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Strengthening Energy Access in Remote Off-Grid Contexts: From Deployment to Long-Term System Availability
Sveva Sodomaco, Giacomo Sofi, Mattia Erroi, Niccol\`o Manfredi Selvaggi, Gabriele Schiffo, Rubens Dellepiane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21314

Strengthening Energy Access in Remote Off-Grid Contexts: From Deployment to Long-Term System Availability
Decentralized renewable energy (DRE) systems have become a cornerstone of electrification efforts in remote and underserved areas. Yet, while global attention has focused on expanding access through solar mini-grids and off-grid solutions, far less emphasis has been placed on ensuring the long-term operation of these systems. In many fragile contexts, weak Operation and Maintenance (O&M) frameworks undermine the reliability and resilience of energy access, leading to premature system failure. T…

One Video to Steal Them All: 3D-Printing IP Theft through Optical Side-Channels
Twisha Chattopadhyay, Fabricio Ceschin, Marco E. Garza, Dymytriy Zyunkin, Animesh Chhotaray, Aaron P. Stebner, Saman Zonouz, Raheem Beyah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21897

One Video to Steal Them All: 3D-Printing IP Theft through Optical Side-Channels
The 3D printing industry is rapidly growing and increasingly adopted across various sectors including manufacturing, healthcare, and defense. However, the operational setup often involves hazardous environments, necessitating remote monitoring through cameras and other sensors, which opens the door to cyber-based attacks. In this paper, we show that an adversary with access to video recordings of the 3D printing process can reverse engineer the underlying 3D print instructions. Our model tracks…

CyberArmor has a post up detailing abuse of the Vercel app development platform. Vercel is a legit tool that allows for the rapid creation of web applications. They have a free tier and unfortunately it gets abused. The free tier apps use the domain pattern *.vercel.app. I recommend blocking this domain and only allowing access to vetted sites using this domain name. Note that commercial sites using the Vercel platform will have their own domain names so your potential for collateral damage …

Improving Hypertension and Diabetes Outcomes with Digital Care Coordination and Remote Monitoring in Rural Health
K. K. Kim, S. P. McGrath, D. Lindeman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19378

Improving Hypertension and Diabetes Outcomes with Digital Care Coordination and Remote Monitoring in Rural Health
Chronic illnesses are a global concern with essential hypertension and diabetes mellitus among the most common conditions. Remote patient monitoring has shown promising results on clinical and health outcomes. However, access to care and digital health solutions is limited among rural, lower-income, and older adult populations. This paper repots on a pre-post study of a comprehensive care coordination program including connected, wearable blood pressure and glucometer devices, tablets, and medi…

The popular meaning of "luddite" is a straw-man. It's a sloppy word with a sloppy meaning now, and it's one we'd do well to watch out for.
The actual reality of who the Luddites were is far more interesting, the center of the hard-fought struggles against owners of factories disrupting entire towns and cities economies with massively terrible results, centralizing power and money and leaving a great number of people without any control of their work, formerly artisans who'd had a hand in their own work, and many automated out of jobs. Luddites destroyed automated looms not because they hated technology. They destroyed automated looms because they were taking the livelihood they depended on, with no recourse, and it was a disaster for a good while, and then millwork has gone from those places probably forever.
The problem now with LLMs and automated research systems is there's very little way for workers and creators to stick their shoes in the machinery. They've tried (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12281) but mostly failed, since unlike a factory full of textile workers, the equipment is remote, the automation virtual, an intangible software object that few can access in any meaningful way.

RoCE BALBOA: Service-enhanced Data Center RDMA for SmartNICs
Maximilian Jakob Heer, Benjamin Ramhorst, Yu Zhu, Luhao Liu, Zhiyi Hu, Jonas Dann, Gustavo Alonso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20412

RoCE BALBOA: Service-enhanced Data Center RDMA for SmartNICs
Data-intensive applications in data centers, especially machine learning (ML), have made the network a bottleneck, which in turn has motivated the development of more efficient network protocols and infrastructure. For instance, remote direct memory access (RDMA) has become the standard protocol for data transport in the cloud as it minimizes data copies and reduces CPU-utilization via host-bypassing. Similarly, an increasing amount of network functions and infrastructure have moved to accelera…

Dynamic Trajectory Optimization and Power Control for Hierarchical UAV Swarms in 6G Aerial Access Network
Ziye Jia, Jia He, Lijun He, Min Sheng, Junyu Liu, Qihui Wu, Zhu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18702

Dynamic Trajectory Optimization and Power Control for Hierarchical UAV Swarms in 6G Aerial Access Network
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can serve as aerial base stations (BSs) to extend the ubiquitous connectivity for ground users (GUs) in the sixth-generation (6G) era. However, it is challenging to cooperatively deploy multiple UAV swarms in large-scale remote areas. Hence, in this paper, we propose a hierarchical UAV swarms structure for 6G aerial access networks, where the head UAVs serve as aerial BSs, and tail UAVs (T-UAVs) are responsible for relay. In detail, we jointly optimize the dynami…

»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?!??
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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.

Remote Channel Synthesis
Yassine Hamdi, Deniz G\"und\"uz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15757 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.15757

Remote Channel Synthesis
We consider the problem of synthesizing a memoryless channel between an unobserved source and a remote terminal. An encoder has access to a partial or noisy version $Z^n = (Z_1, \ldots, Z_n)$ of a remote source sequence $X^n = (X_1, \ldots, X_n),$ with $(X_i,Z_i)$ independent and identically distributed with joint distribution $q_{X,Z}.$ The encoder communicates through a noiseless link to a decoder which aims to produce an output $Y^n$ coordinated with the remote source; that is, the total var…

Amazing, just added a Windows machine to my tailscale VPN and started looking on how to install and configure RustDesk. And got confused by the server thing a bit.
Tailscale blog: say no more
https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-rustdesk-remote-desktop-ac…

Tailscale and RustDesk: Secure Remote Access to All Your Desktops
A great, free remote access tool, made secure and easy with Tailscale.

Why is everything on the cloud these days?
I’m kind of getting tired of every piece of professional and business software being a SaaS or cloud-based solution these days.
I have a good computer, it can run a lot of complex programs on it locally. I wish I had the option to do so.
Not everything needs to be synced 24/7. And I’d much rather have some tools include a cloud sync functionality that backs up changes with some kind of regular frequency for version control and cross-device access, but otherwise runs on my device.
These days, when I’m trying to go work somewhere without an internet connection or am traveling and have spotty data - I can’t access 90% of my work. Files don’t back up locally even when there’s a native desktop client app. Why?
It feels wasteful, sending so much data to the internet and back with constantly required online sync and web apps.
I feel nostalgic now, remembering the days of software that would require buying a license every couple of years, that would run on your device and could be accessed even from the top of a remote mountain if you wished, and that didn’t log you out every other week.
#tech #software

Databelt: A Continuous Data Path for Serverless Workflows in the 3D Compute Continuum
Cynthia Marcelino, Leonard Guelmino, Thomas Pusztai, Stefan Nastic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15351

Databelt: A Continuous Data Path for Serverless Workflows in the 3D Compute Continuum
Typically, serverless functions rely on remote storage services for managing state, which can result in increased latency and network communication overhead. In a dynamic environment such as the 3D (Edge-Cloud-Space) Compute Continuum, serverless functions face additional challenges due to frequent changes in network topology. As satellites move in and out of the range of ground stations, functions must make multiple hops to access cloud services, leading to high-latency state access and unnece…

I've been 'working-from-home' for 30yrs. Microsoft has enabled WFH since I joined in 1995 via Remote Access Services/RAS - over dial-up or ISDN.
This was a Microsoft strength: No one was ever out of touch or "off work hours". We all had laptops, cellphones, pagers, MCI concall accounts & ISDN lines at home. Everyone was "on" all the time. And we liked it.
✅ Flexible Work Was The Promise. The Infinite Workday Is The Reality. - Fobes

Flexible Work Was The Promise. The Infinite Workday Is The Reality.
New research from Microsoft reveals the rise of the infinite workday. Find out why flexibility is not enough and how to fix our broken rhythm on the clock.

There needs to be a TUI for Home Assistant. It would improve remote access, and it would look dope as fuck.

More than 300 auto recycling businesses in North America were hit by a cyberattack on August 6. The attack targeted companies using SimpleHelp, a program that allows remote access to computer systems.
Data Heist: Ransomware hits hundreds of auto recyclers
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The last thing to install into the minirack: some nice remote access. Still need a few HDMI cables and I need to figure out a way to integrate the power button control into the PiKVM stuff, but baby steps.
#homelab

Efficient Remote Monitoring through Noisy Random Access with Retransmissions
Sergey Foss, Dmitriy Kim, Andrey Turlikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12368 htt…

Efficient Remote Monitoring through Noisy Random Access with Retransmissions
We consider a rare event monitoring system consisting of a set of devices and a base station, where devices transmit information about rare events to the base station using a random multiple access scheme. We introduce a model in which the presence of noise in the multiple access channel can cause message loss even in the absence of transmission collisions. The occurrence of events is modeled by a family of independent two-state Markov chains (with states 0 and 1). We analyze how repeated trans…

Tight Inter-Core Cache Contention Analysis for WCET Estimation on Multicore Systems
Shuai Zhao, Jieyu Jiang, Shenlin Cai, Yaowei Liang, Chen Jie, Yinjie Fang, Wei Zhang, Guoquan Zhang, Yaoyao Gu, Xiang Xiao, Wei Qin, Xiangzhen Ouyang, Wanli Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13863

Tight Inter-Core Cache Contention Analysis for WCET Estimation on Multicore Systems
WCET (Worst-Case Execution Time) estimation on multicore architecture is particularly challenging mainly due to the complex accesses over cache shared by multiple cores. Existing analysis identifies possible contentions between parallel tasks by leveraging the partial order of the tasks or their program regions. Unfortunately, they overestimate the number of cache misses caused by a remote block access without considering the actual cache state and the number of accesses. This paper reports a n…

Pictorial and Documentary Guide for Research, Teaching, and Education through Astronomy, Physics, and Mathematics Pursued under the Umbrella of the United Nations (1974-2024)
Hans J. Haubold, Arak M. Mathai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17283

Pictorial and Documentary Guide for Research, Teaching, and Education through Astronomy, Physics, and Mathematics Pursued under the Umbrella of the United Nations (1974-2024)
This paper was prepared for Open-Access-only publication as a guide reporting on Education (all aspects of space science and technology), Teaching (remote sensing and GIS, satellite meteorology and global climate, satellite communication, space and atmospheric sciences, global navigation satellite systems), and Research (solar neutrino problem, formation of structure in the Universe) in astronomy (solar physics, cosmology), physics (nuclear physics, neutrino physics), and mathematics (fractiona…

There’s exactly 1 narrow way that it’s true. Before widespread #WFH, attackers often had an insurmountable barrier: no way into the business network from the Internet. At the last gig (2008) where I had to visit a “workplace” regularly, inbound remote access was officially non-existent & outbound Internet access all went through restrictive web proxies.

Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Attached: 1 image This Daily Mail piece about security leaders thinking work-from-home means they will be crippled is horseshit, I'm not linking it. They've taken a survey about how security people think their businesses couldn't survive ransomware, and linked it to working from home. WFH isn't the problem: business IT and resilience being built on quicksand is the problem.

Few-Shot Learning-Based Cyber Incident Detection with Augmented Context Intelligence
Fei Zuo, Junghwan Rhee, Yung Ryn Choe, Chenglong Fu, Xianshan Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16626

Few-Shot Learning-Based Cyber Incident Detection with Augmented Context Intelligence
In recent years, the adoption of cloud services has been expanding at an unprecedented rate. As more and more organizations migrate or deploy their businesses to the cloud, a multitude of related cybersecurity incidents such as data breaches are on the rise. Many inherent attributes of cloud environments, for example, data sharing, remote access, dynamicity and scalability, pose significant challenges for the protection of cloud security. Even worse, cyber threats are becoming increasingly soph…

QTCAJOSA: Low-Complexity Joint Offloading and Subchannel Allocation for NTN-Enabled IoMT
Alejandro Flores C., Konstantinos Ntontin, Ashok Bandi, Symeon Chatzinotas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13242

QTCAJOSA: Low-Complexity Joint Offloading and Subchannel Allocation for NTN-Enabled IoMT
In this work, we consider the resource allocation problem for task offloading from Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices, to a non-terrestrial network. The architecture considers clusters of IoMT devices that offload their tasks to a dedicated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) serving as a multi-access edge computing (MEC) server, which can compute the task or further offload it to an available high-altitude platform station (HAPS) or to a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite for remote computing. W…

CausalMesh: A Formally Verified Causal Cache for Stateful Serverless Computing
Haoran Zhang, Zihao Zhang, Shuai Mu, Sebastian Angel, Vincent Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15647

CausalMesh: A Formally Verified Causal Cache for Stateful Serverless Computing
Stateful serverless workflows consist of multiple serverless functions that access state on a remote database. Developers sometimes add a cache layer between the serverless runtime and the database to improve I/O latency. However, in a serverless environment, functions in the same workflow may be scheduled to different nodes with different caches, which can cause non-intuitive anomalies. This paper presents CausalMesh, a novel approach to causally consistent caching in environments where a comp…

CISA warns of SimpleHelp ransomware compromises after string of retail attacks https://therecord.media/cisa-warns-of-simplehelp-ransomware-compromises

Anybody remember this?
This was the Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 that enabled wireless dial-up remote access connectivity over CDPD networking on laptops at roughly 9600bps. Great for Outlook email or accessing small files over SMB.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_…

Connected and Exposed: Cybersecurity Risks, Regulatory Gaps, and Public Perception in Internet-Connected Vehicles
Henrietta Hegyi, Laszlo Erdodi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15306

Connected and Exposed: Cybersecurity Risks, Regulatory Gaps, and Public Perception in Internet-Connected Vehicles
The rapid advancement of Internet-connected vehicle technologies has introduced a new era of smart mobility, while simultaneously raising significant cybersecurity and privacy concerns. This paper explores the evolving threat landscape associated with connected vehicles, focusing on risks such as unauthorized remote access and the potential leakage of personal data. To assess the current state of protection, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of 16 international standards and regulations, ev…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03465 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNI_…

Extending Internet Access Over LoRa for Internet of Things and Critical Applications
LoRa bridges the gap between remote locations and mainstream networks, enabling large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. Despite the recent advancements around LoRa, Internet access over this technology is still largely unexplored. Most existing solutions only handle packets within the local LoRa network and do not interact with web applications. This limits the scalability and the ability to deliver essential web services in disconnected regions. This work proposes and implements ILoR…

Efficient Unified Caching for Accelerating Heterogeneous AI Workloads
Tianze Wang, Yifei Liu, Chen Chen, Pengfei Zuo, Jiawei Zhang, Qizhen Weng, Yin Chen, Zhenhua Han, Jieru Zhao, Quan Chen, Minyi Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12370

Efficient Unified Caching for Accelerating Heterogeneous AI Workloads
Modern AI clusters, which host diverse workloads like data pre-processing, training and inference, often store the large-volume data in cloud storage and employ caching frameworks to facilitate remote data access. To avoid code-intrusion complexity and minimize cache space wastage, it is desirable to maintain a unified cache shared by all the workloads. However, existing cache management strategies, designed for specific workloads, struggle to handle the heterogeneous AI workloads in a cluster …

Lightweight Electronic Signatures and Reliable Access Control Included in Sensor Networks to Prevent Cyber Attacks from Modifying Patient Data
Mishall Al-Zubaidie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08828

Lightweight Electronic Signatures and Reliable Access Control Included in Sensor Networks to Prevent Cyber Attacks from Modifying Patient Data
Digital terrorism is a major cause of securing patient/healthcare providers data and information. Sensitive topics that may have an impact on a patient's health or even national security include patient health records and information on healthcare providers. Health databases and data sets have been continually breached by many, regular assaults, as well as local and remote servers equipped with wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in diverse locations. The problem was addressed by some contemporary …

FBI: Play ransomware gang has attacked 600 organizations since 2023 https://therecord.media/play-ransomware-gang-fbi-update-900-attacks