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Check out my latest CSO piece that examines how the Iranian cyber threat has been overhyped, and even in the face of a supposed cease-fire between Israel and Iran, security leaders need to stay alert and ready.
Many thanks to Tom Hegel of SentinelOne, Alexis Rapin of ESET, Pascal Geenens of Radware, Pete Nicoletti of Check Point and others for their insight.
Iranian cyber threats overhyped, but CISOs can’t afford to let down their guard

Iranian cyber threats overhyped, but CISOs can’t afford to let down their guard
Fears of Iranian retaliation in cyberspace surged after US and Israeli military strikes on Iran, but experts say the risk is overstated. Still, security leaders should stay alert and ready.

Poster No 857: Plastic changes in the occipital regions during pitch perception associate with blindness onset age; "Specifically, the primary visual cortex remains engaged in pitch processing tasks following late blindness." https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15641972

Hoog tijd om (ook) niet-biologisch te gaan certificeren, zoals een aantal jaar geleden ook de elektriciteitsmarkt full disclosure is ingevoerd https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/artikel…

Slijters halen biologische wijn uit schappen om 'duur en zinloos' bio-certificaat: 'Dit verdien ik niet terug'
Slijters die biologische wijnen verkopen zijn duizenden euro's kwijt aan een verplicht bio-certificaat, terwijl ze zelf niets veranderen aan het product....

Write, Rank, or Rate: Comparing Methods for Studying Visualization Affordances
Chase Stokes, Kylie Lin, Cindy Xiong Bearfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17024 https://

Write, Rank, or Rate: Comparing Methods for Studying Visualization Affordances
A growing body of work on visualization affordances highlights how specific design choices shape reader takeaways from information visualizations. However, mapping the relationship between design choices and reader conclusions often requires labor-intensive crowdsourced studies, generating large corpora of free-response text for analysis. To address this challenge, we explored alternative scalable research methodologies to assess chart affordances. We test four elicitation methods from human-su…

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‘We Have Won,’ Mamdani Says
as Cuomo Concedes N.Y.C. Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, galvanized voters with an energetic campaign focused on affordability.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo left the door open to running in the general election.
Zohran Mamdani,
a little-known state lawmaker whose progressive economic platform electrified younger voters,
surged into the lead in the Democratic primary for mayor of …

‘We Have Won,’ Mamdani Says, as Cuomo Concedes N.Y.C. Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, galvanized voters with an energetic campaign focused on affordability. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo left the door open to running in the general election.

😱 #Amazon übernimmt das Start-up #Bee, das ein tragbares Gerät entwickelt hat, das Gespräche mithört, transkribiert und als persönliche KI-Zusammenfassung aufbereitet.
Für 49,99 Dollar bietet Bee damit eine Art „Gedächtnisprotokoll“ am Handgelenk.
Die Nutzer können der KI Zugriff auf Kalender…

Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say
Amazon is acquiring Bee, an AI startup that created a wrist-based device that listens to everything you say and creates AI-generated transcripts.

Dirichlet $L$-functions on the Critical Line
Sami Vihko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16115 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16115

Dirichlet $L$-functions on the Critical Line
In this paper we prove that the Dirichlet $L$-functions $L(1/2+ix,χ_q)$, where $χ_q$ is uniformly random Dirichlet character modulo $q$, converges to a random Schwartz distribution $ζ_{\mathrm{rand}}$, which is related to (complex) Gaussian multiplicative chaos. This is the same limiting object that appeared in [34], where the authors proved that the random shifts of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line $ζ(1/2+ix+iωT)$, where $ω\sim \mathrm{Unif} ([0,1])$ and $x\in \mathbb{R}$, …

Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say he "does not use a computer" after OpenAI accused Musk of not complying with the discovery process in his lawsuit against OpenAI (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-computer-sam-altman/

Elon Musk’s Lawyers Claim He ‘Does Not Use a Computer’
The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the past year.

A new report from global energy think tank Ember says
🔥batteries have officially hit the price point that lets solar power deliver affordable electricity almost every hour of the year in the sunniest parts of the world
https://ember-ene…

Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything | Ember
Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar energy’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.

Trump on Monday began to confront the potential economic blowback from his military strikes on Iran,
which threatens to send oil and gas prices soaring at a moment when U.S. consumers are already facing significant financial strains.
The mere prospect of rising energy costs appeared to spook even Trump, who took to social media to push for more domestic drilling
-- while demanding that companies “KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN”; otherwise, they would be “PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS O…

White House Faces Risk of Economic Fallout From Iran Strike
President Trump, aware of how high gas prices could affect his popularity, demanded on social media that the U.S. “KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN.”