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"Charging ahead: EVs outpace growth predictions"
#EV #ElectricVehicles
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Charging ahead: EVs outpace growth predictions
Electric cars are getting cheaper, more efficient and can travel farther than ever. China is driving the transition, but Europe and other countries are catching up fast.

Mapping the Turn: An Eulerian Binormal-Axis Diagnostic for Recirculating 3D Flows
John Marshall Cooper, Wen Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18439 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18439 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.18439
arXiv:2605.18439v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) recirculating flows are often interpreted qualitatively from selected streamline visualizations. In separated flows, such recirculating motion is central to the drag modulation, but the local orientation of recirculation remains difficult to quantify in a field-based form. This work introduces an Eulerian binormal-axis diagnostic that locally evaluates the orientation of streamline turning at each point in the velocity field, yielding a spatially resolved field of the recirculating direction. Motivated by the Frenet-Serret binormal direction of a curved streamline, the diagnostic uses the velocity vector and its convective acceleration to extract the local streamline-turning axis without requiring explicit streamline integration. The resulting direction is encoded with barycentric RGB weights to visualize streamwise, spanwise, and wall-normal turning axis contributions. The diagnostic is first applied to Hill's spherical vortex, which provides a controlled analytic example of 3D recirculating motion for interpreting the binormal-axis direction and the associated barycentric RGB encoding. It is then applied to the mean field of a pressure-gradient-induced 3D separation bubble. The resulting visualizations show that the diagnostic reveals orientation changes that are not apparent from streamline visualization. The proposed diagnostic therefore converts qualitative streamline impressions into a spatially resolved measure of local streamline-turning orientation, providing a quantitative complement to conventional 3D flow visualization.
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If AI accounts for only 20% of data center use, why is it the justification for nearly every new data center? I did the math and suspect Big Tech is using AI as a cover for unpopular uses like surveillance advertising.
https://blog.still-water.net/what-if-data-centers-arent-…

So one of the authors is Nicholas Carlini, who works for Anthropic. This is basically an ad for the three letter agencies to use Claude. It massively over-promises compared to what the actual paper says.
But, it is important. First, this is really about silencing people. The threat of identification is designed to make people afraid to talk online. There's a massive asymmetry between the fascists and the people. The fascists are weird racists and pedophiles who are obsessed with control. No one likes them. No one likes their ideas, because their ideas are creepy and bad.
When they talk about their ideas, that people should be murdered or kidnaped based on their skin color, that there should be a national dress code, that people's sex lives should be monitored, that children should be treated like objects that are owned by the parent (specifically, one parent), that people with different skin color or uteri should be considered as livestock, people fucking hate it because it's awful. When we talk about our ideas, that everyone should be able to eat and take care of themselves, that people who can't take care of themselves should be taken care of, that we should live in a society that values life, that we should live in harmony with nature, people like those ideas. When fascists out us for talking about those ideas, people support us. When we out people who are working as fascist goons those people have to face social consequences.
Everyone hates these people. The US government is currently less popular than it has ever been. The only way they can keep power is by making everyone think that they aren't extraordinarily unpopular. The only way to do that, the way authoritarian have always done it, is to make everyone afraid to talk.
But, yes, what this paper is saying is actually kind of bad. It looks like people who don't take any precautions at all in separating identities can be identified about 30% of the time (based on the results). It's unclear how this will actually work in the real world. Larger corpses will probably have more data, making connecting things easier.
This isn't as good as a human trying to dox someone. It's not going to work as well. It may only work in a small number of cases. There will be false positives (just like there are with people doing the work). It's probably not cheaper than hiring people. But it does mean that you can just dump money into a machine that has no ethical framework and get data out. That's the point. It's hard to find humans who will do evil shit like help dictatorships target human rights activists, but if a machine can do it for twice the price then it's a better deal for the dictatorship.
For most people, you just shouldn't care. This isn't for you. As long as you keep doing what you're doing, and you can keep everyone else doing what they're doing, then there aren't enough resources to actually target you. Even if they know who you are, there are just too many people who hate them and too few goons.
For people who might actually be targeted, there are a lot of things. First, keep in mind what you're putting into anonymous accounts. Any feature that's connected to your real life is a feature that can be extracted to identify you. This has always been true, it just may be easier to find now. Your identities should be totally siloed. It's also harder to identify you if you're writing anonymously as a collective. Collectives are better anyway because they can help check your thinking. When you write as a collective, you can help clean up each other's personal details and language. A collective develops its own voice, which is distinct from individual contributors. If you do this, and you also present your work as being from one "person," then it becomes even harder for anyone (systems or individuals) to really figure it out.
I'm not going to do a full deep dive on this because I just don't have time, but your existing threat model should *already cover these threats* if you need to make sure your writing remains anonymous.
This paper doesn't present any novel methodologies. It just extracts a bunch of features, which a human would extract as notes, and tries to correlate those between identities, which is how human researchers work. Linguistic forensics were mentioned (not by name) in the paper, but the actual methodology doesn't actually seem to use them.
So a thing with less ethics can do a worse job for more money (when adjusted for the real, not investor deflated, price of tokens). It's worth knowing. It's not the end of the world, but it is a good reminder to check your threat model and make sure it's up to date.

Ever seen a tiny but chonky keyboard like the one Pierre Schaeffer has in this French recording studio (1961)
From a very cool book with lots of accordions 🪗 by famous photographer Robert Doisneau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Schaeffer

Personally, I want to see a 100% free to use bus system and a guaranteed funding stream from the county to cover their expenses. I would be happy to just see them able to reliably maintain bus services, though.
“While the progress we’ve realized is encouraging, we still face a serious structural funding challenge next year, as MCTS is one of the only major transit systems in the country without a dedicated source of funding,”
#Milwaukee #MCTS #PublicTransportation

The UK's GCHQ head says the UK and allies have a "narrowing window" to counter cyber threats from China and Russia, as Russia intensifies "daily" hybrid warfare (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/uk-spy-chi…

UK spy chief: Time is running out for the West to confront threats from Russia and China
Britain and its allies face a “moment of consequence,” according to the head of its intelligence agency.

I’ve got a piece coming out on how there has never been a better time to ask for more cyber budget and although it’s not central to my piece, every one i spoke to said security hiring will pick up.
One Job That Is Growing in the A.I. Era? Cybersecurity Experts.
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One Job That Is Growing in the A.I. Era? Cybersecurity Experts.
Demand for security engineers has surged as artificial intelligence generates a glut of new code and models like Anthropic’s Mythos create new concerns.

'In the words of Ciaran Martin, former director of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, “Not only is there no duty to disclose details of the vetting case” [to, for instance, the prime minister, but that] “there is a duty not to disclose them”. It is clear that this current convention is a recipe for disaster.'
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BEST OF BYLINES: Why has Sir Olly Robbins been thrown under the bus?
After a week of revelations and chaos in Westminster, John Cole explains why the removal of a senior civil servant highlights much deeper failures in vetting, timing, and political accountability