Tootfinder

Une belle compagnie Québécoise.
CEO: Stephan Crétier
Le gouvernment du Québec a investi 300 millions dans l’entreprise
#garda #alligatoralcatraz #alligatorauschwitz

Microsoft says it didn't cut services to the International Criminal Court, after an AP report in May said it "cancelled" the email of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan (Sam Clark/Politico)
https://www.po…

Microsoft didn’t cut services to International Criminal Court, its president says
Chief prosecutor’s email issues have spurred fears in Europe that Trump could trigger a “kill switch” through U.S. tech giants abroad.

A post from the archive 📫:
Invalid Access to memory location in KUDU App Services
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/invalid-access-to-memory-location-in-kudu-app-services

Digital Services Act: Drei weitere Trusted Flagger benannt
Der deutsche Digital Services Coordinator bei der Bundesnetzagentur hat heute drei weiteren Organisationen den Status als sogenannte Trusted Flagger verliehen.

Public Service Announcement: If you've worked in the UK, and you've changed the UK number that you use for accessing Gov.UK services, it is impossible to restore access because the default recovery workflow requires UK-issued photo ids: either a UK passport, or a UK driving license, are mandatory, even if you never had one or provided one in the first place.
Happily enough, as long as you keep your National Insurance Number, you can create a new Gateway ID, but this time follow…

the3million | Proving identity on Government websites with a non-UK passport | Giving a voice to EU citizens in the UK
HMRC, DWP and other government services have changed the way in which people sign in to access these services. This is a step-by-step guide for EU citizens and other non-UK passport holders to be able to access the Government Gateway, to see your tax records, pension records and other finance information, even if you do not have a British passport.

The uncertainty over federal Medicaid funding appears to have claimed its first victim in Nebraska.
Community Hospital in McCook announced Wednesday that it will close Curtis Medical Center in Curtis,
winding down its services over the next several months.
"Unfortunately, the current financial environment,
👉driven by anticipated federal budget cuts to Medicaid,
has made it impossible for us to continue operating all of our services,
many of which have…

Southwest Nebraska hospital announces plans to close, blames uncertainty over funding
Community Hospital in McCook announced Wednesday that it will close Curtis Medical Center in Curtis, winding down its services over the next several months.

Offenbar ist #Brandenburg mit Tesla noch nicht genug gestraft. Amazon will auch was vom Wasser.
Und nein, mit 'Souveränität' hat es nichts zu tun, wenn einer von Trumps Buddys hier mehr Geld verdienen will.
Ort ist noch geheim: Internet, kriegen wir das raus?
Amazon will als Cloud-Anbieter 8 Milliarden Euro in Brandenburg investieren | rbb24

Wonderful, my new mini computer / home server also works as a remote peertube runner. Not the fastest of course but that's fine.
https://www.locked.de/how-to-use-a-lenovo-thinkcentre-m910q-as-a-powerful-home-server/

Dutch Caribbean islands' government agencies have been knocked offline by ransomware attacks
https://nltimes.nl/2025/08/02/ransomware-attacks-cripple-government-services-across-dutch-caribbean-islands

Ransomware attacks cripple government services across Dutch Caribbean islands
Several major government institutions across the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands were hit by cyberattacks last week, including a ransomware attack on Curaçao’s Tax and Customs Administration that temporarily disabled critical services, NOS reports.

In the extended version of @…'s The Internet Last Week, we spotted this #GitHub incident: https://www.

Disruption with some GitHub services
GitHub's Status Page - Disruption with some GitHub services.

Does someone know if it is possible to use the devenv services with flake-parts?
I would like to only consume the nix modules and use them with flake-parts.
I know that services-flake exists but I want specifically the devenv services.
#nix #nixos

I've been following the #Meshtastic and #meshnetwork hashtags for a few months now. Cool article came out in Wired

Let’s be crystal clear about what this law actually accomplishes: It makes it harder for adults to access perfectly legal (and often helpful) information and services. It forces people to create detailed trails of their online activit…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

Let’s be crystal clear about what this law actually accomplishes: It makes it harder for adults to access perfectly legal (and often helpful) information and services. It forces people to create detailed trails of their online activit…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

A Comprehensive Machine Learning Framework for Micromobility Demand Prediction
Omri Porat, Michael Fire, Eran Ben-Elia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02715 htt…

A Comprehensive Machine Learning Framework for Micromobility Demand Prediction
Dockless e-scooters, a key micromobility service, have emerged as eco-friendly and flexible urban transport alternatives. These services improve first and last-mile connectivity, reduce congestion and emissions, and complement public transport for short-distance travel. However, effective management of these services depends on accurate demand prediction, which is crucial for optimal fleet distribution and infrastructure planning. While previous studies have focused on analyzing spatial or temp…

Romero Games here in Galway has announced the redundancies of a large amount of staff.
If you have been affected and need support, please reach out to me so our union Game Workers Unite Ireland can help support you.
Connect with me at contact@denmanrooke.com or the union advice centre at https://www.fsunion.org/member…

Everybody complaining about getting hammered with #AI traffic seems to think that these are crawlers scraping for training data.
How likely is it that this is a complete misconception and this is all inference time?
Most public companies give their cralwers and RAG agents different user agent strings. But what about security services trawling through their data?

AI is flooding libraries with generated content just as budgets and staff are at their most precarious. This Thursday at 10am EDT my ASIS&T webinar asks if we need to ban it, label it, absorb it—or rethink the library itself.
https://www.asist.org/meetings-events/webi

Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Airbnb Experiences, its push into services, OpenAI, AI agents, making decisions at Airbnb, cutting PMs, Jony Ive, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wants to build the everything app
The head of Airbnb on expanding beyond travel, AI and design, and the future of real-world experiences.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announces that it is shutting down following the loss of federal funding (CPB)
https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding…

You learn and learn and learn the language of a culture, then one day you read a news heading and understand them ->
Congress passes budget to expand mass deportations, cut social services, and stall clean energy
https://www.theverge.com/policy/697879/con

Congress passes budget to expand mass deportations, cut social services, and stall clean energy
Congress has passed a budget bill that will fund President Donald Trump’s push for mass deportations while cutting access to Medicaid and stalling clean energy.

Analyzing Contact Patterns in Public Transportation Systems for Opportunistic Communication Services
Eduardo R. Manika, Emilio C. G. Wille, Joilson Alves Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02217

Analyzing Contact Patterns in Public Transportation Systems for Opportunistic Communication Services
Vehicle mobility has a significant impact on wireless communication between vehicles (buses) in Public Transportation Systems (PTS). Nevertheless, the transportation literature does not provide satisfactory models for bus movements because they are influenced by a variety of factors (itineraries, timetables, etc.). Custom-made mobility models that take these issues into account require a great deal of effort and may render simulations unfeasible. This article considers a tool (EMMS) that automa…

much smaller scale, but Mayor Lurie's SF budget increasing money for cops and jails while slashing social services (eviction legal aid, food bank, etc.) rhymes with the federal bill throwing people off Medicaid to fund concentration camps and ICE.

« “I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web. Together, we can fix that.»
This reminds me of how for openSNP we used to say that our ToS are “human-readable instead of being lawyer-readable”.
This collaborative effort tries to do the same for many large online services.
https://tosdr.org/en/

New #WhiteHouse edict targets jurisdictions that are perceived to not be removiving "Endemic #vagrancy" and "drug users" with punitive measures. Specifically mentioned are threats to cut federal funding to cities that do not stop allowing so-called “harm reduction” or “safe consumption” sites for…

From Reports to Reality: Testing Consistency in Instagram's Digital Services Act Compliance Data
Marie-Therese Sekwenz, Ben Wagner, Hans De Bruijn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01787

From Reports to Reality: Testing Consistency in Instagram's Digital Services Act Compliance Data
The Digital Services Act (DSA) introduces harmonized rules for content moderation and platform governance in the European Union, mandating robust compliance mechanisms, particularly for very large online platforms and search engines. This study examined compliance with DSA requirements, focusing on Instagram as a case study. We develop and apply a multi-level consistency framework to evaluate DSA compliance. Our findings contribute to the broader discussion on empirically-based regulation, prov…

How US adults are using 'buy now, pay later' services, according to a new AP-NORC poll (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/poll-cost-living-groceries-expense-stress-worry-cd183c59f034f6e87525675f3ca04864
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p66#a250804p66

@… @… This is great to know! If I can set up SearXNG or something to proxy search a bunch of services, I will look into it.

Evolving HPC services to enable ML workloads on HPE Cray EX
Stefano Schuppli, Fawzi Mohamed, Henrique Mendon\c{c}a, Nina Mujkanovic, Elia Palme, Dino Conciatore, Lukas Drescher, Miguel Gila, Pim Witlox, Joost VandeVondele, Maxime Martinasso, Thomas C. Schulthess, Torsten Hoefler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01880

Evolving HPC services to enable ML workloads on HPE Cray EX
The Alps Research Infrastructure leverages GH200 technology at scale, featuring 10,752 GPUs. Accessing Alps provides a significant computational advantage for researchers in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). While Alps serves a broad range of scientific communities, traditional HPC services alone are not sufficient to meet the dynamic needs of the ML community. This paper presents an initial investigation into extending HPC service capabilities to better support ML workloa…

It's a garage that services Fiats. A futility clinic.
#SponsorablePost

📣 Beim diesjährigen Culture Community Plenary 5
(24.–26.09.2025, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz) bieten wir erneut beim Markt der Möglichkeiten ein Austauschformat vor Ort an, bei dem sich Projekte, Services von NFDI4Culture, aber auch Participants und Partner:innen des Konsortiums vorstellen können.
📨 Bis zum 15.07.2025 können Interessierte eine kurze Beschreibung des Posters an uns senden: coordination-office@nfdi4culture.de

Happy Fourth of July!
There are many great things about the United States of America, but there are so many ways “we need to do better.” Together, we can.
Check out my article for Heal Our Culture: “Commit To Do Better”
https://open.substack…

Commit To Do Better
At the start of every Caldwell Presbyterian Church worship service, our leaders share a “land acknowledgment,” remembering and acknowledging the native people and First Nations from whom the land our church was built on was unlawfully taken from / stolen from.

Anyone using #JupyterHub (services.jupyterhub.enable=true) on :nixos: #NixOS? Then you should have run into the database migration issue here:

JupyterHub database migration
I am struggling hard to get my JupyterHub working again. After an update (longer ago), JupyterHub often requires a manual database migration and refuses to start: ❯ journalctl -efu jupyterhub ... Jun 04 22:10:41 yann-desktop-nixos jupyterhub[1038575]: Found database schema version 0eee8c825d24 != 4621fec11365. Backup your database and run `jupyterhub upgrade-db` to upgrade to the latest schema. ... Jun 04 22:10:42 yann-desktop-nixos systemd[1]: Failed to start Jupyterhub development server. …

I may or may not load #ICEBlock. I’m unclear on the validity of the privacy claims and don’t have the time to dive into it deeply...
However, I found it amusing that someone complained about it wanting “Always On" location services. Clearly someone not getting the point that it is meant to *ALERT you when ICE is nearby. Not to tell you only when you ask.

Ouch
Toronto’s latest bike lane plan doesn’t propose new lanes for the first time in years
#topoli #biketo

A little tip to all those folks using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud: you're paying ~ 20x more than you need to be paying. If you claim you're using 'special services only provided by __insert name of ripoff cloud provider here__' then you've got your organisation locked into a single provider with the inability to move to a better one. Consider your options very carefully & build vendor-agnostic systems. Dependence on

Thanks @… for your article on Docker cgroup on Raspberry Pi, helped me out of a pickle!
https://akashrajpurohit.com/…

Resolving Missing Memory Stats in Docker Stats on Raspberry Pi
Running Docker containers on your Raspberry Pi can be a great way to explore different software and services. However, encountering issues with retrieving memory usage information using docker stats can be frustrating. In this blog post will dive into the common reasons behind missing memory stats and guide you through the troubleshooting steps to resolve them.

»Managed-Detection and Response – meist mehr Schein als Sein«
Die Firmen auf die darauf setzen sind (selten) dies Schuldigen aber fallen ungeprüft leichtgläubig in MDR-Services, das sich als "IT-Security" verkaufen, herein – aber ja wem sage ich das? Nein simpel ist dies je nach Umfang sicherlich nicht.
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Managed-Detection and Response – meist mehr Schein als Sein
Ein Blick hinter die Fassade vieler MDR-Services. Managed-Detection and Response (MDR) ist der neue Hype der IT-Sicherheitsbranche. Kaum ein Systemhaus,

European countries have been growing increasingly wary of relying on Microsoft for critical government and public sector services.
Concerns about data privacy, digital sovereignty, and potential governmental surveillance have led many to question the viability of depending on an American tech giant for sensitive infrastructure.
Many worry that dependence on Microsoft could leave them vulnerable to sudden service interruptions or the risk of sensitive data being accessed without …

French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft
Microsoft faces growing rejection in Europe whereas open source software sees growing adaption.

Hybrid Satellite-Ground Deployments for Web3 DID: System Design and Performance Analysis
Yalin Liu, Zhigang Yan, Bingyuan Luo, Xiaochi Xu, Hong-Ning Dai, Yaru Fu, Bishenghui Tao, Siu-Kei Au Yeung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02305

Hybrid Satellite-Ground Deployments for Web3 DID: System Design and Performance Analysis
The emerging Web3 has great potential to provide worldwide decentralized services powered by global-range data-driven networks in the future. To ensure the security of Web3 services among diverse user entities, a decentralized identity (DID) system is essential. Especially, a user's access request to Web3 services can be treated as a DID transaction within the blockchain, executed through a consensus mechanism. However, a critical implementation issue arises in the current Web3, i.e., how to de…

#LetsEncrypt issues first #IP address certificate after years of requests 🌐 Enables #HTTPS for services accessed by numerical addresses. Short-lived 6-day certificates via

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07818 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Real-time Chest X-Ray Distributed Decision Support for Resource-constrained Clinics
Internet of Things (IoT) based healthcare systems offer significant potential for improving the delivery of healthcare services in humanitarian engineering, providing essential healthcare services to millions of underserved people in remote areas worldwide. However, these areas have poor network infrastructure, making communications difficult for traditional IoT. This paper presents a real-time chest X-ray classification system for hospitals in remote areas using FastDDS real-time middleware, o…

AWS = Amazon = Jeff Bezos, auf dem Schoß von Trump.
Corporate Presence.
European sovereign cloud.
Merkste selbst.
Souverän? Wer ist da souverän? Was bedeutet dieses sinnentleerte Wort? Nichts.
AWS establishes new German corporate presence to advance European sovereign cloud | TechCrunch

Just had a 45-minute session of picking blackberries in my garden, during which 7 passenger trains passed by on the Bethnal Green and Kings Lynn line. That seems like a remarkable frequency of services for a Sunday, I wonder if there's something unusual happening. #railway

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface aided Integrated-Navigation-and-Communication in Urban Canyons: A Satellite Selection Approach
Tianwei Hou, Da Guan, Xin Sun, Anna Li, Wenqiang Yi, Yuanwei Liu, Arumugam Nallanathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01766

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface aided Integrated-Navigation-and-Communication in Urban Canyons: A Satellite Selection Approach
This study investigates the application of a simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided medium-Earth-orbit (MEO) satellite network for providing both global positioning services and communication services in the urban canyons, where the direct satellite-user links are obstructed. Superposition coding (SC) and successive interference cancellation (SIC) techniques are utilized for the integrated navigation and communication (INAC) networks, and th…

Interested in how "sovereign EU" AWS will work with Cloudfront and Trust Services (certificates) as these still currently require the use of us-east-1... and the subsequent agreement to submit to US courts for disputes.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/aws

AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0
: Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025

Demo: TOSense -- What Did You Just Agree to?
Xinzhang Chen, Hassan Ali, Arash Shaghaghi, Salil S. Kanhere, Sanjay Jha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00659 https://

Demo: TOSense -- What Did You Just Agree to?
Online services often require users to agree to lengthy and obscure Terms of Service (ToS), leading to information asymmetry and legal risks. This paper proposes TOSense-a Chrome extension that allows users to ask questions about ToS in natural language and get concise answers in real time. The system combines (i) a crawler "tos-crawl" that automatically extracts ToS content, and (ii) a lightweight large language model pipeline: MiniLM for semantic retrieval and BART-encoder for answer relevanc…

Scenes From Deerlick Creek
#northyork

OpenAI rolls out connectors for services like Dropbox and OneDrive for ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu users; MCP support is coming to Pro, Team, Enterprise (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/chat

ChatGPT introduces meeting recording and connectors for Google Drive, Box, and more | TechCrunch
OpenAI's ChatGPT is adding new features for business users, including integrations with different cloud services, meeting recording, and MCP connection

Mike Burgees, the Director-General of Security of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), warns employees of defense contractors that they're targets of foreign intelligence services on LinkedIn.
https://www.asio.gov.au/26th-annual-hawke-

Cinco de Buy Low: UDFA looks to show Cowboys the draft isn't the only place to find a star https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/04/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-38-safety-al…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07849 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

The Invisible Hand: Unveiling Provider Bias in Large Language Models for Code Generation
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as the new recommendation engines, surpassing traditional methods in both capability and scope, particularly in code generation. In this paper, we reveal a novel provider bias in LLMs: without explicit directives, these models show systematic preferences for services from specific providers in their recommendations (e.g., favoring Google Cloud over Microsoft Azure). To systematically investigate this bias, we develop an automated pipeline to construct t…

A reminder that URL's each only count for 23 characters against your post's character limit, regardless of how long it actually is, precisely so that people can see where the link is going and discourage use of link shorteners
https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComp

🧵 The reason we have an "economy" is so we can get goods and services *we need*, and so that people can *make a living* providing those goods and services. The reason we have government, is so that society can function *for us*. The common thread is providing things and help we *need*. Lets call that "value" . 1/x

This is a good account of the ham-fisted use of AI in the MAHA report. AI has no understanding of science, and if it does get something right, it's because of the (human) choice of training materials. It's undisclosed use is dangerous and dishonest -like RFK Jr
https://www.washing…

White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.

The UK government rejects a proposed 5% levy on streaming services and a 25% tax rebate on ad costs for indie films, among other committee recommendations (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/uk-government-rejects-streamin…

U.K. Government Formally Rejects Streaming Levy
U.K. government rejects streaming platform levy and multiple film industry recommendations while emphasizing benefits of international investments.

"#OpenAccess and #Citation #Impact: Modality, Funding, Publisher, and Disciplinary Trends at the University of Kentucky"

Sphereabout: A Spherical Intersection Design for Networked Urban Air Mobility
Farzan Moosavi, Bilal Farooq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01610 https://…

Sphereabout: A Spherical Intersection Design for Networked Urban Air Mobility
Urban aerial mobility is rapidly expanding, specifically on-demand Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) delivery services in urban environments. This necessitates management of the low-altitude airspace network to ensure smooth and safe traffic throughput. This study introduces a novel three-dimensional aerial network design inspired by a terrestrial transportation graph network for UAV networked mobility. Utilizing two-way tube corridors for node-to-node delivery and a spherical roundabout model, as …

White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge
The White House does not plan to require health insurers to provide coverage for in vitro fertilization services,
two people with knowledge of internal discussions said,
even though the idea was one of Donald Trump’s key campaign pledges.

Last year, Trump said that if he returned to office, the government would either pay for IVF services or issue rules requiring insurance companies to cover treatme…

White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge
President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt.

@… @… Will do. I am probably gonna wait until I have an x86 machine to run this on because the RPi is pissing me off. I want to manage services with NixOS and systemd-nspawn, not Docker.

Tetris: Efficient Intra-Datacenter Calls Packing for Large Conferencing Services
Rohan Gandhi, Ankur Mallick, Ken Sueda, Rui Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00426 https://

Tetris: Efficient Intra-Datacenter Calls Packing for Large Conferencing Services
Conference services like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet facilitate millions of daily calls, yet ensuring high performance at low costs remains a significant challenge. This paper revisits the problem of packing calls across Media Processor (MP) servers that host the calls within individual datacenters (DCs). We show that the algorithm used in Teams -- a large scale conferencing service as well as other state-of-art algorithms are prone to placing calls resulting in some of the MPs becom…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17831 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

High-resolution urban air pollution and thermal comfort mapping: an application of drive mobile sensing platform for smart city services
Air pollutant exposure exhibits significant spatial and temporal variability, with localized hotspots, particularly in traffic microenvironments, posing health risks to commuters. Although widely used for air quality assessment, fixed-site monitoring stations are limited by sparse distribution, high costs, and maintenance needs, making them less effective in capturing on-road pollution levels. This study utilizes a fleet of 314 taxis equipped with sensors to measure NO\textsubscript{2}, PM\text…

Branchenstudie: Pay-TV-Services im "industriellen Maßstab" illegal kopiert
Die Untätigkeit von Big-Tech-Konzernen unterstütze den "Diebstahl" von Premium-Videodiensten wie Live-Sportstreams im großen Stil, heißt es in einer Analyse.

Gmail’s New Feature Lets You Clean Up Your Inbox in a Couple of Taps (CNET, 1 August 2025)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/gmails-new-feature-lets-you-clean-up-your-inbox-in-a-couple-of-taps/

Gmail's New Feature Lets You Clean Up Your Inbox in a Couple of Taps
You can now easily tame your inbox if it's drowning in subscriptions.

I'd be nice if "The Maple" and Unrigged.ca had their own Mastodon bot
@… existed before but seems to have stopped (it was an unofficial bot)

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/leading-phone-repair-and-insurance-firm-collapses-after-paying-crippling-ransomware-demand…

Leading phone repair and insurance firm collapses after paying crippling ransomware demand – Cutting 100+ employees to just eight wasn’t enough
The Einhaus Group was once a familiar name, with its services available through 5,000 retail outlets in Germany and an annual revenue of around 70 million Euros.

Paycheck processor #ADP release grim data ahead of July 4th showing over 30,000 jobs lost across private employers in #USA.
While described as " a surprise move in the wrong direction" , I'm personally very #unsurprised

Mind Security, which offers AI-powered automated data loss prevention services to help prevent breaches, raised a $30M Series A (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/04/mind-raises-30m-help-businesses-prevent-da…

Mind raises $30M to help businesses prevent data leaks using AI - SiliconANGLE
Mind raises $30M to help businesses prevent data leaks using AI - SiliconANGLE

I still see people repeating the lie that the liberals "at least stopped sending weapons to Israel"
This is not true, this has been documented again and again
We keep giving weapons to a state committing genocide
https://www.readthemaple.com/c…

Blockchain Powered Edge Intelligence for U-Healthcare in Privacy Critical and Time Sensitive Environment
Anum Nawaz, Hafiz Humza Mahmood Ramzan, Xianjia Yu, Zhuo Zou, Tomi Westerlund
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02038

Blockchain Powered Edge Intelligence for U-Healthcare in Privacy Critical and Time Sensitive Environment
Edge Intelligence (EI) serves as a critical enabler for privacy-preserving systems by providing AI-empowered computation and distributed caching services at the edge, thereby minimizing latency and enhancing data privacy. The integration of blockchain technology further augments EI frameworks by ensuring transactional transparency, auditability, and system-wide reliability through a decentralized network model. However, the operational architecture of such systems introduces inherent vulnerabil…

Quality-of-Service Aware LLM Routing for Edge Computing with Multiple Experts
Jin Yang, Qiong Wu, Zhiying Feng, Zhi Zhou, Deke Guo, Xu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00234 http…

Quality-of-Service Aware LLM Routing for Edge Computing with Multiple Experts
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, leading to a significant increase in user demand for LLM services. However, cloud-based LLM services often suffer from high latency, unstable responsiveness, and privacy concerns. Therefore, multiple LLMs are usually deployed at the network edge to boost real-time responsiveness and protect data privacy, particularly for many emerging smart mobile and IoT applications. Given the varying response quality and latency of LLM s…

Transforming Automatically BPMN Models to Smart Contracts with Nested Collaborative Transactions (TABS )
Christian Gang Liu, Peter Bodorik, Dawn Jutla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02727

Transforming Automatically BPMN Models to Smart Contracts with Nested Collaborative Transactions (TABS+)
Development of blockchain smart contracts is more difficult than mainstream software development because the underlying blockchain infrastructure poses additional complexity. To ease the developer's task of writing smart contract, as other research efforts, we also use Business Process Model and Notation BPMN modeling to describe application requirements for trade of goods and services and then transform automatically the BPMN model into the methods of a smart contract. In our previous research…

No quote post yet
Remote fetch replies is set as experimental and also asynchronous, unclear if it would be ready for the final release. https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/114625074809479231

What emerged was not a diverse network of activists, but a concentrated ecosystem built to serve the firm at its center:
Mothership Strategies.
After subtracting these massive operational costs—the payments to Mothership, the fees for texting services, the cost of digital ads and list rentals—the final sum delivered to candidates and committees is vanishingly small. My analysis of the network's FEC disbursements reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised fr…

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

A profile of Rumble founder Chris Pavlovski, who declined an offer to become CEO of Truth Social and opted to provide services to the platform through Rumble (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-wh

The Tech Mogul Behind Trump’s Truth Social Used To Own Porn Domains
Before he helped run Truth Social, Chris Pavlovski owned porn domains. Now, he’s allied with a political movement that wants to ban pornography.

On the Convergence of Large Language Model Optimizer for Black-Box Network Management
Hoon Lee, Wentao Zhou, Merouane Debbah, Inkyu Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02689

On the Convergence of Large Language Model Optimizer for Black-Box Network Management
Future wireless networks are expected to incorporate diverse services that often lack general mathematical models. To address such black-box network management tasks, the large language model (LLM) optimizer framework, which leverages pretrained LLMs as optimization agents, has recently been promoted as a promising solution. This framework utilizes natural language prompts describing the given optimization problems along with past solutions generated by LLMs themselves. As a result, LLMs can ob…

Looks like Doug Ford is brave enough to give an opening date for the Eglinton LRT so it might actually be happening soon.
https://www.cp24.com/news/2025/06/03/eglinton-lrt-on-track-to-open-by-september-doug-ford-says/

Apple reports Q3 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV , and Apple Music, up 13.3% YoY to $27.42B, vs. $26.8B est. (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/apple-june-2025-quarter-e…

Apple Services Revenue Grows 13% to New Record, Earnings Beat Street Amid Trump Tariff Uncertainty
Apple continued to drive double-digit growth in its Services business, which increased revenue 13.3% to $27.42 billion for the June 2025 quarter -- a new quarterly record

Beyond the Protocol: Unveiling Attack Vectors in the Model Context Protocol Ecosystem
Hao Song, Yiming Shen, Wenxuan Luo, Leixin Guo, Ting Chen, Jiashui Wang, Beibei Li, Xiaosong Zhang, Jiachi Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02040

Beyond the Protocol: Unveiling Attack Vectors in the Model Context Protocol Ecosystem
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an emerging standard designed to enable seamless interaction between Large Language Model (LLM) applications and external tools or resources. Within a short period, thousands of MCP services have already been developed and deployed. However, the client-server integration architecture inherent in MCP may expand the attack surface against LLM Agent systems, introducing new vulnerabilities that allow attackers to exploit by designing malicious MCP servers. In th…

Direct-to-Cell: A First Look into Starlink's Direct Satellite-to-Device Radio Access Network through Crowdsourced Measurements
Jorge Garcia-Cabeza, Javier Albert-Smet, Zoraida Frias, Luis Mendo, Santiago Andr\'es Azcoitia, Eduardo Yraola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00283

Direct-to-Cell: A First Look into Starlink's Direct Satellite-to-Device Radio Access Network through Crowdsourced Measurements
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite mega-constellations have recently emerged as a viable access solution for broadband services in underserved areas. In 2024, Direct Satellite-to-Device (DS2D) communications, which enable unmodified smartphones to connect directly to spaceborne base stations, entered large-scale beta testing, with Starlink globally leading deployments. This paper presents the first measurement study of commercial DS2D services. Using crowdsourced mobile network data collected in t…

NestedFP: High-Performance, Memory-Efficient Dual-Precision Floating Point Support for LLMs
Haeun Lee, Omin Kwon, Yeonhong Park, Jae W. Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02024

NestedFP: High-Performance, Memory-Efficient Dual-Precision Floating Point Support for LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) are playing a crucial role in latency-critical, high-throughput services like virtual assistants and code generation. While techniques such as continuous batching and paged attention address service-level objectives (SLOs), and quantization methods accelerate inference, the dynamic and efficient adaptation of precision at runtime remains a significant, largely underexplored challenge. The emergence of hardware support for FP8 arithmetic, offering up to 2x the throug…

Meta’s banning of two anti-Zionist comedians from Instagram is the latest example of Big Tech’s deep anti-Palestinian bias
#meta #facebook #instagram

ASTARS empowered Satellite Positioning Approach for Urban Canyons and Indoor Environments
Yu Zhang, Xin Sun, Tianwei Hou, Anna Li, Sofie Pollin, Yuanwei Liu, Arumugam Nallanathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01783

ASTARS empowered Satellite Positioning Approach for Urban Canyons and Indoor Environments
To mitigate the loss of satellite navigation signals in urban canyons and indoor environments, we propose an active simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (ASTARS) empowered satellite positioning approach. Deployed on building structures, ASTARS reflects navigation signals to outdoor receivers in urban canyons and transmits signals indoors to bypass obstructions, providing high-precision positioning services to receivers in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) areas. Th…

Netic, which sells an AI platform that helps home services firms automate client outreach and handle calls, raised $20M from Greylock, Founders Fund, and others (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Big Data-Driven Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning and Real-Time Stream Processing
Chen Liu, Hengyu Tang, Zhixiao Yang, Ke Zhou, Sangwhan Cha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02008 …

Big Data-Driven Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning and Real-Time Stream Processing
In the age of digital finance, detecting fraudulent transactions and money laundering is critical for financial institutions. This paper presents a scalable and efficient solution using Big Data tools and machine learning models. We utilize realtime data streaming platforms like Apache Kafka and Flink, distributed processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, and cloud storage services AWS S3 and RDS. A synthetic dataset representing real-world Anti-Money Laundering (AML) challenges is employed t…

Kargo: ad prices fell 4.4% on FAST channels and grew 4.5% on VOD from May to June as big-name subscription services compete with FAST channels for ad dollars (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-prime-videos-tv…

Amazon Prime Video Floods TV Ad Market, Stealing Dollars From FAST Channels
Until recently, it seemed video streaming had a channel for every taste. Fans of the 1970s Western drama “Little House on the Prairie,” for instance, could spend time on the channel by the same name watching old episodes. The same is true for the 1980s crime drama “Murder She Wrote” and the ...

Apple reports Q3 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV , and Apple Music, up 13.3% YoY to $27.42B, vs. $26.8B est. (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/apple-june-2025-quarter-e…

Apple Services Revenue Grows 13% to New Record, Earnings Beat Street Amid Trump Tariff Uncertainty
Apple continued to drive double-digit growth in its Services business, which increased revenue 13.3% to $27.42 billion for the June 2025 quarter -- a new quarterly record

Ukrainian security services conducted a massive drone attack against Russian military airbases on Sunday,
striking thousands of kilometres from the front line in what President Volodymyr Zelensky said was their longest-range operation ever.
The operation, code-named "Spider's Web," required months of preparation and the smuggling of drones into Russian territory
Using 117 drones, Ukraine was able to reach regions thousands of kilometres from the front,
w…

What We Know About Ukraine’s Drone Attacks in Russia
Ukrainian security services conducted a massive drone attack against Russian military airbases on Sunday, striking thousands of kilometres from the front line in what President Volodymyr Zelensky said was their longest-range operation ever.

Distributionally Robust Optimization for Aerial Multi-access Edge Computing via Cooperation of UAVs and HAPs
Ziye Jia, Can Cui, Chao Dong, Qihui Wu, Zhuang Ling, Dusit Niyato, Zhu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01972

Distributionally Robust Optimization for Aerial Multi-access Edge Computing via Cooperation of UAVs and HAPs
With an extensive increment of computation demands, the aerial multi-access edge computing (MEC), mainly based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high altitude platforms (HAPs), plays significant roles in future network scenarios. In detail, UAVs can be flexibly deployed, while HAPs are characterized with large capacity and stability. Hence, in this paper, we provide a hierarchical model composed of an HAP and multi-UAVs, to provide aerial MEC services. Moreover, considering the errors of c…

A profile of Rumble founder Chris Pavlovski, who declined an offer to become CEO of Truth Social and opted to provide services to the platform through Rumble (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-wh

The Tech Mogul Behind Trump’s Truth Social Used To Own Porn Domains
Before he helped run Truth Social, Chris Pavlovski owned porn domains. Now, he’s allied with a political movement that wants to ban pornography.

Doug Ford said he ordered new waterbombers to fight Ontario’s record wildfires. Budget documents show no money earmarked for their purchase
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/do…

Quite rich for someone that just sold his business for 6 billion to OpenAI
« When I first moved here I came because it was characterized by people who genuinely saw that their purpose was in service to humanity, to inspire people and help people create. I don't feel that way about this place right now. »
https://

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa…

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the site's operators are.

Some Chinese universities are using AI detection tools to screen papers, but false positives force students to "dumb down" content or pay for rewriting services (Peiyue Wu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-detector-software-workaround/…

Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors
As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.

Definitely not under the radar in Toronto, I see their logo everywhere, both on restaurants and drivers.
Didn’t know it was a delivery app from Vancouver
#fantuan #buycanadian

A profile of Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, whose personal fortune has surged 6x over the past year to $6.1B, as the company leans into tokenized stock derivatives (Nina Bambysheva/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambyshev…

Inside Robinhood’s Crypto-Fueled Plan For World Domination
First Vlad Tenev blew up the brokerage industry’s fee model. Now, thanks in part to his full-on crypto embrace, he has increased his fortune sixfold to $6 billion as he embarks on a global financial services takeover with tokenized stocks, AI-powered investing and a bid to own the rails of the looming $124 trillion generational wealth transfer.

Connaissez-vous vos saints et vos saintes ?
Série intéressante de La Presse
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/regional/2025-07-01/connaissez-vous-vos-saints-et-vos-sainte…

First experiment with #meshcore tonight, I flashed my #heltec v3 with the firmware at this URL and chose "Companion radio Bluetooth":
https…

Tramway de Québec - le contrat d’Alstom pour les trains faits Š La Pocatière est maintenu
https://www.lesoleil.com/actualites/actualites-locales/la-capitale/20…