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Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue rose 13% YoY to $9.8B, vs. $9.56B est., and Google's advertising revenue reached $71.3B, up from $64.6B a year ago (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/07/alphabet-youtube-q2-2025-earnings-report/

YouTube earns $9.8 billion in ad revenue during Q2
YouTube ad revenue climbed to $9.8 billion in Q2 2025; Alphabet reported a 14 percent year-over increase in total revenue to $96.4 billion.

"This isn’t to say that AI is uniformly bad—it’s clearly not—but that we must not fall into the trap of mistaking the outputs of writing (…) from the value of the cognitive process of writing (…).
It would be a catastrophically unwise decision for humanity to abandon a key step in training young brains simply because they can now clack a few keys and produce something that sounds intelligent even as they never become intelligent."

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Black Keys:
🎵 The Night Before
#NowPlaying #TheBlackKeys
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kawArrYyru9uT0phHxWKt

@… I'm having scrolling issues w/ the latest web mastodon version v4.5.0-alpha.1@7d3ef27 io on vmst.io. I'm running the latest firefox v141.
When I scroll down, things work fine, when I try to go up, the feed jumps back down, I think when going over posts w/ embedded links, but it doesn't seem to be all of them so I'm not sure of the condition which is setting this off.
It happens scrolling w/ the mouse wheel and the keyboard arrow keys, but not the dragging the scrollbar.

Centre driven Controlled Evolution of Wireless Virtual Networks based on Broadcast Tokens
Vignesh Babu, Atishay Jain, Kannan Karthik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16615

Centre driven Controlled Evolution of Wireless Virtual Networks based on Broadcast Tokens
In a wireless sensor network, the virtual connectivity between nodes is a function of the keys shared between various nodes. Pre-embedding these key configurations in the nodes would make the network inflexible. On the other hand, permitting subsets of nodes to engage in a common key synthesis phase to create secure distributed connections amongst themselves, would decouple and conceal the information flow from the controlling centre. An intermediate solution is the notion of a centre driven ke…

Incredible if you think about it...
"The bug, when exploited, allows hackers to steal private digital keys from SharePoint servers without needing any credentials to log in. Once in, the hackers can remotely plant malware, and gain access to the files and data stored within"
Big #Microsoft

New zero-day bug in Microsoft SharePoint under widespread attack | TechCrunch
Security researchers say Microsoft customers should take immediate action to defend against the ongoing cyberattacks, and must assume they have already been compromised.

improv pulse chasing in the soup at mama tried in #brooklyn with deep sea brain (approximately); an idyllic sunday melt with jeffrey alexander & the heavy lidders feat. the elkhorn gang, brent cordero, & a wink at the youngbloods' "darkness, darkness"; & emergency group, seemingly picking up their dense conversation from when i last saw them in june.

from my link log —
Modern minimal perfect hashing: a survey.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06536
saved 2025-06-11 https://dotat.at/:…

Modern Minimal Perfect Hashing: A Survey
Given a set $S$ of $n$ keys, a perfect hash function for $S$ maps the keys in $S$ to the first $m \geq n$ integers without collisions. It may return an arbitrary result for any key not in $S$ and is called minimal if $m = n$. The most important parameters are its space consumption, construction time, and query time. Years of research now enable modern perfect hash functions to be extremely fast to query, very space-efficient, and scale to billions of keys. Different approaches give different tr…

The Proportional Fair Scheduler in Wavelength-Multiplexed Quantum Networks
Sanidhay Bhambay, Siddarth Koduru Joshi, Thirupathaiah Vasantam, Neil Walton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13999

The Proportional Fair Scheduler in Wavelength-Multiplexed Quantum Networks
We address the problem of optimal pumping strategies in quantum networks. These networks enable secure communication by distributing entangled photon pairs to user (or node) pairs. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocols, like BBM92, generate secret keys from entangled photons. While secure communication and error correction are essential for any quantum communication channel, resource contention, optimization, and fairness issues are critical for networks. In this article, we analyze the perf…

Multi-use LLM Watermarking and the False Detection Problem
Zihao Fu, Chris Russell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15975 https://arxiv.org…

Multi-use LLM Watermarking and the False Detection Problem
Digital watermarking is a promising solution for mitigating some of the risks arising from the misuse of automatically generated text. These approaches either embed non-specific watermarks to allow for the detection of any text generated by a particular sampler, or embed specific keys that allow the identification of the LLM user. However, simultaneously using the same embedding for both detection and user identification leads to a false detection problem, whereby, as user capacity grows, unwat…

A look at the four keys to success for new Jets coach Aaron Glenn https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45695290/new-york-jets-keys-success-coach-aaron-glenn

Mark Lettieri - Guitar
Wes Stephenson - Bass
Jason "JT" Thomas - Drums
Shaun Martin - Keys
Frank Moka - Percussion
Live set @ New Mountain AVL Sol Bar
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yl-My520zdM&si=zf8iVVpnz56K3B0V

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Caribou:
🎵 Got To Change
#NowPlaying #Caribou
https://m-key.bandcamp.com/track/caribou-got-to-change-m-keys-fake-extended-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5oV0DfWqOf8hn40u37hepA

»Over 600 Laravel Apps Exposed to Remote Code Execution Due to Leaked APP_KEYs on GitHub:
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a serious security issue that allows leaked Laravel APP_KEY's to be weaponized to gain remote code execution capabilities on hundreds of applications.«
Never store your access keys in Git, especially not in the code – do programmers need to be taught this?!??
🔓

Over 600 Laravel Apps Exposed to Remote Code Execution Due to Leaked APP_KEYs on GitHub
GitGuardian uncovers 260,000 leaked Laravel APP_KEYs on GitHub, exposing over 600 apps to remote code execution.

Cowboy Roundup: Potential breakout players, 3 keys for Dak Prescott https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-potential-breakout-players-3-keys-for-dak-prescott

iPhone im Auto: Widgets für CarPlay, mehr Car Keys – und immer noch kein Browser
Neben iOS 26, macOS 26 und Co. hat Apple auch Verbesserungen für CarPlay angekündigt. Ein Überblick der neuen Funktionen.

I would like to see an initiative that evaluates messaging services that promise encryption and document the findings. For example, a service may claim that emails are encrypted and secure. However, if the secret keys are managed on infrastructure controlled by the service without further protection, there are limitations, and I wouldn't call it end-to-end encryption. I think it would be useful to have a neutral web page where users could lookup the security levels of services (or apps).…

IAB survey: 86% of digital ad buyers use or plan to use generative AI for video ad creation, and expect it will account for 40% of all video ads by 2026 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/07/iab-generative-ai-ctv-advertising-report/

IAB: Generative AI, connected TV platforms influencing ad production
More than half of advertisers are using generative AI to create spots, the IAB concludes in its latest report.

One of our car keys finally started to fall apart. A new original from the manufacturer: 350€!!! 350€!!!
Luckily I found a key repair shop today who did it for far less than 100€
I'm so glad that I called a couple of shops today to finally find that shop!!

Managed to repair my digital piano. Two of the c's stopped working. Turns out the fix was easy: I used some 9B pencil to rub the connectors on the piano, as they apparently work with graphite. There was a silicone bit I could take off to get to the connector.
Opening the piano up was by far the hardest part of this repair.
#RightToRepair

glass: ordered set data structure for client-side order books
Viktor Krapivensky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13991 https://arxiv.org/p…

glass: ordered set data structure for client-side order books
The "ordered set" abstract data type with operations "insert", "erase", "find", "min", "max", "next" and "prev" is ubiquitous in computer science. It is usually implemented with red-black trees, $B$-trees, or $B^+$-trees. We present our implementation of ordered set based on a trie. It only supports integer keys (as opposed to keys of any strict weakly ordered type) and is optimized for market data, namely for what we call sequential locality. The following is the list of what we believe to be …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Black Keys:
🎵 The Night Before
#NowPlaying #TheBlackKeys
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kawArrYyru9uT0phHxWKt

Wie ein Forscher ChatGPT mit einem einfachen Trick dazu bringt, Windows-Keys herauszurücken #chatGPT #windows #keys

Ich gebe auf: Wie ein Forscher ChatGPT mit einem einfachen Trick dazu bringt, Windows-Keys herauszurücken | t3n
Ein Security-Forscher täuschte ChatGPT mit einem simplen Ratespiel – und erntete gültige Windows-Seriennummern, darunter sogar einen Schlüssel der Wells-Fargo-Bank. In einem kürzlich veröffentlichten Blogpost beschreibt Marco Figueroa, Technical Product Manager bei 0DIN GenAI Bug Bounty, wie ein Security-Experte ChatGPT 4 via Jailbreak dazu brachte, real existierende Windows-Seriennummern preiszugeben, darunter sogar eine private Nummer von Wells Fargo. Der […]

I realize people have differing priorities & everyone's fighting their own war... but FFS, how does a family accidentally leave their dog behind when they move homes?
✅ Gen Z Couple Excited To Get Keys to New Home—Then They See What's Inside - Newsweek
https://www.

Gen Z Couple Excited To Get Keys to New Home—Then They See What's Inside
The previous homeowners left a surprise behind; they "didn't have enough space in their moving van," Louren Wilson told Newsweek.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Black Keys:
🎵 No Rain, No Flowers
#TheBlackKeys
https://open.spotify.com/track/2aCRmuNL8RaBi8h7BbmTsT

The 3 Keys Behind Dak Prescott’s Potential 2025 Breakout https://insidethestar.com/the-3-keys-behind-dak-prescotts-potential-2025-breakout

Despite being a person who gets confused by SSH keys every time I have to set them up I actually got things working today. Huzzah!

Grr wanted to add a vagrant freebsd machine but It kept not adding ssh keys. password config did not work. While the fedora base ismage worked.
What do you use to run FreeBSD VMs on linux?
#freebsd #vm

Jazzaria – Bad Cream
#byncnd

Apple unveils Xcode 26, which will integrate ChatGPT for coding, doc generation, and more, and says devs can use API keys to add AI models from other providers (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/apple-brings-chatgpt-and-o…

Apple brings ChatGPT and other AI models to Xcode | TechCrunch
At WWDC 2025, Apple released a new version of Xcode, its app development suite, that integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT for coding, doc generation, and more. The company also announced that developers can use API keys to bring AI models from other providers to Xcode for AI-powered programming suggestions.

What is he doing to that synth? It's going to have sticky keys by the end of this performance! #TOTP

I have joined the ranks of the unemployed. If you need a me for anything, hit me up.
https://github.com/grahams/verifyme/blob/master/resume.md

verifyme/resume.md at master · grahams/verifyme
My fingerprints and public keys from various crypto products, all signed using my GPG key. - grahams/verifyme

A cautionary note about private power, monopolies, and relying on private entities:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/07/trump-musk-feud-power?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

A cautionary note about private power, monopolies, and relying on private entities:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/07/trump-musk-feud-power?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Arabic news channel Alhurra has replaced its programming with an image accusing the USAGM of illegally withholding Congress-approved funding for its parent MBN (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/alhurra-calls-out-usagm-funding-cuts/

Alhurra calls out U.S. Agency for Global Media over funding cuts
The Arabic-language satellite TV channel said the federal agency is "illegally withholding" Congressionally-approved funds for its broadcast operations.

Spring Secret Starter: Managing #Secrets in Your #SpringBoot App
https://lucas-fern…

On Ray Reordering Techniques for Faster GPU Ray Tracing
Daniel Meister, Jakub Bok\v{s}ansk\'y, Michael Guthe, Ji\v{r}\'i Bittner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11273

On Ray Reordering Techniques for Faster GPU Ray Tracing
We study ray reordering as a tool for increasing the performance of existing GPU ray tracing implementations. We focus on ray reordering that is fully agnostic to the particular trace kernel. We summarize the existing methods for computing the ray sorting keys and discuss their properties. We propose a novel modification of a previously proposed method using the termination point estimation that is well-suited to tracing secondary rays. We evaluate the ray reordering techniques in the context o…

One of the Keys to the Raiders' Success This Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-marcus-robertson-eric-stokes-jakorian-bennett

Adaptive Chosen-Ciphertext Security of Distributed Broadcast Encryption
Kwangsu Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10338 https://arxiv.or…

Adaptive Chosen-Ciphertext Security of Distributed Broadcast Encryption
Distributed broadcast encryption (DBE) is a specific kind of broadcast encryption (BE) where users independently generate their own public and private keys, and a sender can efficiently create a ciphertext for a subset of users by using the public keys of the subset users. Previously proposed DBE schemes have been proven in the adaptive chosen-plaintext attack (CPA) security model and have the disadvantage of requiring linear number of pairing operations when verifying the public key of a user.…

Handing AI the keys
"if we continue on the current path ... we are basically playing Russian roulette with humanity"
-- Grace Huckins, MIT Technology Review
On May 6, 2010, at 2:32 p.m. Eastern time nearly a trillion dollars evaporated from the
US stock market within 20 minutes
-at the time, the fastest decline in history
Then. almost as suddenly, the market rebounded.
After months of investigation, regalators attributed much of the respon…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#WordsAndMusic
- Keys
Readers Yusra Warsama and Darren Kuppan explore the multilayered symbolism of keys, reading from Dante, Rumi and Tracy Beaker alongside music by Bach, Bessie Smith and Mozart.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qfrv

A Three-Party Lightweight Quantum Key Distribution Protocol in a Restricted Quantum Environment
Mustapha Anis Younes, Sofia Zebboudj, Abdelhakim Gharbi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11188

A Three-Party Lightweight Quantum Key Distribution Protocol in a Restricted Quantum Environment
This study proposes a new lightweight quantum key distribution (LQKD) protocol based on the four-particle cluster state within a quantum-restricted environment. The protocol enables a quantum-capable user to simultaneously establish two separate secret keys with two "classical" users, who are limited to performing only the Hadamard operation and measurements in the $Z$ basis. By adopting a one-way qubit transmission approach, the proposed protocol addresses several limitations of existing semi-…

Floridas #Korallenriffe haben in 40 Jahren 90 % ihrer gesunden Bestände verloren.
Ein neues Projekt pflanzt über 1000 gezüchtete #Elchgeweihkorallen aus, um den Lebensraum zu stabilisieren. Die widerstandsfähige Art wurde genetisch vielfältig vermehrt und könnte künftigen

People keep yapping to me at work while I wear my earplugs (them not realizing I have earplugs in) so I got earmuffs instead so people can more easily see that I might not hear them well (also means I can leave my house keys in my locker at the office).
Also some different filters (a bit less dampening and less damping on the higher-ends) for my earplugs (that I mostly use for driving my car n stuff).

As a security community we have to make sure that people know about this vulnerability. Right now it's pretty easy to thwart, _don't keep your keys near the front door_. It's a simple countermeasure, but people have to see footage like this to understand. The threat is real and the gear to do this is pretty cheap.
https://www.

Police issue warning after Breckland keyless car theft
Footage shows one thief in a balaclava approaching the house before the car engine starts.

Me gustó mucho la herramienta de cifrado de ficheros age https://github.com/FiloSottile/age y me puse a hacer un pequeño script para poder cifrar directorios de forma recursiva, desencriptarlos, tener definidas varias bóvedas en distintos ficheros de variables para poder descifrar unos u otros...…

Was für Typen sitzen da eigentlich in der #Knesset? Unerträglich die Ignoranz gegenüber Menschlichkeit, Rechtsstaatlichkeit.
Ignoranz und Dummheit gepaart mit Geltungsdrang und Selbstherrlichkeitswahn.
#Malinovsky
#UNRWA

Israeli lawmaker shows off keys to locked UNRWA Headquarters in Jerusalem in Knesset session – Middle East Monitor

Warning: Undefined variable $sm_desc in /www/wwwroot/middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/themes/memouk/header.php on line 159
...

Programmable Governance for Group-Controlled Decentralized Identifiers
Carlo Segat, Sandro Rodriguez Garzo, Axel K\"upper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06001

Programmable Governance for Group-Controlled Decentralized Identifiers
Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a paradigm for digital identity management that offers unique privacy advantages. A key technology in SSI is Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and their associated metadata, DID Documents (DDOs). DDOs contain crucial verification material such as the public keys of the entity identified by the DID (i.e., the DID subject) and are often anchored on a distributed ledger to ensure security and availability. Long-lived DIDs need to support updates (e.g., key rotation)…

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…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02120 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_…

Random-key genetic algorithms
A random-key genetic algorithm is an evolutionary metaheuristic for discrete and global optimization. Each solution is encoded as a vector of N random keys, where a random key is a real number randomly generated in the continuous interval [0, 1). A decoder maps each vector of random keys to a solution of the optimization problem being solved and computes its cost. The benefit of this approach is that all genetic operators and transformations can be maintained within the unitary hypercube, regar…

Singularity Blockchain Key Management via non-custodial key management
Sumit Vohra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02282 https://arxiv.org…

Singularity Blockchain Key Management via non-custodial key management
web3 wallets are key to managing user identity on blockchain. The main purpose of a web3 wallet application is to manage the private key for the user and provide an interface to interact with the blockchain. The key management scheme ( KMS ) used by the wallet to store and recover the private key can be either custodial, where the keys are permissioned and in custody of the wallet provider or noncustodial where the keys are in custody of the user. The existing non-custodial key management schem…

What could you at one of these #FieldDay sites do if you're not a ham?
Every site has people who would love to show you around. Many of them have a special Get On The Air (GOTA) radio set up just for people without licenses to try it out. Ours also has things like Morse code keys for people to play with, games for kids, walkie talkies to play with, a killer barbecue, and a fire engine!…

Modern Minimal Perfect Hashing: A Survey
Hans-Peter Lehmann, Thomas Mueller, Rasmus Pagh, Giulio Ermanno Pibiri, Peter Sanders, Sebastiano Vigna, Stefan Walzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06536

Modern Minimal Perfect Hashing: A Survey
Given a set $S$ of $n$ keys, a perfect hash function for $S$ maps the keys in $S$ to the first $m \geq n$ integers without collisions. It may return an arbitrary result for any key not in $S$ and is called minimal if $m = n$. The most important parameters are its space consumption, construction time, and query time. Years of research now enable modern perfect hash functions to be extremely fast to query, very space-efficient, and scale to billions of keys. Different approaches give different tr…

Detecting Hard-Coded Credentials in Software Repositories via LLMs
Chidera Biringa, Gokhan Kul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13090 https://

Detecting Hard-Coded Credentials in Software Repositories via LLMs
Software developers frequently hard-code credentials such as passwords, generic secrets, private keys, and generic tokens in software repositories, even though it is strictly advised against due to the severe threat to the security of the software. These credentials create attack surfaces exploitable by a potential adversary to conduct malicious exploits such as backdoor attacks. Recent detection efforts utilize embedding models to vectorize textual credentials before passing them to classifier…

Good Morning #Canada
Today is move in day, so what better day to share some horror stories about unscrupulous movers. Everyone has horror stories about moving from one home to another, and even our meticulously planned event has had some hiccups. Like the truck being 4.5 hours late when we moved out and getting our keys for the new house 8 hours after the deal closed. But we didn't hire anyone from this CBC investigation, so it's all good.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MovingSucks
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-moving-companies-1.6371262

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03965 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDB_…

More Bang For Your Buck(et): Fast and Space-efficient Hardware-accelerated Coarse-granular Indexing on GPUs
In recent work, we have shown that NVIDIA's raytracing cores on RTX video cards can be exploited to realize hardware-accelerated lookups for GPU-resident database indexes. On a high level, the concept materializes all keys as triangles in a 3D scene and indexes them. Lookups are performed by firing rays into the scene and utilizing the index structure to detect hits in a hardware-accelerated fashion. While this approach called RTIndeX (or short RX) is indeed promising, it currently suffers from…

https://keyoxide.org/98bab9c9673825f3866a991339199d5488538d40

John Willis interviewed me for his Profound podcast series...
This post provides links to more information on what we discussed in the podcast.
...
Bill Hunter (my father): Quality In The Community One City’s Experience (Madison) – Quality Comes to City Hall (Madison) – Managing Our Way to Economic Success
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Design of Experiments
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PDSA improvement cycle: Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12599 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Convergence of the QuickVal Residual
QuickSelect (aka Find), introduced by Hoare (1961), is a randomized algorithm for selecting a specified order statistic from an input sequence of $n$ objects, or rather their identifying labels usually known as keys. The keys can be numeric or symbol strings, or indeed any labels drawn from a given linearly ordered set. We discuss various ways in which the cost of comparing two keys can be measured, and we can measure the efficiency of the algorithm by the total cost of such comparisons. We d…

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
The Black Keys:
🎵 The Night Before
#NowPlaying #TheBlackKeys
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kawArrYyru9uT0phHxWKt

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jay‐Z Alicia Keys:
🎵 Empire State of Mind
#JayZ AliciaKeys
https://nnmg.bandcamp.com/track/empire-state-of-mind-f-alicia-keys-prod-by-blak-jag
https://open.spotify.com/track/2igwFfvr1OAGX9SKDCPBwO

Physical Layer Group Key Generation With the Aid of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Vahid Shahiri, Guyue Li, Hamid Behroozi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00714

Physical Layer Group Key Generation With the Aid of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have the ability to alter the wireless environment by making changes in the impinging signal. Motivated by this ability, in this study, we exploit the RIS to make the aggregate reflecting channels of different user terminals (UTs) as similar as possible to be able to extract common group secret keys from their channels. Specifically, the RIS will adjust its parameters to pave the way for group key generation (GKG) based on the physical channels of the U…

As a security community we have to make sure that people know about this vulnerability. Right now it's pretty easy to thwart, _don't keep your keys near the front door_. It's a simple countermeasure, but people have to see footage like this to understand. The threat is real and the gear to do this is pretty cheap.
https://www.

Police issue warning after Breckland keyless car theft
Footage shows one thief in a balaclava approaching the house before the car engine starts.

Detecting Hard-Coded Credentials in Software Repositories via LLMs
Chidera Biringa, Gokhan Kul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13090 https://

Detecting Hard-Coded Credentials in Software Repositories via LLMs
Software developers frequently hard-code credentials such as passwords, generic secrets, private keys, and generic tokens in software repositories, even though it is strictly advised against due to the severe threat to the security of the software. These credentials create attack surfaces exploitable by a potential adversary to conduct malicious exploits such as backdoor attacks. Recent detection efforts utilize embedding models to vectorize textual credentials before passing them to classifier…

The Sunspot Solar Observatory Data Archive: Continuing Operations at the Dunn Solar Telescope
Sean G. Sellers, Juie Shetye, Damian J. Christian, David B. Jess, Peter H. Keys, Gordon A. MacDonald, R. T. James McAteer, Jason Jackiewicz, Colin Hancock, Michael S. Thompson, Jamey E. Eriksen, Sara Jeffreys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.…

The Sunspot Solar Observatory Data Archive: Continuing Operations at the Dunn Solar Telescope
The Sunspot Solar Observatory Data Archive (SSODA) stores data acquired with the suite of instruments at the Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope (DST) from February 2018 to the present. The instrumentation at the DST continues to provide high cadence imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of the solar photosphere and chromosphere across a wavelength range from 3500Å to 11,000Å. At time of writing, the archive contains approximately 374 TiB of data across more than 520 observing days (starting on …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
PJ Harvey:
🎵 Chain of Keys
#PJHarvey
https://open.spotify.com/track/5RV7v9terrtizMD3Y656GX

On One-Shot Signatures, Quantum vs Classical Binding, and Obfuscating Permutations
Omri Shmueli, Mark Zhandry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12456 https://

On One-Shot Signatures, Quantum vs Classical Binding, and Obfuscating Permutations
One-shot signatures (OSS) were defined by Amos, Georgiou, Kiayias, and Zhandry (STOC'20). These allow for signing exactly one message, after which the signing key self-destructs, preventing a second message from ever being signed. While such an object is impossible classically, Amos et al observe that OSS may be possible using quantum signing keys by leveraging the no-cloning principle. OSS has since become an important conceptual tool with many applications in decentralized settings and for qu…

Sources: Byron Allen takes substantial steps toward selling all of his local TV stations, including those affiliated with ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC in 24 markets (Matthew Keys/Multicast News)
https://multicastnews.com/p/exclusive-byron-allen-selling-off

Exclusive: Byron Allen is selling his local TV stations
Allen has received offers for some or all of his local TV station portfolio; a divestiture allows Allen Media Group to pay down existing debt, rather than refinance it.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Black Keys:
🎵 The Night Before
#NowPlaying #TheBlackKeys
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kawArrYyru9uT0phHxWKt

Quasi-Periodic Optical Key-Enabled Hybrid Cryptography: Merging Diffractive Physics and Deep Learning for High-Dimensional Security
Haiqi Gao, Yu Shao, Jiaming Liang, Xuehui Wang, Junren Wen, Yuchuan Shao, Yueguang Zhang, Weidong Shen, Chenying Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23479

Quasi-Periodic Optical Key-Enabled Hybrid Cryptography: Merging Diffractive Physics and Deep Learning for High-Dimensional Security
Optical encryption inherently provides strong security advantages, with hybrid optoelectronic systems offering additional degrees of freedom by integrating optical and algorithmic domains. However, existing optical encryption schemes heavily rely on electronic computation, limiting overall efficiency, while the physical keys are susceptible to damage, compromising both security and system stability. To overcome these challenges, we introduce the Quasi Periodic Optical Key (QPOK), which combines…

Random-key genetic algorithms
Mariana A. Londe, Luciana S. Pessoa, Carlos E. Andrade, Jos\'e F. Gon\c{c}alves, Mauricio G. C. Resende
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02120

Random-key genetic algorithms
A random-key genetic algorithm is an evolutionary metaheuristic for discrete and global optimization. Each solution is encoded as a vector of N random keys, where a random key is a real number randomly generated in the continuous interval [0, 1). A decoder maps each vector of random keys to a solution of the optimization problem being solved and computes its cost. The benefit of this approach is that all genetic operators and transformations can be maintained within the unitary hypercube, regar…

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A Replit employee details a critical security flaw in web apps created using AI-powered app builder Lovable that exposes API keys and personal info of app users (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/29/2025

The hottest new vibe coding startup may be a sitting duck for hackers
Lovable is accused of failing to fix security flaws that exposed information about users, a growing vulnerability as vibe coding’s popularity surges.

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Access Control for Information-Theoretically Secure Key-Document Stores
Yin Li, Sharad Mehrota, Shantanu Sharma, Komal Kumari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10730

Access Control for Information-Theoretically Secure Key-Document Stores
This paper presents a novel key-based access control technique for secure outsourcing key-value stores where values correspond to documents that are indexed and accessed using keys. The proposed approach adopts Shamir's secret-sharing that offers unconditional or information-theoretic security. It supports keyword-based document retrieval while preventing leakage of the data, access rights of users, or the size (\textit{i}.\textit{e}., volume of the output that satisfies a query). The proposed …

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Nexstar has deleted references to DEI and data on its workforce composition from its site; it is interested in acquisitions that are subject to FCC approval (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
https://thedesk.net/2025/05/nexstar-ends-dei-programs-policies/

Scoop: Nexstar pulls back on DEI programs amid FCC lobbying efforts
The broadcaster removed references to its diversity, equity and inclusiveness programs from its website and social media profiles.

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DirecTV strikes a distribution agreement with Paramount Global, and unveils a $20/month MyKids plan with content from Paramount, Disney, WBD, and more (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
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DirecTV launches kid-focused plan after integrating Paramount-owned channels into genre packs
CBS-owned broadcast stations and cable networks like MTV, Paramount Network, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon are joining DirecTV's streaming genre-based packages.

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Secure Data Access in Cloud Environments Using Quantum Cryptography
S. Vasavi Venkata Lakshmi, Ziaul Haque Choudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10028 https…

Secure Data Access in Cloud Environments Using Quantum Cryptography
Cloud computing has made storing and accessing data easier but keeping it secure is a big challenge nowadays. Traditional methods of ensuring data may not be strong enough in the future when powerful quantum computers become available. To solve this problem, this study uses quantum cryptography to protect data in the cloud environment. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) creates secure keys by sending information using quantum particles like photons. Specifically, we use the BB84 protocol, a simple …

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KeyDroid: A Large-Scale Analysis of Secure Key Storage in Android Apps
Jenny Blessing, Ross J. Anderson, Alastair R. Beresford
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07927

KeyDroid: A Large-Scale Analysis of Secure Key Storage in Android Apps
Most contemporary mobile devices offer hardware-backed storage for cryptographic keys, user data, and other sensitive credentials. Such hardware protects credentials from extraction by an adversary who has compromised the main operating system, such as a malicious third-party app. Since 2011, Android app developers can access trusted hardware via the Android Keystore API. In this work, we conduct the first comprehensive survey of hardware-backed key storage in Android devices. We analyze 490 11…

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The Hashed Fractal Key Recovery (HFKR) Problem: From Symbolic Path Inversion to Post-Quantum Cryptographic Keys
Mohamed Aly Bouke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04383

The Hashed Fractal Key Recovery (HFKR) Problem: From Symbolic Path Inversion to Post-Quantum Cryptographic Keys
Classical cryptographic systems rely heavily on structured algebraic problems, such as factorization, discrete logarithms, or lattice-based assumptions, which are increasingly vulnerable to quantum attacks and structural cryptanalysis. In response, this work introduces the Hashed Fractal Key Recovery (HFKR) problem, a non-algebraic cryptographic construction grounded in symbolic dynamics and chaotic perturbations. HFKR builds on the Symbolic Path Inversion Problem (SPIP), leveraging symbolic tr…

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Wallets as Universal Access Devices
Kim Peiter J{\o}rgensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06254 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06254

Wallets as Universal Access Devices
Wallets are access points for the digital economys value creation. Wallets for blockchains store the end-users cryptographic keys for administrating their digital assets and enable access to blockchain Web3 systems. Web3 delivers new service opportunities. This chapter focuses on the Web3 enabled release of value through the lens of wallets. Wallets may be implemented as software apps on smartphones, web apps on desktops, or hardware devices. Wallet users request high security, ease of use, and…

Enhancing LLM Watermark Resilience Against Both Scrubbing and Spoofing Attacks
Huanming Shen, Baizhou Huang, Xiaojun Wan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06274 h…

Enhancing LLM Watermark Resilience Against Both Scrubbing and Spoofing Attacks
Watermarking is a promising defense against the misuse of large language models (LLMs), yet it remains vulnerable to scrubbing and spoofing attacks. This vulnerability stems from an inherent trade-off governed by watermark window size: smaller windows resist scrubbing better but are easier to reverse-engineer, enabling low-cost statistics-based spoofing attacks. This work breaks this trade-off by introducing a novel mechanism, equivalent texture keys, where multiple tokens within a watermark wi…

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Stealtooth: Breaking Bluetooth Security Abusing Silent Automatic Pairing
Keiichiro Kimura, Hiroki Kuzuno, Yoshiaki Shiraishi, Masakatu Morii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00847

Stealtooth: Breaking Bluetooth Security Abusing Silent Automatic Pairing
Bluetooth is a pervasive wireless communication technology used by billions of devices for short-range connectivity. The security of Bluetooth relies on the pairing process, where devices establish shared long-term keys for secure communications. However, many commercial Bluetooth devices implement automatic pairing functions to improve user convenience, creating a previously unexplored attack surface. We present Stealtooth, a novel attack that abuses unknown vulnerabilities in the automatic …

Synopsis: Secure and private trend inference from encrypted semantic embeddings
Madelyne Xiao, Palak Jain, Micha Gorelick, Sarah Scheffler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23880

Synopsis: Secure and private trend inference from encrypted semantic embeddings
WhatsApp and many other commonly used communication platforms guarantee end-to-end encryption (E2EE), which requires that service providers lack the cryptographic keys to read communications on their own platforms. WhatsApp's privacy-preserving design makes it difficult to study important phenomena like the spread of misinformation or political messaging, as users have a clear expectation and desire for privacy and little incentive to forfeit that privacy in the process of handing over raw data…

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SIMulator: SIM Tracing on a (Pico-)Budget
Gabriel K. Gegenhuber, Philipp \'E. Frenzel, Adrian Dabrowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20800 https://

SIMulator: SIM Tracing on a (Pico-)Budget
SIM tracing -- the ability to inspect, modify, and relay communication between a SIM card and modem -- has become a significant technique in cellular network research. It enables essential security- and development-related applications such as fuzzing communication interfaces, extracting session keys, monitoring hidden SIM activity (e.g., proactive SIM commands or over-the-air updates), and facilitating scalable, distributed measurement platforms through SIM reuse. Traditionally, achieving thes…

Secure Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption with Application to Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Jiahui Wu, Tiecheng Sun, Fucai Luo, Haiyan Wang, Weizhe Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20101

Secure Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption with Application to Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption (MKHE), proposed by Lopez-Alt et al. (STOC 2012), allows for performing arithmetic computations directly on ciphertexts encrypted under distinct keys. Subsequent works by Chen and Dai et al. (CCS 2019) and Kim and Song et al. (CCS 2023) extended this concept by proposing multi-key BFV/CKKS variants, referred to as the CDKS scheme. These variants incorporate asymptotically optimal techniques to facilitate secure computation across multiple data providers. In this…