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The Guardian reports revenue in the year to March up 7% YoY to £276M, losses down £24M from £37M the year prior, and 1.3M "recurring supporters" online, up 13% (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busin…

Guardian reports bumper year for digital reader revenue
The Guardian has reported a bumper year for digital reader revenue, up by 22% from £88m in 2023/2024 to £107m in the year to March 2025.

The 2024 US State Department report on UK human rights has been published. Note that this is a 2024 report so doesn't have anything to say about the recent policing of support for proscribed groups.
https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-country-…

Trump’s nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics told Fox News Digital on Monday that the agency should suspend monthly jobs reports
-- a change that could leave businesses and policymakers at least temporarily without the data they’ve used for decades to gauge the state of the labor market and broader economy.

E.J. Antoni, the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation,
whom Trump nominated Monday to lead the federal statistical agency,
has repeatedl…

Trump’s pick for BLS commissioner endorses suspending monthly jobs reports
“The BLS should suspend issuing the monthly job reports,” E.J. Antoni, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the federal statistical agency, said on Fox News Digital.

Reports: Former Raiders receiver faces attempted murder charge https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/reports-former-raiders-receiver-faces-attempted-murder-charge-3384678/

Tencent reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$25.7B, vs. ~$24.8B est., gaming revenue up 17% YoY to ~$5.6B, global revenue up 35% YoY to ~$2.6B, a $7.7B net profit (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-tencent-…

IAEA reports drones, gunfire near 2 Ukrainian nuclear plants amid Russian attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/iaea-reports-drones-gunfire-near.html

The Playbook: Lineup locks, Shadow Reports for Week 2 https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/46205300/nfl-fantasy-football-2025-ultimate-playbook-projections-win-probabilit…

Corporate reports miss the mark on ocean health, according to new analysis #ocean

Corporate reports miss the mark on ocean health, according to new analysis
New research led by Stanford University and co-authored by Lancaster University explores the industrial impacts on the ocean and compares them with what leading companies in the ocean economy disclose, underscoring the need for greater transparency and accountability.

Fate of US disaster relief agency FEMA still being discussed (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-scraps-plan-abolish-fema-washington-post-reports-2025-07-11/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p96#a250711p96

Fox News reports Decarlos Brown actually hardcore MAGA - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/09/10/fox-news-reports-decarlos-brown-actually-hardcore-maga/

Don't miss today's Metacurity for ongoing reports from hacker summer camp and all the other critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US feds clawed back $1 million from BlackSuit and Royal gangs,
--US seeks to recoup $1m from DPRK hackers,
--US charges four Ghanian nationals for romance scams and BECs,
--Personal data of 500K cervical cancer victims stolen,
--FCC issues new rules for subsea data cable security,
--Erlang/OTP vulnerab…

US feds clawed back $1 million from BlackSuit and Royal gangs
US seeks to recoup $1m from DPRK hackers, US charges four Ghanian nationals for romance scams and BECs, Personal data of 500K cervical cancer victims stolen, FCC issues new rules for subsea data cable security, Erlang/OTP vulnerability exploited in the wild against OT networks, much more

Current Disasters FEMA is working on
https://www.fema.gov/disaster/current
Fate of US disaster relief agency FEMA still being discussed
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-scraps-plan-abolish-fema-washington-post-reports-2025-07-11/

Lots of reports of folks, in and out of the media, being suspended, or fired, or cancelled, for the radical, subversive act of exercising their First Amendment rights to speak freely. A guy who said a few deaths is a small price to pay to support the Second Amendment meets a suspiciously karmic death. I’d argue the 1st is more valuable than the 2nd. I don’t see anyone in the media defending 1A. Why is that?

Hungarian foreign fighter killed in Ukraine fighting against Russia, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/hungarian-foreign-fighter-killed-in.html

"[Chain of reasoning] reports are untrustworthy on principle: they are plausible explanations for plausible responses, and since the inferences involved are more complex, they burn more compute and carbon per query as well as introducing more mistakes"
This is a particularly offensive point about #LLMs: we actually do have a class of systems, inference engines, which do reason and can…

Artificial intelligence is the opposite of education
Or: what if there is no middle ground?

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

In addition to the other EV reports published by BEUC, the European Consumer Association, today, there is also this one on improving the public EV charging experience. It addresses price transparency, competition, unfair pricing practices, and the need to accelerate dynamic pricing and smart charging on public charging points.

Regarding proscribed organisations.
I imagine there are many people who remember UK ministers telling the public that the intelligence used to justify the Iraq invasion couldn't be disclosed, but if they knew it they'd support the descision.
And then, more than a decade later, people got to hear some of it and it was nonsense.

Fake Spy Based WMD Reports On Action Movie
The agent's claims were taken seriously until he gave himself away with his description of poisonous gases in glass containers.

NASA’s Management of the #Dragonfly Project: https://oig.nasa.gov/office-of-inspector-general-oig/audit-reports/nasas-management-of-the-dragonfly-project/ -> After early struggles, NASA’s ambitious mission to Titan is “on track” for launch: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/after-early-struggles-nasas-ambitious-mission-to-titan-is-on-track-for-launch/ -> "A new independent report finds that although NASA's ambitious mission to fly across the surface of Titan is delayed and over budget, the fault is due to the space agency's management rather than the program itself."

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance
https://openbuddhism.org/justice/2025/french-judge-investigating-robert-spatz-81-requests-spains-judicial-assistance/

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance
Elodie Emery reports in ‘Le Monde’ that French judge has requested judicial assistance from the Spanish authorities in relation to an ongoing investigation into allegations of physical and sexual…

Vibrotactile speech cues are associated with enhanced auditory processing in middle and superior temporal gyri #metamodal

Vibrotactile speech cues are associated with enhanced auditory processing in middle and superior temporal gyri - Scientific Reports
Combined auditory and tactile stimuli have been found to enhance speech-in-noise perception both in individuals with normal hearing and in those with hearing loss. While behavioral benefits of audio-tactile enhancements in speech understanding have been repeatedly demonstrated, the impact of vibrotactile cues on cortical auditory speech processing remains unknown. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) with a dense montage setup, we first identified a region-of-interest highly sens…

So, I’ve seen a few people in the last day going “ok, I think I need to make sure I have a backup account, so there’s some folks re-checking out Mastodon/Fedi accounts.
Help out the new/returning folks, as always.
Why are they? No reason, not like BlueSky is changing community guidelines on the fly or anything. (That was sarcasm, BTW)
Side note: the below only affects the primary “instance” of bsky.social, it does not apply to other PDSs not run by BlueSky (BlackSky f’rex)

🧠 Brain-enriched microRNA shows promise for protecting neurons in depression
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-brain-enriched-microrna-neurons-depression.html

Brain-enriched microRNA shows promise for protecting neurons in depression
A Henan University of Science and Technology team reports that boosting miR-542-3p thwarts stress-related cell loss in the hippocampus and eases depressive-like behavior in mice.

Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing across Russian border, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/former-wagner-fighter-seeks-asylum.html

And when I'm talking about understanding the drives to violence, I did write about something similar recently.
https://write.as/hexmhell/algorithmic-violence
The drives behind this and the shooting last week are pretty radically different, but there's some overlap. People like Kirk are part a huge political machine slowly crushing people all over the world. There's a hopeless rage that would naturally drive even the most calm person to the edge of violence. You can't look at the world honestly and be OK. We want to do something. We want to react. But everything we do is silenced or must rmain silent. So it's easy to understand why someone might choose violence. Very different situation, but everyone is subject to the same national and international influences.
I don't promote violence, not because I disagree with it but because I think it's expensive. It takes time to plan, especially for those trying to get away. Guns are not cheap, nor are bullets, nor is the range time you need to get somewhat good under pressure. It's not cheap for the person doing it, and it's not cheap for the community that has to clean up. The community will face police repression (which, if we're honest, was gonna come anyway). The community will have to post bail, will lose a person for a while, will need to support the family, will go to hearings, will write reports, will do interviews.
Sun Tzu said that deploying one soldier to the front takes 7 in the field. Logistics are a huge invisible cost. Some of that time and energy could be reused. It's never bad to be armed and able to defend if needed. But a lot of that energy and time would be better spent planning a community pantry, a tool library, organizing a union, etc. We are living in a disaster, and we need to invest in thriving through the next crumble.
Kirk is replacable. They're almost all replacable, because they don't really care about human life. We do, so none of us are. It's not really a worth while trade, IMHO.

Fine-Tuning Vision-Language Models for Markdown Conversion of Financial Tables in Malaysian Audited Financial Reports
Jin Khye Tan (Faculty of Computer Science,Information Technology, Universiti Malaya), En Jun Choong, Ethan Jeremiah Chitty, Yan Pheng Choo, John Hsin Yang Wong, Chern Eu Cheah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05669

Fine-Tuning Vision-Language Models for Markdown Conversion of Financial Tables in Malaysian Audited Financial Reports
Accurately extracting and representing the structure of tabular data from financial documents remains a critical challenge in document understanding, particularly for regulatory and analytical use cases. This study addresses the complexity of converting financial tables from Malaysian audited financial reports into Markdown format, a task complicated by rotated layouts, multi-level headers, and implicit structural cues. We propose a fine-tuned vision-language model (VLM), based on Qwen2.5-VL-7B…

I was trying to package #FlexiBLAS for #Gentoo, and to be honest, it doesn't look that good.
The first red flag is lack of an open bug tracker. Apparently, there is the tracker on GitLab that's limited to "members of their group and selected external contributors", but it doesn't seem to be used much. So it's "send us an email", and wonder how many people sent us the same bug report before.
The git repository is currently at something tagged 3.4.80 that seems to be prerelease, and its build system is quite broken. Not exactly the best path to verify that the bugs you are hitting are still there.
Now, upstream seems to insist on either using vendored netlib #LAPACK, or statically linking to the system library (we don't install the static libraries). Apparently I can specify the shared libraries instead, but it doesn't work — and it's unclear to me whether it doesn't work because I'm using the shared libraries, or because it doesn't support my LAPACK version. If I build LAPACK without deprecated symbols, it refuses to load it at runtime because of missing symbols. And if I build it with deprecated symbols, it fails to find some symbols at CMake time.
Honestly, I feel like I've spent too much time on this project already, especially given that its future is entirely unclear to me — the current git is quite broken, I have no clue how many issues were reported already and whether my bug reports will receive any reply. It definitely doesn't fare well for a package that we might start to rely heavily on. We don't want a cathedral there.
https://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/projects/flexiblas
https://gitlab.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/software/flexiblas-release

Sea reports Q2 revenue up 38% YoY to $5.26B, vs. $5B est., a $414M net income, vs. $444M est., Shopee revenue up 34% YoY to $3.8B, driven by commissions and ads (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-12/s…

Three HBCU colleges on lockdown and/or canceled classes due to threats after Charlie Kirk’s death. No, the suspect in the photo circulated by law enforcement is not black, he’s apparently white.
#HBCU #lockdown #threat

Three Historically Black Colleges and Universities on lockdown for 'terroristic threats': reports
Alabama State University, Hampton University and Virginia State University locked down the morning of Sept. 11 after threats were made against all three campuses.

AquaCast: Urban Water Dynamics Forecasting with Precipitation-Informed Multi-Input Transformer
Golnoosh Abdollahinejad, Saleh Baghersalimi, Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu, Sergey Shevchik, David Atienza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09458

AquaCast: Urban Water Dynamics Forecasting with Precipitation-Informed Multi-Input Transformer
This work addresses the challenge of forecasting urban water dynamics by developing a multi-input, multi-output deep learning model that incorporates both endogenous variables (e.g., water height or discharge) and exogenous factors (e.g., precipitation history and forecast reports). Unlike conventional forecasting, the proposed model, AquaCast, captures both inter-variable and temporal dependencies across all inputs, while focusing forecast solely on endogenous variables. Exogenous inputs are f…

Decoupling Clinical and Class-Agnostic Features for Reliable Few-Shot Adaptation under Shift
Umaima Rahman, Raza Imam, Mohammad Yaqub, Dwarikanath Mahapatra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09397

Decoupling Clinical and Class-Agnostic Features for Reliable Few-Shot Adaptation under Shift
Medical vision-language models (VLMs) offer promise for clinical decision support, yet their reliability under distribution shifts remains a major concern for safe deployment. These models often learn task-agnostic correlations due to variability in imaging protocols and free-text reports, limiting their generalizability and increasing the risk of failure in real-world settings. We propose DRiFt, a structured feature decoupling framework that explicitly separates clinically relevant signals fro…

Learning Segmentation from Radiology Reports
Pedro R. A. S. Bassi, Wenxuan Li, Jieneng Chen, Zheren Zhu, Tianyu Lin, Sergio Decherchi, Andrea Cavalli, Kang Wang, Yang Yang, Alan L. Yuille, Zongwei Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05582

Learning Segmentation from Radiology Reports
Tumor segmentation in CT scans is key for diagnosis, surgery, and prognosis, yet segmentation masks are scarce because their creation requires time and expertise. Public abdominal CT datasets have from dozens to a couple thousand tumor masks, but hospitals have hundreds of thousands of tumor CTs with radiology reports. Thus, leveraging reports to improve segmentation is key for scaling. In this paper, we propose a report-supervision loss (R-Super) that converts radiology reports into voxel-wise…

#Coffeezilla reports on "The Worst Cover-Up of My Life" . He's referring to the un-release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
https://youtu.be/fyZA2KKmRXw?si=pxZNnRlXt8H7ZDyo

Calls coming in are reports of homeless encampments, mental health crises and people sleeping on sidewalks.
Those calls will now be directed to Los Angeles County’s Emergency Centralized Response Center,
a new department designed to consolidate over 150 outreach teams across 88 cities, all under one roof.
The department soft-launched in January of this year following a motion that was introduced by LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath back in September 2024
Officials…

A look inside LA County's new emergency dispatch center for homelessness
The department hopes to increase accountability and deliver results

Adversarial Bug Reports as a Security Risk in Language Model-Based Automated Program Repair
Piotr Przymus (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toru\'n, Poland), Andreas Happe (TU Wienm Vienna, Austria), J\"urgen Cito (TU Wienm Vienna, Austria)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05372

Adversarial Bug Reports as a Security Risk in Language Model-Based Automated Program Repair
Large Language Model (LLM) - based Automated Program Repair (APR) systems are increasingly integrated into modern software development workflows, offering automated patches in response to natural language bug reports. However, this reliance on untrusted user input introduces a novel and underexplored attack surface. In this paper, we investigate the security risks posed by adversarial bug reports -- realistic-looking issue submissions crafted to mislead APR systems into producing insecure or ha…

Trump considering sending new funds to Ukraine for first time since taking office, CBS News reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/trump-considering-sending-new-funds.html

An Overview of 7726 User Reports: Uncovering SMS Scams and Scammer Strategies
Sharad Agarwal, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Marie Vasek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05276 https://

An Overview of 7726 User Reports: Uncovering SMS Scams and Scammer Strategies
Mobile network operators implement firewalls to stop illicit messages, but scammers find ways to evade detection. Previous work has looked into SMS texts that are blocked by these firewalls. However, there is little insight into SMS texts that bypass them and reach users. To this end, we collaborate with a major mobile network operator to receive 1.35m user reports submitted over four months. We find 89.16% of user reports comprise text messages, followed by reports of suspicious calls and URLs…

Campaign to get Nobel Peace Prize takes strange turn.
https://kyivindependent.com/trump-to-rename-us-defense-department-to-department-of-war-media-reports/

Trump to rename US Defense Department to Department of War, media reports
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order on Sept. 5 to rename the U.S. Department of Defense to the Department of War, various media outlets, citing sources in the White House, reported.

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Tencent Music reports Q2 revenue up 17.9% YoY to $1.18B, music services revenue up 26.4% YoY to $957M, and music subscription revenue up 17.1% YoY to $611M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/tencent-music-q2-revenue-2025-1236487221/…

Tencent Music Posts $1.18 Billion Q2 Revenue as Profit Rises 43%
China's Tencent Music Entertainment Group reported second-quarter 2025 revenue of $1.18 billion, up 17.9% year-over-year.

A vibe coding learning design to enhance EFL students' talking to, through, and about AI
David James Woo, Kai Guo, Yangyang Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08854 https://

A vibe coding learning design to enhance EFL students' talking to, through, and about AI
This innovative practice article reports on the piloting of vibe coding (using natural language to create software applications with AI) for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education. We developed a human-AI meta-languaging framework with three dimensions: talking to AI (prompt engineering), talking through AI (negotiating authorship), and talking about AI (mental models of AI). Using backward design principles, we created a four-hour workshop where two students designed applications addres…

In addition to the other EV reports published by BEUC, the European Consumer Association, today, there is also this one on improving the public EV charging experience. It addresses price transparency, competition, unfair pricing practices, and the need to accelerate dynamic pricing and smart charging on public charging points.

Recommendations for a better charging experience for electric car drivers
A consumer-friendly charging ecosystem is a precondition to the mass adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs). A growing number of charging stations are popping up in our cities, in parking lots and along EU’s roads. Yet, frustrations are still there when it comes to knowing the price of your charging session in advance, trying to compare offers, juggling between payment methods and facing high prices in certain locations.

Die Geschichte umschreiben und damit Lügen zur Wahrheit machen.
Den Absturz der USA in die Diktatur, alle Schritte dort hin, sehen wir bisher - mit wenigen Jahren Verzögerung - auch in Deutschland.
Man muss den Schneeball zertreten bevor er zur Lawine wird. #AfDVerbot

Judge reverses CFPB rule erasing medical debt from credit reports
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5398381-joe-biden-medical-debt-reporting-rule-scrapped/

Adobe reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.99B, vs. $5.91B est., Digital Media revenue up 12% to $4.46B, and Digital Experience revenue up 9% to $1.48B (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/adobe-adbe-q3-2025-earnings-report.html

Adobe's stock gains on earnings, revenue beat
Adobe shares have dropped this year, badly underperforming the broader market.

Micah McFadden injury: Giants LB to undergo foot surgery, miss 'significant part of the season,' per reports

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

EU considering tougher Russian oil price cap as bloc aims to pass 18th sanctions package, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/eu-considering-tougher-russian-oil.html

Looks like it's time to migrate ancient data. Thanks, @… !
Luckily, I've got an ancient iMac running Linux. Can use Firewire and the format, and Modern Linux Mint runs great on it.
#HeadsUp

9to5Mac (@9to5Mac@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image macOS Tahoe: Reports of FireWire’s death are not greatly exaggerated https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/07/macos-tahoe-reports-of-firewires-death-are-not-greatly-exaggerated/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Cyberattacks against schools driven by a rise in student hackers, ICO warns https://therecord.media/cyberattacks-against-schools-driven-by-student-hackers

Tourism surge and climate change threaten Nepal’s Mustang https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/tourism-surge-and-climate-change-threaten-nepals-mustang/

Tourism surge and climate change threaten Nepal’s Mustang
Since the completion of an all-weather road eight years ago, Nepal’s remote Mustang region has become a mass tourism destination, reports Mongabay’s Abhaya Raj Joshi. The surge in tourists, combined with the impacts of climate change, could put the fragile Himalayan region at greater risk of future disasters. Previously, Mustang was a destination for foreign […]

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
MUTOID: This is not our function. Our function is to obey without question. [chime] Computer reports message from Counsellor Joban.
SERVALAN: Ignore it.
MUTOID: It is from headquarters Supreme Commander.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/386 B7B3

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on
Donald Trump’s disastrous Sunday
as protests spread around the world
and he gets hit with more awful news as his cover ups backfire.
https://littlegreenfootballs.com/artic

Meidas: Trump Has Nightmare Sunday as Worldwide Protests Break Out
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous Sunday as protests spread around the world and he gets hit with more awful news as his cover ups backfire.

eToro reports Q2 crypto revenue up 17% YoY to $1.9B, assets under administration up 54% to $17.5B, and adjusted non-GAAP net income up 23% to $54.2M (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/366629/etoro-

Poland says it has shot down drones that entered its airspace during Russian attack on Ukraine (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/europe/poland-scramble-jets-russian-drone-reports-intl-hnk-ml
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p180#a250909p180

"“They openly confessed to killing 11 people,” Venezuela’s interior minister said on state television. “We have done our investigations here in our country and there are the families of the disappeared people who want their relatives, and when we asked in the towns, none were from Tren de Aragua, none were drug traffickers."
**Venezuela says 11 killed in US boat strike were not gang members amid reports vessel was returning to shore** | Venezuela | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/venezuela-boat-strike-tren-de-aragua-trump

Circle reports Q2 revenue up 53% YoY to $658M, USDC circulation up 90% YoY to $61.3B, a $482M net loss, and unveils Arc, a stablecoin-focused Layer-1 blockchain (James Hunt/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/366540/circle-stablecoin-fo…

This is a BFD.
Rand Paul and Tom Massie have been calling out Stephen Miller's gulag numbers for several weeks;
it got them both disinvited from the White House picnic.
And now Ron Johnson is joining in?
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsk…

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
This is a BFD. Rand Paul and Tom Massie have been calling out Miller's gulag numbers for several weeks; it got them both disinvited from the White House picnic. And now Ron Johnson is joining in?

Automated Attack Testflow Extraction from Cyber Threat Report using BERT for Contextual Analysis
Faissal Ahmadou, Sepehr Ghaffarzadegan, Boubakr Nour, Makan Pourzandi, Mourad Debbabi, Chadi Assi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07244

Automated Attack Testflow Extraction from Cyber Threat Report using BERT for Contextual Analysis
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the rapid identification and mitigation of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) is crucial. Security practitioners rely on detailed threat reports to understand the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) employed by attackers. However, manually extracting attack testflows from these reports requires elusive knowledge and is time-consuming and prone to errors. This paper proposes FLOWGUARDIAN, a novel solution leveraging language models (i.e., B…

CoreWeave reports Q2 revenue up 207% YoY to $1.21B, vs. $1.08B est., and net loss down 10% YoY to $290.5M; CRWV drops 5% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/coreweave-crwv-q2-earnings-report-2025.html

CoreWeave shares drop even as revenue tops estimates
CoreWeave expanded its business with OpenAI during the second quarter.

Caleb Williams won't play in Bears' first preseason game despite reports of inconsistent training camp

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/caleb-w…

https://cyberscoop.com/call-of-duty-remote-code-execution-pc-game-offline/
Call of Duty takes PC game offline after multiple reports of RCE attacks on players

Learning Software Bug Reports: A Systematic Literature Review
Guoming Long, Jingzhi Gong, Hui Fang, Tao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04422 https://

Learning Software Bug Reports: A Systematic Literature Review
The recent advancement of artificial intelligence, especially machine learning (ML), has significantly impacted software engineering research, including bug report analysis. ML aims to automate the understanding, extraction, and correlation of information from bug reports. Despite its growing importance, there has been no comprehensive review in this area. In this paper, we present a systematic literature review covering 1,825 papers, selecting 204 for detailed analysis. We derive seven key fin…

I'm all for electrification of energy demand, e.g. for cars, home heating, and industrial processes.
But we shouldn't be betting the climate on it alone. The share of electricity in global final energy consumption reached 20% in 2023, up from 18% in 2015 (IEA, 2024):
https://www.iea.o…

I think the National Space Operations Centre should have a public dashboard page, like the UKHSA dashboard, instead of monthly reports.
https://space.blog.gov.uk/2025/07/11/uk-space-safety-centre-marks-one-year-milestone/

Trump officials to link covid shots to child deaths, alarming career scientists
Trump health officials plan to link coronavirus vaccines to the deaths of 25 children as they consider limiting which Americans should get the shots.

The findings appear to be based on information submitted to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System,
which contains unverified reports of side effects or bad experiences with vaccines submitted by anyone, including patients, doctors, ph…

Trump officials to link covid shots to child deaths, alarming career scientists
The move to link coronavirus vaccines to 25 child deaths alarms career scientists who say the shots have been extensively studied.

Russia's summer offensive becomes its costliest campaign during Ukraine invasion, Economist reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/russias-summer-offensive-becomes-its.html

Lendbuzz, which uses AI to underwrite auto loans, files for a US IPO and reports H1 2025 revenue up 38% YoY to $172.9M and net income up 98.2% YoY to $11.1M (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/l

Since 2020, there have been at least 52 stalking cases involving sports figures https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6547129/2025/08/12/prominent-athlete-stalking-incidents-cases-list/

US to push G7 to impose tariffs on China, India over Russian oil, FT reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/12/us-to-push-g-to.html

Nepalese "Gen Z" protestors set fire to the offices of daily newspaper Annapurna Post and of Kantipur Media Group, housing its print, TV, and radio divisions (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/09/nepal-protests

Nepal protests: Media outlets torched and journalists injured in deadly unrest - Committee to Protect Journalists
New Delhi, September 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nepali authorities to ensure the safety of journalists covering protests in the Himalayan nation, following reports the offices of at least two media outlets were set on fire and four journalists were injured in the unrest. Violent protests erupted in Kathmandu and other parts...

French media: French police detained Russian professional basketball player Daniil Kasatkin at the US' request due to his alleged links to a ransomware group (Daryna Antoniuk/The Record)
https://therecord.media/russian-basketball-player-arrested-in-france-…

Russian basketball player arrested in France over alleged ransomware ties
Daniil Kasatkin, 26, was detained in June at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport shortly after arriving in the country with his fiancée, according to local media reports.

IMF identifies $10-20 billion gap in Ukraine's external financing, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/imf-identifies-billion-gap-in.html

Taiwan reports first case of chikungunya virus from China outbreak | Health News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/8/taiwan-reports-first-case-of-chikungunya-virus-from-china-outbreak?traffic_source=rss

NFL Week 2 injury report: Xavier Worthy doubtful for Chiefs, Falcons receivers get green light

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee…

UN alarmed by reports about possible expansion of Israeli Gaza operations (David Brunnstrom/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-alarmed-by-reports-about-possible-expansion-israeli-gaza-operations-2025-08-05/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p118#a250805p118

Russian drones targeted Poland's Rzeszow Airport, key aid hub for Ukraine, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/russian-drones-targeted-polands-rzeszow.html

German army chief calls for 100,000 more active troops to face Russian threat, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/12/german-army-chief-calls-for.html

The US energy secretary, Chris Wright,
is facing growing criticism from scientists who say
their “worst fears” were realized when Wright revealed that
the Trump administration would “update” the US’s premier climate crisis reports.
Wright, a former oil and gas executive,
told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins earlier this week that
the administration was reviewing national climate assessment reports published by past governments.

Thomson Reuters reports Reuters News Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $218M, driven by its agency and professional business and a contractual price increase from LSEG (Kenneth Li/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/tho

Madre Fire Update from Los Padres National Forest
Size: 80,786 Acres / Containment: 67%
Total Personnel: 1,330
Work continues along the west, northwest, northeast, and southwest of the fire perimeter to strengthen both - direct and indirect - containment lines as well as mop-up and patrol to ensure lines are secure. Dozer and handcrews are engaged on rugged terrain along the southeast flank, with ongoing efforts focused on structure protection and securing Highway 166. Aeri…

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Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

Slovakia continues to block EU's 18th Russia sanctions package, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/slovakia-continues-to-block-eus.html

Trump has asked the EU to impose tariffs of up to 100% on India and China as part of an effort to force the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to end the war in Ukraine, according to reports.
The US president made the demand during a meeting between US and EU officials discussing options to increase economic pressure on Russia on Tuesday

US Army to sharply increase Patriot missile purchases in fiscal year 2026, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/us-army-to-sharply-increase.html

US Congress ready to move forward on Russia sanctions bill, but Trump wants changes, Politico reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/us-congress-ready-to-move.html

Witnesses reported a caravan of armored vehicles and unmarked police vehicles with masked men in plain clothes,
some wearing ICE or police vests,
and a group of people in military camouflage, all carrying weapons.
Additional reports state helicopters have been seen over the area as well.
“It looks like they’re going to war on our street,” one protestor stated
Unidentified masked and armed guards, presumed to be federal agents or military, in front of a crowd of…

EU suspends Ukrainian language interpreter for suspected espionage on Zelensky for Russia, Le Monde reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/eu-suspends-ukrainian-language-interpreter.html

TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 39% YoY to ~$32B, beating estimates and boosting expectations for a sustained post-ChatGPT boom in AI spending (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-10/tsmc-reven…

Oracle reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $14.93B, vs. $15.04B est., and remaining performance obligations up 359% to $455B; ORCL jumps 19% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/09/oracle-orcl-q1-earnings-report-2026.html

Oracle pops 22% on cloud growth projections even as earnings miss estimates
Oracle said total remaining performance obligations jumped 359% from a year earlier, indicating big growth prospects.

US only has 25% of Patriot missiles needed for war plans, Guardian reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/us-only-has-of-patriot.html

Trump mulls sending Kyiv another Patriot air defense system, WSJ reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/trump-mulls-sending-kyiv-another.html

EU mulls creating 100 billion euro fund for Ukraine in next budget, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/eu-mulls-creating-billion-euro.html

Ukraine's 2026 budget could face $19B shortfall as Europe weighs how to fill the gap, FT reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/ukraines-budget-could-face-b.html

American right-wing activist Charlie Kirk shot in Utah, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/american-rightwing-activist-charlie-kirk.html

Lithuania, Finland pivot to landmine production, potentially supplying to Ukraine, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/lithuania-finland-pivot-to-landmine.html

Trump claims he threatened Putin to 'bomb the sh*t out of Moscow' if Russia attacked Ukraine, CNN reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/trump-claims-he-threatened-putin.html

Ukrainians grapple with how to memorialize a war still being fought: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/ukrainians-grapple-with-how-to.html

Russia fails to meet OPEC oil production target in June, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/russia-fails-to-meet-opec.html

Kellogg, Umerov set to meet, discuss resumption of US military aid to Ukraine, Politico reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/kellogg-umerov-set-to-meet.html

Russian airlines face $254 million losses from just 2 days of Ukrainian drone strikes, Kremlin media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/russian-airlines-face-million-losses.html

German lawmakers call on Merz to increase aid to Ukraine, Bild reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/german-lawmakers-call-on-merz.html