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På två olika kontinenter – i Europa och Sydamerika – hölls på tisdagen ministermöten om utvecklingen i Gaza. Men tonen var mycket olika.
Rapporterar om Bryssel och Bogotš. https://www.dn.se/varlden/30-tal-lander-ska-forsoka-enas-om-atgarder-mot-israel/

Länder ska försöka enas om åtgärder mot Israel
Ett 30-tal länder möts i Colombia för att försöka enas om åtgärder mot Israel – vill garantera internationell rätt.

Democrats must organize urgently for the 2026 midterm elections
and avoid a “it can’t happen here” mentality
to stop Donald Trump from staging a full-scale autocratic takeover,
a Hungarian opposition parliamentarian has said.
Katalin Cseh,
a critic of Hungary’s strongman prime minister, Viktor Orbšn,
told a forum on authoritarianism that
the central European country’s experience held vital lessons for Trump’s opponents
in their attempts to resi…

It feels like Trump is running into the inherent problems of international diplomacy among a world order of autocrats.
He tells Putin to stop bombing Ukraine, Putin says yes and does no. He tells Netanyahu to stop attacking Syria, Netanyahu says yes and does no.
Their nature as autocrats is that they do not respect a leader above them. They cannot be seen to respect a leader above them. Realists like Rutte are happy to play obsequious, but the "strong men" never will.

Recursive Bound-Constrained AdaGrad with Applications to Multilevel and Domain Decomposition Minimization
Serge Gratton, Alena Kopani\v{c}\'akov\'a, Philippe Toint
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11513

Recursive Bound-Constrained AdaGrad with Applications to Multilevel and Domain Decomposition Minimization
Two OFFO (Objective-Function Free Optimization) noise tolerant algorithms are presented that handle bound constraints, inexact gradients and use second-order information when available.The first is a multi-level method exploiting a hierarchical description of the problem and the second is a domain-decomposition method covering the standard addditive Schwarz decompositions. Both are generalizations of the first-order AdaGrad algorithm for unconstrained optimization. Because these algorithms shar…

On the Gaussian distribution of the Mann-Kendall tau in the case of autocorrelated data
Tristan Gamot, Nils Thibeau--Sutre, Tom J. M. Van Dooren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10842

On the Gaussian distribution of the Mann-Kendall tau in the case of autocorrelated data
Non-parametric Mann-Kendall tests for autocorrelated data rely on the assumption that the distribution of the normalized Mann-Kendall tau is Gaussian. While this assumption holds asymptotically for stationary autoregressive processes of order 1 (AR(1)) and simple moving average (SMA) processes when sampling over an increasingly long period, it often fails for finite-length time series. In such cases, the empirical distribution of the Mann-Kendall tau deviates significantly from the Gaussian dis…

Reckon it'd be pretty metal if Canada stopped Trump at the boarder, sending him back when he tries to get to the G7 Summit. No convicted felons/fascist autocrats allowed.

"Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records"
Hah! I predicted years ago that attackers would leverage DNS like this!
My insistence to include DNS requests in anomaly detection and threat detection was on point 😤 so vindicated!
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Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records
Technique transforms the Internet DNS into an unconventional file storage system.

Google says threat actors are stealing sensitive data from organizations by targeting fully patched, end-of-life appliances from cybersecurity company SonicWall (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/sonicwall-sma-100-series-overstep-malware-unc6148

Google spots tailored backdoor malware aimed at SonicWall appliances
Google researchers reported on a malware campaign against end-of-life SonicWall appliances, noting that the attackers were good at covering their tracks.

Unlocking Altermagnetism in Antiferromagnetic 2D Films via Adsorption
Dong Liu, Sike Zeng, Ji-Hai Liao, Yu-Jun Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09518 https:…

Unlocking Altermagnetism in Antiferromagnetic 2D Films via Adsorption
Altermagnets, characterized by zero net magnetization and momentum-dependent spin splitting, have recently garnered significant attention due to their potential applications in a variety of fields. Here, we propose a symmetry-engineering strategy to unlock altermagnetism in two dimensional (2D) antiferromagnetic systems via surface adsorption of atoms or molecules. By employing spin group theory, we systematically demonstrate that selectively breaking symmetry operations, specifically those pro…