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US federal grant cuts to university research in #NorthDakota could be ‘devastating’ | InForum
https://www.inforum.com/news/north-dakota/

North Dakota university research could see ‘devastating’ cuts, officials warn
Trump administration efforts to curb federal spending have already cost the state millions in research funding, with more loss in the future, UND and NDSU officials say.

Properties of cluster red-sequence spiral galaxies
Wayne A. Barkhouse (University of North Dakota), Lane M. Kashur (Colorado State University), Moreom Akter (University of North Dakota), Sandanuwan P. Kalawila (University of North Dakota), Gihan L. Gamage (New Mexico State University-Alamogordo), Omar L\'opez-Cruz (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica)

Properties of cluster red-sequence spiral galaxies
We identify a sample of 324 red and 273 blue face-on spiral galaxies selected from 115 low-redshift (0.014 < z < 0.18) galaxy clusters imaged with CFHT+MegaCam in u- and r-band, KPNO 0.9-meter 2TkA and MOSAIC 8K camera in B and Rc, and images and catalogs extracted from the WINGS survey. Multi-wavelength photometry and spectroscopy were obtained by cross-matching sources with SDSS, GALEX, and WISE datasets. Our main results suggest that up to 45% of optically red spirals are dusty compared to b…

Das verblüffende bei der #Recyclingtomate ist, dass ihre Früchte soviel aromatischer sind, als ihre Elterngeneration aus dem Supermarkt, aus der die Samen stammen.
Zudem scheinen sie sehr ertragreich zu sein.

Trump Says He'll Deploy Troops to Memphis Next (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-national-guard-memphis-tennessee/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p50#a250912p50

Did it turn out that the railway pass bought in KD ticket office doesn't work with the barcode scanners used in KW? Perhaps.
Did I immediately start scanning and analyzing the barcodes? Of course.
Well, KD tickets have two codes: a QR code with binary mash encoded in base64 (unnecessarily), which unfortunately I don't have time to analyze, and a code128 barcode with the ticket series and number, encoded as:
AA000000000 (0)
On the other hand, KW/PR have only code128 with the series and number, but without the digit in parentheses (perhaps a checksum?), even though it is printed on the pass:
AA000000000
#rail

Fast alle Unternehmen (97%) sehen #DSGVO-Vorgaben als erhebliche Belastung. Bitkom-Präsident Ralf Wintergerst fordert deshalb weniger Berichte, mehr Praxisbezug: Datenschutz nach Risiko, nicht nach Mitarbeiterzahl. So könnte echte Entlastung aussehen – statt neuer Formularpflichten. #Golem
Es muss …

Bitkom: Datenschutz belastet deutsche Unternehmen immer stärker - Golem.de
Einer Umfrage zufolge stufen fast alle Unternehmen ihren Datenschutz-Aufwand als hoch ein. Je weniger Mitarbeiter, desto höher ist die Belastung.

DeCodec: Rethinking Audio Codecs as Universal Disentangled Representation Learners
Xiaoxue Luo, Jinwei Huang, Runyan Yang, Yingying Gao, Junlan Feng, Chao Deng, Shilei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09201

DeCodec: Rethinking Audio Codecs as Universal Disentangled Representation Learners
Universal audio codecs learn entangled representations across audio types, whereas some specific codecs offer decoupled representations but are limited to speech. Real-world audio, however, often contains mixed speech and background sounds, and downstream tasks require selective access to these components. Therefore, we rethink the audio codec as a universal disentangled representation learner to enable controllable feature selection across different audio tasks. To this end, we introduce DeCod…

A Decade-long Landscape of Advanced Persistent Threats: Longitudinal Analysis and Global Trends
Shakhzod Yuldoshkhujaev (Sungkyunkwan University), Mijin Jeon (Sungkyunkwan University), Doowon Kim (University of Tennessee), Nick Nikiforakis (Stony Brook University), Hyungjoon Koo (Sungkyunkwan University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07457

A Decade-long Landscape of Advanced Persistent Threats: Longitudinal Analysis and Global Trends
An advanced persistent threat (APT) refers to a covert, long-term cyberattack, typically conducted by state-sponsored actors, targeting critical sectors and often remaining undetected for long periods. In response, collective intelligence from around the globe collaborates to identify and trace surreptitious activities, generating substantial documentation on APT campaigns publicly available on the web. While prior works predominantly focus on specific aspects of APT cases, such as detection, e…

DOJ Tells SCOTUS Trump Has Unreviewable Power to Send Troops to U.S. Cities (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-doj-supreme-court-unreviewable-power-deploy-national-guard/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p91#a251111p91

Label Inference Attacks against Federated Unlearning
Wei Wang, Xiangyun Tang, Yajie Wang, Yijing Lin, Tao Zhang, Meng Shen, Dusit Niyato, Liehuang Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06789

Label Inference Attacks against Federated Unlearning
Federated Unlearning (FU) has emerged as a promising solution to respond to the right to be forgotten of clients, by allowing clients to erase their data from global models without compromising model performance. Unfortunately, researchers find that the parameter variations of models induced by FU expose clients' data information, enabling attackers to infer the label of unlearning data, while label inference attacks against FU remain unexplored. In this paper, we introduce and analyze a new pr…