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https://infosec.exchange/@alevsk/11549

Lenin alevski 🕵️💻 (@alevsk@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image Ever thought of tunneling traffic over Azure Blob Storage? 🤔☁️ ProxyBlob lets you run a SOCKS5 proxy using Azure Storage as the communication channel. Useful in restrictive networks where only `*.blob.core.windows.net` is accessible. #Azure #Proxy #Networking --- Why does ProxyBlob need Azure Storage? 💡📦 It creates a clever detour: Agents in target networks poll Azure Blob for tasks, while the proxy writes requests there. This avoids direct network conne…

Ahead of the German automotive summit, a new study by @… shows how policies could make EVs more affordable compared to cars with internal combustion engines. One key lever would be the reintroduction of a €6,000 purchase subsidy.

Policy Levers for Affordable EVs
The total cost of ownership of EVs and combustion engine vehicles and policy design options for effective market uptake

@… @… I agree, as a longtime user of Mint and an occasional user of Zorin.

How I Built ASR for Endangered Languages with a Spoken Dictionary
Christopher Bartley, Anton Ragni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04832 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

How I Built ASR for Endangered Languages with a Spoken Dictionary
Nearly half of the world's languages are endangered. Speech technologies such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) are central to revival efforts, yet most languages remain unsupported because standard pipelines expect utterance-level supervised data. Speech data often exist for endangered languages but rarely match these formats. Manx Gaelic ($\sim$2,200 speakers), for example, has had transcribed speech since 1948, yet remains unsupported by modern systems. In this paper, we explore how litt…

An in-depth look at AWS' underperformance in the GenAI era, as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud gain ground, and how Anthropic could spark an AWS AI resurgence (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/09/03/amazons-ai-resurg…

Amazon’s AI Resurgence: AWS & Anthropic’s Multi-Gigawatt Trainium Expansion
Two-and-a-half years ago, we flagged a looming “cloud crisis” at AWS. Today, the evidence has mounted. AWS is the crown jewel of the Amazon empire, generating ~60% of group profits, and dominating …

Oh good! Someone from the @… community can weigh in on the benefits.
Oh wait…
Anyway, sooner or later the time for computable reals will come. I'm still HODLing stock in continued fractions (and teaching them every year to my first-year students).

'while the British government “may not agree with the flotilla’s mission, they have a responsibility to their citizens.'
“They have not said a single word in public,” she said. “It’s inexcusable. They are meant to care about international law.”
US and UK 'immensely let down' families of detained Gaza flotilla activists | Middle East Eye

US and UK 'immensely let down' families of detained Gaza flotilla activists
Israel still holding hundreds of activists in Ketziot prison, with British and American citizens receiving little help

Mekke Okereke wrote:
Here's a challenge: find an adult Black man that has spent any significant time in New York as a teenager, that *hasn't* ever been detained by a cop with a gun.
This isn't rhetorical, and it's not a trick question.
It is possible to find!
A decent percent of Black men in New York have avoided this!
About 10%!

Cowboys to acquire Bengals LB Logan Wilson in exchange for 7th-round pick https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/04/cowboys-to-acquire-bengals-logan-wilson-in-exchang…

Dallas Cowboys acquire New York Jets star Quinnen Williams to fortify ailing defense https://www.pff.com/news/dallas-cowboys-acquire-new-york-jets-star-quinnen-williams-to-fortify-ailing-defense