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Check out my latest CSO piece, which provides the key takeaways from the 2026 NDAA compromise bill released earlier this week, chief among which are provisions that protect the mobile communications of top brass and requirements to safeguard AI systems from digital threats.
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Key cybersecurity takeaways from the 2026 NDAA
A 4.1% increase in military cyber funding in the FY2026 NDAA budget underpins new requirements for hardened mobile devices, AI security frameworks, and expanded DoD cyber workforce authorities.

The Trump regime's view on
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Prototyping Digital Social Spaces through Metaphor-Driven Design: Translating Spatial Concepts into an Interactive Social Simulation
Yoojin Hong, Martina Di Paola, Braahmi Padmakumar, Hwi Joon Lee, Mahnoor Shafiq, Joseph Seering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02759

Prototyping Digital Social Spaces through Metaphor-Driven Design: Translating Spatial Concepts into an Interactive Social Simulation
Social media platforms are central to communication, yet their designs remain narrowly focused on engagement and scale. While researchers have proposed alternative visions for online spaces, these ideas are difficult to prototype within platform constraints. In this paper, we introduce a metaphor-driven system to help users imagine and explore new social media environments. The system translates users' metaphors into structured sets of platform features and generates interactive simulations pop…

Rectified Decoupled Dataset Distillation: A Closer Look for Fair and Comprehensive Evaluation
Xinhao Zhong, Shuoyang Sun, Xulin Gu, Chenyang Zhu, Bin Chen, Yaowei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19743 …

Rectified Decoupled Dataset Distillation: A Closer Look for Fair and Comprehensive Evaluation
Dataset distillation aims to generate compact synthetic datasets that enable models trained on them to achieve performance comparable to those trained on full real datasets, while substantially reducing storage and computational costs. Early bi-level optimization methods (e.g., MTT) have shown promising results on small-scale datasets, but their scalability is limited by high computational overhead. To address this limitation, recent decoupled dataset distillation methods (e.g., SRe$^2$L) separ…

Digital Signal Processing from Classical Coherent Systems to Continuous-Variable QKD: A Review of Cross-Domain Techniques, Applications, and Challenges
Davi Juv\^encio Gomes de Sousa, Caroline da Silva Morais Alves, Val\'eria Loureiro da Silva, Nelson Alves Ferreira Neto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20141…

Digital Signal Processing from Classical Coherent Systems to Continuous-Variable QKD: A Review of Cross-Domain Techniques, Applications, and Challenges
This systematic review investigates the application of digital signal processing (DSP) techniques -- originally developed for coherent optical communication systems to continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD). The convergence of these domains has enabled significant advances in CV-QKD performance, particularly in phase synchronization, polarization tracking, and excess noise mitigation. To provide a comprehensive and reproducible synthesis of this emerging field, we employed the AP…

User-Centric Communication Service Provision for Edge-Assisted Mobile Augmented Reality
Conghao Zhou, Jie Gao, Shisheng Hu, Nan Cheng, Weihua Zhuang, Xuemin Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25905

User-Centric Communication Service Provision for Edge-Assisted Mobile Augmented Reality
Future 6G networks are envisioned to facilitate edge-assisted mobile augmented reality (MAR) via strengthening the collaboration between MAR devices and edge servers. In order to provide immersive user experiences, MAR devices must timely upload camera frames to an edge server for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)-based device pose tracking. In this paper, to cope with user-specific and non-stationary uplink data traffic, we develop a digital twin (DT)-based approach for user-centric…