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Before you head out for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the most important infosec developments you should know, including
--Health giant Kaiser shared millions of members' data with third-party advertisers
--FBI warns of unlicensed crypto transfer services,
--CISA reports success with ransomware warning pilot program,
--ByteDance says its critical algorithms foreclose sale of TikTok,
--Traffic generated by USPS scam texts rivals that of USPS,
--Attorneys General urge UnitedHealth to take meaningful action,
--Thoma Bravo to buy Darktrace for $5.32 billion,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/health-giant-kaiser-shared-millions-members-data-thirdparty-advertisers

Visual modulation of auditory evoked potentials in the cat https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-57075-1

Visual modulation of auditory evoked potentials in the cat - Scientific Reports
Visual modulation of the auditory system is not only a neural substrate for multisensory processing, but also serves as a backup input underlying cross-modal plasticity in deaf individuals. Event-related potential (ERP) studies in humans have provided evidence of a multiple-stage audiovisual interactions, ranging from tens to hundreds of milliseconds after the presentation of stimuli. However, it is still unknown if the temporal course of visual modulation in the auditory ERPs can be characteri…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12000 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_…

Thinking Outside the Black Box: Insights from a Digital Exhibition in the Humanities
One of the main goals of Open Science is to make research more reproducible. There is no consensus, however, on what exactly "reproducibility" is, as opposed for example to "replicability", and how it applies to different research fields. After a short review of the literature on reproducibility/replicability with a focus on the humanities, we describe how the creation of the digital twin of the temporary exhibition "The Other Renaissance" has been documented throughout, with different methods,…

2024 World Happiness Report: Libya, not Nigeria, is Africa’s happiest nation
Nigeria dropped seven spots from its previous ranking.
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2024 World Happiness Report: Libya, not Nigeria, is Africa's happiest nation
Nigeria dropped seven spots from its previous ranking.

I'd like to congratulate arts and humanities journals for continuing to flummox the folks at Clarivate by remaining less (quantitatively) rank-able, despite Clarivate's best efforts to put a number on everything, no matter the meaninglessness of the exercise. Stay weird arts and humanities!
#ScholarlyPublishing

2024 Journal Citation Reports: Changes in Journal Impact Factor category rankings to enhance transparency and inclusivity - Clarivate
The 2024 Journal Citation Reports coming in June will feature new unified rankings for each of our 229 science and social science categories; no Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™ rankings for the arts and humanities categories.

How to watch NFL Draft 2024 Round 2-3: Start time, pick order and key notes to know https://theathletic.com/5445483/2024/04/26/nfl-draft-2024-how-to-watch-round-2-3/

How to watch NFL Draft 2024 Round 2-3: Start time, pick order and key notes to know
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2024 NFL Draft. It might be hard to top some of the twists and turns in Thursday night’s Round 1 of the 2024 NFL Draft. But 225 more players will be selected the next two days with the focus turning to Rounds 2 and 3 on Friday night in Detroit. Here’s our little handy dandy guide to Day 2 of this year’s NFL Draft. GO DEEPERNFL Draft 2024 ‘The Beast’ Guide: Dane Brugler’s scouting reports and player rankings The Beast, Dane Brugler’s expansive…

How to watch NFL Draft 2024 Round 2-3: Start time, pick order and key notes to know https://theathletic.com/5445483/2024/04/26/nfl-draft-2024-how-to-watch-round-2-3/

How to watch NFL Draft 2024 Round 2-3: Start time, pick order and key notes to know
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2024 NFL Draft. It might be hard to top some of the twists and turns in Thursday night’s Round 1 of the 2024 NFL Draft. But 225 more players will be selected the next two days with the focus turning to Rounds 2 and 3 on Friday night in Detroit. Here’s our little handy dandy guide to Day 2 of this year’s NFL Draft. GO DEEPERNFL Draft 2024 ‘The Beast’ Guide: Dane Brugler’s scouting reports and player rankings The Beast, Dane Brugler’s expansive…

I finally stumbled upon the call between a ransomware hacker and rank-and-file employees that @… reported weeks ago.
It's hysterical. When the hacker admits to recording his phone call with a different employee, the main employee he talked to points out that one-party phone recordings are illegal in her state. At this point, the hacker says, "I'm sorry. I'm a hacker, and I don't care about the law."
https://www.metacurity.com/p/listen-hilarious-call-ransomware-hacker-random-company-employee

Resolution Limit of Single-Photon LiDAR
Stanley H. Chan, Hashan K. Weerasooriya, Weijian Zhang, Pamela Abshire, Istvan Gyongy, Robert K. Henderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17719

Resolution Limit of Single-Photon LiDAR
Single-photon Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) systems are often equipped with an array of detectors for improved spatial resolution and sensing speed. However, given a fixed amount of flux produced by the laser transmitter across the scene, the per-pixel Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) will decrease when more pixels are packed in a unit space. This presents a fundamental trade-off between the spatial resolution of the sensor array and the SNR received at each pixel. Theoretical characterization…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12000 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_…

Thinking Outside the Black Box: Insights from a Digital Exhibition in the Humanities
One of the main goals of Open Science is to make research more reproducible. There is no consensus, however, on what exactly "reproducibility" is, as opposed for example to "replicability", and how it applies to different research fields. After a short review of the literature on reproducibility/replicability with a focus on the humanities, we describe how the creation of the digital twin of the temporary exhibition "The Other Renaissance" has been documented throughout, with different methods,…