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14 June 2025 is World Blood Donor Day.
"Blood donation is a collective effort and a powerful act of solidarity. By coming together as a community of donors, we ensure a steady and safe blood supply for all who need it.

Anyone, anywhere, who needs a transfusion should have timely access to safe blood."
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Apple announces a new live translation feature across Messages, FaceTime, and Phone apps, but has not yet said how many languages will be supported (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/appl…

Apple introduces live translation across Messages, FaceTime, and Phone at WWDC 25 | TechCrunch
Apple is introducing Live Translation, powered by Apple Intelligence, for Messages, FaceTime and Phone calls. 

'Shoot a couple, the rest will go home': Far-right groups are sharing scary messages ahead of 'No Kings' protests (Rhian Lubin/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-protests-no-kings-far-right-b2769812.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p146#a250613p146

Stay frosty: "Accounts associated with extremist groups are sharing detailed information about protest organizers, including names and where they work"
‘Shoot a couple, the rest will go home’: Far-right groups are sharing scary messages ahead of ‘No Kings’ protests | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-protests-no-kings-far-right-b2769812.html

Je viens de poster : « Would it be possible to implement remote web control of SMS messages in #FossifyMessage, like https://messages.google.com/? »

Anyone else got the issue that "Element" messenger app on iOS always shows at least 1 unread message on the app icon? Although there are no unread messages and I even marked all messages as read in the settings. This read count also can't be turned off at all, can it? #Element #iOS

23andMe privacy ombudsman recommends company obtains consent for sale of customer data https://therecord.media/23andme-privacy-ombudsman-recommends-consent-sale

Salesforce is restricting third-party companies from long-term indexing and storing of Slack messages, which would hamper rival enterprise AI firms like Glean (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/salesforce-blocks-ai-rivals…

Salesforce Blocks AI Rivals From Using Slack Data
Slack, an instant-messaging service popular with businesses, recently blocked other software firms from searching or storing Slack messages even if their customers permit them to do so, according to a public disclosure from Slack’s owner, Salesforce. The move, which hasn’t previously been ...

Oh nice! Account notes carry over when someone migrates. @…

After a too long extended reconfiguration to use Centos 9 rather than the nonsense that AWS Linux has become, moving to Python 3.12 from 3.7 and removing all the fingers of the original code using Twitter. There were still meaningless failures.
So this morning I blamed SELinux, which ten or more years ago I'd have assumed from the start.
I was right.
There were no denials in messages but as soon as I changed it to Permissive it all sparked into life.
Harrumph.…

Forbes article yesterday:
"Microsoft’s AI Starts Reading All Your WhatsApp, Signal Messages"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/04/29/microsofts-ai-starts-secretly-copying-and-saving-your-…

Doing really well programming my MorningStar MC6 to run the rig. The cool thing about the Mercury is that all the effect parameters are assignable as midi control messages, so I can set up the MC6 to essentially add/remove effects on the fly from presets, rather than having to create a preset on the Meris for every variation I might need. http…

Kind of amazing that you can dot a couple of messages like this around the internet https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu/114188134015638878
and then end up with ~40 lovely people hanging out with their computers in the middle of nowhere, what a great thing

A symmetric LWE-based Multi-Recipient Cryptosystem
Saikat Gope, Srinivasan Krishnaswamy, Chayan Bhawal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05711 https://

A symmetric LWE-based Multi-Recipient Cryptosystem
This article describes a post-quantum multirecipient symmetric cryptosystem whose security is based on the hardness of the LWE problem. In this scheme a single sender encrypts multiple messages for multiple recipients generating a single ciphertext which is broadcast to the recipients. Each recipient decrypts the ciphertext with her secret key to recover the message intended for her. In this process, the recipient cannot efficiently extract any information about the other messages. This scheme …

I’ve been working on a fork of @…’s MeshInfo for PugetMesh. If you’re interested in #Meshtastic in the Puget Sound area, check it out. It shows chat messages, neighboring nodes, node details, and a mesh map.
I added mapping for message and traceroute propagatio…

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…

"[…] Let's take a look at 6 improvements to look forward to in the upcoming #GCC 15.
1. Prettier execution paths
2. A new look for C template errors
3. Machine-readable diagnostics
4. An easier transition to C23
5. A revamped color scheme
6. libgdiagnostics
We're still fixing bugs, but we hope that GCC 15 will be ready to officially release (as …

6 usability improvements in GCC 15 | Red Hat Developer
GCC 15 brings better error messages and diagnostics for your code, including prettier execution paths and easier-to-read compiler errors for C++ templates

"But there were technologists and open source projects in attendance. Notably, representatives from the Mastodon and Bluesky teams were at the Festival. The Newsmast Foundation was also present, incisively taking part in conversations to help newsrooms onboard themselves onto both of them. I got to hang out with them all, connecting with people I’d spoken with but never interacted with in person. Mastodon has undergone a transformation, has doubled its team, and is working on smoothing out some of its rough edges, while not letting go of its core ethos. It’s also beginning to position itself as a European alternative to American social media platforms, with a community-first values system and new services to directly help organizations join the network.
Bluesky, on the other hand, has done an able job of bringing journalists onto its existing social app, and is now hard at work explaining why its underlying protocol matters. Both want to engage with newsrooms and journalists and do the right thing by them. They each have something different to prove: Mastodon that it can be usable and accessible, and Bluesky that it can provide a return to its investors and truly decentralize while holding onto its values. I’m rooting for both of them.
These platforms’ messages dovetail with my own: news can own the platforms that support them. Lots of people at the Festival were worried about the impact of US big tech on their businesses — particularly in a world where tech moguls seem to be aligning themselves with a Presidential administration that has positioned itself as being adversarial to news, journalists, sources, and, arguably, the truth. The good news is that the technology is out there, the values-aligned technologists are out there, and there’s a strong path forward. The only thing left is to follow it."
#media #Mastodon #BlueSky #Journalism
https://werd.io/2025/notes-from-perugia-journalism-values-and-building-the-web-we

Trying to purchase a 24k EUR used car currently and the seller doesn‘t react to any of my messages. I’m doing something wrong I guess. 😂 but I want it so badly!!!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02165 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

Broadcast in Almost Mixing Time
We study the problem of broadcasting multiple messages in the CONGEST model. In this problem, a dedicated source node $s$ possesses a set $M$ of messages with every message of size $O(\log n)$ where $n$ is the total number of nodes. The objective is to ensure that every node in the network learns all messages in $M$. The execution of an algorithm progresses in rounds, and we focus on optimizing the round complexity of broadcasting multiple messages. Our primary contribution is a randomized al…

White supremacists leave threatening messages at homes with pro-LGBTQ displays - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/white-supremacists-leave-messages-at-homes-with-pro-lgbtq-displays/

“Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/06/where-to-put-focus-when-opening-a-modal-dialog.html
TL;DR: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, in…

Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog
TL;DR: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, including this one. This post is meant to help guide you, an intelligent and thoughtful and empathetic reader, figure out where you should set focus. The scenarios are non-exhaustive. Messages I’m artificially breaking these into…

The Guardian has uploaded "coverdrop" to github, embedding a covert secure messaging channel into their phone app.
I've not looked at it, but I imagine it's mostly going to be for text messages, as media uploads don't fit the network profile (upload/download) of news consumption apps.

Analysis of X's new XChat shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/06/09/a-bi…

A bit more on Twitter/X’s new encrypted messaging
Matthew Garrett has a nice post about Twitter (uh, X)’s new end-to-end encryption messaging protocol, which is now called XChat. The TL;DR of Matthew’s post is that from a cryptographic…

Jeez! The Signal clone the US gov uses was super easy to hack. https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

My commit messages are much more unhinged now that I let Zippy the Pinhead write all of them

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00338 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_…

New Distributed Interactive Proofs for Planarity: A Matter of Left and Right
We provide new distributed interactive proofs (DIP) for planarity and related graph families. The notion of a \emph{distributed interactive proof} (DIP) was introduced by Kol, Oshman, and Saxena (PODC 2018). In this setting, the verifier consists of $n$ nodes connected by a communication graph $G$. The prover is a single entity that communicates with all nodes by short messages. The goal is to verify that the graph $G$ satisfies a certain property (e.g., planarity) in a small number of rounds, …

Delay Optimization in Remote ID-Based UAV Communication via BLE and Wi-Fi Switching
Yian Zhu, Ziye Jia, Lei Zhang, Yao Wu, Qiuming Zhu, Qihui Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07715

Delay Optimization in Remote ID-Based UAV Communication via BLE and Wi-Fi Switching
The remote identification (Remote ID) broadcast capability allows unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to exchange messages, which is a pivotal technology for inter-UAV communications. Although this capability enhances the operational visibility, low delay in Remote ID-based communications is critical for ensuring the efficiency and timeliness of multi-UAV operations in dynamic environments. To address this challenge, we first establish delay models for Remote ID communications by considering packet…

Talking Transactions: Decentralized Communication through Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDMs)
Xihan Xiong, Zhipeng Wang, Qin Wang, Endong Liu, Pascal Berrang, William Knottenbelt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24724

Talking Transactions: Decentralized Communication through Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDMs)
Can you imagine, blockchain transactions can talk! In this paper, we study how they talk and what they talk about. We focus on the input data field of Ethereum transactions, which is designed to allow external callers to interact with smart contracts. In practice, this field also enables users to embed natural language messages into transactions. Users can leverage these Input Data Messages (IDMs) for peer-to-peer communication. This means that, beyond Ethereum's well-known role as a financial …

China’s quantum satellite can be hacked, Singapore-based scientist warns
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3312399/chinas-quantum-satellite-can-be-hacked-sing…

China’s quantum satellite can be hacked, Singapore-based scientist warns
Hackers could intercept coded messages sent by lasers on China’s quantum communication network, research suggests.

Sometimes I create really really really useful plugins for #NeosCMS.
I present: Norman Nodly, the super amazing AI assistant
He watches what you do, and gives you super motivational messages when you get feedback from the Neos backend, like when you publish successfully. He also understands more than 2 inquiries!

These phone and messages updates will be very welcome—polls especially
#WWDC25 #WWDC

Why Trump’s push for
‘gold-standard science’
has researchers alarmed
A new term keeps popping up in messages from Trump administration scientific agencies
— a pledge to restore “gold-standard science.”

Many scientists say the opposite is happening.

The administration’s
“MAHA Report,”
intended to diagnose the root cause of poor health in American children,
was written by Cabinet officials and political appointees,
most of whom lack…

Why Trump’s push for ‘gold-standard science’ has researchers alarmed
Many scientists fear the Trump administration’s new standard means putting political appointees in charge, which could undercut independent research.

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads users will soon be able to send direct messages to each other without having to leave the platform, adding a separate inbox for DMs (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684120/threads-direct…

Threads is finally getting DMs
Threads will soon test its own private messaging system that’s distinct from Instagram’s, starting in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Argentina.

That's a lot of Discord messages.
"The dataset comprises over 2.05 billion messages from 4.74 million users across 3,167 public servers, representing approximately 10% of servers listed in Discord's Discovery feature."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00627

My kid was very interested in the „faces“ I was making in my messages. At first I didn’t understand but then the penny dropped :-)
Then I had to teach more „old-school emojis“ 🤘

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The unredacted Houthi PC small group Signal chat published in full today since Trump admin repeated its assertion there was no classified information. You be the judge. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/sign…

I’ve never seen this memory issue on #MacOS before. I had left Safari with Mela’s share sheet/importer app snippet open overnight and came back to a nearly unresponsive computer. I assume one of these has a memory leak. I was able to reboot via the shell using SSH from another device.

Now you can enjoy the delights of the undefined behavior sanitizer with Zephyr. https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/commit/2d64237f44b07b96421afa9eb92c3db5cb02586d

cmake: Enable undefined behavior sanitizer on all targets · zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr@2d64237
GCC and Clang support the undefined behavior sanitizer in any configuration, the only restriction is that if you want to get nice messages printed, then you need the ubsan library routines which ar...

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…

Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
SERVALAN: Mm. I must admit that when I started beaming messages to the Liberator I was worried you might not believe them.
AVON: I didn't.
SERVALAN: What convinced you?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/332 B7B2

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Perfect Matching with Few Link Activations
Hugo Mirault, Peter Robinson, Ming Ming Tan, Xianbin Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06102 https://

Perfect Matching with Few Link Activations
We consider the problem of computing a perfect matching problem in a synchronous distributed network, where the network topology corresponds to a complete bipartite graph. The communication between nodes is restricted to activating communication links, which means that instead of sending messages containing a number of bits, each node can only send a pulse over some of its incident links in each round. In the port numbering model, where nodes are unaware of their neighbor's IDs, we give a rando…

No encryption in #whatsapp group apps
One more reason to switch to #signalapp
#encryption #privacy

(1/2) Here is the link to a webpage featuring the 32 InfoPics my 7th grade students created to advertise our local “World Refugee Day” on Saturday, June 21, 2025, as well as the overall, important work of Refugee Support Services (RSS) of Charlotte, North Carolina:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/c

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - RSS
These are InfoPics 7th graders at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, created in May 2025 to support and amplify the work of Refugee Support Services (RSS) of Charlotte, a local non-profit connected with our office of community engagement. Please use them to share about RSS, amplify

Apple unveils iOS 26, using its new Liquid Glass design language with an updated lockscreen, Camera, Safari, Phone app, Messages, and more (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678305/apple-ios-26-wwdc-2025

Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign
Apple announced iOS 26, the next major version of its iPhone operating system, at WWDC 2025.

Integrated Sensing, Computing and Semantic Communication for Vehicular Networks
Yinchao Yang, Zhaohui Yang, Chongwen Huang, Wei Xu, Zhaoyang Zhang, Dusit Niyato, Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00522

Integrated Sensing, Computing and Semantic Communication for Vehicular Networks
This paper introduces a novel framework for integrated sensing, computing, and semantic communication (ISCSC) within vehicular networks comprising a roadside unit (RSU) and multiple autonomous vehicles. Both the RSU and the vehicles are equipped with local knowledge bases to facilitate semantic communication. The framework incorporates a secure communication design to ensure that messages intended for specific vehicles are protected against interception. In this model, an extended Kalman filter…

I don't need AI to compose messages for me.
I need AI to apply a World of Warcraft style drunk edit to my work messages

Attention Knows Whom to Trust: Attention-based Trust Management for LLM Multi-Agent Systems
Pengfei He, Zhenwei Dai, Xianfeng Tang, Yue Xing, Hui Liu, Jingying Zeng, Qiankun Peng, Shrivats Agrawal, Samarth Varshney, Suhang Wang, Jiliang Tang, Qi He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02546

Attention Knows Whom to Trust: Attention-based Trust Management for LLM Multi-Agent Systems
Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Systems (LLM-MAS) have demonstrated strong capabilities in solving complex tasks but remain vulnerable when agents receive unreliable messages. This vulnerability stems from a fundamental gap: LLM agents treat all incoming messages equally without evaluating their trustworthiness. While some existing studies approach the trustworthiness, they focus on a single type of harmfulness rather than analyze it in a holistic approach from multiple trustworthiness p…

The unredacted Houthi PC small group Signal chat published in full today since Trump admin repeated its assertion there was no classified information. You be the judge. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/sign…

Does anyone have an IEEE DataPort subscription through your work or institution and would be open to sharing some files?
I'd love to get https://ieee-dataport.org/documents/cloud-telescope-internet-background-radiation-may-2023…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19704 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSI_…

Can Invisible Psychological Traits Organize Visible Network Structure? A Complex Network Analysis of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator-Based Interaction Patterns in Anonymous Social Networks
Exploration of the impact of personality traits on social interactions within anonymous online communities poses a challenge at the interface of networked social sciences and psychology. We analyze whether Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality types impact the dynamics of interactions on an anonymous chat system with over 288,000 messages from 6,076 users. Using a data set including 940 users voluntarily providing MBTI typing and gender, we create a weighted undirected network and appl…

Amazon seems to have some technical challenges this morning. Got several contradicting messages from them. They even acknowledge they have a problem on the phone. The best request was to screenshot the OTP message and send it to them. Of course I would never do that and that they should never ask me to do something like that. But still ...
Hugs go out to the fellow engineers who have to troubleshoot such a thing.

Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
SERVALAN: Mm. I must admit that when I started beaming messages to the Liberator I was worried you might not believe them.
AVON: I didn't.
SERVALAN: What convinced you?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/332 B7B2

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

I... got scammed.
By https://firstpressgames.com .
I wanted to buy a birthday present, and I didn't expect this company to be so problematic.
One month later without getting anything from them, nor responses to my messages... and it crosses my mind that I should have checked online reviews for that e-commerce business before buying anything... and there you go: 1.4 stars out of 5 (no one gave more than 2 stars).
The few reviews that gave 2 stars are something like this, YEARS of delay: https://gamepad.club/@vny/110691909210001220
All of the public reviews use the word scam in one or another language, no exceptions.
Then I checked their social accounts, and... of course, they blocked comments everywhere, to avoid the possibility of angry people popping up and pointing to their shady behavior.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21199 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

Multi-Event Triggers for Serverless Computing
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is an event-driven serverless cloud computing model in which small, stateless functions are invoked in response to events, such as HTTP requests, new database entries, or messages. Current FaaS platform assume that each function invocation corresponds to a single event. However, from an application perspective, it is desirable to invoke functions in response to a collection of events of different types or only with every n\textsuperscript{th} event. To implement thi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02982 has been replaced.
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Heavy-traffic Optimality of Skip-the-Longest-Queues in Heterogeneous Service Systems
We consider a discrete-time parallel service system consisting of $n$ heterogeneous single server queues with infinite capacity. Jobs arrive to the system as an i.i.d. process with rate proportional to $n$, and must be immediately dispatched in the time slot that they arrive. The dispatcher is assumed to be able to exchange messages with the servers to obtain their queue lengths and make dispatching decisions, introducing an undesirable communication overhead. In this setting, we propose a ultr…

A Smart-Contract to Resolve Multiple Equilibrium in Intermediated Trade
Daniel Aronoff, Robert M. Townsend
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22940 https://…

A Smart-Contract to Resolve Multiple Equilibrium in Intermediated Trade
We present a model of a market that is intermediated by broker-dealers where there is multiple equilibrium. We then design a smart-contract that receives messages and algorithmically sends trading instructions. The smart-contract resolves the multiple equilibrium by implementing broker-dealer joint profit maximization as a Nash equilibrium. This outcome relies upon several factors: Agent commitments to follow the smart contract protocol; selective privacy of information; a structured timing of …

#PeteHegseth

Microsoft is pushing for bulk email senders to use addresses that can be replied to. (ie not "no-reply@")

Strengthening Email Ecosystem: Outlook’s New Requirements for High‐Volume Senders | Microsoft Community Hub
April 29th Update - Changes have been made to the action take on messages that do not meet requirements, please see details below. Introduction In an era...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23847 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Seven Security Challenges That Must be Solved in Cross-domain Multi-agent LLM Systems
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving into autonomous agents that cooperate across organizational boundaries, enabling joint disaster response, supply-chain optimization, and other tasks that demand decentralized expertise without surrendering data ownership. Yet, cross-domain collaboration shatters the unified trust assumptions behind current alignment and containment techniques. An agent benign in isolation may, when receiving messages from an untrusted peer, leak secrets or viola…

X aims to roll out an "XChat" messaging feature "with encryption, vanishing messages and the ability to send any kind of file" to all users this week (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/elon

Elon Musk says XChat is rolling out to all, but questions remain about its alleged security | TechCrunch
Elon Musk on Sunday announced that a new version of X's Direct Messaging (DM) feature, XChat, was rolling out with support for features like vanishing

I finally solved a mistery which was bothering me for months. #Thunderbird was flagging most but not all messages in one of my mailboxes as important. I could not find any setting or rule in Thunderbird responsible for this behavior. Finally I found the root cause which was the #Nextcloud Webmail App which I have configured but rarely use. 🙈
https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1345280

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…

Seven Security Challenges That Must be Solved in Cross-domain Multi-agent LLM Systems
Ronny Ko, Jiseong Jeong, Shuyuan Zheng, Chuan Xiao, Taewan Kim, Makoto Onizuka, Wonyong Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23847

Seven Security Challenges That Must be Solved in Cross-domain Multi-agent LLM Systems
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving into autonomous agents that cooperate across organizational boundaries, enabling joint disaster response, supply-chain optimization, and other tasks that demand decentralized expertise without surrendering data ownership. Yet, cross-domain collaboration shatters the unified trust assumptions behind current alignment and containment techniques. An agent benign in isolation may, when receiving messages from an untrusted peer, leak secrets or viola…