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NFL stats and records, Week 2: QB Jared Goff leads Lions in explosive return to form vs. Bears https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-stats-and-records-week-2-qb-jared-goff-leads-lions-in-explosive-return-to-form-vs-bears

Huh?
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/08/opm-orders-deletion-federal-workers-vaccination-records/407334/

OPM orders deletion of federal workers’ vaccination records
The announcement came hours after a formal dissolution of a lawsuit challenging the Biden-era requirement that federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19, which hasn’t been enforced since 2023.

JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

Strong appetite for new iPhone in China as pre-orders break record
The numbers underscore Apple’s brand loyalty in China despite growing competition from the likes of Huawei, analysts say.

Hackers leak Qantas data containing 5 million customer records after ransom deadline passes
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/11/hackers-leak-qantas-data-containing-5-million-customer-reco…

And a nice balance; article archived on @… arguing " Against uncritical adoption of AI" https://zenodo.org/records/17065099

Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records #environment

"Brazil Records 65 Percent Drop in Amazon Area Burned by Fire, Lowest Since Monitoring Began"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #Environment

Brazil Records 65 Percent Drop in Amazon Area Burned by Fire, Lowest Since Monitoring Began
The data also shows that across Brazil, both in the Amazon basin and beyond it, 54% fewer acres of landscape have been burned by fires. 

Dolphins defense setting unflattering records: Miami has now allowed 10 straight scoring drives to open season

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

American Oversight Sues DOJ and FBI for Records of Any Trump Interviews in Epstein Investigation - American Oversight
https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-sues-doj-and-fbi-for-records-of-any-trump-interviews-in-epstein-investigation/

New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter's Behavioral Issues (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/uvalde-records-shooting-campus-safety-concerns
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p140#a250812p140

at public records in #brooklyn, chicago underground duo playing from their new "hyperglyph." amazing unexpected melds between rob mazurek's chaotic beats/loops & chad taylor's wild intricate drums, which i knew from the album but didn't quite grasp 'til i saw it, plus an utterly gorgeous mbira/electronics duet.

New Arabic records from Cairo on #supernovae 1181 and 1006: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04127 -> Arab Scholars May Have Noted the Supernovae of 1006 and 1181: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/arab-scholars-may-have-noted-the-supernovae-of-1006-and-1181

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that
Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data 💥in an abortion investigation,
contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was
“being searched for as a missing person,” and that“it was about her safety.” 
The new information shows that deputies had initiated a "death investigation" of a "non-viable fetus," logged evidence of a woman’…

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was “being searched for as a missing person,” and that “it was about her safety.” The new information shows that deputies had initiated a "death investigation" of a "non-viable fetus," collected evidence of a woman’s self-managed abortion, and consulted…

Wow, a lot happened in the cybersecurity world over the weekend, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed, including
--The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared,
--Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records,
--Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team,
--Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks,
--Breach of crypto betting…

The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform Shuffle exposes user data, FCC chair says sites have removed barred Chinese electronics, much more

Large scale statistically validated comorbidity networks
Paride Crisafulli, Tobias Galla, Antti Karlsson, Salvatore Miccich\`e, Jyrki Piilo, Rosario N. Mantegna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09737

Large scale statistically validated comorbidity networks
We obtain comorbidity networks starting from medical information stored in electronic health records collected by the Wellbeing Services County of Southwest Finland (Varha). Based on the data, we associate each patient to one or more diseases and construct complex comorbidity networks associated with large patient cohorts characterized by an age interval and sex. The information about diseases in electronic health records is coded using the highest granularity present in the international class…

Brazil Records 65 Percent Drop in Amazon Area Burned by Fire, Lowest Since Monitoring Began https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/brazil-records-65-percent-drop-in-amazon-area-burned-by-fire-lowest-since-monitoring-began/…

Brazil Records 65 Percent Drop in Amazon Area Burned by Fire, Lowest Since Monitoring Began
The data also shows that across Brazil, both in the Amazon basin and beyond it, 54% fewer acres of landscape have been burned by fires. 

from my link log —
Replication of quantum factorisation records with an 8-bit home computer, an abacus, and a dog.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237
saved 2025-07-18

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog
This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog. We hope that this work will inspire future efforts to match any further quantum factorisation records, should they arise.

Sources: the Trump administration cut 176 CISA jobs last week as part of laying off 4,000 US federal workers, and is likely to make further mass CISA layoffs (Cynthia B Brumfield/Metacurity)
https://www.metacurity.com/the-white-house-f…

The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform Shuffle exposes user data, FCC chair says sites have removed barred Chinese electronics, much more

Link Prediction for Event Logs in the Process Industry
Anastasia Zhukova, Thomas Walton, Christian E. Matt, Bela Gipp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09096 https://

Link Prediction for Event Logs in the Process Industry
Knowledge management (KM) is vital in the process industry for optimizing operations, ensuring safety, and enabling continuous improvement through effective use of operational data and past insights. A key challenge in this domain is the fragmented nature of event logs in shift books, where related records, e.g., entries documenting issues related to equipment or processes and the corresponding solutions, may remain disconnected. This fragmentation hinders the recommendation of previous solutio…

People who entered the US legally
and have no criminal charges
are being held in the Everglades camp,
according to records obtained by the Miami Herald.
Maybe that’s why the government won’t release the names of those being detained.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/…

BEAVR: Bimanual, multi-Embodiment, Accessible, Virtual Reality Teleoperation System for Robots
Alejandro Posadas-Nava, Alejandro Carrasco, Richard Linares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09606

BEAVR: Bimanual, multi-Embodiment, Accessible, Virtual Reality Teleoperation System for Robots
\textbf{BEAVR} is an open-source, bimanual, multi-embodiment Virtual Reality (VR) teleoperation system for robots, designed to unify real-time control, data recording, and policy learning across heterogeneous robotic platforms. BEAVR enables real-time, dexterous teleoperation using commodity VR hardware, supports modular integration with robots ranging from 7-DoF manipulators to full-body humanoids, and records synchronized multi-modal demonstrations directly in the LeRobot dataset schema. Our …

Who was arrested in Trump's D.C. crime emergency? We analyzed 1,273 records. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/09/14/trump-dc-crime-arrests-data-federal-takeover/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p38#a250914p38

On GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity vs Record Wind (2012-09) - Does wind power actually help decarbonise the GB grid in practice? Examination of public data says yes. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-grid-CO2-intensity-vs-WIND-records-Sep-2012.…

On GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity vs Record Wind (2012-09)
Does wind power actually help decarbonise the GB grid in practice? Examination of public data says yes.

Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes breaks one of Aaron Rodgers' NFL records on 'Sunday Night Football'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-

PatchSeeker: Mapping NVD Records to their Vulnerability-fixing Commits with LLM Generated Commits and Embeddings
Huu Hung Nguyen, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Thanh Le-Cong, Yikun Li, Han Wei Ang, Yide Yin, Frank Liauw, Shar Lwin Khin, Ouh Eng Lieh, Ting Zhang, David Lo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07540

PatchSeeker: Mapping NVD Records to their Vulnerability-fixing Commits with LLM Generated Commits and Embeddings
Software vulnerabilities pose serious risks to modern software ecosystems. While the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is the authoritative source for cataloging these vulnerabilities, it often lacks explicit links to the corresponding Vulnerability-Fixing Commits (VFCs). VFCs encode precise code changes, enabling vulnerability localization, patch analysis, and dataset construction. Automatically mapping NVD records to their true VFCs is therefore critical. Existing approaches have limitati…

Sum of elements preceding records in set partitions
Walaa Asakly, Noor Kezil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06521 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06521

Sum of elements preceding records in set partitions
In this paper, we aim to derive an explicit formula for the total number of elements preceding records over all set partitions of $[n]$ with exactly $k$ blocks, as well as an asymptotic estimate for the total sum of elements preceding records in all set partitions of $[n]$, expressed in terms of Bell numbers. To achieve this, we analyze the generating function that enumerates set partitions of $[n]$ according to this statistic, which we denote by $\sumelements$.

Data Integration and spatio temporal statistics can quantify relative risk of medico-legal reforms: the example of police emergency mental health responses in Queensland (Australia)
Nidup Dorji, Sourav Das, Richard Stone, Alan R. Clough
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11101

Data Integration and spatio temporal statistics can quantify relative risk of medico-legal reforms: the example of police emergency mental health responses in Queensland (Australia)
This study examined the spatial-temporal dynamics of Emergency Examination Order or Authority (EE-O/A) admissions in Far Northern Queensland (FNQ) from 2009 to 2020, using 13,035 unique police records aggregated across 83 postcodes. A two-stage modelling framework was used: Lasso was used to identify a parsimonious set of socio economic and health-service covariates, and a Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) model incorporated these predictors with structured spatial and temporal random effects. T…

Leveraging Blockchain and Proxy Re-Encryption to secure Medical IoT Records
Abdou-Essamad Jabri (UPJV, MIS), C. Drocourt (UPJV, MIS), Mostafa Azizi (UPJV, MIS), Gil Utard (UPJV, MIS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08402

Leveraging Blockchain and Proxy Re-Encryption to secure Medical IoT Records
The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare has revolutionized patient monitoring and data collection, allowing real-time tracking of vital signs, remote diagnostics, and automated medical responses. However, the transmission and storage of sensitive medical data introduce significant security and privacy challenges. To address these concerns, blockchain technology provides a decentralized and immutable ledger that ensures data integrity, , and transparency. Unlike public bloc…

Interval-Censored Survival Analysis of Grapevine Phenology: Thermal Controls on Flowering and Fruit Ripening
Sara Behnamian, Fatemeh Fogh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09702 https:…

Interval-Censored Survival Analysis of Grapevine Phenology: Thermal Controls on Flowering and Fruit Ripening
European grapevine (\textit{Vitis vinifera} L.) is a climate-sensitive perennial whose flowering and ripening govern yield and quality. Phenological records from monitoring programs are typically collected at irregular intervals, so true transition dates are interval-censored, and many site-years are right-censored. We develop a reproducible workflow that treats phenology as a time-to-event outcome: Status \& Intensity observations from the USA-NPN are converted to interval bounds, linked to NA…

Former 'Daily Lobo' editor victorious after 2-year records battle with UNM | Local News | santafenewmexican.com https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/for…

Former 'Daily Lobo' editor victorious after 2-year records battle with UNM
Lily Alexander, now a reporter for The New Mexican, settled a lawsuit with UNM for $195,000 over its refusal to hand over police weapons records.

Salesforce expands its partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their AI models into Agentforce 360, including letting customers access it in ChatGPT (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i

Salesforce expands OpenAI, Anthropic partnerships, eyes Agentforce everywhere
Salesforce expanded partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their large language models into Agentforce 360. At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce said it has expanded a partnership with OpenAI so customers can access Agentforce 360 in ChatGPT. Salesforce customers will be able to access sales records, review conversations and build Tableau visualizations from within ChatGPT.

Automated Hierarchical Graph Construction for Multi-source Electronic Health Records
Yinjie Wang, Doudou Zhou, Yue Liu, Junwei Lu, Tianxi Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06576 ht…

Automated Hierarchical Graph Construction for Multi-source Electronic Health Records
Electronic Health Records (EHRs), comprising diverse clinical data such as diagnoses, medications, and laboratory results, hold great promise for translational research. EHR-derived data have advanced disease prevention, improved clinical trial recruitment, and generated real-world evidence. Synthesizing EHRs across institutions enables large-scale, generalizable studies that capture rare diseases and population diversity, but remains hindered by the heterogeneity of medical codes, institution-…

In case you missed it, my piece yesterday on the 176 CISA employees fired last Friday, which will not go behind the customary archive paywall.
It's critical to note that sources told me more RIFs are in store for the nation's embattled cybersecurity agency.
https://www.

The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform Shuffle exposes user data, FCC chair says sites have removed barred Chinese electronics, much more

Hahahahaha #sound
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNQGNrBM9aR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

substance recordstore on Instagram: "THE SABRES OF PARADISE - ReIssues Remastered Reissues of the SABRESONIC (1993) & HAUNTED DANCEHALL (1994) albums by the trio of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns. Unavailable on vinyl and CD since original release. Coming off the back of his work on the era-defining Screamadelica album by Primal Scream, not to mention groundbreaking remix work for the likes of New Order, My Bloody Valentine and the Happy Mondays, Weatherall was as revered by fans of indie guitar music as he was namechecked by hardcore ravers. The increasing demands on his services led to a studio partnership with Kooner and Burns, forming the production trio The Sabres Of Paradise (named after a 1960 book about a Muslim chieftain’s efforts to repel a Russian invasion). #thesabresofparadise #warp #warprecords #andrewweatherall #reissue #remastered #news #newreleaseseveryday #vinyl #records #recordstore #vienna #plattenladen #wien"
7 likes, 0 comments - substance_recordstore on August 12, 2025: "THE SABRES OF PARADISE - ReIssues Remastered Reissues of the SABRESONIC (1993) & HAUNTED DANCEHALL (1994) albums by the trio of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns. Unavailable on vinyl and CD since original release. Coming off the back of his work on the era-defining Screamadelica album by Primal Scream, not to mention groundbreaking remix work for the likes of New Order, My Bloody Valentine and the Happy Mondays, We…

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime https://www.404media.co/police-said-they-surveille…

PIPES: A Meta-dataset of Machine Learning Pipelines
Cynthia Moreira Maia, Lucas B. V. de Amorim, George D. C. Cavalcanti, Rafael M. O. Cruz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09512 http…

PIPES: A Meta-dataset of Machine Learning Pipelines
Solutions to the Algorithm Selection Problem (ASP) in machine learning face the challenge of high computational costs associated with evaluating various algorithms' performances on a given dataset. To mitigate this cost, the meta-learning field can leverage previously executed experiments shared in online repositories such as OpenML. OpenML provides an extensive collection of machine learning experiments. However, an analysis of OpenML's records reveals limitations. It lacks diversity in pipeli…

SBU records nearly 50,000 Shahed drone launches against Ukraine since 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/sbu-records-nearly-shahed-drone.html

32°C as a nightly low temperature in Shanghai, city of 30 million. Climate change hitting hard now.
https://bsky.app/profile/extremetemps.bsky.social/post/3lw2gy4h3jk2k

Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social)
Deadly heat in CHINA. Suffocating heat 24 hours with record hot nights. In particular brutal Minimum of 32.2C at Shanghai which is the hottest night in history for one of the oldest observatories in Asia Nearly all countries in the world have broken heat records in the past weeks. Unprecedented

I found an old London/Decca pressing of Chris Connor's self-titled 1956 lp, and I can't get over the fact that they messed with her hair. It's some sort of.. illustration over her hair? Atlantic and London covers included for reference. #ChrisConnor @…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Adam Green:
🎵 Friends Of Mine
#NowPlaying #AdamGreen
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Leaked files: WaPo publisher Will Lewis supported Boris Johnson as a secret political adviser when he was UK PM in 2022; Lewis was AP's vice-chair at the time (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/10/…

#Paradromics blog post: Think fast - Setting new standards and new records for brain-computer interfaces https://www.paradromics.com/blog/bci-benchmarking

Think Fast | Setting new standards and new records for brain-computer interfaces
Paradromics Connexus BCI sets new records with the SONIC benchmark, achieving 200+ bps and low latency, defining a new standard for BCIs.

Information-theoretic analysis of temporal dependence in discrete stochastic processes: Application to precipitation predictability
Juan De Gregorio, David S\'anchez, Ra\'ul Toral
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11276

Information-theoretic analysis of temporal dependence in discrete stochastic processes: Application to precipitation predictability
Understanding the temporal dependence of precipitation is key to improving weather predictability and developing efficient stochastic rainfall models. We introduce an information-theoretic approach to quantify memory effects in discrete stochastic processes and apply it to daily precipitation records across the contiguous United States. The method is based on the predictability gain, a quantity derived from block entropy that measures the additional information provided by higher-order temporal…

I am looking for records with Guided listening in Apple Classical Music for Beethoven’s 3rd and 7th Symphonies.
Is it possible to search for such records with Guided listening? I couldn’t figure it out.

New preprint article based on an open letter (which I've signed onto) against the uncritical adoption of AI:
#AI #LLMs #GenAI

Metadata Management for AI-Augmented Data Workflows
Jinjin Zhao, Sanjay Krishnan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06814 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06814

Metadata Management for AI-Augmented Data Workflows
AI-augmented data workflows introduce complex governance challenges, as both human and model-driven processes generate, transform, and consume data artifacts. These workflows blend heterogeneous tools, dynamic execution patterns, and opaque model decisions, making comprehensive metadata capture difficult. In this work, we present TableVault, a metadata governance framework designed for human-AI collaborative data creation. TableVault records ingestion events, traces operation status, links exec…

#np Gloria: In Excelsis Deo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXXQNtsBXYU
> Provided to YouTube by Arista/LegacyGloria: In Excelsis Deo · Patti SmithHorses℗ 1975 Arista Records LLCReleased on: 1…

Jan. 6 probe analyzed GOP lawmakers' phone records, senators say - Roll Call
https://rollcall.com/2025/10/06/jan-6-probe-analyzed-gop-lawmakers-phone-records-senators-say/

Pérou: la destitution de la présidente Boluarte «n'était qu'une étape» selon les protestataires
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/amériques/20251011-pérou-la-destitution-de-la-…

Pérou: la destitution de la présidente Boluarte «n'était qu'une étape» selon les protestataires
Le Pérou continue sa descente aux enfers dans l’instabilité politique. La très impopulaire et désormais ex-présidente Dina Boluarte a été destituée dans la nuit de 9 au 10 octobre, sous la pression des chiffres sur l’insécurité records depuis le début de l’année. Mais aussi depuis que les Péruviens manifestent sans relâche tous les weekends depuis la mi-septembre pour plus de sécurité et la démission du gouvernement. Et malgré la destitution de Boluarte, ils sont encore …

An Interactive Platform for Unified Assessment of Drug-Drug Interactions Using Descriptive and Pharmacokinetic Data
Nadezhda Diadkina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08351 https://…

An Interactive Platform for Unified Assessment of Drug-Drug Interactions Using Descriptive and Pharmacokinetic Data
Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are a major concern in polypharmacy. Public databases often provide only qualitative descriptions without pharmacokinetic context. We present an interactive web tool that integrates 191,541 descriptive DDI records from DrugBank with 3,779 AUC-based interactions from the PK-DDIP dataset, extracted from FDA-approved drug labeling (DailyMed) using natural language processing and manual verification. Using multi-step name harmonization (exact, fuzzy, synonym expansion,…

Oversight Committee Releases Records Provided by the Epstein Estate, Chairman Comer Provides Statement (United States House Committee on Oversight ...)
https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-records-provided-by-the-epstein-estate-chairman-comer-provides-statement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p10#a250909p10

Alternative title: how one company knows where all Dutch people who use it are at all times.
And to think, poor Hitler just had census records to work with… https://mastodon.green/@HelgavanLeur/114981026302320384

Helga van Leur ☀️ (@HelgavanLeur@mastodon.green)
Attached: 1 image De kracht van grafische weergave... Waarheen gaat de Nederlander met de auto op vakantie? (én heeft daarbij Flitsmeister aan staan). 🚗 via https://www.instagram.com/p/DMNVI35Nqv-/

#catcontent meets #RDM: "A collection of AI generated images visualising various RDM aspects" https://zenodo.org/records/16925229

Been busy updating the #Trajectools archival records over at #SDSL2025

Die #Klimakrise trifft #China:
Der Norden der chinesischen Provinz #Sichuan erlebte am 5. September den bislang stärksten

Northern Sichuan records heaviest rainfall of 2025, causing flash floods and evacuations
Northern Sichuan recorded its most intense rainfall of 2025 on September 5, with 12-hour accumulations exceeding 250 mm (10 inches) in Guangyuan and Nanchong, and a provincial maximum of 255.2 mm (10…

Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities.
Russia is at least in part responsible for a recent hack of the computer system that manages federal court documents,
including highly sensitive records that might contain information
that could reveal sources and people charged with national secur…

Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities.

$Music Makes My World Go Round!
Please checkout my #Vinyl & CD Collection ... I hit a fiscal brick wall of bills and may be up to part with some choice titles...
My loss is yer gain ..See Something Suitable?
OK Mastodon #makemeanoffer !

I am watching D's and others try to get records (such as Epstein materials) out of the gov't. And the tool they are often using is FOIA (5 USC 552).
Why-the-F are they not also using the Privacy Act (5 USC 552a)?!!! (That little 'a' at the end matters.)
Every person has the right under the Privacy Act (PA) to demand the release of records containing personally identifiable information about them. PA has far fewer exemptions/excuses than FOIA, much tighter time …

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/hacking-group-claims-theft-of-1-billion-records-from-salesforce-customer-databases/
Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases

Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases | TechCrunch
The hacking group claims to have stolen about a billion records from companies, including FedEx, Qantas, and TransUnion, who store their customer and company data in Salesforce.

Lapsus$ publishes a data leak site on the dark web threatening to release about ~1B records stolen from Salesforce-hosted customer databases (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/hacking-group-claims-theft-of-1-bi…

Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases | TechCrunch
The hacking group claims to have stolen about a billion records from companies, including FedEx, Qantas, and TransUnion, who store their customer and company data in Salesforce.

Gresford Colliery documents head for Wrexham in first for The National Archives https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/gresford-colliery-documents-head-for-wrexham-in-first-for-the-national-archives/…

Gresford Colliery documents head for Wrexham in first for The National Archives - The National Archives
The National Archives is displaying records related to the Gresford Colliery disaster in Wrexham Library to mark the 91st anniversary on 22 September 2025. Two hundred and sixty-six men and boys died after an underground explosion and devastating fire. Most of the casualties of the disaster in 1934 lived in Wrexham and the surrounding villages. […]

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
https://www.404media.co/police-said-they-surveilled-woman-who-had-an-abortion-for-her-safety-court-records-show-they-considered-charging-her-with-a-crime/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Adam Green:
🎵 Friends Of Mine
#NowPlaying #AdamGreen
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

at public records in #brooklyn, dreamy/loopy chamber #jazz for a summer's eve in bitchin' quad sound by johnson/wilkes/uhlmann, which (i kept thinking) would probably get somewhat lost if played outdoors on a summer's eve. perhaps the best room for pure listening in

Signal Fidelity Index-Aware Calibration for Dementia Predictions Across Heterogeneous Real-World Data
Jingya Cheng, Jiazi Tian, Federica Spoto, Alaleh Azhir, Daniel Mork, Hossein Estiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08679

Signal Fidelity Index-Aware Calibration for Dementia Predictions Across Heterogeneous Real-World Data
\textbf{Background:} Machine learning models trained on electronic health records (EHRs) often degrade across healthcare systems due to distributional shift. A fundamental but underexplored factor is diagnostic signal decay: variability in diagnostic quality and consistency across institutions, which affects the reliability of codes used for training and prediction. \textbf{Objective:} To develop a Signal Fidelity Index (SFI) quantifying diagnostic data quality at the patient level in dementi…

NFL stats and records, Week 1: Bills QB Josh Allen has historic performance in win vs. Ravens https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-stats-and-records-week-1-bills-qb-josh-allen-has-historic-performance-vs-ravens

from my link log —
Wendelstein 7-X sets new performance records in fusion research.
https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5532945/w7x
saved 2025-06-06 https://

Wendelstein 7-X sets new performance records in fusion research [UPDATE]

Despite having beencriticized by civil rights groups for using
"cell site simulators" (Stingrays) during the last Trump administration,
ICE continues to use the technology.
Earlier this year, new media publication Straight Arrow News said it had
“mobile network anomalies” around a Washington state protest against ICE raids that were consistent with Stingray use.
Forbes found contract records showing ICE purchased nearly
$1 million worth of “cell s…

How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones
ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.

Weather tracker: Heat records fall as Japan and South Korea swelter https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/04/weather-tracker-record-heat-japan-and-south-korea

X-Teaming Evolutionary M2S: Automated Discovery of Multi-turn to Single-turn Jailbreak Templates
Hyunjun Kim, Junwoo Ha, Sangyoon Yu, Haon Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08729 …

X-Teaming Evolutionary M2S: Automated Discovery of Multi-turn to Single-turn Jailbreak Templates
Multi-turn-to-single-turn (M2S) compresses iterative red-teaming into one structured prompt, but prior work relied on a handful of manually written templates. We present X-Teaming Evolutionary M2S, an automated framework that discovers and optimizes M2S templates through language-model-guided evolution. The system pairs smart sampling from 12 sources with an LLM-as-judge inspired by StrongREJECT and records fully auditable logs. Maintaining selection pressure by setting the success threshold …

The FBI analyzed Republican lawmakers' phone records during Jan. 6 probe, GOP senators say (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/fbi-analyzed-republican-senators-phone-records-jan-6-probe-capitol-rio-rcna236063
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p44#a251007p44

Russia circumvents sanctions, while Ukraine breaks records in drone warfare!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/russia-circumvents-sanctions-while-ukraine.html

Qantas says 5.7M customer records stolen in a July breach of a third-party platform have been released online, and it is assessing the extent of the exposure (Jason Gale/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Tennessee Demands Records of Abortion 'Exception' Patients
https://jessica.substack.com/p/tennessee-demands-records-of-abortion

"What climate change means for the Mediterranean Sea"
#Mediterranean #Climate #ClimateChange

What climate change means for the Mediterranean Sea
Temperatures in the Mediterranean are currently rising to record levels. Instead of a refreshing dip, holidaymakers in places like Greece, Italy, and Spain, among other places, are now facing water temperatures up to 28° C or even higher. With an average water temperature of 26.9° C, July 2025 was the warmest since records began for the Mediterranean Sea, according to the Copernicus Earth Observation Service.

WATCH: Micah Parsons records first sack with Packers, chases down Lions' Jared Goff

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/watch-micah-parsons-record…

No such thing as a quiet weekend in cybersecurity, so check out today's Metacurity for the infosec developments you might have missed since Friday, including
--Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters claims theft of 1 billion Salesforce records,
--Game engine developer Unity urges users to patch a severe flaw,
--Hackers stole some Discord user data after a third-party compromise,
--US immigration dramatically expands its spying ability,
--Asahi reverts to pen and paper to …

"Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters" claims theft of 1 billion Salesforce records
Game engine developer Unity urges users to patch severe flaw, Hackers stole some Discord user data after a third-party compromise, US immigration dramatically expands its spying ability, Asahi reverts to pen and paper to process orders, Oz's NSW gov't reveals breach in homes program, much more

On GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity vs Record Wind (2012-09) - Does wind power actually help decarbonise the GB grid in practice? Examination of public data says yes. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-grid-CO2-intensity-vs-WIND-records-Sep-2012.…

On GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity vs Record Wind (2012-09)
Does wind power actually help decarbonise the GB grid in practice? Examination of public data says yes.

Trump accuses foes with multiple mortgages of fraud. Records show 3 of his Cabinet members have them - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/06/trump-accuses-foes-with-multiple-mortgages-of-fraud-records-show-3-of-his-cabinet-members-have-them_partner/

Predicting top 10 order of NFL Draft based on current records and future schedules: Who will pick No. 1?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/p

Extracting OPQRST in Electronic Health Records using Large Language Models with Reasoning
Zhimeng Luo, Abhibha Gupta, Adam Frisch, Daqing He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01885 htt…

Extracting OPQRST in Electronic Health Records using Large Language Models with Reasoning
The extraction of critical patient information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) poses significant challenges due to the complexity and unstructured nature of the data. Traditional machine learning approaches often fail to capture pertinent details efficiently, making it difficult for clinicians to utilize these tools effectively in patient care. This paper introduces a novel approach to extracting the OPQRST assessment from EHRs by leveraging the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs…

Jack Smith's lawfare and James Comey's arraignment on pathetically weak charges (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/08/jack-smith-james-comey-lawfare-phone-records/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p159#a251008p159

General Demographic Foundation Models for Enhancing Predictive Performance Across Diseases
Li-Chin Chen, Ji-Tian Sheu, Yuh-Jue Chuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07330 https://…

General Demographic Foundation Models for Enhancing Predictive Performance Across Diseases
Demographic attributes are universally present in electronic health records and serve as vital predictors in clinical risk stratification and treatment decisions. Despite their significance, these attributes are often relegated to auxiliary roles in model design, with limited attention has been given to learning their representations. This study proposes a General Demographic Pre-trained (GDP) model as a foundational representation framework tailored to age and gender. The model is pre-trained …

Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports, far exceeding its public disclosure of 12,522 reports (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/uber-sexual-assault.html

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem
The company has tested tools that make rides safer, court records show. Measures to stem the violence have been set aside in favor of protecting the company’s business.

NFL stats and records, Week 5: Buccaneers' Baker Mayfield, Emeka Egbuka continue making history https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-stats-and-records-week-5-buccaneers-baker-mayfield-emeka-egbuka-continue-making-history…

Chairman Comer Subpoenas Bill and Hillary Clinton, Former U.S. Attorneys General and FBI Directors, and Records Related to Jeffrey Epstein (United States House Committee on Oversight ...)
https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-subpoenas-bill-and-hillary-clinton-former-u-s-attorneys-general-and-fbi-directors-and-records-related-to-jeffrey-epstein/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p68#a250805p68

Check out today's Metacurity for a solid round-up of the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--UK government bails out Jaguar Land Rover with $2 billion loan,
--Hackers contacted Harrods after 430K customer records were stolen,
--Hackers threaten to release more Kido nursery school records,
--Russia's undersea spying ops become more brazen,
--Unitree robots afflicted by a severe flaw,
--Akira attacks …

UK government bails out Jaguar Land Rover with $2 billion loan
Hackers contacted Harrods after 430K customer records were stolen, Hackers threaten to release more Kido nursery school records, Russia's undersea spying ops become more brazen, Unitree robots afflicted by severe flaw, Akira attacks on SonicWall VPNs evolve, RemoteCom spyware data leaked, much more

Predoc, which uses AI to automate medical records management, raised $30M seed and Series A led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Northzone and others (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/02/predoc-raises-30-million-t…

Predoc raises $30 million to stop document chasing in healthcare
Predoc—which uses AI to automate medical records management—has raised $30 million in funding, Fortune has exclusively learned.

CliCARE: Grounding Large Language Models in Clinical Guidelines for Decision Support over Longitudinal Cancer Electronic Health Records
Dongchen Li (College of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China), Jitao Liang (College of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China), Wei Li (College of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China), Xiaoyu Wang (Liaoning Cancer Hospital and Institute, She…

CliCARE: Grounding Large Language Models in Clinical Guidelines for Decision Support over Longitudinal Cancer Electronic Health Records
Large Language Models (LLMs) hold significant promise for improving clinical decision support and reducing physician burnout by synthesizing complex, longitudinal cancer Electronic Health Records (EHRs). However, their implementation in this critical field faces three primary challenges: the inability to effectively process the extensive length and multilingual nature of patient records for accurate temporal analysis; a heightened risk of clinical hallucination, as conventional grounding techni…

Cold Nordic countries are being seared by “truly unprecedented” heat,
as hot weather strengthened and lengthened by carbon pollution continues to roast northern Europe.
A weather station in the Norwegian part of the Arctic Circle recorded temperatures above 30C (86F) on 13 days in July,
while Finland has had three straight weeks with 30C heat.
Scientists say it is the longest streak in records going back to 1961, and 50% longer than the previous record.
“Truly u…

Park Avenue Gunman’s Mental Health Crises Are Detailed in Police Records https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/nyregion/park-avenue-gunman-mental-health.html

Inspector general to investigate into Rep. Mikie Sherrill military records release (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/inspector-investigate-sherrill-records-release-00588228
http://www.memeorandum.com/250930/p101#a250930p101

BREAKING: Democracy Forward Sues DOJ and FBI to Enforce FOIA Compliance Over Withheld Records Relating to Epstein
https://michaelpopok.substack.com/p/breaking-democracy-forward-sues-doj

Why QB Justin Fields could run into Jets, NFL history books https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46479684/new-york-jets-justin-fields-rushing-records-history

Hackers calling themselves SafePay. carried out a ransomware attack on the five-star K Club resort in Co Kildare as it prepared to host some of the world’s top golfers at the Irish Open this past weekend.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-wor

Cyberattack on K Club before Irish Open
The five-star resort was hit by a ransomware attack, with leaked data including financial records, IT documentation and administrative information

US federal contracting records suggest US ICE is planning to hire ~30 contractors to monitor social media content, seeking leads for enforcement operations (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

Browns' Garrett cited for driving 40 mph over limit https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45949332/browns-myles-garrett-cited-speeding-clocked-going-100-mph-60-mph-zone

NFL stats and records, Week 4: Rams' Puka Nacua on pace for WR record; Ashton Jeanty joins historic RB duo in Raiders history https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-stats-and-records-week-4-rams-puka-nacua…

Public records show C3 AI's Project Sherlock, company's flagship contract to speed up policing in San Mateo County, has struggled with usability issues and more (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste

Billionaire Tom Siebel's C3 AI Was Supposed To Speed Up Policing. It’s Not Going Well.
San Mateo County pumped $12 million into a grand AI surveillance system that was supposed to level up its police work. Three years later, it still hasn’t seen the benefits.

'The ball is flying five yards further': Are the new kicking ball rules changing the game? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46452926/nfl-kicking-balls-2025-rule-changes-field-goal-records-competition-committee