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Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200 companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/goog

Google says hackers stole data from 200 companies following Gainsight breach | TechCrunch
Notorious hacking collective Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters takes credit for the breach that affected Salesforce customers’ data, and said it is planning another extortion campaign.

Echinacea in front of my barn, I was seeing these everywhere two months ago and now they're all gone
#photo #photography #flowers

Tides of Memory: Digital Echoes of Netizen Remembran
Lingyu Peng, Chang Ge, Liying Long, Xin Li, Xiao Hu, Pengda Lu, Qingchuan Li, Jiangyue Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16579 h…

Tides of Memory: Digital Echoes of Netizen Remembran
This artwork presents an interdisciplinary interaction installation that visualizes collective online mourning behavior in China. By focusing on commemorative content posted on Sina Weibo following the deaths of seven prominent Chinese authors, the artwork employs data scraping, natural language processing, and 3D modeling to transform fragmented textual expressions into immersive digital monuments. Through the analysis of word frequencies, topic models, and user engagement metrics, the system …

The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/?utm_source=newsletter

Everyday microplastics could be fueling heart disease #health

Everyday microplastics could be fueling heart disease
Microplastics—tiny particles now found in food, water, air, and even human tissues—may directly accelerate artery-clogging disease, and new research shows the danger may be far greater for males. In mice, environmentally realistic doses of microplastics dramatically worsened plaque buildup, altered key vascular cells, and activated harmful genes linked to inflammation and atherosclerosis, all without changes to weight or cholesterol.

Turns out that what hit flight #UA1093 was most likely a balloon from https://windbornesystems.com - this was brought up first in the thread https://x.com/vk5qi/status/1980386581497409891 and now the company confirms that it's a very strong possibility: https://x.com/johndeanl/status/1980462264974209292. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZzbS30xdjM for a short video about the company and how it's filling the atmosphere with long-duration balloons carrying weather sensors. They had just been hailed as one of the best inventions of 2025: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318250/windborne-systems-atlas/ ...

An extension of the Floquet-Bloch theory to nilpotent groups and its applications
Atsushi Katsuda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16848 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

An extension of the Floquet-Bloch theory to nilpotent groups and its applications
We develop a generalized Floquet-Bloch theory for discrete torsion-free nilpotent groups by exploiting their Malcev completions. Our main result is a branching formula that relates finite-dimensional representations of a discrete nilpotent lattice to infinite-dimensional unitary representations of its simply connected nilpotent Lie group. This generalization enables to extend the following two classical asymptotic problems (i) a Chebotarev density analogue for prime closed geodesics on compact …

18 October is an auspicious day to strike against authoritarianism
#nokings #nofacists
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I drove down town for the No Kings Rally to see how it was going, and maybe attend. It was going great, but because of that no parking in sight. So I drove by the rally and honked, clapped, and waved ... and cried.
I realized that being a recent widower, my emotions aren't settled enough to experience such inspiration -- it's overwhelming to see.
If I can collect my feelings, which are complex, I've decided I could use Uber to get to the rally and back for maybe $50.…

I ordered a tshirt from an online place today. I chose paypal. I finished filling out the paypal login, then clicked "checkout" and it said "Your cart is empty!" Umm.. what? I got annoyed and went and did something else. 15 minutes later I got confirmation I purchased that tshirt. WTF? Good workflow there....