Tootfinder

Recommendations include —
•Avoid repeating misinfo w/o correction
•Leverage trusted sources to counter misinformation & provide accurate health info
•Debunk misinformation often &repeatedly w/ evidence-based methods
**•Fund basic & translational
research on the psychology of health misinformation , including effective ways to counter it **

Sander van der Linden (@profsanderlinden.bsky.social)
Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - https://awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/2026-77135-001.pdf

CyberSOCEval: Benchmarking LLMs Capabilities for Malware Analysis and Threat Intelligence Reasoning
Lauren Deason, Adam Bali, Ciprian Bejean, Diana Bolocan, James Crnkovich, Ioana Croitoru, Krishna Durai, Chase Midler, Calin Miron, David Molnar, Brad Moon, Bruno Ostarcevic, Alberto Peltea, Matt Rosenberg, Catalin Sandu, Arthur Saputkin, Sagar Shah, Daniel Stan, Ernest Szocs, Shengye Wan, Spencer Whitman, Sven Krasser, Joshua Saxe

CyberSOCEval: Benchmarking LLMs Capabilities for Malware Analysis and Threat Intelligence Reasoning
Today's cyber defenders are overwhelmed by a deluge of security alerts, threat intelligence signals, and shifting business context, creating an urgent need for AI systems to enhance operational security work. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to automate and scale Security Operations Center (SOC) operations, existing evaluations do not fully assess the scenarios most relevant to real-world defenders. This lack of informed evaluation impacts both AI developers and those apply…

We just got about an inch or so of pea-sized hail in our neighborhood, and just over 1/2 inch of measured precip on my weather station at a rate of just under 2 inch/hour. That counts as a deluge in the high desert where we are in northern Colorado.

📉 Either too little or too much: Report finds world's water cycles are getting more erratic
#climate

Either too little or too much: Report finds world's water cycles are getting more erratic
The water cycle has become increasingly erratic and extreme, swinging between deluge and drought, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It highlights the cascading impacts of too much or too little water on economies and society.

Although the upgrade from beta1 to beta2 was very smooth, I'm still learning on the availability of certain ports in various stages of beta-ism. Sometimes they are there and sometimes not yet?
But perhaps the whole backbone is changing, so a ports collection needs to be moved over as well.
So, all is there, except for river, wideriver and deluge.When you do a River spin the first two are quite essential 🥳 Patient is the careful adventurer.
Gotta say though that with zfs…

This is so cool. Is it still DAWless if I have a brace of iPads connected via MIDI to my Deluge? https://mastodon.social/@pkirn/115186036787905317

This is so cool. Is it still DAWless if I have a brace of iPads connected via MIDI to my Deluge? https://mastodon.social/@pkirn/115186036787905317

Judge Zia Faruqui, a former federal prosecutor,
said leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling their deluge of cases.
He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail for days while they evaluate charges.
“It’s not fair to say they’re losing credibility. We’re past that now,” Faruqui said.
He later added, “There’s no credibility left…

Judge upbraids prosecutors for handling of DC surge cases, saying they have 'no credibility left'
A federal magistrate judge has angrily accused top Justice Department prosecutors of trampling on the civil rights of people arrested during President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital. Judge Zia Faruqui said Thursday that leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling the cases. He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail…

I've been doing lots of roof repairs lately. I sealed up the skylights, and finally fixed a major leak that I hadn't been able to source. Had a couple of tiny leaks during last night's deluge, and made a couple minor patches today. Just waiting for tonight's downpour to see if they worked. 🌧️

SourceSplice: Source Selection for Machine Learning Tasks
Ambarish Singh, Romila Pradhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22186 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22186

SourceSplice: Source Selection for Machine Learning Tasks
Data quality plays a pivotal role in the predictive performance of machine learning (ML) tasks - a challenge amplified by the deluge of data sources available in modern organizations.Prior work in data discovery largely focus on metadata matching, semantic similarity or identifying tables that should be joined to answer a particular query, but do not consider source quality for high performance of the downstream ML task.This paper addresses the problem of determining the best subset of data sou…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has repeatedly called for a ban on drug advertising on television. .
Trump issued a new memorandum which would effectively reverse a 1997 policy change that opened the floodgates to a deluge of TV drug advertising,
It is likely to be aggressively opposed by the drug industry, which has long had the courts on its side on this issue.

Trump Moves to Crack Down on Drug Advertising
The administration is proposing a return to a 1990s-era policy that kept most drug ads off TV. That could dent the revenues of drugmakers and major networks.