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Our hotel wifi keeps glitching. I'm guessing that there's a captive portal or something that is disabled, but the device randomly wants to send people to that network. Sometimes you'll have a 10.0.x.x IP address and everything will be fine, but other times you connect and you'll get a 192.168.1.x IP address and can't even reach the gateway (192.168.1.250). So on two different laptops, I've had to disable dhcp and hardcode 10.0.x.x IP addresses in order to get working …

Weekend Reads
* A new RPKI design https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01465
* Finding New IP KVMs https://www.runzero.com/blog/oob-p1-ip-kvm/

A new efficient RPKI Design
Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a critical security mechanism for BGP, but the complexity of its architecture is a growing concern as its adoption scales. Current RPKI design heavily reuses legacy PKI components, such as X.509 EE-certificates, ASN.1 encoding, and XML-based repository protocols, all these introduce excessive cryptographic validation, redundant metadata, and inefficiencies in both storage and processing. We show that these design choices, although based on establishe…

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

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

Useful.
I’ve always disliked the fact that SOHO NAT routers all seem to be configured with one of a handful of 192.168.*/24 subnets. Beyond the risk of collision, I’ve had the experience of being told vehemently by benighted customer “IT guys” that I’ve done something horribly wrong by setting their inside up on 10.175.202.0/23 or some similarly uncommon RFC1918 block, because they “knew” that it was supposed to be in the Class C range of RFC 1918.

Picking uncontested private IP subnets with usage data

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

Has anyone ever tried to trick malware into thinking the host it’s running on is in Russia? For example, reverse engineering and then spoofing the ip-api.com api to always return “RU” on your network. This seems like the kind of trickery that @… would try. 😃

#LetsEncrypt issues first #IP address certificate after years of requests 🌐 Enables #HTTPS for services accessed by numerical addresses. Short-lived 6-day certificates via

The AI Safe Harbor Moratorium Undermines Mrs. Palsgraf’s Remedy
https://musictechpolicy.com/2025/05/28/the-ai-safe-harbor-moratorium-undermines-mr…

The AI Safe Harbor Moratorium Undermines Mrs. Palsgraf’s Remedy
The AI Moratorium is a rent seeker on a free ride.

Thanking the @… folks for the excellent work they do, and especially for their upcoming support for security certificates for IP addresses which is nothing short of revolutionary for the future of the (Small) Web.

Getting ready to issue IP address certificates
Happy to see the progress on this. Thought you might be interested in seeing how important this feature is going to be for the Small Web: It’s going to be invaluable for helping decentralise the web. Thank you for the work you do 🙂

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00059 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

IDEA: An Inverse Domain Expert Adaptation Based Active DNN IP Protection Method
Illegitimate reproduction, distribution and derivation of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models can inflict economic loss, reputation damage and even privacy infringement. Passive DNN intellectual property (IP) protection methods such as watermarking and fingerprinting attempt to prove the ownership upon IP violation, but they are often too late to stop catastrophic damage of IP abuse and too feeble against strong adversaries. In this paper, we propose IDEA, an Inverse Domain Expert Adaptation based…

Interesting ExpressVPN offering fixed IPs https://www.expressvpn.com/features/dedicated-ip

How AppLovin, which lets advertisers use IP addresses to track users, began eroding Google's ad market share and pushed Google to loosen its privacy stance (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/applovin-scared-google

How AppLovin Scared Google
In 2023, Google ad executives noticed something alarming about one aspect of their business. Once-red hot revenue growth from selling ads promoting mobile apps, a business worth double-digit billions of dollars for Google, had slowed, a former employee said. When staffers discussed what was ...

I should learn to do a floating IP, but it sounds complicated! https://docs.oracle.com/en/learn/oci-ip-failover/index.html#task-2-configure-the-cluster-and-the-floating-ip

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09200 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNI_…

A Datagram Extension to DNS over QUIC: Proven Resource Conservation in the Internet of Things
In this paper, we investigate the Domain Name System (DNS) over QUIC (DoQ) and propose a non-disruptive extension, which can greatly reduce DoQ's resource consumption. This extension can benefit all DNS clients - especially Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This is important because even resource-constrained IoT devices can generate dozens of DNS requests every hour. DNS is a crucial service that correlates IP addresses and domain names. It is traditionally sent as plain-text, favoring low-late…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Avalanches:
🎵 Frontier Psychiatrist
#TheAvalanches
https://seesfu.bandcamp.com/track/protip-if-youre-looking-for-the-australian-version-of-sily-make-sure-it-says-tonight-may-have-to-last-me-all-my-life-on-the-back-or-it-might-be-the-shitty-fucked-up-version-w-bad-frontier-psychia
https://open.spotify.com/track/4WVUtbd7CL38fVdIQVN3fk

Today in #ITSecurity gone wrong: I am in Austria as a German. I just received a notification via cell broadcast about a fire in the area. The broadcast contains a URL - but this URL is only accessible from an Austrian IP address. My LTE roaming IP isn’t allowed. So… I guess I just suffocate because I have the wrong IP address, then? 😅

Afrinic: Vorstandswahl der afrikanischen Registry unterbrochen
Der afrikanische IP-Adressverwalter Afrinic kommt nicht zur Ruhe. Erneut wurde die laufende Wahl für einen neuen Vorstand unterbrochen.

Bitcoin options trading venue BitMEX discovered an operational security mistake in a thwarted attack by N. Korea's Lazarus Group, which revealed the attackers' IP address and uncovered at least 10 potential accounts used to test or develop its malware.
h…

Psylo Browser Obscures Digital Fingerprints By Giving Every Tab Its Own IP Address - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/25/2050258/psylo-browser-obscures-digital-fingerprints-by-giving-every-tab-its-own-ip-address

This wider action is not about porn. This is about building a system of tracking Internet use of everyone, adults or children.
>>
“Commission opens investigations to safeguard minors from pornographic content under the Digital Services Act”
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1339

Initial proof of life out of the flash: using normal x1 operation, it appears to be fully functional when driven by the MCU over APB.
So far, I haven't tested actually reading/writing data, but it's doing everything I would expect from a fully functional, correctly soldered flash. Not sure why Vivado doesn't like it.
It's definitely hooked up to the right pins since I'm using the STARTUPE3 hard IP to interface with it.

"Don't bring _anything_"
#Expo2025

I for one am intrigued by the out of the box blue sky thinking of those who suggest moving Europe's IP registry to the United Arab Emirates or Qatar for their international openness and cosmopolitan approach to sanctions.
If I wasn't already subscribed to their newsletter, I'd subscribe again,

Type II radio bursts and space weather phenomena: A statistical study
Pooja Devi, Rositsa Miteva, Ramesh Chandra, Kostadinka Koleva, Bendict Lawrance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01391

Type II radio bursts and space weather phenomena: A statistical study
In this paper, we present for the first time a comprehensive statistical study between type II radio bursts from the metric (m) to the dekameric-hectometric (DH) domain and their associated solar and space weather (SW) phenomena, namely, solar flares (SFs), sunspot (SN) configurations, filament eruptions, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), their interplanetary (IP) counterparts (ICMEs) and shocks, in situ detected particles and geomagnetic storms (GSs). The m-only and m+DH radio signatures are iden…

MISLEADER: Defending against Model Extraction with Ensembles of Distilled Models
Xueqi Cheng, Minxing Zheng, Shixiang Zhu, Yushun Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02362

MISLEADER: Defending against Model Extraction with Ensembles of Distilled Models
Model extraction attacks aim to replicate the functionality of a black-box model through query access, threatening the intellectual property (IP) of machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS) providers. Defending against such attacks is challenging, as it must balance efficiency, robustness, and utility preservation in the real-world scenario. Despite the recent advances, most existing defenses presume that attacker queries have out-of-distribution (OOD) samples, enabling them to detect and disrupt …

Bin ich der einzige, der von diesem Projekt nichts wusste?
Läuft fast drei Jahre 🧐 . Exzellente Geheimhaltung 💪
#Radfahr-Studie 2025 👇
https://www.intellige…

IP-Adressverwaltung in Afrika: Offener Brief der ICANN, Ruf nach Konsequenzen
Die ICANN hat in einem offenen Brief Aufklärung der unter Zwangsverwaltung stehenden Afrinic gefordert. Derweil gibt es erste Rufe nach einer Auflösung.

Attestable Audits: Verifiable AI Safety Benchmarks Using Trusted Execution Environments
Christoph Schnabl, Daniel Hugenroth, Bill Marino, Alastair R. Beresford
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23706

Attestable Audits: Verifiable AI Safety Benchmarks Using Trusted Execution Environments
Benchmarks are important measures to evaluate safety and compliance of AI models at scale. However, they typically do not offer verifiable results and lack confidentiality for model IP and benchmark datasets. We propose Attestable Audits, which run inside Trusted Execution Environments and enable users to verify interaction with a compliant AI model. Our work protects sensitive data even when model provider and auditor do not trust each other. This addresses verification challenges raised in re…

With years, I accumulated devices on my #local #network, which in general run on Linux. I meticulously added them to my /etc/hosts/ file, so as not to remember their IP. Something puzzled me, though: my Synology NAS was readily available as nas.local on the network, without doing anything. I have close to z…

Introducing Web Numbers
Domains? Where we’re going, we don’t need domains!
Get ready for an exciting new (old?) way to address (small) web sites in 2026.
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
💕
(Thanks to @…

Web Numbers
Domains? Where we’re going, we don’t need domains! Until the end of this year, the only way to have a secure web site is to have it accessible via a domain name. That, however, is changing. And the design of the Small Web will be changing along with it. IP addresses are about to make a comeback on the web in a big (ok, small) way, thanks to upcoming support for security certificates for IP addresses by Let’s Encrypt.

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How regular Americans unwittingly aid DPRK job scams,
--Self-driving truck startup sent massive amounts of IP to China,
--The Com claims it's behind the Coinbase hack,
--It feels like Panetta's Cyber Pearl Harbor is nigh,
…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 5/24/25
How regular Americans unwittingly aid DPRK job scams, Self-driving truck startup sent massive amounts of IP to China, The Com claims it's behind the Coinbase hack, It feels like Panetta's Cyber Pearl Harbor is nigh, Brazil's counterintel agents exposed Russian spy imposters

Really, Babas? I understand we all have the right to protect and potentially profit from our own IP, but this feels out of proportion.
St Michael's does incredible work in Herefordshire. Maybe the Barbarians' bigwigs should come and take a look.
Hereford hospice rugby team tackles Barbarians logo row - BBC News
https://…

Hereford hospice rugby team tackles Barbarians logo row
The Hospice Barbarians team is asked to tone down its logo by the official Barbarians FC.

iCloud Private Relay: Google blockiert temporär Zugriffe von Apple-Geräten
Wer Apples IP-Verschleierungsdienst verwendet, bekommt gelegentlich Ärger mit Google-Diensten. Ruft man diese zu häufig oder zu schnell auf, wird geblockt.

Ergodic averages and the large intersection property along IP sets
Bryna Kra, Or Shalom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17771 https://arxi…

Ergodic averages and the large intersection property along IP sets
We study multiple ergodic averages along IP sets, meaning we restrict iterates in the averages to all finite sums of some infinite sequence of natural numbers. We give criteria for convergence and divergence in mean of these multiple averages and derive sufficient conditions for convergence to the projection onto the space of invariant functions. For a class of sequences that, roughly speaking, only have rational obstructions to such a limit, we show that the behavior is controlled by nilsystem…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

My main bugbear with OVH is that they *still* don't offer "failover IP" (where you can fairly quickly move an IP between different dedicated servers) for IPv4, not IPV6.
And, no, they don't offer "Bring Your Own IP" for IPv6 either, only for IPv4.
So when I recently migrated us to a new server I had to do the DNS TTL dance with the IPv6 side of things.
Oh, and it's still only a /64 per server. Not that anything stops you from just using <…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05580 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

The design, verification, and applications of Hotspice: a Monte Carlo simulator for artificial spin ice
We present Hotspice, a Monte Carlo simulation software designed to capture the dynamics and equilibrium states of Artificial Spin Ice (ASI) systems with both in-plane (IP) and out-of-plane (OOP) geometries. An Ising-like model is used where each nanomagnet is represented as a macrospin, with switching events driven by thermal fluctuations, magnetostatic interactions, and external fields. To improve simulation accuracy, we explore the impact of several corrections to this model, concerning for e…

High-order anisotropic flow and nonlinear hydrodynamic responses
Owen Horecny, Chun Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02930 https://arx…

High-order anisotropic flow and nonlinear hydrodynamic responses
In this work, we study the charged hadron anisotropic flow coefficients $v_n$ (up to $n = 12$) using high-statistics event-by-event simulations of Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 5.02$ and $5.36$~TeV, employing the IP-Glasma + MUSIC + UrQMD hybrid approach. The power spectra of anisotropic flow coefficients ($v_n\{2\}$ vs. $n$) are compared with the ALICE measurements from central to 50% centrality. To understand the various sources contributing to the high-order $v_n$ coefficients,…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18910 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Uncovering relationships between the electronic self-energy and coupled-cluster doubles theory
We derive the coupled-cluster doubles (CCD) amplitude equations by introduction of the particle-hole-time decoupled electronic self-energy. This leads to an alternative ground state correlation energy obtained from the Green's function formalism which is exactly of the form obtained in coupled-cluster doubles theory. We demonstrate the relationship to the ionization potential/electron affinity equation-of-motion coupled-cluster doubles (IP/EA-EOM-CCD) eigenvalue problem by coupling the reverse-…

I remember using Opera Mini, even on an iPhone. Had a lousy data plan where they would throttle it massively at some point. Opera mini was the way I could continue surfing the web without all those megabytes of cruft (even back theb) https://mstdn.social/@osnews/114598061141994857

#Plex, stop! I only have so much popcorn to eat while I watch all these new changes play out🍿
https://lemmy.ml/post/30839839

My #CenturyLink DSL Internet is down... except for one computer where I'd previously configured DNS to use Google's Public DNS. I'm assuming this is somehow key to why it still works. I've tried to reproduce this onto another computer, but no luck so far.

Netflix is removing 22 mobile games in July, almost 20% of its mobile game library, most of which are branded or based on IP that's beyond Netflix's control (Kasey Moore/What's on Netflix)
https://www.whats-on-ne…

Netflix To Remove Over 20 Mobile Games Including Monument Valley Trilogy and Hades
Almost 20% of Netflix's mobile game library is scheduled to depart soon.

I’d rate myself an #AI skeptic to agnostic. I hadn’t used the tools at all, because I had problems w/ creation of the models: resource usage, & IP theft, were top of mind. Hallucinations a big issue too.
But I tried it, and even though I can’t set aside my concerns I’ll say I was impressed.
I used Claude to produce a Zsh prompt to replace one I’ve used for years using Oh My Zsh.
What …

Zsh prompt from Claude
Zsh prompt from Claude. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

International Trade and Intellectual Property
Gaetan de Rassenfosse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18929 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18929…

International Trade and Intellectual Property
Intellectual property (IP) rules have the potential to shape cross-border trade far more than their legalistic origins might suggest. Drawing on three decades of evidence, this review shows that stronger IP rights simultaneously create market-power forces that raise prices and market-expansion forces that broaden demand, while dynamic incentives spur quality upgrading and new export varieties. Micro-data and quasi-natural experiments after TRIPS reveal that IP most often boosts trade along the …

Fractional order derivative approach of viscoelastic behavior of tropical wood
Loic Chrislin Nguedjio (IP), Rostand Moutou Pitti (CENAREST, IP), Benoit Blaysat (IP), Pierre Kisito Talla (IP), Nicolas Sauvat (IP), Joseph Gril (IP)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13208

Fractional order derivative approach of viscoelastic behavior of tropical wood
For some time now, wood has offered itself as an alternative to other modern construction materials, and has become the material of choice for structures, mainly because of its renewable nature, durability and ease of shaping. However, once in service, even at room temperature and under low stresses, it deforms and faces the problems of creep and recovery. The aims of this work is to model and predict the viscoelastic deformations of tropical wood by a rheological approach based on fractional c…

Development and validation of an electron temperature-dependent interaction potential for silicon and copper for the use in atomistic simulations of laser ablation
Simon K\"ummel, Johannes Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23699

Development and validation of an electron temperature-dependent interaction potential for silicon and copper for the use in atomistic simulations of laser ablation
Laser pulses with a duration of the order of femtoseconds lead to a strong excitation, heating and potentially to ablation of the irradiated material. During the time of strong excitation, the interaction of the atoms and thus the material dynamics can be strongly altered. To take this effect into account, an ip was developed for copper that takes the excitation of the electrons into account up to an electron temperature of 1.2 eV. Furthermore, several ways to identify non-thermal effects in De…

One Video to Steal Them All: 3D-Printing IP Theft through Optical Side-Channels
Twisha Chattopadhyay, Fabricio Ceschin, Marco E. Garza, Dymytriy Zyunkin, Animesh Chhotaray, Aaron P. Stebner, Saman Zonouz, Raheem Beyah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21897

One Video to Steal Them All: 3D-Printing IP Theft through Optical Side-Channels
The 3D printing industry is rapidly growing and increasingly adopted across various sectors including manufacturing, healthcare, and defense. However, the operational setup often involves hazardous environments, necessitating remote monitoring through cameras and other sensors, which opens the door to cyber-based attacks. In this paper, we show that an adversary with access to video recordings of the 3D printing process can reverse engineer the underlying 3D print instructions. Our model tracks…

(Without the preachy tone) Information, knowledge, is not copyright, the form it's in may be and ideas are not IP but expressed methods of using them are.
🧵

Sources: Microsoft is pushing to remove the AGI clause from its OpenAI contract, which lets OpenAI limit Microsoft's access to its IP once its systems reach AGI (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech…

From the digital archives: #AWS #EC2 IP ranges from 14 years ago.
https://

Well that was an interesting one to debug... My blocky DNS service was down after a cluster restart
A given #metallb speaker won’t advertise the service if:
- the service has externalTrafficPolicy=local and there are no running endpoints on the speaker’s node
To use externalTrafficPolicy=local, the tolerations on metallb pods must match the tolerations on the destination pods…

internet_top_pop: Internet topology (PoP level) (1969-2012)
Assorted snapshots of internet graph at the Point of Presence (PoP) level (which lies between the IP and AS levels), collected from around the world and at various times. The earliest snapshots are for ARPANET (1969-1972), with a few more from pre-2000. Most are from 2006 onward. Metadata include link type or speed, longitudes, and latitudes of nodes, URL, and date of record.
This network has 19 nodes and 24 edges.

PSA: isc-dhcp-server >~3.0 sets the 'siaddr' in offers to 0 unless you set the next-server entry for a server; and Javastations don't like that. They used to set it to the server IP, like god intended.
(Yours after many hours of debug, bisection, tcpdump and reading the dhcp spec).
So if you're reading old config guides for old machines and using a modern DHCP server...

Werde heute mal den ALLNET ALL3419 als Thermometer und Sensorzentrale im Monitoring testen. Gibt bei Amazon gerade für 153,- €. Damit ist das System günstiger als unsere bisherige Lösung auf Basis eines Raspberry Pi und 1wire Sensoren. Bin gespannt, wie sich das Ding so schlägt.
#thermostat #thermometer

wut??

Preconditioning of the interplanetary medium due to isolated ICMEs
Primo\v{z} Kajdi\v{c}, Manuela Temmer, Xochitl Blanco-Cano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16543

Preconditioning of the interplanetary medium due to isolated ICMEs
We perform a systematic study of the preconditioning of the interplanetary (IP) medium due to isolated interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). Preconditioning is highly relevant when ICMEs, ejected in close succession and direction, modify the IP medium to allow subsequent ICMEs to propagate more freely, decelerate less, and retain higher kinetic energy at larger distances. We base our study on a sample of carefully selected events. The IP medium is analyzed during time intervals of 48 h…

Warum glaubt die #ORF On Seite immer, dass ich außerhalb Österreichs sitze, wenn ich mit #VPN im Netz bin? Bin obviously auf einen österreichischen Server connected - blocken die einfach automatisch alle VPN IP-Adressen?

tl;dr: Block logins from Tor Exit Nodes using Conditional Access
One thing we (as a community) lost when we started using IdP’s like #EntraID was the ability to easily block networks and IP addresses from accessing your login pages. The work-around with Entra is to create Conditional Access Network Locations along with a policy to block successful logins from those IPs and networks.

Extension of the CC($P$;$Q$) Formalism to the Electron Attachment and Ionization Potential Equation-of-Motion Coupled-Cluster Frameworks
Karthik Gururangan, Stephen H. Yuwono, A. Eugene DePrince III, Piotr Piecuch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16320

Extension of the CC($P$;$Q$) Formalism to the Electron Attachment and Ionization Potential Equation-of-Motion Coupled-Cluster Frameworks
We combine the electron attachment (EA) and ionization potential (IP) equation-of-motion (EOM) coupled-cluster (CC) approaches with the CC($P$;$Q$) formalism. The resulting methodologies are used to describe the electronic states of several open-shell molecules, with the goal of approximating high-level EA/IP-EOMCC energetics corresponding to a full treatment of 3-particle-2-hole (3$p$-2$h$) and 3-hole-2-particle (3$h$-2$p$) excitations on top of CC with singles and doubles (CCSD). We show that…

Wooo, got the PiKVM on the OOB VLAN. That took way longer than it should've, but finally tracked down the small issue I had with the `systemd-network` files.
#pikvm #homelab #minirack…

SHAMaNS: Sound Localization with Hybrid Alpha-Stable Spatial Measure and Neural Steerer
Diego Di Carlo (RIKEN AIP), Mathieu Fontaine (LTCI, IP Paris), Aditya Arie Nugraha (RIKEN AIP), Yoshiaki Bando (RIKEN AIP), Kazuyoshi Yoshii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18954

SHAMaNS: Sound Localization with Hybrid Alpha-Stable Spatial Measure and Neural Steerer
This paper describes a sound source localization (SSL) technique that combines an $α$-stable model for the observed signal with a neural network-based approach for modeling steering vectors. Specifically, a physics-informed neural network, referred to as Neural Steerer, is used to interpolate measured steering vectors (SVs) on a fixed microphone array. This allows for a more robust estimation of the so-called $α$-stable spatial measure, which represents the most plausible direction of arrival…

Inside Disney's plan to limit AI companies' use of its IP, which led Disney and Comcast to sue Midjourney; Disney is also in talks with companies like OpenAI (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Jakorian Bennett Can Now Just Focus on Football | NFL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbg3U3K-iPQ

Don't Guess My Language #i18n
https://vitonsky.net/blog/2025/05/17/language-detection/

This morning I null routed another dozen IP addresses for scraping my personal git server using repeated http requests. As per usual, a quick inspection reveals that at least some of them are scraping for LLM data. As always, I have not consented to this use of my non-maintained code, experiments, college coursework, and miscellaneous crap that I for whatever reason decided to self host rather than pushing it to Codeberg.
I mean, if you really want to feed your LLM on a diet that inclu…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

Today I fought against AI bots that where scraping / DDoSing one of our customers library OPAC. The quick fix was to block all non-EU IP address. We don't have a good fix yet, but can draw on a lot of ideas that where discussed at #Koha Hackfest. #JohnConner

CHIP: Chameleon Hash-based Irreversible Passport for Robust Deep Model Ownership Verification and Active Usage Control
Chaohui Xu, Qi Cui, Chip-Hong Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24536

CHIP: Chameleon Hash-based Irreversible Passport for Robust Deep Model Ownership Verification and Active Usage Control
The pervasion of large-scale Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and their enormous training costs make their intellectual property (IP) protection of paramount importance. Recently introduced passport-based methods attempt to steer DNN watermarking towards strengthening ownership verification against ambiguity attacks by modulating the affine parameters of normalization layers. Unfortunately, neither watermarking nor passport-based methods provide a holistic protection with robust ownership proof, hig…

I always wonder what message it sends when countries turn to internet geo-blocks. It doesn't project confidence.
(Israel's "National Emergency Portal", for example, has been unavailable from non-IL IP ranges since 2021.)
https://www.theverge.com/politics/688875/i

Iran is going offline to prevent purported Israeli cyberattacks
Iran has begun throttling its own internet bandwidth, taken down mobile services, asked citizens to delete WhatsApp, and will shut off global internet access.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Blondie:
🎵 Rip Her To Shreds
#Blondie
https://angertape.bandcamp.com/track/rip-her-2-shreds-blondie
https://open.spotify.com/track/23yUwzz4CQ8yzQ65ATN6Ds

Instruction and Solution Probabilities as Heuristics for Inductive Programming
Edward McDaid, Sarah McDaid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13804 https://…

Instruction and Solution Probabilities as Heuristics for Inductive Programming
Instruction subsets (ISs) are heuristics that can shrink the size of the inductive programming (IP) search space by tens of orders of magnitude. Here, we extend the IS approach by introducing instruction and solution probabilities as additional heuristics. Instruction probability reflects the expectation of an instruction occurring in a solution, based on the frequency of instruction occurrence in a large code sample. The solution probability for a partial or complete program is simply the prod…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

OK, Switzerland does NOT get to claim inventing the Internet. Fuck that noise. AN implementation of a hypertext system was invented by a BRITISH guy working at CERN in 1989, which got picked up as the WEB. The ARPA/Internet is an American creation from 1969. IP in 1983. fuck's sake guys

And this is why I read the comments sections on all of @… articles 😄 #cybersecurity

ip in Debian testing have COLORS.
It's finally the year of Linux in the terminal!

Evaluating Query Efficiency and Accuracy of Transfer Learning-based Model Extraction Attack in Federated Learning
Sayyed Farid Ahamed, Sandip Roy, Soumya Banerjee, Marc Vucovich, Kevin Choi, Abdul Rahman, Alison Hu, Edward Bowen, Sachin Shetty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23791

Evaluating Query Efficiency and Accuracy of Transfer Learning-based Model Extraction Attack in Federated Learning
Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative learning framework designed to protect client data, yet it remains highly vulnerable to Intellectual Property (IP) threats. Model extraction (ME) attacks pose a significant risk to Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) platforms, enabling attackers to replicate confidential models by querying black-box (without internal insight) APIs. Despite FL's privacy-preserving goals, its distributed nature makes it particularly susceptible to such attacks. This p…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AR/new
[1/1]:
- VeriLeaky: Navigating IP Protection vs Utility in Fine-Tuning for LLM-Driven Verilog Coding
Wang, Shao, Nabeel, Roy, Mankali, Bhandari, Karri, Sinanoglu, Shafique, Knechtel

#Koalitionsvertrag so:
> Wir führen eine verhältnismäßige und europa- und verfassungsrechtskonforme dreimonatige Speicherpflicht für IP-Adressen und Portnummern ein, um diese einem Anschlussinhaber zuordnen zu können.
Ich so:
Aha, na wenn es verhältnismäßig, europa- und verfassungsrechtskonform sein soll, dann droht uns nach allen wesentlichen Urteilen aus der Vergan…

Enhanced superconducting gap in the outer CuO$_2$ plane of the trilayer cuprate (Hg,Re)Ba$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{8 \delta}$
M. Horio, M. Miyamoto, Y. Mino, S. Ishida, B. Thiagarajan, C. M. Polley, C. H. Lee, T. Nishio, H. Eisaki, I. Matsuda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08763

Enhanced superconducting gap in the outer CuO$_2$ plane of the trilayer cuprate (Hg,Re)Ba$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{8+δ}$
We report the first observation of a momentum-resolved superconducting gap in the Hg-based trilayer cuprate, which holds the highest record of superconducting transition temperature ($T_\mathrm{c}$) at ambient pressure. By angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy utilizing a micro-focused beam, clear quasiparticle dispersions originating from the inner and outer CuO$_2$ planes (IP and OP, respectively) were separately identified. The magnitude of the superconducting gap for the IP was comparab…

I know its a bad picture, but I got a funny sticker at a conference today and had to share.

Modern streaming.
#entertainment #tv #film #movies

Investigation: Russian network engineer Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers; his companies have FSB links (Roman Anin/OCCRP)
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/telegram-the-fsb-and-the-man-in-t…

Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle
The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.

Dozens arrested across Asia in global infostealer malware crackdown https://therecord.media/dozens-arrested-infostealer-interpol-crackdown

Progress! By running a #Debian sarge (2005) dhcpd my javastation now gets as far as wanting to tftp! Figuring out what modern dhcpd's do (even the isc one) is for a later date
14:46:20.679254 IP krups.44549 > 192.168.69.1.tftp: TFTP, length 17, RRQ "C0A84502" octet
#retrocomputing

Multireference equation-of-motion driven similarity renormalization group: theoretical foundations and applications to ionized states
Zijun Zhao, Shuhang Li, Francesco A. Evangelista
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13693

Multireference equation-of-motion driven similarity renormalization group: theoretical foundations and applications to ionized states
We present a formulation and implementation of an equation-of-motion (EOM) extension of the multireference driven similarity renormalization group (MR-DSRG) formalism for ionization potentials (IP-EOM-DSRG). The IP-EOM-DSRG formalism results in a Hermitian generalized eigenvalue problem, delivering accurate ionization potentials for systems with strongly correlated ground and excited states. The EOM step scales as $O(N^5)$ with the basis set size $N$, allowing for efficient calculation of spect…

Statistical analysis of interplanetary shock waves measured by a Solar Wind Analyzer and a magnetometer onboard the Solar Orbiter Mission in 2023
Oleksandr Yakovlev, Oleksiy Dudnik, Anna Wawrzaszek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19986

Statistical analysis of interplanetary shock waves measured by a Solar Wind Analyzer and a magnetometer onboard the Solar Orbiter Mission in 2023
Interplanetary (IP) shock waves are greatly interesting, as they represent significant phenomena in near-Earth space and are direct drivers of geomagnetic and radiation storms. Moreover, various data and parameters are being explored for the identification and characterization of these waves. The spatial dimensions of shock waves vary significantly with the conditions and parameters of the propagating medium. For example, the radii of curvature of the shock wave fronts can vary by several hundr…

Wow, this is a first. A site I actually want to see (archive.ph) is using an IP address on the @… DROP list.
(no, I do NOT think that’s a Spamhaus problem. They are doing their job.) https://

Speech Neurophysiology in Realistic Contexts: Big Hype or Big Leap?
Giovanni M. Di Liberto, Emily Y. J. Ip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05494 https://…

Speech Neurophysiology in Realistic Contexts: Big Hype or Big Leap?
Understanding the neural basis of speech communication is essential for uncovering how sounds are translated into meaning, how that changes with development, ageing, and speech-related deficits, as well as contributing to brain-computer interfaces research. While traditional neurophysiological studies have relied on simplified, controlled paradigms, recent advances have shifted the field toward more ecologically-valid approaches. Here, we examine the impact of continuous speech research and dis…

MLB acquires a minority stake in Jomboy Media and partners with the baseball-centered media company to collaborate on content activations, IP growth, and more (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/…

MLB Buys Stake in Jomboy Media, Partners for Digital Content
MLB inked a pact with Jimmy O'Brien's Jomboy Media, under which the league is acquiring a stake in his company and collaborating on digital content.

The more time goes on, the more conflicted I get about #AI. (or, more specifically, generative AI. I like causal AI a fair bit)
On one hand, I hate so much about it:
the needless environmental and electronic parts waste, the impact on labor, the monopolistic nature of main organizations driving it, the endless conversations about AGI and other absurdly utopian (or dystopian) futures, the widespread theft of IP and human work, the devaluation of labor and craft… so much of it is not okay at all.
On the other hand, I kinda get it?
I like to test software for myself, so I've been dipping my toes into some popular AI tools over the past couple of years. I have a paid subscription to ChatGPT (which I don’t feel great about, I know), and I have found genuine utility in it.
More so, I feel so conflicted when I talk to people I respect and who I think are very smart and creative and they tell me how in love they are with all of these AI tools, about the complex workflows they build, about their experiments with agentic AI and integrations... These people seem so excited, so alive, so joyous about the things that this technology allows them to do. They often wouldn't have had the skills / knowledge / financial capital to do some of those things with human efforts alone. And now I see them coding their own tools, doing complex data analysis, trying creative experiments with graphics / text / video...
And I feel like a total jerk going "BUT ACTUALLY THIS IS UNETHICAL AND INEFFICIENT AND YOU SHOULD STOP IT BECAUSE AI SUCKS".
The technology behind all these gen AI models does have real utility, and it has kicked off a lot of creativity from people who wouldn't have dabbled in those kinds of projects otherwise.
So I don't know how to feel. Because I can't let go of the guilt and the real problems and the awareness of how much empty hype there is.
#technology #artificialintelligence #genAI #ChatGPT

A Reduced Cost Two-component Relativistic Equation-of-Motion Coupled Cluster Method for Ionization Potential
Somesh Chamoli, Malaya K. Nayak, Achintya Kumar Dutta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06805

A Reduced Cost Two-component Relativistic Equation-of-Motion Coupled Cluster Method for Ionization Potential
We report an efficient implementation of the ionization potential (IP) variant of the equation-of-motion coupled cluster (IP-EOM-CC) method based on the exact two-component atomic mean field (X2CAMF) framework, utilizing Cholesky decomposition (CD) and frozen natural spinors (FNS). The CD approximation significantly reduces memory demands, whereas the FNS approximation lowers the number of floating-point operations. Together, these techniques make the method computationally efficient for accura…

Vortices in Two-Dimensional Chiral Superfluids
Yan He, Wenxing Nie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08468 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08468

Vortices in Two-Dimensional Chiral Superfluids
We study the orbital angular momentum (OAM) $L_z$ of two-dimensional chiral $(p_x+ip_y)^ν$-wave superfluids (SFs) in the presence of an axisymmetric multiply quantized vortex (MQV) with vorticity $k$ on a disk at zero temperature, in the framework of Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) theory. Focusing on spectral asymmetry (or spectral flow), we find that $L_z=(k+ν)N/2$ for any integer $ν$ and $k$ in the Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) regime, where $N$ is the total number of fermions. While in the…

Side-Channel Extraction of Dataflow AI Accelerator Hardware Parameters
Guillaume Lomet, Ruben Salvador, Brice Colombier, Vincent Grosso, Olivier Sentieys, Cedric Killian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15432

Side-Channel Extraction of Dataflow AI Accelerator Hardware Parameters
Dataflow neural network accelerators efficiently process AI tasks on FPGAs, with deployment simplified by ready-to-use frameworks and pre-trained models. However, this convenience makes them vulnerable to malicious actors seeking to reverse engineer valuable Intellectual Property (IP) through Side-Channel Attacks (SCA). This paper proposes a methodology to recover the hardware configuration of dataflow accelerators generated with the FINN framework. Through unsupervised dimensionality reduction…

From IOCs to Group Profiles: On the Specificity of Threat Group Behaviors in CTI Knowledge Bases
Aakanksha Saha, Martina Lindorfer, Juan Caballero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10645

From IOCs to Group Profiles: On the Specificity of Threat Group Behaviors in CTI Knowledge Bases
Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) such as IP addresses, file hashes, and domain names are commonly used for threat detection and attribution. However, IOCs tend to be short-lived as they are easy to change. As a result, the cybersecurity community is shifting focus towards more persistent behavioral profiles, such as the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and the software used by a threat group. However, the distinctiveness and completeness of such behavioral profiles remain largely unexp…

#DevOps people, Is there any well known good approach to combine #Terraform / #OpenTofu with #Ansible ?
I suppose most #cloud environments have relatively good & complete providers and perhaps that makes it easy to have single sources of truth and all that jazz... but I'm using #Hetzner's cloud and there are some things that can't be exported through datasources outputs (for example private IP addresses).
I had to script my way around, adding Moonrepo and Deno on top of that... but my setup is extremely custom and probably not taking advantage of some common practices in the field.