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Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell Grant eligibility to short-term credential programs.
With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.
https://www.insidehighered.com/ne…

Workforce Pell Would Extend Grants to Unaccredited Programs
Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell eligibility to short-term credential programs. With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.

Roblox partners with Persona to estimate user ages and verify they are 13 , renames Friends to Connections, and says 13 users can message Trusted Connections (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/708670/roblox-trusted-connections-age-est…

Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats
Roblox will let people make “Trusted Connections” to chat more freely, but will require that they use a new age estimation tool to verify that they’re over 13.

Source: Steelers extend S Elliott on 2-year deal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45527300/source-steelers-extend-safety-deshon-elliott-2-year-deal

This story is cute: A malicious "Solidity" (that's the smart contract language Ethereum and other blockchains use) extension for Cursor, the Vibe-Coding Editor included code that steals your tokens/coins.
I find it funny for two reasons:
- Blockchainers love talking about how you need to verify things you interact with but someone wasn't checking if they have the right extension
- Programming smart contracts is hard because it's a massively hostile envir…

Code highlighting with Cursor AI for $500,000
Kaspersky GReAT experts uncover malicious extensions for Cursor AI that download the Quasar backdoor and a crypto stealer.

ExtendAttack: Attacking Servers of LRMs via Extending Reasoning
Zhenhao Zhu, Yue Liu, Yingwei Ma, Hongcheng Gao, Nuo Chen, Yanpei Guo, Wenjie Qu, Huiying Xu, Xinzhong Zhu, Jiaheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13737

ExtendAttack: Attacking Servers of LRMs via Extending Reasoning
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated promising performance in complex tasks. However, the resource-consuming reasoning processes may be exploited by attackers to maliciously occupy the resources of the servers, leading to a crash, like the DDoS attack in cyber. To this end, we propose a novel attack method on LRMs termed ExtendAttack to maliciously occupy the resources of servers by stealthily extending the reasoning processes of LRMs. Concretely, we systematically obfuscate characte…

Micah Parsons on Cowboys Extension Talks: 'I'm Going to Get Mine No Matter What' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/micah-parsons-cowboys-extension-talks-im-going-get-mine-no-matter-what

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know today, including
--Salt Typhoon 'extensively' compromised a state national guard network for months,
--Former US army soldier pleads guilty to hacking telcos,
--Ukraine claims hack of big Russian drone maker,
--Korean insurance giant hit by ransomware attack,
--Trump's bill offers $1b spend on offensive cyber,
--Abacus Market goes dark after suspected rug…

Salt Typhoon 'extensively' compromised a state national guard network for months
Former US army soldier pleads guilty to hacking telcos, Ukraine claims hack of big Russian drone maker, Korean insurance giant hit by ransomware attack, Trump's bill offers $1b spend on offensive cyber, Abacus Market goes dark after suspected rug pull, AsyncRAT has spawned 30+ forks, much more

Physics-Informed Linear Model (PILM): Analytical Representations and Application to Crustal Strain Rate Estimation
Tomohisa Okazaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12218

Physics-Informed Linear Model (PILM): Analytical Representations and Application to Crustal Strain Rate Estimation
Many physical systems are described by partial differential equations (PDEs), and solving these equations and estimating their coefficients or boundary conditions (BCs) from observational data play a crucial role in understanding the associated phenomena. Recently, a machine learning approach known as physics-informed neural network, which solves PDEs using neural networks by minimizing the sum of residuals from the PDEs, BCs, and data, has gained significant attention in the scientific communi…

Subspace Approximation to the Focused Transport Equation. II. The Modified Form
B. Klippenstein, A. Shalchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11801 https://

Subspace Approximation to the Focused Transport Equation. II. The Modified Form
The transport of energetic particles in a spatially varying magnetic field is described by the focused transport equation. In the past two versions of this equation were investigated. The more commonly used standard form described a pitch-angle isotropization process but does not conserve the norm. In the current paper we consider the focused transport equation in conservative form also called modified focused transport equation. This equation conserves the norm but does not describe pitch-angl…

Extensional Independence
Taishi Kurahashi, Albert Visser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13524 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13524

Extensional Independence
Joel Hamkins asks whether there is a $Π^0_1$-formula $ρ(x)$ such that $ρ(ϕ)$ is independent over ${\sf PA}+ϕ$, if this theory is consistent, where this construction is extensional in $ϕ$ with respect to {\sf PA}-provable equivalence. We show that there can be no such extensional Rosser formula of any complexity. We give a positive answer to Hamkins' question for the case where we replace Extensionality by a weaker demand \emph{Consistent Extensionality}. We also prove that we can demand…