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Russia releases four REvil members who were convicted for payment card fraud; the Kremlin's 2022 crackdown on REvil followed a call between Biden and Putin (Daryna Antoniuk/The Record)
https://therecord.media/revil-cybercrime-gang-members-released-russia

Russia releases REvil members after convictions for payment card fraud
Four convicted members of the REvil cybercrime gang were released from custody after being sentenced in St. Petersburg for offenses related to payment card fraud.

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

📚 Nos avocats doivent éplucher des milliers de pages des affaires OKC, en France (1997-2003) et en Belgique (1997-2022). Ce travail colossal est indispensable pour obtenir un procès. Aidez-nous Š financer leur mission ! 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

@… 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…

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.

The Baltimore Banner, launched in 2022 as a nonprofit news outlet focused on Greater Baltimore and Maryland, gets a $200K grant from the Henry Luce Foundation (The Baltimore Banner)
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/banner-pr/henry-luce-f…

The Baltimore Banner receives $200,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to advance local journalism
The grant will support The Banner’s mission to deliver high-impact, nonprofit journalism.

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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#GenericKnockOffSongsOrPoems

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

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)

Activities of Women in Physics Group in Spain 2022 to 2023
Pascuala Garcia-Martinez, Carmen Ocal, Ana Xesus Lopez, Mariam Tortola, Milagros F. Morcillo-Arencibia, Alberto Martin-Molina, Sonia Estrade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18816

Activities of Women in Physics Group in Spain 2022 to 2023
In this paper, we present the main actions of the Women in Physics Group of the Spanish Royal Physics Society over the period of 2022 to 2023, in which we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the group. We also outline relevant equality initiatives implemented during this period by the Spanish Government as well as analyse their impact on the status of women in Physics in our country. In 2023, our scientific society approved the Gender Equality Plan, thus becoming a pioneer scientific society in …

Noted while reading: 'a data structure or a block of code are things that make implicit and subjective arguments about how to see the world. This is possibly the single most important basic insight that Digital Humanities as a field needs to impart, because it affects so much of the world around us' - excellent post by @…

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…

Local feature filtering for scalable and well-conditioned Random Feature Methods
Jan Willem van Beek, Victorita Dolean, Ben Moseley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17626

Local feature filtering for scalable and well-conditioned Random Feature Methods
In recent years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful tool for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), with randomized neural networks showing remarkable potential. These networks, typically shallow, differ from conventional approaches by randomizing all parameters except those in the final layer. Notably, by integrating techniques inspired by domain decomposition, they achieve improved local accuracy and computational efficiency. Following \cite{chen:2022:BTM}, we refer to these a…

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…

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

An Empirical Comparison of Weak-IV-Robust Procedures in Just-Identified Models
Wenze Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18001 https://arxi…

An Empirical Comparison of Weak-IV-Robust Procedures in Just-Identified Models
Instrumental variable (IV) regression is recognized as one of the five core methods for causal inference, as identified by Angrist and Pischke (2008). This paper compares two leading approaches to inference under weak identification for just-identified IV models: the classical Anderson-Rubin (AR) procedure and the recently popular tF method proposed by Lee et al. (2022). Using replication data from the American Economic Review (AER) and Monte Carlo simulation experiments, we evaluate the two pr…

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 24. Juli 1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Trogon". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Vorschau: @Tatort: Das Verhör • Fernsehfilm Deutschland 2022 | #ARD #SWR
https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/68…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,044,250 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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.

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https://oaotechno.bandcamp.com/track/bicep-glue-oao-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZYAufbhkzyhLxk0u2uLqj

Evaluation empirique de la s\'ecurisation et de l'alignement de ChatGPT et Gemini: analyse comparative des vuln\'erabilit\'es par exp\'erimentations de jailbreaks
Rafa\"el Nouailles (GdR)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10029

Evaluation empirique de la sécurisation et de l'alignement de ChatGPT et Gemini: analyse comparative des vulnérabilités par expérimentations de jailbreaks
Large Language models (LLMs) are transforming digital usage, particularly in text generation, image creation, information retrieval and code development. ChatGPT, launched by OpenAI in November 2022, quickly became a reference, prompting the emergence of competitors such as Google's Gemini. However, these technological advances raise new cybersecurity challenges, including prompt injection attacks, the circumvention of regulatory measures (jailbreaking), the spread of misinformation (hallucinat…

The Spread of Writing: Every Year (3000 BCE - 2022 CE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUpJ4yVCNrI

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
WW3 SINCE 2022: #IRAN, #ISRAEL, #US 7 DAYS, UKRAIN…

The State-of-the-Art in Lifelog Retrieval: A Review of Progress at the ACM Lifelog Search Challenge Workshop 2022-24
Allie Tran, Werner Bailer, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Graham Healy, Steve Hodges, Bj\"orn {\TH}\'or J\'onsson, Luca Rossetto, Klaus Schoeffmann, Minh-Triet Tran, Lucia Vadicamo, Cathal Gurrin
https://arxiv…

The State-of-the-Art in Lifelog Retrieval: A Review of Progress at the ACM Lifelog Search Challenge Workshop 2022-24
The ACM Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) is a venue that welcomes and compares systems that support the exploration of lifelog data, and in particular the retrieval of specific information, through an interactive competition format. This paper reviews the recent advances in interactive lifelog retrieval as demonstrated at the ACM LSC from 2022 to 2024. Through a detailed comparative analysis, we highlight key improvements across three main retrieval tasks: known-item search, question answering, a…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,039,830 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,035,060 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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…

Revisiting Bourgain's probabilistic construction of solutions to the 2-$d$ cubic NLS
Tadahiro Oh, Yuzhao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24271 https://…

Revisiting Bourgain's probabilistic construction of solutions to the 2-$d$ cubic NLS
In a seminal paper (1996), Bourgain proved invariance of the Gibbs measure for the defocusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the two-dimensional torus by constructing local-in-time solutions in a probabilistic manner. In this note, we revisit and streamline his argument, using the random tensor estimate developed by Deng, Nahmod, and Yue (2022).

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,038,650 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,029,660 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. III. Survey Performance After Three Years on Sky
Arvind F. Gupta, Evan Fitzmaurice, Suvrath Mahadevan, Paul Robertson, Jacob K. Luhn, Jason T. Wright, Sarah E. Logsdon, Daniel M. Krolikowski, Leonardo A. Paredes, Chad F. Bender, Mark R. Giovinazzi, Andrea S. Lin, Cullen H. Blake, Caleb I. Ca\~nas, Eric B. Ford, Samuel P. Halverson, Shubham Kanodia, Michael W. McElwain, Joe P. Ninan, Jayadev Rajagopal, Arpita Roy, Christian Schwab, Gu{\dh}mundur Stef\'ans…

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. III. Survey Performance After Three Years on Sky
The NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS) has been delivering a rich set of precise radial velocity (RV) measurements for 41 bright, nearby main sequence stars. Here, we describe the status of the survey after three years on sky and we present the full set of RV measurements and accompanying stellar activity indicators. We discuss intermediate survey diagnostics, including calibration of the known RV zero point offset introduced following the Contreras fire in 2022 and the identification of an undiagno…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,027,540 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,033,930 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,031,620 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

#Drumpf's #Dumbass #TradeWar Has Already Lost American #Farmers Billion$
And The Longer It Stretches On, The Less Likely The Recovery, A…

A Short Drop or a Sudden Stop? Sanctions, Trade Shocks, and Firms’ Adjustment Margins: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/a-short-drop-or-a.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,030,580 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,023,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,022,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html