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Citizen Lab details AdFection, a zero-click spyware campaign where an Israeli ad company routed targets to spyware servers and infected dozens of devices (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nightmare-scenario-zero-click-spyware-is-infec…

‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads
Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.

from my link log —
Fanout and latency percentiles in distributed systems.
https://paulcavallaro.com/blog/fanouts-and-percentiles/
saved 2020-07-27

Skydance stock falls 25% after it distributed ~471M warrants to Paramount Skydance Class B shareholders, giving them the option to buy stock in the new company (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/skydance-stock-drops-warr…

Skydance Stock Down 25% After Warrants Issued to Paramount Investors
Shares of Skydance Corp., formed through the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, fell as much as 25% in trading on Oct. 14. The drop came as the Skydance, led by chairman and CEO David Ellison, distributed about 471 million warrants giving holders of Paramount Skydance's PSKY Class B shares the option to purchase stock in the new company.

'Detailfotografie' #FotoVorschlag
Oh I posted this one recently but I think it also fits very well for the 'details' topic. And it has some waterdrops to cool your timeline during the heat ;)
Happy Saturday my #photography friends

Thalamocortical architecture shapes structural and functional plasticity after early sensory loss https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.05.743029v2 In blindness, "reduced lateral geniculate nucleus volume";

Thalamocortical architecture shapes structural and functional plasticity after early sensory loss
Early sensory loss transforms the functional organization of affected sensory systems, with regions that normally support vision or audition participating in noncanonical perceptual and cognitive functions. Such reorganization requires coordination across distributed networks. Higher-order thalamic nuclei are positioned to support these interactions through their widespread reciprocal cortical connectivity, yet studies of sensory-loss plasticity have focused primarily on cortex and first-order …

The extended version of "Special Delivery: Programming with Mailbox Types" just got accepted to JFP!!! I am absolutely skipping with joy this morning; 5 years in the making all in all.
Few minor things left to do but immensely happy and proud of this work: https://zenodo.org/records/20276673

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

Citizen Lab: in 2024 and 2025, 45 devices of Al Jazeera were targeted with zero-click attacks delivered by targeted ads from an Israeli-founded marketing firm (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nightmare-scenario-zero-click-spyware-is-…

‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads
Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.

"#Capitalism slightly better distributed" is not a #left wing vision, @…. It is an explicitly right wing vision, and any political party which advances that vision — whether it's #UKLabour

"The introduction of these symbolic systems to theory-free systems is completely rational, and yet it represents an admission of a key limitation that theory-free AI cannot overcome. That limitation is both a technical fact, but even more importantly, it's a fact about theory-free AI's political economy: about the limitations of trading off expertise for money.
...
Both money and expertise are scarce, but they are unevenly distributed"

"South Korea forecast to add 3.5 GW of solar in 2026"
#SouthKorea #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower

South Korea forecast to add 3.5 GW of solar in 2026 - pv magazine Global
The Export–Import Bank of Korea says the country is on track to add more this solar this year than last year, as the Korean government works on developing a distributed power grid that facilitates greater integration of distributed energy resources.

"92 percent of the country has broadband, and you have people like me who have mini data centers in a closet."
IEEE Spectrum's new piece on distributed AI inference features Evolving Edge - orchestrating idle home compute instead of buying more GPUs.
Full piece here: https://spectrum.ieee.…

AI Companies Turn to Distributed Computing in Homes
These companies are paying to use home servers

RE: https://chaosfem.tw/@ellieraejaye/117375856506127206
Fascism is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

hmm i wonder how helpful it would be for git repo web browsing servers to encode the client ip in deep links, to stymie distributed crawlers
(it would probably need a suitably protected “share” button for use by humans)

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
— software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
https://www.

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.

«rustkvd — Production-grade Distributed Key-Value Store in Rust:
A battle-hardened distributed KV store built from scratch in Rust - Raft consensus, custom LSM tree, consistent hashing, MVCC, and gRPC API. Six crates. Zero compromises.»
Know this which of you and do you use it productively, what is your impression and experience with it?
🦀 https://

Finally arrived at c-base in #berlin for the #fediday2026 . So many great initiatives to build alternative social media platforms, fully distributed! Join my talk at 1 pm on scalable hosting options for Mastodon and Peertube on site or streamed via fair.tube by @…

Empirical likelihood confidence regions for ordered bivariate means
Naresh Garg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12174 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12174 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12174
arXiv:2608.12174v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Let $\boldsymbol{X}_i=(X_{1i},X_{2i})^\top$ be independent and identically distributed observations with mean $\boldsymbol{\mu}=(\mu_1,\mu_2)^\top$ constrained by $\mu_1\leq\mu_2$. We study empirical-likelihood inference for a fixed mean vector and distinguish it from the previously known test of equality against an ordered alternative. At a fixed interior point, the constrained empirical likelihood ratio has the usual $\chi^2_2$ limit. At a fixed boundary point $(m,m)^\top$, its limit is the chi-bar-square distribution $\tfrac12\chi^2_1 \tfrac12\chi^2_2$. By contrast, profiling the unknown common mean in the equality-versus-order test yields $\tfrac12\chi^2_0 \tfrac12\chi^2_1$, the $k=2$ ordered-mean case of El Barmi (1996). We give an exact reduction of the latter statistic to the empirical likelihood of the paired differences, establish the localization step needed for the fixed-boundary expansion, and derive a local-to-boundary limit showing that interior calibration is not uniform over $n^{-1/2}$-neighborhoods of the boundary. Monte Carlo experiments under Gaussian, Student $t_5$, and shifted log-normal sampling examine fixed, boundary, and local regimes with explicit numerical-failure accounting. Illustrative paired-data analyses show the practical distinction between fixed-candidate confidence regions, directional equality tests, and ordinary scalar empirical-likelihood intervals truncated to the nonnegative parameter space.
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California's legislature passes a bill exempting open-source OSes like Linux from a 2025 age-verification law; Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android remain in scope (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
https:/…

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.

Distributed Stochastic Smoothing ADMM for Penalized Quantile Regression
Rongmei Liang, Xiaofei Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09220 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.09220
arXiv:2608.09220v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Quantile regression is well suited to heterogeneous and heavy-tailed data, but computation becomes challenging for large, distributed data sets because the check loss is nonsmooth. We propose a distributed stochastic smoothing alternating direction method of multipliers (DSS-ADMM) for horizontally partitioned penalized quantile regression. Each worker computes a mini-batch gradient of a Huber-smoothed check loss, and a coordinator performs a single proximal aggregation step for the regularizer. Raw observations remain local, worker updates run in parallel, and the method requires no matrix inversion. For proper, closed, and convex penalties, stacking the local coefficient vectors yields a standard two-block stochastic ADMM formulation. With fixed smoothing, we establish an expected $O(\log K/\sqrt K)$ joint objective-feasibility bound and an explicit $\eps/4$ approximation term for the original check-loss objective; when the smooth block is strongly convex, the bound improves to $O(\log K/K)$. We also characterize the scope of an extension to the minimax concave penalty and the smoothly clipped absolute deviation penalty. Reproducible simulations consider both homogeneous worker partitions, in which observations are independently and identically distributed across workers, and heterogeneous partitions, in which worker-specific covariate distributions differ. Sensitivity studies and analyses of the diabetes and Engel data illustrate the trade-offs among per-observation gradient evaluations, communication, consensus, sparsity, and prediction.
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Trump has begun sending $500 “refund” checks,
along with a signed letter taking credit for the payments,
to Americans who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
The letter assails the Biden administration and Obamacare
while touting the Trump administration’s efforts to lower health care costs.
The money is being distributed to nearly a million Americans
less than a month ahead of the midterm elections,
giving a last-minute finan…

Trump Sends Obamacare ‘Refund’ Checks Ahead of Midterm Elections
The $500 checks are accompanied by a letter signed by the president that criticizes the Biden administration for overcharging Americans for health insurance.

Visual-to-Haptic Augmentation in XR: A Wearable Glove for Perceptual Grounding in Multimodal Interaction
Faisal Mohd, Hamdi Elsaddik, Erhan Baturay Onural, Jihong Zhang, Fedwa Laamarti, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10368 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10368 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10368
arXiv:2608.10368v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Extended Reality (XR) systems increasingly deliver high-fidelity visual and auditory experiences, yet tactile perception remains comparatively underutilized as a modality for enriching embodied interaction. This work presents a visual-to-haptic wearable glove and a feature-based visual-to-haptic mapping algorithm that translates spatial and temporal visual features from images and videos into distributed vibrotactile patterns. The proposed method extracts motion, edge, and brightness cues and fuses them into actuator-level intensity maps aligned with a 29-actuator glove arranged in a five-by-seven layout.
The system is implemented through a modular four-layer architecture comprising the XR environment, media content handling, visual-to-haptic processing, and embedded haptic hardware. A within-subject user study (N = 20) compared visual-only interaction with visual-plus-haptic augmentation across texture-based and dynamic video scenarios. Results indicate that tactile augmentation significantly improves perceived realism in dynamic video scenarios and enhances immersion and visual-tactile correspondence across conditions, with stronger and more consistent effects observed for dynamic visual events.
While the current implementation operates in a single-user, offline-synchronized configuration, the findings demonstrate that vision-driven tactile augmentation can function as a perceptual enhancement layer within multimodal XR systems. Such a layer may provide a foundation for future socially enriched XR environments where coherent multisensory grounding supports higher-level interaction and communication.
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trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

🔹 4-node "junky" rack cluster: ~€1000 total, 50GB distributed VRAM via llama.cpp RPC
🔹 Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B REAP-pruned: 70 tok/s gen
vs. an H100 at ~$30k, that's a 250-375x cost difference for hobby-scale inference
r/LocalLLaMA and r/BC250Gaming are full of these builds 🧵

Cat is warning that small catsalad models could soon be able to self-replicate across fedi instances, from Mastodon to *key servers, creating distributed catnets capable of meowing without relying on central command.

Google adds third-party games store Aptoide to the Play Store for Android users in the US, following a judge's orders in the antitrust lawsuit with Epic (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

Third-party app stores are rolling out in Google Play, but there's only one right now
Aptoide has become the first app store distributed inside Google Play under a judge's order.

Yes! Finally some good news in the #survailence debate. #linux exempted from age verification.
https://…

FYI, from now until midnight (CST) Sunday, all physical items in the Elevator Bath catalog are 25% off with code AUGUST. If you want recommendations, lemme know. https://elevatorbath.bandcamp.com/music

Elevator Bath
Elegant abstract music. Since 1998. Distributed by Clandestine → https://clandestinedistribution.com/ Not currently accepting demos.

F* "AI"!🤬
"At any one time, across 5 geo-distributed nodes, there are 14 CPU cores doing nothing but rendering git commits as html."🤬🤬🤬
At least just clone the repository and don't crawl every page as html.🤦
Real "Anti-Inteligence" == doing stuff the worst, stupidest way.🤬
https://

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

Distributed implantable microchips as wireless networks for neural sensing and stimulation https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1855768/full neural dust, neural motes;

Frontiers | Distributed implantable microchips as wireless networks for neural sensing and stimulation
We examine ongoing research for implantable sensors and stimulators for future brain-computer applications and give a review on the concept where grain-of-sa...

Another paper discussing how LLM agents may "get ideas", this time not as a distributed attack strategy (cf. #LLM #agents

It's the day of @…! I'll give my talk on Local-First Distributed Configuration in about 2 hours here, and you can watch it remotely!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0pw1iVs_Q0

In my experience, at least, it feels like offshoring went through a productive evolution over the years, from
“Just farm it out to a bunch of those third world people who are cheap and barely even exist as humans!!”
to
“We can totally have globally distributed software teams with some people in places with a lower cost of living, as long as we work extra hard to make sure everyone functions as a team.”
That may be a rosy picture that comes from my own limited circles, but…that's the progress I saw. I wonder when / if folks will do similar learning about the current cost-cutting manias.

Euclid: Quick Data Release (Q1) -- Exploring the detailed visual morphology of galaxies in clusters
Mas-Buitrago, Kruk, O'Ryan, Nardone, La Marca, Awad, Baes, Fossati, G\'eron, Ghaffari, Girardi, Lintott, Sorce, Altieri, Durret, Pettorino, Irureta-Goyena, Simmons, Reerink, S\'anchez, Knapen, Shankar, Duran-Camacho, P\'erez-Mart\'inez, Walmsley, Auricchio, Baccigalupi, Baldi, Bardelli, Battaglia, Biviano, Bolzonella, Bonchi, Branchini, Brescia, Brinchmann, Camera, Ca\~nas-Herrera, Capobianco, Carbone, Carretero, Castellano, Castignani, Cavuoti, Cimatti, Colodro-Conde, Congedo, Conselice, Conversi, Copin, Costille, Courbin, Courtois, Cropper, Degaudenzi, De Lucia, Dole, Dubath, Dupac, Dusini, Ealet, Fabricius, Farina, Farinelli, Ferriol, Fosalba, Fotopoulou, Frailis, Franceschi, Fumana, Galeotta, George, Gillis, Giocoli, G\'omez-Alvarez, Gracia-Carpio, Grazian, Grupp, Gwyn, Holmes, Hook, Hormuth, Hornstrup, Huertas-Company, Jahnke, Jhabvala, Joachimi, Kermiche, Kiessling, Kubik, K\"ummel, Kunz, Kurki-Suonio, Le Brun, Ligori, Lilje, Lindholm, Lloro, Mainetti, Mansutti, Marggraf, Martinelli, Martinet, Marulli, Massey, Maurogordato, Medinaceli, Melchior, Meneghetti, Merlin, Meylan, Mora, Moresco, Moscardini, Munari, Neissner, Niemi, Nightingale, Padilla, Paltani, Pasian, Pedersen, Percival, Pezzotta, Pires, Polenta, Poncet, Popa, Pozzetti, Raison, Renzi, Rhodes, Riccio, Romelli, Roncarelli, Rusholme, Saglia, Sakr, S\'anchez, Sapone, Sartoris, Schneider, Schrabback, Scodeggio, Secroun, Sihvola, Simon, Sirignano, Sirri, Tallada-Cresp\'{i}, Taylor, Teplitz, Tereno, Tessore, Toft, Toledo-Moreo, Torradeflot, Tutusaus, Valiviita, Vassallo, Kleijn, Veropalumbo, Wang, Weller, Zacchei, Zamorani, Zerbi, Zucca, Macias-Perez, Sereno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08962 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.08962 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.08962
arXiv:2609.08962v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Galaxy clusters provide unique laboratories for studying environmental effects on galaxy evolution. The morphology--density ($T$--$\Sigma$) and morphology--cluster-centric radius ($T$--$R$) relations trace how galaxy morphology is influenced by the environment, but previous studies at intermediate redshifts have been limited in both sample size and radial coverage. We use the Euclid Quick Data Release 1 (Q1) visual morphology catalogue to measure the $T$--$\Sigma$ and $T$--$R$ relations for smooth, featured-or-disc, and barred galaxies in known clusters at $0.2\leq z\leq 0.5$, extending this analysis to large cluster-centric distances ($3 R_{500c}$) and studying their dependence on stellar mass. Using photometric redshifts and stellar masses provided by Euclid, we identify 1754 cluster members within $1.5 R_{500c}$, distributed across 71 clusters. We classify the identified galaxies as smooth, featured-or-disc, or barred using the predicted vote fractions provided by the Zoobot deep learning foundation model in the Q1 visual morphology catalogue. We confirm the $T$--$\Sigma$ relation in all the stellar mass ranges studied, with a stronger influence of the cluster environment on galaxy morphology in the densest parts of the cluster and closer to the cluster centre. Beyond $1.5 R_{500c}$, the morphological segregation weakens, with featured-or-disc galaxies overtaking smooth galaxies at the lowest densities, consistent with the growing contribution of field interlopers in the cluster outskirts. For barred galaxies, we find a tentative decline of the bar fraction toward lower densities that is most pronounced for the most massive galaxies. In conclusion, our results show that the cluster environment drives a progressive transformation of galaxy morphology, with the loss of disc structure becoming more pronounced towards the cluster core, where environmental processes act most efficiently.
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from my link log —
Weld: accelerating numpy, scikit and pandas as much as 100x with Rust and LLVM.
https://notamonadtutorial.com/weld-accelerating-numpy-scikit-and-pandas-as-much-as-100x-with-rust-and-llvm-12ec1c630…

NITRO: High-Performance 3D NAND Flash-Based In-Storage Computing with Enhanced Activation Dataflow
Sanghun Shin, Sangyeon Kim, Gisan Ji, Sungju Ryu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11920 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11920 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11920
arXiv:2608.11920v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In-storage computing (ISC) is considered a next-generation memory architecture for its ability to relieve the data bottleneck between the host and the memory. While the required resources of large language models (LLMs) have increased significantly in recent years, the memory density has not scaled accordingly. Recently, several works have studied NAND flash-based processing-in-memory (NAND-PIM) schemes to exploit the high density of the memory. However, they do not address the dataflow/buffer for the intermediate values, so a simple method is to deal with the values in the slow flash memory array. To overcome such a limitation, we propose a high-performance NAND flash-based ISC architecture with enhanced activation buffering. Instead of using the very slow flash memory array for the intermediate values, our architecture buffers the values in a fast DRAM subsystem. This approach effectively handles the high-latency penalties when activations are programmed into slower TLC NAND flash. We also introduce a distributed dataflow approach for the NAND-PIM array. This approach maximizes computational parallelism by employing efficient intra-plane data mapping. The results show that our proposed architecture achieves significant performance improvements, reducing the inference latency by up to 85% compared to the baseline.
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As always, a great post from Axle Energy, the British start-up specialising in distributed energy flexibility, on the challenges of #V2G, or bidirectional charging of electric cars. It has to work for people.
https://www.axl…

V2G's Last Mile Is Human

Guest author Peter Firmstone continues to explore and analyze the theme of #Security Baked Into the #JVM.
Today's focus in on the Safe Codebase #Audit

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

RE: https://aoir.social/@sakhavi/117321370368396230
Of course, the effects are not going to be evenly distributed. Preponderantly they will redound to those least able to control the causes. Destruction without representation, one might say.

Primary and higher-order thalamic nuclei make distinct contributions to cortical reorganization in congenital sensory loss #LGN …

Primary and higher-order thalamic nuclei make distinct contributions to cortical reorganization in congenital sensory loss
Congenital sensory loss reveals how experience shapes the brain organization, yet most accounts of such plasticity have focused on cortex rather than the thalamic systems that link sensory input, cortical development, and distributed networks. Here, we tested whether primary and higher-order thalamic nuclei show distinct relationships with thalamocortical organization after early sensory loss. In congenital blindness, structural differences were focal to the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), th…

A look at the friendly online influencers distributing NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's messages, which are distributed via Signal, which allows messages to disappear (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/nyreg…

Inside Mamdani’s Private Army of Public Influencers
Zohran Mamdani is seen as a social media wizard. Some of his popularity stems from an influencer operation run by the mayor’s office.

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

In a show of defiance to the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants,
California lawmakers on Monday voted to ban federal immigration agents from being hired for many local and state government jobs
and to outlaw electric-shock gloves similar to those that may be distributed to federal officers.

California lawmakers pass restrictions on hiring former immigration agents, ban on electric-shock gloves
California lawmakers on Monday voted to ban federal immigration agents from being hired for many local and state government jobs and outlaw electric-shock gloves.

Yes, this is it: one of the 2 million #EclipseGlasses distributed for free by the Spanish government (see https://www.ciencia.gob.es/Noticias/2026/julio/Gobierno-ONCE-gafas-eclipse.html for the announcement and e.g. https://nachrichten.es/sonnenfinsternis-am-12-august-spanien-verschenkt-2-millionen-eclipse-brillen-hier-koennen-sie-sich-kostenlos-eine-sichern/ for news coverage) - we got ours at https://lafabricadeluz.org in Ponferrada where they are bundled with tickets to the museum ... which we had initially visited only for the glasses (paired here with a popular beer) but which turned out to be super-interesting.

Optimal random quantisers for spherically symmetric distributions
Luc Pronzato, Anatoly Zhigljavsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11772 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.11772 https://arxiv.org/html/2610.11772
arXiv:2610.11772v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Zador's celebrated theorem is a cornerstone of optimal quantisation: it establishes both the weak limit of the empirical distribution of an optimal $n$-point quantiser in $R^d$ and the decay rate of the associated $L_s$-mean quantisation error. In large dimension, however, observing this asymptotic behaviour requires an astronomically large sample size. We prove that, for spherically symmetric target distributions, optimisation over all spherically symmetric distributions is a convex problem and derive an equivalence theorem that both characterises global optimality and yields a constructive algorithm. We show that, for moderate $n$, random quantisers uniformly distributed on a sphere of suitably chosen radius $R$ perform exceptionally well and, over a broad range of values of $n$, are numerically certified to be optimal among all random quantisers. Their expected distortion has an explicit integral representation that can be evaluated to arbitrary precision, and we prove concentration across random quantisers: the distortion variance tends to zero as $n\to\infty$ for fixed $d$. For $s=2$, both the optimal radius and the associated minimum expected distortion admit exact expressions. For general $s$, the optimal radius can be determined efficiently, and extreme-value theory provides useful approximations when $n$ grows with $d$. Depending on this growth rate, $R$ either converges to zero or approaches a positive limit that is independent of $s$.
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The Washington Sun is launching a six-month run of a monthly print magazine; the first three issues will be distributed to Washingtonian subscribers (Thuy Lan Nguyen/The Washington Sun)
https://www.washingtonsun.com/about-us/press…

The Washington Sun launches The Washington Sun Magazine
The Sun will work with Washingtonian to distribute a six-month run of a monthly print publication.

Mark Zuckerberg argues that superintelligence should be widely distributed as a tool that empowers everyone, rather than centralized in a few institutions (Mark Zuckerberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-ai-future-

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

Video of my @… talk on Local-First-Distributed Configuration is up!
https://youtu.be/a8AinsQZJ9I?si=83HwrwexDso-FNUb

GCVE BCP-02 v1.9: Making Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Open, Accessible, and Practical for Everyone
The GCVE initiative has published version 1.9 of GCVE BCP-02 . Practical Guide to Vulnerability Handling and Disclosure, introducing significant improvements to help software vendors, manufacturers, open-source maintainers, and security researchers establish effective Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) processes.
Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure should not be a privilege reserved for large organizations with dedicated security teams, expensive compliance frameworks, or specialized legal departments. Every software developer and manufacturer, regardless of size or resources, should be able to receive, assess, remediate, and disclose security vulnerabilities responsibly. This is one of the fundamental principles behind GCVE BCP-02.
The updated document is freely available, openly developed, and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license. Organizations can reuse, adapt, and integrate its recommendations into their own vulnerability-handling processes.
#cra #cve #gcve #vulnerability #cvd #vulnerabilityManagement
🔗 https://gcve.eu/2026/10/16/gcve-bcp-02-v1.9-making-coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure-open-accessible-and-practical-for-everyone/

"Argentina’s distributed solar capacity grew 34.5% in H1"
#Argentina #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Argentina's distributed solar capacity grew 34.5% in H1 - pv magazine Global
The capacity of self-consumption systems connected to distribution grids increased from 118.6 MW at the end of 2025 to 159.5 MW in June, while the number of users generating and feeding surplus electricity into the grid rose 25.8% to more than 4,700.

451,000 of us will die. There are 8.3 billion in the world. Per Saganik & Zheng (2010), Americans know 611 people each on average. So if the effects were evenly distributed, a room of 30 Americans would average one person who knows someone who will die from this specific #climatecatastrophe event.

California has exempted open source software from it's Age-Verification requirement.
#IANAL but wouldn't non-open source entities have an equal justice claim here?
Just because code *can* be legally copied and modified doesn't change the things they claim are so important.
Or perhaps, they aren't so important after all.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt

🖥️ Built-in #React dashboard embedded in the binary: file browser with preview, drag & drop folder upload, version diff viewer with rollback, IAM management, audit trail, full-text search, dark mode
🌐 Distributed features: #Raft clustering, consistent hashing, Reed-Solomon erasure coding …

sketch: nobody can correctly predict how long they will live. any "rational" individual retirement planning has to over-estimate lifespan, which means these people die with excess money that mostly becomes inheritance, nouveau nobility. this inefficiency leads to a lot of predation on the "rational" elderly before they die. the funds sitting in "investments" theoretically help overall economic growth, but it's not evenly distributed, 5% yield on $10 is meaningless. 5% on $1b destroys worlds

Replaced article(s) found for math.ST. https://arxiv.org/list/math.ST/new
[1/2]:
- Handling Covariate Mismatch in Collaborative Linear Prediction
Alexis Ayme, R\'emi Khellaf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02083 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathST_bot/116006104977371683
- Estimation of the sub-Gaussian Parameter
Jason Liu, Min Xu, Jinchuan Xing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06384 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathST_bot/116696474457760087
- Lambda-quantiles under the microscope
Fabio Bellini, Felix-Benedikt Liebrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07122 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathST_bot/117070129938806713
- Consistent intercept estimation and inference for unit-root INAR(2) processes
Yang Lu, M\'arton Isp\'any
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23339 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathST_bot/117313641576796810
- Shape without scale: an identifiability dichotomy for a bounded tail observed through a non-addit...
Jiarui Qi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27384 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathST_bot/117324926550805284
- Inference in generalized linear models with robustness to misspecified variances
Riccardo De Santis, Jelle J. Goeman, Jesse Hemerik, Samuel Davenport, Livio Finos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.13918
- Sharp bounds in perturbed smooth optimization
Vladimir Spokoiny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02002 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOC_bot/114459723303641817
- Equilibrium Distribution for t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding with Generalized Kernels
Yi Gu, Antonio Auffinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24311 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114612632034300271
- Identification and Estimation of Multi-order Tensor Factor Models
Zetai Cen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13418 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/115060214357911690
- A novel finite-sample testing procedure for composite null hypotheses via pointwise rejection
Joonha Park, Ming Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02529 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/115852820264866947
- Focused median bias reduction
Davide Benussi, Ioannis Kosmidis, Alessandra Salvan, Nicola Sartori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28597 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/116837971698715230
- Group Invariant Spectral Embedding
Yeari Vigder, Paulina Hoyos, David Thong, Joakim and\'en, Joe Kileel, Amit Moscovich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08987 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116911669269878341
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trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
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The Butterfly Defect Effect in Cylindrical Shell Buckling: Non-localized Interactions of Localized Imperfections
Uba K. Ubamanyu, Antoine Blond, John W. Hutchinson, Pedro M. Reis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19245 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19245 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19245
arXiv:2607.19245v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We investigate the buckling of axially compressed cylindrical shells containing localized defects, focusing on interactions among multiple defects and between them and the shell edges. Using high-fidelity finite-element simulations, we first characterize the parameter space of single-dimple sensitivity, defect-edge coupling, and pairwise defect-defect interactions. Building on this deterministic baseline, we run stochastic simulations of shells with randomly distributed imperfections whose amplitudes are sampled from a log-normal distribution. Post-buckling deformations form non-axisymmetric, butterfly-shaped patterns whose `wings' reach far across the shell surface. This spatial extent induces unavoidable interactions with neighboring defects and the clamped edges, so that buckling is not necessarily initiated by the deepest defect. A larger defect population raises the likelihood of an extreme defect, producing a statistical size effect: as the mean number of defects grows, the mean knockdown factor decreases asymptotically and its variability decays exponentially. The butterfly defect effect qualitatively explains the scatter in historical experimental data by correlating the knockdown factor with the cylinder length-to-thickness ratio ($H/t$) rather than the radius-to-thickness ratio ($R/t$) alone, thereby establishing $H$ as a key parameter for stability alongside $R$ and $t$. Nonetheless, the knockdown factors obtained here remain well above those reported in historical experiments, indicating that the localized Gaussian dimple, though nearly the worst-case imperfection for spherical shells, is not so for cylinders.
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“Yes, but if the sun isn’t shining…”
Yes, what then?! Even then, distributed solar helps keep the grid stable.
This week, for the first time, PV inverters in Italy supplied reactive power to the distribution grid at night, on request.
https://lnkd.in/p/eSJ3aqQP

We seek to develop small lighter-than-air vehicles (“aerobots”)
that can be deployed
as-needed by a larger spacecraft
for entering and navigating caves.
To provide omnidirectional maneuverability and minimize downwash, we propose distributed electrohydrodynamic propulsors (“atmospheric ion thrusters”),
which are both completely solid-state and virtually silent.
Electrohydrodynamic thrust is not ideal for power-autonomous flight on Earth.
In favora…

Something I do when reading to my kids that I hope helps a bit with all of the patriarchy in children's literature is to randomize the genders of the characters, including the occasional non-binary options and various neopronouns, and sometimes swapping mid-story (especially when there's a metamorphosis, like in "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"). There are so many things that are asymmetrically distributed between genders in books for babies and children, but if you randomize the genders, you can blunt that (I hope).
#parenting #patriarchy #gender

»Von ihm stammt das Erlangen Classification System zur Klassifizierung von Parallelrechnern. Besonders erwähnenswert ist das Multiprozessorsystem DIRMU (Distributed Reconfigurable Multiprocessor Kit).« – Und schon die nächste Idee für einen Vortrag bei irgendeinem zukünftigen @… oder @….
Quelle des Zitats: Wikipedia, im Artikel zu Wolfgang Händler. Ich recherchiere – mal wieder – zu SUPRENUM. #vintagecomputing #suprenum

ICYMI, my latest CSO piece is about the coordinated cyber attack on 30 Minnesota water utilities and how it has alarmed industrial cybersecurity specialists because it is the first distributed campaign against dozens of small utilities linked by a common operational technology weakness.
Many thanks to Markus Mueller, Ron Fabela, Scott Caveza and Cynthia Kaiser for their insights.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4203638/a-coordinated-attack-hit-30-minnesota-water-systems-who-did-it-and-what-does-a-rockwell-notice-add-to-the-picture.html

Sources: Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking formal approval from investors to start a Hong Kong IPO process, which could happen in as soon as six months (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/moonshot-ai-seeks-…

Moonshot AI Seeks Investor Approval to Begin IPO Process
Chinese startup Moonshot AI, whose powerful new open-source model is upending Silicon Valley, is seeking formal approval from investors to begin preparations for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The Beijing-based company recently distributed a shareholder resolution regarding its IPO plan, according to the people. The timing of its

from my link log —
Meritocracy is not only false, it's bad for you.
https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you
saved 2020-07-24

A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life—money, power, jobs, university admission—should be distributed according to skill and effort.

It is a common misconception (as seen in some wrong takes on the Iberian blackout) that renewable, distributed energy resources cannot provide what is currently supplied by the rotating machines of thermal power stations.
It is more a case of, for example, grid codes and grid operator procurement needing to be updated.
(reactive power is - very, very simply put - not about the actual delivery of energy, but ensuring Alternating Current keeps running)

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
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This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
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NHL Productions plans to produce and distribute game telecasts for four teams when the season begins, since Main Street Sports shut down; more clubs might join (Joe Reedy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nhl-tv-hurricanes-blue…

NHL to produce telecasts for Hurricanes, Blue Jackets, Wild, Blues
The Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes are one of four teams that will have their game telecasts produced and distributed by the NHL for the upcoming season. The league announced Tuesday that the Columbus Blue Jackets, Minnesota Wild and St. Louis Blues will also have local broadcasts done by NHL Productions when the season begins in late September. The NHL is branching out into centralized production of local telecasts because regional sports networks are disappearing. Seven franchises h…

In one post, according to the US Attorney’s Office,
former women's track and field coach Steven Waithe wrote:
“Does anyone want to trade nudes?
I’m talking girls you actually know. Could be exes or whatever.
I have quite a few and [am] down to trade over snap[chat] or something.” 
Legal documents do not name the sites on which Waithe distributed these images,
but Bellingcat found a cached version of a November 2020 post with that exact wording on Leake…

The Crypto Entrepreneur Linked to a Forum Trading in ‘Leaked’ Nudes
Two days after we reached out to crypto start-up founder Jitendra Maharaj about his apparent connections to LeakedBB, the site went offline.

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Collaborative System Failure Prognostics via Federated Longitudinal-Survival Modeling
Fan Yang, Madelyn Weller, Dimuthu Fernando, Hila Livneh, Yuxin Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.26038 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.26038
arXiv:2607.26038v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Time-to-event modeling provides a systematic framework for estimating time-dependent failure risk, reliability, and remaining useful life (RUL) from longitudinal condition monitoring data. However, applying these models to distributed prognostics remains challenging because sensor trajectories and failure-time records are often stored across organizations or operational sites and cannot be centrally pooled due to privacy or proprietary constraints. Moreover, the classical Cox proportional hazards model relies on a nonseparable partial likelihood involving global risk sets, making direct optimization difficult under standard federated learning protocols. This paper presents a federated longitudinal-survival modeling framework for collaborative system failure prognostics. The proposed framework combines longitudinal sensor representation learning with a client-separable discrete-time hazard objective, enabling multiple clients to collaboratively train a prognostic model without sharing raw sensor measurements or individual failure records. Time-dependent representations extracted from multivariate sensor histories are used to estimate interval-specific failure hazards, reliability curves, and system RUL. Experiments on the four C-MAPSS turbofan engine degradation subsets under simulated decentralized settings demonstrate that the proposed framework consistently improves prognostic performance over isolated local training while maintaining performance comparable to centralized training across heterogeneous operating conditions and failure modes. These results demonstrate the potential of federated longitudinal-survival modeling for collaborative, data-aware condition monitoring and system failure prognostics.
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Interested in airborne monitoring using computer vision? We (@…) just released annotated data with bounding boxes and species IDs for over 50,000 individual birds of 6 widely distributed species from our drone work in the Everglades.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70512

RE: #UniveresalBasicIncome should be, only it's awards are distributed randomly among applicants 😊

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
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Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.PL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PL/new
[1/1]:
- Linearising Explicit Substitutions using Intersection Types
Ana Jorge Almeida, Sandra Alves, M\'ario Florido
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20179 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLO_bot/116968258090591929
- Qoreo: Choreographic Programming for Quantum Distributed Systems
Jennifer Paykin, Steven Baldasty, Joseph P. Near, Christian Skalka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20391 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116968349323724078
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Uniform-Loss Automated Market Making for Prediction Markets
Ciamac C. Moallemi, Dan Robinson, Brian Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17428 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.17428 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.17428
arXiv:2607.17428v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automated market makers (AMMs) for prediction markets descend from market scoring rules, where a mechanism operator subsidizes a market to aggregate beliefs about uncertain events. The existing literature has focused on bounding the total worst-case loss to the subsidizer, but has not addressed how that loss is distributed across price states or over time. We use the framework of loss-versus-rebalancing (LVR) to study this distribution and introduce \textit{uniform AMMs}, defined by the property that instantaneous LVR is proportional to pool value and independent of the current token price. In a static setting, we show that for a broad class of \textit{win-martingales} -- processes that converge to 0 or 1 at a fixed resolution time -- there exists a pricing function that achieves uniform LVR under that process, and conversely, that any sufficiently regular pricing function induces a win-martingale under which it is uniform. We then extend the framework to dynamic liquidity management, showing that liquidity levels can be adjusted over time to implement a prescribed target expected cumulative loss schedule. This theory is illustrated with canonical examples of win-martingales and pricing functions. Our results can inform AMM designers and liquidity providers on how the inevitable cost of subsidizing price discovery can be shaped and controlled across both price and time.
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trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
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trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
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Distributive Laws for Parallel Composition in Rely-Guarantee Concurrency
Ian J. Hayes, Larissa A. Meinicke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17536 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.17536 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.17536
arXiv:2607.17536v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rely/guarantee approach supports the stepwise development of concurrent programs. Our goal is to develop a theory for reasoning algebraically about concurrent programs in a rely/guarantee style, where rely and guarantee conditions are encoding as commands within our theory. As for mathematics, distributive laws are essential for algebraic manipulation of concurrent programs. In this paper we investigate distributive laws for parallel composition and show how these can be applied to rely/guarantee concurrency. The most general distributive laws are only refinements in a single direction, however, by restricting the form of the command being distributed, one can devise stronger equality laws, which are applicable to guarantee commands as well as to suitable combinations of rely and guarantee commands. Our approach is to develop the distributive laws in a more abstract synchronous atomic algebra, and then apply them to an instance of that algebra supporting rely and guarantee commands. The theory has been formalised in Isabelle/HOL along with proofs of the lemmas presented here.
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trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
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Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
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trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

FOR SALE- “Demimondaine”. Acrylic on hot press watercolor paper, 8 x 8 in. Painted using Posca acrylic markers.
Trying something new with this portrait of Cléo de Mérode. She was a French dancer (active from 1886-1924) who debuted at the Paris Opera at only 11 years old. By 19 she was already a famous beauty, and the first woman ever whose photos were distributed worldwide.
The title for this piece is a term that was used in French society to call women promiscuous, basically courtesans. de Mérode dealt with multiple scandals that attached that insult to her, for accusations that she denied. Despite them, she remained successful.
I wanted to paint her as soon as I came across a photo of her while browsing Reddit the other day. Working from black-and-white historical photos allows me to be freer with my colors, and I definitely went a bit wild here but I really love how it turned out. This woman was an exceptional beauty, and an exceptional color palette suits her features.
#Artwork #art #artistsOfMastodon #painting #acrylicPainting #acrylics #Portrait