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News from earlier this month: A Chinese cybergroup compromised an #ArcGIS server and used it as a backdoor.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/chinese_hackers_arcgis_backdo…

Chinese gang used ArcGIS as a backdoor for a year – and no one noticed
: Crims turned trusted mapping software into a hideout - no traditional malware required

Hommeles in het slachthuis | Argos - onderzoeksjournalistiek - HUMAN/VPRO
https://argos.vpro.nl/artikelen/hommeles-in-het-slachthuis (17min)
Een paar jaar geleden klaagden NVWA dierenartsen al bij EenVandaag over overtredingen die geen gevolgen hadden.
Nu blijkt dat zelfs onderzoeken met tal van ernstige gevallen van dierenleed worden afgebroken.
... Naar aanleiding van het WOO verzoek worden vervolgens een paar alsnog opgepakt.

the word "shoulder" feels archaic

C'est dommage que je ne sois pas lŠ le 25 novembre pour assister Š la conférence de @… !
https://fedihum.org/@infoclio/115456330736577065

#NewGuineans and #Aboriginal #Australians descend from two groups who arrived 60,000 years ago, research suggests

New Guineans and Aboriginal Australians descend from two groups who arrived 60,000 years ago, research suggests
A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New Guinea and Australia by modern humans, Homo sapiens—refining our understanding of the origins of seafaring and maritime mobility.

VideoAnchor: Reinforcing Subspace-Structured Visual Cues for Coherent Visual-Spatial Reasoning
Zhaozhi Wang, Tong Zhang, Mingyue Guo, Yaowei Wang, Qixiang Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25151

VideoAnchor: Reinforcing Subspace-Structured Visual Cues for Coherent Visual-Spatial Reasoning
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive progress in vision-language alignment, yet they remain limited in visual-spatial reasoning. We first identify that this limitation arises from the attention mechanism: visual tokens are overshadowed by language tokens, preventing the model from consistently recognizing the same visual cues across frames. To address this challenge, we draw a novel connection between the self-expressiveness property in sparse subspace clustering an…

You could be off, sloshing in beer and downing a couple.
Instead you're installing gentoo on zfs, and in doing so discover a great archlinux project, with zfs and zfsbootmanager included.
https://github.com/stevleibelt/arch-linux-live-cd-iso-with-z…

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Pete Molinari:
🎵 You're Poetry To Me
#NowPlaying #PeteMolinari
https://petemolinari.bandcamp.com/track/youre-poetry-to-me
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Bayesian and geometric analyses of power spectral densities of spin qubits in Si/SiGe quantum dot devices
Yujun Choi (Virginia Tech), Hruday Mallubhotla (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Mark Friesen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Susan N. Coppersmith (University of New South Wales), Robert Joynt (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
https://

Bayesian and geometric analyses of power spectral densities of spin qubits in Si/SiGe quantum dot devices
Charge noise with a power-law spectrum poses a significant challenge to high-fidelity operation of spin qubits in semiconductor devices. Recently, considerable experimental work characterized this noise using qubits as spectrometers. It apparently arises from a collection of two-level fluctuating electric dipole systems (TLS). This suggests using the data to infer the positions, orientations, and other physical characteristics of the TLS. We identify a fundamental difficulty in this program: th…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pete Molinari:
🎵 You're Poetry To Me
#NowPlaying #PeteMolinari
https://petemolinari.bandcamp.com/track/youre-poetry-to-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/4arIIEsIQzWv9Rwyx5oVvm