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Der dänische staatlich subventionierte Postzusteller PostNord wird in den nächsten Tag das letzte Mal Briefpost ✉️zustellen. Briefkästen 📮sind bereits in ganz Dänemark abgebaut. Am 1.1. 2026 verlieren Briefmarken in Dänemark ihre Gültigkeit.
Im bei Verwaltungsprozessen komplett digitalisierten Dänemark 🇩🇰 gab es ohnehin nur noch in Ausnahmefällen (z. B. Urlaubspostkarten) privat verschickte Post auf Papier.

Just read the 'don't look up' paper on satellite link interception; it's quite fun. The bit that surprises me a bit is that a lot of the traffic they sniffed was encapsulated in DVB-S signals; different lower level protocols, but they were using a standard DVB-S card for it.
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DOSA: Differentiable Model-Based One-Loop Search for DNN Accelerators
Charles Hong, Qijing Huang, Grace Dinh, Mahesh Subedar, Yakun Sophia Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10702 …

DOSA: Differentiable Model-Based One-Loop Search for DNN Accelerators
In the hardware design space exploration process, it is critical to optimize both hardware parameters and algorithm-to-hardware mappings. Previous work has largely approached this simultaneous optimization problem by separately exploring the hardware design space and the mapspace - both individually large and highly nonconvex spaces - independently. The resulting combinatorial explosion has created significant difficulties for optimizers. In this paper, we introduce DOSA, which consists of di…

A silent scenery in four acts...
(Selenium-toned[1] 4x6 salt print (still in final wash) plus previous work-in-progress stages... see alt text for details)
The picture/motif itself is one of my personal favorites and was taken 4 years ago in the Alpstein massif, when clouds were spontaneously forming around us, creating a wonderful light/scene/drama and a dear memory... now also as print which likely will/can outlast myself
[1] The tones will become more neutral once dry...…

Five Minutes of DDoS Brings down Tor: DDoS Attacks on the Tor Directory Protocol and Mitigations
Zhongtang Luo, Jianting Zhang, Akshat Neerati, Aniket Kate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10755

Five Minutes of DDoS Brings down Tor: DDoS Attacks on the Tor Directory Protocol and Mitigations
The Tor network offers network anonymity to its users by routing their traffic through a sequence of relays. A group of nine directory authorities maintains information about all available relay nodes using a distributed directory protocol. We observe that the current protocol makes a steep synchrony assumption, which makes it vulnerable to natural as well as adversarial non-synchronous communication scenarios over the Internet. In this paper, we show that it is possible to cause a failure in t…

💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
If you want to know more, read the thread below:
https://bsky.app/profile/marmole6.bsky.social/post/3m5m2u5u7gk2m

Emilio Mármol Sánchez (@marmole6.bsky.social)
During past years, research focused on ancient #DNA has gained a lot of interest, with dozens of papers being routinely published each year📃 But what about ancient #RNA? The common preconception is that these molecules, as opposed to DNA, do not last long after cell death. https://media.tenor.com/gMBUgkYXPxIAAAAC/ponke-ponkesol.gif?hh=498&ww=498

Boston Globe editor Nancy Barnes steps down from her role but will remain on staff as editor-at-large; she joined the paper as the first female editor in 2023 (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/12/business/nanc…

Boston Globe editor Nancy Barnes to step down
In a note to the Globe newsroom, Barnes said she is stepping down at the end of next week and will stay on staff as an editor-at-large.

Shelf space for paper magazines in London WHSmith outlets probably down around another 30% since the last time I remarked on it.

Towards non-commutative crepant resolutions of affine toric Gorenstein varieties
Aimeric Malter, Artan Sheshmani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11664 https://a…

Towards non-commutative crepant resolutions of affine toric Gorenstein varieties
In this paper we prove a common generalisation of results by Špenko-Van den Bergh and Iyama-Wemyss that can be used to generate non-commutative crepant resolutions (NCCRs) of some affine toric Gorenstein varieties. We use and generalise results by Novaković to study NCCRs for affine toric Gorenstein varieties associated to cones over polytopes with interior points. As a special case, we consider the case where the polytope is reflexive with $\le \dim P+2$ vertices, using results of Borisov an…

Over the past two months the U.S. has blown up at least 20 boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
“80 people have been killed in what are extrajudicial executions under international law,” says Juan Pappier, Americas deputy director at Human Rights Watch.
The Pentagon claims the boats were carrying drugs but officials have acknowledged they don’t know who has been killed.
The U.S.now has 15,000 military personnel in the region.

“Gunboat Diplomacy”: U.S. War in Latin America Feared as Hegseth Launches “Operation Southern Spear”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the launch of Operation Southern Spear to target suspected drug traffickers in South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The U.S. now has 15,000 military personnel in the region. Over the past two months the U.S. has blown up at least 20 boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. “80 people have been killed in what are extrajudicial executions under international law,” says Juan Pappier, Americas deputy director at Human Rights Watch. Th…