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Ammonium-rich bright areas on #Ceres demonstrate complex chemical activity: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01281-2 -> The discovery of a new ammonium salt on the dwarf planet Ceres confirms a complex chemical activity: https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2024/03/27/the-discovery-of-a-new-ammonium-salt-on-the-dwarf-planet-ceres-confirms-a-complex-chemical-activity/

Hacker di Anonymous attaccano le Forze di Difesa Israeliane: 233.000 documenti militari compromessi
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-4476e767-6ad0691dfdae1d70
Hacker di Anonymous attaccano le Forze di Difesa Israeliane: 233.000 documenti milit…

Biden is summoning congressional leaders to the White House to talk #Ukraine and government funding | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/biden-johns

Biden is summoning congressional leaders to the White House to talk Ukraine and government funding
President Joe Biden will convene the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the emergency aid package for Ukraine and Israel, as well as avoiding a government shutdown next month. That's according to a White House official, who spoke anonymously to discuss a meeting not yet publicly confirmed. The top four leaders include House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch …

President Joe Biden is supporting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to become the next NATO secretary general, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
Biden’s support is likely to sway more allies to get on board with Rutte’s nomination, after months of jockeying between him and several other European leaders for the job. The U.S. official was granted anonymity to reveal the president’s support on a matter he hasn’t backed publicly.
Rutte has a ways to go before any decision is made. Under…

Identifying Multiple Personalities in Large Language Models with External Evaluation
Xiaoyang Song, Yuta Adachi, Jessie Feng, Mouwei Lin, Linhao Yu, Frank Li, Akshat Gupta, Gopala Anumanchipalli, Simerjot Kaur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14805

Identifying Multiple Personalities in Large Language Models with External Evaluation
As Large Language Models (LLMs) are integrated with human daily applications rapidly, many societal and ethical concerns are raised regarding the behavior of LLMs. One of the ways to comprehend LLMs' behavior is to analyze their personalities. Many recent studies quantify LLMs' personalities using self-assessment tests that are created for humans. Yet many critiques question the applicability and reliability of these self-assessment tests when applied to LLMs. In this paper, we investigate LLM …

"Pitchfork will continue operating its own website instead of transitioning into the GQ domain." 😃
There's an interesting quote in here that got me thinking. It says Pitchfork has the highest amount of site visitors compared to other Condé sites. Technically this is untrue.
But the point remains because their page view volume is #1, and their Visit Duration is by far the highest. That's really valuable.
The only metric I can think might be lower on Pitc…

Pitchfork website will remain, staff say
Speaking anonymously to RA, employees confirmed the publication won't lose its digital footprint.

A Comparison of SynDiffix Multi-table versus Single-table Synthetic Data
Paul Francis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08463 https://arxiv.…

A Comparison of SynDiffix Multi-table versus Single-table Synthetic Data
SynDiffix is a new open-source tool for structured data synthesis. It has anonymization features that allow it to generate multiple synthetic tables while maintaining strong anonymity. Compared to the more common single-table approach, multi-table leads to more accurate data, since only the features of interest for a given analysis need be synthesized. This paper compares SynDiffix with 15 other commercial and academic synthetic data techniques using the SDNIST analysis framework, modified by u…

I have a brief story to tell: Earlier this week, a large DDoS attack against 2 out of our larger set of #Tor (@…) relays - which also act as stable HSDir nodes - has managed to partially interrupt Internet traffic for the whole #JKULinz. While the attack was not huge compared to others (peak traffic around 3-4 Gbit/s, well above 1M PPS), we suspect either a nation state actor or fairly well-funded organization for 3 reasons:
* The attack was more advanced than simply saturating the upstream with bandwidth/packets, but had proper handshakes with the Tor relays, trying to cause resource exhaustion on the application level (we have seen this pattern multiple times in the last 6 months, but this one was much more massive in terms of incoming packets).
* The attack was very targeted, affecting only 2 IPs out of 25, consistently over some time. This indicates that either the position in the HSDir or specific connections or hidden services that were relayed over those nodes were the target - but note that these are only guesses, we don't have hard data on the motivation of this targeting.
* The only motivations that come to mind are either de-anonymization attacks or take-downs of particular hidden services. These do not seem to be relevant for usual ransom DDoS botnet attackers, but more for political reasons.
We have some flow data and would be interested in doing more analysis. Any ideas or correlation with other data on Tor relay attacks welcome :)
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i wish there was an easier way of sharing long, anonymized discord conversations than taking a ton of screenshots and editing them
pondering this idea yesterday, i came up with the idea of a bot that, given two "boundary" messages in a command, generates a shareable webpage of the conversation between those messages, with all users except, if desired, the one issuing the command being anonymized
would probably still require consent from every user involved, but in principle, this feels like it should be possible
but i dont want to make it so can someone else do that for me plz thanku

From Theory to Comprehension: A Comparative Study of Differential Privacy and $k$-Anonymity
Saskia Nu\~nez von Voigt, Luise Mehner, Florian Tschorsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04006

From Theory to Comprehension: A Comparative Study of Differential Privacy and $k$-Anonymity
The notion of $\varepsilon$-differential privacy is a widely used concept of providing quantifiable privacy to individuals. However, it is unclear how to explain the level of privacy protection provided by a differential privacy mechanism with a set $\varepsilon$. In this study, we focus on users' comprehension of the privacy protection provided by a differential privacy mechanism. To do so, we study three variants of explaining the privacy protection provided by differential privacy: (1) the o…