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The newly renamed Department of War has publicly posted the stream keys of its Facebook, X, and YouTube channels for years, potentially allowing hackers to hijack its official social media accounts and broadcast whatever they want.
https://theintercept.com/2025/09…

Department of War Doesn’t Defend its Web Streams From Hackers
The Pentagon publicly posts the stream keys to its Facebook, YouTube, and X channels, exposing livestreams to account takeovers.

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…

Super-Quadratic Quantum Speed-ups and Guessing Many Likely Keys
Timo Glaser, Alexander May, Julian Nowakowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06549 https://arxi…

Super-Quadratic Quantum Speed-ups and Guessing Many Likely Keys
We study the fundamental problem of guessing cryptographic keys, drawn from some non-uniform probability distribution $D$, as e.g. in LPN, LWE or for passwords. The optimal classical algorithm enumerates keys in decreasing order of likelihood. The optimal quantum algorithm, due to Montanaro (2011), is a sophisticated Grover search. We give the first tight analysis for Montanaro's algorithm, showing that its runtime is $2^{H_{2/3}(D)/2}$, where $H_α(\cdot)$ denotes Renyi entropy with paramete…

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…

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

Secure and practical Quantum Digital Signatures
Federico Grasselli, Gaetano Russo, Massimiliano Proietti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05355 https://arxiv.org…

Secure and practical Quantum Digital Signatures
Digital signatures represent a crucial cryptographic asset that must be protected against quantum adversaries. Quantum Digital Signatures (QDS) can offer solutions that are information-theoretically (IT) secure and thus immune to quantum attacks. In this work, we analyze three existing practical QDS protocols based on preshared secure keys (e.g., established with quantum key distribution) and universal hashing families. For each protocol, we make amendments to close potential loopholes and prov…

3 things to watch for in Cowboys-Rams that will go long way in determining 53-man roster https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/review/2025/08/09/what-to-watch-for-in-cowboys-first-preseason-game-vs-rams/…

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)…

https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/114988148451821782
Archive link:
“More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org”

Ad tech company Ad.com acquires Public Good to help with development of a search engine, Search.com, which will offer cash-back rewards and other perks (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/public-good-search-dot-com/

The Keychain Problem: On Minimizing the Opportunity Cost of Uncertainty
Ramiro N. Deo-Campo Vuong, Robert Kleinberg, Aditya Prasad, Eric Xiao, Haifeng Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06187

The Keychain Problem: On Minimizing the Opportunity Cost of Uncertainty
In this paper, we introduce a family of sequential decision-making problems, collectively called the Keychain Problem, that involve exploring a set of actions to maximize expected payoff when only a subset of actions are available in each stage. In an instance of the Keychain Problem, a locksmith faces a sequence of choices, each of which involves selecting one key from a specified subset (a keychain) to attempt to open a lock. Given a Bayesian prior on the effectiveness of keys, the locksmith'…

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 #VarietyMix
The Black Keys:
🎵 Act Nice and Gentle
#TheBlackKeys
https://theblackkeys.bandcamp.com/track/act-nice-and-gentle-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xjiVZARgDnyYQF3dOXeOp

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

Working with the new #Idempotency Keys #RFC
https://httptoolkit.com/blog/idempotency-keys/…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Black Keys:
🎵 No Rain, No Flowers
#NowPlaying #TheBlackKeys
https://open.spotify.com/track/2aCRmuNL8RaBi8h7BbmTsT

Can the Eagles repeat as Super Bowl champs? The keys to Philadelphia's 2025 title defense

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/can-the-eagle…

apparently the NVMe spec has provisions for key-value storage being done natively by the drive controller. keys can be up to 16 bytes in size

Nexstar reports Q2 revenue down 3% YoY to $1.23B, primarily due to reduced political ad revenue in a US non-election year, and net income down 14% YoY to $91M (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/nexstar-q2-2025-financial-earnings/

Nexstar Q2 revenue impacted by soft ad market
Nexstar reported $1.23 billion in Q2 revenue, down 3 percent due to lower political ad spending in a non-election year.

6 years and I'm still stumbling across stupid crap done in my hiatus.
E.g. someone partly disaggregated a system of shared SSH configs and keys such that when I made one change needed for slow-rolling updates across 3 dozen intimately interoperating physical hosts, it created a nightmare.
So now I rebuild what I did in 2016. At least I documented it, so it took far less time to fix than to diagnose.

Compressed verification for post-quantum signatures with long-term public keys
Gustavo Banegas (LIX, GRACE), Ana\"elle Le D\'ev\'ehat (GRACE, LIX), Benjamin Smith (GRACE, LIX)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03098

Compressed verification for post-quantum signatures with long-term public keys
Many signature applications-such as root certificates, secure software updates, and authentication protocols-involve long-lived public keys that are transferred or installed once and then used for many verifications. This key longevity makes post-quantum signature schemes with conservative assumptions (e.g., structure-free lattices) attractive for long-term security. But many such schemes, especially those with short signatures, suffer from extremely large public keys. Even in scenarios where b…

Some thoughtful stuff about passkeys and the identity ecosystem, includes a few angles I hadn’t thought of: #identity

Passkeys and Modern Authentication
Some thoughts in support of simple solutions.

last night was the 700th @… frow show & the final regularly scheduled edition for a minute, passing the mothership keys to the great @… 'til we meet once again high in the airwaves, 3 (more) hours of new sounds & fresh delights:

@… thanks! It was no big deal.
But my keys are not sticking to my forehead yet! Should I be worried?

Attention as an Adaptive Filter
Peter Racioppo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04154 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04154 …

Attention as an Adaptive Filter
We introduce Adaptive Filter Attention (AFA), a novel attention mechanism that incorporates a learnable dynamics model directly into the computation of attention weights. Rather than comparing queries and keys directly, we model the input sequence as discrete observations of a linear stochastic differential equation (SDE). By imposing a linear dynamics model with simultaneously diagonalizable state matrices and noise covariances, we can make use of a closed-form solution to the differential Lya…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Allysha Joy:
🎵 Dropping Keys
#AllyshaJoy
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gqZzPOrYSJVdeY40KIG6S

Maple keys spiral
To form a mat on the ground
A carpet of life.
#dailyhaikuprompt - spiral
#haiku
#poem

The registry keys referenced in this article are good things to check for in your environment. There aren’t many legitimate uses for macros and VBA in Outlook and you should ensure that functionality is disabled and stays that way.
#cybersecurity
From: @…

What Are Weighted Keys and Why You Need (or Don't Need) Them?
#DigitalPiano #MusicianTips
https://m…

What Are Weighted Keys and Why You Need (or Don't Need) Them?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

i have not followed this too closely (as i think #CRA is only a rubberstamping thing) but would the CRA not apply to this case: https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/4538/
i think i might have…

Cowboys keys to clipping Eagles wings focus on winning the edge, get Hurts to scary hours https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/03/cowboys-eagles-week-1-2025-3-keys/85952466007/

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

Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I'll make you little jackets;
I'll make you little trousers
From his old pants.
There'll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
...cont. 1/2

The Forgotten Code: Validating a Century-Old Translation System with AI
Jean-Marie Le Ray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02506 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02506…

The Forgotten Code: Validating a Century-Old Translation System with AI
A pioneering rule-based mechanical translation system (precursor of modern RBMTs) was first presented in December 1929 by its inventor, Federico Pucci, who later published the full method in a book titled "Il traduttore meccanico ed il metodo per corrispondersi fra Europei conoscendo ciascuno solo la propria lingua: Parte I", in Salerno (Italy), in 1931. This study illustrates how AI breathes new life into the system of international keys and ideograms devised by Pucci to translate from/into an…

If I were one of the universities that have caved and kow-towed to FFOTUS and have agreed to install government monitors...
I would simply give those monitors absolute no support - no office space, no keys, no access.
And when FFOTUS came to sue I would say "those contract terms are either unconscionable [not enforceable here in California] or the result of unlawful coercion [and thus not enforceable in most places.]
Of course FFOTUS would again try to withhold funds.

Here‘s a little tip if you’re using (the latest version of) Helix Editor:
Add the following keybinding to your config (if you don’t use Ctrl b for page up, that is; otherwise, change the key):
[keys.normal]
C-b = ":echo %sh{git blame -L %{cursor_line}, 1 %{buffer_name}}"
Now, when you press Crtl b in the editor, you’ll see the git blame for the line you’re on. Very useful for seeing which commit the line last changed in and, for teams, who committed the chang…

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…

I have bad news from CalysOS team.😐
"We will be switching to new signing keys along with the overhaul of the signing and verification process. As a result, current CalyxOS users will not be able to receive further security software updates until this process is in place.
Given the potential risk posed by the pause of maintenance and development, it’s logical that we stop providing options to install CalyxOS for now." - CalyxOS

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
The Black Keys:
🎵 Man On A Mission
#TheBlackKeys
https://open.spotify.com/track/6fJld32axCH9Aw7XlVLoGG

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
...
Design of Experiments
...
PDSA improvement cycle: Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle...

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Black Keys:
🎵 On Repeat
#NowPlaying #TheBlackKeys
https://open.spotify.com/track/2B5ZNovTMGMW50ml95BP7L

»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.

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.

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…

Ex-officer who mistook a Black man's keys and phone for a gun gets 15 years to life for murder (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ohio-officer-sentenced-andre-hill-4c52391a6116a2660cbac918b8e6471a
http://www.memeorandum.com/250728/p125#a250728p125

So I think the idea is to keep dropping buttons and keys from laptop keyboards until everything is just a tablet? RIP dedicated pgup/pgdn keys.
meanwhile some hardware engineer was like, "keep that dedicated 'prt sc' key, I push that 500 times per day! never touch page down, tho.."

Efficient QKD in Non-Ideal Scenarios with User-Defined Output Length Requirements
Andr\'es Mart\'in-Megino, Blanca L\'opez, Iv\'an Vidal Fern\'andez, Francisco Valera Pintor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04140

Efficient QKD in Non-Ideal Scenarios with User-Defined Output Length Requirements
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) enables two parties to securely share encryption keys by leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics, offering protection against eavesdropping. In practical implementations, QKD systems often rely on a layered architecture where a key manager stores secret key material in a buffer and delivers it to higher communication layers as needed. However, this buffer can be depleted under high demand, requiring efficient replenishment strategies that minimize resource …

"Here is an example: the Keymaker (played by Randall Duk Kim in the second movie) appears as a… well, a keymaker, sharpening keys as if he were in a Mister Minit shop. Looking at him at work, one can forget the complexity of the software keys represented by those entities; are they symmetric key pairs? Are they based on RSA or Ed25519? Is the keychain in his belt stored in the KDBX format?"

Nicknames for Group Signatures
Guillaume Quispe, Pierre Jouvelot, Gerard Memmi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02543 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02543

Nicknames for Group Signatures
Nicknames for Group Signatures (NGS) is a new signature scheme that extends Group Signatures (GS) with Signatures with Flexible Public Keys (SFPK). Via GS, each member of a group can sign messages on behalf of the group without revealing his identity, except to a designated auditor. Via SFPK, anyone can create new identities for a particular user, enabling anonymous transfers with only the intended recipient able to trace these new identities. To prevent the potential abuses that this anonymi…

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…

TIL: In #Linux, when you "switch user" (in Wayland or X11), the second user opens up a separate session which you can directly switch to using the Ctrl-Alt-F-keys without re-authenticating, as long as the user-specific sessions aren't locked.
In Debian 13 #GNOME, the first user session is Ct…

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!…

PSA: The Black Keys are marvellous https://youtu.be/ygdVEIrVnIk?si=1iHCE_zj_MnmaF2Y

via @atypical.erin@threads.net

The FCC rejects a proposal by broadcasters and others that would have imposed cable-style fees on streaming services, tech companies, and broadband providers (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/fcc-no-broadband-fees-nab/

FCC rejects calls for cable-like fees on broadband providers
The FCC says it doesn't have the budget or the manpower to enforce new regulatory fees on other sectors.

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.

Esto es también de la semana pasada: «No Rain, No Flowers» el nuevo disco de The Black Keys.
#TheBlackKeys

Crypto folks (maybe @… ): what's the latest estimates on difficulty of real world factorization attacks on a single 1024 bit RSA modulus?
Like, i know it's "plausible enough for a state level attacker to break that you shouldn't be using 1024 bit keys" but nobody's ever demonstrated an actual factorization yet.
So in terms of co…

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

🔊 #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

"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.

LowKeyEMG: Electromyographic typing with a reduced keyset
Johannes Y. Lee, Derek Xiao, Shreyas Kaasyap, Nima R. Hadidi, John L. Zhou, Jacob Cunningham, Rakshith R. Gore, Deniz O. Eren, Jonathan C. Kao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19736

LowKeyEMG: Electromyographic typing with a reduced keyset
We introduce LowKeyEMG, a real-time human-computer interface that enables efficient text entry using only 7 gesture classes decoded from surface electromyography (sEMG). Prior work has attempted full-alphabet decoding from sEMG, but decoding large character sets remains unreliable, especially for individuals with motor impairments. Instead, LowKeyEMG reduces the English alphabet to 4 gesture keys, with 3 more for space and system interaction, to reliably translate simple one-handed gestures int…

🇺🇦 #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

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 […]

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

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

Block Communications enters into an agreement to sell its entire portfolio of TV stations to Gray Media for $80M; the deal is expected to close in Q4 2025 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/gray-media-acquiring-block-communications-tv-st…

Block Communications sells TV stations to Gray Media
Block Communications has entered into an agreement to sell its entire portfolio of television stations to Gray Media, the companies announced on Friday.

Thermal-Aware 3D Design for Side-Channel Information Leakage
Dylan Stow, Russell Barnes, Eren Kurshan, Yuan Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02816 https://ar…

Thermal-Aware 3D Design for Side-Channel Information Leakage
Side-channel attacks are important security challenges as they reveal sensitive information about on-chip activities. Among such attacks, the thermal side-channel has been shown to disclose the activities of key functional blocks and even encryption keys. This paper proposes a novel approach to proactively conceal critical activities in the functional layers while minimizing the power dissipation by (i) leveraging inherent characteristics of 3D integration to protect from side-channel attacks a…

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

Zeroize: The Tiny and Memory-Safe Rust Crate - Sensitive Data in Memory: A Hidden Threat
In a secure environment, one of the most overlooked threats is the presence of sensitive data in memory, such as passwords, tokens, cryptographic keys, or card numbers. Even when using Rust, where we emphasize ownership and thread safety, there's another crucial question to consider: What remains in the heap or stack after we no longer need it?
🛡️

Zeroize: The Tiny and Memory-Safe Rust Crate
Sensitive Data in Memory: A Hidden Threat In a secure environment, one of the most...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Calvin Keys:
🎵 Touch
#CalvinKeys
https://fromthestacks.bandcamp.com/track/touch
https://open.spotify.com/track/4pNbfrtUPcjAeRPlgs6IrB

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

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Pulp (28) Garbage (23) Hayley Williams (21) Halestorm (12) The Black Keys (12). #myweekcounted 191 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Spotlight Attention: Towards Efficient LLM Generation via Non-linear Hashing-based KV Cache Retrieval
Wenhao Li, Yuxin Zhang, Gen Luo, Haiyuan Wan, Ziyang Gong, Fei Chao, Rongrong Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19740

Spotlight Attention: Towards Efficient LLM Generation via Non-linear Hashing-based KV Cache Retrieval
Reducing the key-value (KV) cache burden in Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly accelerates inference. Dynamically selecting critical KV caches during decoding helps maintain performance. Existing methods use random linear hashing to identify important tokens, but this approach is inefficient due to the orthogonal distribution of queries and keys within two narrow cones in LLMs. We introduce Spotlight Attention, a novel method that employs non-linear hashing functions to optimize the emb…

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.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Black Keys:
🎵 Man On A Mission
#NowPlaying #TheBlackKeys
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

The FCC rejects a proposal by broadcasters and others that would have imposed cable-style fees on streaming services, tech companies, and broadband providers (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/fcc-no-broadband-fees-nab/

FCC rejects calls for cable-like fees on broadband providers
The FCC says it doesn't have the budget or the manpower to enforce new regulatory fees on other sectors.

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

Towards a Decentralized IoT Onboarding for Smart Homes Using Consortium Blockchain
Narges Dadkhah, Khan Reaz, Gerhard Wunder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21480 https://

Towards a Decentralized IoT Onboarding for Smart Homes Using Consortium Blockchain
The increasing adoption of smart home devices and IoT-based security systems presents significant opportunities to enhance convenience, safety, and risk management for homeowners and service providers. However, secure onboarding-provisioning credentials and establishing trust with cloud platforms-remains a considerable challenge. Traditional onboarding methods often rely on centralized Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) models and manufacturer-controlled keys, which introduce security risks and li…

49ers CB Deommodore Lenoir arrested after officers allege obstruction of justice in traffic stop

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-c

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The Black Keys:
🎵 Little Black Submarines
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https://open.spotify.com/track/1PXsUXSM3LF2XNSkmIldPb

After the spinoff, WBD's streaming and studios business will be called The Warner Bros Company and its cable networks business will be called Discovery Global (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/07/wbd-new-names-discovery-global-warner-bros/…

WBD reveals new names for cable networks business, film studio segment
The spin-off is expected to be finalized in the near future, with the cable networks company owning equity in the film and streaming business.

AmphiKey: A Dual-Mode Secure Authenticated Key Encapsulation Protocol for Smart Grid
Kazi Hassan Shakib, Muhammad Asfand Hafeez, Arslan Munir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01701 ht…

AmphiKey: A Dual-Mode Secure Authenticated Key Encapsulation Protocol for Smart Grid
AmphiKey, a dual-mode post-quantum/traditional (PQ/T) hybrid authenticated key exchange mechanism (AKEM) has been designed to secure smart grid communications against both classical and quantum threats. AmphiKey offers two distinct operational modes within a single framework: an Authenticated Mode and a Deniable Mode. The Authenticated Mode employs a blackbox approach, combining ephemeral ML-KEM-768 and X25519 with long-term Raccoon DSA keys to provide forward secrecy and strong, non-repudiable…

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Alicia Keys:
🎵 You Don’t Know My Name
#AliciaKeys
https://tuomusic.bandcamp.com/track/alicia-keys-you-dont-know-my-name-tuo-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6LGwYMXXgURfaequXipzHx

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

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Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys:
🎵 Empire State Of Mind
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https://juanvalencia.bandcamp.com/track/jay-z-alicia-keys-empire-state-of-mind-juan-valencia-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2igwFfvr1OAGX9SKDCPBwO

Underrated X factors for each NFC North team in 2025 season: Secret keys for Bears, Lions, Packers, Vikings

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/underra…

Polynomial Lattices for the BIKE Cryptosystem
Michael Schaller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23641 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23641

Polynomial Lattices for the BIKE Cryptosystem
In this paper we introduce a rank $2$ lattice over a polynomial ring arising from the public key of the BIKE cryptosystem \cite{aragon2022bike}. The secret key is a sparse vector in this lattice. We study properties of this lattice and generalize the recovery of weak keys from \cite{BardetDLO16}. In particular, we show that they implicitly solved a shortest vector problem in the lattice we constructed. Rather than finding only a shortest vector, we obtain a reduced basis of the lattice which ma…

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)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/directv-mykids-plan-paramount-global-channels/…

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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The Black Keys:
🎵 The Night Before
#NowPlaying #TheBlackKeys
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kawArrYyru9uT0phHxWKt

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 …

Sling TV launches Sling Select, a smaller bundle including Fox News, FX, and FS1, for $20/mo in some places and rising to $25-$30 with ABC, Fox, and NBC access (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/sling-tv-sling-select-launch/

Sling TV launches low-cost Sling Select package for $20 per month
August 19, 2025 - The plan includes access to streaming versions of cable channels like Fox News, NFL Network and Vice TV.

Newsmax reports Q2 revenue of $46.4M, up 18.4% YoY, a net loss of $75.2M, compared with a $4.8M loss in Q2 2024, primarily due to settlement costs with Dominion (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/newsmax-q2-2025-earnings-report/

Newsmax revenue climbs to $46 million during Q2
August 19, 2025 - The company renewed its carriage deal with Comcast, inked a new talent agreement with Greta van Susteren and expanded its reach on Hulu with Live TV.

Temperature-Resilient Reconfigurable PUF with Dual-Pulse Modulation based on SOT-MRAM Chip
Min Wang, Chuanpeng Jiang, Zhaohao Wang, Zhengyi Hou, Zhongkui Zhang, Yuanfu Zhao, Hongxi Liu, Weisheng Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16405

Temperature-Resilient Reconfigurable PUF with Dual-Pulse Modulation based on SOT-MRAM Chip
In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, hardware-based security solutions have become an emerging choice for enhancing end-terminal information security. As one of the hardware technologies, physical unclonable functions (PUFs) utilize the inherent variations in the manufacturing process to generate cryptographic keys. Reconfigurable PUFs (rPUFs), characterized by updating cryptographic keys, offer enhanced security ability for protecting massive amounts of data in dynamic operational scenarios. T…

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.…

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🎵 Lonely Boy
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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

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…

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…