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🛢️ Whistleblower Reveals Colombia’s Oil Spill Coverups
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Whistleblower-Reveals-Colombias-Oil-Spill-Coverups.html

Whistleblower Reveals Colombia's Oil Spill Coverups
Colombia's oil industry faces growing outrage over decades of environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the Amazon, as whistleblowers and indigenous communities demand accountability.

Cyberbullying Detection via Aggression-Enhanced Prompting
Aisha Saeid, Anu Sabu, Girish A. Koushik, Ferrante Neri, Diptesh Kanojia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06360 https://

Cyberbullying Detection via Aggression-Enhanced Prompting
Detecting cyberbullying on social media remains a critical challenge due to its subtle and varied expressions. This study investigates whether integrating aggression detection as an auxiliary task within a unified training framework can enhance the generalisation and performance of large language models (LLMs) in cyberbullying detection. Experiments are conducted on five aggression datasets and one cyberbullying dataset using instruction-tuned LLMs. We evaluated multiple strategies: zero-shot, …

This variety of catastrophe why I disagree with the default policy to be to download the latest version. Newer is not always better, especially in an industry rife with scammers.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115169390397282254

A novel IR-SRGAN assisted super-resolution evaluation of photothermal coherence tomography for impact damage in toughened thermoplastic CFRP laminates under room temperature and low temperature
Pengfei Zhu, Hai Zhang, Stefano Sfarra, Fabrizio Sarasini, Zijing Ding, Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo, Xavier Maldague
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10894…

A novel IR-SRGAN assisted super-resolution evaluation of photothermal coherence tomography for impact damage in toughened thermoplastic CFRP laminates under room temperature and low temperature
Evaluating impact-induced damage in composite materials under varying temperature conditions is essential for ensuring structural integrity and reliable performance in aerospace, polar, and other extreme-environment applications. As matrix brittleness increases at low temperatures, damage mechanisms shift: impact events that produce only minor delaminations at ambient conditions can trigger extensive matrix cracking, fiber/matrix debonding, or interfacial failure under severe cold loads, thereb…

"Fuck the algorithms. Principle, integrity, naiveté... call it what you will. They don't care – we do." Ana in Cyberpunk 2077
Empathy and mutual care is part of the friction that AI and other automation tech rationalizes away.

Switching to @… continues to look like a good idea.
https://fosstodon.org/@organicmaps/115202657995358203

"Scam Empire"
takes readers inside the insidious cyberfraud industry,
which  swindles the public out of hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
This ambitious collaborative investigation by OCCRP, Swedish Television (SVT), and 30 other media partners from multiple countries,
was based on an unprecedented leak of 1.9 terabytes of leaked data
that enabled journalists to enter the scammers’ world and even to watch them at work.

Scam Empire - Online Journalism Awards
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Hybrid Learning and Optimization methods for solving Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem
Monit Sharma, Hoong Chuin Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15262 https://

Hybrid Learning and Optimization methods for solving Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem
The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) is a fundamental NP-hard problem in logistics. Augmented Lagrangian Methods (ALM) for solving CVRP performance depends heavily on well-tuned penalty parameters. In this paper, we propose a hybrid optimization approach that integrates deep reinforcement learning (RL) to automate the selection of penalty parameter values within both classical (RL-C-ALM) and quantum-enhanced (RL-Q-ALM) ALM solvers. Using Soft Actor-Critic, our approach learns penalty …