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Along with the shutdown, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 lapsed, making it now more complex for organizations to share threat info with the government and their peers.
Check out my CSO piece on this development. Thanks to Nathaniel Jones, Mike Hamilton, and Ari Schwartz for their insight.
CISA 2015 cyber threat info-sharing law lapses amid government shutdown

CISA 2015 cyber threat info-sharing law lapses amid government shutdown
The expiration of a landmark cybersecurity law strips liability protections for cyber threat information sharing, leaving US cyber defenses weaker until lawmakers act.

IDC expects shipments of PCs could shrink by up to 9% YoY in 2026 due to global memory shortages, as demand from AI data centers continues to outstrip supply (Zak Killian/Tom's Hardware)

IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market
Memory shortages are expected to have a serious impact on the PC and smartphone market.

Vikings' 294-game scoring streak comes to an end in 26-0 loss to Seahawks

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/vikings-294-game-scoring-streak-comes-to-an-…

In this post, guest author Maxi shares her experience in reusing data and machine learning models.
The short version:
It's frustrating, because people don't share or don't even respond to a clearly "reasonable request". We cannot build on other researchers' work if they don't share anything. Model weights offer the possibility to share information without sharing sensitive data, but even those are not shared.
Check out the long version for mor…

Data sharing (un)culture

Uncertainty Quantification for Regression using Proper Scoring Rules
Alexander Fishkov, Kajetan Schweighofer, Mykyta Ielanskyi, Nikita Kotelevskii, Mohsen Guizani, Maxim Panov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26610

Uncertainty Quantification for Regression using Proper Scoring Rules
Quantifying uncertainty of machine learning model predictions is essential for reliable decision-making, especially in safety-critical applications. Recently, uncertainty quantification (UQ) theory has advanced significantly, building on a firm basis of learning with proper scoring rules. However, these advances were focused on classification, while extending these ideas to regression remains challenging. In this work, we introduce a unified UQ framework for regression based on proper scoring r…

Kenny Pickett and Aidan O'Connell Scrums | Week 18 vs. Chiefs https://www.raiders.com/video/kenny-pickett-aidan-o-connell-scrums-nfl-week-18-chiefs

🇭🇺 Why is Orbšn scaring Europe with a "war with Russia"? Oil depots burning in Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/why-is-orbn-scaring-europe.html

Researching DIY solutions for preparing digital negatives for my salt/kallitype printing experiments. Working on a little curve fitting tool/library (of course using https://thi.ng/umbrella) for computing tone mapping curves derived from sample swatches (here 5% steps of gray/density). The screenshot shows 2nd - 5th d…

Freedom of the Press Foundation and 404 Media file a FOIA lawsuit against the US DHS and CMS, seeking documents about Medicaid patient data sharing with ICE (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/404-media-and-freedom-of-the-press-foundation-sue-dhs/

404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS
Both organizations are seeking a copy of a data sharing agreement that is giving the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients to ICE.

Republicans refuse to swear in Adelita Grijalva, delaying Jeffrey Epstein petition
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5529055-republicans-grijalva-swearing-in-house/