Tootfinder

Google says its Willow quantum chip using a new Quantum Echoes algorithm ran computations 13,000x faster than supercomputers, aiding drug and materials research (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/googles-quantum-computer-…

Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap
Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.

Google hails breakthrough as quantum computer surpasses ability of supercomputers;
Algorithm performed task beyond capability of classical computers, although experts say real-world application still years away
https://www.theguardian…

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

Sort A Brick stellt gebrauchte Klemmbausteine automatisch zu Sets zusammen
Sort A Brick stellt mit Computer Vision und KI aus gebrauchten Klemmbausteinen automatisch Sets zusammen. Fehlende Teile werden ergänzt.

China issues first industry standard for brain-computer interface medical devices https://technode.com/2025/09/17/china-issues-first-industry-standard-for-brain-computer-interface-medical-devices/ 我国第一项脑机接口医疗器械标准发布

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sudan Archives:
🎵 A COMPUTER LOVE
#SudanArchives
https://sudanarchives.bandcamp.com/track/a-computer-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/0t5G38IONmwyCuFUHZkWBG

TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen shares the numbers for November 2025 in its programming popularity index. It seems like C# is almost caught up with Java with a less than 1% difference between the fourth and fifth positions. Python continues to stand in a very comfortable first place.
"TIOBE Index for November 2025 - Is C# going to surpass Java for the first time in history?"

University of Michigan surveillance footage shows former co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss entering three team offices seconds before investigators say he hacked into the personal accounts of college athletes.

UM security cam shows Matt Weiss at time of computer hacking, FBI says
A sealed FBI file alleges Matt Weiss was in UM offices when computer accounts were hacked, leading to the theft of intimate photos and videos.

Dual-Mode Visual System for Brain-Computer Interfaces: Integrating SSVEP and P300 Responses
Ekgari Kasawala, Surej Mouli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15439 https://

Dual-Mode Visual System for Brain-Computer Interfaces: Integrating SSVEP and P300 Responses
In brain-computer interface (BCI) systems, steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP) and P300 responses have achieved widespread implementation owing to their superior information transfer rates (ITR) and minimal training requirements. These neurophysiological signals have exhibited robust efficacy and versatility in external device control, demonstrating enhanced precision and scalability. However, conventional implementations predominantly utilise liquid crystal display (LCD)-based visual…

The computer in this scene is a Macintosh Plus, with a completely fake user interface that still tries to pretend it’s Apple

In the 1980s there were a lot of television ads that showed how people might use technology in the future.
I remember one that showed a woman waking up in bed and (I think) speaking to the computer across the room to ask for the news and weather. The part that struck me odd then wasn't the use of voice command, it was the idea of wanting to interact with a computer right away in one's bedroom, before even having coffee or seeing sunlight. And now here we are.

I’m somewhat surprised there isn’t a vibrant subculture of hex grid computer keyboards. (The ones I’ve heard of are musical keyboards, not for typing.)
Re this from @…:
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115584712092872585

Training thermodynamic computers by gradient descent
Stephen Whitelam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15324 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15324

Training thermodynamic computers by gradient descent
We show how to adjust the parameters of a thermodynamic computer by gradient descent in order to perform a desired computation at a specified observation time. Within a digital simulation of a thermodynamic computer, training proceeds by maximizing the probability with which the computer would generate an idealized dynamical trajectory. The idealized trajectory is designed to reproduce the activations of a neural network trained to perform the desired computation. This teacher-student scheme re…

from my link log —
BBC computer literacy project archive.
https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/
saved 2020-03-26 https://dotat.at/:/JA63N.html

KSON Structured Object Notation
https://kson.org/

TalkBack does not offer an option to use computer vision & LLMs (“AI” for the scope of this thread) to describe images lacking alt text.
If you do it in Chrome, it overwrites all the good alt text with, well, crap.
Try it on this page:
https://srt.csb-cde.ca.gov/jaws/jaws-l

TFW you are into bikes but also into mini-computers and you get confused for a second...
#computer #bikeTooter

So my car has a computer that knows if I will fail inspection but has no UI to show me? That sucks.
#cars

Rant time:
Auf meinen Post mit dem Hamburger Informatikunterricht hin, ging mich ein Dude auf Threads aggressiv an, ich solle doch erst mal beweisen, dass das wegen Sexismus sei. Jungs bekämen ja nur deswegen früher Computer geschenkt, wegen ihres Gaming-Hobbys.
*grillenzirpen*
Dass er ganz zufällig genau meinen Punkt bestätigt hat, hat er natürlich nicht gemerkt.
(Dude war, wenig überraschend, ein Gamer.)
Ich habe meine Eltern jahrelang angebettelt, mir einen…

From Service-Oriented Computing to Metaverse Services: A Framework for Inclusive and Immersive Learning for Neurodivergent Students
Rachid Hamadi (School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW Sydney Australia), Abdelmounaam Rezgui (School of Information Technology Illinois State University Normal IL USA), Ali Darejeh (School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW Sydney Australia)

From Service-Oriented Computing to Metaverse Services: A Framework for Inclusive and Immersive Learning for Neurodivergent Students
The metaverse offers immersive and adaptive learning environments for neurodivergent students to thrive and reach their full potential. In this paper, we propose a generic framework that leverages metaverse services as an evolution beyond traditional service-oriented computing, enabling more interactive, personalized, and engaging educational experiences. By integrating AI-driven adaptability, multimodal interaction, and privacy-first service design, the framework ensures that learning remains …

So now I have HDR working on my desktop computer and it's just a sort of random joy when some image suddenly pops off super bright.

Bad UI: My wife bought a crockpot. No computer crap, just a control knob. Off. Low. High. Warm.
Dinner will be late tonight.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[4/4]:
- USCTNet: A deep unfolding nuclear-norm optimization solver for physically consistent HSI reconstr...
Xiaoyang Ma, Yiyang Chai, Xinran Qu, Hong Sun

Nefilim ransomware hacker pleads guilty to computer fraud https://therecord.media/nefilim-ransomware-hacker-fraud

Really wish we had a class like this at RPI back when I was there.
https://people.engr.tamu.edu/spalermo/ecen720.html
This is what I thought "advanced computer hardware design" would be.
Nope. It was doing IDE hard drive controllers on XC4000 se…

I partially made this for myself: At home, our internet isn't the fastest, so downloading the identical map files from the internet multiple times, to different devices, is slow and pointless. With this I can download them once and my computer and distribute them from there.
Works for other uses too: if you're on a metered internet connection. Or for folks living in rural communities with no connectivity at all. Being able to distribute the APK _and_ the map files locally can be really great!

Did I #dream of feeding a computer cat snacks? Perhaps.
But it had poor throughput, so they ended up stacking on top of the feeding hole.

Erinnert ihr euch noch an die gute alte Zeit, als diejenigen, die im Internet unterwegs waren, eine eigene Homepage hatten?

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Beyond Monads and Biproducts: A Uniform Interpretation of Parallelism in Intuitionistic Logic
Alejandro D\'iaz-Caro, Octavio Malherbe

Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interf…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

"In Phrack Magazine, this author learned at the end of the 1990s the subtle art of smashing the stack, an exploit that would become the starting point of many a computer security book afterward.
There is one magazine that has been around for a decade: the “International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out”, or “PoC||GTFO”.
(I should have probably warned readers about the profanity in the title, but nah, I assume them to be adults at this point.)"

Pastor Manul Laphroaig, T.G. S.B.
Paraphrasing a well-known software mogul who shall remain nameless in the pages of this magazine, insecure software is eating the world. The reasons of such sad state of things are varied and range from social to economic; the technological aspect is usually the one that concerns me the least. In this sea of unusable things and insecure networks, there is a “subculture” (a horrible word, but bear with me) of highly skilled individuals who teach each other how broken those things are. And ye…

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
TARRANT: It knows too much about me. [Scene shifts to the computer room, where Avon and Dayna, hands bound, are being interrogated by Grose and Lector. Two stormtroopers are at the back of the room.]
GROSE: [O.O.V.] It isn't the information we want, as such. It's the fun of extracting it. We can be very crude like that, can't we, Lector?

Replaced article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/1]:
- Examining Input Modalities and Visual Feedback Designs in Mobile Expressive Writing
Norihama, Geng, Miyazaki, Sato, Hirano, Hosio, Yatani

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

Ok fine here’s an old computer

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Sort A Brick stellt gebrauchte Klemmbausteine automatisch zu Sets zusammen

The number of Computer Misuse Act 1990 prosecutions hasn't really risen in the last five years, despite the perception of a rise in "cyber crime". Maybe this indicates a ceiling on the resources allocated to investigate and prosecute, or maybe not.
https://questions-state…

NFL longshot picks, 2025 Week 8 odds, player props: This parlay would return well over $28,000 on a $10 bet

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-longshot-picks-week-8-odds-playe…

I blogged about my cute little open source computer, the #mntpocketreform, and how it is connected to the idea of #permacomputing.
https://

FragmentRetro: A Quadratic Retrosynthetic Method Based on Fragmentation Algorithms
Yu Shee, Anthony M. Smaldone, Anton Morgunov, Gregory W. Kyro, Victor S. Batista
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15409

FragmentRetro: A Quadratic Retrosynthetic Method Based on Fragmentation Algorithms
Retrosynthesis, the process of deconstructing a target molecule into simpler precursors, is crucial for computer-aided synthesis planning (CASP). Widely adopted tree-search methods often suffer from exponential computational complexity. In this work, we introduce FragmentRetro, a novel retrosynthetic method that leverages fragmentation algorithms, specifically BRICS and r-BRICS, combined with stock-aware exploration and pattern fingerprint screening to achieve quadratic complexity. FragmentRetr…

Fine-Tuning Large Multimodal Models for Automatic Pronunciation Assessment
Ke Wang, Wenning Wei, Yan Deng, Lei He, Sheng Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15701 https://

Fine-Tuning Large Multimodal Models for Automatic Pronunciation Assessment
Automatic Pronunciation Assessment (APA) is critical for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), requiring evaluation across multiple granularities and aspects. Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) present new opportunities for APA, but their effectiveness in fine-grained assessment remains uncertain. This work investigates fine-tuning LMMs for APA using the Speechocean762 dataset and a private corpus. Fine-tuning significantly outperforms zero-shot settings and achieves competitive results on si…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
[1/1]:
- Regularity properties of distributions of correspondences without countable generation: applicati...
Motoki Otsuka

Browsing my timeline

Memory lane.
Many of my generation remember that feeling. When you had to go to school all day, only to come home, open MSN to talk to your friends, use a buzzer to get their attention, open your mailbox to find out there was no email, and share that computer with your whole family. Or when you got your first mobile phone—most likely a Nokia 3310—which you might still have after 20 years, with one block of battery remaining. Remember when you had to ask for directions to a street you’d…

I just found an old old website again by accident.
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
I used to read this every day, back when the internet was new.

WIRED: Sam Altman’s new brain venture, Merge Labs, will spin out of a nonprofit, Forest Neurotech https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interface-merge-labs-spin-out-nonprofit-forest-neurotech/ Focus on usin…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

Heck yes! #Raycast launched today for Windows! https://www.raycast.com/blog/raycast-for-windows

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/22/alumni-affairs-data-breach/
Penn, Princeton and now Harvard. Someone is definitely targeting the Ivies.

Data Breach at Harvard’s Development Office May Have Exposed Donor Records, Personal Information | News | The Harvard Crimson
Computer systems used by Harvard’s Alumni Affairs and Development Office were accessed by an “unauthorized party” earlier this week after a phone-based phishing attack, administrators announced in an email to University affiliates Saturday.

Somehow I managed to avoid opening my email until a minute ago, hours and hours after I sat down at the computer. I should do this more often.

Prostate Capsule Segmentation from Micro-Ultrasound Images using Adaptive Focal Loss
Kaniz Fatema, Vaibhav Thakur, Emad A. Mohammed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15595 https://

Prostate Capsule Segmentation from Micro-Ultrasound Images using Adaptive Focal Loss
Micro-ultrasound (micro-US) is a promising imaging technique for cancer detection and computer-assisted visualization. This study investigates prostate capsule segmentation using deep learning techniques from micro-US images, addressing the challenges posed by the ambiguous boundaries of the prostate capsule. Existing methods often struggle in such cases, motivating the development of a tailored approach. This study introduces an adaptive focal loss function that dynamically emphasizes both har…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[3/4]:
- cadrille: Multi-modal CAD Reconstruction with Online Reinforcement Learning
Kolodiazhnyi, Tarasov, Zhemchuzhnikov, Nikulin, Zisman, Vorontsova, Konushin, Kurenkov, Rukhovich

That I cannot type `CTRL ' e` and get `é` in this _extremely_ expensive #CAT (Computer Aided #Translation, not feline) tool for Windows and must resort to Windows ALT codes annoys the crap out of me. Like, we pay thousands of dollars for you every year and you can't handle é?

Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/technol<…

Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?
A.I. chatbots have been designed to behave in a humanlike way. Some experts think that’s a terrible idea.

Microsoft Open-Source Programs Office Director Stacy Haffner, and Developer Community VP Scott Hanselman announced today in the wake of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision, that they have just released the source code for the games Zork 1-3 under a MIT open-source license.
"Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source"

I've somehow managed to get the Android Studio ide bits to find all the imported packages/classes but the compiler can't. Aka the exact opposite of how life in Eclipse went 20 years ago. Such a troubling toolchain.
Added #Android

People out there really going “it’s not the problem of the Rails core team”.
WHO’S PROBLEM IS IT THEN???
Jesus fucking Christ, show at least a semblance of a spine and responsibility in leadership roles.
We’re talking fucking computer code versus the dignity and lives of people here.

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 346 nodes and 26832 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…

I know I talk a lot about technical challenges & frustrations of IT work, however:
I’ve had clients tip me
Gotten Christmas cards
Christmas presents
One client sends me a pie every year
And my all-time favorite, a scrawled note from a little girl thanking me for setting up her computer

162 requests for my location in the last 7 days from mostly "Windows Web Experience Pack" on Windows 11. Is that really necessary?? It even checks it when the computer is sleeping and not in use. At 3am. I shouldn't expect anything less from Microsoft but its still aggravating. #windows11

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/1]:
- Measurement and Potential Field-Based Patient Modeling for Model-Mediated Tele-ultrasound
Ryan S. Yeung, David G. Black, Septimiu E. Salcudean

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: Perhaps they should have.
MAJA: What do you mean?
VARON: I don't know. Perhaps Blake is guilty. Even so it's... too perfect.
MAJA: Where're you going?
VARON: The Public Records computer.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/259…

Inmo Air 3: Smartglasses versprechen vollwertigen Android-Computer zum Aufsetzen
Mit der auf Kickstarter erhältlichen Inmo Air 3 erhalten Unterstützer einen Android-Computer auf der Nase, der keine Verbindung zu einem Smartphone benötigt.

[2025-09-22 Mon (UTC), 1 new article found for cs.LO Logic in Computer Science]
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Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[2/4]:
- Integrating Spatiotemporal Vision Transformer into Digital Twins for High-Resolution Heat Stress ...
Wenjing Gong, Xinyue Ye, Keshu Wu, Suphanut Jamonnak, Wenyu Zhang, Yifan Yang, Xiao Huang

Study: brain-computer interface company Science's PRIMA device, which includes a retinal implant and special glasses, restored vision in some blind patients (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/2

This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle
Competition to deploy commercial brain-computer interfaces is heating up.

Session-Level Spoken Language Assessment with a Multimodal Foundation Model via Multi-Target Learning
Hong-Yun Lin, Jhen-Ke Lin, Chung-Chun Wang, Hao-Chien Lu, Berlin Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16025

Session-Level Spoken Language Assessment with a Multimodal Foundation Model via Multi-Target Learning
Spoken Language Assessment (SLA) estimates a learner's oral proficiency from spontaneous speech. The growing population of L2 English speakers has intensified the demand for reliable SLA, a critical component of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Existing efforts often rely on cascaded pipelines, which are prone to error propagation, or end-to-end models that often operate on a short audio window, which might miss discourse-level evidence. This paper introduces a novel multimodal found…

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

I wrote a post about how I get the GPX data from my Apple Watch/iPhone to my computer so I can do whatever I want with it...
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/10/20/gpx-files-from-an-iphone-apple-watch/

GPX Files from an iPhone/Apple Watch
Get the data that shows how you got there...

(LinkedIn) China's bold push into brain-computer interfaces: From policy to practice https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chinas-bold-push-brain-computer-interfaces-from-policy-chan-phd-ewghc/

China’s Bold Push into Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Policy to Practice
How government funding, insurance reform, and clinical breakthroughs are positioning China as a global BCI powerhouse The Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) landscape is experiencing a seismic shift, and China is emerging as a formidable force in this transformative technology. Having spent over a decad

iPad Pro (M5, 2025) review: amazing performance, hardware remains unbeaten, and iPadOS is getting more Mac-like, but still too pricey for a secondary computer (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/803105/apple-ipad-pro-2025-review-fast-fas…

Apple iPad Pro (2025) review: fast, faster, fastest
This year’s model is a teeny-tiny upgrade to an already fabulous tablet. But there’s a glimmer of something bigger here.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[1/4]:
- Beyond Pixels: Enhancing LIME with Hierarchical Features and Segmentation Foundation Models
Patrick Knab, Sascha Marton, Christian Bartelt

The Missing Piece: A Case for Pre-Training in 3D Medical Object Detection
Katharina Eckstein, Constantin Ulrich, Michael Baumgartner, Jessica K\"achele, Dimitrios Bounias, Tassilo Wald, Ralf Floca, Klaus H. Maier-Hein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15947

The Missing Piece: A Case for Pre-Training in 3D Medical Object Detection
Large-scale pre-training holds the promise to advance 3D medical object detection, a crucial component of accurate computer-aided diagnosis. Yet, it remains underexplored compared to segmentation, where pre-training has already demonstrated significant benefits. Existing pre-training approaches for 3D object detection rely on 2D medical data or natural image pre-training, failing to fully leverage 3D volumetric information. In this work, we present the first systematic study of how existing pre…

#TGIQF: Das Quiz rund um Konrad Zuse
Mit seinem Z3 war Konrad Zuse seiner Zeit voraus: Er erfand den ersten echten Computer. Unser Quiz widemt sich dem IT-Pionier unser Quiz. Knobeln Sie mit!

[2025-09-22 Mon (UTC), 3 new articles found for cs.GT Computer Science and Game Theory]
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dblp_coauthor_snap: DBLP authors (2012)
A coauthorship network extracted from the DBLP computer science manuscript database, in 2012. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of computer scientists and their publications.
This network has 425957 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted, Metadata, Projection

«Imagine a carpenter who couldn’t figure out how to adjust their table saw, or a surgeon who shrugged and said something like, “I’m just not a scalpel person.” We would never accept that. But in the field of knowledge work, “I’m just not a tech person” has become a permanent identity instead of a temporary gap to be filled»
Tech is partially to blame, but totally agree on the "permanent identity" bit of where people refuse to learn the tools of their trade
/HT @…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/please-learn-how-to-use-your-computer/

As scientists show they can read inner speech, brain implant ‘pioneers’ fight for neural data privacy, access rights https://therecord.media/neural-data-privacy-brain-implants

Enhancing visual brain-computer interface through #V1-targeted #rTMS by modulating visual attention https://

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[2/2]:
- MTS-DMAE: Dual-Masked Autoencoder for Unsupervised Multivariate Time Series Representation Learning
Yi Xu, Yitian Zhang, Yun Fu

[2025-09-22 Mon (UTC), 18 new articles found for cs.HC Human-Computer Interaction]
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student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

I thought my code wasn't working but then I remember I left a UF2 board plugged into my computer via USB and it cripples the Finder so it cannot show newly created files... unplugged it and my script's file showed up.
#FTFF

Fun fact, your computer doesn't have USB ports (USB is a protocol, not a connector).
Funner fact, even if your computer has USB-C receptacles it might not be using any type of USB as protocol for a specific connection.
Funnest fact, there's at least a dozen different types of cables that use USB-C plugs with various capabilities, sometimes mutually incompatible and often silently falling back to slower protocols.

Ukrainian national Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak pleaded guilty to his role in launching Netflix ransomware attacks. He faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ukrainian-national-…

Ukrainian National Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Use Nefilim Ransomware to Attack Companies in the United States and Other Countries
A Ukrainian national pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud for his role in a series of international ransomware attacks.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[1/2]:
- Video2Roleplay: A Multimodal Dataset and Framework for Video-Guided Role-playing Agents
Xueqiao Zhang, Chao Zhang, Jingtao Xu, Yifan Zhu, Xin Shi, Yi Yang, Yawei Luo

From China, on visual-to-auditory sensory substitution: Image-to-sound conversion and automated classification for blind assistance https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3773365.3773472 2025 8th International Conference on Computer Information Science and Artificial Intelligence, in Wuhan, Chin…

Boston-based Neurable, which builds an OS for brain-computer interfaces, raised a $35M Series A led by Spectrum Moonshot Fund, bringing its total raised to $65M (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/12/19/neurable-r…

Exclusive: Neurable raises $35M for brain-computer interface AI
The company plans to kick off another raise next year, despite having 18 months of runway.

In-Ear Electrode EEG for Practical SSVEP BCI
Surej Mouli, Ramaswamy Palaniappan, Emmanuel Molefi, Ian McLoughlin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15449 https://a…

In-Ear Electrode EEG for Practical SSVEP BCI
Steady State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP) methods for brain computer interfaces (BCI) are popular due to higher information transfer rate and easier setup with minimal training, compared to alternative methods. With precisely generated visual stimulus frequency, it is possible to translate brain signals into external actions or signals. Traditionally, SSVEP data is collected from the occipital region using electrodes with or without gel, normally mounted on a head cap. In this experimental s…

Understanding the Role of Large Language Models in Competitive Programming
Dongyijie Primo Pan, Ji Zhu, Lan Luo, Zhiqi Gao, Xin Tong, Pan Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15867 ht…

Understanding the Role of Large Language Models in Competitive Programming
This paper investigates how large language models (LLMs) are reshaping competitive programming. The field functions as an intellectual contest within computer science education and is marked by rapid iteration, real-time feedback, transparent solutions, and strict integrity norms. Prior work has evaluated LLMs performance on contest problems, but little is known about how human stakeholders -- contestants, problem setters, coaches, and platform stewards -- are adapting their workflows and conte…

Source: Twenty, which uses AI to help hackers for the US military penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $38M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

Anyone using UTM/QEMU with a NT 3.51 VM?
I’m looking for correct network settings. It detects NE2000 ISA and assigns an IP but I can’t ping anything.
UTM mentions to set IRQ to 9 but that’s not an option I see (it’s set to 2).
Mainly I want to access a FTP server on the host computer to transfer files.
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Relational Dissonance in Human-AI Interactions: The Case of Knowledge Work
Emrecan Gulay, Eleonora Picco, Enrico Glerean, Corinna Coupette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15836 https…

Relational Dissonance in Human-AI Interactions: The Case of Knowledge Work
When AI systems allow human-like communication, they elicit increasingly complex relational responses. Knowledge workers face a particular challenge: They approach these systems as tools while interacting with them in ways that resemble human social interaction. To understand the relational contexts that arise when humans engage with anthropomorphic conversational agents, we need to expand existing human-computer interaction frameworks. Through three workshops with qualitative researchers, we f…

Cyberangriff: Bundestagspolizei warnt Fraktionen vor gefährlichen USB-Sticks
In vielen Abgeordnetenbüros sind Postsendungen auf Englisch mit einem USB-Stick eingegangen. Die Polizei mahnt, solche Geräte nicht an Computer anzuschließen.

Windows 11 Copilot AI hands-on: despite Microsoft advertising the feature as able to "understand you", it delivers inconsistent and often incorrect responses (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/822443/mic

Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
Microsoft is advertising its Windows Copilot AI as “the computer you can talk to.” How does that hold up to testing, and how does it track with CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitions?

The aftermath of abandoned neurotech: ethical and regulatory challenges in the dawn of brain-computer interfaces #BCI

The Aftermath of Abandoned Neurotech: Ethical and Regulatory Challenges in the Dawn of Brain-Computer Interfaces - Knowing Neurons
By Elizabeth Bottorff

Revolutionary 65,536-electrode wireless brain-computer interface #BCI

Revolutionary 65,536-Electrode Wireless Brain-Computer Interface
In a groundbreaking development poised to revolutionize the field of neurotechnology, researchers have unveiled a sophisticated brain-computer interface (BCI) that integrates an impressive array of

Google releases the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, built on Gemini 2.5 Pro's capabilities to power agents that can interact with UIs, in preview via the API (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-computer-use-model/

Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
Today we are releasing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model via the API, which outperforms leading alternatives at browser and mobile tasks.

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.

Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-balancing-act-googles-co…

Inside the Balancing Act Over Google’s Compute Crunch
Earlier this year, Google convened a group of its top executives to address what some staffers see as an existential problem: the company doesn’t have enough computer chips for everyone who wants them. A shortage of computing capacity was creating internal tensions, as leaders of Google’s varied ...