SurgPIS: Surgical-instrument-level Instances and Part-level Semantics for Weakly-supervised Part-aware Instance Segmentation
Meng Wei, Charlie Budd, Oluwatosin Alabi, Miaojing Shi, Tom Vercauteren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19592
Quite annoyed that i18next has many versions of its own JSON format (now v4) https://www.i18next.com/misc/json-format — every time there's a new version, devs have to convert existing translation files to the new format *and* ensure that their translation management platform (e.g. Crowdin) already…
TCIA: A Task-Centric Instruction Augmentation Method for Instruction Finetuning
Simin Ma, Shujian Liu, Jun Tan, Yebowen Hu, Song Wang, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Sanqiang Zhao, Liwei Wu, Jianbing Han, Kaiqiang Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20374
Insider trading is Johnson's next Epstein (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2025/07/30/insider-trading-is-johnsons-next-epstein-00483071
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p6#a250730p6
So someone just got access to a bunch of Salesforce accounts by getting their access tokens.
Salesforce is the company that claims that already 20% of their code is written by "AI", isn't it?
https://cloud.google.com/blog…
What happens when you don't vet sign-ups is that mods on other instances who value the safety of their users have to pick up your slack.
The extensive work illustrated in the linked post (from @…) is also taking place to varying degrees on every other instance which still federates with mastodon.social and the other open-sign-up ones.
This is like house-sharing with someone who repeatedly leaves the front door unlocked.
Yes of course there are much horribler instances, but those tend to be blocked wholesale in my part of Fedi. Among the instances we do federate with, the spam & scam accounts I see are nearly always on m.s.
If mastodon.social mods (who apparently are paid!) were to make people introduce themselves before approving new accounts, then a lot of this spam wouldn't be getting in the door. Quash once at source, save multiple other people from having to repeat the same work.
I appreciate that they're trying to make it easy for newcomers to join, but at what cost? And is an intro message really beyond the typical non-techie person? I think there are some considerably higher barriers to adoption than that. Not convinced it's a good tradeoff.
I don't actually want this instance to defederate from m.s, because lots of the people I follow are on there. But I can really see why people sometimes do.
#FediMeta #moderation #OpenSignups
»OAuth-Token erbeutet – Hacker greifen massig Daten aus Salesforce-Instanzen ab:
Cyberkriminelle haben es erneut auf Salesforce-Kunden abgesehen. Wer die Salesloft-Drift-Integration verwendet, sollte dringend handeln.«
Schon länger geht das Gerücht um, dass OAuth des öfteren schwach implementiert ist von den IT-Konzernen, wie schon bei OAuth v1 das als unsicher gilt.
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Better late than never I suppose.
"An investigation into how a 35-year-old was physically harmed while being placed under arrest at a pro-Palestinian protest will begin after NSW Police declared the situation a critical incident."
https://www.abc.n…