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Even as much of the internet is inaccessible right now, Metacurity appears unaffected. So check out today's issue for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--CISA says it will rebuild with more staff in 2026 to rectify cuts in 2025,
--Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service was hit with 15.7 Tbps DDoS attack,
--Russian telecom Protei was hacked and site defaced,
--Companies warn of inflexibility if UK bans ransom payments,
--A cr…

CISA says it will rebuild with more staff in 2026 to redress cuts in 2025
Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service was hit with 15.7 Tbps DDoS attack, Russian telecom Protei was hacked and site defaced, Companies warn of inflexibility if UK bans ransom payments, A crew of companies reject efforts to weaken encryption, 460k FTSE compromised credentials found, much more

Smart TV manufacturer ordered to stop collecting viewer data while court case proceeds in Texas https://therecord.media/hisense-ordered-to-stop-data-collection-texas-lawsuit

I ought to send you all a Gist this weekend, but I am also two weeks behind on my email, flattened from Covid convalescence and am meant to co-write a proper academic thingy about data stuff.
Can we all agree I will do a funny one about the Presidential election next week instead?

Spectral analysis of hierarchical continuous-time quantum walks
Jir\^o Akahori, Yusuke Ide, Tomoki Kato, Norio Konno, Shuhei Mano, Akihiro Narimatsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12043

Spectral analysis of hierarchical continuous-time quantum walks
In this paper, we introduce hierarchical random walks at first. In this model, we use two types of random walkers, {global and local} walkers. The global walker chooses a local walker at every step, then the chosen local walker moves a single step. After that we construct the corresponding continuous-time quantum walks and discuss its spectral structures. Then we define multi-dimensional continuous-time quantum walk by taking a marginal distribution respect to the global walker.

Stop expecting this guy to do “peace” except on his terms which means the end of a free and independent Ukraine.
“MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized Friday that Moscow’s troops were advancing across the battlefield in Ukraine and voiced confidence that the Kremlin would achieve its goals militarily if Kyiv doesn't agree to Russia's conditions in peace talks.
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#putin #russiaUkraineWar #ukraine #nato #eu
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/world/putin-tells-his-annual-news-conference-that-the-kremlins-military-goals-in-ukraine-will-be/article_334ace92-4491-54f6-91d3-6d7d26a66963.html

DeepTrust: Multi-Step Classification through Dissimilar Adversarial Representations for Robust Android Malware Detection
Daniel Pulido-Cort\'azar, Daniel Gibert, Felip Many\`a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12310

DeepTrust: Multi-Step Classification through Dissimilar Adversarial Representations for Robust Android Malware Detection
Over the last decade, machine learning has been extensively applied to identify malicious Android applications. However, such approaches remain vulnerable against adversarial examples, i.e., examples that are subtly manipulated to fool a machine learning model into making incorrect predictions. This research presents DeepTrust, a novel metaheuristic that arranges flexible classifiers, like deep neural networks, into an ordered sequence where the final decision is made by a single internal model…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
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- DeepTrust: Multi-Step Classification through Dissimilar Adversarial Representations for Robust An...
Daniel Pulido-Cort\'azar, Daniel Gibert, Felip Many\`a

Uncertainty Quantification for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning
Heydar Soudani, Hamed Zamani, Faegheh Hasibi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11483 https://arxiv.or…

Uncertainty Quantification for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning
Retrieval-augmented reasoning (RAR) is a recent evolution of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that employs multiple reasoning steps for retrieval and generation. While effective for some complex queries, RAR remains vulnerable to errors and misleading outputs. Uncertainty quantification (UQ) offers methods to estimate the confidence of systems' outputs. These methods, however, often handle simple queries with no retrieval or single-step retrieval, without properly handling RAR setup. Accura…

Thinking about Zelensky's proposal , it is maybe kind of smart , he forces Russia to agree with a cease-fire and stop attacking, otherwise elections are impossible. That is probably not acceptable for Russia along current frontlines. So Russia will very likely confirm it's status as agressor for the world and continue fighting?
##ukraine

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…