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A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/scien…

At the Cybathlon, May the Best Brain-Computer Interface Win
Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise.

Apple and Home Office agree to drop legal claim over encryption backdoor
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366632561/Apple-and-Home-Office-agree-to-drop-legal-claim-over-encryption-backdoor

Apple and Home Office agree to drop legal claim over encryption backdoor
Investigatory Powers Tribunal rules that Apple’s appeal against the Home Office will no longer proceed because of a ‘change in circumstances’

Proactive and Reactive Autoscaling Techniques for Edge Computing
Suhrid Gupta, Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam, Rajkumar Buyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10166 https://

Proactive and Reactive Autoscaling Techniques for Edge Computing
Edge computing allows for the decentralization of computing resources. This decentralization is achieved through implementing microservice architectures, which require low latencies to meet stringent service level agreements (SLA) such as performance, reliability, and availability metrics. While cloud computing offers the large data storage and computation resources necessary to handle peak demands, a hybrid cloud and edge environment is required to ensure SLA compliance. Several auto-scaling a…

I finally stuffed more drives into my TrueNAS box and got the covers back in place. The next step will be to get it off the floor and onto a shelf.
#TrueNAS #NAS #selfHosting

Chairman of Prince Group Indicted for Operating Cambodian Forced Labor Scam Compounds Engaged in Cryptocurrency Fraud Schemes (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chairman-prince-group-indicted-operating-cambodian-forced-labor-scam-compounds-engaged
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p121#a251014p121

Weekend Reads
* Reflections on the .us TLD
https://computer.rip/2025-11-11-dot-us.html
* Freedom on the Net 2025 report

memories of .us

Universal Analog Computation: Fra\"iss\'e limits of dynamical systems
Levin Hornischer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10184 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Universal Analog Computation: Fraïssé limits of dynamical systems
Analog computation is an alternative to digital computation, that has recently re-gained prominence, since it includes neural networks. Further important examples are cellular automata and differential analyzers. While analog computers offer many advantages, they lack a notion of universality akin to universal digital computers. Since analog computers are best formalized as dynamical systems, we review scattered results on universal dynamical systems, identifying four senses of universality and…

Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform providing a "secure, fortified space" to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/818364/google-private-ai-compute

Google is introducing its own version of Apple’s private AI cloud compute
Google is rolling out Private AI Compute to use the cloud for AI requests while keeping on-device levels of privacy, a similar feature to Apple. 

Man Stores AI-Generated 'Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/man-stores-ai-generated-robot-porn-on-his-government-computer-loses-access-to-nuclear-secrets/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p64#a251014p64

A US judge rules that Apple and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by X and xAI accusing them of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in AI (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20