market-takedown-us-netherlands

A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
Maxwell Bernstein, Joanna Krajewski, Rachel Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13600 …

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
The climate crisis demands innovative solutions and quantum technologies are considered by some a potential solution (Berger et al., 2021; Calvin et al., 2023). The United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (United Nations, 2024), focusing on applications for quantum technologies. Quantum technologies, leveraging quantum mechanics, offer unprecedented computational power (Ajagekar & You, 2022) and sensitivity (Schleich et al., 2016) that could revolut…

Packers releasing Pro Bowl cornerback Jaire Alexander: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6413409/2025/06/09/jaire-alexander-green-bay-packers-release/

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My phone chose this as its lock screen background, so I just have to share it. On Jurmo island in the Gulf of Finland, May 2022.

An Optimized Franz-Parisi Criterion and its Equivalence with SQ Lower Bounds
Siyu Chen, Theodor Misiakiewicz, Ilias Zadik, Peiyuan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06259

An Optimized Franz-Parisi Criterion and its Equivalence with SQ Lower Bounds
Bandeira et al. (2022) introduced the Franz-Parisi (FP) criterion for characterizing the computational hard phases in statistical detection problems. The FP criterion, based on an annealed version of the celebrated Franz-Parisi potential from statistical physics, was shown to be equivalent to low-degree polynomial (LDP) lower bounds for Gaussian additive models, thereby connecting two distinct approaches to understanding the computational hardness in statistical inference. In this paper, we pro…

OSINT or BULLSHINT? Exploring Open-Source Intelligence tweets about the Russo-Ukrainian War
Johannes Niu, Mila Stillman, Anna Kruspe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03599 https://

OSINT or BULLSHINT? Exploring Open-Source Intelligence tweets about the Russo-Ukrainian War
This paper examines the role of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) on Twitter regarding the Russo-Ukrainian war, distinguishing between genuine OSINT and deceptive misinformation efforts, termed "BULLSHINT." Utilizing a dataset spanning from January 2022 to July 2023, we analyze nearly 2 million tweets from approximately 1,040 users involved in discussing real-time military engagements, strategic analyses, and misinformation related to the conflict. Using sentiment analysis, partisanship detectio…

Veteran LB Von Miller, Washington Commanders finalizing 1-year deal: Reports https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6499101/2025/07/16/von-miller-washington-commanders-signing-reports/

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dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 6 nodes and 16 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Effect of Different Concentration and Application Method of Zinc on Yield of Chickpea (Pisum Sativum L.)
Samaneh Goodarzi, Ali Tavanmand, Hamed Shajari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23855

Effect of Different Concentration and Application Method of Zinc on Yield of Chickpea (Pisum Sativum L.)
This study evaluated the impact of Zinc (Zn) supplementation on the growth, yield, and seed quality of chickpea (Pisum sativum L.) under the semi-arid conditions of Kerman, Iran, across two growing seasons (2021-2022). A randomized complete block design was used with six treatments, including varying concentrations of zinc sulphate applied via foliar spraying (0.1%, 0.25%, 0.5%) or irrigation (4, 8, 16 kg/ha), each applied twice-one and two months after greening. Results from the first year rev…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Wet Leg:
🎵 Chaise Longue (Glastonbury 2022)
#WetLeg
https://longdissonance.bandcamp.com/track/wet-leg-chaise-longue
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iqAuZe5yS0suLQcFfVK39

Flashback zur Designierung von Gerhard Karner zum Innenminister im Dezember 2021, durch die das Dollfußmuseum im Texingtal in den Fokus & Kritik der Öffentlichkeit geriet.
Was seitdem geschah: Das Museum wurde 2022 geschlossen, Dollfuß' Nachfahren haben jedoch kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den Exponaten in der Region verhindert.
#FlashbackFriday #Karner #GerhardKarner #Dollfuß #EngelbertDollfuss #Texingtal #Österreich

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
The Jesus and Mary Chain:
🎵 Just Like Honey with (Live at Glastonbury 2022) (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
#TheJesusandMaryChain
https://open.spotify.com/track/1LwP9g1Hjbs64jXM2Qsxry

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Bonobo:
🎵 Shadows (6 Music Session, 23 May 2022)
#Bonobo
https://bonobomusic.bandcamp.com/track/shadows-feat-jordan-rakei
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aLYQgzGLy8duSSdTJa1ik