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Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to its AI models, including the newest Claude 4 family and the highly popular Claude 3 models (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/windsurf-say…

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models | TechCrunch
The CEO of Windsurf, a popular AI-assisted coding tool, said Anthropic is limiting its direct access to certain AI models.

A post from the archive 📫:
Invalid Access to memory location in KUDU App Services
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/invalid-access-to-memory-location-in-kudu-app-services

Asymmetry by Design: Boosting Cyber Defenders with Differential Access to AI
Shaun Ee, Chris Covino, Cara Labrador, Christina Krawec, Jam Kraprayoon, Joe O'Brien
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02035

Asymmetry by Design: Boosting Cyber Defenders with Differential Access to AI
As AI-enabled cyber capabilities become more advanced, we propose "differential access" as a strategy to tilt the cybersecurity balance toward defense by shaping access to these capabilities. We introduce three possible approaches that form a continuum, becoming progressively more restrictive for higher-risk capabilities: Promote Access, Manage Access, and Deny by Default. However, a key principle across all approaches is the need to prioritize defender access, even in the most restrictive scen…

Access Control Threatened by Quantum Entanglement
Zhicheng Zhang, Mingsheng Ying
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02622 https://arxiv.org/p…

Access Control Threatened by Quantum Entanglement
Access control is a cornerstone of computer security that prevents unauthorised access to resources. In this paper, we study access control in quantum computer systems. We present the first explicit scenario of a security breach when a classically secure access control system is straightforwardly adapted to the quantum setting. The breach is ultimately due to that quantum mechanics allows the phenomenon of entanglement and violates Mermin inequality, a multi-party variant of the celebrated Bell…

manchmal findet sich auch in sprachwissenschaftlichen werken was zu #openaccess:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672633-036 [aber leider in closed access –

Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan says Anthropic cut Windsurf's direct access to Claude models because of reports that OpenAI is acquiring Windsurf (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/anth

Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: 'It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI' | TechCrunch
Anthropic's Jared Kaplan said the company largely cut Windsurf's direct access to Anthropic's Claude AI models because of rumors OpenAI is acquiring the startup.

According to @…'s newsletter this morning, the Citizen's Advice Bureau is now requiring #Trans employees (? and clients?) to use toilets according to their gender assigned at birth, which, if true, is not a good look at all. Journalist is Steph Paton, who I sli…

Scots charity in trans rights row after announcing change to bathroom access
A Scottish charity may be discriminating against transgender staff after announcing a change to bathroom access following the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act, say legal experts.

"People in Romania's southwest struggle to access water as one third of country faces drought"
#Romania #Drought

Drought strikes one third of Romania as residents struggle for water
Romania's southwestern Dolj county struggles with severe drought. Villagers in Teascu din Deal trek long distances for water, facing harsh conditions daily.

Laura Loomer's White House access erases the line between the fringe and mainstream (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/laura-loomers-white-house-access-erases-line-fringe-mainstream-rcna210863
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p51#a250604p51

Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos,
a pediatric infectious disease expert, was a co-leader of a working group on COVID-19 vaccines who advised experts on the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
She informed her ACIP colleagues of her resignation in an email on Tuesday.
"My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population,
and that is not something I am able to continue…

Top CDC COVID vaccine expert resigns after RFK Jr. unilaterally restricts access
The expert said she could no longer help vulnerable people in her CDC role.

An OTFS-based Random Access Scheme for GNSS Independent Operation in NTN
Marius Caus, Musbah Shaat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03852 https://

An OTFS-based Random Access Scheme for GNSS Independent Operation in NTN
This paper investigates the random access procedure for non-terrestrial networks operating without global navigation satellite system (GNSS) support. In such scenarios, positioning uncertainties can reach several kilometers, which directly impacts the open-loop compensation mechanisms employed by the user equipment. To ensure that the resulting time and carrier frequency offsets can be handled by the network, the robustness of the standardized random access signal design and detection scheme mu…

Distributionally Robust Optimization for Aerial Multi-access Edge Computing via Cooperation of UAVs and HAPs
Ziye Jia, Can Cui, Chao Dong, Qihui Wu, Zhuang Ling, Dusit Niyato, Zhu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01972

Distributionally Robust Optimization for Aerial Multi-access Edge Computing via Cooperation of UAVs and HAPs
With an extensive increment of computation demands, the aerial multi-access edge computing (MEC), mainly based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high altitude platforms (HAPs), plays significant roles in future network scenarios. In detail, UAVs can be flexibly deployed, while HAPs are characterized with large capacity and stability. Hence, in this paper, we provide a hierarchical model composed of an HAP and multi-UAVs, to provide aerial MEC services. Moreover, considering the errors of c…

I tried to access: https://constitutionparty.com/
I got this message:
>Access to browse this site from your country is prohibited.
Is there a way to tell where the access is being blocked, from Brazil or by the site itself?

Public Service Announcement: If you've worked in the UK, and you've changed the UK number that you use for accessing Gov.UK services, it is impossible to restore access because the default recovery workflow requires UK-issued photo ids: either a UK passport, or a UK driving license, are mandatory, even if you never had one or provided one in the first place.
Happily enough, as long as you keep your National Insurance Number, you can create a new Gateway ID, but this time follow…

the3million | Proving identity on Government websites with a non-UK passport | Giving a voice to EU citizens in the UK
HMRC, DWP and other government services have changed the way in which people sign in to access these services. This is a step-by-step guide for EU citizens and other non-UK passport holders to be able to access the Government Gateway, to see your tax records, pension records and other finance information, even if you do not have a British passport.

Curated Collaborative AI Edge with Network Data Analytics for B5G/6G Radio Access Networks
Sardar Jaffar Ali, Syed M. Raza, Duc-Tai Le, Rajesh Challa, Min Young Chung, Ness Shroff, Hyunseung Choo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01994

Curated Collaborative AI Edge with Network Data Analytics for B5G/6G Radio Access Networks
Despite advancements, Radio Access Networks (RAN) still account for over 50\% of the total power consumption in 5G networks. Existing RAN split options do not fully harness data potential, presenting an opportunity to reduce operational expenditures. This paper addresses this opportunity through a twofold approach. First, highly accurate network traffic and user predictions are achieved using the proposed Curated Collaborative Learning (CCL) framework, which selectively collaborates with releva…

OpenAI updates its coding agent Codex with internet access, turned off by default, and expands availability to ChatGPT Plus users (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/codex-agent-internet-access/

Codex agent internet access
Sam Altman, [just now](https://twitter.com/sama/status/1930006856019390521): > codex gets access to the internet today! it is off by default and there are complex tradeoffs; people should read about the risks carefully and …

OAPEN blog: Two Years On: A Conversation with DFG on Supporting #OpenAccess #Books
#ScholComm

Two Years On: A Conversation with DFG on Supporting Open Access Books
It has been two years since OAPEN launched a dedicated collection of DFG-funded open access books. Part of this collection is supported by the DFG Open Access Publication Funding programme. To mark this occasion, OAPEN’s Funder Relations Manager, Laura Bandura-Morgan, interviewed Michael Geuenich, Programme Officer, Scientific Library Services and Information Systems, and Dr. Angela Holzer, … Continue reading "Two Years On: A Conversation with DFG on Supporting Open Access Books"

Memory Access Characterization of Large Language Models in CPU Environment and its Potential Impacts
Spencer Banasik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01827 https…

Memory Access Characterization of Large Language Models in CPU Environment and its Potential Impacts
As machine learning algorithms are shown to be an increasingly valuable tool, the demand for their access has grown accordingly. Oftentimes, it is infeasible to run inference with larger models without an accelerator, which may be unavailable in environments that have constraints such as energy consumption, security, or cost. To increase the availability of these models, we aim to im- prove the LLM inference speed on a CPU-only environment by modifying the cache architecture. To determine what …

BidenCash carding market domains seized in international operation
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bidencash-carding-market-domains-seized-in-international-operation/

BidenCash carding market domains seized in international operation
Earlier today, law enforcement seized multiple domains of BidenCash, the infamous dark web market for stolen credit cards, personal information, and SSH access.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05625 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Coded Many-User Multiple Access via Approximate Message Passing
We consider communication over the Gaussian multiple-access channel in the regime where the number of users grows linearly with the codelength. In this regime, schemes based on sparse superposition coding can achieve a near-optimal tradeoff between spectral efficiency and signal-to-noise ratio. However, these schemes are feasible only for small values of user payload. This paper investigates efficient schemes for larger user payloads, focusing on coded CDMA schemes where each user's information…

Memory Access Vectors: Improving Sampling Fidelity for CPU Performance Simulations
Sriyash Caculo, Mahesh Madhav, Jeff Baxter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02344

Memory Access Vectors: Improving Sampling Fidelity for CPU Performance Simulations
Accurate performance projection of large-scale benchmarks is essential for CPU architects to evaluate and optimize future processor designs. SimPoint sampling, which uses Basic Block Vectors (BBVs), is a widely adopted technique to reduce simulation time by selecting representative program phases. However, BBVs often fail to capture the behavior of applications with extensive array-indirect memory accesses, leading to inaccurate projections. In particular, the 523.xalancbmk_r benchmark exhibits…

Gaza hospital 'one massive trauma ward' treating Palestinians shot trying to access food: WHO | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-aid-who-1.7577063?cmp=rss

I wouldn't have thought that quantitative analyses of retrospective national bibliographies would be that painful: data access via SRU, OAI, and REST API; another resource has a JSON dump, another one again consists of various ttl for which you have to set up your own sparql endpoint. And I've not even arrived at formats, metadata standards and cataloguing peculiarities 🤯 so everything's #FAIR

Anyone run Android apps on a PC - either under qemu or directly? I need access to wifi though in the guest and maybe camera.
(I want to try Samsung's smartthings app for configuring my washer but my phone is too ancient)

On the Performance of Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS) with Orthogonal and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
Yanyu Cheng, Chongjun Ouyang, Yuanwei Liu, George K. Karagiannidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02420

On the Performance of Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS) with Orthogonal and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
This paper conducts a comprehensive performance analysis for pinching-antenna systems (PASS) under both orthogonal multiple access (OMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission. Given the cost of waveguides, we consider a scenario where the waveguide is not deployed in all rooms, i.e., some users are beyond the line-of-sight (LoS) link service area of the PASS. Specifically, we consider a PASS where a pinching antenna in one room serves two users located in separate rooms. The wi…

And this, people, is why Europe ABSOLUTELY NEEDS RIGHT FREAKING NOW its own human-graded space access system.
I'll never understand why nobody at #ESA thought of developping further the ATV in order to be also used to send people up instead of just cargo.
I know, the problem was mostly in bringing people down, as the ATV was designed to burn up in the atmosphere. But still. Now we…

rickf (@rickf@indieweb.social)
Attached: 1 image Dragon is what the US uses to resupply the ISS, for those that don't know...

#Python Friday #277: Access Local #LLMs Through LM Studio
https://pythonfriday.dev/2025/05/277-a

#277: Access Local LLMs Through LM Studio - Python Friday
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Learning Optimal Posted Prices for a Unit-Demand Buyer
Yifeng Teng, Yifan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02284 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Learning Optimal Posted Prices for a Unit-Demand Buyer
We study the problem of learning the optimal item pricing for a unit-demand buyer with independent item values, and the learner has query access to the buyer's value distributions. We consider two common query models in the literature: the sample access model where the learner can obtain a sample of each item value, and the pricing query model where the learner can set a price for an item and obtain a binary signal on whether the sampled value of the item is greater than our proposed price. In …

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/trump-spending-bill-conservatives-law
“But a sugar-high won’t be sustained, it will do real damage, & often what comes next is the crash. The longer-term health of our economy, American famili…

❗ "Massey is the 13th councillor in Scotland, out of a total of 1,226, to have defected to Reform"
- I can't help wondering if Farage, who has access to large sums of right-wing American money, is PAYING those councillors to defect, literally BUYING THEM.

"In churches we pray for revival, but we need to understand what that really means. It is not just about personal change, but about change in the whole society. That requires that we lay down our arms, care for the poor, and treat creation well."
—YDS Professor Willie James Jennings in this interview with the Dutch Daily Newspaper. Prof. (To access the article, you'll need to do a free registration. Google translation should help you turn the Dutch into English.)

There’s exactly 1 narrow way that it’s true. Before widespread #WFH, attackers often had an insurmountable barrier: no way into the business network from the Internet. At the last gig (2008) where I had to visit a “workplace” regularly, inbound remote access was officially non-existent & outbound Internet access all went through restrictive web proxies.

Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Attached: 1 image This Daily Mail piece about security leaders thinking work-from-home means they will be crippled is horseshit, I'm not linking it. They've taken a survey about how security people think their businesses couldn't survive ransomware, and linked it to working from home. WFH isn't the problem: business IT and resilience being built on quicksand is the problem.

You learn and learn and learn the language of a culture, then one day you read a news heading and understand them ->
Congress passes budget to expand mass deportations, cut social services, and stall clean energy
https://www.theverge.com/policy/697879/con

Congress passes budget to expand mass deportations, cut social services, and stall clean energy
Congress has passed a budget bill that will fund President Donald Trump’s push for mass deportations while cutting access to Medicaid and stalling clean energy.

Effects of higher-order interactions and homophily on information access inequality
Moritz Laber, Samantha Dies, Joseph Ehlert, Brennan Klein, Tina Eliassi-Rad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00156

Effects of higher-order interactions and homophily on information access inequality
The spread of information through socio-technical systems determines which individuals are the first to gain access to opportunities and insights. Yet, the pathways through which information flows can be skewed, leading to systematic differences in access across social groups. These inequalities remain poorly characterized in settings involving nonlinear social contagion and higher-order interactions that exhibit homophily. We introduce a enerative model for hypergraphs with hyperedge homophily…

from my link log —
netbird: Connect your devices into a WireGuard overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird
saved 2025-04-08

GitHub - netbirdio/netbird: Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.
Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls. - netbirdio/netbird

Parece interessante. Viu essa, @… ?
@… https://

Philosophical Psychology (@PhilosophicalPsychology@fediscience.org)
Attached: 1 image Free access! Sean Smith reviews "Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind: A Constructive Engagement" (Rowan & Littlefield) by Matthew MacKenzie https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2159798 #Buddhism #embodiment

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19165 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

OrgAccess: A Benchmark for Role Based Access Control in Organization Scale LLMs
Role-based access control (RBAC) and hierarchical structures are foundational to how information flows and decisions are made within virtually all organizations. As the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) to serve as unified knowledge repositories and intelligent assistants in enterprise settings becomes increasingly apparent, a critical, yet under explored, challenge emerges: \textit{can these models reliably understand and operate within the complex, often nuanced, constraints imposed b…

Revisiting Active Learning under (Human) Label Variation
Cornelia Gruber, Helen Alber, Bernd Bischl, G\"oran Kauermann, Barbara Plank, Matthias A{\ss}enmacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02593

Revisiting Active Learning under (Human) Label Variation
Access to high-quality labeled data remains a limiting factor in applied supervised learning. While label variation (LV), i.e., differing labels for the same instance, is common, especially in natural language processing, annotation frameworks often still rest on the assumption of a single ground truth. This overlooks human label variation (HLV), the occurrence of plausible differences in annotations, as an informative signal. Similarly, active learning (AL), a popular approach to optimizing th…

Did someone find a setup where their #NextcloudAssistant performs sensible tasks?
I have context agent running. It seems to provide general access to some #Nextcloud apps as I am asked if I want to create bogus calendar entries when asking the example commands like "list my calendars&qu…

RNC Intervenes to Back Trump Anti-Voting Order, Claims Greater Voter Access Hurts Their Candidates (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/rnc-intervenes-to-back-trump-anti-voting-order-claims-greater-voter-access-hurts-their-candidates/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p143#a250603p143

Today's #wtf computing moment; There seems to be no way to let a downloaded, LaunchDaemon started, app on #macos have access to my LAN unless the developer does some magic to it (e.g. an interactive mechanism to trigger a LAN access permission dialog).
This means the shared cache I have on my LAN for…

MacOS instances unable to access cache on another machine on a LAN
Apple being Apple have done their own "clever" thing (for some definition of "clever); They block applications accessing other machines on a users LAN without an explicit interaction from the user. This means that if there are two machines A (a Linux host), and B (a macos host), both on the sa…

The easy access that scammers have to sophisticated AI tools means nothing -- from emails to video calls -- can be trusted.
https://www.wired.com/youre-not-ready/

You're Not Ready
Seems bad out there. Unfortunately, it can always get worse. From evil hacker AI to world-changing cyberattacks, WIRED envisions the future you haven't prepared for.

The Musk-Trump feud is escalating 💀https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=https://truthsocial.com/

ARMOUR US: Android Runtime Zero-permission Sensor Usage Monitoring from User Space
Yan Long, Jiancong Cui, Yuqing Yang, Tobias Alam, Zhiqiang Lin, Kevin Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02177

ARMOUR US: Android Runtime Zero-permission Sensor Usage Monitoring from User Space
This work investigates how to monitor access to Android zero-permission sensors which could cause privacy leakage to users. Moreover, monitoring such sensitive access allows security researchers to characterize potential sensor abuse patterns. Zero-permission sensors such as accelerometers have become an indispensable part of Android devices. The critical information they provide has attracted extensive research investigating how data collectors could capture more sensor data to enable both ben…

Accessible Data Access and Analysis by People who are Blind or Have Low Vision
Samuel Reinders, Munazza Zaib, Matthew Butler, Bongshin Lee, Ingrid Zukerman, Lizhen Qu, Kim Marriott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23443

Accessible Data Access and Analysis by People who are Blind or Have Low Vision
Our work aims to develop new assistive technologies that enable blind or low vision (BLV) people to explore and analyze data readily. At present, barriers exist for BLV people to explore and analyze data, restricting access to government, health and personal data, and limiting employment opportunities. This work explores the co-design and development of an innovative system to support data access, with a focus on the use of refreshable tactile displays (RTDs) and conversational agents. The envi…

I recall using an app/service/... for offline access to all kinds of docs, but sadly, I don't remember its name. (I know I have used it to access cppreference and such). Any ideas? 🥺
Alternatively, any suggestions for offline access to JavaScript docs? MDN says it has offline access but then says it's only for "MDN Plus", which it also says I have but does not provide a means to enable offline storage. 😤
#askMastodon #askFedi #question #JavaScript #Mozzilla

A Reference Architecture for Gamified Cultural Heritage Applications Leveraging Generative AI and Augmented Reality
Federico Martusciello, Henry Muccini, Antonio Bucchiarone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04090

A Reference Architecture for Gamified Cultural Heritage Applications Leveraging Generative AI and Augmented Reality
The rapid advancement of Information and Communication Technologies is transforming Cultural Heritage access, experience, and preservation. However, many digital heritage applications lack interactivity, personalization, and adaptability, limiting user engagement and educational impact. This short paper presents a reference architecture for gamified cultural heritage applications leveraging generative AI and augmented reality. Gamification enhances motivation, artificial intelligence enables ad…

A Late Collaborative Perception Framework for 3D Multi-Object and Multi-Source Association and Fusion
Maryem Fadili (VeDeCom, IRSEEM), Mohamed Anis Ghaoui (VeDeCom), Louis Lecrosnier (IRSEEM, ESIGELEC), Steve Pechberti (VeDeCom), Redouane Khemmar (IRSEEM, ESIGELEC, IRSEEM)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02430

A Late Collaborative Perception Framework for 3D Multi-Object and Multi-Source Association and Fusion
In autonomous driving, recent research has increasingly focused on collaborative perception based on deep learning to overcome the limitations of individual perception systems. Although these methods achieve high accuracy, they rely on high communication bandwidth and require unrestricted access to each agent's object detection model architecture and parameters. These constraints pose challenges real-world autonomous driving scenarios, where communication limitations and the need to safeguard p…

#TIL: es gibt zwei selbstlernkurse für #OpenAccess vom @…:
"Open Access für Einsteiger:innen"

Conversational LLMs Simplify Secure Clinical Data Access, Understanding, and Analysis
Rafi Al Attrach, Pedro Moreira, Rajna Fani, Renato Umeton, Leo Anthony Celi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01053

Conversational LLMs Simplify Secure Clinical Data Access, Understanding, and Analysis
As ever-larger clinical datasets become available, they have the potential to unlock unprecedented opportunities for medical research. Foremost among them is Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC-IV), the world's largest open-source EHR database. However, the inherent complexity of these datasets, particularly the need for sophisticated querying skills and the need to understand the underlying clinical settings, often presents a significant barrier to their effective use. M3 lowers…

TikTok launches TikTok for Artists, which lets artists access data about their music and posts, and Pre-Release, a tool to promote upcoming album releases (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/tiktok-launches…

TikTok launches 'TikTok for Artists,' a new music insights platform | TechCrunch
TikTok is officially launching TikTok for Artists, a new music insights platform that is designed to help artists build their careers.

Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for allegedly ‘scraping’ user comments to train chatbot Claude
https://apnews.com/article/reddit-sues-ai-company-anthropic-claude-chatbot-f5ea042beb253a3f05a091e70531692d

Reddit sues Anthropic, accusing the AI company of illegally scraping data from its site
Social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude. Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit’s content despite being asked not to do so. Anthropic didn’t immediately return a request for comment Wednesday.

Should not be necessary given the ruling against Trump’s White House in 2020, but here we are anyway:
“National Association of the Deaf Sues White House for Access to Press Briefings”
https://www.nad.org/2025/05/28/national-as

Getting almost all the bits from a quantum random access code
Han-Hsuan Lin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Ronald de Wolf (QuSoft, CWI,University of Amsterdam)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01903

Getting almost all the bits from a quantum random access code
A quantum random access code (QRAC) is a map $x\mapstoρ_x$ that encodes $n$-bit strings $x$ into $m$-qubit quantum states $ρ_x$, in a way that allows us to recover any one bit of $x$ with success probability $\geq p$. The measurement on $ρ_x$ that is used to recover, say, $x_1$ may destroy all the information about the other bits; this is in fact what happens in the well-known QRAC that encodes $n=2$ bits into $m=1$ qubits. Does this generalize to large $n$, i.e., could there exist QRACs tha…

Coordinated Multi-BS SSB Beam Design for Enhanced Initial Access Coverage
Hakime BarghiZanjani, Bikshapathi Gouda, Antti T\"olli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02760

Coordinated Multi-BS SSB Beam Design for Enhanced Initial Access Coverage
Ensuring strong synchronization signal block (SSB) coverage is essential for reliable user equipment (UE) connection during initial access. While techniques such as power boosting and network densification are commonly used, this work explores joint transmission (JT) of SSBs as an alternative to enhance coverage. Although JT is widely applied in data transmission, its use for SSBs has not been explored due to the lack of channel state information, which prevents coherent signal alignment across…

Study shows the use of emojis in text messaging improves perceived responsiveness and thereby enhances closeness and relationship satisfaction https://phys.org/news/2025-07-emoji-impact-relationship-outcomes-reveals.html

Emoji use may impact relationship outcomes, study reveals
The use of emojis in text messaging improves perceived responsiveness and thereby enhances closeness and relationship satisfaction, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Eun Huh from the University of Texas at Austin, U.S.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00605 has been replaced.
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ABCDEFGH: An Adaptation-Based Convolutional Neural Network-CycleGAN Disease-Courses Evolution Framework Using Generative Models in Health Education
With the advancement of modern medicine and the development of technologies such as MRI, CT, and cellular analysis, it has become increasingly critical for clinicians to accurately interpret various diagnostic images. However, modern medical education often faces challenges due to limited access to high-quality teaching materials, stemming from privacy concerns and a shortage of educational resources (Balogh et al., 2015). In this context, image data generated by machine learning models, partic…

Cloudflare confirms Russia restricting access to services amid free internet crackdown https://therecord.media/cloudflare-russia-restricting-access-crackdown

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23073 has been replaced.
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DX100: A Programmable Data Access Accelerator for Indirection
Indirect memory accesses frequently appear in applications where memory bandwidth is a critical bottleneck. Prior indirect memory access proposals, such as indirect prefetchers, runahead execution, fetchers, and decoupled access/execute architectures, primarily focus on improving memory access latency by loading data ahead of computation but still rely on the DRAM controllers to reorder memory requests and enhance memory bandwidth utilization. DRAM controllers have limited visibility to future …

Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) has gained access to sensitive data of Russia's strategic aircraft manufacturer Tupolev
Tupolev, a Soviet-era aerospace firm now fully integrated into Russia's defense-industrial complex, has been under international sanctions since 2022 for its role in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Its bombers have been widely used to launch long-range cruise missiles against Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.
According to the so…

'There is nothing secret left' — Ukraine hacks Russia's Tupolev aircraft manufacturer, source claims
HUR's cyber corps accessed over 4.4 gigabytes (GB) of internal data, including official correspondence, personnel files, home addresses, resumes, purchase records, and closed meeting minutes, a source claimed.

Rethinking Broken Object Level Authorization Attacks Under Zero Trust Principle
Anbin Wu (The College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University), Zhiyong Feng (The College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University), Ruitao Feng (The Southern Cross University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02309

Rethinking Broken Object Level Authorization Attacks Under Zero Trust Principle
RESTful APIs facilitate data exchange between applications, but they also expose sensitive resources to potential exploitation. Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) is the top vulnerability in the OWASP API Security Top 10, exemplifies a critical access control flaw where attackers manipulate API parameters to gain unauthorized access. To address this, we propose BOLAZ, a defense framework grounded in zero trust principles. BOLAZ analyzes the data flow of resource IDs, pinpointing BOLA atta…

Embedding-Based Federated Data Sharing via Differentially Private Conditional VAEs
Francesco Di Salvo, Hanh Huyen My Nguyen, Christian Ledig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02671

Embedding-Based Federated Data Sharing via Differentially Private Conditional VAEs
Deep Learning (DL) has revolutionized medical imaging, yet its adoption is constrained by data scarcity and privacy regulations, limiting access to diverse datasets. Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized training but suffers from high communication costs and is often restricted to a single downstream task, reducing flexibility. We propose a data-sharing method via Differentially Private (DP) generative models. By adopting foundation models, we extract compact, informative embeddings, re…

Figma releases Dev Mode Model Context Protocol server, which provides more context about how AI designs are created in Figma (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/679439/figma-dev-mode-mcp-server-beta-release

Figma will let your AI access its design servers
Figma is launching a Dev Mode MCP Server that can help AI models more effectively translate designs into fully coded applications.

Direct-to-Cell: A First Look into Starlink's Direct Satellite-to-Device Radio Access Network through Crowdsourced Measurements
Jorge Garcia-Cabeza, Javier Albert-Smet, Zoraida Frias, Luis Mendo, Santiago Andr\'es Azcoitia, Eduardo Yraola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00283

Direct-to-Cell: A First Look into Starlink's Direct Satellite-to-Device Radio Access Network through Crowdsourced Measurements
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite mega-constellations have recently emerged as a viable access solution for broadband services in underserved areas. In 2024, Direct Satellite-to-Device (DS2D) communications, which enable unmodified smartphones to connect directly to spaceborne base stations, entered large-scale beta testing, with Starlink globally leading deployments. This paper presents the first measurement study of commercial DS2D services. Using crowdsourced mobile network data collected in t…

Parallax QAMA: Novel Downlink Multiple Access for MISO Systems with Simple Receivers
Jie Huang, Ming Zhao, Shengli Zhou, Ling Qiu, Jinkang Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23301

Parallax QAMA: Novel Downlink Multiple Access for MISO Systems with Simple Receivers
In this paper, we propose a novel downlink multiple access system with a multi-antenna transmitter and two single-antenna receivers, inspired by the underlying principles of hierarchical quadrature amplitude modulation (H-QAM) based multiple access (QAMA) and space-division multiple access (SDMA). In the proposed scheme, coded bits from two users are split and assigned to one shared symbol and two private symbols carried by different beams. Based on joint symbol mapping of H-QAM constellations …

Sammelauftrag, Open Acccess u.a.m.: "Gespräch mit Henriette Rösch, stellvertretende Direktorin der UB Leipzig" im Blog von Michael Knoche:
Teil 1: https://biblio.hypotheses.org/10665
Teil 2:

PAL: Designing Conversational Agents as Scalable, Cooperative Patient Simulators for Palliative-Care Training
Neil K. R. Sehgal, Hita Kambhamettu, Allen Chang, Andrew Zhu, Lyle Ungar, Sharath Chandra Guntuku
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02122

PAL: Designing Conversational Agents as Scalable, Cooperative Patient Simulators for Palliative-Care Training
Effective communication in serious illness and palliative care is essential but often under-taught due to limited access to training resources like standardized patients. We present PAL (Palliative Assisted Learning-bot), a conversational system that simulates emotionally nuanced patient interactions and delivers structured feedback grounded in an existing empathy-based framework. PAL supports text and voice modalities and is designed to scaffold clinical skill-building through repeated, low-co…

SubMIT: A Physics Analysis Facility at MIT
Josh Bendavid (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CERN), Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jan Eysermans (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Chad Freer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Maxim Goncharov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Luca Lavezzo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Marianne Moore (Massachusetts Institute of Te…

SubMIT: A Physics Analysis Facility at MIT
The recently completed SubMIT platform is a small set of servers that provide interactive access to substantial data samples at high speeds, enabling sophisticated data analyses with very fast turnaround times. Additionally, it seamlessly integrates massive processing resources for large-scale tasks by connecting to a set of powerful batch processing systems. It serves as an ideal prototype for an Analysis Facility tailored to meet the demanding data and computational requirements anticipated d…

Chinese startup Butterfly Effect's Manus launches text-to-video generation tool in early access for paid users, with plans to roll it out for free to all users (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Black #OpenAccess : shadow #libraries and text piracy
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/re…

Warren Report: Musk Leveraged Government Access for Personal Gain | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-elizabeth-warren-doge

The attorneys general of California, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York today filed a petition requesting that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) eliminate unnecessary restrictions on the abortion medication mifepristone.
The petition comes as the FDA undertakes a full review of mifepristone labeling requirements.
The coalition are urging the FDA to use this full review of mifepristone to lift unjustified restrictions and maximize access to this essential medication.…

from my link log —
Deploying IPv6-mostly access networks.
https://labs.ripe.net/author/ondrej_caletka_1/deploying-ipv6-mostly-access-networks/
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Deploying IPv6-Mostly Access Networks
Dual stack is the most common way of deploying IPv6 in access networks. A recent standard defines IPv6-mostly access networks, providing IPv4 connectivity only for legacy devices while allowing modern devices to run IPv6-only. It is already well supported and allows network operators to gradually p…

Quantifying Query Fairness Under Unawareness
Thomas Jaenich, Alejandro Moreo, Alessandro Fabris, Graham McDonald, Andrea Esuli, Iadh Ounis, Fabrizio Sebastiani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04140

Quantifying Query Fairness Under Unawareness
Traditional ranking algorithms are designed to retrieve the most relevant items for a user's query, but they often inherit biases from data that can unfairly disadvantage vulnerable groups. Fairness in information access systems (IAS) is typically assessed by comparing the distribution of groups in a ranking to a target distribution, such as the overall group distribution in the dataset. These fairness metrics depend on knowing the true group labels for each item. However, when groups are defin…

A look at Scattered Spider, a group of mainly young UK and US hackers using targeted social engineering to gain access to company systems and install ransomware (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/scattered-spider-most-imminent-threat/

A Group of Young Cybercriminals Poses the ‘Most Imminent Threat’ of Cyberattacks Right Now
The Scattered Spider hacking group has caused chaos among retailers, insurers, and airlines in recent months. Researchers warn that its flexible structure poses challenges for defense.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21224 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Efficient Learning for Entropy-Regularized Markov Decision Processes via Multilevel Monte Carlo
Designing efficient learning algorithms with complexity guarantees for Markov decision processes (MDPs) with large or continuous state and action spaces remains a fundamental challenge. We address this challenge for entropy-regularized MDPs with Polish state and action spaces, assuming access to a generative model of the environment. We propose a novel family of multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) algorithms that integrate fixed-point iteration with MLMC techniques and a generic stochastic approximat…

Multi-User Generative Semantic Communication with Intent-Aware Semantic-Splitting Multiple Access
Jiayi Lu, Wanting Yang, Zehui Xiong, Rahim Tafazolli, Tony Q. S. Quek, M\'erouane Debbah, Dong In Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01333

Multi-User Generative Semantic Communication with Intent-Aware Semantic-Splitting Multiple Access
With the booming development of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a new paradigm for reliable and efficient communication. This paper considers a multi-user downlink SemCom system, using vehicular networks as the representative scenario for multi-user content dissemination. To address diverse yet overlapping user demands, we propose a multi-user Generative SemCom-enhanced intent-aware semantic-splitting multiple access (SS-MGSC) framework. …

An Algorithm for Estimating $\alpha$-Stabilizer R\'enyi Entropies via Purity
Benjamin Stratton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02540 https://

An Algorithm for Estimating $α$-Stabilizer Rényi Entropies via Purity
Non-stabilizerness, or magic, is a resource for universal quantum computation in most fault-tolerant architectures; access to states with non-stabilizerness allows for non-classically simulable quantum computation to be performed. Quantifying this resource for unknown states is therefore essential to assessing their utility in quantum computation. The Stabilizer Rényi Entropies have emerged as a leading tools for achieving this, having already enabled one efficient algorithm for measuring non-…

"#OpenAccess and #Citation #Impact: Modality, Funding, Publisher, and Disciplinary Trends at the University of Kentucky"

Court filing: Deel alleges Rippling's "competitive intelligence manager" Brett Alexander Johnson posed as a customer to access Deel's product and business info (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/abd988f6-e524-48d9-8433-27c…

New spying claims emerge in Silicon Valley corporate espionage scandal
HR start-ups Rippling and Deel trade allegations their leaders directed efforts to steal company secrets from one another

Black #OpenAccess : shadow #libraries and text piracy
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/re…

Combinatorial Multi-Access Coded Caching with Private Caches under Intersecting Index Constraints
Dhruv Pratap Singh, Anjana A. Mahesh, B. Sundar Rajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24060

Combinatorial Multi-Access Coded Caching with Private Caches under Intersecting Index Constraints
We consider the coded caching system where each user, equipped with a private cache, accesses a distinct r-subset of access caches. A central server housing a library of files populates both private and access caches using uncoded placement. In this work, we focus on a constrained indexing regime, referred to as the intersection class, in which the sets used to index the demands of each user must have a nonempty intersection. This regime models resource-limited IoT scenarios such as edge-assist…

As companies like SpaceX, Stripe, and OpenAI stay private longer, tokenized stocks on blockchains offer a way for the public to access lucrative private markets (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-07-02/t…

Authentication and authorization in Data Spaces: A relationship-based access control approach for policy specification based on ODRL
Irene Plaza-Ortiz, Andres Munoz-Arcentales, Joaqu\'in Salvach\'ua, Carlos Aparicio, Gabriel Huecas, Enrique Barra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24742 …

Authentication and authorization in Data Spaces: A relationship-based access control approach for policy specification based on ODRL
Data has become a crucial resource in the digital economy, fostering initiatives for secure and sovereign data sharing frameworks such as Data Spaces. However, these distributed environments require fine-grained access control mechanisms that balance openness with sovereignty and security. This paper proposes an extension of the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) standard, the ODRL Data Spaces (ODS) profile, aimed at supporting authorization and complementing existing authentication mechanisms…

Three-qubit W state tomography via full and marginal state reconstructions on ibm_osaka
H. Talath, B. P. Govindaraja, B. G. Divyamani, Akshata Shenoy H., A. R. Usha Devi, Sudha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02849

Three-qubit W state tomography via full and marginal state reconstructions on ibm_osaka
We present a three-qubit quantum state tomography scheme requiring a set of 17 measurements, significantly reducing the experimental overhead compared to the conventional 63 Pauli measurements. Using IBM's 127-qubit open-access quantum processor ibm osaka, we prepare the three-qubit W state and employ our tomography scheme to reconstruct it. Additionally, we implement a two-qubit tomography protocol, involving a set of 7 measurements, on ibm osaka to reconstruct two of the two-qubit marginals o…

Black #OpenAccess : shadow #libraries and text piracy
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/re…

Beamforming for Secure RSMA-Aided ISAC Systems
Qian Dan, Hongjiang Lei, Ki-Hong Park, Gaofeng Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03622 https://

Beamforming for Secure RSMA-Aided ISAC Systems
This work investigates the physical layer security of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA)-aided integrated communication and sensing (ISAC) systems. The ISAC base station (BS) transmits signals to communicate with users in an eavesdropped scenario and to estimate the parameters of the sensed targets. The research considers different sensing signals under RSMA technology and the Cram{é}r-Rao bound of the parameter estimation is utilized as the sensing metric. With the channel state informatio…

MISLEADER: Defending against Model Extraction with Ensembles of Distilled Models
Xueqi Cheng, Minxing Zheng, Shixiang Zhu, Yushun Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02362

MISLEADER: Defending against Model Extraction with Ensembles of Distilled Models
Model extraction attacks aim to replicate the functionality of a black-box model through query access, threatening the intellectual property (IP) of machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS) providers. Defending against such attacks is challenging, as it must balance efficiency, robustness, and utility preservation in the real-world scenario. Despite the recent advances, most existing defenses presume that attacker queries have out-of-distribution (OOD) samples, enabling them to detect and disrupt …

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Perplexity launches a $200/month Max plan with unlimited Labs access, early access to features like Comet browser, and priority use of models like o3-pro (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/perplexity-launches-a-200-mo…

Perplexity launches a $200 monthly subscription plan | TechCrunch
Perplexity launched a $200 monthly subscription plan this week, becoming the latest AI provider to offer a hyper-premium tier.

Control at Stake: Evaluating the Security Landscape of LLM-Driven Email Agents
Jiangrong Wu, Yuhong Nan, Jianliang Wu, Zitong Yao, Zibin Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02699

Control at Stake: Evaluating the Security Landscape of LLM-Driven Email Agents
The increasing capabilities of LLMs have led to the rapid proliferation of LLM agent apps, where developers enhance LLMs with access to external resources to support complex task execution. Among these, LLM email agent apps represent one of the widely used categories, as email remains a critical communication medium for users. LLM email agents are capable of managing and responding to email using LLM-driven reasoning and autonomously executing user instructions via external email APIs (e.g., se…

liebes tagesbuch, heute war wieder einmal ein sehr abwechslungsreicher tag in der #bibliothek: heute vormittag mit kolleginnen aus uganda über bibliotheksstrukturen, open access und publikationsservices gesprochen, heute mittag bücher zum "letterlocking" und zu katzen mit magischen kräften verschlagwortet, und heute nachmittag hat eine kollegin uns etwas zu werken in unseren bestä…

Measles is on the rise in Kentucky.
Health officials in the state confirmed that the disease has spread to Fayette County,
marking the seventh case of the highly contagious illness in Kentucky since the beginning of the year.
Previous cases had been reported in Woodfood County.
There are five active measles cases in the Bluegrass State, four of which are connected to the current outbreak,
while another unrelated measles case was reported in Todd County last week,…

New State Reports Measles Outbreak as RFK Jr. Guts Vaccine Access
Measles have reached a record peak, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t want to vaccinate people.

Joint Beamforming for NOMA Assisted Pinching Antenna Systems (PASS)
Deqiao Gan, Xiaoxia Xu, Jiakuo Zuo, Xiaohu Ge, Yuanwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03063

Joint Beamforming for NOMA Assisted Pinching Antenna Systems (PASS)
Pinching antenna system (PASS) configures the positions of pinching antennas (PAs) along dielectric waveguides to change both large-scale fading and small-scale scattering, which is known as pinching beamforming. A novel non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted PASS framework is proposed for downlink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications. The transmit power minimization problem is formulated to jointly optimize the transmit beamforming, pinching beamforming, and …

A Review of Various Datasets for Machine Learning Algorithm-Based Intrusion Detection System: Advances and Challenges
Sudhanshu Sekhar Tripathy, Bichitrananda Behera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02438

A Review of Various Datasets for Machine Learning Algorithm-Based Intrusion Detection System: Advances and Challenges
IDS aims to protect computer networks from security threats by detecting, notifying, and taking appropriate action to prevent illegal access and protect confidential information. As the globe becomes increasingly dependent on technology and automated processes, ensuring secured systems, applications, and networks has become one of the most significant problems of this era. The global web and digital technology have significantly accelerated the evolution of the modern world, necessitating the u…

Slovakia: Attacks on the media, judiciary and NGOs
Members of the European Parliament condemned the harsh rhetoric used by Slovak officials against judges, the media and NGOs, warning that it fosters aggression against journalists and restricts access to information.
Wilmès expressed concern over the recent restructuring of the public broadcaster STVR and the use of accelerated legislative procedures.
Concerns were also voiced about the dismantling of the anti-corruption a…

Siemens says it has restored full access to its chip design software for its Chinese clients after the Trump admin lifted export curbs, initially imposed in May (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The End Of Universal Lifelong Identifiers: Identity Systems For The AI Era
Shriphani Palakodety
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02027 https://

The End Of Universal Lifelong Identifiers: Identity Systems For The AI Era
Many identity systems assign a single, static identifier to an individual for life, reused across domains like healthcare, finance, and education. These Universal Lifelong Identifiers (ULIs) underpin critical workflows but now pose systemic privacy risks. We take the position that ULIs are fundamentally incompatible with the AI era and must be phased out. We articulate a threat model grounded in modern AI capabilities and show that traditional safeguards such as redaction, consent, and access c…

Experts raise concerns that Malta's expedited MiCA licensing process may lack sufficient enforcement and oversight; OKX received a MiCA license in four days (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/news-analysis/202

'Like Ordering McDonald's:' Malta's MiCA Fast-Track Draws Oversight Concerns
Some people think Malta is nimble and innovative when it comes to regulation. But others see a fast track to regulatory arbitrage.

Qantas discloses a data breach after hackers gained access to a third-party platform with personal data of 6M customers, but says no financial info was exposed (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu