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Qantas confirms personal info of 5.7M customers were held on the system compromised in a recent cyberattack, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers (Stephanie Chalmers/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/qan

Qantas confirms 5.7 million customers were impacted in cyber attack
Qantas Group chief executive Vanessa Hudson says the airline is focused on understanding what details of their data have been compromised and will let them know as soon as possible.

Beyond Communication Overhead: A Multilevel Monte Carlo Approach for Mitigating Compression Bias in Distributed Learning
Ze'ev Zukerman, Bassel Hamoud, Kfir Y. Levy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05508

Beyond Communication Overhead: A Multilevel Monte Carlo Approach for Mitigating Compression Bias in Distributed Learning
Distributed learning methods have gained substantial momentum in recent years, with communication overhead often emerging as a critical bottleneck. Gradient compression techniques alleviate communication costs but involve an inherent trade-off between the empirical efficiency of biased compressors and the theoretical guarantees of unbiased compressors. In this work, we introduce a novel Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) compression scheme that leverages biased compressors to construct statistically…

Thank you for the nice #qgisuc2025 summary and for the #Trajctools shout out, @… !

QGIS User Conference 2025
The QGIS International User Conference 2025 happened in Norrköping, Sweden from 2-3 June 2025. I have been to the previous conferences in 2024, 2023 and 2019 and always look forward to the annual e…

immigrant rights is a bike issue https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/freedom-to-move-why-immigration-belongs-in-the-mobility-conversation

Freedom to Move: Why Immigration Belongs in the Mobility Conversation — Streetsblog USA
"If movement is a right, then that right must apply to everyone regardless of identity."

Banjo Virtual Instrument Comparison Review
#Banjo #VI #MusicianTips

Banjo Virtual Instrument Comparison Review
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Kiind Conversations
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

« Face Š Trump et Š une direction démocrate dépassée, une poussée Š gauche se confirme aux Etats-Unis »
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/07/09/face-a-trump-…

« Face à Trump et à une direction démocrate dépassée, une poussée à gauche se confirme aux Etats-Unis »
Le 24 juin, Zohran Mamdani, un représentant de l’aile gauche du Parti démocrate, a remporté l’investiture pour la mairie de New York. Si son chemin vers la victoire sera sans doute escarpé, l’universitaire Mathieu Bonzom y voit, dans une tribune au « Monde », l’essor d’une gauche de plus en plus crédible.

The US Senate confirms Jonathan Gould to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Gould was previously the chief legal officer at Bitfury (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/362071/senate-confirm…

Towards an Explainable Comparison and Alignment of Feature Embeddings
Mohammad Jalali, Bahar Dibaei Nia, Farzan Farnia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06231 htt…

Towards an Explainable Comparison and Alignment of Feature Embeddings
While several feature embedding models have been developed in the literature, comparisons of these embeddings have largely focused on their numerical performance in classification-related downstream applications. However, an interpretable comparison of different embeddings requires identifying and analyzing mismatches between sample groups clustered within the embedding spaces. In this work, we propose the \emph{Spectral Pairwise Embedding Comparison (SPEC)} framework to compare embeddings and …