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I should probably mention this opening: https://careers.cambridge.org/jobs/vacancy/lead-software-engineer-cambridge/6006/description/
Not my dept but does look interesting...

Lead Software Engineer | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Cambridge University Press & Assessment join us for a great career

> Cambridge’s preservationists don’t just mount disks and hope for the best; they sample the raw magnetic signal itself. Specialized hardware, such as the KryoFlux and open-hardware Greaseweazle interfaces, captures the flux transitions — the tiny changes in polarity that encode data — and reconstructs the file structure later in software.

Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks
Cambridge’s 'Future Nostalgia' project is racing to save decades of digital history from vanishing floppy disks.

A University of Cambridge analysis reveals how cheap SMS text message verification to create online accounts fuels global influence and manipulation campaigns (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/12105e19-208b-44ad-986d-398e68fc2270

Cambridge University's women-only college:
Newnham College says it will continue to welcome trans women
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/03/newnham-college-cambridge-trans/

Fascinating article on the abundance of medical reference books & notes on remedies in medieval England:
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=30906
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«“One SIM card can be used for hundreds of different platforms,” said Dek. “Vendors recoup SIM costs by selling high-demand verifications for apps like Facebook and Telegram, then profit from the long tail of other platforms.”
Additional analyses show global stocks of fake accounts are highest for platforms such as X, Uber, Discord, Amazon, Tinder and gaming platform Steam»
#FakeProfiles

Information Manipulation is a market.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index

Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide
The first global index tracking real-time prices for buying fake account verifications on 500+ online platforms in every country has been launched by a team at the University of Cambridge.

Uncovering domain morphology in an unconventional magnet with scanning diamond quantum magnetometry
Freya Johnson (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge), Jan Zemen (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague), Helena Knowles (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge), Lesley F. Cohen (Department of Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London)

Uncovering domain morphology in an unconventional magnet with scanning diamond quantum magnetometry
Unconventional magnetic materials including non-collinear antiferromagnets, p-wave magnets and altermagnets, are an emerging frontier for quantum spintronics and hybrid quantum devices. Critical to the application of these materials is control over the magnetic domain state, as their unique, symmetry-driven properties vanish in a multi-domain limit. However, the mechanisms governing domain formation in materials with compensated local moments remain poorly understood. In this work, we examine t…

#icfpsplash25 Journal of Functional Programming leaves Cambridge University Press and becomes "scientist owned".