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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.

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.

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

Feds from IRS agents to refugee officers are deploying to assist ICE conduct raids (Eric Katz/GovExec.com)
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/06/feds-irs-agents-refugee-officers-are-deploying-assist-ice-conduct-raids/406078/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p130#a250613p130

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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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 …

sp_hypertext: Hypertext 2009 dynamic contact network
The temporal network of contacts among attendees of the ACM Hypertext 2009 conference, which spanned 2.5 days of time.
This network has 113 nodes and 2196 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_hype…