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Taiwan says China's cyberattacks on its hospitals, banks, energy, and other infrastructure rose 6% YoY in 2025 to an average of 2.63M attacks a day (Yimou Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chines

#Mural na Gminnym Ośrodku Kultury w Lipnie, #Wielkopolska.
Wybaczcie kiepski kąt, ale oczywiście na wprost musiał być zastawiony jaśnie samochodem.
#Lipno

I measured an original working Yamaha MAP Sensor (intake air pressure) to get the characteristic curve. It is the 1WS-82380-00-00, used in a huge number of bike models like MT/FZ 07, R7, Fazer FZ1 and many more.
If you decide to try a chinese copy I recommend to check the output voltage depending on the negative air pressure. My 7$ sensor from AliExpress is doing plain crap. Optically identical sensors might have complete different characteristics :yay:

Happy New Year, y'all!
I wanted to share some download codes, in the off chance anyone's interested in my last E.P.
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Tango corrupti du RN. Il semble que c'est systémique tellment y a d'affaires et de condamnations. Y a pas un journaliste qui fait un peu la statistique pour l'argumentaire politique?
https://www.franceinfo.fr/politique/le-mai

Le maire d'Orange, Yann Bompard, condamné à cinq ans d'inéligibilité
Dans son réquisitoire, le parquet avait demandé une peine de 24 mois de prison avec sursis et cinq ans d'inéligibilité, ainsi que 15 000 euros d'amende.

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📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Pozdrawiamy Ilonę ze Szczecina, co to specjalnie przyjechała do Opola, żeby się wypierniczyć. Jeżdżenie bez twarzy musi być trudne.
#Opole, droga rowerowa wzdłuż Odry, przy ul. Świętego Jacka.
https://www.…

Inspections by Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) of five Chinese generative AI apps -- Deepseek, Doubao (豆包), Yiyan (文心一言), Tongyi (通義千問), and Yuanbao (騰訊元寶) -- found violations of users' communication security across several indicators.
https://focustaiwan.tw/cross-strait/2025…

Taiwan warns of biases, data breach in Deepseek, other Chinese AI - Focus Taiwan
The National Security Bureau (NSB) has urged Taiwanese people to be on alert when using Chinese generative artificial intelligence (AI) language models due to potential security breaches and the spread of "disinformation" following recent inspections of five such apps.

Multi-port programmable silicon photonics using low-loss phase change material Sb$_2$Se$_3$
Thomas W. Radford, Idris A Ajia, Latif Rozaqi, Priya Deoli, Xingzhao Yan, Mehdi Banakar, David J Thomson, Ioannis Zeimpekis, Alberto Politi, Otto L. Muskens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18205 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18205 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18205
arXiv:2511.18205v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reconfigurable photonic devices are rapidly emerging as a cornerstone of next generation optical technologies, with wide ranging applications in quantum simulation, neuromorphic computing, and large-scale photonic processors. A central challenge in this field is identifying an optimal platform to enable compact, efficient, and scalable reconfigurability. Optical phase-change materials (PCMs) offer a compelling solution by enabling non-volatile, reversible tuning of optical properties, compatible with a wide range of device platforms and current CMOS technologies. In particular, antimony tri-selenide ($\text{Sb}_{2}\text{Se}_{3}$) stands out for its ultra low-loss characteristics at telecommunication wavelengths and its reversible switching. In this work, we present an experimental platform capable of encoding multi-port operations onto the transmission matrix of a compact multimode interferometer architecture on standard 220~nm silicon photonics using \textit{in-silico} designed digital patterns. The multi-port devices are clad with a thin film of $\text{Sb}_{2}\text{Se}_{3}$, which can be optically addressed using direct laser writing to provide local perturbations to the refractive index. A range of multi-port geometries from 2$\times$2 up to 5$\times$5 couplers are demonstrated, achieving simultaneous control of up to 25 matrix elements with programming accuracy of 90% relative to simulated patterns. Patterned devices remain stable with consistent optical performance across the C-band wavelengths. Our work establishes a pathway towards the development of large scale PCM-based reconfigurable multi-port devices which will allow implementing matrix operations on three orders of magnitude smaller areas than interferometer meshes.
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The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecurity Act to phase out equipment from high-risk suppliers in critical sectors, a move criticized by Huawei (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel