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Learning How to Strategically Disclose Information
Raj Kiriti Velicheti, Melih Bastopcu, S. Rasoul Etesami, Tamer Ba\c{s}ar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08741

Learning How to Strategically Disclose Information
Strategic information disclosure, in its simplest form, considers a game between an information provider (sender) who has access to some private information that an information receiver is interested in. While the receiver takes an action that affects the utilities of both players, the sender can design information (or modify beliefs) of the receiver through signal commitment, hence posing a Stackelberg game. However, obtaining a Stackelberg equilibrium for this game traditionally requires the …

“When journalists must sue for access to public records after they’re wrongfully withheld by state and local officials, it’s a raw deal for taxpayers. Not only are they denied information that is public under state law, but their tax money foots the legal bills.
[…]
“In the past 12 months alone, more than $1.6 million in attorneys fees was awarded to journalists and news outlets suing state and local officials for public records access, according to our review ...”

The public is paying the price for local government secrecy
When journalists must sue for access to public records after they’re wrongfully withheld by state and local officials, it’s a …

TikTok-funded Oxford Economics study of 1K US SMBs and 7.5K users: in 2023, TikTok drove $14.7B in SMB revenue, added $24.2B to US GDP, and supported 224K jobs (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3VfHAyq

TikTok claims its contribution to the economy is huge
The report was done with the cooperation of TikTok, which granted its authors access to information on the site.

This was an easy blog post for me to write! There is so much wrong with the State of Nevada’s request for an injunction to prevent Meta from rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger. For starters, WhatsApp has had E2EE since 2016, Apple iMessage since 2011 … and more.
Hopefully the district court in Nevada will agree and NOT allow the injunction! We’ll see.
#E2EE

EFF “Podcast Episode: Building a Tactile Internet”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/podcast-episode-building-tactile-internet
Featuring @…

Podcast Episode: Building a Tactile Internet
Blind and low-vision people have experienced remarkable gains in information literacy because of digital technologies, like being able to access an online library offering more than 1.2 million books that can be translated into text-to-speech or digital Braille. But it can be a lot harder to come...

Information Leakage through Physical Layer Supply Voltage Coupling Vulnerability
Sahan Sanjaya, Aruna Jayasena, Prabhat Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08132

Information Leakage through Physical Layer Supply Voltage Coupling Vulnerability
Side-channel attacks exploit variations in non-functional behaviors to expose sensitive information across security boundaries. Existing methods leverage side-channels based on power consumption, electromagnetic radiation, silicon substrate coupling, and channels created by malicious implants. Power-based side-channel attacks are widely known for extracting information from data processed within a device while assuming that an attacker has physical access or the ability to modify the device. In…

An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. - Open Campus

An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. - Open Campus
Students said they were given little information about when and if the devices would be returned, and many wondered if they’d lose access to the work they saved.

Learning How to Strategically Disclose Information
Raj Kiriti Velicheti, Melih Bastopcu, S. Rasoul Etesami, Tamer Ba\c{s}ar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08741

Learning How to Strategically Disclose Information
Strategic information disclosure, in its simplest form, considers a game between an information provider (sender) who has access to some private information that an information receiver is interested in. While the receiver takes an action that affects the utilities of both players, the sender can design information (or modify beliefs) of the receiver through signal commitment, hence posing a Stackelberg game. However, obtaining a Stackelberg equilibrium for this game traditionally requires the …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00031 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Deep DNA Storage: Scalable and Robust DNA Storage via Coding Theory and Deep Learning
DNA-based storage is an emerging technology that enables digital information to be archived in DNA molecules. This method enjoys major advantages over magnetic and optical storage solutions such as exceptional information density, enhanced data durability, and negligible power consumption to maintain data integrity. To access the data, an information retrieval process is employed, where some of the main bottlenecks are the scalability and accuracy, which have a natural tradeoff between the two.…

“When journalists must sue for access to public records after they’re wrongfully withheld by state and local officials, it’s a raw deal for taxpayers. Not only are they denied information that is public under state law, but their tax money foots the legal bills.
[…]
“In the past 12 months alone, more than $1.6 million in attorneys fees was awarded to journalists and news outlets suing state and local officials for public records access, according to our review ...”

The public is paying the price for local government secrecy
When journalists must sue for access to public records after they’re wrongfully withheld by state and local officials, it’s a …

The Reddit post discusses the degree of trust in cybersecurity jobs, asking how often professionals verify the information they're given. It also inquires about their involvement with infrastructure/software and their strategies for gaining system access. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1c2rg74/

Australia’s chief scientist takes on the journal publishers gatekeeping knowledge
Before Latin mass was abandoned in the late 1960s, the average church-goer got by picking up snippets of phrases and the meanings of gestures.
To Dr Averil Cook, that’s what scientific research is like in the 21st century. The public relies on information to be synthesised for us, trickled down until it is devoid of its origin.
Cook, a clinical psychologist, is lucky. She can access the full b…

An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. - Open Campus

An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. - Open Campus
Students said they were given little information about when and if the devices would be returned, and many wondered if they’d lose access to the work they saved.

We are delighted to announce that UKRIO is giving subscribers free 12-month access to our new online training course, Introduction to Research Integrity, as part of its pilot phase.
More information about the pilot can be found here: https://zurl.co/ebN8

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05093 has been replaced.
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Investigating the Effect of Misalignment on Membership Privacy in the White-box Setting
Machine learning models have been shown to leak sensitive information about their training datasets. Models are increasingly deployed on devices, raising concerns that white-box access to the model parameters increases the attack surface compared to black-box access which only provides query access. Directly extending the shadow modelling technique from the black-box to the white-box setting has been shown, in general, not to perform better than black-box only attacks. A potential reason is mis…

Pro-Trump attorney slapped with new charges for allegedly breaching voter information - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2668203840/

Pro-Trump attorney slapped with new charges for allegedly breaching voter information
Stefanie Lambert, a pro-Trump attorney, has been indicted on new charges by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is additionally charging Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott, alleging the pair helped someone access confidential voter information.According to The Detroit News, "Nessel, a Democ...

Government, Social Media and obligations under Access to Information laws
I did a thing As sometimes happens, I submitted a letter to a government official/agency today. What now you ask? Well, it has to do with something that has long interested me. Access to Information. Particularly when it comes to government institutions and their reluctance to access to the reams of information they generate out of sight of the public.

"Es ist besonders ärgerlich, dass ein Buch, das den Anspruch erhebt, das Beste der deutschen informationswissenschaftlichen Literatur zu sein, mit einem derart schlampigen Register ausgestattet ist."
– Rezension zur 7. Auflage der "Grundlagen der Informationswissenschaft": https://doi.org/10.1515/iwp-2024-2007…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05093 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Investigating the Effect of Misalignment on Membership Privacy in the White-box Setting
Machine learning models have been shown to leak sensitive information about their training datasets. Models are increasingly deployed on devices, raising concerns that white-box access to the model parameters increases the attack surface compared to black-box access which only provides query access. Directly extending the shadow modelling technique from the black-box to the white-box setting has been shown, in general, not to perform better than black-box only attacks. A potential reason is mis…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02323 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Distributed Nash Equilibrium Seeking over Time-Varying Directed Communication Networks
We study distributed algorithms for finding a Nash equilibrium (NE) in a class of non-cooperative convex games under partial information. Specifically, each agent has access only to its own smooth local cost function and can receive information from its neighbors in a time-varying directed communication network. To this end, we propose a distributed gradient play algorithm to compute a NE by utilizing local information exchange among the players. In this algorithm, every agent performs a gradie…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10052 has been replaced.
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SeMA: Extending and Analyzing Storyboards to Develop Secure Android Apps
Mobile apps provide various critical services, such as banking, communication, and healthcare. To this end, they have access to our personal information and have the ability to perform actions on our behalf. Hence, securing mobile apps is crucial to ensuring the privacy and safety of its users. Recent research efforts have focused on developing solutions to secure mobile ecosystems (i.e., app platforms, apps, and app stores), specifically in the context of detecting vulnerabilities in Android…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06520 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

UL-DL duality for cell-free massive MIMO with per-AP power and information constraints
We derive a novel uplink-downlink duality principle for optimal joint precoding design under per-transmitter power and information constraints in fading channels. The information constraints model limited sharing of channel state information and data bearing signals across the transmitters. The main application is to cell-free networks, where each access point (AP) must typically satisfy an individual power constraint and form its transmit signal using limited cooperation capabilities. Our dual…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02323 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Distributed Nash Equilibrium Seeking over Time-Varying Directed Communication Networks
We study distributed algorithms for finding a Nash equilibrium (NE) in a class of non-cooperative convex games under partial information. Specifically, each agent has access only to its own smooth local cost function and can receive information from its neighbors in a time-varying directed communication network. To this end, we propose a distributed gradient play algorithm to compute a NE by utilizing local information exchange among the players. In this algorithm, every agent performs a gradie…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04646 has been replaced.
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Constraints on the trilinear and quartic Higgs couplings from triple Higgs production at the LHC and beyond
Experimental information on the trilinear Higgs boson self-coupling $κ_3$ and the quartic self-coupling $κ_4$ will be crucial for gaining insight into the shape of the Higgs potential and the nature of the electroweak phase transition. While Higgs pair production processes provide access to $κ_3$, triple Higgs production processes, despite their small cross sections, will provide valuable complementary information on $κ_3$ and first experimental constraints on $κ_4$. We investigate triple …

Millions of small coffee growers vs. central monitoring from 7000 km away: a classic #commons governance story?
https://www.theguardian.com/global-de…

Introducing Quantum Information and Computation to a Broader Audience with MOOCs at OpenHPI
Gerhard Hellstern, J\"org Hettel, Bettina Just
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07241

Introducing Quantum Information and Computation to a Broader Audience with MOOCs at OpenHPI
Quantum computing is an exciting field with high disruptive potential, but very difficult to access. For this reason, numerous concepts are being developed worldwide on how quantum computing can be taught. This always raises questions about the didactic concept, the content actually taught, and how to measure the success of the teaching concept. In 2022 and 2023, the authors gave a total of nine two-week MOOCs (massive open online courses) with different possible learning paths on the Hasso Pla…

Today I submitted a complaint to the Information Commissioner of Canada arguing that by only using third party social media platforms (as opposed to open ones like Mastodon) Public Safety Canada was not living up to the spirit, if not the word, of the Access to Information Act.
You can read my letter and justifications on my blog.
h/t @…@…

OmniActions: Predicting Digital Actions in Response to Real-World Multimodal Sensory Inputs with LLMs
Jiahao Nick Li, Yan Xu, Tovi Grossman, Stephanie Santosa, Michelle Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03901

OmniActions: Predicting Digital Actions in Response to Real-World Multimodal Sensory Inputs with LLMs
The progression to "Pervasive Augmented Reality" envisions easy access to multimodal information continuously. However, in many everyday scenarios, users are occupied physically, cognitively or socially. This may increase the friction to act upon the multimodal information that users encounter in the world. To reduce such friction, future interactive interfaces should intelligently provide quick access to digital actions based on users' context. To explore the range of possible digital actions,…

Raiders GM addresses 2024 NFL Draft 'coin toss' controversy https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_gm_addresses_2024_nfl_draft_coin_toss_controversy/s1_13132_40346947

Raiders GM addresses 2024 NFL Draft 'coin toss' controversy
Las Vegas Raiders assistant general manager Champ Kelly recently attempted to brush off a claim made by cornerback Terrion Arnold that the club used a "coin toss" to finalize its decision to make tight end Brock Bowers and not Arnold the 13th pick of the 2024 NFL Draft.  Raiders general manager Tom Telesco offered more information during a Thursday appearance on the NFL Network "NFL Total Access" program.  "Typically, I use a magic 8-ball and not a coin," Telesco quipped, as shared by Bobby K…

On the challenges of open access monitoring - Insights
#OpenAccess .

On the challenges of open access monitoring - Insights
Insights: the UKSG journal (2048-7754) aims to support UKSG's mission to connect the information community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication, specifically to:Provide a forum for the communication and exchange of ideas between the many stakeholders in the global knowledge community.Disseminate news, information and publications, and raise awareness of services that support the scholarly information sector.From 1988 to 2011, Insights was published as Serials: The Jo…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19140 has been replaced.
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Globally hyperbolic evaporating black hole and the information loss issue
We discuss the information loss issue for completely evaporating black holes in the context of a globally hyperbolic spacetime that maintains unchanged the entire semiclassical picture except for the ``last evaporation breath,'' which pertains to full quantum gravity. Even though observers outside the black hole cannot access information that enters the horizon, there is no actual loss of information since it is carried over from one Cauchy surface to the next (provided the evolution is unitary…

Tuning transduction from hidden observables to optimize information harvesting
Giorgio Nicoletti, Daniel Maria Busiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04709 ht…

Tuning transduction from hidden observables to optimize information harvesting
Biological and living organisms sense and process information from their surroundings, typically having access only to a subset of external observables for a limited amount of time. In this work, we uncover how biological systems can exploit these accessible degrees of freedom (DOFs) to transduce information from the inaccessible ones with a limited energy budget. We find that optimal transduction strategies may boost information harvesting over the ideal case in which all DOFs are known, even …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13138 has been replaced.
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Online search is more likely to lead students to validate true news than to refute false ones
With the spread of high-speed Internet and portable smart devices, the way people access and consume information has drastically changed. However, this presents many challenges, including information overload, personal data leakage, and misinformation diffusion. Across the spectrum of risks that Internet users face nowadays, this work focuses on understanding how young people perceive and deal with false information. Within an experimental campaign involving 183 students, we presented six diffe…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07877 has been replaced.
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Mean-field games of speedy information access with observation costs
We investigate mean-field games (MFG) in which agents can actively control their speed of access to information. Specifically, the agents can dynamically decide to obtain observations with reduced delay by accepting higher observation costs. Agents seek to exploit their active information acquisition by making further decisions to influence their state dynamics so as to maximise rewards. In a mean-field equilibrium, each generic agent solves individually a partially observed Markov decision pro…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00322 has been replaced.
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Characterizing Information Seeking Processes with Multiple Physiological Signals
Information access systems are getting complex, and our understanding of user behavior during information seeking processes is mainly drawn from qualitative methods, such as observational studies or surveys. Leveraging the advances in sensing technologies, our study aims to characterize user behaviors with physiological signals, particularly in relation to cognitive load, affective arousal, and valence. We conduct a controlled lab study with 26 participants, and collect data including Electrode…

NIST and Web3 Security – A Developing Perspective
 
The National Institute for Standards and Technology just released an initial draft of “A Security Perspective on the Web3 Paradigm” as document IR 8475. It is not long and it is a great take on how NIST is thinking about Web3 security. Here is the link:
 
#Web3 #NIST #Security #InfoSec #BlockChain #IPFS
 

#StormKathleen is rattling the rafters here. This is what the pattern of electrical outages looks like, scraped from the ESB Networks site: https://powercheck.esbnetworks.ie/

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Universal Neural-Cracking-Machines: Self-Configurable Password Models from Auxiliary Data
We introduce the concept of "universal password model" -- a password model that, once pre-trained, can automatically adapt its guessing strategy based on the target system. To achieve this, the model does not need to access any plaintext passwords from the target credentials. Instead, it exploits users' auxiliary information, such as email addresses, as a proxy signal to predict the underlying password distribution. Specifically, the model uses deep learning to capture the correlation between t…

The threat actor said he registered with several different names on a particular Dell portal as a “partner.” A partner, he said, refers to a company that resells #Dell products or services. After Dell approved his partner accounts, Menelik said he brute-forced customer service tags, which are made of seven digits of only numbers and consonants. He also said that “any kind of partner” could access the portal he was granted access to.
“[I] sent more than 5,000 requests per minute to this page that contains sensitive information. Believe me or not, I kept doing this for nearly 3 weeks and Dell did notice anything. Nearly 50 Million requests…After I thought I got enough data, I sent multiple emails to Dell and notified the vulnerability. It took them nearly a week to patch it all up,” Menelik told #TechCrunch.
#infosec #breach
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/10/threat-actor-scraped-49m-dell-customer-addresses-before-the-company-found-out/

Information sharing is a normal part of human interaction, but it's a part of us that can be manipulated and used to gain access to resources or locations by bad actors.
This is known as #SocialEngineering.
How would a room full of #security professionals behave when we invite t…

Let me hack you: a different kind of social engineering | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Do you know my birthdate? Or my mother’s maiden name? Would I trust you enough to tell you this information? Does it matter if you know, and does it pose a security risk? Most of us accidentally reveal specific information about ourselves in any social interaction – it’s natural to talk about your family, where

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07628 has been replaced.
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Universal Neural-Cracking-Machines: Self-Configurable Password Models from Auxiliary Data
We introduce the concept of "universal password model" -- a password model that, once pre-trained, can automatically adapt its guessing strategy based on the target system. To achieve this, the model does not need to access any plaintext passwords from the target credentials. Instead, it exploits users' auxiliary information, such as email addresses, as a proxy signal to predict the underlying password distribution. Specifically, the model uses deep learning to capture the correlation between t…

Looks like I made the right call not letting the Shell fuel rewards app access my location 🤦🏼

- News -
Berlin Buzzwords has been awarded the gold badge from the CHAOSS D&I badging initiative for the fourth year in a row!
Read on for more information on the the CHAOSS D&I badging initiative and learn about our Diversity Ticket initiative, which helps to provide access to Berlin Buzzwords for members of under-represented groups.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11940 has been replaced.
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Decision-making with Speculative Opponent Models
Opponent modeling has benefited a controlled agent's decision-making by constructing models of other agents. Existing methods commonly assume access to opponents' observations and actions, which is infeasible when opponents' behaviors are unobservable or hard to obtain. We propose a novel multi-agent distributional actor-critic algorithm to achieve speculative opponent modeling with purely local information (i.e., the controlled agent's observations, actions, and rewards). Specifically, the act…

Ukraine Conflict Monitor - 10 February – 16 February 2024 (Free access): https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/18/ukraine-conflict-monitor.html

UK political parties urged to commit to AI honesty before elections
Open letter calls for commitment to protect election integrity and voter access to accurate information.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4202687/uk-political-…

UK political parties urged to commit to AI honesty before elections
A group of prominent political, technology and civil society leaders have raised concerns about the threat posed by AI-generated content to the integrity of the upcoming UK elections.

Just stop using your computers. Hmm...
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users

Urgent security alert for Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide users
Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access.

I am going to be super busy all day, but this response from the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada just came into my inbox. I argued Public Safety Canada (emergency communications) services were violating privacy laws using corporate social media. They say they don't have jurisdiction to make the call. Would be interested in your guys thoughts on a response before I have time to think on mine.

This is very cool. I just got access to Compass from Blackbird AI that is designed to "help organizations navigate the information overload caused by online misinformation and disinformation."
I asked it if the AT&T outage this week was caused by a cyberattack, and this is the very accurate and well-written answer it gave me.

from: Paris Hilton
The abuse faced by children in Jamaica at the Atlantis Leadership Academy shows us how widespread the troubled teen industry is. Survivors will continue to uncover this broken system and expose those who are putting profits over the wellbeing of our most vulnerable youth. We will protect the powerless ourselves. If you are a survivor of ALA or you have any information, please reach out to impact@1111media.co and I will provide you with proper resources and access to …

Leveraging open-source models for legal language modeling and analysis: a case study on the Indian constitution
Vikhyath Gupta (Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India), Srinivasa Rao P (Curlvee TechnoLabs, Hyderabad, Telangana, India)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06751

Leveraging open-source models for legal language modeling and analysis: a case study on the Indian constitution
In recent years, the use of open-source models has gained immense popularity in various fields, including legal language modelling and analysis. These models have proven to be highly effective in tasks such as summarizing legal documents, extracting key information, and even predicting case outcomes. This has revolutionized the legal industry, enabling lawyers, researchers, and policymakers to quickly access and analyse vast amounts of legal text, saving time and resources. This paper presents …

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Robust Regulation of Firms' Access to Consumer Data
In this paper I study how to regulate firms' access to consumer data when the latter is used for price discrimination and the regulator faces non-Bayesian uncertainty about the correlation structure between data and willingness to pay, and hence about the way the monopolist will use the consumers' information to segment the market. I fully characterize all policies that are worst-case optimal when the regulator maximizes consumer surplus: the regulator allows the monopolist to access data if th…

Details on the #backdoor in #xz for users of #Fedora 40 and 41/rawhide:

In January, Microsoft disclosed that it had been breached again,
this time by Russian state-sponsored hacking group Midnight Blizzard.
The group was able "to compromise a legacy non-production test tenant account" to gain access to Microsoft's systems for "as long as two months."
All of this culminated in a report from the US Cyber Safety Review Board, which castigated Microsoft for its "inadequate" security culture, its "inaccurate pub…

Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches
Microsoft has been criticized for "preventable" failures and poor communication.

Building the Future? Software Workers’ Imaginaries of Technology - Helene Thaa,
Mirela Ivanova, Felix Nickel, Friedericke Hardering, Oliver Nachtwey
https://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1462

Secure Information Embedding and Extraction in Forensic 3D Fingerprinting
Canran Wang, Jinwen Wang, Mi Zhou, Vinh Pham, Senyue Hao, Chao Zhou, Ning Zhang, Netanel Raviv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04918

Secure Information Embedding and Extraction in Forensic 3D Fingerprinting
The prevalence of 3D printing poses a significant risk to public safety, as any individual with internet access and a commodity printer is able to produce untraceable firearms, keys, counterfeit products, etc. To aid government authorities in combating these new security threats, several approaches have been taken to tag 3D-prints with identifying information. Known as fingerprints, this information is written into the object using various bit embedding techniques; examples include varying the …

The ACLU, South Carolina, and Information Control In Prisons https://thedissenter.org/aclu-sc-lawsuit-secrecy-prisons-media-access/

Quality with Just Enough Diversity in Evolutionary Policy Search
Paul Templier, Luca Grillotti, Emmanuel Rachelson, Dennis G. Wilson, Antoine Cully
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04308

Quality with Just Enough Diversity in Evolutionary Policy Search
Evolution Strategies (ES) are effective gradient-free optimization methods that can be competitive with gradient-based approaches for policy search. ES only rely on the total episodic scores of solutions in their population, from which they estimate fitness gradients for their update with no access to true gradient information. However this makes them sensitive to deceptive fitness landscapes, and they tend to only explore one way to solve a problem. Quality-Diversity methods such as MAP-Elites…

I did not know about ggplot_build() before. It can come in handy in situations where you want to access computed metrics of a #ggplot. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot…

If you use Discord, you might wanna know this.
A service called Spy Pet is scraping Discord servers, archiving and tracking users' messages and activity, and then selling access to that data.
Spy Pet scrapes more than 10,000 Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone with cryptocurrency, it offers the data for training AI models or to assist law enforcement agencies, according to its website.
Spy Pet claims to be tracking more than 14,000 servers, 600 millio…

A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users’ Messages
404 Media tested the service, called Spy Pet, and verified it is collecting information on Discord users, including the messages they post across usually disparate servers.

Protecting Human Users Against Cognitive Attacks in Immersive Environments
Yan-Ming Chiou, Bob Price, Chien-Chung Shen, Syed Ali Asif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05919

Protecting Human Users Against Cognitive Attacks in Immersive Environments
Integrating mixed reality (MR) with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including vision, language, audio, reasoning, and planning, enables the AI-powered MR assistant [1] to substantially elevate human efficiency. This enhancement comes from situational awareness, quick access to essential information, and support in learning new skills in the right context throughout everyday tasks. This blend transforms interactions with both the virtual and physical environments, catering to a range …

NIST and Web3 Security – A Developing Perspective
 
The National Institute for Standards and Technology just released an initial draft of “A Security Perspective on the Web3 Paradigm” as document IR 8475. It is not long and it is a great take on how NIST is thinking about Web3 security. Here is the link:
 
#Web3 #NIST #Security #InfoSec #BlockChain #IPFS
 

Secure Information Embedding and Extraction in Forensic 3D Fingerprinting
Canran Wang, Jinwen Wang, Mi Zhou, Vinh Pham, Senyue Hao, Chao Zhou, Ning Zhang, Netanel Raviv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04918

Secure Information Embedding and Extraction in Forensic 3D Fingerprinting
The prevalence of 3D printing poses a significant risk to public safety, as any individual with internet access and a commodity printer is able to produce untraceable firearms, keys, counterfeit products, etc. To aid government authorities in combating these new security threats, several approaches have been taken to tag 3D-prints with identifying information. Known as fingerprints, this information is written into the object using various bit embedding techniques; examples include varying the …

“Chirp Access improperly stores credentials within its source code, potentially exposing sensitive information to unauthorized access,” CISA’s alert warned, assigning the bug a CVSS (badness) rating of 9.1 (out of a possible 10). “Chirp Systems has not responded to requests to work with CISA to mitigate this vulnerability.”
…

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
ENSOR: It most certainly is not. It is a brain, a genius. It has a mind that can draw information from every computer containing one of my cells. Orac has access to the sum total of all the knowledge of all the known worlds.
BLAKE: You mean it can draw information from any other computer without a direct link?
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/113/302 📺 B7B3

A Named Entity Recognition and Topic Modeling-based Solution for Locating and Better Assessment of Natural Disasters in Social Media
Ayaz Mehmood, Muhammad Tayyab Zamir, Muhammad Asif Ayub, Nasir Ahmad, Kashif Ahmad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00903

A Named Entity Recognition and Topic Modeling-based Solution for Locating and Better Assessment of Natural Disasters in Social Media
Over the last decade, similar to other application domains, social media content has been proven very effective in disaster informatics. However, due to the unstructured nature of the data, several challenges are associated with disaster analysis in social media content. To fully explore the potential of social media content in disaster informatics, access to relevant content and the correct geo-location information is very critical. In this paper, we propose a three-step solution to tackling t…

Globally hyperbolic evaporating black hole and the information loss issue
Juan V. O. P\^egas, Andr\'e G. S. Landulfo, George E. A. Matsas, Daniel A. T. Vanzella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19140

Globally hyperbolic evaporating black hole and the information loss issue
We discuss the loss of information in black holes in the context of a globally hyperbolic spacetime that maintains unchanged the whole semiclassical picture except for the ``last evaporation breath,'' which actually pertains to full quantum gravity. Although observers outside the black hole will not have access to information that enters the horizon, no information is lost in the sense it is carried over from one Cauchy surface to the next one (provided the evolution is unitary). In this token,…

Neural Codebook Design for Network Beam Management
Ryan M. Dreifuerst, Robert W. Heath Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03053 https://ar…

Neural Codebook Design for Network Beam Management
Obtaining accurate and timely channel state information (CSI) is a fundamental challenge for large antenna systems. Mobile systems like 5G use a beam management framework that joins the initial access, beamforming, CSI acquisition, and data transmission. The design of codebooks for these stages, however, is challenging due to their interrelationships, varying array sizes, and site-specific channel and user distributions. Furthermore, beam management is often focused on single-sector operations …

VAIM - CFF: A variational autoencoder inverse mapper solution to Compton form factor extraction from deeply virtual exclusive reactions
Manal Almaeen, Tareq Alghamdi, Brandon Kriesten, Douglas Adams, Yaohang Li, Huey-Wen Lin ans Simonetta Liuti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05826

VAIM - CFF: A variational autoencoder inverse mapper solution to Compton form factor extraction from deeply virtual exclusive reactions
We develop a new methodology for extracting Compton form factors (CFFs) in from deeply virtual exclusive reactions such as the unpolarized DVCS cross section using a specialized inverse problem solver, a variational autoencoder inverse mapper (VAIM). The VAIM-CFF framework not only allows us access to a fitted solution set possibly containing multiple solutions in the extraction of all 8 CFFs from a single cross section measurement, but also accesses the lost information contained in the forwar…

Characterizing Information Seeking Processes with Multiple Physiological Signals
Kaixin Ji, Danula Hettiachchi, Flora D. Salim, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00322

Characterizing Information Seeking Processes with Multiple Physiological Signals
Information access systems are getting complex, and our understanding of user behavior during information seeking processes is mainly drawn from qualitative methods, such as observational studies or surveys. Leveraging the advances in sensing technologies, our study aims to characterize user behaviors with physiological signals, particularly in relation to cognitive load, affective arousal, and valence. We conduct a controlled lab study with 26 participants, and collect data including Electrode…

A Robust Optimization Approach to Network Control Using Local Information Exchange
Georgios Darivianakis, Angelos Georghiou, Soroosh Shafiee, John Lygeros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00148

A Robust Optimization Approach to Network Control Using Local Information Exchange
Designing policies for a network of agents is typically done by formulating an optimization problem where each agent has access to state measurements of all the other agents in the network. Such policy designs with centralized information exchange result in optimization problems that are typically hard to solve, require establishing substantial communication links, and do not promote privacy since all information is shared among the agents. Designing policies based on arbitrary communication st…

Protecting Human Users Against Cognitive Attacks in Immersive Environments
Yan-Ming Chiou, Bob Price, Chien-Chung Shen, Syed Ali Asif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05919

Protecting Human Users Against Cognitive Attacks in Immersive Environments
Integrating mixed reality (MR) with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including vision, language, audio, reasoning, and planning, enables the AI-powered MR assistant [1] to substantially elevate human efficiency. This enhancement comes from situational awareness, quick access to essential information, and support in learning new skills in the right context throughout everyday tasks. This blend transforms interactions with both the virtual and physical environments, catering to a range …

Sources: Together AI, which helps developers access Nvidia server chips to train AI models, is raising $100M led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sa

Salesforce to Invest in Nvidia Chip Reseller at More Than $1 Billion Valuation
Nvidia’s hot streak with artificial intelligence chips, which have been in high demand globally, is also lifting a slew of companies that resell the chips. Together AI, a startup that helps AI developers access Nvidia server chips to train and tweak their AI models, is raising more than $100 ...

User seeking information on the initial access point of the Panera Bread ransomware attack. Finds Google search results unhelpful. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1cif778/

#Global #Biodiversity #Information #Facility
— #GBIF

Protect your info online folks and don't expect much from AirBnB if you get a fraudulent charge from them on your card!
I recently saw an AirBnB purchase on my credit card. I did not make it. $CAD466 for a reservation in London. I have never even had my CC connected to AirBNB and my account is secure. It was obviously made by someone who got my CC info.
I saw it a couple days after the transaction but it was still pending on my statement. So I called my bank (VanCity) and th…

Did you know early bird registrations for #TNC24 tickets are still open? The location for this year’s TNC is Rennes, which has a thriving #digital #industry and is a true hotspot for

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Boosting Digital Safeguards: Blending Cryptography and Steganography
In today's digital age, the internet is essential for communication and the sharing of information, creating a critical need for sophisticated data security measures to prevent unauthorized access and exploitation. Cryptography encrypts messages into a cipher text that is incomprehensible to unauthorized readers, thus safeguarding data during its transmission. Steganography, on the other hand, originates from the Greek term for "covered writing" and involves the art of hiding data within anothe…

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A Light-Front Model for the Transition Distribution Amplitudes for Backward Timelike Compton Scattering
To access information on the internal structure of the nucleon, data from a variety of scattering experiments can be analyzed, in regimes where the information factorizes from an otherwise known scattering amplitude. A recent development, promising new insight, is the study of exclusive reactions in the backward kinematical region, where the information can be encoded in Transition Distribution Amplitudes (TDAs). We model the photon-to-nucleon TDAs, entering the factorized description of backwa…

The Road to Next-Generation Multiple Access: A 50-Year Tutorial Review
Yuanwei Liu, Chongjun Ouyang, Zhiguo Ding, Robert Schober
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00189

The Road to Next-Generation Multiple Access: A 50-Year Tutorial Review
The evolution of wireless communications has been significantly influenced by remarkable advancements in multiple access (MA) technologies over the past five decades, shaping the landscape of modern connectivity. Within this context, a comprehensive tutorial review is presented, focusing on representative MA techniques developed over the past 50 years. The following areas are explored: i) The foundational principles and information-theoretic capacity limits of power-domain non-orthogonal multip…

GenAI is rapidly transforming organisations. But how do we scale from individual experiments to enterprise-grade business products? Join Sebastian Arnold at this year's Berlin Buzzwords as he discusses insights from hundreds of use cases in the pharmaceutical industry on user intentions, information access patterns and quality metrics. #bbuzz

The Use of Generative Search Engines for Knowledge Work and Complex Tasks
Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts, Leijie Wang, Chacha Chen, Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Jennifer Neville, Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Sathish Manivannan, Nagu Rangan, Longqi Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04268

The Use of Generative Search Engines for Knowledge Work and Complex Tasks
Until recently, search engines were the predominant method for people to access online information. The recent emergence of large language models (LLMs) has given machines new capabilities such as the ability to generate new digital artifacts like text, images, code etc., resulting in a new tool, a generative search engine, which combines the capabilities of LLMs with a traditional search engine. Through the empirical analysis of Bing Copilot (Bing Chat), one of the first publicly available gen…

Sources: Together AI, which helps developers access Nvidia server chips to train AI models, is raising $100M led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sa

Salesforce to Invest in Nvidia Chip Reseller at More Than $1 Billion Valuation
Nvidia’s hot streak with artificial intelligence chips, which have been in high demand globally, is also lifting a slew of companies that resell the chips. Together AI, a startup that helps AI developers access Nvidia server chips to train and tweak their AI models, is raising more than $100 ...

A Light-Front Model for the Transition Distribution Amplitudes for Backward Timelike Compton Scattering
B. Pasquini, A. Schiavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00614

A Light-Front Model for the Transition Distribution Amplitudes for Backward Timelike Compton Scattering
To access information on the internal structure of the nucleon, data from a variety of scattering experiments can be analyzed, in regimes where the information factorizes from an otherwise known scattering amplitude. A recent development, promising new insight, is the study of exclusive reactions in the backward kinematical region, where the information can be encoded in Transition Distribution Amplitudes (TDAs). We model the photon-to-nucleon TDAs, entering the factorized description of backwa…

GOLF: Goal-Oriented Long-term liFe tasks supported by human-AI collaboration
Ben Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17089 https://arxiv.…

GOLF: Goal-Oriented Long-term liFe tasks supported by human-AI collaboration
The advent of ChatGPT and similar large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the human-AI interaction and information-seeking process. Leveraging LLMs as an alternative to search engines, users can now access summarized information tailored to their queries, significantly reducing the cognitive load associated with navigating vast information resources. This shift underscores the potential of LLMs in redefining information access paradigms. Drawing on the foundation of task-focused informa…

A comparison of online search engine autocompletion in Google and Baidu
Geng Liu, Pietro Pinoli, Stefano Ceri, Francesco Pierri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01917

A comparison of online search engine autocompletion in Google and Baidu
Warning: This paper contains content that may be offensive or upsetting. Online search engine auto-completions make it faster for users to search and access information. However, they also have the potential to reinforce and promote stereotypes and negative opinions about a variety of social groups. We study the characteristics of search auto-completions in two different linguistic and cultural contexts: Baidu and Google. We find differences between the two search engines in the way they suppre…

From Matching to Generation: A Survey on Generative Information Retrieval
Xiaoxi Li, Jiajie Jin, Yujia Zhou, Yuyao Zhang, Peitian Zhang, Yutao Zhu, Zhicheng Dou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14851

From Matching to Generation: A Survey on Generative Information Retrieval
Information Retrieval (IR) systems are crucial tools for users to access information, widely applied in scenarios like search engines, question answering, and recommendation systems. Traditional IR methods, based on similarity matching to return ranked lists of documents, have been reliable means of information acquisition, dominating the IR field for years. With the advancement of pre-trained language models, generative information retrieval (GenIR) has emerged as a novel paradigm, gaining inc…

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Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Semantic-Aware Networks: an Age of Incorrect Information Perspective
In this letter, we design a downlink multi-user communication framework based on Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) for semantic-aware networks. First, we formulate an optimization problem to obtain the optimal user scheduling, precoding, and power allocation schemes jointly. We consider the metric Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) in the objective function of the formulated problem to maximize the freshness of the overall information to be transmitted. Using big-M and Successive Convex Ap…

Boosting Digital Safeguards: Blending Cryptography and Steganography
Anamitra Maiti, Subham Laha, Rishav Upadhaya, Soumyajit Biswas, Vikas Choudhary, Biplab Kar, Nikhil Kumar, Jaydip Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05985

Boosting Digital Safeguards: Blending Cryptography and Steganography
In today's digital age, the internet is essential for communication and the sharing of information, creating a critical need for sophisticated data security measures to prevent unauthorized access and exploitation. Cryptography encrypts messages into a cipher text that is incomprehensible to unauthorized readers, thus safeguarding data during its transmission. Steganography, on the other hand, originates from the Greek term for "covered writing" and involves the art of hiding data within anothe…

Splitting Messages in the Dark- Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for FDD Massive MIMO Without CSI Feedback
Namhyun Kim, Jeonghun Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00979

Splitting Messages in the Dark- Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for FDD Massive MIMO Without CSI Feedback
A critical hindrance to realize frequency division duplex (FDD) massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems is overhead associated with downlink channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) acquisition. To address this challenge, we propose a novel framework that achieves robust performances while completely eliminating downlink CSIT training and feedback. Specifically, by exploiting partial frequency invariance of channel parameters between the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL), we adop…

Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
Bhaskar Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17901 https://arxiv.o…

Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
Information retrieval (IR) technologies and research are undergoing transformative changes. It is our perspective that the community should accept this opportunity to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community sho…

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GOLF: Goal-Oriented Long-term liFe tasks supported by human-AI collaboration
The advent of ChatGPT and similar large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the human-AI interaction and information-seeking process. Leveraging LLMs as an alternative to search engines, users can now access summarized information tailored to their queries, significantly reducing the cognitive load associated with navigating vast information resources. This shift underscores the potential of LLMs in redefining information access paradigms. Drawing on the foundation of task-focused informa…

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Resource Allocation in STAR-RIS-Aided SWIPT with RSMA via Meta-Learning
Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) is a cutting-edge concept for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a novel system that incorporates STAR-RIS with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) using rate splitting multiple access (RSMA). The proposed system facilitates communication from a multi-antenna base station (BS) to single-antenna users in a downlink transmission. The BS concurrently…

Systematic review, analysis, and characterisation of malicious industrial network traffic datasets for aiding Machine Learning algorithm performance testing
Martin Dobler, Michael Hellwig, Nuno Lopes, Ken Oakley, Mike Winterburn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04866

Systematic review, analysis, and characterisation of malicious industrial network traffic datasets for aiding Machine Learning algorithm performance testing
The adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) as a complementary technology to Operational Technology (OT) has enabled a new level of standardised data access and process visibility. This convergence of Information Technology (IT), OT, and IIoT has also created new cybersecurity vulnerabilities and risks that must be managed. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a powerful tool to monitor OT/IIoT networks for malicious activity and is a highly active area of research. AI resea…

Embodied Supervision: Haptic Display of Automation Command to Improve Supervisory Performance
Alia Gilbert, Sachit Krishnan, R. Brent Gillespie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18707

Embodied Supervision: Haptic Display of Automation Command to Improve Supervisory Performance
A human operator using a manual control interface has ready access to their own command signal, both by efference copy and proprioception. In contrast, a human supervisor typically relies on visual information alone. We propose supplying a supervisor with a copy of the operators command signal, hypothesizing improved performance, especially when that copy is provided through haptic display. We experimentally compared haptic with visual access to the command signal, quantifying the performance o…

One-Shot Wyner-Ziv Compression of a Uniform Source
O\u{g}uzhan Kubilay \"Ulger, Elza Erkip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01774 https://

One-Shot Wyner-Ziv Compression of a Uniform Source
In this paper, we consider the one-shot version of the classical Wyner-Ziv problem where a source is compressed in a lossy fashion when only the decoder has access to a correlated side information. Following the entropy-constrained quantization framework, we assume a scalar quantizer followed by variable length entropy coding. We consider compression of a uniform source, motivated by its role in the compression of processes with low-dimensional features embedded within a high-dimensional ambien…

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UL-DL duality for cell-free massive MIMO with per-AP power and information constraints
We derive a novel uplink-downlink duality principle for optimal joint precoding design under per-transmitter power and information constraints in fading channels. The information constraints model limited sharing of channel state information and data bearing signals across the transmitters. The main application is to cell-free networks, where each access point (AP) must typically satisfy an individual power constraint and form its transmit signal using limited cooperation capabilities. Our dual…

Biometrics Employing Neural Network
Sajjad Bhuiyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16840 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.16840

Biometrics Employing Neural Network
Biometrics involves using unique human traits, both physical and behavioral, for the digital identification of individuals to provide access to systems, devices, or information. Within the field of computer science, it acts as a method for identifying and verifying individuals and controlling access. While the conventional method for personal authentication involves passwords, the vulnerability arises when passwords are compromised, allowing unauthorized access to sensitive actions. Biometric a…

A Dual-Level Cancelable Framework for Palmprint Verification and Hack-Proof Data Storage
Ziyuan Yang, Ming Kang, Andrew Beng Jin Teoh, Chengrui Gao, Wen Chen, Bob Zhang, Yi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02680

A Dual-Level Cancelable Framework for Palmprint Verification and Hack-Proof Data Storage
In recent years, palmprints have been widely used for individual verification. The rich privacy information in palmprint data necessitates its protection to ensure security and privacy without sacrificing system performance. Existing systems often use cancelable technologies to protect templates, but these technologies ignore the potential risk of data leakage. Upon breaching the system and gaining access to the stored database, a hacker could easily manipulate the stored templates, compromisin…