Tootfinder

Coining "#malcompetence" to mean "actions & their outcomes which are consistent with incompetence but which have an overall malicious effect, especially when the incompetence manifests differently in different situations to produced de facto discrimination."
Malcompetence can run the gamut from actual intentional malice disguised to appear as incompetence, to subconsciously coordinated malicious incompetence that the perpetrator is not consciously aware of but which a less subconsciously biased person would not engage in, to truly unintentional incompetence which manifests in a pattern because of bias in oversight/attention/competence-building. These different root causes are often not distinguishable, and sometimes blend together.
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Okay, so it looks like I'm not the only one to have coined this term, but I think digging into the different types is still useful.

@… I’m very much in the same boat, but given that there’s Akrapovič, well-known manufacturer of exhaust systems for motorcycles and performance cars, I could very well imagine someone saying, “bro, I had an Akropovič exhaust fitted to my Kosmaczewski MX-100, it’s so freaking fast now, gotta install Piotrowski brakes!”

@… I’m very much in the same boat, but given that there’s Akrapovič, well-known manufacturer of exhaust systems for motorcycles and performance cars, I could very well imagine someone saying, “bro, I had an Akropovič exhaust fitted to my Kosmaczewski MX-100, it’s so freaking fast now, gotta install Piotrowski brakes!”

Neighbour dropped off a welder with a blown FET on the PCB (within a snubber circuit). Found a suspect diode. Found a manufacturer and boardset ID: Arcsonic AT-06-A7. Wrote to Arcsonic on AliExpress, and after about 3 messages exchanged I had a full circuit schematic for the thing sitting in my e-mail inbox. As much as we (rightly!) complain about and fear over-reliance on China in the West, their culture of openness and repair is something we would do well to emulate. Imagine writing to Bos…

https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/12253-major-truck-manufacturer-scania-confirms-insurance-site-cyber-attack
Another insurance attack.
Major truck manufacturer Scania confirms insurance site cyber attack

Major truck manufacturer Scania confirms insurance site cyber attack
Swedish heavy vehicle manufacturer Scania has confirmed that threat actors successfully breached its insurance and financial services division.

$N=1$ Supersymmetry invariance of the Abelian Stueckelberg model
M. A. L. Capri, D. R. Granado, I. F. Justo, L. S. S. Mendes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17021

$N=1$ Supersymmetry invariance of the Abelian Stueckelberg model
In this paper we investigate the invariance of the Abelian Stueckelberg-like model under gauge and $N=1$ supersymmetric (SUSY) transformations in (3+1) spacetime. We show that the Stueckelberg-like mass term explicitly breaks $N=1$ supersymmetry under the Wess-Zumino (WZ) gauge condition. Nevertheless, we demonstrate that the WZ gauge is not needed in order to construct an action independent of compensating fields, manifestly supersymmetric and gauge invariant.

Aethorix v1.0: AI-Driven Inverse Design of Inorganic Materials for Scalable Industrial Innovation
Yingjie Shi, Runtian Miao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16609

Aethorix v1.0: AI-Driven Inverse Design of Inorganic Materials for Scalable Industrial Innovation
Artificial intelligence for Science (AI4S) is poised to transform industrial manufacturing by enabling the accelerated discovery and optimization of advanced (bio)materials, dramatically reducing development cycles, and unlocking novel high-performance solutions. We introduce Aethorix v1.0, a platform that integrates large language models for objective mining, diffusion-based generative models for zero-shot inorganic crystal design, and machine-learned interatomic potentials for rapid property …

“Bray Air Display has dropped US defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin as a sponsor for this year’s event over the company’s supply of arms support to Israel in the Gaza war.”
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/…

Bray Air Display drops US sponsor over Israel support in Gaza war
Bray Air Display has dropped US defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin as a sponsor for this year’s event over the company's supply of arms support to Israel in the Gaza war.

Anti-Sisyphus driving in a matter-wave swing
Wen L. Liu, Jun Jian, Ning X. Zheng, Hui Tang, Ji Z. Wu, Yu Q. Li, Wen X. Zhang, Jie Ma, Suo T. Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16019

Anti-Sisyphus driving in a matter-wave swing
Dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates are an exceptionally versatile testbed for the investigation of physics phenomenon especially the well-known classical system. Here we use a degenerate Bose gas of sodium atoms confined in an optical dipole trap to simulate the matter-wave on the swing. Under the driving of Anti-Sisyphus process, the swing was excited successfully. Moreover, the spin echo like behavior and collective-mode excitation appear during the oscillation of matter-wave swing, manifes…

How many RPMs? Your next car may run Red Hat Linux.
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-prepares-new-future-software-defined-vehicles-upcoming-general-availab…

Red Hat Prepares for a New Future of Software-Defined Vehicles with Upcoming General Availability of Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System
Open source, continuously-certified operating system platform set for Q3 2025 launch, bringing safety-certified Linux to automotive manufacturers and suppliers