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Quantitative Evaluation of driver's situation awareness in virtual driving through Eye tracking analysis
In driving tasks, the driver's situation awareness of the surrounding scenario is crucial for safety driving. However, current methods of measuring situation awareness mostly rely on subjective questionnaires, which interrupt tasks and lack non-intrusive quantification. To address this issue, our study utilizes objective gaze motion data to provide an interference-free quantification method for situation awareness. Three quantitative scores are proposed to represent three different levels of aw…

Turning to the ancient reindeer for help on climate change - Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2022/climate-change-reindeer-habitats-deforestati…

Turning to the ancient reindeer for help on climate change
Pauliina Feodoroff is allying with conservationists and institutions to raise awareness about deforestation in reindeer habitats, which help regulate the planet’s temperatures.

The full programme of the GÉANT #Security Days is live!
On 11 April, Daniel Stach, journalist, presenter, science communicator, #CzechTV #CT24, will deliver the closing keynote "Lies are (not!) everywhe…

Security Days: the full programme is live | GÉANT CONNECT Online
We are happy to announce the unveiling of the full programme for Security Days, GÉANT first security conference that will take place in Prague on 9-11 April 2024. Across three days, international NREN experts from all areas of security will share their insights, knowledge experience and expertise. From cybersecurity awareness and the human factor, to

CricaVPR: Cross-image Correlation-aware Representation Learning for Visual Place Recognition
Feng Lu, Xiangyuan Lan, Lijun Zhang, Dongmei Jiang, Yaowei Wang, Chun Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19231

CricaVPR: Cross-image Correlation-aware Representation Learning for Visual Place Recognition
Over the past decade, most methods in visual place recognition (VPR) have used neural networks to produce feature representations. These networks typically produce a global representation of a place image using only this image itself and neglect the cross-image variations (e.g. viewpoint and illumination), which limits their robustness in challenging scenes. In this paper, we propose a robust global representation method with cross-image correlation awareness for VPR, named CricaVPR. Our method…

The full programme of the GÉANT #Security Days is live!
On 10 April, Prof. Roland van Rijswijk-Deij @… will deliver the opening keynote "Moving the Goal to Post #Quantum

Security Days: the full programme is live | GÉANT CONNECT Online
We are happy to announce the unveiling of the full programme for Security Days, GÉANT first security conference that will take place in Prague on 9-11 April 2024. Across three days, international NREN experts from all areas of security will share their insights, knowledge experience and expertise. From cybersecurity awareness and the human factor, to

Unveiling News Publishers Trustworthiness Through Social Interactions
Manuel Pratelli, Fabio Saracco, Marinella Petrocchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18621 …

Unveiling News Publishers Trustworthiness Through Social Interactions
With the primary goal of raising readers' awareness of misinformation phenomena, extensive efforts have been made by both academic institutions and independent organizations to develop methodologies for assessing the trustworthiness of online news publishers. Unfortunately, existing approaches are costly and face critical scalability challenges. This study presents a novel framework for assessing the trustworthiness of online news publishers using user interactions on social media platforms. Th…

I took me a couple days to process the Kristi Noem dog story. What is most revealing to me is she voluntarily included this story in her autobiography. She seems proud to tell people of her choice, and she thinks it shows she's a great leader. She apparently had no self-awareness that people might react negatively to this story. 1/2
#KristiNoem

Inauguration of the Linkiesta.it Academy, created to improve the level of awareness of young people in the field of journalism, security and international law: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/inauguration-of-the.html

🚨 Tomorrow sees the first of the online Q&A sessions I'm running to accompany the podcast series on Psychological Flexibility.
Starting at 12pm UK time, you can join a free Zoom call to review the contents and skills covered in the first two episodes: psychological inflexibility and present moment awareness .
Episodes and resources we've shared so far are available at

Latency Reduction in Vehicular Sensing Applications by Dynamic 5G User Plane Function Allocation with Session Continuity
Pablo Fondo-Ferreiro, David Candal-Ventureira, Francisco Javier Gonz\'alez-Casta\~no, Felipe Gil-Casti\~neira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19730

Latency Reduction in Vehicular Sensing Applications by Dynamic 5G User Plane Function Allocation with Session Continuity
Vehicle automation is driving the integration of advanced sensors and new applications that demand high-quality information, such as collaborative sensing for enhanced situational awareness. In this work, we considered a vehicular sensing scenario supported by 5G communications, in which vehicle sensor data need to be sent to edge computing resources with stringent latency constraints. To ensure low latency with the resources available, we propose an optimization framework that deploys User Pla…

Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Satellite State Estimation
Jacob Varey, Jessica D. Ruprecht, Michael Tierney, Ryan Sullenberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19736

Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Satellite State Estimation
The Space Domain Awareness (SDA) community routinely tracks satellites in orbit by fitting an orbital state to observations made by the Space Surveillance Network (SSN). In order to fit such orbits, an accurate model of the forces that are acting on the satellite is required. Over the past several decades, high-quality, physics-based models have been developed for satellite state estimation and propagation. These models are exceedingly good at estimating and propagating orbital states for non-m…

Cops on duty instructed to wear priests' attire in temples, public officials wearing traditional attire for elections (not out of their personal choice), military personnel wearing traditional Indian outfits at work... Indian institutions are now a part of costume drama.
https://

Officials dressed in special attires attract voters - Star of Mysore
Mysore/Mysuru: While the top women officers including Deputy Commissioner and District Electoral Officer created voting awareness in Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha Constituency created in a unique way  by draping a specially ordered hand woven silk sarees with a message requesting the voters to cast their franchise, the officials at various polling booths in Nanjangud coming under...

On the challenges of open access monitoring - Insights
#OpenAccess .

On the challenges of open access monitoring - Insights
Insights: the UKSG journal (2048-7754) aims to support UKSG's mission to connect the information community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication, specifically to:Provide a forum for the communication and exchange of ideas between the many stakeholders in the global knowledge community.Disseminate news, information and publications, and raise awareness of services that support the scholarly information sector.From 1988 to 2011, Insights was published as Serials: The Jo…

"This political choice- elevating a single unpublished study which examined a total of zero patients and ran a total of zero tests- when tens of thousands of others contradict its findings, is unsurprising. The political choice to do so on a day intended to draw attention to the suffering of tens of millions of people is cruel in the extreme." Media celebrated Long COVID Awareness Day by denying its existence:

Epidemic risk perception and social interactions lead to awareness cascades on multiplex networks
Tim Van Wesemael, Luis E. C. Rocha, Jan M. Baetens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16466

Epidemic risk perception and social interactions lead to awareness cascades on multiplex networks
The course of an epidemic is not only shaped by infection transmission over face-to-face contacts, but also by preventive behaviour caused by risk perception and social interactions. This study explores the dynamics of coupled awareness and biological infection spread within a two-layer multiplex network framework. One layer embodies face-to-face contacts, with a biological infection transmission following a simple contagion model, the SIR process. Awareness, modelled by the linear threshold mo…

'Something terrible' could have happened: Why more NFL players self-report concussions https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39808364/nfl-concussion-symptoms-self-report-anthony-richardson

Why more NFL players are self-reporting concussion symptoms - ESPN
In an era of concussion awareness, more players are inclined to report symptoms, but there are exceptions.

good pointy article about long covid minimisation/denial
... in particular, that shoddy unreviewed paper and its press release timed deliberately for Long Covid Awareness Day.
"Articles like these aren’t simply insulting or offensive; they have material impacts. ...
"There is a deliberate, highly successful effort to misinform the public that COVID cannot harm them."
#LongCovid #denial #LongCovidAwarenessDay

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NECO: NEural Collapse Based Out-of-distribution detection
Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data is a critical challenge in machine learning due to model overconfidence, often without awareness of their epistemological limits. We hypothesize that ``neural collapse'', a phenomenon affecting in-distribution data for models trained beyond loss convergence, also influences OOD data. To benefit from this interplay, we introduce NECO, a novel post-hoc method for OOD detection, which leverages the geometric properties of ``neural collapse'' and of principa…

Awareness in robotics: An early perspective from the viewpoint of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge "Awareness Inside''
Cosimo Della Santina, Carlos Hernandez Corbato, Burak Sisman, Luis A. Leiva, Ioannis Arapakis, Michalis Vakalellis, Jean Vanderdonckt, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Guido Manzi, Cristina Becchio, A\"ida Elamrani, Mohsen Alirezaei, Ginevra Castellano, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Arabinda Ghosh, Sofie Haesaert, Sadegh Soudjani, Sybert Stroeve, Paul Verschure, Davide …

Awareness in robotics: An early perspective from the viewpoint of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge "Awareness Inside''
Consciousness has been historically a heavily debated topic in engineering, science, and philosophy. On the contrary, awareness had less success in raising the interest of scholars in the past. However, things are changing as more and more researchers are getting interested in answering questions concerning what awareness is and how it can be artificially generated. The landscape is rapidly evolving, with multiple voices and interpretations of the concept being conceived and techniques being de…

“It’s been massive to have the Carters be so public,” said Angela Novas, chief medical officer for the Hospice Foundation of America, based in Washington.
“It has shed hospice in a new light, and it’s raised questions” for people to learn more.
Since Jimmy Carter entered hospice care at his home in south Georgia one year ago, the former U.S. president has celebrated his 99th birthday, enjoyed tributes to his legacy and lost his wife of 77 years.
Rosalynn Carter, who died …

Year after Jimmy Carter entered hospice care, he teaches awareness
Since Jimmy Carter entered hospice care at his Georgia home a year ago, the former U.S. president has celebrated his 99th birthday and lost his wife.

I took me a couple days to process the Kristi Noem dog story. What is most revealing to me is she voluntarily included this story in her autobiography. She seems proud to tell people of her choice, and she thinks it shows she's a great leader. She apparently had no self-awareness that people might react negatively to this story. 1/2
#KristiNoem

Quantitative Evaluation of driver's situation awareness in virtual driving through Eye tracking analysis
Yunxiang Jiang, Qing Xu, Kai Zhen, Yu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14817

Quantitative Evaluation of driver's situation awareness in virtual driving through Eye tracking analysis
In driving tasks, the driver's situation awareness of the surrounding scenario is crucial for safety driving. However, current methods of measuring situation awareness mostly rely on subjective questionnaires, which interrupt tasks and lack non-intrusive quantification. To address this issue, our study utilizes objective gaze motion data to provide an interference-free quantification method for situation awareness. Three quantitative scores are proposed to represent three different levels of aw…

Exploring the Boundaries of Ambient Awareness in Twitter
Pablo Sanchez-Martin, Sonja Utz, Isabel Valera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17776 https://

Exploring the Boundaries of Ambient Awareness in Twitter
Ambient awareness refers to the ability of social media users to obtain knowledge about who knows what (i.e., users' expertise) in their network, by simply being exposed to other users' content (e.g, tweets on Twitter). Previous work, based on user surveys, reveals that individuals self-report ambient awareness only for parts of their networks. However, it is unclear whether it is their limited cognitive capacity or the limited exposure to diagnostic tweets (i.e., online content) that prevents …

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A Hybrid Communication Approach for Metadata Exchange in Geo-Distributed Fog Environments
Metadata exchange is crucial for efficient geo-distributed fog computing. Existing solutions for metadata exchange overlook geo-awareness or lack adequate failure tolerance. We propose HFCS, a novel hybrid communication system that combines hierarchical and peer-to-peer elements, along with edge pools. HFCS utilizes a gossip protocol for dynamic metadata exchange. In simulation, we investigate the impact of node density and edge pool size on HFCS performance. We observe a performance improvem…

Mildly amused at how I took the job at my current employer, in part, to avoid the red tape of working for a megacorp.
Instead, I get to go through new-contractor onboarding for megacorp *clients* every time I do a project for such a customer that I haven't worked for before / recently enough.
Why go through security awareness or anti-harassment training when you start a new job, or once a year, when you could do it every few months instead?

Bypassing input to V1 in visual awareness: A TMS-EROS investigation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028393224000794 "results are consistent with interactive models proposing that sustained and recurrent loops of activity be…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07386 has been replaced.
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How do machines learn? Evaluating the AIcon2abs method
This paper evaluates AI from concrete to Abstract (Queiroz et al. 2021), a recently proposed method that enables awareness among the general public on machine learning. Such is possible due to the use of WiSARD, an easily understandable machine learning mechanism, thus requiring little effort and no technical background from the target users. WiSARD is adherent to digital computing; training consists of writing to RAM-type memories, and classification consists of reading from these memories. Th…

V2X Enabled Emergency Vehicle Alert System
Nitish Kumar, Hershita Shukla, Prof. P. Rajalakhsmi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19402 https://

V2X Enabled Emergency Vehicle Alert System
Today's major concern in traffic management systems includes time-efficient emergency transports. The awareness of environment and vehicle information is necessary for the emergency vehicles as well as the surrounding commercial vehicles that might be driven by inexperienced drivers to act accordingly if they both interact. The information exchange should be quick and accurate along with how much interactive the alerting system is with the drivers. Therefore, technologies like V2X-based alert s…

FTW, you post some observation and painstakingly include language in the post to convey you're aware of the reasons that the observed thing exists.
You mention your awareness precisely to prevent being "techsplained", and the first reply you get is techsplaining. 🤦‍♂️
#socialMedia #communication

From a 1982 NYT piece on Jorge Luis Borges that offers a clue about how his childhood influenced his storytelling:
“This dizzying sense of infinity - a sickening awareness of the
‘muchness' of the world - Borges explains, was nurtured by his own childhood nightmares and the dense, stifling atmosphere of Buenos Aires. ‘You have the plains and the pampas, but it is a tropical city...You feel the endless number of events, of people, of leaves, of mosquitoes, of all kinds of insec…

Eliza: A Robot Story - complete series 🤖😢💜
Dramatized scifi | Total listening time: 5h 23m
When a robot called Eliza falls in love with Him, they work together to make her fully sentient. But consciousness doesn’t come without consequences. As Eliza gets caught in a web of both loving and abusive relationships, she has to fight to surviv...

Eliza: A Robot Story - complete series 🤖😢💜
Dramatized scifi | Total listening time: 5h 23m When a robot called Eliza falls in love with Him, they work together to make her fully sentient. But consciousness doesn’t come without consequences. As Eliza gets caught in a web of both loving and abusive relationships, she has to fight to survive. Produced in partnership with Manchester Women's Aid, and released during Domestic Violence Awareness month. It's a multi-award winning show - most notably winning Best Audio Drama at the Indepe…

Ahead of the State of the Union, Voters Support Biden's Agenda and Accomplishments Despite Low Awareness (Timothy Bresnahan/Data For Progress)
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/3/6/ahead-of-the-state-of-the-union-voters-support-bidens-agenda-and-accomplishments-despite-low-awareness
http://www.memeorandum.com/240306/p101#a240306p101

How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/awareness/2024/02/how-to-tell-if-your-toothbrush-is-being-used-in-a-ddos-attack

How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack | Malwarebytes
Your essential guide to toothbrush security.

The deadliest infectious disease isn’t a science problem. It’s a money problem.
[Unpaywalled via my sub]
https://wapo.st/3VuYfOA

The deadliest infectious disease isn’t a science problem. It’s a money problem.
March 24 is designated for raising global awareness about tuberculosis, a disease that kills 1.3 million people annually, even though it’s curable.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06823 has been replaced.
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NECO: NEural Collapse Based Out-of-distribution detection
Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data is a critical challenge in machine learning due to model overconfidence, often without awareness of their epistemological limits. We hypothesize that ``neural collapse'', a phenomenon affecting in-distribution data for models trained beyond loss convergence, also influences OOD data. To benefit from this interplay, we introduce NECO, a novel post-hoc method for OOD detection, which leverages the geometric properties of ``neural collapse'' and of principa…

#MicrosoftTeams hat ein paar offene Flanken, was Tenant-übergreifendes Phishing angeht. Meine Kollegen bei #iteratec haben sich das einmal angeschaut und ein Tool entwickelt, um #Phishing-Angriffe auf unsere Kolleg:innen zu simulieren und Awareness zu schaffen. Die Ergebnisse könnt ihr in unserem Blog finden: #blueteam #redteam #infosec #Microsoft

“It’s been massive to have the Carters be so public,” said Angela Novas, chief medical officer for the Hospice Foundation of America, based in Washington.
“It has shed hospice in a new light, and it’s raised questions” for people to learn more.
Since Jimmy Carter entered hospice care at his home in south Georgia one year ago, the former U.S. president has celebrated his 99th birthday, enjoyed tributes to his legacy and lost his wife of 77 years.
Rosalynn Carter, who died …

Year after Jimmy Carter entered hospice care, he teaches awareness
Since Jimmy Carter entered hospice care at his Georgia home a year ago, the former U.S. president has celebrated his 99th birthday and lost his wife.

National Research and Education Networks (#NRENs) agree that the ‘human factor’ is a key element of #CyberSecurity, according to a survey conducted within the GÉANT GN5-1 project.
Read about the survey's main findings and next steps:

NRENs agree that the ‘human factor’ is a key element of cybersecurity | GÉANT CONNECT Online
In 2023, the Awareness subtask team, within the GN5-1 Security Work Package 8, Task 2 Human Factor (WP8 T2), conducted a survey on the status of cybersecurity awareness within the National Research and Education Networks participating in the project; 25 organisations took part in the survey: 24 NRENs plus GÉANT. Security awareness relates to the

Benchmarking Image Transformers for Prostate Cancer Detection from Ultrasound Data
Mohamed Harmanani, Paul F. R. Wilson, Fahimeh Fooladgar, Amoon Jamzad, Mahdi Gilany, Minh Nguyen Nhat To, Brian Wodlinger, Purang Abolmaesumi, Parvin Mousavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18233

Benchmarking Image Transformers for Prostate Cancer Detection from Ultrasound Data
PURPOSE: Deep learning methods for classifying prostate cancer (PCa) in ultrasound images typically employ convolutional networks (CNNs) to detect cancer in small regions of interest (ROI) along a needle trace region. However, this approach suffers from weak labelling, since the ground-truth histopathology labels do not describe the properties of individual ROIs. Recently, multi-scale approaches have sought to mitigate this issue by combining the context awareness of transformers with a CNN fea…

Apropos. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/awareness/2024/02/how-to-tell-if-your-toothbrush-is-being-used-in-a-ddos-attack

How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack | Malwarebytes
Your essential guide to toothbrush security.

An IoT Based Water-Logging Detection System: A Case Study of Dhaka
Md Manirul Islam, Md. Sadad Mahamud, Umme Salsabil, A. A. M. Mazharul Amin, Samiul Haque Suman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18949

An IoT Based Water-Logging Detection System: A Case Study of Dhaka
With a large number of populations, many problems are rising rapidly in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Water-logging is one of the major issues among them. Heavy rainfall, lack of awareness and poor maintenance causes bad sewerage system in the city. As a result, water is overflowed on the roads and sometimes it gets mixed with the drinking water. To overcome this problem, this paper realizes the potential of using Internet of Things to combat water-logging in drainage pipes which are u…

Alexander Pruss's Blog || Second-order awareness
http://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2024/02/second-order-awareness.html

Farsight: Fostering Responsible AI Awareness During AI Application Prototyping
Zijie J. Wang, Chinmay Kulkarni, Lauren Wilcox, Michael Terry, Michael Madaio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15350

Farsight: Fostering Responsible AI Awareness During AI Application Prototyping
Prompt-based interfaces for Large Language Models (LLMs) have made prototyping and building AI-powered applications easier than ever before. However, identifying potential harms that may arise from AI applications remains a challenge, particularly during prompt-based prototyping. To address this, we present Farsight, a novel in situ interactive tool that helps people identify potential harms from the AI applications they are prototyping. Based on a user's prompt, Farsight highlights news articl…

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Mining for Cost Awareness in the Infrastructure as Code Artifacts of Cloud-based Applications: an Exploratory Study
Context: The popularity of cloud computing as the primary platform for developing, deploying, and delivering software is largely driven by the promise of cost savings. Therefore, it is surprising that no empirical evidence has been collected to determine whether cost awareness permeates the development process and how it manifests in practice. Objective: This study aims to provide empirical evidence of cost awareness by mining open source repositories of cloud-based applications. The focus is o…

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Exploring Visual Culture Awareness in GPT-4V: A Comprehensive Probing
Pretrained large Vision-Language models have drawn considerable interest in recent years due to their remarkable performance. Despite considerable efforts to assess these models from diverse perspectives, the extent of visual cultural awareness in the state-of-the-art GPT-4V model remains unexplored. To tackle this gap, we extensively probed GPT-4V using the MaRVL benchmark dataset, aiming to investigate its capabilities and limitations in visual understanding with a focus on cultural aspects. …

“Socks, lies, and accessibility”
https://janmaarten.com/gaad-2023/
Where @… shows that just a couple days after

Socks, lies, and accessibility
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is around the corner. Looking back at last year, I found some troubling things people in this field should be aware of. Because they're likely to be repeated.

“… in spite of our personal, individual paranoia and our discriminating awareness that looks for danger and separates everything into what is acceptable and what is unacceptable, there is a basic state of existence that is fundamentally good, and that we can rely on.” Chögyam Trungpa

Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Relatives Remembered https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/murdered-and-missing-indigenous-women-and-relatives-remembered/

Bluetooth vulnerability allows unauthorized user to record and play audio on Bluetooth speaker without user awareness https://www.mobile-hacker.com/2024/03/22/bluetooth-vulnerability-allows-unauthorized-user-to-record-and-play-audio-on-bluetooth-speakers/

The message reads: "We hereby conduct this post mortem".
I hope everyone is getting ready. Also, Taylor liked the tweet below so she gets points for self-awareness.
#TaylorSwift #TTPD

Post discusses the idea that the 'rickrolling' meme has indirectly taught people to be more cautious about clicking on unknown links, thereby improving security awareness. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1c9k5u7/

Are you hiring a research software engineer? Which competencies are you looking for?
Check out this paper and let us know if these competencies match your expectations.
#RSEng
https://buff.ly/46o1zNm<…

Foundational Competencies and Responsibilities of a Research Software Engineer
The term Research Software Engineer, or RSE, emerged a little over 10 years ago as a way to represent individuals working in the research community but focusing on software development. The term has been widely adopted and there are a number of high-level definitions of what an RSE is. However, the roles of RSEs vary depending on the institutional context they work in. At one end of the spectrum, RSE roles may look similar to a traditional research role. At the other extreme, they resemble that…

We need to aim at the top: Factors associated with cybersecurity awareness of cyber and information security decision-makers
Simon Vrhovec, Bla\v{z} Markelj
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04725

We need to aim at the top: Factors associated with cybersecurity awareness of cyber and information security decision-makers
Cyberattacks pose a significant business risk to organizations. Although there is ample literature focusing on why people pose a major risk to organizational cybersecurity and how to deal with it, there is surprisingly little we know about cyber and information security decision-makers who are essentially the people in charge of setting up and maintaining organizational cybersecurity. In this paper, we study cybersecurity awareness of cyber and information security decision-makers, and investig…

Why is it always pastors pulling crap like this? #autism
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-schools-pastor-cancels

Christian school's pastor cancels Autism Awareness Week, calling it "demonic"
"If Jesus Christ led Trinity, would HE have an Autism Awareness Week? Of course not!," wrote pastor Matt Baker

Major South African outlet The Daily Maverick takes down its site for a day to alert readers to ad revenue, grant funding, and philanthropic support "drying up" (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/ne…

Major South African news site 'shuts down' for a day to alert readers to 'crisis in journalism'
A leading South African news site has taken "drastic" action to raise awareness of the "crisis in journalism" by shutting down for 24 hours.

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Shared Situation Awareness among Connected Vehicles
Seungmo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06902 https://a…

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Shared Situation Awareness among Connected Vehicles
Shared situation awareness (SSA) has been garnering explosive interest in various applications for intelligent transportation systems (ITS). In addition, the delay-constrained nature of supporting vehicular networks makes it critical to precisely analyze the performance of a SSA procedure. Extending the relevant literature, this paper provides an analysis framework that evaluates the performance of SSA in spatial and temporal aspects simultaneously. Specifically, this paper provides a closed-fo…

📖 To Make Unions Resonate Again, Study the CIO&#8217;s History
#labor

To Make Unions Resonate Again, Study the CIO’s History
Declining union density has diminished American workers’ awareness of labor organizing, pride in union status, and sense of belonging to a tradition of collective struggle. The history of the CIO can teach us how to embed unions in the working class again.

Partially Observable Task and Motion Planning with Uncertainty and Risk Awareness
Aidan Curtis, George Matheos, Nishad Gothoskar, Vikash Mansinghka, Joshua Tenenbaum, Tom\'as Lozano-P\'erez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10454

Partially Observable Task and Motion Planning with Uncertainty and Risk Awareness
Integrated task and motion planning (TAMP) has proven to be a valuable approach to generalizable long-horizon robotic manipulation and navigation problems. However, the typical TAMP problem formulation assumes full observability and deterministic action effects. These assumptions limit the ability of the planner to gather information and make decisions that are risk-aware. We propose a strategy for TAMP with Uncertainty and Risk Awareness (TAMPURA) that is capable of efficiently solving long-ho…

Apparently it is Fraud Prevention Month
I did not know that until I got an email from PC Financial. Rather than cut and paste their advice I thought it better to send you to its source (their email to me did not include a link!)
Competition Bureau of Canada
"The Competition Bureau is an independent law enforcement agency that protects and promotes competition for the benefit of Canadian consumers and businesses. "

Awareness of self-control
Mohammad Mehdi Mousavi, Mahdi Kohan Sefidi, Shirin Allahyarkhani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11072 https://a…

Awareness of self-control
Economists modeled self-control problems in decisions of people with the time-inconsistence preferences model. They argued that the source of self-control problems could be uncertainty and temptation. This paper uses an experimental test offered to individuals instantaneous reward and future rewards to measure awareness of self-control problems in a tempting condition and also measure the effect of commitment and flexibility cost on their welfare. The quasi-hyperbolic discounting model with tim…

The deadliest infectious disease isn’t a science problem. It’s a money problem.
[Unpaywalled via my sub]
https://wapo.st/3VuYfOA

The deadliest infectious disease isn’t a science problem. It’s a money problem.
March 24 is designated for raising global awareness about tuberculosis, a disease that kills 1.3 million people annually, even though it’s curable.

is it possible to meet Mary Anne Warren's criteria of personhood in less complicated forms of simulated life?
(sentience, emotionality, reason, communication, self-awareness, moral agency)
(vision, proprioception, hearing, pain, pleasure/instinct, motivation/burnout, social emotional communication/reception (recognizing other's pain or priority), trust metrics, fluctuating/forgiving emotions, new problems, complex problems, memory, high-level learning or instruction transference, self-state, social state, moral ideas (perma-emotional biases or new instincts/motivations built out of your experiences)

Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Relatives Remembered https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/murdered-and-missing-indigenous-women-and-relatives-remembered/

Integrating urban digital twins with cloud-based geospatial dashboards for coastal resilience planning: A case study in Florida
Changjie Chen, Yu Han, Andrea Galinski, Christian Calle, Jeffery Carney, Xinyue Ye, Cees van Westen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18188

Integrating urban digital twins with cloud-based geospatial dashboards for coastal resilience planning: A case study in Florida
Coastal communities are confronted with a growing incidence of climate-induced flooding, necessitating adaptation measures for resilience. In this paper, we introduce a framework that integrates an urban digital twin with a geospatial dashboard to allow visualization of the vulnerabilities within critical infrastructure across a range of spatial and temporal scales. The synergy between these two technologies fosters heightened community awareness about increased flood risks to establish a unifi…

#MicrosoftTeams hat ein paar offene Flanken, was Tenant-übergreifendes Phishing angeht. Meine Kollegen bei #iteratec haben sich das einmal angeschaut und ein Tool entwickelt, um #Phishing-Angriffe auf unsere Kolleg:innen zu simulieren und Awareness zu schaffen. Die Ergebnisse könnt ihr in unserem Blog finden: #blueteam #redteam #infosec #Microsoft

Apropos. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/awareness/2024/02/how-to-tell-if-your-toothbrush-is-being-used-in-a-ddos-attack

How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack | Malwarebytes
Your essential guide to toothbrush security.

A year after Jimmy Carter's entered hospice care, advocates hope his endurance drives awareness (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-carter-roslaynn-hospice-year-anniversary-c93498575e806f1a1d83714cf8e5c0b6
http://www.memeorandum.com/240218/p25#a240218p25

An IoT Based Water-Logging Detection System: A Case Study of Dhaka
Md Manirul Islam, Md. Sadad Mahamud, Umme Salsabil, A. A. M. Mazharul Amin, Samiul Haque Suman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18949

An IoT Based Water-Logging Detection System: A Case Study of Dhaka
With a large number of populations, many problems are rising rapidly in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Water-logging is one of the major issues among them. Heavy rainfall, lack of awareness and poor maintenance causes bad sewerage system in the city. As a result, water is overflowed on the roads and sometimes it gets mixed with the drinking water. To overcome this problem, this paper realizes the potential of using Internet of Things to combat water-logging in drainage pipes which are u…

Developing Situational Awareness for Joint Action with Autonomous Vehicles
Robert Kaufman, David Kirsh, Nadir Weibel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11800 https…

Developing Situational Awareness for Joint Action with Autonomous Vehicles
Unanswered questions about how human-AV interaction designers can support rider's informational needs hinders Autonomous Vehicles (AV) adoption. To achieve joint human-AV action goals - such as safe transportation, trust, or learning from an AV - sufficient situational awareness must be held by the human, AV, and human-AV system collectively. We present a systems-level framework that integrates cognitive theories of joint action and situational awareness as a means to tailor communications that…

Ukrainian campaign in US, Canada to commemorate Mariupol theater bombing: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/14/ukrainian-campaign-in.html

A controls engineer in manufacturing is concerned about the lack of cybersecurity awareness in his industry. He's seeking resources to understand more about securing automation systems and protecting files such as 3D models used in production. He feels failing to address cybersecurity could become detrimental. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1c8rqf6/

Monitoring, contextualizing and sharing Trump’s rhetoric is key to keeping our democratic republic.
“Keep your friends close; keep your enemies closer.”
~ Sun Tzu (credited)
There is possibly no greater threat to U.S. democratic institutions than Donald J. Trump.
From algorithmically generated disinformation to an epidemic of odds-not-stakes reporting … it’s going to “take a village” to create awareness and understanding among voters who don’t eat-sleep-and-breathe politics.…

Major South African outlet The Daily Maverick takes down its site for a day to alert readers to ad revenue, grant funding, and philanthropic support "drying up" (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/ne…

Major South African news site 'shuts down' for a day to alert readers to 'crisis in journalism'
A leading South African news site has taken "drastic" action to raise awareness of the "crisis in journalism" by shutting down for 24 hours.

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Fortify the Shortest Stave in Attention: Enhancing Context Awareness of Large Language Models for Effective Tool Use
In this paper, we demonstrate that an inherent waveform pattern in the attention allocation of large language models (LLMs) significantly affects their performance in tasks demanding a high degree of context awareness, such as utilizing LLMs for tool-use. Specifically, the crucial information in the context will be potentially overlooked by model when it is positioned in the trough zone of the attention waveform, leading to decreased performance. To address this issue, we propose a novel infere…

Understanding and Detecting Annotation-Induced Faults of Static Analyzers
Huaien Zhang, Yu Pei, Shuyun Liang, Shin Hwei Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14366

Understanding and Detecting Annotation-Induced Faults of Static Analyzers
Static analyzers can reason about the properties and behaviors of programs and detect various issues without executing them. Hence, they should extract the necessary information to understand the analyzed program well. Annotation has been a widely used feature for different purposes in Java since the introduction of Java 5. Annotations can change program structures and convey semantics information without awareness of static analyzers, consequently leading to imprecise analysis results. This pa…

Long Covid and me
Apparently it's Long Covid Awareness Day!
I have Long Covid. Not as extreme as some people. I can do normal things again, except I run out of steam way quicker than the energetic me of summer 2022. It's kind of like I got physically 20 years older all of a sudden. I miss being able to cycle for 4 or 5 miles, or immerse myself in writing for a whole day.
Also still sometimes little bits of dysautonomia and irregular heartbeat.
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
(Edit: oops, 2022.)

Exploring Communication Technologies, Standards, and Challenges in Electrified Vehicle Charging
Xiang Ma, Yuan Zhou, Hanwen Zhang, Qun Wang, Haijian Sun, Hongjie Wang, Rose Qingyang Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16830

Exploring Communication Technologies, Standards, and Challenges in Electrified Vehicle Charging
As public awareness of environmental protection continues to grow, the trend of integrating more electric vehicles (EVs) into the transportation sector is rising. Unlike conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, EVs can minimize carbon emissions and potentially achieve autonomous driving. However, several obstacles hinder the widespread adoption of EVs, such as their constrained driving range and the extended time required for charging. One alternative solution to address these ch…

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Evaluation of LLM Chatbots for OSINT-based Cyber Threat Awareness
Knowledge sharing about emerging threats is crucial in the rapidly advancing field of cybersecurity and forms the foundation of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI). In this context, Large Language Models are becoming increasingly significant in the field of cybersecurity, presenting a wide range of opportunities. This study surveys the performance of ChatGPT, GPT4all, Dolly, Stanford Alpaca, Alpaca-LoRA, Falcon, and Vicuna chatbots in binary classification and Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks p…

CyberMoraba: A game-based approach enhancing cybersecurity awareness
Mike Nkongolo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10118 https://arxiv.org…

CyberMoraba: A game-based approach enhancing cybersecurity awareness
Numerous studies confirm Cybersecurity Awareness Games (CAGs) effectively bolster organisational security against cyberattacks. This article introduces a serious CAG, integrating the traditional South African Morabaraba board game into cybersecurity education. Players adopt roles of defenders or attackers, strategically placing tokens to enhance awareness. Evaluation shows positive outcomes, enhancing understanding and enjoyment among participants.

PureConnect: A Localized Social Media System to Increase Awareness and Connectedness in Environmental Justice Communities
Omar Hammad, Md Rezwanur Rahman, Gopala Krishna Vasanth Kanugo, Nicholas Clements, Shelly Miller, Shivakant Mishra, Esther Sullivan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14038 <…

PureConnect: A Localized Social Media System to Increase Awareness and Connectedness in Environmental Justice Communities
Frequent disruptions like highway constructions are common now-a-days, often impacting environmental justice communities (communities with low socio-economic status with disproportionately high and adverse human health and environmental effects) that live nearby. Based on our interactions via focus groups with the members of four environmental justice communities impacted by a major highway construction, a common concern is a sense of uncertainty about project activities and loss of social conn…

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An Optimal Control Framework for Influencing Human Driving Behavior in Mixed-Autonomy Traffic
As autonomous vehicles (AVs) become increasingly prevalent, their interaction with human drivers presents a critical challenge. Current AVs lack social awareness, causing behavior that is often awkward or unsafe. To combat this, social AVs, which are proactive rather than reactive in their behavior, have been explored in recent years. With knowledge of robot-human interaction dynamics, a social AV can influence a human driver to exhibit desired behaviors by strategically altering its own behavi…

Bayesian Methods for Trust in Collaborative Multi-Agent Autonomy
R. Spencer Hallyburton, Miroslav Pajic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16956 https://

Bayesian Methods for Trust in Collaborative Multi-Agent Autonomy
Multi-agent, collaborative sensor fusion is a vital component of a multi-national intelligence toolkit. In safety-critical and/or contested environments, adversaries may infiltrate and compromise a number of agents. We analyze state of the art multi-target tracking algorithms under this compromised agent threat model. We prove that the track existence probability test ("track score") is significantly vulnerable to even small numbers of adversaries. To add security awareness, we design a trust e…

Enhancing Space Situational Awareness to Mitigate Risk: A Case Study in the Misidentification of Starlink Satellites as UAP in Commercial Aviation
Douglas J. Buettner (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Acquisition Innovation Research Center, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA, Sr. Member of the AIAA), Richard E. Griffiths (Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI, USA, Department of Phy…

Enhancing Space Situational Awareness to Mitigate Risk: A Case Study in the Misidentification of Starlink Satellites as UAP in Commercial Aviation
Over the past several years, the misidentification of SpaceX Starlink satellites as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) by pilots and laypersons has generated unnecessary aviation risk and confusion. The many deployment and orbital evolution strategies, coupled with changing sun specular reflection angles, contribute to this gap in space situational awareness. In this paper we present a case analysis of an incident that generated multiple, corroborating reports of a UAP from five pilots on two …

The user is seeking an open-source project akin to the US Department of Defence's annual cyber awareness challenge, so they can adapt it for their European organization. The ideal project would provide a completion certificate with a unique ID. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1c83f4a/

Uncertainty Awareness of Large Language Models Under Code Distribution Shifts: A Benchmark Study
Yufei Li, Simin Chen, Yanghong Guo, Wei Yang, Yue Dong, Cong Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05939

Uncertainty Awareness of Large Language Models Under Code Distribution Shifts: A Benchmark Study
Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely employed in programming language analysis to enhance human productivity. Yet, their reliability can be compromised by various code distribution shifts, leading to inconsistent outputs. While probabilistic methods are known to mitigate such impact through uncertainty calibration and estimation, their efficacy in the language domain remains underexplored compared to their application in image-based tasks. In this work, we first introduce a large-scale…

Inferring Belief States in Partially-Observable Human-Robot Teams
Jack Kolb, Karen M. Feigh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11955 https://…

Inferring Belief States in Partially-Observable Human-Robot Teams
We investigate the real-time estimation of human situation awareness using observations from a robot teammate with limited visibility. In human factors and human-autonomy teaming, it is recognized that individuals navigate their environments using an internal mental simulation, or mental model. The mental model informs cognitive processes including situation awareness, contextual reasoning, and task planning. In teaming domains, the mental model includes a team model of each teammate's beliefs …

Most Republicans aren’t aware of Trump’s various legal issues
New polling conducted by YouGov shows that only a bit over half of the country on average is aware of the various legal challenges Trump faces.
And among those Republicans on whose political support he depends?
Consistently, only a minority say they are aware of his lawsuits and charges.


YouGov presented American adults with eight legal scenarios to judge the extent of the public’s awareness.
Two were i…

Analysis | Most Republicans aren’t aware of Trump’s various legal issues
New polling from YouGov shows that there is no legal issue Trump faces for which a majority of Republicans indicate awareness.

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Llama-VITS: Enhancing TTS Synthesis with Semantic Awareness
Recent advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have seen Large-scale Language Models (LLMs) excel at producing high-quality text for various purposes. Notably, in Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems, the integration of BERT for semantic token generation has underscored the importance of semantic content in producing coherent speech outputs. Despite this, the specific utility of LLMs in enhancing TTS synthesis remains considerably limited. This research introduces an innovative approach, Llam…

Neighbor-Environment Observer: An Intelligent Agent for Immersive Working Companionship
Zhe Sun, Qixuan Liang, Meng Wang, Zhenliang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18331

Neighbor-Environment Observer: An Intelligent Agent for Immersive Working Companionship
Human-computer symbiosis is a crucial direction for the development of artificial intelligence. As intelligent systems become increasingly prevalent in our work and personal lives, it is important to develop strategies to support users across physical and virtual environments. While technological advances in personal digital devices, such as personal computers and virtual reality devices, can provide immersive experiences, they can also disrupt users' awareness of their surroundings and enhance…

Run Time Assurance for Simultaneous Constraint Satisfaction During Spacecraft Attitude Maneuvering
Cassie-Kay McQuinn, Kyle Dunlap, Nathaniel Hamilton, Jabari Wilson, Kerianne L. Hobbs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14723

Run Time Assurance for Simultaneous Constraint Satisfaction During Spacecraft Attitude Maneuvering
A fundamental capability for On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM) is inspection of the vehicle to be serviced, or the structure being assembled. This research assumes autonomous slewing to maintain situational awareness of multiple vehicles operating in close proximity where several safety constraints must be satisfied. A variety of techniques may be used as the primary controller. The focus of this research is developing Run Time Assurance (RTA) filters that monitor system be…

The post discusses measures for added security for high-value targets (HVTs) like the CEO. Apart from privileged access for IT and devs, additional potential solutions include regular device checks, tailored awareness trainings, security keys, and stronger passwords. The user also considers advice to stop using wearables in meetings and removing electronics from sensitive discussions. They ask for community input on extra security measures. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1bk1076/

Inferring Belief States in Partially-Observable Human-Robot Teams
Jack Kolb, Karen M. Feigh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11955 https://…

Inferring Belief States in Partially-Observable Human-Robot Teams
We investigate the real-time estimation of human situation awareness using observations from a robot teammate with limited visibility. In human factors and human-autonomy teaming, it is recognized that individuals navigate their environments using an internal mental simulation, or mental model. The mental model informs cognitive processes including situation awareness, contextual reasoning, and task planning. In teaming domains, the mental model includes a team model of each teammate's beliefs …

Most Republicans aren’t aware of Trump’s various legal issues
New polling conducted by YouGov shows that only a bit over half of the country on average is aware of the various legal challenges Trump faces.
And among those Republicans on whose political support he depends?
Consistently, only a minority say they are aware of his lawsuits and charges.


YouGov presented American adults with eight legal scenarios to judge the extent of the public’s awareness.
Two were i…

Analysis | Most Republicans aren’t aware of Trump’s various legal issues
New polling from YouGov shows that there is no legal issue Trump faces for which a majority of Republicans indicate awareness.

LayoutLLM: Large Language Model Instruction Tuning for Visually Rich Document Understanding
Masato Fujitake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14252 https://

LayoutLLM: Large Language Model Instruction Tuning for Visually Rich Document Understanding
This paper proposes LayoutLLM, a more flexible document analysis method for understanding imaged documents. Visually Rich Document Understanding tasks, such as document image classification and information extraction, have gained significant attention due to their importance. Existing methods have been developed to enhance document comprehension by incorporating pre-training awareness of images, text, and layout structure. However, these methods require fine-tuning for each task and dataset, an…

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Trickery: Educational Dark Pattern Analogies for Use in Serious Games
Dark patterns are often used in interface design to manipulate users into performing actions they would otherwise not take, such as consenting to excessive data collection. We present a narrative serious game concept, along with seven educational dark pattern analogies designed to create awareness of and bolster resistance against dark patterns through direct consequences of player actions. We performed a qualitative laboratory gameplay study investigating player behavior when confronted with e…

Environmental Awareness Dynamic 5G QoS for Retaining Real Time Constraints in Robotic Applications
Gerasimos Damigos, Akshit Saradagi, Sara Sandberg, George Nikolakopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06470

Environmental Awareness Dynamic 5G QoS for Retaining Real Time Constraints in Robotic Applications
The fifth generation (5G) cellular network technology is mature and increasingly utilized in many industrial and robotics applications, while an important functionality is the advanced Quality of Service (QoS) features. Despite the prevalence of 5G QoS discussions in the related literature, there is a notable absence of real-life implementations and studies concerning their application in time-critical robotics scenarios. This article considers the operation of time-critical applications for 5G…

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Putting Our Minds Together: Iterative Exploration for Collaborative Mind Mapping
We delineate the development of a mind-mapping system designed concurrently for both VR and desktop platforms. Employing an iterative methodology with groups of users, we systematically examined and improved various facets of our system, including interactions, communication mechanisms and gamification elements, to streamline the mind-mapping process while augmenting situational awareness and promoting active engagement among collaborators. We also report our observational findings on these fac…