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Instead of relying entirely on donations and grants as before,
Mastodon announced on Friday that it will now offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations that want to join the open social web.
That network, also called the fediverse, offers a way for individuals and organizations to set up their own servers that interconnect with others that run the same protocol, ActivityPub.
ActivityPub powers a number of different software applications, includin…

Mastodon - Decentralized social media
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

Raiders lose TE Michael Mayer to concussion https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/09/21/raiders-te-michael-mayer-injury-concussion-protocol-commanders/86281224007/…

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

DAG it off: Latency Prefers No Common Coins
Amores-Sesar Ignacio, Gr{\o}ndal Viktor, Holmg{\aa}rd Adam, Ottendal Mads
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14716 https://

DAG it off: Latency Prefers No Common Coins
We introduce Black Marlin, the first Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)-based Byzantine atomic broadcast protocol in a partially synchronous setting that successfully forgoes the reliable broadcast and common coin primitives. Black Marlin achieves the optimal latency of 3 rounds of communication (4.25 with Byzantine faults) while maintaining optimal communication and amortized communication complexities. We present a formal security analysis of the protocol, accompanied by empirical evidence that Bla…

Re-FRAME the Meeting Summarization SCOPE: Fact-Based Summarization and Personalization via Questions
Frederic Kirstein, Sonu Kumar, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15901

Re-FRAME the Meeting Summarization SCOPE: Fact-Based Summarization and Personalization via Questions
Meeting summarization with large language models (LLMs) remains error-prone, often producing outputs with hallucinations, omissions, and irrelevancies. We present FRAME, a modular pipeline that reframes summarization as a semantic enrichment task. FRAME extracts and scores salient facts, organizes them thematically, and uses these to enrich an outline into an abstractive summary. To personalize summaries, we introduce SCOPE, a reason-out-loud protocol that has the model build a reasoning trace …

Help or Hurdle? Rethinking Model Context Protocol-Augmented Large Language Models
Wei Song, Haonan Zhong, Ziqi Ding, Jingling Xue, Yuekang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12566 ht…

Help or Hurdle? Rethinking Model Context Protocol-Augmented Large Language Models
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables large language models (LLMs) to access external resources on demand. While commonly assumed to enhance performance, how LLMs actually leverage this capability remains poorly understood. We introduce MCPGAUGE, the first comprehensive evaluation framework for probing LLM-MCP interactions along four key dimensions: proactivity (self-initiated tool use), compliance (adherence to tool-use instructions), effectiveness (task performance post-integration), and o…

Modified security analysis of device-independent quantum key distribution with random key basis
Sawan Bhattacharyya, Turbasu Chatterjee, Pankaj Agrawal, Prasenjit Deb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12938

Modified security analysis of device-independent quantum key distribution with random key basis
Security analysis is a critical part in any cryptographic protocol, may it be classical or quantum. Without security analysis, one cannot ensure the secrecy of the distributed keys. To perform a conclusive security analysis, it is very often necessary to frame the problem as an optimization problem. However, solving such optimization problems is quite challenging. In this article, we focus on the security analysis of device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD) with random key basis prot…

Threat Modeling for Enhancing Security of IoT Audio Classification Devices under a Secure Protocols Framework
Sergio Benlloch-Lopez, Miquel Viel-Vazquez, Javier Naranjo-Alcazar, Jordi Grau-Haro, Pedro Zuccarello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14657

Threat Modeling for Enhancing Security of IoT Audio Classification Devices under a Secure Protocols Framework
The rapid proliferation of IoT nodes equipped with microphones and capable of performing on-device audio classification exposes highly sensitive data while operating under tight resource constraints. To protect against this, we present a defence-in-depth architecture comprising a security protocol that treats the edge device, cellular network and cloud backend as three separate trust domains, linked by TPM-based remote attestation and mutually authenticated TLS 1.3. A STRIDE-driven threat model…

Harnessing higher-dimensional fluctuations in an information engine
Antonio Patr\'on Castro, John Bechhoefer, David A. Sivak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15503

Harnessing higher-dimensional fluctuations in an information engine
We study the optimal performance of an information engine consisting of an overdamped Brownian bead confined in a controllable, $d$-dimensional harmonic trap and additionally subjected to gravity. The trap's center is updated dynamically via a feedback protocol designed such that no external work is done by the trap on the bead, while maximizing the extraction of gravitational potential energy and achieving directed motion. We show that performance strikingly improves when thermal fluctuations …

HierAdaptMR: Cross-Center Cardiac MRI Reconstruction with Hierarchical Feature Adapters
Ruru Xu, Ilkay Oksuz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13026 https://arxiv…

HierAdaptMR: Cross-Center Cardiac MRI Reconstruction with Hierarchical Feature Adapters
Deep learning-based cardiac MRI reconstruction faces significant domain shift challenges when deployed across multiple clinical centers with heterogeneous scanner configurations and imaging protocols. We propose HierAdaptMR, a hierarchical feature adaptation framework that addresses multi-level domain variations through parameter-efficient adapters. Our method employs Protocol-Level Adapters for sequence-specific characteristics and Center-Level Adapters for scanner-dependent variations, built …

Code Less to Code More: Streamlining Language Server Protocol and Type System Development for Language Families
Federico Bruzzone, Walter Cazzola, Luca Favalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15150

Code Less to Code More: Streamlining Language Server Protocol and Type System Development for Language Families
Developing editing support for $L$ languages in $E$ editors is complex and time-consuming. Some languages do not provide dedicated editors, while others offer a single native editor. The $\textit{language server protocol}$ (LSP) reduces the language-editor combinations $L \times E$ to $L + E$, where a single language server communicates with editors via LSP plugins. However, overlapping implementations of linguistic components remain an issue. Existing language workbenches struggle with modular…

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…

Carry the Tail in Consensus Protocols
Suyash Gupta, Dakai Kang, Dahlia Malkhi, Mohammad Sadoghi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12173 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

Carry the Tail in Consensus Protocols
We present Carry-the-Tail, the first deterministic atomic broadcast protocol in partial synchrony that, after GST, guarantees a constant fraction of commits by non-faulty leaders against tail-forking attacks, and maintains optimal, worst-case quadratic communication under a cascade of faulty leaders. The solution also guarantees linear amortized communication, i.e., the steady-state is linear. Prior atomic broadcast solutions achieve quadratic word communication complexity in the worst case. …

„“I think [Bluesky CEO] Jay [Graber] is great. I think the team is great,” Dorsey told Henshaw-Plath, “but the structure is what I disagree with…I want to push the energy in a different direction, which is more like Bitcoin, which is completely open and not owned by anyone from a protocol layer.“
Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media | TechCrunch

SDAP-based QoS Flow Multiplexing Support in Simu5G for 5G NR Simulation
Mohamed Seliem, Utz Roedig, Cormac Sreenan, Dirk Pesch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12785 https://

SDAP-based QoS Flow Multiplexing Support in Simu5G for 5G NR Simulation
The Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP) plays a central role in 5G New Radio (NR), acting as a bridge between the core and radio networks, by enabling QoS Flow multiplexing over shared Data Radio Bearers (DRBs). However, most 5G simulation frameworks, including the popular OMNet++-based Simu5G, lack SDAP support, limiting their ability to model realistic QoS behavior. This paper presents a modular, standardscompliant SDAP extension for Simu5G. The implementation includes core elements such …

Quantum State Preparation by Improved MPS Method
Chao Wang, Pengrui Zhou, Xi-Ning Zhuang, Ziwei Cui, Menghan Dou, Zhao-Yun Chen, Guo-Ping Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12821 ht…

Quantum State Preparation by Improved MPS Method
Efficient encoding of classical information plays a fundamental role in numerous practical quantum algorithms. However, the preparation of an arbitrary amplitude-encoded state has been proven to be time-consuming, and its deployment on current noisy devices can be challenging. In this work, we propose an improved Matrix Product State(MPS) method preparation protocol with an exponential reduction on the circuit depth, as well as topological adaptability. By refined utilization of the disentangli…

I’ll be attending and speaking at Fedicon, as well as being at the #CoSocialCa members meetup right after.
My working title is: Beyond Microblogging: AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps
https://cosocial.c…

Controlling quantum scars and engineering subharmonic responses with a two frequency drive
Pinaki Dutta, Kamal L Panigrahi, Vishwanath Shukla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12809 ht…

Controlling quantum scars and engineering subharmonic responses with a two frequency drive
We demonstrate that a continuous two frequency drive is a versatile and robust protocol to control the lifetime of quantum many body scars and to engineer non-equilibrium phases of driven quantum matter. By modulating the frequency ratio $c$ (any rational number), we systematically explore prethermal features across a broad frequency range. For small integer values of $c$, we observe ergodicity breaking even at moderately low frequencies, signaling long-lived scarred dynamics. By continuously i…

Raiders, Commanders Thursday Week 3 injury report: JPJ clears concussion protocol https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/09/18/raiders-commanders-thursday-week-3-injury-report/86229700007/

Entanglement harvesting and curvature of entanglement: A modular operator approach
Rupak Chatterjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12497 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Entanglement harvesting and curvature of entanglement: A modular operator approach
An operator-algebraic framework based on Tomita-Takesaki modular theory is used to study aspects of quantum entanglement via the application of the modular conjugation operator $J$. The entanglement structure of quantum fields is studied through the protocol of entanglement harvesting whereby by quantum correlations evolve through the time evolution of qubit detectors coupled to a Bosonic field. Modular conjugation operators are constructed for Unruh-Dewitt type qubits interacting with a scalar…

Lions' Norris in concussion protocol, 'doing well' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45943846/coach-lions-morice-norris-concussion-protocol-doing-well

BELT: Block Encoding of Linear Transformation on Density Matrices
Fuchuan Wei, Rundi Lu, Yuguo Shao, Junfeng Li, Jin-Peng Liu, Zhengwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12858 http…

BELT: Block Encoding of Linear Transformation on Density Matrices
Linear maps that are not completely positive play a crucial role in the study of quantum information, yet their non-completely positive nature renders them challenging to realize physically. The core difficulty lies in the fact that when acting such a map $\mathcal{N}$ on a state $ρ$, $\mathcal{N}(ρ)$ may not correspond to a valid density matrix, making it difficult to prepare directly in a physical system. We introduce Block Encoding of Linear Transformation (BELT), a systematic protocol tha…

Cross-Distribution Diffusion Priors-Driven Iterative Reconstruction for Sparse-View CT
Haodong Li, Shuo Han, Haiyang Mao, Yu Shi, Changsheng Fang, Jianjia Zhang, Weiwen Wu, Hengyong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13576

Cross-Distribution Diffusion Priors-Driven Iterative Reconstruction for Sparse-View CT
Sparse-View CT (SVCT) reconstruction enhances temporal resolution and reduces radiation dose, yet its clinical use is hindered by artifacts due to view reduction and domain shifts from scanner, protocol, or anatomical variations, leading to performance degradation in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. In this work, we propose a Cross-Distribution Diffusion Priors-Driven Iterative Reconstruction (CDPIR) framework to tackle the OOD problem in SVCT. CDPIR integrates cross-distribution diffusion …

Imaging of electrical signals in a quantum SiC microscope
A. Suhana, T. A. U. Svetikova, C. Schneider, M. Helm, A. N. Anisimov, G. V. Astakhov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14888 h…

Imaging of electrical signals in a quantum SiC microscope
We report the experimental realization of a quantum silicon carbide microscope (QSiCM) and demonstrate its functionality by imaging magnetic fields generated by electrical currents. We employ a dual-frequency sensing protocol to enhance the readout contrast and suppress noise arising from strain and temperature fluctuations. This approach enables spatial imaging of current-induced magnetic fields with a field of view of $50 \times 50 $ virtual pixels, temporal resolution of $50\,\mathrm{ms}$, s…

Protocol-Aware Firmware Rehosting for Effective Fuzzing of Embedded Network Stacks
Moritz Bley, Tobias Scharnowski, Simon W\"orner, Moritz Schloegel, Thorsten Holz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13740

Protocol-Aware Firmware Rehosting for Effective Fuzzing of Embedded Network Stacks
One of the biggest attack surfaces of embedded systems is their network interfaces, which enable communication with other devices. Unlike their general-purpose counterparts, embedded systems are designed for specialized use cases, resulting in unique and diverse communication stacks. Unfortunately, current approaches for evaluating the security of these embedded network stacks require manual effort or access to hardware, and they generally focus only on small parts of the embedded system. A pro…

From Control to Opinion Dynamics: Signum Consensus Protocol on Arbitrary Weighted Directed Graphs
Mingxi Li, Hanzhou Wang, Dongyu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06080 https://

From Control to Opinion Dynamics: Signum Consensus Protocol on Arbitrary Weighted Directed Graphs
We study the signum consensus protocol in continuous-time systems over arbitrary weighted directed graphs with bounded disturbances. The right-hand side of the differential equation is discontinuous on a codimension-$n$ manifold ($n > 1$). On such a manifold, the Filippov sliding vector is not uniquely determined. This results in non-unique solutions and makes the analysis of the system challenging. We define the Polarization Index as the supremum of the growth rate of the difference between th…

Integrated Communication and Remote Sensing in LEO Satellite Systems: Protocol, Architecture and Prototype
Yichao Xu, Xiaoming Chen, Ming Ying, Zhaoyang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10317

Integrated Communication and Remote Sensing in LEO Satellite Systems: Protocol, Architecture and Prototype
In this paper, we explore the integration of communication and synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-based remote sensing in low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems to provide real-time SAR imaging and information transmission. Considering the high-mobility characteristics of satellite channels and limited processing capabilities of satellite payloads, we propose an integrated communication and remote sensing architecture based on an orthogonal delay-Doppler division multiplexing (ODDM) signal wavefor…

Internet Protocol Journal, August 2025, Volume 28, Issue 2.
https://ipj.dreamhosters.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/282-ipj.pdf

Partial decidability protocol for the Wang tiling problem from statistical mechanics and chaotic mapping
Fabrizio Canfora, Marco Cedeno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13268

Partial decidability protocol for the Wang tiling problem from statistical mechanics and chaotic mapping
We introduce a partial decidability protocol for the Wang tiling problem (which is the prototype of undecidable problems in combinatorics and statistical physics) by constructing a suitable mapping from tilings of finite squares of different sizes. Such mapping depends on the initial family of Wang tiles (the alphabet) with which one would like to tile the plane. This allows to define effective entropy and temperature associated to the alphabet (together with the corresponding partition functio…

Oh #ShadowServer, now you're just being silly...
#InfoSec #Scanners

Dual-species atomic absorption image reconstruction using deep neural networks
Kyuhwan Lee, Yong-il Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12120 https://arxiv.org…

Dual-species atomic absorption image reconstruction using deep neural networks
Optical imaging plays an instrumental role in understanding the behavior of trapped neutral atoms. In this work, we describe a deep learning-based online image completion protocol that reduces interference fringes in optical absorption signals for a dual-species atomic system. Regardless of the distinct nature of the task for two different atomic species, 6Li and 23Na, the method displays a robust solution for suppressing fringes. To incorporate this into daily operations, a transfer learning s…

Simplified scheme for continuous-variable entanglement distillation: multicopy distillation of Gaussian entanglement without heralding Gaussian measurements
Jarom\'ir Fiur\'a\v{s}ek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15065

Simplified scheme for continuous-variable entanglement distillation: multicopy distillation of Gaussian entanglement without heralding Gaussian measurements
Entanglement of continuous-variable Gaussian states can be distilled by combination of de-Gaussifying operation such as single-photon subtraction and iterative heralded Gaussification. Here we present and analyze a simplified equivalent version of such entanglement distillation protocol, where the Gaussian measurements utilized in heralded Gaussification are eliminated and are absorbed into the preparation of suitable input Gaussian states of the simplified protocol. The simplified scheme conta…

Dan Campbell says Morice Norris is in concussion protocol after scary injury https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6546644/2025/08/11/lions-morice-norris-injury-update-concussion-protocol/

Stuff whose job it is to log data, especially health-related data, should have a documented wire protocol. You should not be able to sell something with a 20 year old Windows installer.

Agentic JWT: A Secure Delegation Protocol for Autonomous AI Agents
Abhishek Goswami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13597 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13597

Agentic JWT: A Secure Delegation Protocol for Autonomous AI Agents
Autonomous LLM agents can issue thousands of API calls per hour without human oversight. OAuth 2.0 assumes deterministic clients, but in agentic settings stochastic reasoning, prompt injection, or multi-agent orchestration can silently expand privileges. We introduce Agentic JWT (A-JWT), a dual-faceted intent token that binds each agent's action to verifiable user intent and, optionally, to a specific workflow step. A-JWT carries an agent's identity as a one-way checksum hash derived from its…

Time-Fair Benchmarking for Metaheuristics: A Restart-Fair Protocol for Fixed-Time Comparisons
Junbo Jacob Lian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08986 https://arx…

Time-Fair Benchmarking for Metaheuristics: A Restart-Fair Protocol for Fixed-Time Comparisons
Numerous purportedly improved metaheuristics claim superior performance based on equivalent function evaluations (FEs), yet often conceal additional computational burdens in more intensive iterations, preprocessing stages, or hyperparameter tuning. This paper posits that wall-clock time, rather than solely FEs, should serve as the principal budgetary constraint for equitable comparisons. We formalize a fixed-time, restart-fair benchmarking protocol wherein each algorithm is allotted an identica…

Nagare Media Ingest: A System for Multimedia Ingest Workflows
Matthias Neugebauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11972 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11972

Nagare Media Ingest: A System for Multimedia Ingest Workflows
Ingesting multimedia data is usually the first step of multimedia workflows. For this purpose, various streaming protocols have been proposed for live and file-based content. For instance, SRT, RIST, DASH-IF Live Media Ingest Protocol and MOQT have been introduced in recent years. At the same time, the number of use cases has only proliferated by the move to cloud- and edge-computing environments. Multimedia systems now have to handle this complexity in order to stay relevant for today's workfl…

Optimized Synthesis and Device Integration of Long 17-Atom-Wide Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons
Jeong Ha Hwang, Nicol\`o Bassi, Mayada Fadel, Oliver Braun, Tim Dumslaff, Carlo Pignedoli, Michael Stiefel, Roman Furrer, Hironobu Hayashi, Hiroko Yamada, Akimitsu Narita, Klaus M\"ullen, Michel Calame, Mickael L. Perrin, Roman Fasel, Pascal Ruffieux, Vincent Meunier, Gabriela Borin Barin

Optimized Synthesis and Device Integration of Long 17-Atom-Wide Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons
Seventeen-carbon-atom-wide armchair graphene nanoribbons (17-AGNRs) are promising candidates for high-performance electronic devices due to their narrow electronic bandgap. Atomic precision in edge structure and width control is achieved through a bottom-up on-surface synthesis (OSS) approach from tailored molecular precursors in ultra-high vacuum (UHV). This synthetic protocol must be optimized to meet the structural requirements for device integration, with ribbon length being the most critic…

The superconducting grid-states qubit
Long B. Nguyen, Hyunseong Kim, Dat T. Le, Thomas Ersevim, Sai P. Chitta, Trevor Chistolini, Christian J\"unger, W. Clarke Smith, T. M. Stace, Jens Koch, David I. Santiago, Irfan Siddiqi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14656

The superconducting grid-states qubit
Decoherence errors arising from noisy environments remain a central obstacle to progress in quantum computation and information processing. Quantum error correction (QEC) based on the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) protocol offers a powerful strategy to overcome this challenge, with successful demonstrations in trapped ions, superconducting circuits, and photonics. Beyond active QEC, a compelling alternative is to engineer Hamiltonians that intrinsically enforce stabilizers, offering passive p…

Systematic Analysis of MCP Security
Yongjian Guo, Puzhuo Liu, Wanlun Ma, Zehang Deng, Xiaogang Zhu, Peng Di, Xi Xiao, Sheng Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12538 https://

Systematic Analysis of MCP Security
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a universal standard that enables AI agents to seamlessly connect with external tools, significantly enhancing their functionality. However, while MCP brings notable benefits, it also introduces significant vulnerabilities, such as Tool Poisoning Attacks (TPA), where hidden malicious instructions exploit the sycophancy of large language models (LLMs) to manipulate agent behavior. Despite these risks, current academic research on MCP security remai…

Expediting data extraction using a large language model (LLM) and scoping review protocol: a methodological study within a complex scoping review
James Stewart-Evans, Emma Wilson, Tessa Langley, Andrew Prayle, Angela Hands, Karen Exley, Jo Leonardi-Bee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06623

Expediting data extraction using a large language model (LLM) and scoping review protocol: a methodological study within a complex scoping review
The data extraction stages of reviews are resource-intensive, and researchers may seek to expediate data extraction using online (large language models) LLMs and review protocols. Claude 3.5 Sonnet was used to trial two approaches that used a review protocol to prompt data extraction from 10 evidence sources included in a case study scoping review. A protocol-based approach was also used to review extracted data. Limited performance evaluation was undertaken which found high accuracy for the tw…

FROGENT: An End-to-End Full-process Drug Design Agent
Qihua Pan, Dong Xu, Jenna Xinyi Yao, Lijia Ma, Zexuan Zhu, Junkai Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10760 https://

FROGENT: An End-to-End Full-process Drug Design Agent
Powerful AI tools for drug discovery reside in isolated web apps, desktop programs, and code libraries. Such fragmentation forces scientists to manage incompatible interfaces and specialized scripts, which can be a cumbersome and repetitive process. To address this issue, a Full-pROcess druG dEsign ageNT, named FROGENT, has been proposed. Specifically, FROGENT utilizes a Large Language Model and the Model Context Protocol to integrate multiple dynamic biochemical databases, extensible tool libr…

Harvesting Contextuality from the Vacuum
Philip A. LeMaitre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11773 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11773

Harvesting Contextuality from the Vacuum
Quantum contextuality is the notion that certain measurement scenarios do not admit a global description of their statistics and has been implicated as the source of quantum advantage in a number of quantum information protocols. It has been shown that contextuality generalizes the concepts of non-local entanglement and magic, and is an equivalent notion of non-classicality to Wigner negativity. In this paper, the protocol of contextuality harvesting is introduced and it is shown that Unruh-DeW…

Minimal velocity of the travelling wave solutions in two coupled FKPP equations with the global conservation law
O. I. Baburin, I. S. Burmistrov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14833

Minimal velocity of the travelling wave solutions in two coupled FKPP equations with the global conservation law
We investigate the system of two coupled one-dimensional Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (FKPP) equations which possess the global conservation law. Such system of equations has been recently derived for the quasiparticle densities in the two-band fermionic model with the particle-number conserving dissipative protocol. As standard FKPP equation the studied system of equations has one unstable and one stable homogeneous solution with travelling wave switching between them. We demonstrate t…

"Think First, Verify Always": Training Humans to Face AI Risks
Yuksel Aydin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03714 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03714

"Think First, Verify Always": Training Humans to Face AI Risks
Artificial intelligence enables unprecedented attacks on human cognition, yet cybersecurity remains predominantly device-centric. This paper introduces the "Think First, Verify Always" (TFVA) protocol, which repositions humans as 'Firewall Zero', the first line of defense against AI-enabled threats. The protocol is grounded in five operational principles: Awareness, Integrity, Judgment, Ethical Responsibility, and Transparency (AIJET). A randomized controlled trial (n=151) demonstrated that a m…

Asking for no reason whatsoever: Lots of oscilloscopes have protocol decodes for various flavors of Ethernet.
Have you ever encountered one, from any manufacturer, that is able to decode 100mbit ethernet in real time without dropping packets?

Our company sells products to test internet protocol implementations under unusual, but possible, situations. (Many fail.)
We sell worldwide, so we have to attach various code numbers to identify the type of product to the import/export (tariff/duty) government agents who make sure that things coming into their countries pay the proper fees.
Well, that list of code numbers appears to have been created in the 1970s and not updated since. So if you are selling a VHS VCR or a Fax m…

Sampled-Based Guided Quantum Walk: Non-variational quantum algorithm for combinatorial optimization
Ugo Nzongani, Dylan Laplace Mermoud, Giuseppe Di Molfetta, Andrea Simonetto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15138

Sampled-Based Guided Quantum Walk: Non-variational quantum algorithm for combinatorial optimization
We introduce SamBa-GQW, a novel quantum algorithm for solving binary combinatorial optimization problems of arbitrary degree with no use of any classical optimizer. The algorithm is based on a continuous-time quantum walk on the solution space represented as a graph. The walker explores the solution space to find its way to vertices that minimize the cost function of the optimization problem. The key novelty of our algorithm is an offline classical sampling protocol that gives information about…

Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 with an observability tool called Command Center and MCP support, and says 8,000 customers have signed up to deploy Agentforce (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i

Salesforce launches Agentforce 3, Command Center for visibility
Salesforce launched Agentforce 3, which features Agentforce Command Center, support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), and updated Atlas architecture to speed up reasoning and performance. The rollout maintains Salesforce's Agentforce cadence, which includes updates every few months as the company learns from enterprise use cases. In addition, Salesforce has added more than 30 partners to AgentExchange including AWS, Box, Cisco, Google Cloud, IBM and payments players such as PayPal and Stripe.

Fortifying the Agentic Web: A Unified Zero-Trust Architecture Against Logic-layer Threats
Ken Huang, Yasir Mehmood, Hammad Atta, Jerry Huang, Muhammad Zeeshan Baig, Sree Bhargavi Balija
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12259

Fortifying the Agentic Web: A Unified Zero-Trust Architecture Against Logic-layer Threats
This paper presents a Unified Security Architecture that fortifies the Agentic Web through a Zero-Trust IAM framework. This architecture is built on a foundation of rich, verifiable agent identities using Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs), with discovery managed by a protocol-agnostic Agent Name Service (ANS). Security is operationalized through a multi-layered Trust Fabric which introduces significant innovations, including Trust-Adaptive Runtime Environments (T…

Decentralized Optimization via RC-ALADIN with Efficient Quantized Communication
Xu Du, Karl H. Johansson, Apostolos I. Rikos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06197 https://

Decentralized Optimization via RC-ALADIN with Efficient Quantized Communication
In this paper, we investigate the problem of decentralized consensus optimization over directed graphs with limited communication bandwidth. We introduce a novel decentralized optimization algorithm that combines the Reduced Consensus Augmented Lagrangian Alternating Direction Inexact Newton (RC-ALADIN) method with a finite time quantized coordination protocol, enabling quantized information exchange among nodes. Assuming the nodes' local objective functions are $μ$-strongly convex and simply …

Ordinal Folding Index: A Computable Metric for Self-Referential Semantics
Faruk Alpay, Hamdi Al Alakkad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00151 https://arxiv.org/…

Ordinal Folding Index: A Computable Metric for Self-Referential Semantics
The Ordinal Folding Index (OFI) is a new, fully computable yard-stick that measures how many rounds of self-reference a statement, protocol or position must unfold before its truth or outcome stabilises. By turning this abstract 'fold-back' depth into a single ordinal number, OFI forges a direct link between areas that are usually studied in isolation: the closure stages of fixed-point logics, the time-to-win values of infinite parity games, and the ordinal progressions that calibrate the stren…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.ET. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.ET/new
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- TRMAC: A Time-Reversal-based MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks within Computing Packages
Ama Bandara, Abhijit Das, Fatima Rodriguez-Galan, Eduard Alarcon, Sergi Abadal

Learning to Restore Heisenberg Limit in Noisy Quantum Sensing via Quantum Digital Twin
Hang Xu, Tailong Xiao, Jingzheng Huang, Jianping Fan, Guihua Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11198

Learning to Restore Heisenberg Limit in Noisy Quantum Sensing via Quantum Digital Twin
Quantum sensors leverage nonclassical resources to achieve sensing precision at the Heisenberg limit, surpassing the standard quantum limit attainable through classical strategies. However, a critical issue is that the environmental noise induces rapid decoherence, fundamentally limiting the realizability of the Heisenberg limit. In this Letter, we propose a quantum digital twin protocol to overcome this issue. The protocol first establishes observable-constrained state reconstruction to infer …

Institutional Noise, Strategic Deviation, and Intertemporal Collapse: A Formal Model of Miner Behaviour under Protocol Uncertainty
Craig Steven Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20992

Institutional Noise, Strategic Deviation, and Intertemporal Collapse: A Formal Model of Miner Behaviour under Protocol Uncertainty
This paper develops a formal game-theoretic model to examine how protocol mutability disrupts cooperative mining behaviour in blockchain systems. Using a repeated game framework with stochastic rule shocks, we show that even minor uncertainty in institutional rules increases time preference and induces strategic deviation. Fixed-rule environments support long-term investment and stable equilibrium strategies; in contrast, mutable protocols lead to short-termism, higher discounting, and collapse…

Quantifying Conversation Drift in MCP via Latent Polytope
Haoran Shi, Hongwei Yao, Shuo Shao, Shaopeng Jiao, Ziqi Peng, Zhan Qin, Cong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06418 http…

Quantifying Conversation Drift in MCP via Latent Polytope
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enhances large language models (LLMs) by integrating external tools, enabling dynamic aggregation of real-time data to improve task execution. However, its non-isolated execution context introduces critical security and privacy risks. In particular, adversarially crafted content can induce tool poisoning or indirect prompt injection, leading to conversation hijacking, misinformation propagation, or data exfiltration. Existing defenses, such as rule-based filters…

Tunable Majorana corner states driven by superconducting phase bias in a vertical Josephson junction
Cheng-Ming Miao, Yu-Hao Wan, Ying-Tao Zhang, Qing-Feng Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03949

Tunable Majorana corner states driven by superconducting phase bias in a vertical Josephson junction
The realization and manipulation of Majorana zero modes is a key step in achieving topological quantum computation. In this paper, we demonstrate the existence of Majorana corner states in a superconductor-insulators-superconductor vertical Josephson junction. The position of these Majorana corner states can be precisely and easily controlled by the superconducting phase bias, which be confirmed through both numerical and edge state theoretical analysis. In addition, we propose a protocol for a…

XARP Tools: An Extended Reality Platform for Humans and AI Agents
Arthur Caetano, Misha Sra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04108 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.041…

XARP Tools: An Extended Reality Platform for Humans and AI Agents
This technical report presents XARP Tools, an extended reality (XR) framework designed for human and AI developers alike. XARP comprises a server-side Python library and platform-specific XR clients. The library offers high-level APIs and communicates with clients via a JSON-based protocol over WebSockets. XR clients encapsulate device and runtime specifics, providing responsive, low-latency user interaction. XARP can be utilized in three ways: (i) as a library that abstracts XR development for…

IoTFuzzSentry: A Protocol Guided Mutation Based Fuzzer for Automatic Vulnerability Testing in Commercial IoT Devices
Priyanka Rushikesh Chaudhary, Rajib Ranjan Maiti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09158

IoTFuzzSentry: A Protocol Guided Mutation Based Fuzzer for Automatic Vulnerability Testing in Commercial IoT Devices
Protocol fuzzing is a scalable and cost-effective technique for identifying security vulnerabilities in deployed Internet of Things devices. During their operational phase, IoT devices often run lightweight servers to handle user interactions, such as video streaming or image capture in smart cameras. Implementation flaws in transport or application-layer security mechanisms can expose IoT devices to a range of threats, including unauthorized access and data leakage. This paper addresses the ch…

Scaling Artificial Intelligence for Prostate Cancer Detection on MRI towards Population-Based Screening and Primary Diagnosis in a Global, Multiethnic Population (Study Protocol)
Anindo Saha (on behalf of the PI-CAI, ProCAncer-I, COMFORT, STHLM3-MRI,PRIME consortia), Joeran S. Bosma (on behalf of the PI-CAI, ProCAncer-I, COMFORT, STHLM3-MRI,PRIME consortia), Jasper J. Twilt (on behalf of the PI-CAI, ProCAncer-I, COMFORT, STHLM3-MRI,PRIME consortia), Alexander B. C. D. Ng (on behalf of …

Scaling Artificial Intelligence for Prostate Cancer Detection on MRI towards Population-Based Screening and Primary Diagnosis in a Global, Multiethnic Population (Study Protocol)
In this intercontinental, confirmatory study, we include a retrospective cohort of 22,481 MRI examinations (21,288 patients; 46 cities in 22 countries) to train and externally validate the PI-CAI-2B model, i.e., an efficient, next-generation iteration of the state-of-the-art AI system that was developed for detecting Gleason grade group $\geq$2 prostate cancer on MRI during the PI-CAI study. Of these examinations, 20,471 cases (19,278 patients; 26 cities in 14 countries) from two EU Horizon pro…

M3LLM: Model Context Protocol-aided Mixture of Vision Experts For Multimodal LLMs in Networks
Yongjie Zeng, Hongyang Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01805 https://

M3LLM: Model Context Protocol-aided Mixture of Vision Experts For Multimodal LLMs in Networks
Current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) rely on centralized architectures and often suffer from poor alignment between the input task and their fixed visual encoding modules, which limits performance on diverse and dynamic visual tasks. With the increasing deployment of resource-efficient models on edge devices in wireless networks, a new opportunity emerges to dynamically use distributed vision experts for improved MLLM inference quality. To enable this, we propose M3LLM, where the Mo…

What if each voxel were measured with a different diffusion protocol?
Santiago Coelho, Gregory Lemberskiy, Ante Zhu, Hong-Hsi Lee, Nastaren Abad, Thomas K. F. Foo, Els Fieremans, Dmitry S. Novikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22650

What if each voxel were measured with a different diffusion protocol?
Expansion of diffusion MRI (dMRI) both into the realm of strong gradients, and into accessible imaging with portable low-field devices, brings about the challenge of gradient nonlinearities. Spatial variations of the diffusion gradients make diffusion weightings and directions non-uniform across the field of view, and deform perfect shells in the q-space designed for isotropic directional coverage. Such imperfections hinder parameter estimation: Anisotropic shells hamper the deconvolution of fi…

Generation of frequency-bin-encoded dual-rail cluster states via time-frequency multiplexing of microwave photonic qubits
Zhiling Wang, Takeaki Miyamura, Yoshiki Sunada, Keika Sunada, Jesper Ilves, Kohei Matsuura, Yasunobu Nakamura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10990

Generation of frequency-bin-encoded dual-rail cluster states via time-frequency multiplexing of microwave photonic qubits
Cluster states are a class of multi-qubit entangled states with broad applications such as quantum metrology and one-way quantum computing. Here, we present a protocol to generate frequency-bin-encoded dual-rail cluster states using a superconducting circuit consisting of a fixed-frequency transmon qubit, a resonator and a Purcell filter. We implement time-frequency multiplexing by sequentially emitting co-propagating microwave photons of distinct frequencies. The frequency-bin dual-rail encodi…

Growth and prediction of plastic strain in metallic glasses
Tero M\"akinen, Anshul D. S. Parmar, Silvia Bonfanti, Mikko Alava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04271

Growth and prediction of plastic strain in metallic glasses
Predicting the failure and plasticity of solids remains a longstanding challenge, with broad implications for materials design and functional reliability. Disordered solids like metallic glasses can fail either abruptly or gradually without clear precursors, and the mechanical response depends strongly on composition, thermal history and deformation protocol -- impeding generalizable modeling. While deep learning methods offer predictive power, they often rely on numerous input parameters, hind…

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- TRMAC: A Time-Reversal-based MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks within Computing Packages
Ama Bandara, Abhijit Das, Fatima Rodriguez-Galan, Eduard Alarcon, Sergi Abadal

Sparse Regression Codes for Secret Key Agreement: Achieving Strong Secrecy and Near-Optimal Rates for Gaussian Sources
Emmanouil M. Athanasakos, Hariprasad Manjunath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20157

Sparse Regression Codes for Secret Key Agreement: Achieving Strong Secrecy and Near-Optimal Rates for Gaussian Sources
Secret key agreement from correlated physical layer observations is a cornerstone of information-theoretic security. This paper proposes and rigorously analyzes a complete, constructive protocol for secret key agreement from Gaussian sources using Sparse Regression Codes (SPARCs). Our protocol systematically leverages the known optimality of SPARCs for both rate-distortion and Wyner-Ziv (WZ) coding, facilitated by their inherent nested structure. The primary contribution of this work is a compr…

Automated Test Data Generation for Enterprise Protobuf Systems: A Metaclass-Enhanced Statistical Approach
Y. Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22070 https://ar…

Automated Test Data Generation for Enterprise Protobuf Systems: A Metaclass-Enhanced Statistical Approach
Large-scale enterprise systems utilizing Protocol Buffers (protobuf) present significant challenges for performance testing, particularly when targeting intermediate business interfaces with complex nested data structures. Traditional test data generation approaches are inadequate for handling the intricate hierarchical and graph-like structures inherent in enterprise protobuf schemas. This paper presents a novel test data generation framework that leverages Python's metaclass system for dynami…

Symbolic Execution in Practice: A Survey of Applications in Vulnerability, Malware, Firmware, and Protocol Analysis
Joshua Bailey, Charles Nicholas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06643

Symbolic Execution in Practice: A Survey of Applications in Vulnerability, Malware, Firmware, and Protocol Analysis
Symbolic execution is a powerful program analysis technique that allows for the systematic exploration of all program paths. Path explosion, where the number of states to track becomes unwieldy, is one of the biggest challenges hindering symbolic execution's practical application. To combat this, researchers have employed various strategies to enable symbolic execution on complex software systems. This paper introduces a systematic taxonomy of these strategies, categorizing them into two primar…

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Designing Shadow Tomography Protocols by Natural Language Processing
Yadong Wu, Pengfei Zhang, Ce Wang, Juan Yao, Yi-Zhuang You
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12782 https://

Designing Shadow Tomography Protocols by Natural Language Processing
Quantum circuits form a foundational framework in quantum science, enabling the description, analysis, and implementation of quantum computations. However, designing efficient circuits, typically constructed from single- and two-qubit gates, remains a major challenge for specific computational tasks. In this work, we introduce a novel artificial intelligence-driven protocol for quantum circuit design, benchmarked using shadow tomography for efficient quantum state readout. Inspired by technique…

Distributed P2P quantile tracking with relative value error
Marco Pulimeno, Italo Epicoco, Massimo Cafaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17458 https://arxiv.or…

Distributed P2P quantile tracking with relative value error
In this paper we present \textsc{DUDDSketch}, a distributed version of the \textsc{UDDSketch} algorithm for accurate tracking of quantiles. The algorithm is a fully decentralized, gossip-based distributed protocol working in the context of unstructured P2P networks. We discuss the algorithm's design and formally prove its correctness. We also show, through extensive experimental results, that the algorithm converges to the results provided by the sequential algorithm, which is a fundamental and…

Improving performance of content-centric networks via decentralized coded caching for multi-level popularity and access
Azadeh Sadat Miraftab, Ahmadreza Montazerolghaem, Behrad Mahboobi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01298

Improving performance of content-centric networks via decentralized coded caching for multi-level popularity and access
Content-Centric Networking (CCN) offers a novel architectural paradigm that seeks to address the inherent limitations of the prevailing Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking model. In contrast to the host-centric communication approach of IP networks, CCN prioritizes content by enabling direct addressing and routing based on content identifiers. The potential performance improvements of CCN can be further amplified through optimized management of coded data storage and transmission strategies…

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

TRMAC: A Time-Reversal-based MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks within Computing Packages
Ama Bandara, Abhijit Das, Fatima Rodriguez-Galan, Eduard Alarcon, Sergi Abadal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19487

TRMAC: A Time-Reversal-based MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks within Computing Packages
As chiplet-based integration and many-core architectures become the norm in high-performance computing, on-chip wireless communication has emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional interconnects. However, scalable Medium Access Control (MAC) remains a fundamental challenge, particularly under dense traffic and limited spectral resources. This paper presents TRMAC, a novel cross-layer MAC protocol that exploits the spatial focusing capability of Time Reversal (TR) to enable multiple par…

Further steps towards next generation of covariant energy density functionals
B. Osei, A. V. Afanasjev, A. Taninah, A. Dalbah, U. C. Perera, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17082

Further steps towards next generation of covariant energy density functionals
The present study aims at further development of covariant energy density functionals (CEDFs) towards more accurate description of binding energies across the nuclear chart. For the first time, infinite basis corrections to binding energies in the fermionic and bosonic sectors of the covariant density functional theory have been taken into account in the fitting protocol within the covariant density functional theory. In addition, total electron binding energies have been used in the conversi…

A Large-Scale Evolvable Dataset for Model Context Protocol Ecosystem and Security Analysis
Zhiwei Lin, Bonan Ruan, Jiahao Liu, Weibo Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23474

A Large-Scale Evolvable Dataset for Model Context Protocol Ecosystem and Security Analysis
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has recently emerged as a standardized interface for connecting language models with external tools and data. As the ecosystem rapidly expands, the lack of a structured, comprehensive view of existing MCP artifacts presents challenges for research. To bridge this gap, we introduce MCPCorpus, a large-scale dataset containing around 14K MCP servers and 300 MCP clients. Each artifact is annotated with 20+ normalized attributes capturing its identity, interface conf…

Indoor Positioning with Wi-Fi Location: A Survey of IEEE 802.11mc/az/bk Fine Timing Measurement Research
Katarzyna Kosek-Szott, Szymon Szott, Wojciech Ciezobka, Maksymilian Wojnar, Krzysztof Rusek, Jonathan Segev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03901

Indoor Positioning with Wi-Fi Location: A Survey of IEEE 802.11mc/az/bk Fine Timing Measurement Research
Indoor positioning is an enabling technology for home, office, and industrial network users because it provides numerous information and communication technology (ICT) and Internet of things (IoT) functionalities such as indoor navigation, smart meter localization, asset tracking, support for emergency services, and detection of hazardous situations. The IEEE 802.11mc fine timing measurement (FTM) protocol (commercially known as Wi-Fi Location) has great potential to enable indoor positioning i…

From Prompt Injections to Protocol Exploits: Threats in LLM-Powered AI Agents Workflows
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Norbert Tihanyi, Djallel Hamouda, Leandros Maglaras, Merouane Debbah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23260

From Prompt Injections to Protocol Exploits: Threats in LLM-Powered AI Agents Workflows
Autonomous AI agents powered by large language models (LLMs) with structured function-calling interfaces have dramatically expanded capabilities for real-time data retrieval, complex computation, and multi-step orchestration. Yet, the explosive proliferation of plugins, connectors, and inter-agent protocols has outpaced discovery mechanisms and security practices, resulting in brittle integrations vulnerable to diverse threats. In this survey, we introduce the first unified, end-to-end threat m…

EGNInfoLeaker: Unveiling the Risks of Public Key Reuse and User Identity Leakage in Blockchain
Chenyu Li, Xueping Liang, Xiaorui Gong, Xiu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01635

EGNInfoLeaker: Unveiling the Risks of Public Key Reuse and User Identity Leakage in Blockchain
While Ethereum's discovery protocols (Discv4/ Discv5) incorporate robust cryptographic designs to protect user privacy, real-world deployment reveals critical vulnerabilities when users deviate from security guidelines. In this paper, we design a system called EGNInfoLeaker. Our study is the first work that uncovers widespread public key reuse across Ethereum's peer-to-peer networks - a practice that fundamentally undermines the protocol's privacy guarantees. Through systematic analysis of 300 …

Is Crunching Public Data the Right Approach to Detect BGP Hijacks?
Alessandro Giaconia, Muoi Tran, Laurent Vanbever, Stefano Vissicchio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20434 https://…

Is Crunching Public Data the Right Approach to Detect BGP Hijacks?
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) remains a fragile pillar of Internet routing. BGP hijacks still occurr daily. While full deployment of Route Origin Validation (ROV) is ongoing, attackers have already adapted, launching post-ROV attacks such as forged-origin hijacks. To detect these, recent approaches like DFOH [Holterbach et al., USENIX NSDI '24] and BEAM [Chen et al., USENIX Security '24] apply machine learning (ML) to analyze data from globally distributed BGP monitors, assuming anomalies w…