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'There is no protest without music': WMass singers bring songs of dissent to the people
https://www.masslive.com/westernmass/2025/09/there-is-no-prote…

‘There is no protest without music’: WMass singers bring songs of dissent to the people
Citing its multiple benefits in protest, several Pioneer Valley musicians are working to bring more melody to local rallies.

Centralized vs. Decentralized Security for Space AI Systems? A New Look
Noam Schmitt (IP Paris, TSP, ENS Paris Saclay), Marc Antoine Lacoste
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20395 htt…

Centralized vs. Decentralized Security for Space AI Systems? A New Look
This paper investigates the trade-off between centralized and decentralized security management in constellations of satellites to balance security and performance. We highlight three key AI architectures for automated security management: (a) centralized, (b) distributed and (c) federated. The centralized architecture is the best option short term, providing fast training, despite the hard challenge of the communication latency overhead across space. Decentralized architectures are better alte…

Russia's top prosecutor, key figure in dissent crackdown, poised to become new Supreme Court head: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/russias-top-prosecutor-key-figure.html

Go With The Flow: Churn-Tolerant Decentralized Training of Large Language Models
Nikolay Blagoev, Bart Cox, J\'er\'emie Decouchant, Lydia Y. Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21221

Go With The Flow: Churn-Tolerant Decentralized Training of Large Language Models
Motivated by the emergence of large language models (LLMs) and the importance of democratizing their training, we propose GWTF, the first crash tolerant practical decentralized training framework for LLMs. Differently from existing distributed and federated training frameworks, GWTF enables the efficient collaborative training of a LLM on heterogeneous clients that volunteer their resources. In addition, GWTF addresses node churn, i.e., clients joining or leaving the system at any time, and net…

Trump has officially given up on any semblance of attempting actual governance
and moved to pure man-baby-without-a-nap tantrum mode.
His latest “countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence” memorandum is basically him screaming
“EVERYONE WHO DOESN’T LIKE ME IS A TERRORIST!” in official government letterhead

Trump Declares Everyone Who Doesn’t Kiss His Ass Is A Terrorist
Trump has officially given up on any semblance of attempting actual governance and moved to pure man-baby-without-a-nap tantrum mode. His latest “countering domestic terrorism and organized p…

State Dept. Guts Human Rights Reporting, Removing Anything The Administration Doesn’t Think Violates Human Rights | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/25/state-dept-guts-human-rights-reporting-removing-anything-the-administration-doesnt-think-violates-human-rights/

Dequantization and Hardness of Spectral Sum Estimation
Roman Edenhofer, Atsuya Hasegawa, Fran\c{c}ois Le Gall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20183 https://arxi…

Dequantization and Hardness of Spectral Sum Estimation
We give new dequantization and hardness results for estimating spectral sums of matrices, such as the log-determinant. Recent quantum algorithms have demonstrated that the logarithm of the determinant of sparse, well-conditioned, positive matrices can be approximated to $\varepsilon$-relative accuracy in time polylogarithmic in the dimension $N$, specifically in time $\mathrm{poly}(\mathrm{log}(N), s, κ, 1/\varepsilon)$, where $s$ is the sparsity and $κ$ the condition number of the input matr…

Extensions of a Line-Graph-Based Method for Token Routing in Decentralized Exchanges
Yu Zhang, Claudio J. Tessone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21152 https://…

Extensions of a Line-Graph-Based Method for Token Routing in Decentralized Exchanges
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) form a cornerstone of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, processing token trades worth billions of dollars daily. Yet, a significant fraction of these trades are suboptimal: alternative routing paths could yield more target tokens. Addressing this inefficiency is both practically urgent and theoretically compelling. Building on the linear line-graph-based routing method of Zhang et al. (2025), we propose three key extensions that better capture real-world…

chainScale: Secure Functionality-oriented Scalability for Decentralized Resource Markets
Mohamed E. Najd, Ghada Almashaqbeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20356 https://

chainScale: Secure Functionality-oriented Scalability for Decentralized Resource Markets
Decentralized resource markets are Web 3.0 applications that build open-access platforms for trading digital resources among users without any central management. They promise cost reduction, transparency, and flexible service provision. However, these markets usually have large workload that must be processed in a timely manner, leading to serious scalability problems. Despite the large amount of work on blockchain scalability, existing solutions are ineffective as they do not account for thes…