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What Gets Measured Gets Managed: Mitigating Supply Chain Attacks with a Link Integrity Management System
Johnny So, Michael Ferdman, Nick Nikiforakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14583

What Gets Measured Gets Managed: Mitigating Supply Chain Attacks with a Link Integrity Management System
The web continues to grow, but dependency-monitoring tools and standards for resource integrity lag behind. Currently, there exists no robust method to verify the integrity of web resources, much less in a generalizable yet performant manner, and supply chains remain one of the most targeted parts of the attack surface of web applications. In this paper, we present the design of LiMS, a transparent system to bootstrap link integrity guarantees in web browsing sessions with minimal overhead. A…

A Global Dataset of Location Data Integrity-Assessed Reforestation Efforts
Angela John, Selvyn Allotey, Till Koebe, Alexandra Tyukavina, Ingmar Weber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11349

A Global Dataset of Location Data Integrity-Assessed Reforestation Efforts
Afforestation and reforestation are popular strategies for mitigating climate change by enhancing carbon sequestration. However, the effectiveness of these efforts is often self-reported by project developers, or certified through processes with limited external validation. This leads to concerns about data reliability and project integrity. In response to increasing scrutiny of voluntary carbon markets, this study presents a dataset on global afforestation and reforestation efforts compiled fr…

Polish prime minister rejects Hungary as venue for potential Zelensky-Putin talks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/polish-prime-minister-rejects-hungary.html

America cannot and will not recognize Russia’s land grabs, cont'd.:
2017 CAATSA, Section 253 & 257: U.S. policy is to never recognize territorial changes imposed by force, including Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.
2014 UFSA: Declares it U.S. policy to support Ukraine in restoring sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Senate Resolutions (2018 S.Res.709; 2019 S.Res.74) and House-passed H.R.596: Affirm that the U.S. will never recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

Predicting ChatGPT Use in Assignments: Implications for AI-Aware Assessment Design
Surajit Das, Aleksei Eliseev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12013 https://ar…

Predicting ChatGPT Use in Assignments: Implications for AI-Aware Assessment Design
The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT has significantly reshaped education, sparking debates about their impact on learning outcomes and academic integrity. While prior research highlights opportunities and risks, there remains a lack of quantitative analysis of student behavior when completing assignments. Understanding how these tools influence real-world academic practices, particularly assignment preparation, is a pressing and timely research priority. This study addresses this gap…

"Stocking the Librarian’s Publishing Integrity Toolkit" @ Katina Magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2025/stocking-the-librarians-publishing-integrity-toolkit
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Apple says the iPhone 17 lineup and iPhone Air come with Memory Integrity Enforcement, which provides "industry-first, always-on memory safety protection" (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775234/iphone-17-air-…

Apple says the iPhone 17 comes with a massive security upgrade
Apple explains iPhone 17 Memory Integrity Enforcement and Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension security updates.

PFD or PDF: Rethinking the Probability of Failure in Mitigation Safety Functions
Hamid Jahanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12814 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

PFD or PDF: Rethinking the Probability of Failure in Mitigation Safety Functions
SIL (Safety Integrity Level) allocation plays a crucial role in defining the design requirements for Safety Functions (SFs) within high-risk industries. SIL is typically determined based on the estimated Probability of Failure on Demand (PFD), which must remain within permissible limits to manage risk effectively. Extensive research has been conducted on determining target PFD and SIL, with a stronger emphasis on preventive SFs than on mitigation SFs. In this paper, we address a rather conceptu…

Time for another round of critical AI weekend reading:
Crashing hard: why talking about bubbles obscures the real social cost of overinvesting into “Artificial Intelligence”
Aline Blankertz (@…)

Crashing hard: why talking about bubbles obscures the real social cost of overinvesting into “Artificial Intelligence”
More and more commentators talk about and warn of an “AI bubble”, and everybody seems to congratulate each other on being such a smart financial analyst. BUT: A bubble pops and you are left with air and maybe a splash of soap somewhere on the floor. A fairly clean affair. This kind of investor speak

As the US betrays Ukraine yet again, Ukraine displays the strength and integrity that has long been absent from US politics and media.
Craven sycophants of billionaires continue to reveal their true colors, while Ukraine shows the world how to fight, and what true heroes look like.
Each day is a new descent of shame for being an American.
The irony of Italy providing a voice of democracy and true journalism while the US does the opposite is not lost on me.
Georgio rep…

Investing in Ukraine to Defend Europe
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

A Real-time Concrete Crack Detection and Segmentation Model Based on YOLOv11
Shaoze Huang, Qi Liu, Chao Chen, Yuhang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11517 https://

A Real-time Concrete Crack Detection and Segmentation Model Based on YOLOv11
Accelerated aging of transportation infrastructure in the rapidly developing Yangtze River Delta region necessitates efficient concrete crack detection, as crack deterioration critically compromises structural integrity and regional economic growth. To overcome the limitations of inefficient manual inspection and the suboptimal performance of existing deep learning models, particularly for small-target crack detection within complex backgrounds, this paper proposes YOLOv11-KW-TA-FP, a multi-tas…

Integrity, Self-discovery, and Self-deceit
#BeBetter #DoingGood
https://muz4now.com/2019/integ…

Integrity, Self-discovery, and Self-deceit
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

An Exploratory Study on Crack Detection in Concrete through Human-Robot Collaboration
Junyeon Kim, Tianshu Ruan, Cesar Alan Contreras, Manolis Chiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11404

An Exploratory Study on Crack Detection in Concrete through Human-Robot Collaboration
Structural inspection in nuclear facilities is vital for maintaining operational safety and integrity. Traditional methods of manual inspection pose significant challenges, including safety risks, high cognitive demands, and potential inaccuracies due to human limitations. Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotic technologies have opened new possibilities for safer, more efficient, and accurate inspection methodologies. Specifically, Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC), lever…

Two Birds with One Stone: Multi-Task Detection and Attribution of LLM-Generated Text
Zixin Rao, Youssef Mohamed, Shang Liu, Zeyan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14190 https://…

Two Birds with One Stone: Multi-Task Detection and Attribution of LLM-Generated Text
Large Language Models (LLMs), such as GPT-4 and Llama, have demonstrated remarkable abilities in generating natural language. However, they also pose security and integrity challenges. Existing countermeasures primarily focus on distinguishing AI-generated content from human-written text, with most solutions tailored for English. Meanwhile, authorship attribution--determining which specific LLM produced a given text--has received comparatively little attention despite its importance in forensic…

The real awe that Apple promised us, was quietly published on this blog post:
This is amazing - congratulations!
https://infosec.exchange/@madcoder/115175739709593875

Governor JB Pritzker:
"You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP.
It's a bit shocking.
And you heard over & over him just making things up.
There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility
and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

3D Reconstruction of Coronary Vessel Trees from Biplanar X-Ray Images Using a Geometric Approach
Ethan Koland, Lin Xi, Nadeev Wijesuriya, YingLiang Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13358

3D Reconstruction of Coronary Vessel Trees from Biplanar X-Ray Images Using a Geometric Approach
X-ray angiography is widely used in cardiac interventions to visualize coronary vessels, assess integrity, detect stenoses and guide treatment. We propose a framework for reconstructing 3D vessel trees from biplanar X-ray images which are extracted from two X-ray videos captured at different C-arm angles. The proposed framework consists of three main components: image segmentation, motion phase matching, and 3D reconstruction. An automatic video segmentation method for X-ray angiography to enab…

from my link log —
Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices.
https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/
saved 2025-09-10

Blog - Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices - Apple Security Research
Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort spanning half a decade that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices — without compromising our best-in-class device performance. We believe Memory Integrity Enforcement represents the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer…

Navigating the New Landscape: A Conceptual Model for Project-Based Assessment (PBA) in the Age of GenAI
Rajan Kadel, Samar Shailendra, Urvashi Rahul Saxena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11709

Navigating the New Landscape: A Conceptual Model for Project-Based Assessment (PBA) in the Age of GenAI
The rapid integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into higher education presents both opportunities and challenges for assessment design, particularly within Project-Based Assessment (PBA) contexts. Traditional assessment methods often emphasise the final product in the PBA, which can now be significantly influenced or created by GenAI tools, raising concerns regarding product authenticity, academic integrity, and learning validation. This paper advocates for a reimagined asse…

GNSS Jamming and Spoofing Monitoring Using Low-Cost COTS Receivers
Argyris Kriezis, Yu-Hsuan Chen, Dennis Akos, Sherman Lo, Todd Walter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13600 https://…

GNSS Jamming and Spoofing Monitoring Using Low-Cost COTS Receivers
The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is increasingly vulnerable to radio frequency interference (RFI), including jamming and spoofing, which threaten the integrity of navigation and timing services. This paper presents a methodology for detecting and classifying RFI events using low-cost commercial off-the- shelf (COTS) GNSS receivers. By combining carrier-to-noise ratio (C/N0) measurements with a calibrated received power metric, a two-dimensional detection space is constructed to ide…

Nach Härtung: Apple spendet iPhone 17 an Organisationen der Zivilgesellschaft
Mit A19 und A19 Pro führt Apple das Memory Integrity Enforcement ein, das komplexe Angriffe besser verhindern soll. Entsprechende Geräte werden nun gespendet.

Exploiting Convexity of Neural Networks in Dynamic Operating Envelope Optimization for Distributed Energy Resources
Hongyi Li, Liming Liu, Yunyi Li, Zhaoyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13090

Exploiting Convexity of Neural Networks in Dynamic Operating Envelope Optimization for Distributed Energy Resources
The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) brings opportunities and challenges to the operation of distribution systems. To ensure network integrity, dynamic operating envelopes (DOEs) are issued by utilities to DERs as their time-varying export/import power limits. Due to the non-convex nature of power flow equations, the optimization of DOEs faces a dilemma of solution accuracy and computation efficiency. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we facilitate DOE optimization…

Encoding Numeric Computations and Infusing Heuristic Knowledge Using Integrity Constraints in stableKanren
Xiangyu Guo, Ajay Bansal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04049 https://

Encoding Numeric Computations and Infusing Heuristic Knowledge Using Integrity Constraints in stableKanren
This paper presents examples of using integrity constraints in stableKanren to encode numeric computations for problem solving. Then, we use one of the examples to introduce multiple ways to infuse heuristic knowledge and reduce solving time. stableKanren is an extension of miniKanren that supports normal logic programs under stable model semantics. stableKanren further supports numeric computation by constructing a constraint store for integrity constraints. There are three ways to extend a re…

Headscale project just released a huge update (beta) thanks for the hard work https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/releases/tag/v0.27.0-beta.1

Is Research Software Science a Metascience?
Evan Eisinger, Michael A. Heroux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13436 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13436

Is Research Software Science a Metascience?
As research increasingly relies on computational methods, the reliability of scientific results depends on the quality, reproducibility, and transparency of research software. Ensuring these qualities is critical for scientific integrity and discovery. This paper asks whether Research Software Science (RSS)--the empirical study of how research software is developed and used--should be considered a form of metascience, the science of science. Classification matters because it could affect recogn…

ein noch relativ frischer Aufsatz zum italienischen Sonderweg in Sachen freier Zugang zu gemeinfreiem Kulturgut: Sappa, C., Bossi, L. Postcards from Italy – The Art of Controlling Images of Cultural Goods Better Than Copyright Could. IIC 56, 320–368 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-025-01565-w

Very pleased to share that my article on #censorship and federally supported information is out in the Summer issue of "Documents to the People." Much appreciation to the peer reviewers and editor for asking good questions and helping to improve it.

MCP-Guard: A Defense Framework for Model Context Protocol Integrity in Large Language Model Applications
Wenpeng Xing, Zhonghao Qi, Yupeng Qin, Yilin Li, Caini Chang, Jiahui Yu, Changting Lin, Zhenzhen Xie, Meng Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10991

MCP-Guard: A Defense Framework for Model Context Protocol Integrity in Large Language Model Applications
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with external tools via protocols such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) introduces critical security vulnerabilities, including prompt injection, data exfiltration, and other threats. To counter these challenges, we propose MCP-Guard, a robust, layered defense architecture designed for LLM--tool interactions. MCP-Guard employs a three-stage detection pipeline that balances efficiency with accuracy: it progresses from lightweight static scanning…

A One-Class Explainable AI Framework for Identification of Non-Stationary Concurrent False Data Injections in Nuclear Reactor Signals
Zachery Dahm, Vasileios Theos, Konstantinos Vasili, William Richards, Konstantinos Gkouliaras, Stylianos Chatzidakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12428

A One-Class Explainable AI Framework for Identification of Non-Stationary Concurrent False Data Injections in Nuclear Reactor Signals
The transition of next generation advanced nuclear reactor systems from analog to fully digital instrumentation and control will necessitate robust mechanisms to safeguard against potential data integrity threats. One challenge is the real-time characterization of false data injections, which can mask sensor signals and potentially disrupt reactor control systems. While significant progress has been made in anomaly detection within reactor systems, potential false data injections have been show…

SpaPool: Soft Partition Assignment Pooling for__Graph Neural Networks
Rodrigue Govan (ISEA), Romane Scherrer (ISEA), Philippe Fournier-Viger (ISEA), Nazha Selmaoui-Folcher (ISEA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11675

SpaPool: Soft Partition Assignment Pooling for__Graph Neural Networks
This paper introduces SpaPool, a novel pooling method that combines the strengths of both dense and sparse techniques for a graph neural network. SpaPool groups vertices into an adaptive number of clusters, leveraging the benefits of both dense and sparse approaches. It aims to maintain the structural integrity of the graph while reducing its size efficiently. Experimental results on several datasets demonstrate that SpaPool achieves competitive performance compared to existing pooling techniqu…

V-ZOR: Enabling Verifiable Cross-Blockchain Communication via Quantum-Driven ZKP Oracle Relays
M. Z. Haider, Tayyaba Noreen, M. Salman, M. Dias de Assuncao, Kaiwen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10996

V-ZOR: Enabling Verifiable Cross-Blockchain Communication via Quantum-Driven ZKP Oracle Relays
Cross-chain bridges and oracle DAOs represent some of the most vulnerable components of decentralized systems, with more than $2.8 billion lost due to trust failures, opaque validation behavior, and weak incentives. Current oracle designs are based on multisigs, optimistic assumptions, or centralized aggregation, exposing them to attacks and delays. Moreover, predictable committee selection enables manipulation, which threatens data integrity across chains. We propose V-ZOR, a verifiable oracle…

Gray matter abnormalities in sight deprivation and sight restoration https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00429-025-02994-6 "white matter may potentially serve as a biomarker of structural plasticity following sight restoration"; brain plasticity

Gray matter abnormalities in sight deprivation and sight restoration - Brain Structure and Function
Blindness provides a unique model for investigating brain plasticity in response to sensory deprivation. While structural changes in both gray and white matter have been widely documented, particularly in cases of early or congenital visual deprivation, gray matter studies have traditionally focused on cortical thickness, often finding cortical thickening in posterior regions. However, other aspects of gray matter integrity, such as cortical myelin content, remain underexplored. In this study, …

"Fuck the algorithms. Principle, integrity, naiveté... call it what you will. They don't care – we do." Ana in Cyberpunk 2077
Empathy and mutual care is part of the friction that AI and other automation tech rationalizes away.

MCP-Orchestrated Multi-Agent System for Automated Disinformation Detection
Alexandru-Andrei Avram, Adrian Groza, Alexandru Lecu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10143 https://

MCP-Orchestrated Multi-Agent System for Automated Disinformation Detection
The large spread of disinformation across digital platforms creates significant challenges to information integrity. This paper presents a multi-agent system that uses relation extraction to detect disinformation in news articles, focusing on titles and short text snippets. The proposed Agentic AI system combines four agents: (i) a machine learning agent (logistic regression), (ii) a Wikipedia knowledge check agent (which relies on named entity recognition), (iii) a coherence detection agent (u…

Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom,
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek,
and Washington Governor Bob Ferguson
announced they will launch a new
⭐️"West Coast Health Alliance"
to ensure residents remain protected by science, not politics.
The alliance represents a unified regional response to the Trump Administration’s destruction of the U.S. CDC’s credibility and scientific integrity.
“President Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists…

California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility | Governor of California
State of California

The new EU age verification app is currently aiming to use Google Play Integrity devices because NO-ONE LEARNS ANYTHING. EVER. 😖
Here’s the GitHub issue https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/issues/10

Just added a second 8-GB SDRAM card to my desktop computer. Yeah, I can crawl around on the floor under the desk better than I used to be able to. :-) We'll see if the new RAM solves the recent ceaseless drive churning I've been enduring lately. So far, it seems to have done so! The computer is now four years old, but it still seems pretty fast, or it did until this churning started up recently. (Yes, I checked for viruses and ran other system integrity tests, of course.)

The cybersecurity news machine is cranking away at top speed, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US indicts ransomware dev, offers $10 million reward, and puts him on most-wanted list,
--US tech giants enable human rights abuse in China,
--BlackDB.cc operator pleads guilty,
--Microsoft issues 80 Patch Tuesday fixes,
--Pakistan has built sweeping surveillance system,
--Apple targets spy…

US indicts ransomware dev, offers $10 million reward, puts him on most-wanted list
US tech giants enable human rights abuse in China, BlackDB.cc operator pleads guilty, Microsoft issues 80 Patch Tuesday fixes, Pakistan has built sweeping surveillance system, Apple targets spyware with Memory Integrity Enforcement, Korean telco KT on hot seat for 278 mobile fraud cases, much more

How to Be Accountable to Yourself and Why It Matters
#integrity #MentalHealth

How to Be Accountable to Yourself and Why It Matters
What if the promises you make to yourself mattered just as much as the ones you make to others? Self-accountability starts with knowing your line and following through.

Join me at two events at the British Library later this month:
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/knowledge-is-human
On 20 October, the British Library is joining forces with Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation to explore the impact of AI on ope…

Knowledge is Human: The Information Ecosystem in the age of AI
A summit to mark the role of human-created, open knowledge in the age of AI and our collective responsibility to safeguard knowledge integrity and sustainability.

Small town Canadian newspapers at risk from anti-democratic Carpenter Media ownership group
Dear Editor, I am deeply concerned that the new American owner of this newspaper, Carpenter Media, has crossed a bright red line in journalism ethics that calls into question the independence and integrity of every newspaper they now own. As reported in the The Tyee on October 6th, "Reporters and editors at the Homer News and Peninsula Clarion announced their resignations Sept…
https://chrisalemany.ca/b/3Zw

Evaluating undergraduate mathematics examinations in the era of generative AI: a curriculum-level case study
Benjamin J. Walker, Beatriz Navarro Lameda, Ruth A. Reynolds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13359

Evaluating undergraduate mathematics examinations in the era of generative AI: a curriculum-level case study
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as OpenAI's ChatGPT are transforming the educational landscape, prompting reconsideration of traditional assessment practices. In parallel, universities are exploring alternatives to in-person, closed-book examinations, raising concerns about academic integrity and pedagogical alignment in uninvigilated settings. This study investigates whether traditional closed-book mathematics examinations retain their pedagogical relevance when hypotheti…

Vanderbilt University Faculty Senate has passed a resolution opposing Trump's "Compact" and "any similar proposal compromising the mission, values, and integrity of the University" in a packed emergency session. #Vanderbilt

An Oklahoma girls basketball coach shows his kids what integrity looks like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7djgxcJ68M

Wann immer es um Veränderungen geht, besteht ein Spektrum, in dem diese diskutierbar sind: Auf der einen Seite, sollten Veränderungen die gewünschten Verbesserungen mit sich bringen. Auf der anderen Seite, müssen sie in den bestehenden Strukturen beschlossen und umgesetzt werden können.
Das bringt Agenten dieser Veränderung in eine Zwickmühle: Machen sie einen zu radikalen Vorschlag, der tatsächliche Veränderung mit sich bringt, wird dieser schnell abgelehnt. Machen sie von Beginn an …

On Signal’s Meredith Whittaker in The Economist. Or: The origins of poor digital policy demands
Over the last years, I have taken part in numerous meetings about how to square the circle of formulating policy demands that both make a difference and have a vague prospect of being adopted by policy-makers. And I often get to observe how this kills any meaningful debate and narrows perspectives.

So, so. Die Verletzung der territorialen Integrität Polens ist also laut Orban inakzeptabel. Immerhin.
Was sagt Orban aber zur Verletzung der territorialen Integrität der Ukraine?
#orban #ungarn #polen

Poverty and Perceptions of Electoral Integrity in the U.S
Douglas Cumming, Sofia Johan, Ikenna Uzuegbunam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15343 https://arxiv.or…

Poverty and Perceptions of Electoral Integrity in the U.S
We propose two opposing forces that impact the relation between electoral integrity and poverty. On the one hand, it is more costly to provide electoral integrity in states where there is more poverty due to transaction costs and opportunity costs. On the other hand, extreme levels of poverty attract media scrutiny and greater external monitoring of electoral integrity, giving rise to more demand for electoral integrity. Taken together, we expect electoral integrity to be a U-shaped function of…

A Computational Pipeline for Patient-Specific Modeling of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm: From Medical Image to Finite Element Analysis
Jiasong Chen, Linchen Qian, Ruonan Gong, Christina Sun, Tongran Qin, Thuy Pham, Caitlin Martin, Mohammad Zafar, John Elefteriades, Wei Sun, Liang Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12596

A Computational Pipeline for Patient-Specific Modeling of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm: From Medical Image to Finite Element Analysis
The aorta is the body's largest arterial vessel, serving as the primary pathway for oxygenated blood within the systemic circulation. Aortic aneurysms consistently rank among the top twenty causes of mortality in the United States. Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) arises from abnormal dilation of the thoracic aorta and remains a clinically significant disease, ranking as one of the leading causes of death in adults. A thoracic aortic aneurysm ruptures when the integrity of all aortic wall layers …

Speculative politics
As an anarchist (okay, maybe not in practice), I'm tired of hearing why we have to suffer X and Y indignity to "preserve the rule of law" or "maintain Democratic norms." So here's an example of what representative democracy (a form of government that I believe is inherently flawed) could look like if its proponents had even an ounce of imagination, and/or weren't actively trying to rig it to favor a rich donor class:
1. Unicameral legislature, where representatives pass laws directly. Each state elects 3 statewide representatives: the three most-popular candidates in a statewide race where each person votes for one candidate (ranked preference voting would be even better but might not be necessary, and is not a solution by itself). Instead of each representative getting one vote in the chamber, they get N votes, where N is the number of people who voted for them. This means that in a close race, instead of the winner getting all the power, the power is split. Having 3 representatives trades off between leisure size and ensuring that two parties can't dominate together.
2. Any individual citizen can contact their local election office to switch or withdraw their vote at any time (maybe with a 3-day delay or something). Voting power of representatives can thus shift even without an election. They are limited to choosing one of the three elected representatives, or "none of the above." If the "none of the above" fraction exceeds 20% of eligible voters, a new election is triggered for that state. If turnout is less than 80%, a second election happens immediately, with results being final even at lower turnout until 6 months later (some better mechanism for turnout management might be needed).
3. All elections allow mail-in ballots, and in-person voting happens Sunday-Tuesday with the Monday being a mandatory holiday. (Yes, election integrity is not better in this system and that's a big weakness.)
4. Separate nationwide elections elect three positions for head-of-state: one with diplomatic/administrative powers, another with military powers, and a third with veto power. For each position, the top three candidates serve together, with only the first-place winner having actual power until vote switches or withdrawals change who that is. Once one of these heads loses their first-place status, they cannot get it again until another election, even if voters switch preferences back (to avoid dithering). An election for one of these positions is triggered when 20% have withdrawn their votes, or if all three people initially elected have been disqualified by losing their lead in the vote count.
5. Laws that involve spending money are packaged with specific taxes to pay for them, and may only be paid for by those specific revenues. Each tax may be opted into or out of by each taxpayer; where possible opting out of the tax also opts you out of the service. (I'm well aware of a lot of the drawbacks of this, but also feel like they'd not necessarily be worse than the drawbacks of our current system.) A small mandatory tax would cover election expenses.
6. I'm running out of attention, but similar multi-winner elections could elect panels of judges from which a subset is chosen randomly to preside in each case.
Now I'll point out once again that this system, in not directly confronting capitalism, racism, patriarchy, etc., is probably doomed to the same failures as our current system. But if you profess to want a "representative democracy" as opposed to something more libratory, I hope you'll at least advocate for something like this that actually includes meaningful representation as opposed to the current US system that's engineered to quash it.
Key questions: "Why should we have winner-take-all elections when winners-take-proportionately-to-votes is right there?" and "Why should elected officials get to ignore their constituents' approval except during elections, when vote-withdrawal or -switching is possible?"
2/2
#Democracy

Echoes of Automation: The Increasing Use of LLMs in Newsmaking
Abolfazl Ansari, Delvin Ce Zhang, Nafis Irtiza Tripto, Dongwon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06445 https://

Echoes of Automation: The Increasing Use of LLMs in Newsmaking
The rapid rise of Generative AI (GenAI), particularly LLMs, poses concerns for journalistic integrity and authorship. This study examines AI-generated content across over 40,000 news articles from major, local, and college news media, in various media formats. Using three advanced AI-text detectors (e.g., Binoculars, Fast-Detect GPT, and GPTZero), we find substantial increase of GenAI use in recent years, especially in local and college news. Sentence-level analysis reveals LLMs are often used …

5G Core Fault Detection and Root Cause Analysis using Machine Learning and Generative AI
Joseph H. R. Isaac, Harish Saradagam, Nallamothu Pardhasaradhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09152

5G Core Fault Detection and Root Cause Analysis using Machine Learning and Generative AI
With the advent of 5G networks and technologies, ensuring the integrity and performance of packet core traffic is paramount. During network analysis, test files such as Packet Capture (PCAP) files and log files will contain errors if present in the system that must be resolved for better overall network performance, such as connectivity strength and handover quality. Current methods require numerous person-hours to sort out testing results and find the faults. This paper presents a novel AI/ML-…

If the Olympic committees (worldwide and in the US) had any integrity they would cancel the 2028 Olympics in LA or move them to another less repressive country. For instance, China is now less repressive than the US and it has Olympic venues left over from the last time.
"Trump announces he will lead White House taskforce for 2028 LA Olympics"

AEGIS: Authenticity Evaluation Benchmark for AI-Generated Video Sequences
Jieyu Li, Xin Zhang, Joey Tianyi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10771 https://ar…

AEGIS: Authenticity Evaluation Benchmark for AI-Generated Video Sequences
Recent advances in AI-generated content have fueled the rise of highly realistic synthetic videos, posing severe risks to societal trust and digital integrity. Existing benchmarks for video authenticity detection typically suffer from limited realism, insufficient scale, and inadequate complexity, failing to effectively evaluate modern vision-language models against sophisticated forgeries. To address this critical gap, we introduce AEGIS, a novel large-scale benchmark explicitly targeting the …

GuardianPWA: Enhancing Security Throughout the Progressive Web App Installation Lifecycle
Mengxiao Wang, Guofei Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13561 https://

GuardianPWA: Enhancing Security Throughout the Progressive Web App Installation Lifecycle
Progressive Web App (PWA) installation is critical for integrat- ing web and mobile app functionalities, offering a seamless user experience. However, ensuring the security of the PWA installa- tion lifecycle is essential for maintaining user trust and privacy. This paper introduces the GUARDIANPWA framework, a compre- hensive approach to analyzing the PWA installation mechanism based on the CIA security principles (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability) and identifying areas where brows…

Proof of AutoML: SDN based Secure Energy Trading with Blockchain in Disaster Case
Salih Toprak, Muge Erel-Ozcevik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10291 https://…

Proof of AutoML: SDN based Secure Energy Trading with Blockchain in Disaster Case
In disaster scenarios where conventional energy infrastructure is compromised, secure and traceable energy trading between solar-powered households and mobile charging units becomes a necessity. To ensure the integrity of such transactions over a blockchain network, robust and unpredictable nonce generation is vital. This study proposes an SDN-enabled architecture where machine learning regressors are leveraged not for their accuracy, but for their potential to generate randomized values suitab…

Trump’s DOJ seeks voting equipment in Missouri ahead of 2026 election

A top official in Trump’s Justice Department recently sought access to voting equipment used by two Republican clerks in Missouri during the 2020 election
-- an unusual request from federal officials amid continued efforts by the president to malign the integrity of the nation’s voting systems.

Trump’s DOJ seeks voting equipment in Missouri ahead of 2026 election
The unusual request for equipment used by two Republican clerks in the 2020 election comes after Trump said he would lead a movement to get rid of voting machines.

Now, for any person with a shred of moral dignity, there's some time during US history where you would have to admit that an insurrection or rebellion was necessary. Only complete scum bag fascists would try to argue that a slave revolt wasn't an absolute good, and that it was a bad thing when those revolts were crushed. Anyone with a shred of moral decency has to admit that there is at least one point in US history where the nation was doing something so incredibly evil, that it would have been good if people would have rose up and stopped it.
Today we're talking about the displacement and genocide of people in Gaza. We can look at any number of genocide on US soil carried out by the US government. Who, with any moral clarity, wouldn't point to those and want to believe that they would have resisted, violently if necessary, against those slaughters. Who, that today condemns slavery, could look at John Brown and not wish to have the moral integrity to fight and die along side of him?
Every liberal who actually believes in justice, who isn't just virtue signaling out of guilt, should be able to point to a time in history where they would absolutely agree with the most militant resistance. For those folks, I always wonder, when did that evil end? Where is your line? Have you thought about that?

Rare view of my desk during video editing.
With appropriate beverage vessels.

Towards an AI-Augmented Textbook
LearnLM Team, Google, :, Amy Wang, Anna Iurchenko, Anisha Choudhury, Alicia Mart\'in, Amir Globerson, Avinatan Hassidim, Ay\c{c}a \c{C}akmakli, Ayelet Shasha Evron, Charlie Yang, Courtney Heldreth, Diana Akrong, Gal Elidan, Hairong Mu, Ian Li, Ido Cohen, Katherine Chou, Komal Singh, Lev Borovoi, Lidan Hackmon, Lior Belinsky, Michael Fink, Niv Efron, Preeti Singh, Rena Levitt, Shashank Agarwal, Shay Sharon, Tracey Lee-Joe, Xiaohong Hao, Yael Gold-Z…

Towards an AI-Augmented Textbook
Textbooks are a cornerstone of education, but they have a fundamental limitation: they are a one-size-fits-all medium. Any new material or alternative representation requires arduous human effort, so that textbooks cannot be adapted in a scalable manner. We present an approach for transforming and augmenting textbooks using generative AI, adding layers of multiple representations and personalization while maintaining content integrity and quality. We refer to the system built with this approach…

#GCSP
7 October 2025
Enhancing Cognitive Security and Societal Resilience to Counter Cognitive Warfare
https://www.gcsp.ch/publications/enhancing

Standing up to Trump's assault on #research requires solidarity. ARL, ACRL, SSP, STM, and AUPresses issued a joint statement & request for feedback on next steps. Share your ideas!

Evidence for Democracy - new report
Accretion and Erosion – A Comparative Analysis of Scientific Integrity in Canada and the US.
Read the full report at the following link

Accretion and Erosion: A Comparative Analysis of Scientific Integrity in Canada and the US - Evidence For Democracy
Scientific credibility relies not only on the quality of research, but on the strength of the systems that safeguard it. As public trust declines and

"Hot air and hard truths: Study finds climate disinformation evolves beyond denial to target credibility"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Hot air and hard truths: Study finds climate disinformation evolves beyond denial to target credibility
The Information Policy and Integrity Exchange (IPIE) has released a landmark review on climate misinformation and disinformation, synthesizing a decade of research across 300 studies. The review reveals a troubling evolution in climate disinformation tactics.

Fact Check: Nobel Chair Did NOT say Donald Trump Didn't Win Peace Prize Because He Lacked 'Courage And Integrity': https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/fact-check-nobel-chair-did.html

Quantification of Electrolyte Degradation in Lithium-ion Batteries with Neutron Imaging Techniques
Yonggang Hu, Yiqing Liao, Lufeng Yang, Ke Zhang, Yufan Peng, Shijun Tang, Shengxiang Wang, Meifang Ding, Jiahao Wu, Jianrong Lin, Jinding Liang, Yimin Wei, Yanting Jin, Zhengliang Gong, Anatoliy Senyshyn, Jie Chen, Yong Yang
https://arxiv.org…

Quantification of Electrolyte Degradation in Lithium-ion Batteries with Neutron Imaging Techniques
Non-destructive characterization of lithium-ion batteries provides critical insights for optimizing performance and lifespan while preserving structural integrity. Optimizing electrolyte design in commercial LIBs requires consideration of composition, electrolyte-to-capacity ratio, spatial distribution, and associated degradation pathways. However, existing non-destructive methods for studying electrolyte infiltration, distribution, and degradation in LIBs lack the spatiotemporal resolution req…

In the digital age, misinformation spreads rapidly, making it increasingly difficult to ensure the integrity of information. AI presents new opportunities to support fact-checking and news classification. Giovanna Monti and Lucian Precup shared their insights from their work developing an AI-driven platform integrating search capabilities, an intelligent assistant and a RAG system.
Watch the full session: #bbuzz returns on 7-9 June 2026: https://tickets.plainschwarz.com/bbuzz26/c/8Hvk0ZvJA/

Can AI Keep a Secret? Contextual Integrity Verification: A Provable Security Architecture for LLMs
Aayush Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09288 https://ar…

Can AI Keep a Secret? Contextual Integrity Verification: A Provable Security Architecture for LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) remain acutely vulnerable to prompt injection and related jailbreak attacks; heuristic guardrails (rules, filters, LLM judges) are routinely bypassed. We present Contextual Integrity Verification (CIV), an inference-time security architecture that attaches cryptographically signed provenance labels to every token and enforces a source-trust lattice inside the transformer via a pre-softmax hard attention mask (with optional FFN/residual gating). CIV provides determin…

Maven-Lockfile: High Integrity Rebuild of Past Java Releases
Larissa Schmid, Elias Lundell, Yogya Gamage, Benoit Baudry, Martin Monperrus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00730 https:…

Maven-Lockfile: High Integrity Rebuild of Past Java Releases
Modern software projects depend on many third-party libraries, complicating reproducible and secure builds. Several package managers address this with the generation of a lockfile that freezes dependency versions and can be used to verify the integrity of dependencies. Yet, Maven, one of the most important package managers in the Java ecosystem, lacks native support for a lockfile. We present Maven-Lockfile to generate and update lockfiles, with support for rebuilding projects from past version…

AntiCheatPT: A Transformer-Based Approach to Cheat Detection in Competitive Computer Games
Mille Mei Zhen Loo, Gert Luzkov, Paolo Burelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06348 https:…

AntiCheatPT: A Transformer-Based Approach to Cheat Detection in Competitive Computer Games
Cheating in online video games compromises the integrity of gaming experiences. Anti-cheat systems, such as VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat), face significant challenges in keeping pace with evolving cheating methods without imposing invasive measures on users' systems. This paper presents AntiCheatPT\_256, a transformer-based machine learning model designed to detect cheating behaviour in Counter-Strike 2 using gameplay data. To support this, we introduce and publicly release CS2CD: A labelled dataset o…

The corruption of our the once-vaunted non-political integrity of our military takes another step forward (or I guess a better word would be downward):
"Navy reverses demotion of Rep. Ronny Jackson, former White House doctor"
https://apnews.com/article/trump-navy-…

Navy reverses demotion of former White House doctor Ronny Jackson
Rep. Ronny Jackson has announced that the Navy has restored his retired rank of rear admiral. This overturns a 2022 demotion that followed a scathing investigation that found major issues with his behavior while he was the top White House physician. The Texas Republican on Wednesday posted a June 13 letter from Navy Secretary John Phelan saying he had reinstated Jackson to the retired rank of a one-star admiral following a “review of all applicable reports and references.” The Navy confirme…

Which Heads Matter for Reasoning? RL-Guided KV Cache Compression
Wenjie Du, Li Jiang, Keda Tao, Xue Liu, Huan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08525 https://

Which Heads Matter for Reasoning? RL-Guided KV Cache Compression
Reasoning large language models exhibit complex reasoning behaviors through the extended chain-of-thought generation, creating unprecedented Key-Value (KV) cache overhead during the decoding phase. Existing KV cache compression methods underperform on reasoning models: token-dropping methods break reasoning integrity by discarding critical information, while head-reallocating methods mistakenly compress reasoning-critical heads since they are designed for retrieval tasks, resulting in significa…

Mono4DEditor: Text-Driven 4D Scene Editing from Monocular Video via Point-Level Localization of Language-Embedded Gaussians
Jin-Chuan Shi, Chengye Su, Jiajun Wang, Ariel Shamir, Miao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09438

Mono4DEditor: Text-Driven 4D Scene Editing from Monocular Video via Point-Level Localization of Language-Embedded Gaussians
Editing 4D scenes reconstructed from monocular videos based on text prompts is a valuable yet challenging task with broad applications in content creation and virtual environments. The key difficulty lies in achieving semantically precise edits in localized regions of complex, dynamic scenes, while preserving the integrity of unedited content. To address this, we introduce Mono4DEditor, a novel framework for flexible and accurate text-driven 4D scene editing. Our method augments 3D Gaussians wi…

Understanding Privacy Norms Around LLM-Based Chatbots: A Contextual Integrity Perspective
Sarah Tran, Hongfan Lu, Isaac Slaughter, Bernease Herman, Aayushi Dangol, Yue Fu, Lufei Chen, Biniyam Gebreyohannes, Bill Howe, Alexis Hiniker, Nicholas Weber, Robert Wolfe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06760

Understanding Privacy Norms Around LLM-Based Chatbots: A Contextual Integrity Perspective
LLM-driven chatbots like ChatGPT have created large volumes of conversational data, but little is known about how user privacy expectations are evolving with this technology. We conduct a survey experiment with 300 US ChatGPT users to understand emerging privacy norms for sharing chatbot data. Our findings reveal a stark disconnect between user concerns and behavior: 82% of respondents rated chatbot conversations as sensitive or highly sensitive - more than email or social media posts - but nea…

Why Software Signing (Still) Matters: Trust Boundaries in the Software Supply Chain
Kelechi G. Kalu, James C. Davis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04964 https://

Why Software Signing (Still) Matters: Trust Boundaries in the Software Supply Chain
Software signing provides a formal mechanism for provenance by ensuring artifact integrity and verifying producer identity. It also imposes tooling and operational costs to implement in practice. In an era of centralized registries such as PyPI, npm, Maven Central, and Hugging Face, it is reasonable to ask whether hardening registry security controls obviates the need for end-to-end artifact signing. In this work, we posit that the core guarantees of signing, provenance, integrity, and accounta…

Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views.
But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.
He has rejected science,
misled the public
and compromised the health of Americans.
The nation deserves a health and human services secretary who is committed to scientific integrity
and can restore morale and trust in our public health agencies.
Having served at senior leve…

Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

A novel IR-SRGAN assisted super-resolution evaluation of photothermal coherence tomography for impact damage in toughened thermoplastic CFRP laminates under room temperature and low temperature
Pengfei Zhu, Hai Zhang, Stefano Sfarra, Fabrizio Sarasini, Zijing Ding, Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo, Xavier Maldague
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10894…

A novel IR-SRGAN assisted super-resolution evaluation of photothermal coherence tomography for impact damage in toughened thermoplastic CFRP laminates under room temperature and low temperature
Evaluating impact-induced damage in composite materials under varying temperature conditions is essential for ensuring structural integrity and reliable performance in aerospace, polar, and other extreme-environment applications. As matrix brittleness increases at low temperatures, damage mechanisms shift: impact events that produce only minor delaminations at ambient conditions can trigger extensive matrix cracking, fiber/matrix debonding, or interfacial failure under severe cold loads, thereb…

Dstack: A Zero Trust Framework for Confidential Containers
Shunfan Zhou, Kevin Wang, Hang Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11555 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1…

Dstack: A Zero Trust Framework for Confidential Containers
Web3 applications require execution platforms that maintain confidentiality and integrity without relying on centralized trust authorities. While Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) offer promising capabilities for confidential computing, current implementations face significant limitations when applied to Web3 contexts, particularly in security reliability, censorship resistance, and vendor independence. This paper presents dstack, a comprehensive framework that transforms raw TEE technolo…

The More You Automate, the Less You See: Hidden Pitfalls of AI Scientist Systems
Ziming Luo, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Nihar B. Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08713 https://

The More You Automate, the Less You See: Hidden Pitfalls of AI Scientist Systems
AI scientist systems, capable of autonomously executing the full research workflow from hypothesis generation and experimentation to paper writing, hold significant potential for accelerating scientific discovery. However, the internal workflow of these systems have not been closely examined. This lack of scrutiny poses a risk of introducing flaws that could undermine the integrity, reliability, and trustworthiness of their research outputs. In this paper, we identify four potential failure mod…

Phish-Blitz: Advancing Phishing Detection with Comprehensive Webpage Resource Collection and Visual Integrity Preservation
Duddu Hriday, Aditya Kulkarni, Vivek Balachandran, Tamal Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08375

Phish-Blitz: Advancing Phishing Detection with Comprehensive Webpage Resource Collection and Visual Integrity Preservation
Phishing attacks are increasingly prevalent, with adversaries creating deceptive webpages to steal sensitive information. Despite advancements in machine learning and deep learning for phishing detection, attackers constantly develop new tactics to bypass detection models. As a result, phishing webpages continue to reach users, particularly those unable to recognize phishing indicators. To improve detection accuracy, models must be trained on large datasets containing both phishing and legitima…

Cut2Next: Generating Next Shot via In-Context Tuning
Jingwen He, Hongbo Liu, Jiajun Li, Ziqi Huang, Yu Qiao, Wanli Ouyang, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08244 https://

Cut2Next: Generating Next Shot via In-Context Tuning
Effective multi-shot generation demands purposeful, film-like transitions and strict cinematic continuity. Current methods, however, often prioritize basic visual consistency, neglecting crucial editing patterns (e.g., shot/reverse shot, cutaways) that drive narrative flow for compelling storytelling. This yields outputs that may be visually coherent but lack narrative sophistication and true cinematic integrity. To bridge this, we introduce Next Shot Generation (NSG): synthesizing a subsequent…

PL-CA: A Parametric Legal Case Augmentation Framework
Ao Chang, Yubo Chen, Jun Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06356 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06356

PL-CA: A Parametric Legal Case Augmentation Framework
Conventional RAG is considered one of the most effective methods for addressing model knowledge insufficiency and hallucination, particularly in the judicial domain that requires high levels of knowledge rigor, logical consistency, and content integrity. However, the conventional RAG method only injects retrieved documents directly into the model's context, which severely constrains models due to their limited context windows and introduces additional computational overhead through excessively …

Robust Recovery and Control of Cyber-physical Discrete Event Systems under Actuator Attacks
Samuel Oliveira, Mostafa Tavakkoli Anbarani, Gregory Beal, Ilya Kovalenko, Marcelo Teixeira, Andr\'e B. Leal, R\^omulo Meira-G\'oes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11405

Robust Recovery and Control of Cyber-physical Discrete Event Systems under Actuator Attacks
Critical real-world applications strongly rely on Cyber-physical systems (CPS), but their dependence on communication networks introduces significant security risks, as attackers can exploit vulnerabilities to compromise their integrity and availability. This work explores the topic of cybersecurity in the context of CPS modeled as discrete event systems (DES), focusing on recovery strategies following the detection of cyberattacks. Specifically, we address actuator enablement attacks and propo…

Altered Histories in Version Control System Repositories: Evidence from the Trenches
Solal Rapaport (IP Paris, LTCI, ACES, INFRES), Laurent Pautet (INFRES, LTCI, ACES, IP Paris), Samuel Tardieu (INFRES, ACES, IP Paris, LTCI), Stefano Zacchiroli (IP Paris, LTCI, ACES, INFRES)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09294…

Altered Histories in Version Control System Repositories: Evidence from the Trenches
Version Control Systems (VCS) like Git allow developers to locally rewrite recorded history, e.g., to reorder and suppress commits or specific data in them. These alterations have legitimate use cases, but become problematic when performed on public branches that have downstream users: they break push/pull workflows, challenge the integrity and reproducibility of repositories, and create opportunities for supply chain attackers to sneak into them nefarious changes. We conduct the first large-sc…

Look at what Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer said about 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥. >>
🔴 “The Court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the Nation.” 
🔴 “A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.”  
🔴 “Legal entities like corporations … are not ‘We the People’ for whom our Constitution was established.”  
𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻…

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AlDBaran: Towards Blazingly Fast State Commitments for Blockchains
Bernhard Kauer, Aleksandr Petrosyan, Benjamin Livshits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10493 https://

AlDBaran: Towards Blazingly Fast State Commitments for Blockchains
The fundamental basis for maintaining integrity within contemporary blockchain systems is provided by authenticated databases. Our analysis indicates that a significant portion of the approaches applied in this domain fail to sufficiently meet the stringent requirements of systems processing transactions at rates of multi-million TPS. AlDBaran signifies a substantial advancement in authenticated databases. By eliminating disk I/O operations from the critical path, implementing prefetching strat…

FIDELIS: Blockchain-Enabled Protection Against Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning
Jane Carney, Kushal Upreti, Gaby G. Dagher, Tim Andersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10042 …

FIDELIS: Blockchain-Enabled Protection Against Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning
Federated learning enhances traditional deep learning by enabling the joint training of a model with the use of IoT device's private data. It ensures privacy for clients, but is susceptible to data poisoning attacks during training that degrade model performance and integrity. Current poisoning detection methods in federated learning lack a standardized detection method or take significant liberties with trust. In this paper, we present \Sys, a novel blockchain-enabled poison detection framewor…

Dear Senator:
I am writing to urge you to take action on gun violence.
I have not always agreed with you over the years, but I have always respected your integrity.
I do not expect my elected officials to respond to polls, per se, but when 93% of the nation supports background checks,
I do believe that you should seriously consider the moral implications of betraying the will of the people.
Perhaps a story will help to clarify my views.
Just after gradu…

Active Shooter
A Personal Plea to End Gun Violence

Neural Network-Based Detection and Multi-Class Classification of FDI Attacks in Smart Grid Home Energy Systems
Varsha Sen, Biswash Basnet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10035 https:…

Neural Network-Based Detection and Multi-Class Classification of FDI Attacks in Smart Grid Home Energy Systems
False Data Injection Attacks (FDIAs) pose a significant threat to smart grid infrastructures, particularly Home Area Networks (HANs), where real-time monitoring and control are highly adopted. Owing to the comparatively less stringent security controls and widespread availability of HANs, attackers view them as an attractive entry point to manipulate aggregated demand patterns, which can ultimately propagate and disrupt broader grid operations. These attacks undermine the integrity of smart met…

TPM-Based Continuous Remote Attestation and Integrity Verification for 5G VNFs on Kubernetes
Al Nahian Bin Emran, Rajendra Upadhyay, Rajendra Paudyal, Lisa Donnan, Duminda Wijesekera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03219

TPM-Based Continuous Remote Attestation and Integrity Verification for 5G VNFs on Kubernetes
In the rapidly evolving landscape of 5G technology, the adoption of cloud-based infrastructure for the deployment of 5G services has become increasingly common. Using a service-based architecture, critical 5G components, such as the Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), Session Management Function (SMF), and User Plane Function (UPF), now run as containerized pods on Kubernetes clusters. Although this approach improves scalability, flexibility, and resilience, it also introduces new se…

The Five Safes as a Privacy Context
James Bailie, Ruobin Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05803 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05803

The Five Safes as a Privacy Context
The Five Safes is a framework used by national statistical offices (NSO) for assessing and managing the disclosure risk of data sharing. This paper makes two points: Firstly, the Five Safes can be understood as a specialization of a broader concept $\unicode{x2013}$ contextual integrity $\unicode{x2013}$ to the situation of statistical dissemination by an NSO. We demonstrate this by mapping the five parameters of contextual integrity onto the five dimensions of the Five Safes. Secondly, the Fiv…

Zk-SNARK Marketplace with Proof of Useful Work
Samuel Oleksak, Richard Gazdik, Martin Peresini, Ivan Homoliak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09729 https://arxi…

Zk-SNARK Marketplace with Proof of Useful Work
Proof of Work (PoW) is widely regarded as the most secure permissionless blockchain consensus protocol. However, its reliance on computationally intensive yet externally useless puzzles results in excessive electric energy wasting. To alleviate this, Proof of Useful Work (PoUW) has been explored as an alternative to secure blockchain platforms while also producing real-world value. Despite this promise, existing PoUW proposals often fail to embed the integrity of the chain and identity of the m…

Redactable Blockchains: An Overview
Federico Calandra, Marco Bernardo, Andrea Esposito, Francesco Fabris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08898 https://arxiv.org…

Redactable Blockchains: An Overview
Blockchains are widely recognized for their immutability, which provides robust guarantees of data integrity and transparency. However, this same feature poses significant challenges in real-world situations that require regulatory compliance, correction of erroneous data, or removal of sensitive information. Redactable blockchains address the limitations of traditional ones by enabling controlled, auditable modifications to blockchain data, primarily through cryptographic mechanisms such as ch…

Assessing the Impact of Post-Quantum Digital Signature Algorithms on Blockchains
Alison Gon\c{c}alves Schemitt (PUCRS), Henrique Fan da Silva (UNIPAMPA), Roben Castagna Lunardi (PUCRS, IFRS), Diego Kreutz (UNIPAMPA), Rodrigo Brand\~ao Mansilha (UNIPAMPA), Avelino Francisco Zorzo (PUCRS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09271

Assessing the Impact of Post-Quantum Digital Signature Algorithms on Blockchains
The advent of quantum computing threatens the security of traditional encryption algorithms, motivating the development of post-quantum cryptography (PQC). In 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standardized several PQC algorithms, marking an important milestone in the transition toward quantum-resistant security. Blockchain systems fundamentally rely on cryptographic primitives to guarantee data integrity and transaction authenticity. However, widely used algorithms…

Stealth by Conformity: Evading Robust Aggregation through Adaptive Poisoning
Ryan McGaughey, Jesus Martinez del Rincon, Ihsen Alouani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08746 https://…

Stealth by Conformity: Evading Robust Aggregation through Adaptive Poisoning
Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm designed to address privacy concerns. However, FL is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where Byzantine clients compromise the integrity of the global model by submitting malicious updates. Robust aggregation methods have been widely adopted to mitigate such threats, relying on the core assumption that malicious updates are inherently out-of-distribution and can therefore be identified and excluded before aggregating client updates. In th…

A Practical Guideline and Taxonomy to LLVM's Control Flow Integrity
Sabine Houy, Bruno Kreyssig, Timothee Riom, Alexandre Bartel, Patrick McDaniel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15386

A Practical Guideline and Taxonomy to LLVM's Control Flow Integrity
Memory corruption vulnerabilities remain one of the most severe threats to software security. They often allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by redirecting a vulnerable program's control flow. While Control Flow Integrity (CFI) has gained traction to mitigate this exploitation path, developers are not provided with any direction on how to apply CFI to real-world software. In this work, we establish a taxonomy mapping LLVM's forward-edge CFI variants to memory corruption vulnerab…

Overcoming DNSSEC Islands of Security: A TLS and IP-Based Certificate Solution
Aduma Rishith, Aditya Kulkarni, Tamal Das, Vivek Balachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08364 htt…

Overcoming DNSSEC Islands of Security: A TLS and IP-Based Certificate Solution
The Domain Name System (DNS) serves as the backbone of the Internet, primarily translating domain names to IP addresses. Over time, various enhancements have been introduced to strengthen the integrity of DNS. Among these, DNSSEC stands out as a leading cryptographic solution. It protects against attacks (such as DNS spoofing) by establishing a chain of trust throughout the DNS nameserver hierarchy. However, DNSSEC's effectiveness is compromised when there is a break in this chain, resulting in…

Leveraging Blockchain and Proxy Re-Encryption to secure Medical IoT Records
Abdou-Essamad Jabri (UPJV, MIS), C. Drocourt (UPJV, MIS), Mostafa Azizi (UPJV, MIS), Gil Utard (UPJV, MIS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08402

Leveraging Blockchain and Proxy Re-Encryption to secure Medical IoT Records
The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare has revolutionized patient monitoring and data collection, allowing real-time tracking of vital signs, remote diagnostics, and automated medical responses. However, the transmission and storage of sensitive medical data introduce significant security and privacy challenges. To address these concerns, blockchain technology provides a decentralized and immutable ledger that ensures data integrity, , and transparency. Unlike public bloc…

Binary Diff Summarization using Large Language Models
Meet Udeshi, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Prashant Anantharaman, Sean Carrick, Ramesh Karri, Farshad Khorrami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23970

Binary Diff Summarization using Large Language Models
Security of software supply chains is necessary to ensure that software updates do not contain maliciously injected code or introduce vulnerabilities that may compromise the integrity of critical infrastructure. Verifying the integrity of software updates involves binary differential analysis (binary diffing) to highlight the changes between two binary versions by incorporating binary analysis and reverse engineering. Large language models (LLMs) have been applied to binary analysis to augment …

TracE2E: Easily Deployable Middleware for Decentralized Data Traceability
Daniel Pressens\'e, Elisavet Kozyri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08225 https://…

TracE2E: Easily Deployable Middleware for Decentralized Data Traceability
This paper presents TracE2E, a middleware written in Rust, that can provide both data explainability and compliance across multiple nodes. By mediating inputs and outputs of processes, TracE2E records provenance information and enforces data-protection policies (e.g., confidentiality, integrity) that depend on the recorded provenance. Unlike existing approaches that necessitate substantial application modifications, TracE2E is designed for easy integration into existing and future applications …