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Aligned, Multiple-transient Events in the First #PalomarSkySurvey / Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae0afe / https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21620-3 -> Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations: https://www.su.se/english/news/unexpected-patterns-in-historical-astronomical-observations-1.855042 -> summary of why these papers are doubtful: https://x.com/MickWest/status/1980690132543107204 - links to deep discussions.

Testing confirmed the patient has H5N5, a strain of bird flu that has previously been reported in animals but never before in humans
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/suspected-human-bird-flu-case-1st-us-9/story?id=127519769

1st US human bird flu case in 9 months confirmed with strain only seen in animals before
The patient is an older adult with underlying health conditions.

Many optimization problems assume exact inputs and total orders.
But what if uncertainty affects f — or if it returns a tuple, or a set instead of a single value?
Our new preprint explores how to handle such cases systematically:
Optimization under uncertainty — understanding orders and testing programs with specifications
👥 Botta, Jansson & Richter
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Is Geno Smith Already Testing the Raiders’ Front Office Patience? https://raiderramble.com/2025/09/30/is-geno-smith-already-testing-the-raiders-front-office-patience/

Before you head out for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Chinese state hackers used Anthropic to automate cyber intrusions,
--UK MoD knew of Excel's security risks before Afghan data leak,
--NHS investigates Clop's attack claims,
--ASUS patches DSL router critical flaws,
--DoorDash reveals October security incident,
--US feds warn of Akira's expanded encryption …

Chinese state hackers used Anthropic to automate cyber intrusions
UK MoD knew of Excel's security risks before Afghan data leak, NHS investigates Clop's attack claims, ASUS patches DSL router critical flaws, DoorDash reveals October security incident, US feds warn of Akira's expanded encryption capabilities, Kraken is testing how fast it can encrypt, much more

git #bisect-ing a kernel on real hardware sucks. I can at least be grateful I'm not testing on my main machine. The #firmware wait times are huge and the grub window so tiny you can't leave it to it. I need to apply patches at each stage that touch pgtable so almost everything needs to be re…

The Good, the Bad, and the Sampled: a No-Regret Approach to Safe Online Classification
Tavor Z. Baharav, Spyros Dragazis, Aldo Pacchiano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01020 https:/…

The Good, the Bad, and the Sampled: a No-Regret Approach to Safe Online Classification
We study the problem of sequentially testing individuals for a binary disease outcome whose true risk is governed by an unknown logistic model. At each round, a patient arrives with feature vector $x_t$, and the decision maker may either pay to administer a (noiseless) diagnostic test--revealing the true label--or skip testing and predict the patient's disease status based on their feature vector and prior history. Our goal is to minimize the total number of costly tests required while guarante…

Weekend Reads
* EDNS client subnet in practice
https://farrokhi.net/posts/2025/10/edns-client-subnet-in-practice-evaluating-public-resolver-behaviors/
* BGP-based DDoS scrubbing services survey

git #bisect-ing a kernel on real hardware sucks. I can at least be grateful I'm not testing on my main machine. The #firmware wait times are huge and the grub window so tiny you can't leave it to it. I need to apply patches at each stage that touch pgtable so almost everything needs to be re…