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We all perform tasks in our day-to-day work that are considered 'non-promotable' – these are crucial for project success, but they won't get you promoted. This is commonly known as 'glue work', a term coined by Tanya Reilly. Join Fatima Taj at this year's Berlin Buzzwords as she shares her personal experience of narrowly avoiding the trap of being permanently stuck with glue work, and explains how to handle similar situations.
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karate: Zachary Karate Club
Network of friendships among members of a university karate club. Includes metadata for faction membership after a social partition. Note: there are two versions of this network, one with 77 edges and one with 78, due to an ambiguous typo in the original study. (The most commonly used is the one with 78 edges.).
This network has 34 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted

PORTLAND, Ore. — Health officials in Hood River County confirmed Monday that two local deaths have been linked to a rare brain disease within the last eight months.
During that period, the county said, there have been one confirmed and two probable cases of
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD, a prion disorder somewhat similar to the more commonly known "mad cow disease."
So far, two of those cases have resulted in death

Huh, so the American "No Kings Day" is happening on the same day as the Commonwealth's "Kings Official Summer Birthday".
Strange coincidence.
I think there should be no kings and no king's birthday celebrations FWIW. Power passed down the genetic line like a mutation is ridiculous, and anyway no power should be concentrated in one person like that in the first place.
Have a happy holiday, whichever you are celebrating/protesting.
#kingsBirthday #noKingsDay

New preprint!
User-space library rootkits revisited: Are user-space detection mechanisms futile?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07827

From IOCs to Group Profiles: On the Specificity of Threat Group Behaviors in CTI Knowledge Bases
Aakanksha Saha, Martina Lindorfer, Juan Caballero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10645

From IOCs to Group Profiles: On the Specificity of Threat Group Behaviors in CTI Knowledge Bases
Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) such as IP addresses, file hashes, and domain names are commonly used for threat detection and attribution. However, IOCs tend to be short-lived as they are easy to change. As a result, the cybersecurity community is shifting focus towards more persistent behavioral profiles, such as the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and the software used by a threat group. However, the distinctiveness and completeness of such behavioral profiles remain largely unexp…

Not One to Rule Them All: Mining Meaningful Code Review Orders From GitHub
Abir Bouraffa, Carolin Brandt, Andy Zaidmann, Walid Maalej
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10654

Not One to Rule Them All: Mining Meaningful Code Review Orders From GitHub
Developers use tools such as GitHub pull requests to review code, discuss proposed changes, and request modifications. While changed files are commonly presented in alphabetical order, this does not necessarily coincide with the reviewer's preferred navigation sequence. This study investigates the different navigation orders developers follow while commenting on changes submitted in pull requests. We mined code review comments from 23,241 pull requests in 100 popular Java and Python repositorie…

Practical Improvements of A/B Testing with Off-Policy Estimation
Sakhi Otmane, Gilotte Alexandre, Rohde David
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10677 https://

Practical Improvements of A/B Testing with Off-Policy Estimation
We address the problem of A/B testing, a widely used protocol for evaluating the potential improvement achieved by a new decision system compared to a baseline. This protocol segments the population into two subgroups, each exposed to a version of the system and estimates the improvement as the difference between the measured effects. In this work, we demonstrate that the commonly used difference-in-means estimator, while unbiased, can be improved. We introduce a family of unbiased off-policy e…

Self-gravity in thin protoplanetary discs: 1. The smoothing-length approximation versus the exact self-gravity kernel
S. Rendon Restrepo, T. Rometsch, U. Ziegler, O. Gressel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10812

Self-gravity in thin protoplanetary discs: 1. The smoothing-length approximation versus the exact self-gravity kernel
Planet-forming discs often contain structures like spiral arms, typically linked to the disc's gravitational forces. In 2D models, an ad hoc softening prescription is commonly used for self-gravity, but this overlooks the vertical structure's impact, suppresses the Newtonian nature of gravity at short distances and doesn't respect Newton's third law. To address these issues, associated with a Plummer potential approximation, we developed an exact self-gravity kernel for thin, hydrostatically …

Effects of the sheared flow velocity profile shape on impedance eduction in a 2D duct
Lucas A Bonomo, Edward J Brambley, Julio A Cordioli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10129

Effects of the sheared flow velocity profile shape on impedance eduction in a 2D duct
We assess the impact of the flow profile shape on acoustic propagation in a two-dimensional duct within the typical operating range of impedance eduction facilities. Firstly, a numerical experiment is proposed in which the Pridmore--Brown equation is assumed to represent the true physical behaviour, and is used with both simplified flow profiles commonly used in the literature and a realistic representation of a turbulent boundary layer using a van Driest universal law of the wall model. The da…