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I had boosted that post a year ago and just received a notification by Mastodon that it has been updated. That's a really underrated feature of the ActivityPub protocol.
The author has updated the year -- it's been 40 years now!
https://masto.ai/@cybeardjm/113505109169999094

Douro Valley hiking day 5. Possibly the best views so far and certainly best beer at the end. #hiking #portugal #craftbeer

Nearly a million chickens packed the barns at Howe’s Hens last Christmas Eve when the first of them tested positive for bird flu.
The deadly virus spreads so fast that even if only one hen is infected,
farmers are legally obligated to kill all of the others.
Massive mounds of carcasses soon appeared outside the Ohio egg farm, covered in compost. 
The slaughter wasn’t enough.
The virus tore through industrial barns in Darke County
and moved on through one …

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.

#NowPlaying Reposting @brianjayjones.com:
❝Lynn Ahrens was a 22 year old guitar-playing secretary/copywriter at the advertising firm of McCaffrey & McCall when she was asked by producer George Newell if she’d like to contribute songs to the new Schoolhouse Rock project.
She wrote and sang “No More Kings.”
Think of her this weekend.❞

Effigy of Robart Ramsey, St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain

On a totally different note:
re: up-to-date-ness of Wayland on FreeBSD.
What a great surprise to find wideriver in the Ports!
Wideriver is the window manager you slap onto the River wm. They are different pkgs, from different devs. FreeBSD's got you covered.
#wayland #riverwm

Towards Trustworthy Agentic IoEV: AI Agents for Explainable Cyberthreat Mitigation and State Analytics
Meryem Malak Dif, Mouhamed Amine Bouchiha, Abdelaziz Amara Korba, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12233

Towards Trustworthy Agentic IoEV: AI Agents for Explainable Cyberthreat Mitigation and State Analytics
The Internet of Electric Vehicles (IoEV) envisions a tightly coupled ecosystem of electric vehicles (EVs), charging infrastructure, and grid services, yet it remains vulnerable to cyberattacks, unreliable battery-state predictions, and opaque decision processes that erode trust and performance. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AAI) framework tailored for IoEV, where specialized agents collaborate to deliver autonomous threat mitigation, robust a…

Empowering Multi-Robot Cooperation via Sequential World Models
Zijie Zhao, Honglei Guo, Shengqian Chen, Kaixuan Xu, Bo Jiang, Yuanheng Zhu, Dongbin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13095

Empowering Multi-Robot Cooperation via Sequential World Models
Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) has shown significant potential in robotics due to its high sample efficiency and planning capability. However, extending MBRL to multi-robot cooperation remains challenging due to the complexity of joint dynamics. To address this, we propose the Sequential World Model (SeqWM), a novel framework that integrates the sequential paradigm into model-based multi-agent reinforcement learning. SeqWM employs independent, sequentially structured agent-wise world…

Cybersecurity AI: Humanoid Robots as Attack Vectors
V\'ictor Mayoral-Vilches
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14139 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14139

Cybersecurity AI: Humanoid Robots as Attack Vectors
We present a systematic security assessment of the Unitree G1 humanoid showing it operates simultaneously as a covert surveillance node and can be purposed as an active cyber operations platform. Partial reverse engineering of Unitree's proprietary FMX encryption reveal a static Blowfish-ECB layer and a predictable LCG mask-enabled inspection of the system's otherwise sophisticated security architecture, the most mature we have observed in commercial robotics. Two empirical case studies expose …

Homomorphic encryption schemes based on coding theory and polynomials
Giovanni Giuseppe Grimaldi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13788 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Homomorphic encryption schemes based on coding theory and polynomials
Homomorphic encryption is a powerful cryptographic tool that enables secure computations on the private data. It evaluates any function for any operation securely on the encrypted data without knowing its corresponding plaintext. For original data $p$, $c$ denotes the ciphertext of the original plaintext $p$, i.e. $c = Encrypt_k(p)$. This is crucial for any sensitive application running in the Cloud, because we must protect data privacy even in the case when the server has falled victim to a cy…