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Don't leave for the weekend without reading today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
--US feds seize nearly $8 million from fake DPRK IT workers
--Cellebrite buys Corellium for $200m,
--Play gang breached 900 orgs,
--Two ViLE members sentenced,
--UK revenue offices lost $64m to phishing scam,
--One-fifth of Ukraine IP space under Russian control,
--Cairncross defends his lack of tech expertise,
--Ukr…

US feds seize nearly $8 million from fake DPRK IT workers
Cellebrite buys Corellium for $200m, Play gang breached 900 orgs, Two ViLE members sentenced, UK revenue offices lost $64m to phishing scam, One-fifth of Ukraine IP space under Russian control, Cairncross defends his lack of tech expertise, Ukraine claims hack of Russian aviation giant, much more

FBI: Play ransomware gang has attacked 600 organizations since 2023 https://therecord.media/play-ransomware-gang-fbi-update-900-attacks

Months after detaining 47 people accused of being Tren de Aragua in Austin, authorities offer no evidence of gang ties (Alejandro Serrano/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/texas-immigration-raid-hays-county-austin-venezuelan-gang/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p116#a250604p116

CISA, the ACSC, and the FBI say the Play ransomware gang, active since June 2022, had breached roughly 900 organizations as of May 2025, up 3x on October 2023 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

A lawyer’s prolonged detention shows how El Salvador’s gang emergency extends to common crimes | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/a-lawyers-prolonged-detention-shows-how-el-salvadors-gang-emergency-extends-to-common-crimes/

#Sommerles er i gang. Barna er i gang med å sluke bŸker! 7-åringen leser så fort at jeg må stille kontrollspŸrsmål for å sjekke om han bare har latt Ÿynene gli over sidene, men joda, han har fått med seg alt.

https://timesofmalta.com/article/maksar-trial-verdict-carmel-chircop-daphne-caruana-galizia.1110867

Im digitalen Mittelalter: Als gemeiner Bauer muss der Gang auf den mittelalterlichen Marktplatz recht übel gewesen sein. An jeder Ecke lauerten Gauner und Trickbetrüger, gottlose Geistliche oder am Ende gar die Pest. Versetzt der SocialMedia-Feed uns in dieses Jahrhundert zurück: Denn magisches Denken, Alchemie und allerlei Irrglauben sind auch dort auf der Tagesordnung. Kolumne von Vincent Först #netzpolitk

montreal: Montreal street gangs (2007)
Network representing relationships between gangs, obtained from Montreal Police’s central intelligence database, spanning 2004 to 2007. Nodes are gangs, and an edge represents some kind of relationship between two gangs (as elicited from interviews with gang members).
This network has 35 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

Automated Mechanism to Support Trade Transactions in Smart Contracts with Upgrade and Repair
Christian Gang Liu, Peter Bodorik, Dawn Jutla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03877

Automated Mechanism to Support Trade Transactions in Smart Contracts with Upgrade and Repair
In our previous research, we addressed the problem of automated transformation of models, represented using the business process model and notation (BPMN) standard, into the methods of a smart contract. The transformation supports BPMN models that contain complex multi-step activities that are supported using our concept of multi-step nested trade transactions, wherein the transactional properties are enforced by a mechanism generated automatically by the transformation process from a BPMN mode…

Homological invariant properties under cleft extensions
Li Liang, Yajun Ma, Gang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02691 https://arxiv.…

Homological invariant properties under cleft extensions
We study the behavior of the Gorenstein weak global dimension and Gorenstein flat-cotorsion global dimension under a cleft extension of rings; we prove that under some mild conditons the finiteness of the Gorenstein weak global dimension and that of the Gorenstein flat-cotorsion global dimension are both invariant. Moreover, we compare the relative singularity categories with respect to flat-cotorsion modules under a cleft extension of rings. Some applications to θ-extensions and Morita contex…

FSM Modeling For Off-Blockchain Computation
Christian Gang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02086 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.02086

FSM Modeling For Off-Blockchain Computation
Blockchain benefits are due to immutability, replication, and storage-and-execution of smart contracts on the blockchain. However, the benefits come at increased costs due to the blockchain size and execution. We address three fundamental issues that arise in transferring certain parts of a smart contract to be executed off-chain: (i) identifying which parts (patterns) of the smart contract should be considered for processing off-chain, (ii) under which conditions should a smart-contract patter…

Her ser vi nok en gang hvordan staten og byråkratiet forsŸker å kontrollere hva unge skal tenke, mene og konsumere. Når Valgdirektoratet advarer mot unges mediebruk, handler det ikke bare om «beskyttelse» – det er også et forsŸk på å styre informasjonsflyten og forme unge til lydige borgere som ikke stiller spŸrsmål ved makta. Staten frykter at unge skal finne alternative stemmer og informasjon utenfor de etablerte kanalene, fordi det utfordrer deres monopol på sannhet og kontroll.
I s…

NepTrain and NepTrainKit: Automated Active Learning and Visualization Toolkit for Neuroevolution Potentials
Chengbing Chen, Yutong Li, Rui Zhao, Zhoulin Liu, Zheyong Fan, Gang Tang, Zhiyong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01868

NepTrain and NepTrainKit: Automated Active Learning and Visualization Toolkit for Neuroevolution Potentials
As a machine-learned potential, the neuroevolution potential (NEP) method features exceptional computational efficiency and has been successfully applied in materials science. Constructing high-quality training datasets is crucial for developing accurate NEP models. However, the preparation and screening of NEP training datasets remain a bottleneck for broader applications due to their time-consuming, labor-intensive, and resource-intensive nature. In this work, we have developed NepTrain and N…

Hey gang - if any of you are going to be in DC and attending the FFOTUS imperial march on June 14.
Remember, try to gather, early (so you get into the front row) across from the viewing stand (which will probably be on the south end of the white house lawn).
I recommend that when FFOTUS appears that you give him a full Braveheart mooning.
You can wear underwear - and I suggest that on the left side it has the letters "T A" and on the right "C O".
I…

"A empresa antiokupas é perfeitamente legal", diz o gorila. Mas os bandidos do gang andam por aí a agredir pessoas com a cara tapada.
Legalíssimo.

Kettering Health confirms attack by Interlock ransomware group as health record system is restored https://therecord.media/kettering-health-ohio-interlock-ransomware

Non-invasive two-step strategy BCI: brain-muscle-hand interface
Sun Ye, Zuo Cuiming, Zhang Rui, Shi Bin, Pang Yajing, Gao Lingyun, Zhao Bowei, Wang Jing, Yao Dezhong, Liu Gang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02013

Non-invasive two-step strategy BCI: brain-muscle-hand interface
Brain-computer interface enables direct interaction between brain and device. However, common brain-computer interfaces often employ one-step strategy that rely on non-natural paradigms, such as SSVEP-BCI and MI-BCI, are limited to specific scenarios, restricting their broader application. This paper first proposes a two-step strategic brain-muscular-hand interface (BMHI) based on biological evolutionary selection mechanism, by integrating the brain-muscle (BM) interface with the muscle-hand (M…

ICE agents' task is to deport as many people as they can. It does not matter whether they are citizens, legal residents or tourists; each team's performance is measured by that number alone. "We searched hard but found no illegal aliens or gang members." is no excuse for a zero score. And they know that any mistakes they might make will have no consequences; at worst, they will be pardoned by the Orange Boss.

Pondus fortalte en gang at han falt for sin kone da hun gikk med knottene fŸrst inn i en takling
#NorgeIsland

montreal: Montreal street gangs (2007)
Network representing relationships between gangs, obtained from Montreal Police’s central intelligence database, spanning 2004 to 2007. Nodes are gangs, and an edge represents some kind of relationship between two gangs (as elicited from interviews with gang members).
This network has 35 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

MolTextNet: A Two-Million Molecule-Text Dataset for Multimodal Molecular Learning
Yihan Zhu, Gang Liu, Eric Inae, Meng Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00009

MolTextNet: A Two-Million Molecule-Text Dataset for Multimodal Molecular Learning
Small molecules are essential to drug discovery, and graph-language models hold promise for learning molecular properties and functions from text. However, existing molecule-text datasets are limited in scale and informativeness, restricting the training of generalizable multimodal models. We present MolTextNet, a dataset of 2.5 million high-quality molecule-text pairs designed to overcome these limitations. To construct it, we propose a synthetic text generation pipeline that integrates struct…

Transforming Automatically BPMN Models to Smart Contracts with Nested Collaborative Transactions (TABS )
Christian Gang Liu, Peter Bodorik, Dawn Jutla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02727

Transforming Automatically BPMN Models to Smart Contracts with Nested Collaborative Transactions (TABS+)
Development of blockchain smart contracts is more difficult than mainstream software development because the underlying blockchain infrastructure poses additional complexity. To ease the developer's task of writing smart contract, as other research efforts, we also use Business Process Model and Notation BPMN modeling to describe application requirements for trade of goods and services and then transform automatically the BPMN model into the methods of a smart contract. In our previous research…

Der #NDB hat Daten mit #Kaspersky geteilt, die angeblich #GRU und #FSB nahestehen. Nun gibt es möglicherweise …

På mandag er det #kvadratrotdagen, 5.5.25. Det er fŸrste gang siden 4.4.16 og skjer ikke igjen fŸr 6.6.36. Hvordan skal du feire?

My #pinebookpro is now running #netbsd
:netbsd: gang here I come

> The night was cold but gentle like an X-rated metaphor.
Meddling Kids (2017) by Edgar Cantero is what happens when not-the-Scooby-Doo Gang revisit their last case, 13 years ago in a town in Oregon, because it might have had more going on than just a villain in a lake monster costume. For one, why did the attic have a copy of the Necronomicon?
The dog (Tim) is a Weimeraner, doesn't talk, but does do heroic doggy things with his squeaky toy.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
The Sugarhill Gang:
🎵 Rapper's Delight
#TheSugarhillGang
https://deepsound.bandcamp.com/track/the-sugarhill-gang-rappers-delight-deepsound-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2XbwFs07dfm2MGQuYmRMZT

So, Sheboygan only has a population of 50K yet the city is sending breach notices to 70K?
https://therecord.media/ransomware-sheboygan-breach-notice

Nearly 70,000 impacted by ransomware attack on Sheboygan, Wisconsin
The city filed breach notification letters with regulators seven months after a ransomware gang accessed systems.

Effective potential and scattering length of shielding polar molecules
Peng Xu, Gang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22122 https://ar…

Effective potential and scattering length of shielding polar molecules
We investigate the effective potential and scattering length of ultracold polar molecules under different shielding techniques. First, we derive the effective potential for two polar molecules in the presence of an elliptical polarization field, combined elliptical and linear polarization fields, and combined elliptical polarization and static fields. The effective potential is then expressed as a sum of a zero-range contact interaction and a long-range dipole-dipole interaction under the Born …

Supporting Long-term Transactions in Smart Contracts Generated from Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) Models
Christian Gang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24309

Supporting Long-term Transactions in Smart Contracts Generated from Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) Models
To alleviate difficulties in writing smart contracts for distributed blockchain applications, as other research, we propose transformation of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) models into blockchain smart contracts. Unlike other research, we use Discrete Event Hierarchical State Machine (DE-HSM) multi-modal modeling to identify collaborative trade transactions that need to be supported by the smart contract and describe how the trade transactions, that may be nested, are supported by a…

Nearly 70,000 impacted by ransomware attack on Sheboygan, Wisconsin https://therecord.media/ransomware-sheboygan-breach-notice