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Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/

Coinbase (COIN), Shopify (SHOP) Partner to Enable USDC Payments on Base for Merchants Worldwide
The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.

ContextBuddy: AI-Enhanced Contextual Insights for Security Alert Investigation (Applied to Intrusion Detection)
Ronal Singh, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Surya Nepal, Cecile Paris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09365

ContextBuddy: AI-Enhanced Contextual Insights for Security Alert Investigation (Applied to Intrusion Detection)
Modern Security Operations Centres (SOCs) integrate diverse tools, such as SIEM, IDS, and XDR systems, offering rich contextual data, including alert enrichments, flow features, and similar case histories. Yet, analysts must still manually determine which of these contextual cues are most relevant when validating specific alerts. We introduce ContextBuddy, an AI assistant that learns from analysts' prior investigations to help them identify the most relevant context for new alerts. Rather than …

Dear God... Kristi Noem is a certified PoS.
Republican dog lovers: Look yourself in the mirror & say outloud that you won't stand by this level of cruelty.
☑️ Kristi Noem Dog-Killing Story Is Actually Worse in Context
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/articl…

Kristi Noem Dog-Killing Story Is Actually Worse in Context
The Kristi Noem dog-killing story is actually worse in context. The governor is encouraging people to read her new book, ‘No Going Back,’ and judge the anecdote about fatally shooting her dog, Cricket, for themselves. She probably shouldn’t.

Foram estas contas que me levaram para o twitter.
Foi o facto de ter de as deixar para tršs uma das coisas que mais me fizeram demorar a largar o twitter.
Se soubesse que iam acabar assim, provavelmente tinha batido com a porta bastante mais cedo.
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Adeus, Curiosity? NASA silencia contas icónicas em grande reorganização das redes sociais
 Numa medida que está a deixar muitos entusiastas da exploração espacial nostálgicos, a NASA anunciou que vai encerrar várias das suas contas de redes sociais,

I just tried to use the US Senates system to contact my Senator (Padilla) to thank him.
But the system is overloaded.
https://www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/contact-form/

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Moving contact lines of power-law fluids: How nonlinear fluid rheology drastically alters stress singularity and dynamic wetting behavior
David Halpern, Hsien-Hung Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09224

Moving contact lines of power-law fluids: How nonlinear fluid rheology drastically alters stress singularity and dynamic wetting behavior
Power-law fluids can strongly affect the degree of the contact line stress singularity and hence the nature of moving contact lines. We develop a framework beyond the classical paradigm for power-law fluids, providing a unified account for the distinct behaviors of the advancing contact lines. We show that the apparent dynamic contact angle $θ_d$ can depend on the extent of the characteristic dissipation length $h^* \propto U_n/(n-1)$, altering its dependence on the contact line speed $U$. For…

Query-Focused Retrieval Heads Improve Long-Context Reasoning and Re-ranking
Wuwei Zhang, Fangcong Yin, Howard Yen, Danqi Chen, Xi Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09944

Query-Focused Retrieval Heads Improve Long-Context Reasoning and Re-ranking
Recent work has identified retrieval heads (Wu et al., 2025b), a subset of attention heads responsible for retrieving salient information in long-context language models (LMs), as measured by their copy-paste behavior in Needle-in-a-Haystack tasks. In this paper, we introduce QRHEAD (Query-Focused Retrieval Head), an improved set of attention heads that enhance retrieval from long context. We identify QRHEAD by aggregating attention scores with respect to the input query, using a handful of exa…

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Adversarial Text Generation with Dynamic Contextual Perturbation
Hetvi Waghela, Jaydip Sen, Sneha Rakshit, Subhasis Dasgupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09148

Adversarial Text Generation with Dynamic Contextual Perturbation
Adversarial attacks on Natural Language Processing (NLP) models expose vulnerabilities by introducing subtle perturbations to input text, often leading to misclassification while maintaining human readability. Existing methods typically focus on word-level or local text segment alterations, overlooking the broader context, which results in detectable or semantically inconsistent perturbations. We propose a novel adversarial text attack scheme named Dynamic Contextual Perturbation (DCP). DCP dyn…