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Loopy Black-Hole Remnants
Asier Alonso-Bardaji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21159 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21159 …

Loopy Black-Hole Remnants
The quantized area predicted by loop quantum gravity suggests the existence of a lower bound for black-hole horizons. We prove this intuition within a covariant effective model for spherical loop quantum gravity, where nonsingular quasi-static black holes evaporate until their horizons attain the smallest positive eigenvalue of the area operator. Consistent with the third law of black-hole thermodynamics, this final state -- characterized by vanishing temperature and entropy -- cannot be realiz…

Check out today's Metacurity for a solid round-up of the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--UK government bails out Jaguar Land Rover with $2 billion loan,
--Hackers contacted Harrods after 430K customer records were stolen,
--Hackers threaten to release more Kido nursery school records,
--Russia's undersea spying ops become more brazen,
--Unitree robots afflicted by a severe flaw,
--Akira attacks …

UK government bails out Jaguar Land Rover with $2 billion loan
Hackers contacted Harrods after 430K customer records were stolen, Hackers threaten to release more Kido nursery school records, Russia's undersea spying ops become more brazen, Unitree robots afflicted by severe flaw, Akira attacks on SonicWall VPNs evolve, RemoteCom spyware data leaked, much more

Sources: Microsoft terminated Israel's Unit 8200 access to Azure, after an investigation found the tech was used for mass surveillance in Gaza and West Bank (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep

Trump’s Gaza peace plan leaves door ajar for Palestinian state
Some elements of the U.S. proposal are comically specific.
“Once all the hostages have been released,” it reads,
“Israel will release 250 life sentence prisoners plus 1,700 Gazans who were detained after October 7. …
For every Israeli hostage whose remains are released, Israel will release the remains of 15 deceased Gazans.”

The proposal says that “upon acceptance of this agreement,
full aid…

Trump’s Gaza peace plan leaves door ajar for Palestinian state
Trump’s 21-point peace plan includes Hamas disarmament, an international security force and a “Trump development plan” to rebuild the shattered enclave. But Israel might balk at some proposals.

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians | Israel | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-s…

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: Don't tell me you agree with Gan.
AVON: No, no, no, I'm just...interested. It seems to me that we have identified the source of that threat rather easily.
BLAKE: So why haven't they?
AVON: Exactly.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/405

Another excellent thread from @… I especially agree with this bit:
"The EU needs to get the *hell* off US tech infrastructure. Under Trump, Big Tech and the US government have stopped even pretending that American tech companies are independent of the US government. We know (from China) that Apple will happily backdoor its cloud servers to assuage authoritarian governments"
Not easy for even a motivated person to achieve without a lot of help though. Yet.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115271300104707706
pluralistic@mamot.fr - Apple has threatened to stop selling iPhones and other devices in the European Union (home to over 500,000,000 affluent consumers) if the bloc doesn't rescind the Digital Markets Act, a democratically accountable anti-monopoly law that bans Apple from blocking third parties from offering services to iPhone owners:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/25/apple-calls-for-changes-to-anti-monopoly-laws-and-says-it-may-stop-shipping-to-the-eu
 
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Unsupervised Conformal Inference: Bootstrapping and Alignment to Control LLM Uncertainty
Lingyou Pang, Lei Huang, Jianyu Lin, Tianyu Wang, Akira Horiguchi, Alexander Aue, Carey E. Priebe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23002

Unsupervised Conformal Inference: Bootstrapping and Alignment to Control LLM Uncertainty
Deploying black-box LLMs requires managing uncertainty in the absence of token-level probability or true labels. We propose introducing an unsupervised conformal inference framework for generation, which integrates: generative models, incorporating: (i) an LLM-compatible atypical score derived from response-embedding Gram matrix, (ii) UCP combined with a bootstrapping variant (BB-UCP) that aggregates residuals to refine quantile precision while maintaining distribution-free, finite-sample cover…

Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Thai police blew up a Myanmar cyberscam compound,
--FCC blocks more Chinese-made devices,
--Hacking Team successor surfaces,
--Aisuru botnet overhauled to rent out IoT devices,
--Herodotus Android trojan mimics human behavior,
--Ad giant's subsidiary exposed data in cyber incident,
--CBP searches more devices than ever,
--ICE …

Thai police blew up a Myanmar cyberscam compound
FCC blocks more Chinese-made devices, Hacking Team successor surfaces, Aisuru botnet overhauled to rent out IoT devices, Herodotus Android trojan mimics human behavior, Ad giant's subsidiary exposed data in cyber incident, CBP searches more devices than ever, ICE is becoming a spymaster, much more

Raiders acquire QB Kenny Pickett https://www.raiders.com/news/kenny-pickett-raiders-acquire-quarterback-nfl-2025-transactions-cleveland-browns