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Check how your mix sounds through multiple popular headphone models with Kali Audio’s new HP-1 Multi-Reference Headphones
#MusicTech #MusicianTips

Check how your mix sounds through multiple popular headphone models with Kali Audio's new HP-1 Multi-Reference Headphones
Kali Audio has launched its first ever pair of over-ear headphones, the HP-1, which lets you switch between three voicings to check how your work will sound through the most popular headphones in use today.

Fact check: Debunking 11 of Trump's false claims at Cabinet meeting (Daniel Dale/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/fact-check-trump-cabinet-meeting
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p165#a250708p165

Endlich geladen: Mein Weg zur eigenen PV-Anlage mit intelligenter Wallbox - Erster Teil der Installation - Check. Teile vergessen - Check. Elektriker verfügbar? Irgendwann mal. Und dann die finale Challenge: Ich selbst als IT-Detektiv, der Wallbox & Smart Meter ins Netz zwirbelt. Angeblich „schlüsselfertig“. Na, wenn das „schlüsselfertig“ heißt, will ich gar keinen Schlüssel mehr! #Wallbox …

This must be the ultimate #monsterdon
- monster? Check
- nuclear terror? Check
- hip soundtrack? Check
- unbearably bad acting? Check
- unbearably bad writing? Check
- unbearably bad voice-over? Check
- unbearably bad editing? Check
- long sequences of irrelevant stock footage? Check
- bizarre plot twist you didn't expect? Check
- solid inspiration to any aspiring film maker who thinks they aren't good enough or have budget enough or skills enough to gain eternal global distribution? Check
What more could you want?
"Monster a Go-Go" (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1965) - FULL MOVIE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=btJoXBIv2SI&si=nDLa-edc1VlFlerV

Do people not understand that "LLMs can summarize research for me and then I'll double check* what it quotes" is likely biasing them to believe the LLM (which is designed to give the most bootlicking replies) and then misinterpret those "double checked" sources themselves?
Reading sources and synthesizing your own conclusions is literally what (a lot of) research is.
*because that ever actually happens

Quantum computing startup Infleqtion agrees to merge with a Michael Klein-led blank-check company, giving it a $1.8B pre-money valuation and $540M in funding (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-08/klein…

I recommend visiting, or at least thinking about, /r/spicypillows every so often as a reminder to check on and keep track of all your lithium batteries. 🔥⁠🪫⁠🔥

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Chinese espionage campaign targeted House staffers ahead of trade talks,
--Ethical hackers uncover catastrophic flaws in restaurant chain's platforms,
--Salesloft Drift hack began last March,
--Customer data stolen in Wealthsimple breach,
--Trump to formally nominate Harman for NSA/Cybercom slot,
--Don't trust XChat's e…

Chinese espionage campaign targeted House staffers ahead of trade talks
Ethical hackers uncover catastrophic flaws in restaurant chain's platforms, Salesloft Drift hack began last March, Customer data stolen in Wealthsimple breach, Trump to formally nominate Harman for NSA/Cybercom slot, Don't trust XChat's encryption, Czech Republic warns of Chinese tech, much more

Fact Check: Video Game Footage Does NOT Show Actual Downing Of Israeli Plane -- Footage NOT Released by Iran: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/fact-check-video-game-footage.html

Apparently there is a video of me on
https://www.instagram.com/sykkelmafiaen_/
with the princess lamplighter but I cannot see it because I am constantly asked to login. Can anyone find me a direct link?

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 607333 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

i'm gonna have to check this out! Ferlinghetti's the coolest, a true local legend
https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/new-legion-of-honor-show-celebrates-ferlinghettis-printmaking/

"check matrix" "hop on vc" no bitch let's hop on https://ynoproject.net and meet up on mars

Snug Safety - Free Daily Check in service for seniors living alone
https://www.snugsafe.com/

thanks everyone for impromptu donations, all is good again, that was a bunch of pleasant emails to wake up to 🙏❤️
it looks like that the refunds were caused by GitHub, NOT Thanks.dev. They apparently double-charged them first & then screwed up the refunds: {{ COPILOT_JOKE }}
Original warning stands: check your balances! Ali mentioned GHS refunded some people more than they ever got – so make sure to reach out to GHS if something is wonky.

OPNsense semi-annual upgrade (25.1 to 25.7) went successfully. Some anecdotal observations:
1. When I manually ran firmware update, it went from 25.1.11 to 25.1.12 (while the most recent version is 25.7.1)
2. Ran firmware check again, upgraded from 25.1.12 to 25.7
3. After booting up, I had to run another firmware check, to go from 25.7 to 25.7.1
Step 1 is understandable and is the typical behaviour of OPNsense. I don't know if step 2 and 3 are necessary. Maybe the …

Anubis verifies that any visitor to a site is a human using a browser as opposed to a bot.
🍿One of the ways it does this is by making the browser do a type of cryptographic math with JavaScript or other subtle checks that browsers do by default but bots have to be explicitly programmed to do.
This check is invisible to the user, and most browsers since 2022 are able to complete this test.
In theory, bot scrapers could pretend to be users with browsers as well, but the ad…

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

We’ve just dropped the first draft agenda for @… ! The conference is taking place over 4 days (from Tuesday 21st October 2025 until the 24th October 2025)
This year’s edition is going to be wild, expect mind-blowing talks, hands-on workshops, extra CTF challenges during the conference, and plenty of fun activities.
Check it out and start planning yo…

I also boosted the #bunnyvideo on the trampolin. It's fake:
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/07/fact-check-bunnies-trampoline-video.html

Let's check in on the "Keep Boards Alive" campaign.
They have closed the main thread. It went very much off track with little to no moderation and devolved into flinging insults at each other.
* 62 days to go.
* 757 subscribers out of 2000 (Up from 643 on August 19th)
* €28,508 out of €100,000 (This is just their yearly expenses. This excludes the €200K debt that also has to be paid off)
Mike and Odhran are seemingly active, but not posting a lot.…

MCPoison – a vulnerability in the Cursor IDE allows arbitrary code to be executed via MCP: https://research.checkpoint.com/2025/cursor-vulnerability-mcpoison/
Cursor fixed the vulnerability on 29 July with version 1.3. Users should update to this version. We als…

Cursor IDE's MCP Vulnerability - Check Point Research
Identified Cursor IDE's vulnerability allows attackers to modify MCP configuration files after its one-time approval system

“Check / Uncheck all in a Table”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/check-uncheck-all-in-a-table.html
TL;DR: Unless you have user testing results saying otherwise, maybe put a check-all checkbox outside the table.
The rest of this thread ha…

Check / Uncheck all in a Table
TL;DR: Unless you have user testing results saying otherwise, maybe put a check-all checkbox outside the table. The rest of this post is an awkward mash-up of my posts Don’t Turn a Table into an ARIA Grid Just for a Clickable Row and Check-All / Expand-All Controls with a little…

I've just heard of a construction worker who assumed that a wall is level… because the level fitted straight to it. Apparently he didn't know how to check whether it's vertically level.
#Poland

Now that my game released on steam, I am looking for a new long term opportunity to work as a game designer.
If you need a (freelance) Game designer, hit me up!
here you can see my cool stuff
http://dominik-dammer.de/

Dominik Dammer - Game Designer & Philosopher
Check out my portfolio and other work. Or just get to know me!

I don’t remember this episode of The Archers???
https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/114997281185597838

:mastodon: Mastodon version 4.4.0 has been released!
The update includes many new features, changes and bug fixes.
For more information, check out the blog posts & detailed changelog on GitHub.
Update steps can be found at the end of the changelog.
UPDATE: Mastodon 4.4.1 has been released. It addresses some issues in version 4.4.0.
➡️

Mastodon 4.4
Improved profile features, enhanced list management, refreshed navigation, and the initial part of our Quote Posts implementation. All of these and more, in our latest release.

One hour left until I check out of work - silently counting down 60, 59 ... perhaps time to take a break and make coffee?

The nyu #mychart #biometrics #amazon thing is so scummy. You show up for a doctor appt, you try to check in at a kiosk.. You go through a few screens, then it asks you to sign up with no …

WARNING: #SpamAssassin will take pathologically long times to check pathological message content. <sigh>
There are 2 views on this. One is that it is best to train/test with such 'spicy ham' messages because that makes SA less likely to mark them as spam. My view is that sysadmins handle such pathological mail in such tiny volumes that teaching SA to treat it nicely is a wa…

So, if you want to start qBittorrent hidden in the system tray (v5.1.2, KDE), you must:
* check "Minimise qBittorrent to notification area" in Settings/Behaviour (which, oddly, doesn't hide it from the taskbar)
* open ~/config/qbittorrent/qBittorrent.conf and set StartUpWindowState to Minimized

I’m always digging through http://schizoid.in to find new psytrance gems, and I just found some seriously powerful psytrance that hit me in a way I haven’t felt for ages, it’s like it opened my mind and took me to a whole new level.
You can check it out on YouTube and Bandcamp:

Mad Tribe - Spaced Ou…

Hello @…, this is there for a few days now. Can you please add our server to the pixelfed directory?
server is punk.photos
thanks in advance!
#pixelfed #pixelfedadmin

😼 Not posting photos today because (1) I'm still busy developing photos from a basketball double-header and (2) posted a stick of old cat photos for International Cat Day from here to my 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 socials which you might want to check out: https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social

»Reality check: Microsoft Azure CTO pushes back on AI vibe coding hype, sees 'upper limit'«
Blind trust is never good, but unfortunately too many people are mentally blind.
🧑‍💻 https://www.geekwire.com/2025/reality-chec

fact check AI at SemEval-2025 Task 7: Multilingual and Crosslingual Fact-checked Claim Retrieval
Pranshu Rastogi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03475 https://a…

fact check AI at SemEval-2025 Task 7: Multilingual and Crosslingual Fact-checked Claim Retrieval
SemEval-2025 Task 7: Multilingual and Crosslingual Fact-Checked Claim Retrieval is approached as a Learning-to-Rank task using a bi-encoder model fine-tuned from a pre-trained transformer optimized for sentence similarity. Training used both the source languages and their English translations for multilingual retrieval and only English translations for cross-lingual retrieval. Using lightweight models with fewer than 500M parameters and training on Kaggle T4 GPUs, the method achieved 92% Succes…

So the LLM synthesizes a result from various sources (that may be made up or misquoted) and then you "double-check" the sources?
Sounds like the LLM is using you as research assistant.

I read this just to check they're not adding an LLM to bash.
Yet.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/bash-5-3-new-features

Bash 5.3 Release Adds 'Significant' New Features
A new version of the GNU project's Bourne Again SHell (better known to most as Bash) has been released with improvements and new features.

Bills' shocking comeback ends this 717-game losing streak by NFL teams, plus 16 more wild stats from Week 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bills-s

Check this out! https://andrawatkins.substack.com/?r=jiw37&utm_campaign=referrals-subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web

For Such a Time as This | Andra Watkins | Substack
A guide to decode the country America has chosen to be. Click to read For Such a Time as This, by Andra Watkins, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

A Note on Runtime Verification of Concurrent Systems
Martin Leucker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04830 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04830…

A Note on Runtime Verification of Concurrent Systems
To maximize the information gained from a single execution when verifying a concurrent system, one can derive all concurrency-aware equivalent executions and check them against linear specifications. This paper offers an alternative perspective on verification of concurrent systems by leveraging trace-based logics rather than sequence-based formalisms. Linear Temporal Logic over Mazurkiewicz Traces (LTrL) operates on partial-order representations of executions, meaning that once a single execut…

If you took off time last week, you should check out today's Metacurity, which succinctly recaps the most critical infosec developments you might have missed, including
--IT giant Ingram Micro's systems shut down after SafePay ransomware attack
--Qantas is talking with threat actor after attack,
--Android spyware flaw exposes thousands of customers,
--Ransomware negotiator may have struck deals with hackers,
--US sanctions bulletproof hoster,
--US g…

IT giant Ingram Micro's systems shut down after SafePay ransomware attack
Qantas is talking with threat actor after attack, Android spyware flaw exposes thousands of customers, Ransomware negotiator may have struck deals with hackers, US sanctions bulletproof hoster, US goes after DRPK "IT worker" program, A racist hacked Columbia and the NYT shamed itself, much more

I hereby propose a new service: Microsoft Authenticator As A Service, or MSAaaS for short. This service will provide your password, deal with expired sessions, re-enter your password if that is apparently randomly needed, it will check for the MFA token, acknowledge it and enter the MFA token back into the service which created it in the first place.
https:…

How to tell a vibe coder of lying when they say they check their code.
People who will admit to using LLMs to write code will usually claim that they "carefully check" the output since we all know that LLM code has a lot of errors in it. This is insufficient to address several problems that LLMs cause, including labor issues, digital commons stress/pollution, license violation, and environmental issues, but at least it's they are checking their code carefully we shouldn't assume that it's any worse quality-wise than human-authored code, right?
Well, from principles alone we can expect it to be worse, since checking code the AI wrote is a much more boring task than writing code yourself, so anyone who has ever studied human-computer interaction even a little bit can predict people will quickly slack off, stating to trust the AI way too much, because it's less work. I'm a different domain, the journalist who published an entire "summer reading list" full of nonexistent titles is a great example of this. I'm sure he also intended to carefully check the AI output, but then got lazy. Clearly he did not have a good grasp of the likely failure modes of the tool he was using.
But for vibe coders, there's one easy tell we can look for, at least in some cases: coding in Python without type hints. To be clear, this doesn't apply to novice coders, who might not be aware that type hints are an option. But any serious Python software engineer, whether they used type hints before or not, would know that they're an option. And if you know they're an option, you also know they're an excellent tool for catching code defects, with a very low effort:reward ratio, especially if we assume an LLM generates them. Of the cases where adding types requires any thought at all, 95% of them offer chances to improve your code design and make it more robust. Knowing about but not using type hints in Python is a great sign that you don't care very much about code quality. That's totally fine in many cases: I've got a few demos or jam games in Python with no type hints, and it's okay that they're buggy. I was never going to debug them to a polished level anyways. But if we're talking about a vibe coder who claims that they're taking extra care to check for the (frequent) LLM-induced errors, that's not the situation.
Note that this shouldn't be read as an endorsement of vibe coding for demos or other rough-is-acceptable code: the other ethical issues I skipped past at the start still make it unethical to use in all but a few cases (for example, I have my students use it for a single assignment so they can see for themselves how it's not all it's cracked up to be, and even then they have an option to observe a pre-recorded prompt session instead).

Wife put some of those long skinny ice pop things in the freezer (in a vertical orientation between the wires of the shelf) since it was supposed to be hot.
This morning we found none of them had frozen. After a quick sanity check to make sure the freezer was working and everything else was cold, we grabbed one and inspected it. After shaking it rapidly froze in front of us, with fine grained crystals expanding out in all directions from many nucleation sites (probably bubbles from sha…

Looks like I have this to investigate now because a warning is appearing on my admin dashboard. Whatever the problem is seems to affect Elasticsearch 7.17.23 and Mastodon 4.4.2 , because this never appeared on Mastodon 4.3.x and the suggested command only returns this error:
[400] {"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"unknown setting [index.analysis] please check that any required plugins are installed, or check the breaking changes documentation for removed settings"}],"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"unknown setting [index.analysis] please check that any required plugins are installed, or check the breaking changes documentation for removed settings"},"status":400}
#MastoAdmin

just noticed that my #Facebook account has not been deleted.
Sent a delete request .. AGAIN and set a reminder for in 30 days to check. This is really annoying.

Shoes: 'About dang time!' TSA quietly removes long-reviled security check - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/tsa/

Learning Variable Node Selection for Improved Multi-Round Belief Propagation Decoding
Ahmad Ismail, Rapha\"el Le Bidan, Elsa Dupraz, Charbel Abdel Nour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03461

Learning Variable Node Selection for Improved Multi-Round Belief Propagation Decoding
Error correction at short blocklengths remains a challenge for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, as belief propagation (BP) decoding is suboptimal compared to maximum-likelihood decoding (MLD). While BP rarely makes errors, it often fails to converge due to a small number of problematic, erroneous variable nodes (VNs). Multi-round BP (MRBP) decoding improves performance by identifying and perturbing these VNs, enabling BP to succeed in subsequent decoding attempts. However, existing heuris…

Folks, if you see a link to Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org) on a profile, make sure that the link has the verification badge (in the apps) or is green with a check mark (on the web app).
So, in other words, please verify that the link is actually verified.
More info on how verification works on Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/ve…

Verification
Learn how to get verified on Mastodon

Are other academic journals seeing an uptick in obvious spam submissions? Over the past couple of years, we've received an increasing number of obviously irrelevant submissions - articles that have nothing to do with our focus. What's happening here? People trying to check some box for a performance review?
#academia

So so, nun hab ich den BER runway (🛫Sicherheitskontrolle-Zeitfenster) gebucht, aber Check-In bei Eurowings geht erst morgen ab 9🕘 für den Flug ab Sonntag, mhh.
#Reisefieber 🇬🇷🏝️🏖️

Credit to "SykkelMafiaen" for this. It is hosted on Instagram but given many here are adverse to that site I do not feel too bad re-hosting. Plus it is a video of me. 🤷
Also thanks to @… for tracking it down.

So, um, I don't remember SMB3 looking like this. Time to pull a 68pF capacitor and check to see if the Everdrive N8 has a firmware update available as I'm about 100% sure this is an MMC3 mapper issue.
#nes #nintendo

"il faut porter plainte" - check
"il faut aller en Justice" - check
"Il faut parler" - check
Oui, mais Š quel prix, avec quels moyens ?
Appel Š la Création d’un Fonds de Dotation pour l’Aide aux Victimes d’Abus https://chardo…

Appel à la Création d'un Fonds de Dotation pour l’Aide aux Victimes d’Abus
Chaque jour, des victimes d'abus traversent un parcours semé d'obstacles pour accéder à la justice et reconstruire leur vie. Dans les affaires d’a ...

Is there a way to check programmatically, if a #HomeAssistant integration is in an error state?
I have the situation where an integration fails if the container is restarted or docker gets an update but not always. A notification that this integration is down would be very helpful.

A note on finding long directed cycles above the minimum degree bound in 2-connected digraphs
Jadwiga Czy\.zewska, Marcin Pilipczuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03807

A note on finding long directed cycles above the minimum degree bound in 2-connected digraphs
For a directed graph $G$, let $\mathrm{mindeg}(G)$ be the minimum among in-degrees and out-degrees of all vertices of $G$. It is easy to see that $G$ contains a directed cycle of length at least $\mathrm{mindeg}(G)+1$. In this note, we show that, even if $G$ is $2$-connected, it is NP-hard to check if $G$ contains a cycle of length at least $\mathrm{mindeg}(G)+3$. This is in contrast with recent algorithmic results of Fomin, Golovach, Sagunov, and Simonov [SODA 2022] for analogous questions in …

The US holiday is a memory now, so time to check out today's Metacurity to get briefed on the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Italian cops arrest FBI-wanted Chinese hacker who tried to steal COVID-19 vaccine
--Brazilian cops bust IT worker connected to $100m banking systems hack,
--Call of Duty: WWII yanked offline after RCE rumors,
--OpenAI beefs up corporate spying protections,
--DragonForce battles RansomHub,
--Cambod…

Italian cops arrest FBI-wanted Chinese hacker who tried to steal the COVID-19 vaccine
Brazilian cops bust IT worker connected to $100m banking systems hack, Call of Duty: WWII yanked offline after RCE rumors, OpenAI beefs up corporate spying protections, DragonForce battles RansomHub, Cambodia accuses Thai hackers of attacks, Trump's tax bill contains cyber money, much more

Inner-Strength Check

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Always good to get a reality check. At the same time good to remember the data collection of this trial was from October 2024 to Decembre 2024. Models have improved since then, reasoning, more tool use etc.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m365_copilot_uk_government/

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

Optimizing Age of Trust and Throughput in Multi-Hop UAV-Aided IoT Networks
Yizhou Luo, Kwan-Wu Chin, Ruyi Guan, Xi Xiao, Caimeng Wang, Jingyin Feng, Tengjiao He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03950

Optimizing Age of Trust and Throughput in Multi-Hop UAV-Aided IoT Networks
Devices operating in Internet of Things (IoT) networks may be deployed across vast geographical areas and interconnected via multi-hop communications. Further, they may be unguarded. This makes them vulnerable to attacks and motivates operators to check on devices frequently. To this end, we propose and study an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-aided attestation framework for use in IoT networks with a charging station powered by solar. A key challenge is optimizing the trajectory of the UAV to en…

I’ve become an old Korean lady. I periodically get up from my chair to check on the rice in my rice cooker, fluffing it to ensure it’s ready for dinner 8 hours from now.

I'm so glad Toby Fox is just adding sprites sequentially to new Deltarune chapters, this way I can easily check which ones are new. Didn't really feel like comparing hundreds of sprites to see which ones I need to add to my website :neofox_woozy:

@… I just came across this and thought I’d check with you to see if it’s accurate, instead of just shitposting it like I usually do with stuff.

Our spotlight this week lands on a track from the debut album of '70s power pop trailblazers Big Star ... melodic, timeless, and criminally overlooked.
Check it out and see what we had to say about the track and the legendary band behind it. And don't forget to follow us for your weekly dose of #rock and #metal

Big Star - The Ballad of El Goodo
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

Check out the playlist for this week’s episode of @… radio
It contains links to #Accordion artists up on #bandcamp this

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-03: Jo Ann Castle’s Birthday Bandcamp Friday
Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir program, celebrating the occasion of Jo Ann Castle’s birthday, is another look into the catalogue of squeezy music a…

Check Dein Recht - Was darf ich, was nicht? Rechtskunde für Schüler #News #Nachrichten

Dallas Cowboys Game Log https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/dallas-cowboys-team-game-log

I very rarely check my facebook account these days.
And it's even rarer to find there anything remotely interesting or shareable.
It happened today, though.

Behind every closed door potentially lies a rotting corpse!
... so you gotta break open the door to check.

Tinder is mandating new users in California verify their profiles using facial recognition technology starting June 30 in a bid to reduce impersonation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/30/tinder-face-check-safety

Exclusive: Tinder to require Face Check for new users in California
The video selfie feature aims to curb impersonation.

The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you've never heard this sort of music before. The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise…

We're rounding the bend on Hacker Summer Camp, so check out today's Metacurity for the infosec developments you should know, including
--CISA orders agencies to deal with Microsoft Exchange fixes by Monday,
--Aussie gov't sues Optus for privacy violations,
--US confirms BlackSuit takedown,
--US Courts vows to take action in wake of widespread breach,
--Samourai Wallet founders plead guilty,
--White hat hackers seek to help small water systems,

CISA orders agencies to deal with Microsoft Exchange fixes by Monday
Aussie gov't sues Optus for privacy violations, US confirms BlackSuit takedown, US Courts vows to take action in wake of widespread breach, Samourai Wallet founders plead guilty, White hat hackers seek to help small water systems, Bouygues Telecom suffers big breach, much more

It’s weird that people continue to trust and media continues to fawn over such a demonstrably amoral company.
“Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off”
https://www.zdnet.com/article/meta-might-b

Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off
Some Facebook users have noticed new settings that let Meta analyze and retain your phone's photos. Yes, you read that right.

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Fact Check: No Proof For Zelenskyy $1.2B Real Estate Empire In 'London Telegraph' Story -- New Website Using Stolen Profile Picture: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/fact-check-no-proof-for.html

Long Polar vs. LDPC Codes under Complexity-Constrained Decoding
Felix Krieg, Marvin R\"ubenacke, Andreas Zunker, Stephan ten Brink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05485 https://…

Long Polar vs. LDPC Codes under Complexity-Constrained Decoding
The prevailing opinion in industry and academia is that polar codes are competitive for short code lengths, but can no longer keep up with low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes as block length increases. This view is typically based on the assumption that LDPC codes can be decoded with a large number of belief propagation (BP) iterations. However, in practice, the number of iterations may be rather limited due to latency and complexity constraints. In this paper, we show that for a similar numb…

We are now in the weeds on Hacker Summer Camp, so cut through the clutter and check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Microsoft, CISA warn of critical on-prem exchange flaw,
--Poisoned Google invite can exploit Gemini,
--OpenAI Connectors' weakness can extract info from Google Drive accounts,
--Sweeping intrusion breached US legal filing system,
--Deibert warns of tech fascism,
--NIST with…

Microsoft, CISA warn of critical on-prem exchange flaw
Poisoned Google invite can exploit Gemini, OpenAI Connectors' weakness can extract info from Google Drive accounts, Sweeping intrusion breached US legal filing system, Deibert warns of tech fascism, NIST withheld AI report due to Trump fears, Air France and KLM hit by cyberattacks, much more

Fact check: Trump lies again about gas prices, falsely claiming five states are at $1.99 (Daniel Dale/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/02/politics/fact-check-trump-gas-prices
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p100#a250702p100

I run a gloriously dysfunctional website over at Codeberg, where the HTML cries itself to sleep every night:
You can check it out here: #WebsiteDevelopment…

#SGDQ2025 starts today!
For those who haven't heard of it, it's a charity marathon steam (plus in-person event for many of the runners) that raises money for Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders). Some of the best runners in the world speedrun games for an entire week, and while there's sometimes cringey moments, it's overall an LBGTQ-inclusive space with a thoughtful core team, and there are always going to be a ton of epic and/or hilarious moments throughout the week.
Check out the schedule page to see if any games you love are on it, and you can always catch VODs on YouTube after the fact if you miss something good.
I was going to post some games I'm looking forward to, but it seems like the schedule & main page are down right now. Hope it's not a DDoS...
#SGDQ #GDQ

'Buy American' Knife Maker Gets Harsh Reality Check On Trump's Tariffs | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/08/buy-american-knife-maker-gets-realty-check

Solid advice for everyone, especially in the age of Big Tech. https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/15218642

Check out the playlist for this week’s episode of @… radio
It contains links to #Accordion artists up on #bandcamp this

Reality Check With Tom B. Rich
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods …

Trump’s lying has always been notable for its audacity
– his willingness to make obviously untrue claims that can be very quickly debunked.
But it has also been distinguished by its repetitiveness
– his unwillingness to stop deploying an exaggerated statistic, baseless accusation or fictional tale after months or even years of debunkings.

Fact check: 10 debunked lies Donald Trump has repeated in the last week alone
The president’s recent public remarks have featured many old lies. In the interest of not letting them go uncorrected, here is a look at 10 debunked claims he repeated over the past week alone.

Dallas Cowboys Player News https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/dallas-cowboys-team-player-news

If your initial thought on reading about the "Initial Teaching Alphabet" is to check on Unicode status, please see: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/25010-script-wg-report.pdf

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Fighter Jet Being Shot Down During Air Combat In Thailand-Cambodia Conflict: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/fact-check-video-does-not.html

Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement. (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/04/meta-fact-check-community-notes-test-facebook-instagram/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU0MjgwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU1NjYyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTQyODAwMDAsImp0aSI6Ijc5Mjk0ZjQ5LTdiMmMtNGUyNi04ZjAwLWQyNGU0M2ZiYmY4MiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjUvMDgvMDQvbWV0YS1mYWN0LWNoZWNrLWNvbW11bml0eS1ub3Rlcy10ZXN0LWZhY2Vib29rLWluc3RhZ3JhbS8ifQ.v0uHnQ6Wabd7CtTYp9BeKrBVnT_2LK141_7eHC_ksgw&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p97#a250804p97

Not sure if you knew, but you can actually make a #Portfolio on #Pixelfed. I just updated mine if you want to check it out.
https://

Hands-on with ChatGPT Agent: combines OpenAI's Operator and deep research tools and is incredibly simple to use, but less customizable than Claude Code (Dan Shipper/Every)
https://every.to/vibe-check/vibe-check-openai-enters-the-browser-wars-with-…

Vibe Check: OpenAI Enters the Browser Wars With ChatGPT Agent
It’s launching today! Here’s our day-zero, hands-on report.

Fact Check: Zelenskyy Did NOT Comment On Meeting With Trump By Saying That 'Trump Doesn't Really Want' Ceasefire Between Ukraine And Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/fact-check-zelenskyy-did-not.html

‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ claims he is unable to watch p*rn as ‘new age check system mistakes his ink for a mask’
https://needtoknow.co.uk/2025/07/30/britains-most-tattooed-man-claims-he-i…

‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ claims he is unable to watch p*rn as 'new age check system mistakes his ink for a mask' | Need To Know
Britain’s most tattooed man says new UK age checks block him from p*rn sites as facial recognition mistakes his tattoos for a mask, calling the tech discriminatory.

A look at the tensions between Meta, Apple, and Google on whether apps or app stores should check if a user is a minor, as states work on age verification bills (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Clashes With Apple, Google Over Age Check Legislation
The biggest tech companies are warring over who’s responsible for children’s safety online, with billions of dollars in fines on the line as states rapidly pass conflicting laws requiring companies to verify users’ ages.

Check out today's Metacurity before you leave for the weekend for the top infosec developments you should know, including
--Anthropic blocks Chinese firms citing national security,
--Texas AG sues PowerSchool over breach,
--Qantas CEO takes a pay hit over breach,
--Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office hit by ransomware,
--Bridgestone confirms cyberattack,
--Cloudflare blocked 11.5 Tbps DDoS attack,
--Threat actors bypass Grok's restrictions,

Anthropic blocks Chinese firms citing national security
Texas AG sues PowerSchool over breach, Qantas CEO takes a pay hit over breach, Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office hit by ransomware, Bridgestone confirms cyberattack, Cloudflare blocked 11.5 Tbps DDoS attack, Threat actors bypass Grok's restrictions, much more

Check out today's Metacurity for a ton of critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--US Senate confirms Cairncross as National Cyber Director,
--Dutch Caribbean offices hit by cyberattacks,
--SharePoint was supported by Chinese engineers,
--Hackers stole crypto now worth $14.5b from LuBain in 2020,
--CISA and USCG found a bunch of OT misconfigs,
--CISA unveils malware analysis platform Thorium,
--DHS to give…

US Senate confirms Cairncross as National Cyber Director
Dutch Caribbean offices hit by cyberattacks, SharePoint was supported by Chinese engineers, Hackers stole crypto now worth $14.5b from LuBain in 2020, CISA and USCG found a bunch of OT misconfigs, CISA unveils malware analysis platform Thorium, DHS to give $100m for state and local cyber, much more