Tootfinder

The big RSA news rush of the week is over, but don't miss today's Metacurity for the other critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Russia arrests alleged LeakBase admin after global cybercrime forum takedown,
--An Armenian man was extradited to US in connection with RedLine infostealer,
--Ransomware attack disrupts Spain's Port of Vigo,
--AI-assisted campaign distributed 300 trojanized GitHub packages,
--4 vulns affect Cisco Catal…

Russia arrests alleged LeakBase admin after global cybercrime forum takedown
An Armenian man was extradited to US in connection with RedLine infostealer, Ransomware attack disrupts Spain's Port of Vigo, AI-assisted campaign distributed 300+ trojanized GitHub packages, 4 vulns affect Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches, Puerto Rico's DoT hit by cyberattack, much more

RE: #corruption

Brain-wide distributed processing underlying natural vision and audition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.26.727967v1 "prefrontal cortex coordinated brain dynamics through synergistic interactions independently of sensory modality and previous sensory e…

@… I don’t know the needs of the people working on CPython of course, but as a general statement: I think git is solid, but it’s a shame that most mainstream use cases seem to largely forget that it’s a *distributed* system.
As an industry, we’ve put way too many eggs in the GH basket.

Hartmut Armbruster's talk explores a different path: Kafka Streams DSL, adopting Flink-like exactly-once semantics, Project Loom, and challenging the assumption that stream processing must be distributed. Join him #bbuzz26!
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/what-if-weve-been-scaling-stream-processing-wrong-all-along/

Finally an election graphic that is more confusing than the #LibDem dodgy bar charts. I think this is implying that if you don't vote Green then Reform will pick up the last of the proportionally distributed seats for the #Senedd. I don't think PR works that way.

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…

Behold, The Imposing Frieder (2053m).
(Picture from yesterday, confirming that spring is not quite evenly distributed just yet...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

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…

from my link log —
Building resilient services at Amazon Prime Video with chaos engineering.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/building-resilient-services-at-prime-video-with-chaos-engineering/
saved 2020…

Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering | Amazon Web Services
Large-scale distributed software systems are composed of several individual sub-systems—such as CDNs, load balancers, and databases—and their interactions. These interactions sometimes have unpredictable outcomes caused by unforeseen turbulent events (for example, a network failure). These events can lead to system-wide failures. Chaos engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system to build confidence […]

Predicting visual mental imagery: structural and transcriptomic signatures in the human brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-10309-6 "a distributed cortical architecture underlying VMI vividness" (VMI = visual mental imagery);

https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-now-has-a-reproducible-docker-image/
💯 🥳🥳🥳

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…

A friend notes how fragmented, consumer-driven distributed energy is creating a coordination gap across the system. See his LinkedIn post:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7450505389399293952-pU-B/

The Great Migration — #mentalhealth

Trust and the Flock: What Geese Teach Us About Collective Leadership and Sustainable Action
Inspired by the migration of geese, this essay explores trust, connection, and distributed leadership in times of change. Sustainable impact doesn’t come from doing everything—it comes from knowing your place in the flock and leading together with purpose.

Propaganda of the deed generally does the opposite of what it's supposed to do: it alienates rather than activates, destroying the movement it comes from. Until it doesn't. Until it actually sparks a revolution.
But there is a prerequisite for a successful revolution. That is an alternative system to pivot into as the old one collapses. That alternative is *far more dangerous* than any one-off action, up to and including literally killing a king or an emperor.
People will eventually rise up. That's just a matter of time. The question is what's left after everything gets burned down. That's a far more important question than, "is it happening?" It's happening (sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly), what's next?
Hierarchy manifests complexity beyond its ability to manage. We're seeing that now, we will see it more. Distributed authority is more stable. Build a distributed society within the burned out warehouse of the hierarchical one.

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Ahh... Dr is een fix voor de onofficiële DeepL app in Fdroid.
Uit de mail:
'F-Droid users, please wait a few days for the update to be distributed.'
📸
#Fdroid #DeepL

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…

This (link below) appears to be @…'s (very careful) commentary on the ongoing #BambuLabs #GPL violation row.
It's an interesting read, and …

Dealing with Incomplete Copyleft Source That Doesn't Correspond
Years ago, copyleft violations were often a mere misunderstanding; vendors intended to comply but made mistakes. In those “before times”, a simple request and short discussion often led to the complete, Corresponding Source (“CCS”) for the the distributed binary works (or, in the case of network-service copyleft, the deployed systems).

SAP is perhaps the antithesis of flexibility, which is why it is often used in complex administrative systems, such as those found in many energy companies. So it's good news that there is now a module available to link Enode's flexibility engine, which works with a wide range of consumer devices.

Enode x SAP: SAP has chosen Enode to enable residential flexibility within SAP Distributed Energy Resources | Enode
Energy retailers are moving from experimentation to long-term decisions about residential flexibility. Today, flexibility needs to operate as part of day-to-day business, not as a side initiative. SAP sees that shift clearly. That’s why SAP has chosen Enode to enable SAP Distributed Energy Resources, a solution supporting residential distributed energy resource (DER) flexibility within SAP environments. The partnership brings Enode’s full product capabilities into the SAP ecosystem, allow…

Trump's pardons are starving the Fund for Crime Survivors
The Crime Victims Fund, established in 1984 by the Victims of Crime Act, or VOCA,
is sustained by criminal fines and penalties from convictions in federal cases,
typically white-collar prosecutions.
All of that money is required by law to be deposited into the fund.
The money is distributed to state and local programs including domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, and child abuse treatm…

Trump’s Pardons Are Costing Shooting Survivors Millions
A Trace analysis found that revenue once generated by fining white-collar criminals is drying up — now that the president has pardoned so many of them.

Now here is something designed to shake confidence:
Flying, unmanned warships controlled by an on-board, but distributed, AI...
"Airbus is Preparing 2 Uncrewed Combat Aircraft from Kratos for 1st Flight With a European Mission System'"
…

Airbus is Preparing 2 Uncrewed Combat Aircraft from Kratos for 1st Flight With a European Mission System
Airbus is working at full throttle to offer the German Air Force an operational Uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (UCCA) system by 2029

Our very own Klaas Wierenga will take the stage at the GARR Conference 2026.
On May 20, he and Giorgia Dragoni (Politecnico di Milano) will explore authentication, authorisation and federation mechanisms for secure and seamless access to distributed services.
#confGARR26 will take place from May 19 to 21 at the University of Pisa, bringing together Italy's R&E community. …

🎶 „I watch the news and wanna start a fight. I'm mad. I've been in therapy for many years. I'm mad.“ I Am Mad by Aphty Khéa.
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/aphtykha/i-am-mad

Replaced article(s) found for cs.PF. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PF/new
[1/1]:
- Advanced Scheduling Strategies for Distributed Quantum Computing Jobs
Gongyu Ni, Davide Ferrari, Lester Ho, Michele Amoretti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.24152 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116159025673610399
toXiv_bot_toot

CS researchers: NSDI 2027 explicitly declines to include work in some topics that are technically in scope (search for "Moreover, NSDI does not include work in…"). Are there other elite conferences that are also doing this? Pointers welcome, thanks!
https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi27/c

NSDI '27 Call for Papers
The 24th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '26) will take place May 11–13, 2027, at the Omni Providence Hotel in Providence, RI, USA. NSDI focuses on the design principles, implementation, and practical evaluation of networked and distributed systems.

Another really cool feature I designed for NATS - a distributed CRDT based counter.
Distributed meaning infrastructure at a factory floor can have local counts that flows up to regional and global levels via stream replication and eventually end up at a global count. Seperate clusters all contributing to the total with regional/location views.
You can choose to have auditable counts etc

How #Container Images Actually Work: Layers, Configs, Manifests, Indexes, and More
https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/container-image-from-scratch

Ostatnie dni utknąłem kopiąc w DHT (distributed hash table)... Zaczęło się od niewinnego napisania crawler'a torrentów ogłaszanych jako Mainline DHT - dołączam do sieci DHT, utrzymuje routing, odpowiadam i podsłuchuje co kto tam udostepnia. Następnie klasyfikuje pliki po nazwach, indexuje, robie scoring, wyszukuję imdb i tvdb i kilka magicznych rzeczy, aby na końcu wystawić wszystko jako endpoint Torznab API.

Działa to trochę jak

Slowly working toward the goal of getting rid of most of my computers by consolidating the various data dump SSDs presently distributed around the network inside my NAS

Grant Opportunity: Friends Historical Association
https://ift.tt/IFPQO3W
Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 8.1 is now available Intellect is happy to…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://…

Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated creative elements like artwork or lyrics (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinesswor…

Apple Music launches AI transparency tags — but only if labels and distributors declare them
The move was announced in a newsletter distributed to industry partners this morning (March 4).

Seven seats left to be distributed from the list votes. All from Highland.
The end result could be beautiful, or a total disaster. I feel ill.

Teenage girls sue Musk’s xAI, accusing Grok tool of creating child sexual abuse material
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/16/lawsuit-elon-musk-ai-grok-child-sexual-abuse

Teenage girls sue Musk’s xAI, accusing Grok tool of creating child sexual abuse material
Lawuit details how sexualised AI-generated images were produced and distributed without girls’ knowledge

The group "Department of Peace" hacked the DHS' internal tool for managing contracts and leaked a list of contractors working with ICE ~6000 of them released today. https://ddosecrets.org/article/ice-contracts
Here is a handy explorer for it

"Rooftop solar now accounts for one-fifth of Puerto Rico’s generation capacity"
#PuertoRico #SolarPower #Energy

Rooftop solar now accounts for one-fifth of Puerto Rico’s generation capacity
Distributed solar additions have vastly outpaced all other forms of generation as Puerto Rico’s overall power generation capacity continues to grow.

Tropical cities face a solar challenge: thunderstorms create wild swings in electricity generation that strain the grid.
The solution might be parked EVs. New research shows electric vehicles can store excess solar energy during sunny periods and feed it back during cloudy spells—acting as distributed batteries that smooth out fluctuations without costly infrastructure upgrades.

Made in the shade: How electric vehicles could be the perfect partner to rooftop solar in tropical cities
As rooftop solar spreads to all corners of the globe, the problem of managing distributed generation in cities prone to tropical thunderstorms is becoming increasingly acute. What if cars could come to the rescue?

How Phil Zimmermann Changed Encryption Forever
Zimmermann distributed strong encryption globally in 1991 then faced three years of criminal investigation for exporting munitions without a licence
— by @… (could be indirect advertising)
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How Phil Zimmermann Changed Encryption Forever
Phil Zimmermann created PGP in 1991 and faced criminal investigation for giving ordinary people strong encryption the government called a weapon.

A reminder that GitHub, despite ostensibly being based around a distributed system, has become a "single point of failure" for many services.
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated creative elements like artwork or lyrics (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinesswor…

Apple Music launches AI transparency tags — but only if labels and distributors declare them
The move was announced in a newsletter distributed to industry partners this morning (March 4).

Logistics in the technical sense (part of supply chain management) is a subset of logistics in the vernacular sense ("the handling of the details of an operation"). You can explore this second and more general sense, and thereby build an understanding of the first and more technical sense, by iteratively asking the question, "how does one make that happen" and follow questions from there.
A big part of organizing is figuring out the (vernacular) logistics (and helping others figure it out). You want to organize a seed swap? Ok. How does one make that happen? Well, you need seeds, people, a place, and perhaps a time. How does one make that happen? You can forage seeds or you can buy seeds for a garden and swap extras. How do you get people to come? Well, figure out where you want people to come from and choose an accessible place. What's the easiest thing to do? Get people from your neighborhood. How does one make that happen? Well, maybe put up flyers. How does one make that happen? Well, print them on your printer if you have one, or at a library, then go post them up. Etc.
Keep asking questions until you either find a roadblock that you can't find a way around, or you find things you can do yourself (one of those things you can do yourself is asking friends to help).
If you practice the exercise of thinking about how things happen, you can start to find things that you can do yourself. You can start to understand what exists now, and you can imagine what's possible. By thinking about logistics, you can figure out how to replace things when they collapse or are dismantled. You can also identify things that can't easily be replaced, and try to figure out alternatives.
This practice is good for figuring out how to build, but it can also be a valuable practice for figuring out how to resist. Concentration camps and ethnic cleansing also require logistics. Mass displacement means moving people. How does one do that? People are generally going to be moved in planes or buses. How does one do that? Well, people get loaded on to planes or buses in specific places. Planes and buses need fuel. Planes are fueled at their airports, which may well be the same places where people are loaded on to them. There is a fuel depo and a fuel truck that makes flying people out of a specific place possible. How does the fuel get to that fuel depo? Well, that fuel is probably also delivered by truck. Someone drives those trucks. Someone fuels those planes. Someone clears the planes for takeoff. Someone fuels those busses. Someone drives those busses. And so on.
Logistics networks can be highly complex. The more complex the operation, the more possible points of failure and more possible points where pressure can be applied, where operations can be disrupted. Ethnic cleansing is a complicated operation. The logistics of disrupting complicated things tend to be much less complicated than the logistics of the complicated things themselves.
The Right has exploited this fact for a long time. Centralized social services are logistically complex. Public infrastructure is logistically complex. By destroying these things, they can loot public resources by privatizing the infrastructure and functionality.
But the things that support the Right are even more logistically complex. Oil, cars, AI data centers, internal paramilitary, these are extremely complicated and fragile. There are numerous pressure points, all of which can respond to numerous strategies.
If we want to win, we should reduce the influence of politics over the things we care about. We should focus on building distributed mutual aid networks that don't rely on state funding and aren't subject to the whims of politicians. This is also known as "dual power." That is, creating counter-institutions outside of the dominant political system. The Right already does this in the form of churches and corporations.
As we reduce our complexity, we can then press our complexity advantage against the things for which the Right *needs* the state: the apparatus of violence needed to maintain capital and enforce the dominant order.

The V-formation maps cleanly to how we think about leadership: someone sets direction, others align behind. But the murmuration model — distributed, adaptive, leaderless — might be closer to how real teams work. https://www.poppastring.com/blog/leadership-from-birds

Signal Privacy – Better Than You Thought
If you’ve ever tried to write a secure and private distributed communications protocol, you know how hard it is to get it right. (If you have, you are seriously nerdy!) It is really easy to make mistakes, even for professional security developers. So, when Guy Kawasaki mentioned the Signal “Double Ratchet” protocol I was intrigued. I thought I knew a lot about security protocols but this one caught me flat-footed. Down the rabbit hole I went.

Signal Messenger: Speak Freely
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.

Scatter-read is one of the most stubborn performance bottlenecks in distributed search. Rishav Sagar and Tejas Shah are at #bbuzz26 with a practical solution: context-aware segments.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/context-aware-segments-solving-the-scatter-read-problem/

One of the weirder cold contacts I've gotten:
> I cannot write this email opener.
>
> The research signals explicitly disqualify this contact and company. City of Cape Town operates municipal infrastructure (water, sanitation, electricity, waste) with no database technology stack, distributed systems, or data engineering workloads that align with <cold email org>'s offerings.
Misfiring LLM or some dark pattern, Edgelord nonsense?!?

The future is already here, just unevenly distributed
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/government-privatization-feudalism/682888/

The New Feudal Age
What the next Dark Ages could look like

@PessaoBrain do you know publicationsn of Wolfgang Stegemann?
Any Thoughts?
eg
Stegemann W (2026): The mechanism of phenomenal experience DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18259822
eg one sentence:
"The thalamus acts as a resonance organ that couples distributed cortical processes in real time and thus stabilizes the inseparable dynamics of consciousness."

A great conversation with Bruce Nordman about how prices and automation can work together to ensure that distributed energy resources, such as electric vehicles, are charged (or discharged) optimally. He also dispels fears of synchronised peaks.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-case-for-using

Sources: NFL assigns ref crews as CBA progresses https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48629372/nfl-distributes-crew-assignments-referees-sources-say

Working on extending features for Warlock, and this round of features requires a backend web service running in a centralized, controlled environment due to the requirement of privileged access to partner network resources, (aka, they require an API key and prior authorization to access certain data, thus cannot be distributed in an open source project).
SO, since this is a traditional web service, I opted to use the traditional technologies to power it, but wanted to try out Symfony s…

ICE taking steps to close detention center at Fort Bliss, document shows
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking steps to close Camp East Montana,
a massive immigrant detention camp near the Mexican border that opened less than eight months ago,
according to an internal ICE document reviewed by The Washington Post.

The document, distributed to agency staff this week,
indicated that ICE is drafting a letter to terminate the facility’s contract,
…

ICE taking steps to close detention center at Fort Bliss, document shows
Preparations to shutter Camp East Montana in El Paso come less than eight months after facility’s opening, according to an internal ICE document.

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…

Git: A cool, distributed, version control system.
GitHub: A shitty, centralized, abstraction on top of git.
That's how I'm explaining to anyone who conflate the two from now on.

I had a bunch of fun designing a giant, reliable, distributed schedular, heartbeat and sampling layer inside NATS.
Here's a video introducing it, lots of fun and removes a ton of infra from modern apps.
We'll ship the final features this week in NATS Server 2.14.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dkzZonDI9M

Ava Community Energy just hit a major milestone: over 15,000 e-bike rebates distributed, with a quarter going to income-qualified residents.
Why it matters: E-bikes are proving to be an affordable, low-maintenance alternative to car trips that actually cuts carbon emissions.
Bonus: Try before you buy at their June 27th Test & Ride event at Coliseum BART.

15,000 E-Bike Rebates Provided By Ava Community Energy - CleanTechnica
Ava’s next E-bike Test & Ride event will take place on June 27th at Coliseum BART Station

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…

Working on extending features for Warlock, and this round of features requires a backend web service running in a centralized, controlled environment due to the requirement of privileged access to partner network resources, (aka, they require an API key and prior authorization to access certain data, thus cannot be distributed in an open source project).
SO, since this is a traditional web service, I opted to use the traditional technologies to power it, but wanted to try out Symfony s…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[2/5]:
- POTSA: A Cross-Lingual Speech Alignment Framework for Speech-to-Text Translation
Li, Cui, Wang, Ge, Huang, Li, Peng, Lu, Tashi, Wang, Dang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09232 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115541846907664054
- Beyond Elicitation: Provision-based Prompt Optimization for Knowledge-Intensive Tasks
Yunzhe Xu, Zhuosheng Zhang, Zhe Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10465 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115547607561282911
- $\pi$-Attention: Periodic Sparse Transformers for Efficient Long-Context Modeling
Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10696 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115564418836654965
- Based on Data Balancing and Model Improvement for Multi-Label Sentiment Classification Performanc...
Zijin Su, Huanzhu Lyu, Yuren Niu, Yiming Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14073 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115575715073023141
- HEAD-QA v2: Expanding a Healthcare Benchmark for Reasoning
Alexis Correa-Guill\'en, Carlos G\'omez-Rodr\'iguez, David Vilares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15355 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115581410328165116
- Towards Hyper-Efficient RAG Systems in VecDBs: Distributed Parallel Multi-Resolution Vector Search
Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16681 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115603508442305146
- Estonian WinoGrande Dataset: Comparative Analysis of LLM Performance on Human and Machine Transla...
Marii Ojastu, Hele-Andra Kuulmets, Aleksei Dorkin, Marika Borovikova, Dage S\"arg, Kairit Sirts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17290 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115604083224487885
- A Systematic Study of In-the-Wild Model Merging for Large Language Models
O\u{g}uz Ka\u{g}an Hitit, Leander Girrbach, Zeynep Akata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21437 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115621178703846052
- CREST: Universal Safety Guardrails Through Cluster-Guided Cross-Lingual Transfer
Lavish Bansal, Naman Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02711 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115655090475535157
- Multilingual Medical Reasoning for Question Answering with Large Language Models
Pietro Ferrazzi, Aitor Soroa, Rodrigo Agerri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05658 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115683267711014189
- OnCoCo 1.0: A Public Dataset for Fine-Grained Message Classification in Online Counseling Convers...
Albrecht, Lehmann, Poltermann, Rudolph, Steigerwald, Stieler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09804 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115700409397020978
- Does Tone Change the Answer? Evaluating Prompt Politeness Effects on Modern LLMs: GPT, Gemini, an...
Hanyu Cai, Binqi Shen, Lier Jin, Lan Hu, Xiaojing Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12812 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115729149622659403
- Beg to Differ: Understanding Reasoning-Answer Misalignment Across Languages
Ovalle, Ross, Ruder, Williams, Ullrich, Ibrahim, Sagun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22712 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115808161882146194
- Activation Steering for Masked Diffusion Language Models
Adi Shnaidman, Erin Feiglin, Osher Yaari, Efrat Mentel, Amit Levi, Raz Lapid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24143 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115819533211103315
- JMedEthicBench: A Multi-Turn Conversational Benchmark for Evaluating Medical Safety in Japanese L...
Liu, Li, Niu, Zhang, Xun, Hou, Wang, Iwasawa, Matsuo, Hatakeyama-Sato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01627 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115847901607405421
- FACTUM: Mechanistic Detection of Citation Hallucination in Long-Form RAG
Dassen, Kotula, Murray, Yates, Lawrie, Kayi, Mayfield, Duh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05866 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115881545684182376
- {\dag}DAGGER: Distractor-Aware Graph Generation for Executable Reasoning in Math Problems
Zabir Al Nazi, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Sudipta Kar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06853 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115887753245730019
- Symphonym: Universal Phonetic Embeddings for Cross-Script Name Matching
Stephen Gadd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06932 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115887767008671765
- LLMs versus the Halting Problem: Revisiting Program Termination Prediction
Sultan, Armengol-Estape, Kesseli, Vanegue, Shahaf, Adi, O'Hearn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18987 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115972010510378715
- MuVaC: A Variational Causal Framework for Multimodal Sarcasm Understanding in Dialogues
Diandian Guo, Fangfang Yuan, Cong Cao, Xixun Lin, Chuan Zhou, Hao Peng, Yanan Cao, Yanbing Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20451 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115977891530875024
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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…

What's interesting is that this exact set of technologies leads to decision paralysis in centralized organizations:
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/cognitive-fratricide-how-the-transparent-battlefield-creates-decision-paralysis/
The problem here is a structural one, a function of hierarchy, where the direction of the flow of power determines what technology can do and how it can e used.
In a distributed network, this information is used by a central system to distribute data back to people so they can make the most informed decision. In a centralized network, this information is used to increase the power of central control node. It's a question of who is helping whom, who is autonomous and who is support.

"Brazil adds 2.3 GW of solar in first two months of 2026"
#Brazil #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Brazil adds 2.3 GW of solar in first two months of 2026
Brazil installed 2.3 GW of solar capacity in January and February, as centralized generation more than doubled while distributed growth declined.

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…

"Bangladesh’s PV capacity to reach 8.5 GW by 2035, says GlobalData"
#Bangladesh #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Bangladesh’s PV capacity to reach 8.5 GW by 2035, says GlobalData
Bangladesh's solar capacity is forecast to increase more than sixfold over the next decade, driven by a shift from off-grid rural deployment toward grid-connected and distributed generation, according to a new GlobalData report.

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…

I'm looking at Repology, and I think most of the distributions and other downstreams have rightfully boycotted #Python #chardet #copywashing. Of course, there's the possibility that some of them are simply out-of-date, though.
So far chardet-7 is distributed by #Chromebrew, #CondaForge (not on Repology), #Homebrew, #KaOS, #OpenIndiana, #openmamba, #Ravenports, #Spack and #T2 SDE. Shame on you!
https://repology.org/project/chardet/versions
https://repology.org/project/python:chardet/versions