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Just don't miss today's Metacurity for a raft of Iran-related cyber developments and the other critical infosec news you should know today, including
--Israel-linked hackers destroyed data at Iran’s state-owned Bank Sepah
--Israel-linked hackers stole $48m in crypto from Iran,
--Iran urges removal of WhatsApp from phones,
--Iran shuts down internet amid Israel strikes,
--US critical infrastructure girds for Iranian cyber threats,
--UK ICO fines 23an…

Israel-linked hackers destroyed data at Iran’s state-owned Bank Sepah
Israel-linked hackers stole $48m in crypto from Iran, Iran urges removal of WhatsApp from phones, Iran shuts down internet amid Israel strikes, US critical infrastructure girds for Iranian cyber threats, UK ICO fines 23andMe $3.1m over 2023 breach, Chinese spies invest heavily in AI, so much more

In late 2023, the US Army Drill Team did things like this, yet yesterday, under the command of potus and kegseth, the Army had difficulty walking in step with one another.
Unless there's another reason the soldiers would break step...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbR96SWcP

from my link log —
Implementing dependent types in pi-forall.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02129
saved 2025-06-06 https://dotat.at/…

Implementing Dependent Types in pi-forall
These lecture notes describe the design of a minimal dependently-typed language called "pi-forall" and walk through the implementation of its type checker. They are based on lectures given at the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School during July 2023.

Meet Alexius Chipalamwazani - 2023 Emerging NREN Programme (ENP) Participant!
At #TNC23, Alexius joined the ENP—a programme built to equip and empower emerging NREN representatives with the skills, knowledge, and community ties that will drive innovation back home.
In this interview, Alexius reflects on his ENP experience, how it shaped his growth, and the impact it’s had on Malawi’s NRE…

Reflections on the Emerging NREN Programme: a personal journey with the Malawian NREN | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Alexius Chipalamwazani from MAREN shares how the Emerging NREN Programme empowered him to drive innovation and lead IPv6 adoption in Malawi.

Who is realistically going to carry around a second digital camera with them? Of course cameras are better than smartphones, but the best camera is the one you have with you at the moment.
I've taken thousands of photos that I never would have thanks to my iphone.
https://

How AppLovin, which lets advertisers use IP addresses to track users, began eroding Google's ad market share and pushed Google to loosen its privacy stance (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/applovin-scared-google

How AppLovin Scared Google
In 2023, Google ad executives noticed something alarming about one aspect of their business. Once-red hot revenue growth from selling ads promoting mobile apps, a business worth double-digit billions of dollars for Google, had slowed, a former employee said. When staffers discussed what was ...

Cowboys Lose $16.4 Million Because of a Decision Made in 2023 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/16-4-million-salary-cap-hit/?adt_ei=[email]

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.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
won Best Documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival
#PrivateEquity #Journalism #FreePress

Minimum Membership Geometric Set Cover in the Continuous Setting
Sathish Govindarajan, Mayuresh Patle, Siddhartha Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00272 h…

Minimum Membership Geometric Set Cover in the Continuous Setting
We study the minimum membership geometric set cover, i.e., MMGSC problem [SoCG, 2023] in the continuous setting. In this problem, the input consists of a set $P$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$, and a geometric object $t$, the goal is to find a set $\mathcal{S}$ of translated copies of the geometric object $t$ that covers all the points in $P$ while minimizing $\mathsf{memb}(P, \mathcal{S})$, where $\mathsf{memb}(P, \mathcal{S})=\max_{p\in P}|\{s\in \mathcal{S}: p\in s\}|$. For un…

Es muss in Deutschland möglich sein, den grausamen Terroranschlag der Hamas vom 7. Oktober 2023 mit 1.200 Todesopfern und 250 Geiseln zu verurteilen und sich gleichzeitig für ein Ende der Kriegsverbrechen in Gaza und dem Westjordanland einzusetzen.
https://innn.it/gaza-hilfe
Historische Vera…

Petition · Uneingeschränkte Hilfslieferungen nach Gaza JETZT ! · innn.it
Jetzt innn.it-Petition unterschreiben & Alex von Palestinians and Jews for Peace unterstützen!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08048 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

The origin of the coherent radio flash potentially associated with GRB 201006A
Rowlinson et al. 2023 recently claimed the detection of a coherent radio flash 76.6 minutes after a short gamma-ray burst. They proposed that the radio emission may be associated with a long-lived neutron star engine. We show through theoretical and observational arguments that the coherent radio emission, if real and indeed associated with GRB 201006A and at the estimated redshift, is unlikely to be due to the collapse of the neutron star, ruling out a blitzar-like mechanism. Instead, we show …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10188 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Installation and performance of the 3rd Veto plane at the SND@LHC detector
During 2022/2023 the optimal inefficiency of the Veto system of the SND@LHC detector was measured to be $(7.8\pm2.8)\times10^{-8}$. To reduce this inefficiency, a third Veto plane was installed during the 2023-2024 Year End Technical Stop. In addition, the Veto system was lowered to cover the target fully, thereby increasing acceptance. This paper describes how the inefficiency of the Veto system was reduced from $7.8\times10^{-8}$ with an acceptance of about $64\%$ of the target area in 2022-2…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08161 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

The Monte Carlo Computational Summit -- October 25 & 26, 2023 -- Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
The Monte Carlo Computational Summit was held on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, USA on 25--26 October 2023. The goals of the summit were to discuss algorithmic and software alterations required for successfully porting respective code bases to exascale-class computing hardware, compare software engineering techniques used by various code teams, and consider the adoption of industry-standard benchmark problems to better facilitate code-to-code performance comp…

OOOHH!!!! 🚨
Just got an email from the BC Government! My FOI request that I submitted almost exactly two years ago in 2023 has finally completed!
Looks like there is ALOT of redacted/partial disclosures
I'm going to keep a lid on what this is all about other than to say, it's about trains and climate change! lol (which is convenient, given my earlier post this morning)
Time for some light reading!
(edit: Holy.... it's 1600 pages!!!)
#FOI #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli