Tootfinder

"Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds"
#Whales #SpermWhales #Animals

The secret sauce to how new Cowboys DC Christian Parker is increasing Dallas' communication

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-christian-parker-fixing-defensive-c…

Buggin': Cowboys DC Christian Parker using codeword play calls to improve communication https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/17/cowboys-dc-christian-parker-code…

"Nehmt den Kindern nicht noch die letzte Gelegenheit, rumzuhängen und sich auszutauschen"
https://alecmuffett.com/article/160943

> Documents and whatnot are all mechanisms for communicating between humans—a communication that is always lossy, because creating a shared understanding between people is, and always will be, one of the hardest things we’ll ever do. Workslop dramatically increases that lossiness, with what we mean to say drifting further and further away from us, mediated through machines that smooth out the tone and blur the intent until we are saying nothing at all.

This month, we were in Oslo for #DataWeek26, where our Chief Communication Officer Cathrin Stöver delivered a keynote on GÉANT's value for the European data community.
A few highlights:
🔹 The role of GÉANT & NRENs in enabling high-performance computing across borders, specifically through our work with the EuroHPC JU
🔹 How our pan-European network is adapting its author…

Firefox has added WebSerial support in 151. This is useful for cloudless communication with #embedded devices.
Rather than using the polyfill (https://github.com/kuba2k2/firefox-webserial) …

GitHub - kuba2k2/firefox-webserial: WebSerial API Polyfill for Mozilla Firefox browser
WebSerial API Polyfill for Mozilla Firefox browser - kuba2k2/firefox-webserial

We found this old 1949 #science #book on our shelves; it's a very general thing, with a mix of different articles; but it's pretty fascinating seeing the stuff from then. I mentioned the Agene flour treatement, which I'd not heard of before; but the Palaeomagnetism is fascinating because i…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
八神純子:
🎵 COMMUNICATION (Extended Club Mix)
#八神純子
https://open.spotify.com/track/5qVToBp3gsfHMHP6xSMH8L

Not only will the Ring Road not solve the traffic issues as report after report has highlighted only 3% is bypass traffic, but it will CPO and affect 54 homeowners.
The N6 will encourage private car use, raise emissions, waste money, and not even solve traffic.
https://www.

Galway Ring Road CPO issued as residents seek clarity
The marathon N6 Galway City Ring Road project has moved a step closer following the publication of the compulsory purchase order (CPO) notice last week, but families facing the loss of their homes say they are still waiting for direct communication about what happens next.

Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did "an atrocious job" sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/andrew-bosworth-meta-employees-unrest/

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’
In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication, and the return of workplace perks as the company seeks to improve morale.

@… Will you ever support PGP or usage of your email service with 3rd party clients that do (like Thunderbird)? Even though PGP isn't perfect, it seems like it's the only method of achieving end to end encrypted e-mail communication with people who aren't using Tuta. (aside from the password-protected email option, which is just sending them a link t…

dnc: DNC emails (2016)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Democratic National Committee, in the email data leak released by WikiLeaks in 2016.
This network has 2029 nodes and 12085 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dnc

Italo Vignoli (LibreOffice) : "Les entreprises vivent aux dépens des particuliers qui nous soutiennent"
https://www.clubic.com/dossier-609151-les-entr…

Face à Microsoft, 95% des dons de LibreOffice viennent de particuliers : les entreprises accusées de parasitisme
Trente ans après la naissance de Microsoft Office, un logiciel libre tient toujours tête au géant de Redmond. Italo Vignoli, responsable de la communication de The Document Foundation, explique pourquoi LibreOffice refuse de copier ses concurrents sur l'IA, comment il compte régler son compte à OnlyOffice, et ce que « souveraineté numérique » veut vraiment dire quand on n'a pas un centime de budget marketing.

@… Ouais… J’ai reconnu certains éléments mentionnés dans le fil, mais l’interprétation est... bizarre. Si j'ai bien compris, la keynote et la discussion étaient en anglais, donc il y avait potentiellement un problème de communication, mais je suis d'accord en ce qui concerne le ton du post…

@… Ouais… J’ai reconnu certains éléments mentionnés dans le fil, mais l’interprétation est... bizarre. Si j'ai bien compris, la keynote et la discussion étaient en anglais, donc il y avait potentiellement un problème de communication, mais je suis d'accord en ce qui concerne le ton du post…

What does sound do to your brain's gene expression, RNA?
Prenatal acoustic communication triggers adaptive vascular programming in the developing avian brain https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/229/11/jeb252287…

Pilot whales can’t hear each other over ship noise in Strait of Gibraltar, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/pilot-whales-cant-hear-each-other-over-ship-noise-in-strait-of-gibraltar-stud…

Pilot whales can’t hear each other over ship noise in Strait of Gibraltar, study finds
The rumble of ship traffic is drowning out the calls of long-finned pilot whales and potentially other marine species in the Strait of Gibraltar, a narrow strip of water between Morocco and Spain that separates the Atlantic Ocean from the Mediterranean Sea. Researchers who investigated this looked at near and long-distance communication between long-finned pilot […]

Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/sperm-whales-alphabet-vocalizations-similar-humans?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/sperm-whales-alphabet-vocalizations-similar-humans?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Private communication is more important than ever, especially in a world full of autocrats and democracies hell-bent on destroying privacy (the Faustian bargain of our privacy for our security/safety rarely, if ever, works out).
One of the easiest things we can do is setup a VPN on all of our devices. Please hear me out before jumping in to say that VPNs are oversold (they are!) and that they're useless (they're not!).
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dnc: DNC emails (2016)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Democratic National Committee, in the email data leak released by WikiLeaks in 2016.
This network has 2029 nodes and 12085 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dnc

"A review of nascent policy approaches in the UK, California, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, and the EU, indicates a fragmented landscape where most jurisdictions address only parts of the protocol stack and only some of the control layers. [..] The report presents a phased roadmap recommending global harmonisation of functional requirements rather than technology mandates."

Demand Flexibility Protocols - 4E Energy Efficient End-use Equipment
This report looks at the current landscape of communication protocols and suggests steps to take towards solving interoperability issues.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@rene_mobile/116454517003134641
The application deadline has been extended to June 28th to better align with internal processes.
If you are interested in privacy-first digital identity, secure communication protocol…

Another great---can I say somewhat daring?--- non-technical talk by @… "From terminal to table -- Communication skills for geeks and nerds" at @… on his personal lessons about communication; ever so helpful, possibly also for …

In her introduction to an event on climate communication, initiator Mare de Wit quoted a man in the movie La Haine.
While falling from a tall building, he kept saying "Jusqu'ici, tout va bien."
So far, so good. A metaphor for climate change, for those of us who weren't hit hard by it yet.

It looks like the cognitive protocol of virtually all living beings is probably running on the same beat.
#nature

Nature might have a universal rhythm
Animal communication can look wildly different—flashing lights, chirping calls, croaking songs and elaborate dances. But new research from Northwestern University suggests many of these signals share a surprising feature: They repeat at nearly the same tempo.

@… Hopefully you’ve read the official communication on https://www.11ty.dev/blog/build-awesome/

from my link log —
Fact check: What you may have heard from Elsevier about the dispute with UC.
https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2019/08/fact-check-uc-and-elsevier/
saved 2019-08-07

Fact check: What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and Elsevier - Office of Scholarly Communication
The UC Negotiating Team  Ivy Anderson, (Co-Chair), Associate Executive Director of the California Digital Library; Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (Co-Chair), University Librarian and Professor, School of Information and Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley; Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the California Digital Library; Richard A. Schneider, Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, UC San Francisco and Chair, Academic Senate University Committee on Library and Scholarly …

caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 21157 nodes and 85468 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

MJSAC: McCormick Relaxation-based Waveform Design for Joint Sensing and Communication
Bodhibrata Mukhopadhyay, Sajid Ahmed, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11351 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11351 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11351
arXiv:2606.11351v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In the upcoming 5G Advanced and 6G technologies, joint sensing and communication (JSAC) will play a pivotal role in enabling the simultaneous utilization of hardware and spectrum resources for communication and sensing tasks. While current algorithms primarily focus on designing beampattern invariant covariance matrices for transmitting various symbols for communication, they often overlook the distances among these symbols. While these covariance matrices effectively facilitate ranging operations, they have adverse effects on communication performance. Designing beampattern invariance covariance matrices with maximal distances among themselves poses a challenging non-convex problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel waveform design method based on McCormick relaxation called McCormick-based JSAC (MJSAC). MJSAC sequentially solves an optimization problem to generate a set of covariance matrices by maximizing the distances (Frobenius norm) among themselves while ensuring a consistent beam pattern. Also, MJSAC eliminates the requirement for channel information to generate the covariance matrices. Through simulations, we demonstrate that MJSAC outperforms conventional algorithms, even those utilizing channel information at the transmitter.
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What would it look like to center community, human communication, and trust-building as the •starting point• of OSS contribution?
I don’t entirely know, but I know that there are examples we can build on. And I know that the alternative is grim.
/end

Multipartite reference-frame-independent quantum cryptographic communication
Donghwa Lee, Kyujin Shin, Hyang-Tag Lim, Yosep Kim, Yong-Su Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12284 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12284 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12284
arXiv:2606.12284v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reference frame mismatch among communication parties introduces errors in quantum cryptographic protocols. As the number of participants increases, aligning reference frames becomes increasingly difficult, complicating multipartite quantum cryptographic implementations. Here, we theoretically and experimentally investigate multipartite reference-frame-independent (RFI) quantum cryptographic communication using Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states. We generalize the bipartite RFI security parameter $C$ to an $N$-party parameter $C_N$ and derive the asymptotic secret key rate expressed solely in terms of experimentally accessible quantities. We analyze the key rate under global and local depolarizing noise models and find that increasing the number of parties $N$ enhances robustness against global depolarizing noise while increasing vulnerability to local channel noise. We also present a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration of four-party RFI quantum cryptographic communication using four-photon GHZ states, confirming the reference-frame invariance of both the $C_4$ parameter and the secret key rate under various reference frame rotations.
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slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Less Chatter, More Matter: The Communications Podcast
Communication tips to improve your relationships at work, navigate crises, internal communication, and deliver change are top of the agenda...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/less-c

wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 83803 nodes and 122078 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph…

Related to my earlier open source fundraising post[1], please also do let me know what you think of the amount/cadence/detail of communication about thi.ng projects (multiple choice, other options/insights via reply or DM please 🙏):
[1] https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116726397007776730

„In the pilot NodeNet: Meshnetworks for Emergency Communication, Waag, in collaboration with the Municipality of Amsterdam, investigates the technical feasibility of mesh network technology using a set-up of 30 devices hosted by citizens from Amsterdam.“ #meshtastic #meshcore

Waag | NodeNet
NodeNet is a pilot project in which Waag examines mesh network technology as a solution in case the traditional communication infrastructure in Amsterdam fails. The research focuses on both technical feasibility and the user perspective on the basis of various scenarios.

I've been watching a technical meltdown about to happen for a few weeks, and the communication about it was very abstract, and _nobody_ but a few caremad nerds got any real conversation going. And nothing was done. Turns out: caremad nerds talking about abstract problems doesn't do shit.
But then the problem became less theoretical, and actual measurements of the problem came out, pointing to specific impacts and places and situations. Now people are taking action!
I wonder if there's a lesson in here somewhere. :P

George Pickens isn't with Cowboys for voluntary work as Schottenheimer says communication is good https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/george-pickens-isnt-with-cowboys-for-voluntary-work-as-schottenheimer…

Berty - Unstoppable P2P Communication
#bookmarks

Berty · Berty Technologies
We build tools to enhance communication freedom

Don’t Do Team Meetings
Regular team meetings are often treated as a default part of work. They are seen as a sign of coordination, alignment, and healthy communication. In practice, they often reveal the opposite.
A recurring team meeting where everyone goes around the room to explain what they did last week is usually not a good use of time. It turns communication into a performance instead of a real exchange of useful information. If the team needs a formal meeting just to lear…

Don’t Do Team Meetings
Personal webpage of Alexandre Dulaunoy - from information security to open source and art

where do #websub[1] implementers meet these days?
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/

Closed-Loop Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Control for Efficient Drone Flight
Jingli Li, Yiyan Ma, Bo Ai, Wei Chen, Weijie Yuan, Qingqing Cheng, Tongyang Xu, Guoyu Ma, Mi Yang, Yunlong Lu, Wenwei Yue, Christos Masouros, Zhangdui Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.29220
arXiv:2603.29220v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) require drones to follow specific trajectories controlled by ground base stations (GBSs). However, given complex low-altitude channel conditions and limited spectrum and power resources, sensing errors and wireless link unreliability cannot be ignored, leading to trajectory deviations that threaten flight safety. To address this issue, this paper proposes an integrated sensing-communication-control (ISCC) closed-loop trajectory tracking approach, aiming to reveal the coupling mechanisms among communication, sensing, and control during drone flight. In detail, we incorporate sensing errors in trajectory state estimation, packet losses in control command transmission, and finite blocklength transmission effects into the closed-loop dynamics. First, through theoretical analysis, we identify the dominant role of the time-frequency resources allocated to control in ensuring system stability and derive a lower bound on the resources required to guarantee stable operation. Second, to minimize tracking error, we formulate a time-frequency resource allocation optimization problem for the sensing, communication, and control components, subject to constraints on communication rate and closed-loop stability. Accordingly, a solution algorithm based on successive convex approximation is proposed. Third, simulation results indicate that once stability is ensured, system performance is primarily determined by sensing accuracy, with the trajectory tracking error exhibiting an approximately linear dependence on the position error bound. Finally, it is shown that the proposed ISCC scheme avoids trajectory divergence under FBL transmission compared with ISCC designs ignoring control packet loss, and could achieve decimeter-level average tracking accuracy, reducing the error to only 17.37% of that observed in the baseline global navigation satellite system scheme.
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"Records from July 17, 2024 FBI electronic communication indicate Butler Sheriff's Office exchanged 2 emails with Crooks prior to July 13 Trump assassination attempt."
Damning new details emerge about would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/maga-world-2677008020/

Reconfigurable Antennas for Next-generation Mobile Communication Networks: A Comprehensive Survey and Tutorial
Yizhe Zhao, Long Zhang, Halvin Yang, Kun Yang, Rui Zhang, Lingyang Song, Yuanwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12139 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12139 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12139
arXiv:2606.12139v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The transition to next-generation mobile communication networks, particularly 6G, demands advanced technologies to meet the requirements for ultra-reliable, low-latency communication, massive connectivity, and intelligent applications. Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) play a crucial role in achieving these objectives by enabling dynamic adjustments to the radio frequency (RF) characteristics of antennas, such as gain, radiation pattern, impedance, and polarization. Unlike traditional fixed-position antennas, RAs can alter both their radiation patterns and positions, offering flexibility in response to varying communication environments. This paper presents a comprehensive survey and tutorial on RAs, with a focus on fluid antennas (FAs), movable antennas (MAs), pinching antennas (PAs), and reconfigurable holographic antennas (RHAs), examining their potential in next-generation mobile networks. We explore the channel modelling and estimation, performance analysis, resource allocation strategies, and their synergy with other emerging wireless technologies for each type of RA. Finally, we provide a comparative analysis of different RAs and discuss the open challenges and future research directions, offering insights and guidance for future investigations in the exciting research area.
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I'm working on something big: A new package for async communication between R and Emacs. The output should be a terminal run in Emacs, at the level of Arf and Radian.
If you use #rstats on #emacs stay tunned

There are just a few days left to apply for the OSPARK Bootcamp (June/July 2026).
If you are working on an Open Research initiative, service, or infrastructure and want your work to reach the people who need it, this program is designed for you.
Topics:
- Defining goals and audience
- Voice and brand
- Communication channels (socials, video, emails, ...)
- Presenting and speaking
- Focus on real value
- Involving allies
- ...
📅 Application…

Earth vanishing behind the Moon for the #ArtemisII Orion - only a super-crappy camera caught the scene live. Closest approach to the Moon and largest distance from Earth also just happened. The latter should reappear at about 23:22 UTC and communication regained: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/die-orion-von-artemis-ii-ist-jetzt-hinter-dem-mond/ is covering events now ... and hopefully many *good* photographs arriving in the coming days.

#Meta permanently suspended my #Facebook account for no specific reason, other very general messaging, just because I shared devices with my partner whose account also got suspended out of the blue.
I only keep my FB account since it's my only line of communication for my IRL people and vast m…

Sources: Alibaba replaces DingTalk CEO Chen Hang with Chen Yusen after an internal debate over the enterprise communication app's role in Alibaba's AI strategy (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-…

Verglichen mit In-Ear-Monitoring aus dem Bühnenmusiker-Umfeld ist Bluetooth halt auch nur drittklassige Nearfield-Communication. #justthinkin

The CEO of PLOS on What AI Asks of Open Access: 'The most interesting question isn’t how to make existing published articles more trustworthy for AI use, it’s whether the article itself is still the right unit of scientific communication, and whether the infrastructure we’ve built around it is actually serving science or just serving a publishing system that science has grown accustomed to.'

What AI Asks of Open Access - The Scholarly Kitchen
As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy - open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes - matter more than ever. PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt on why open access publishers have a different set of obligations in an AI world.

Ultra-broadband Anti-Jamming Communication via a Rydberg Atomic Receiver
Jia-Dou Nan, Jun-Rong Chen, Bang Liu, Qi-Feng Wang, Yu Ma, Yi-Ming Yin, Tian-Yu Han, Guang-Can Guo, Hao Tian, Li-Hua Zhang, Bo Du, Bin-Bin Wei, Dong-Sheng Ding, Bao-Sen Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14497

Implanted brain-computer interface functionality during nighttime in late-stage amyotrophic lateral sclerosis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-44228-7 "When applied to night data, daytime decoders caused unintentional BCI activations in 100% of nights."

Implanted brain-computer interface functionality during nighttime in late-stage amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Scientific Reports
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) hold promise as assistive communication technology for people with severe paralysis. Although such BCIs should be available 24/7, feasibility of nocturnal BCI use has not been investigated. Here, we addressed this question using data from an electrocorticography-BCI user with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. We investigated nocturnal dynamics of neural signal features used for BCI control. Additionally, we assessed nocturnal performance of a decoder trained on day…

Free speech is the power to criticize your government without fear of prosecution. It is a basic human right.
It is not about getting away with hurting your neighbor who never caused you any harm. Dignity is a human right.
That is also what "love your neighbor" is about.
It's just a sensible thing to do.
Do not tolerate hate speech.
There is no (need for a) "freedom to hate".
Be kind to one another. 🧡

If you assume everybody who communicates with you does so aggressively, guess what? Most of your communication will be aggressive.
#aggression #communication

email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…

I'm very sorry, I have to let al the fans of our Code is Communication podcast down again. This time we couldn't record an episode, because Erik is sick, and hasn't recovered yet. Let's wish him all the best.
https://code-is-communication.fm/@podcast

"It starts, specifically, with the sight of working class people being used as weapons against themselves. Not by accident, not through some failure of communication or lack of the right messaging, but deliberately and with considerable skill" -- @… writing very much what I'm feeling today.
Worth a read.

I Am Exhausted. And I’m Not Looking Away.
On working class exhaustion, solidarity, and the choice we cannot avoid

Human Traces IV ⛩️
人类踪迹 IV ⛩️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Red 125 （FF）
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite

lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Chicago Funk Band:
🎵 No Communication
#ChicagoFunkBand
https://starcreature10000000000000000.bandcamp.com/track/no-communication-tz-radio-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OOzxSaxndhoG2qAcJOklJ

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

Fermions are fundamentally more nonlocal than Bosons
Fatemeh Moradi Kalarde, Sadra Boreiri, Xiangling Xu, Lucas Tendick, Salman Beigi, Paolo Perinotti, Tommaso Guaita, Marc-Olivier Renou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12363 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12363 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12363
arXiv:2606.12363v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Bell's theorem shows that entangled quantum particles can exhibit correlations that classical particles cannot reproduce without an additional nonlocal resource, such as communication. In this sense, quantum particles are fundamentally more nonlocal than classical ones, and entanglement becomes unavoidable in physics. Here we prove the analogous result within quantum theory itself: indistinguishable fermions transmitted through a quantum network can generate correlations that distinguishable particles or indistinguishable bosons cannot reproduce without additional communication. In the same sense, fermions are fundamentally more nonlocal than bosons or distinguishable particles, motivating fermionic anticommutation and indistinguishability as unavoidable operational resources. Our result further implies that fermions can strictly surpass all qubit-based protocols for certain distributed computing tasks, demonstrating that a complete understanding of information processing requires going beyond qubits to fermionic information carriers - febits.
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Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K staff, amid the US DOD deal (Alice Speri/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/google-deepmind-uk-work…

email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…

Designed-Source Reductions and a Dual-Purpose Feasibility Band for Semantic Rate-Distortion
Joss Armstrong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11280 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11280 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11280
arXiv:2606.11280v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The joint rate-distortion framework of Stavrou and Kountouris (IEEE Transactions on Communications 2023) characterises dual-fidelity tradeoffs for semantic communication on stochastic semantic sources. Many task-oriented communication systems instead use designed sources, where the semantic object is a deterministic oracle allocation $\phi^(t)$ rather than a stochastic quantity given by nature. We isolate the subclass of designed sources under smooth concave utility with assumptions A1, A2 and Euclidean allocation codomain, and restrict the encoder class to deterministic common-category mappings. Within this subclass the SK exponential-tilting decoder and generalised Blahut--Arimoto iteration specialise to conditional-mean decoding and Lloyd--Max stationarity on $\phi^(t)$. When the second fidelity is a monotone single-letter distortion, the joint problem stays inside the SK admissible class; the common-category SK rate is lower-bounded by the max of the corresponding Shannon rate-distortion functions, with equality only when the common-category reconstruction is compatible and RDF-optimal. When the second fidelity is aggregate verification, the joint problem leaves the SK single-letter class and admits a constrained-design feasibility band $R_{\min}(\varepsilon^) \leq R \leq R_{\max}(\beta^)$ of width $\log_2(K_{\max}/K_{\min})$ bits in partition cardinality. The reduction and the band are scope statements on the SK apparatus, not modifications to it. A smart-grid economic-dispatch example with a non-technical-loss-detection contrast illustrates the band.
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Internal memo: Iranian strikes have rendered two AWS zones "hard down" in Dubai and Bahrain and Amazon expects them to be "unavailable for an extended period" (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/iran-strikes-leave-amazon…

Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones “Hard Down” in Bahrain and Dubai, Per Internal AWS Communication
Amazon tells its employees to deprioritize these regions as the Iran war deals meaningful damage to its infrastructure in the Gulf.

email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…

Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a "sustained, cross-border attack" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-ha…

Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root.

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…

email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…

lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 120833 nodes and 598066 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigrap…

uni_email: Email network (Uni. R-V, Spain, 2003)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Rovira i Virgili University in Spain, in 2003. The KONECT version is undirected.
This network has 1133 nodes and 10903 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 21901 nodes and 89176 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 4816 nodes and 9988 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

uni_email: Email network (Uni. R-V, Spain, 2003)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Rovira i Virgili University in Spain, in 2003. The KONECT version is undirected.
This network has 1133 nodes and 10903 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps