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#TGIQF: Das Monkey-Island-Quiz für Piratenanwärter
Vor 35 Jahren erschien "The Secret of Monkey Island" und gilt bis heute als eines der witzigsten Point-and-Click-Adventures. Bestehen Sie die Anwärterfragen?

"Vogelgrippe in Entenhausen": Disney veröffentlicht erstmals "Trauriges Taschenbuch"
https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/hVR569XapuQ-VQ-ac3zf9Pscj1ExZrij

"Vogelgrippe in Entenhausen": Disney veröffentlicht erstmals "Trauriges Taschenbuch"
Berlin (dpo) - Mutiger Aktualitätsbezug oder doch zu makaber? Bei der neuesten Ausgabe der Reihe "Disney Lustiges Taschenbuch" mi...

been quite enjoying @…'s & @…'s respective show-by-show rundowns of #BobDylan &

Flagging Down the Double E's | Ray Padgett | Substack
Bob Dylan concerts throughout history. Click to read Flagging Down the Double E's, by Ray Padgett, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

from my link log —
Activity Monitor anatomy: memory accounting on Mac OS.
https://www.bazhenov.me/posts/activity-monitor-anatomy/
saved 2025-07-30

Interesting, very interesting. Strange.
RT: @FraserNelson
Starmer’s digital ID plan is in meltdown.
The public are against it, and companies like Palantir see rumours of their involvement as a reputational risk.
Unusual for a CEO [note his last name] to disavow the project on ethical and democratic grounds. Quite an interview.

After the 2020 Alameda fire that that destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in southern Oregon, locals, Tribal leaders, and restoration experts uncovered—and revived—a network of hidden springs.
From The Oregonian
via Sightline
https://sig…

Oregon’s Miracle Mile: How a devastating wildfire led to environmental restoration
A wildfire burned away invasive blackberry bushes and revealed 16 streams that benefit wildlife.

3-d scan of a chicken statue a little east of the Ithaca Commons
#photo

Chicken statue near Ithaca Commons
View this scan by @UP8 in 3D on Scaniverse.

WhatsApp fixed a zero-click bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used, alongside a now-fixed Apple flaw, to hack into devices of "specific targeted users" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/what…

WhatsApp fixes 'zero-click' bug used to hack Apple users with spyware | TechCrunch
A spyware vendor was behind a recent campaign that abused a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deliver an exploit capable of hacking into iPhones and Macs.

Good job now peertube looks shit on mobile devices.
I need to call ublock origin to make it usable. Make these element go away if I don't click them after sometime or make them smaller.
Open in app ? Seriously?
@… #peertube

Diffusion-based Multi-modal Synergy Interest Network for Click-through Rate Prediction
Xiaoxi Cui, Weihai Lu, Yu Tong, Yiheng Li, Zhejun Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21460 ht…

Diffusion-based Multi-modal Synergy Interest Network for Click-through Rate Prediction
In click-through rate prediction, click-through rate prediction is used to model users' interests. However, most of the existing CTR prediction methods are mainly based on the ID modality. As a result, they are unable to comprehensively model users' multi-modal preferences. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce multi-modal CTR prediction. Although it seems appealing to directly apply the existing multi-modal fusion methods to click-through rate prediction models, these methods (1) fail to eff…

Note to Web builders: One of the tiny things I did while wiring Pagefind into the blog was arrange, when you pop open the search field, that that the input has focus so you can start typing. There are plenty of sites I visit where the obvious thing you want to do is type into a search field, but you have to click first, which is just wrong. It’s not hard with basic JavaScript and you don’t need jQuery or anything.

@… https://levidayan.substack.com

Unknown Rhythms | Levi Dayan | Substack
words on experimental/improvised/underground music. Click to read Unknown Rhythms, by Levi Dayan, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

@… it seems on iOS 26.1 public beta videos often don’t seem to play. I see the preview in the timeline but when I click and open them, they stop playing, and they never load no matter what I do. Is that a known bug.

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Operant AI reveals Shadow Escape, a zero-click attack using the MCP flaw in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to secretly steal trillions of SSNs and financial data. Traditional security is blind to this new AI threat.
😶‍🌫️ https://

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

Why does all #software insist on being your buddy these days?
Can we go back to the old days where instead of trying to slide into your DMs, and be your best frend, software was a recalcitrant old hag in a back alley who spat out an obscure error code that at least when you looked it up in a knowledge base told you exactly what you had done wrong and what, if anything, you could do about it? This…

When I was little, I felt there was something massive and cosmic about the Hampster Dance song, like a hymn still sung centuries later, like the seasonal chants of an uncontacted tribe. My first exposure to it was its use in the Scratch platformer series "Cube World", this game where important characters go to space and tragically die, this game that no longer functions due to all the updates since Scratch 1.4.

Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Aim Labs reported CVE-2025-32711 against Microsoft 365 Copilot back in January, and the fix is now rolled out.
This is an extended variant of the prompt injection exfiltration attacks we've seen in a dozen different products already:
an attacker gets malicious instructions into an LLM system which cause it to access private data and then embed that in …

#Accessibility modelers using #r5r #rstats, check this GUI for playing around with R5 network. If many people find it useful, I would get signal if I should invest any more free time into it.

Love it when companies make constant changes to their app so any form of muscle memory you may have had before when clicking something makes you click the wrong thing, again and again, sending you off to some new, weird area of the app they're trying to force in front of your eyeballs.
Thank you for that, companies. How else would I stay annoyed and on my toes

AppCopilot: Toward General, Accurate, Long-Horizon, and Efficient Mobile Agent
Jingru Fan, Yufan Dang, Jingyao Wu, Huatao Li, Runde Yang, Xiyuan Yang, Yuheng Wang, Zhong Zhang, Yaxi Lu, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Dahai Li, Chen Qian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02444

AppCopilot: Toward General, Accurate, Long-Horizon, and Efficient Mobile Agent
With the raid evolution of large language models and multimodal foundation models, the mobile-agent landscape has proliferated without converging on the fundamental challenges. This paper identifies four core problems that must be solved for mobile agents to deliver practical, scalable impact: (1) generalization across tasks, modalities, apps, and devices; (2) accuracy, specifically precise on-screen interaction and click targeting; (3) long-horizon capability for sustained, multi-step goals; a…

So my mom's setting up a non-profit, and she called me asking for help w/ domain registration. After getting her set up on namecheap, I was asking her what kind of website she was going to have, and she showed me a local competing NGO's site. "But it won't be this fancy, I don't think we can afford that."
So I click view-source on the website, and.. it's a Wordpress site with a free theme. I laughed.

Hmm random Phanpy mention here 👀 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/36266#issuecomment-3339116300

1-click boosting · Issue #36266 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch We've recently introduced a change to the boosting experience on on recent nightly versions (which have been deployed on Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online), wherein the Boost icon button op...

Mein #Grundeinkommen verlost am 15.10., 20:15 wieder 5 realistische und 20 utopische #BGE. ht…

Phase error estimation for passive detection setups with imperfections and memory effects
Zhiyao Wang, Devashish Tupkary, Shlok Nahar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21486 https://…

Phase error estimation for passive detection setups with imperfections and memory effects
We develop a generic framework to bound the phase error rate for quantum key distribution protocols using passive detection setups with imperfections and memory effects. This framework can be used in proof techniques based on the entropic uncertainty relation or phase error correction, to prove security in the finite-size regime against coherent attacks. Our framework can incorporate on-the-fly announcements of click/no-click outcomes on Bob's side. In the case of imperfections without memory e…

Last time it worked big time! Now Oldskulenerd reacted to HOME. feel like clicking like on his Patreon? Helps us this time, too!
It’s free, only a Patreon account necessary. Just click the link and click ❤️!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/142623265

DMGIN: How Multimodal LLMs Enhance Large Recommendation Models for Lifelong User Post-click Behaviors
Zhuoxing Wei, Qingchen Xie, Qi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21801 https:/…

DMGIN: How Multimodal LLMs Enhance Large Recommendation Models for Lifelong User Post-click Behaviors
Modeling user interest based on lifelong user behavior sequences is crucial for enhancing Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction. However, long post-click behavior sequences themselves pose severe performance issues: the sheer volume of data leads to high computational costs and inefficiencies in model training and inference. Traditional methods address this by introducing two-stage approaches, but this compromises model effectiveness due to incomplete utilization of the full sequence context. Mor…

Not what I originally wanted, but I do like Mastodeck.
https://mastodeck.com/
The content is wider than the screen, but does not need a horizontal scroll bar.
Scrolling occurs when I click the sidebar icon for the required column.

From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”

Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing… | Adrian Cockcroft
Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing tickets and waiting for data center ops teams to do what we need. We worked around the issues, built a new cloud native developer driven architecture and scaled Netflix at speed. At the time many people said we were crazy to run a large enterprise on cloud and would be back in datacenters when it failed. …

I am going to keep whining about this for web sites. If you show ALL products then the default for the checklist is ALL items to be marked, not like the example. Second is STOP REFRESHING EVERY TIME I CLICK. Have a nice button that says 'REFRESH'.
Why? I want to see every maker EXCEPT HP! I should not have to click 6 options and wait for a refresh for each one.
Also, give us the option to select all and select none!
Like how hard is that?

Got one of these so far. Reported and blocked, of course.
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115128134052357481

Fedi.Tips (@FediTips@social.growyourown.services)
Attached: 1 image ⚠️ More scam posts are spreading lies! (see attached screenshot below) To set the record straight: - You do not need to verify on Mastodon - No legitimate Mastodon admin will ever demand you verify - No legitimate Mastodon admin will ever ask for your bank card details - There are no monetisation features on Mastodon - There are no extra features for verified accounts on Mastodon If you see a scam post, click ⋯ on the scam post, then "Report", and select the option to…

Dear #Apple ... how did you manage to make the #Screenshot.app near impossible to capture SOUND and Video?
In the past the ability to record a video with the sound was simple click, record. It boggles the mind. What just used to be "it just works" manga it has now become... "i…

@… https://jazzrealities.substack.com

Jazz Realities | Scott | Substack
Jazz Realities is a radio show on NQRA and this is the newsletter arm where discussion may include: Cecil Taylor’s sweaters, moronic jambands, jazz tuba players, cheap reggae 45s, and new releases from small & vigorous labels in a race against the algo. Click to read Jazz Realities, by Scott, a Substack publication. Launched 8 hours ago.

PSA: there is a PyPI phishing campaign ongoing! if you see a link to hxxp://pypi-mirror[.]org do not click it.
(i think it's already blackholed but on the off chance it's not, don't touch it)

LLMs for estimating positional bias in logged interaction data
Aleksandr V. Petrov, Michael Murtagh, Karthik Nagesh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03696 https://

LLMs for estimating positional bias in logged interaction data
Recommender and search systems commonly rely on Learning To Rank models trained on logged user interactions to order items by predicted relevance. However, such interaction data is often subject to position bias, as users are more likely to click on items that appear higher in the ranking, regardless of their actual relevance. As a result, newly trained models may inherit and reinforce the biases of prior ranking models rather than genuinely improving relevance. A standard approach to mitigate …

OpenAI fixes zero-click ShadowLeak vulnerability affecting ChatGPT Deep Research agent https://therecord.media/openai-fixes-zero-click-shadowleak-vulnerability

We told you the Liberty Vans were coming. Now they're here.
Click to see the van and support our work:
https://save-am.org/vans-wrapped
Thank you.
-Steve Schmidt

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The Internet has ruined headlines.
It used to be that headlines had names. Now they carefully DO NOT on purpose, because using a generic role description is more likely to get a click-through to see who it is. The problem has bled into ledes as well, which are no longer synopses of stories but rather secondary teasers. You may be a few paragraphs into a story before you can get the information that every Journo 101 teacher would have demanded be in the first 3 lines.

From SPEC
Repair Café: Registration Open for Marpole/Oakridge Community Centre on November 8th
When: Saturday, November 8th, 9:30am-1:30pm
Where: 990 West 59th Ave, Vancouver
https://spec.us7.list-manage.com/track/c…

Marpole/Oakridge Community Centre Repair Cafe

Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using a phone, Romanian elections, VK, encryption, Edward Snowden, spring 2018 poisoning, and more (Lex Fridman)
https://lexfridman.com/pavel-durov-transcript

@… But yes this kind of stuff would be great for non-techies because they can just point and click and it remains super keyboard accessible as well. Like on this first screen. You can just press Enter to start install or click OK. Also if you want to change any of those values, you can click, or use arrow keys and Enter, or just type the numbers to go into those sections.

I love signing into Microsoft Teams so I can click the sign-in button to sign into Microsoft Azure Devops so I can click the sign-in button to sign into Microsoft Azure Devops Pipelines so I can click the

Trump un-banned the use of no-click, smartphone Spyware for use by ICE against immigrants & PROTESTORS.
☑️ICE reactivates contract with previously banned spyware vendor
https://wapo.st/4httse1
(Archive:

ICE reactivates contract with previously banned spyware vendor
The Biden administration had barred Paragon Solutions from U.S. government use after finding that the company’s software had been used unethically elsewhere.

TIL: AirPlay stopped working on macOs Tahoe.
Solution: System Settings > Wifi > click "details" next to your wifi network > select TCP/IP tab. Change "Configure IPv6" setting from Off to "Link-Local Only".
🤷‍♂️ No effing idea why.

My least favourite and most infuriating app experience?
Having a page load, see a button I want to click, right before I click the button, the app loads in more bits of information or another button and knocks the one I wanted to press to a different location, thus having me click the wrong one.

New tip for showing students how to express a Windows file location in a text format (e.g., for Stata, R, Python, Julia to read/write):
Find the folder in the File Explorer, right click on it, and click "Open in Command Window".
The prompt shows the location. All they need to do then is replace the stupid backslashes.
I think this is new in W11.

💸 “Earn €1,000 a week. 100% safe. Limited time only!”
It looks tempting. Everyone else seems to be doing it. And the inner voice says: what if it’s real?
That’s exactly how cyber criminals exploit social engineering tactics like curiosity, greed, and FOMO to get us to fall for the bait.
When something sounds too good to be true, pause & breathe. Try box breathing (4–4–4–4) to reset before you click.
🔗 Explore the 2025

What happened to Click to Cancel?
Seems shady companies fought it to a standstill. After what I just went through to cancel a Nutrisystem subscription, I’d suggest checking how easy it is to cancel before joining anywhere. Canceling Nutrisystem makes dealing with a cable company seem pleasant. https://ground.news/article/democrats-are-desperately-trying-to-revive-the-click-to-cancel-rule

iTrace: Click-Based Gaze Visualization on the Apple Vision Pro
Esra Mehmedova, Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12268 https://

iTrace: Click-Based Gaze Visualization on the Apple Vision Pro
The Apple Vision Pro is equipped with accurate eye-tracking capabilities, yet the privacy restrictions on the device prevent direct access to continuous user gaze data. This study introduces iTrace, a novel application that overcomes these limitations through click-based gaze extraction techniques, including manual methods like a pinch gesture, and automatic approaches utilizing dwell control or a gaming controller. We developed a system with a client-server architecture that captures the gaze …

Well that's different! I feel it's a little bit pushy, but different!
i mean - how often do you actually need to replace wiper blades - surely when they stop working? Just over a year seems a very short time and i hope the expensive ones we purchased last a few years at least!

Anlässlich der #BigBrotherAwards sprach #WDR5 mit @… – mit wem auch sonst?

Why must I select AND click submit on the 4 remaining Connection tiles after I have 3 good categories? There’s nothing else to be done. I play on a computer. In a world where we’re told that we are 6 to 24 months away from Artificial General Intelligence, it seems like the game could select and submit them for me 🤷
#Connections

just discovered http://corru.observer
really fun point and click game, I suggest checking it out if you have the time!

corru.observer
ATTENTION

Uff, anscheinend gibt es ein riesigen Cluster-Fuck zwischen #PayPal und deutschen Banken. Mich hat es dabei auch getroffen: Die Zahlung einer Online-Bestellung wurde von meiner Bank abgelehnt und dadurch ist mein PayPal Konto dick im Minus. Meine Bank behauptet PayPal ist schuld. PayPal behauptet die Probleme wären behoben – sind sie aber offensichtlich nicht?!

just discovered http://corru.observer
really fun point and click game, I suggest checking it out if you have the time!

corru.observer
ATTENTION

Trapped in the Zine Chapter 4: Halley's Comet
https://jackiejude.me/e-zines/halleys-comet/

"Dawn of War 4": Macher von "Book of Unwritten Tales" entwickeln Strategiespiel
Von knuffigen Point&Click-Adventures zu "Warhammer 40k": Das nächste "Dawn of War" entsteht in Bremen bei King Art. Es spielt sich schon jetzt hervorragend.

CTR-Sink: Attention Sink for Language Models in Click-Through Rate Prediction
Zixuan Li, Binzong Geng, Jing Xiong, Yong He, Yuxuan Hu, Jian Chen, Dingwei Chen, Xiyu Chang, Liang Zhang, Linjian Mo, Chengming Li, Chuan Yuan, Zhenan Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03668

CTR-Sink: Attention Sink for Language Models in Click-Through Rate Prediction
Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, a core task in recommendation systems, estimates user click likelihood using historical behavioral data. Modeling user behavior sequences as text to leverage Language Models (LMs) for this task has gained traction, owing to LMs' strong semantic understanding and contextual modeling capabilities. However, a critical structural gap exists: user behavior sequences consist of discrete actions connected by semantically empty separators, differing fundamentally fr…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Chicago Underground Duo:
🎵 Click Song
#NowPlaying #ChicagoUndergroundDuo
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/click-song
https://open.spotify.com/track/62inuZXTQzpeCe40tKdkNm

You’re Wasting Time in Java Without These #10 Libraries (sic)
https://medium.com/@gaddamnaveen192/youre-wasting-time-in-java-without-these-10-libraries-87a8c5c6f3ab?sk=0ae4f21f22b0c376642a6a72b4c3cd16

From Inside Climate News
Each day during Climate Week, we released a new conversation about a complex and urgent climate issue. The full series is ready for you to watch. Catch up on episodes you missed. Screen them whenever you want.
https://i…

CNN plans a multiplatform initiative called CNN Creators, hoping to attract a younger audience, starting with a 30-minute weekly program on CNN International (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thed…

CNN aims to be the YouTube of news with "CNN Creators" initiative
A new show, called "CNN Creators - The Intro," will attempt to draw a younger news audience to the global channel.

You Don't Know Until You Click:Automated GUI Testing for Production-Ready Software Evaluation
Yutong Bian, Xianhao Lin, Yupeng Xie, Tianyang Liu, Mingchen Zhuge, Siyuan Lu, Haoming Tang, Jinlin Wang, Jiayi Zhang, Jiaqi Chen, Xiangru Tang, Yongxin Ni, Sirui Hong, Chenglin Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14104

You Don't Know Until You Click:Automated GUI Testing for Production-Ready Software Evaluation
Large Language Models (LLMs) and code agents in software development are rapidly evolving from generating isolated code snippets to producing full-fledged software applications with graphical interfaces, interactive logic, and dynamic behaviors. However, current benchmarks fall short in evaluating such production-ready software, as they often rely on static checks or binary pass/fail scripts, failing to capture the interactive behaviors and runtime dynamics that define real-world usability - qu…

WTF Ubuntu — I enter a folder with old files in it, Dolphin pops this up to say it will spend the next 20 minutes (that's when I aborted) "examining" while load goes through the ceiling (20 ). Oh, yes, click for 'details', it adds only "examining files" but didn't I already know this? But examining FOR WHAT, and why now.
And if it will take HOURS couldn't you ASK first?
A bug is a feature that cannot be turned off 😅

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Embargo may be a rebranded version of ALPHV ransomware group,
--Russian threat group GreedyBear is stealing crypto,
--Israel beat Iran in the brief war's cyber conflicts,
--M&S resumes click and collect orders,
--GPT-5 was a disaster and easy to hack,
--Hacker breached dealership portal and could hack customers' cars,

New Embargo group may be a rebranded version of ALPHV ransomware gang
Russian threat group GreedyBear is stealing crypto, Israel beat Iran in the brief war's cyber conflicts, M&S resumes click and collect orders, GPT-5 was a disaster and easy to hack, Hacker breached dealership portal and could hack customers' cars, Korea's Yes24 ransomwared again, much more

Good stuff, but I hope this includes the capacity to change the default behaviour on a per-post basis.
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115062415406387422

Time to panic in Houston? Why C.J. Stroud, Nico Collins and rest of Texans' offense hasn't been able to click

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-offense-struggles-stroud-0-2…

Manchmal denke ich, die Click-baiter machen sich über uns lustig...
Wer kommt auf so ein bescheuertes Motiv?

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Juwelenraub im Louvre: Französische Polizei verdächtigt elf Hollywoodstars https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/hVR569XapuRsMVeMSCk-x1pYFHaRgwmg

Juwelenraub im Louvre: Französische Polizei verdächtigt elf Hollywoodstars
Paris (dpo) - Stecken sie hinter dem großen Juwelenraub im Louvre? Die französische Polizei verdächtigt inzwischen elf Hollywoodstars, die ...

MARS: Modality-Aligned Retrieval for Sequence Augmented CTR Prediction
Yutian Xiao, Shukuan Wang, Binhao Wang, Zhao Zhang, Yanze Zhang, Shanqi Liu, Chao Feng, Xiang Li, Fuzhen Zhuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01184

MARS: Modality-Aligned Retrieval for Sequence Augmented CTR Prediction
Click-through rate (CTR) prediction serves as a cornerstone of recommender systems. Despite the strong performance of current CTR models based on user behavior modeling, they are still severely limited by interaction sparsity, especially in low-active user scenarios. To address this issue, data augmentation of user behavior is a promising research direction. However, existing data augmentation methods heavily rely on collaborative signals while overlooking the rich multimodal features of items,…

“We got interested in this because other researchers, for years, have been describing this type of ecological memory
of soil microbes having some way to remember from their ancestors' past,”
“We thought this was really fascinating. It has a lot of important implications for how we can grow plants, including things like corn and wheat.
Precipitation itself has a big influence on how plants grow,
but also the memory of the microbes living in those soils could also p…

New study explores ‘legacy effects’ of soil microbes on plants across Kansas
Click for more on research in Nature Microbiology

»Wie die KI das Internet zerstört – willkommen im Zero-Click-Web«
— vom @…
Ja KI so wie Google ist streng gesehen Datendiebstahl und deren Zero-Click ist Misinformationen der Menschen und die nehmen diese Filterblasen gedankenlos an. Viele sind sich deren Macht der KI-Konzerne nicht mal ein wenig bewusst und geben gerne den Anderen die Schuld als sic…

For me, if they say I have to use Chrome I extend a middle finger, delete the site if bookmarked and go elsewhere.
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/09/08/chrome-mask-make-firefox-appear-as-chrome-with-a-single-click/

🗑️ TapTrap: Animation‑Driven Tapjacking on Android
#android #security

Bent Freiwald und Lea Schönborn, @… , #Kinder und #Bildung: So kannst du deine #Schule

So kannst du deine Schule gegen Rechtsextremismus wappnen
Wir haben die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse aus drei Monaten Recherche zusammengetragen.

Usually, clickbait titles repel me as a reader/viewer. I tend to skip.
Occasionally, though, I do click on them. Maybe what's behing the clickbait is actually interesting?
I does happen. Sometimes I don't regret clicking (but I hardly ever share).
Most often, though, I do.

MetaSynth: Multi-Agent Metadata Generation from Implicit Feedback in Black-Box Systems
Shreeranjani Srirangamsridharan, Ali Abavisani, Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Ramin Giahi, Kai Zhao, Jason Cho, Sushant Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01523

MetaSynth: Multi-Agent Metadata Generation from Implicit Feedback in Black-Box Systems
Meta titles and descriptions strongly shape engagement in search and recommendation platforms, yet optimizing them remains challenging. Search engine ranking models are black box environments, explicit labels are unavailable, and feedback such as click-through rate (CTR) arrives only post-deployment. Existing template, LLM, and retrieval-augmented approaches either lack diversity, hallucinate attributes, or ignore whether candidate phrasing has historically succeeded in ranking. This leaves a g…

they made a compiler passive aggressive
(pictured: openbsd playground, a webpage that lets you click a button and get a compiled openbsd binary downloaded in a few seconds, all done locally using WebAssembly)

Single-click protocols for remote state preparation using weak coherent pulses
Janice van Dam, Emil R. Hellebek, Tzula B. Propp, Junior R. Gonzales-Ureta, Anders S. S{\o}rensen, Stephanie D. C. Wehner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14857

Single-click protocols for remote state preparation using weak coherent pulses
Remote state preparation (RSP) allows one party to remotely prepare a known quantum state on another party's qubit using entanglement. This can be used in quantum networks to perform applications such as blind quantum computing or long-distance quantum key distribution (QKD) with quantum repeaters. Devices to perform RSP, referred to as a client, ideally have low hardware requirements, such as only sending photonic qubits. A weak coherent pulse source offers a practical alternative to true sing…

Evilginx’s creator reckons with the dark side of red-team tools https://therecord.media/evilginx-kuba-gretzky-interview-click-here-podcast

google has, to celebrate their 25th birthday, "thrown it back to 1998". and by that they mean: they changed their logo. that's it. when you click it it opens gemini to a question about google's history

Nicht vergessen! Samstagnacht werden die Uhren eine Stunde vorgestellt #winterzeit https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/hVR569XapuRmDlk_oSjWFxEIIBtQNfNv

Nicht vergessen! Samstagnacht werden die Uhren eine Stunde vorgestellt
Berlin (dpo) - Es ist wieder einmal so weit: In der Nacht vom 18. auf den 19. Oktober werden die Uhren eine Stunde vorgestellt. Pünktlich ...

Deep Multiple Quantization Network on Long Behavior Sequence for Click-Through Rate Prediction
Zhuoxing Wei, Qi Liu, Qingchen Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20865 https://

Deep Multiple Quantization Network on Long Behavior Sequence for Click-Through Rate Prediction
In Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, the long behavior sequence, comprising the user's long period of historical interactions with items has a vital influence on assessing the user's interest in the candidate item. Existing approaches strike efficiency and effectiveness through a two-stage paradigm: first retrieving hundreds of candidate-related items and then extracting interest intensity vector through target attention. However, we argue that the discrepancy in target attention's relevance…

UK retailer M&S resumes click and collect services after a cyberattack on April 22, set to cost it ~£300M; M&S restarted online delivery orders on June 10 (James Davey/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

You can now virtually explore the stunning landscapes and vibrant culture of Nepal in Street View.
Wander the lively streets of Kathmandu, discover the serene beauty of the Terai region or wind along roads that offer breathtaking views of the snow-capped Himalayas — all virtually.
You can even immerse yourself in Nepal’s rich architectural history, ancient temples and bustling markets.

Street View has now come to Nepal.
You can now virtually explore the stunning landscapes and vibrant culture of Nepal in Street View. Wander the lively streets of Kathmandu, discover the serene beauty of the Terai region or wind along roads that offer breathtaking views of the snow-capped Himalayas — all virtually. You can even immerse yourself in Nepal’s rich architectural history, ancient temples and bustling markets.To see the newest images of Nepal, open up Maps from your phone or computer, click the 360° view or the ye…

Hmmm, I think Staples Canada site is F*ked up. Looking for a product, click on sort by price and it takes me to their packing & shipping page. Vivaldi, Chrome, Firefox all do the same thing.

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Grateful Documents | John Brackett | Substack
Exploring historical documents from the Grateful Dead Archive. Click to read Grateful Documents, by John Brackett, a Substack publication. Launched 24 days ago.

Bis die USA keine Drogenschiffe mehr angreifen: Cem Özdemir verschiebt Segeltörn
https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/hVR569XapuT01fwDoeZTW1SImCsqq4-8

Bis die USA keine Drogenschiffe mehr angreifen: Cem Özdemir verschiebt Segeltörn
Stuttgart (dpo) - Dabei hatte er sich schon so darauf gefreut: Baden-Württembergs Grünen-Spitzenkandidat Cem Özdemir hat einen für diese Wo...

Book Review “The End” by Joel Wainwright

Google launches new features for its Google AI Studio developer platform, including a revamped "Build" tab to vibe code AI apps (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)
https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-revamps-ai-studio-with-new-features-for-…

Google revamps AI Studio with new features for vibe coding
Google debuts a revamped AI Studio "Build" interface that cuts technical barriers for AI app prototyping with one-click Cloud Run publishing.

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For All It Is | Clifford Allen | Substack
writings about music, art, and the occasional concert announcement from the author of Singularity Codex: Matthew Shipp on RogueArt. Click to read For All It Is, by Clifford Allen, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Adaptive User Interest Modeling via Conditioned Denoising Diffusion For Click-Through Rate Prediction
Qihang Zhao, Xiaoyang Zheng, Ben Chen, Zhongbo Sun, Chenyi Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19876

Adaptive User Interest Modeling via Conditioned Denoising Diffusion For Click-Through Rate Prediction
User behavior sequences in search systems resemble "interest fossils", capturing genuine intent yet eroded by exposure bias, category drift, and contextual noise. Current methods predominantly follow an "identify-aggregate" paradigm, assuming sequences immutably reflect user preferences while overlooking the organic entanglement of noise and genuine interest. Moreover, they output static, context-agnostic representations, failing to adapt to dynamic intent shifts under varying Query-User-Item-C…

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Fluxblog: Music Blog | Matthew Perpetua | Substack
The longest-running music blog in the game! This newsletter is focused on music curation - reviews of new music, playlists for Spotify/Apple/YouTube covering a wide range of genres and moments in history, and links to other cool things. Click to read Fluxblog: Music Blog, by Matthew Perpetua, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

DGenCTR: Towards a Universal Generative Paradigm for Click-Through Rate Prediction via Discrete Diffusion
Moyu Zhang, Yun Chen, Yujun Jin, Jinxin Hu, Yu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14500

DGenCTR: Towards a Universal Generative Paradigm for Click-Through Rate Prediction via Discrete Diffusion
Recent advances in generative models have inspired the field of recommender systems to explore generative approaches, but most existing research focuses on sequence generation, a paradigm ill-suited for click-through rate (CTR) prediction. CTR models critically depend on a large number of cross-features between the target item and the user to estimate the probability of clicking on the item, and discarding these cross-features will significantly impair model performance. Therefore, to harness t…

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More True Performing | Andrew Muir | Substack
Writings on Bob Dylan: new, updated and Shakespeare parallels. Click to read More True Performing, by Andrew Muir, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

MTRec: Learning to Align with User Preferences via Mental Reward Models
Mengchen Zhao, Yifan Gao, Yaqing Hou, Xiangyang Li, Pengjie Gu, Zhenhua Dong, Ruiming Tang, Yi Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22807

MTRec: Learning to Align with User Preferences via Mental Reward Models
Recommendation models are predominantly trained using implicit user feedback, since explicit feedback is often costly to obtain. However, implicit feedback, such as clicks, does not always reflect users' real preferences. For example, a user might click on a news article because of its attractive headline, but end up feeling uncomfortable after reading the content. In the absence of explicit feedback, such erroneous implicit signals may severely mislead recommender systems. In this paper, we pr…

ORCA: Mitigating Over-Reliance for Multi-Task Dwell Time Prediction with Causal Decoupling
Huishi Luo, Fuzhen Zhuang, Yongchun Zhu, Yiqing Wu, Bo Kang, Ruobing Xie, Feng Xia, Deqing Wang, Jin Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16573

ORCA: Mitigating Over-Reliance for Multi-Task Dwell Time Prediction with Causal Decoupling
Dwell time (DT) is a critical post-click metric for evaluating user preference in recommender systems, complementing the traditional click-through rate (CTR). Although multi-task learning is widely adopted to jointly optimize DT and CTR, we observe that multi-task models systematically collapse their DT predictions to the shortest and longest bins, under-predicting the moderate durations. We attribute this moderate-duration bin under-representation to over-reliance on the CTR-DT spurious correl…