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Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Operant AI reveals Shadow Escape, a zero-click attack using the MCP flaw in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to secretly steal trillions of SSNs and financial data. Traditional security is blind to this new AI threat.
😶‍🌫️ https://

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
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Heat surges put preserved Amazon areas at high risk, study says https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/heat-surges-put-preserved-amazon-areas-at-high-risk-study-says/

Heat surges put preserved Amazon areas at high risk, study says
Intact forests struggle to escape climate degradation, exposing new impacts coming from increasingly warming temperatures.

Meta cuts roles in its Risk unit citing a shift from manual reviews to a "consistent and automated process" that is delivering "reliable compliance outcomes" (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-job-cut…

Meta told some employees their jobs are being replaced by tech
An internal memo explaining the cuts said "many routine decisions can now be handled efficiently by technology."

In the US, men who smoke are around 21 times more likely to die from lung cancer than men who have never smoked.
But the damage doesn’t stop there:
smoking also increases the risk of other cancers,
including mouth, throat, bladder and pancreatic cancer,
in addition to other health conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),
heart disease, and diabetes.
Why does one habit harm so many organs?
Cigarettes carry a mixture of carcinoge…

Smoking increases the risk of death from many causes
Most of us have heard that smoking damages the lungs. The chart drives this home: in the US, men who smoke are around 21 times more likely to die from lung cancer than men who have never smoked.

TikTok Deal Leaves National Security Risk, Garnaut’s Tobin Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-12-22/tiktok-deal-leaves-national-security-risk-liza-tobin-video

"Heat surges put preserved Amazon areas at high risk, study says"
#AmazomRainforest #Climate #ClimateChange

Heat surges put preserved Amazon areas at high risk, study says
Intact forests struggle to escape climate degradation, exposing new impacts coming from increasingly warming temperatures.

to be clear, the risk of someone phishing my npm credentials is *much* lower than the risk of “can you take a look at this Eleventy project that isn’t working quite right (and also contains malware, intentionally or not)”

To what extent is this on the radar of #EV advocacy groups in the US? I certainly wasn't conscious of the potential barriers until reading this article.

To what extent is this on the radar of #EV advocacy groups in the US? I certainly wasn't conscious of the potential barriers until reading this article.

FPF Releases Issue Brief on New CCPA Regulations for Automated Decisionmaking Technology, Risk Assessments, and Cybersecurity Audits
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-issue-brief-on-new-cc…

Brian Schottenheimer dismisses risk of playing Cowboys starters final 2 games https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/brian-schottenheimer-dismisses-risk-playing-dallas-cowboys-starters-final-two-games

They have more money than there is investment growth to be found. Give a hungry person money and they’ll buy food; give a billionaire some money, and they’ll look for a high-risk investment that has a 1% chance of paying off 1000x.
Want to get rich? Convince them you’re one of those investments! 99% chance you’ll fail; 1% chance your BS is actually some kind of genius moonshot! Give them FOMO about it, get free money!
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Measles is often seen as a routine childhood illness
— a fever, a rash, and recovery
— but complications are common.
Even when it doesn’t kill,
measles can cause lasting damage.
It weakens the immune system,
making people vulnerable to other infections for months or years.
That means children who seem to recover may still face serious health risks long after the illness is gone.
In some countries, measles has re-emerged in recent years,
…

Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years
Measles causes more than an acute illness: it suppresses immune memory and increases the risk of complications for years.

#SMBC on the risk that #AI is going to ruin #socialmedia: https://www.

"We are now at a critical juncture. We are at or very close to human caused environmental change that will fundamentally unpick the life-sustaining systems on Earth. These risk triggering feedback loops...
Ultimately that could cause the planet to drift away along the pathway to “hothouse Earth”, a scenario where even if emissions were reduced, self amplifying feedback loops would drive global temperature increases up to or even beyond 5°C"

Xilinx XC6SLX25 (Samsung 45nm) from a previous decap run that I had to come back and finish because it was still stuck to the substrate.
A few light scratches in top passivation. These big BGAs need a lot of handling to peel back layers of fiberglass so acid can get in, which increases damage risk. Using fuming nitric usually you don't need that but I don't want it in my house :P
You can't see a whole lot here except the GTP. But if you compare this to the abstracted …

I keep looking outside to see if my fence is still in my garden because I know it's a proven flight risk.
#UKStorm

Millions at risk as Myanmar wells surpass WHO arsenic guidelines #Myanmar

Millions at risk as Myanmar wells surpass WHO arsenic guidelines
Twelve million people in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta face serious long-term health risks from the harmful substance, arsenic, in their drinking water.

Marty Lederman's amicus brief did end up giving SCOTUS a way out on National Guard occupations. Risk now - does Trump invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy active duty military to blue cities? And if he does, will the Court stop him?
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xrrht

"For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?" @ Katina Magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/for-researchers-in-the-humanities-is-open-really-fair
"…

Students on the campus where I work oppose Ontario Bill 33 - the Orwellian titled "Supporting Children and Students Act." Among other things, the bill would require universities to admit only on merit (though it provides no definition) and would allow the province to decide which fees are required and which are optional, which would undercut student unions, newspapers, and radio as well as some financial support for students.

Russia's Planned Tax Hike Would Put Hundreds of Thousands of Small Businesses at Risk of Closure, Lawmaker Warns - The Moscow Times
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/21/russias-planned-tax-hike-would-put-hundreds-of-thousands-of-small-businesses-at-risk-of-closure-lawmaker-warns-a90886

https://witcheskitchen.com.au/spring-onion-pancakes/

Spring onion pancakes
It’s a small but very powerful change in the way you cook: start from what you have – what’s in season, what’s in excess, what’s at risk of going to waste. So, what got me thinking of this today is…

It's good to see that GMCA has adopted a retrofit framework agreement that includes calculating embodied carbon.
As we showed in relation to GMCA's own Joint Development Plan, Places for Everyone, it's embodied carbon that's the big problem in building new homes etc. So at least try to make #retrofit and enetgy saving low carbon.
Taking a calculated risk: eliminating the …

Don't trust your family history to the cloud or an online software company. #Ancestris version 13 is out. https://www.ancestris.org/index.html It's free and has some unique tools and reports not foun…

Here's how to reduce risk of getting the Flu during holiday travel season.
(This year's strain is extra aggressive. tl;dr get the vaccine and mask consistently.)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/146389612

Sources and an internal memo: the BBC puts 80 employees at risk of redundancy across the product teams that build its online services, including iPlayer (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/bbc-84-jobs-risk-digital-iplayer-1236620473/

BBC Begins “Major” Jobs Cull Across Teams That Power iPlayer & Other Online Services
The BBC is planning to make more than 80 employees redundant across the product teams that help power services including iPlayer.

As US government cuts weather forecasting, vulnerable places like Puerto Rico risk losing vital early warnings https://phys.org/news/2025-11-weather-vulnerable-puerto-rico-vital.html

As US government cuts weather forecasting, vulnerable places like Puerto Rico risk losing vital early warnings
Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica in late October, killed dozens in Haiti and forced nearly three-quarters of a million Cubans to evacuate. The death toll across the region is still unknown—but Melissa will go down as one of the strongest storms ever recorded.

"Does the EU rollback of 2035 car emissions ban risk undermining Europe’s climate goals?"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Climate

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…

Software companies must be held liable for British economic security, say MPs https://therecord.media/software-companies-liable-britain-security

White House to fire explosive artillery over major roadway in Southern California, I-5 to be temporarily shut down on Saturday due to life safety risk (Governor of California)
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/18/white-house-to-fire-explosive-artillery-over-major-roadway-in-southern-california-i-5-to-be-temporarily-shut-down-on-saturday-due-to-life-safety-risk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251018/p47#a251018p47

We are imploding. Mac Allister gambles again in such a high risk scenario and the rest of the squad cannot rotate in defense.
Shambles.
#LFC

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jenevieve:
🎵 Flight Risk
#Jenevieve
https://jenevieve.bandcamp.com/track/flight-risk
https://open.spotify.com/track/6kh5cfH6NyQo8AZFsEJy0d

PAC-Bayesian Bounds on Constrained f-Entropic Risk Measures
Hind Atbir, Farah Cherfaoui, Guillaume Metzler, Emilie Morvant, Paul Viallard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11169 https:…

PAC-Bayesian Bounds on Constrained f-Entropic Risk Measures
PAC generalization bounds on the risk, when expressed in terms of the expected loss, are often insufficient to capture imbalances between subgroups in the data. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a new family of risk measures, called constrained f-entropic risk measures, which enable finer control over distributional shifts and subgroup imbalances via f-divergences, and include the Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR), a well-known risk measure. We derive both classical and disintegrated PAC…

“I love A.I.”
For Donald Trump, there is no risk, only reward, posed by the dawning and disruptive new age of computing.
Over the past year, the president and his top aides have fully embraced A.I.,
and showered its leading corporate backers with money and regulatory support,
as the administration looks to supercharge one of the primary areas of growth in an otherwise precarious U.S. economy.
That optimism was on display on Tuesday, after the federal government …

Trump Administration Downplays A.I. Risks, Ignoring Economists’ Concerns
The administration has downplayed concerns — from mass job losses, to a potential financial bubble — as President Trump cheers soaring stock prices and faster growth.

Small satisfactions at work: in response to a complaint about Excel, someone else has posted one of my favourite links (which I shared years ago), https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/ . My work is done.

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/14/millions-more-homes-in-great-britain-at-risk-of-flooding-investigation…

Rund 15 % der britischen Bevölkerung waren laut einer Umfrage bereits von der #Flut eingeschlossen – oft wegen Fehleinschätzungen.
Viele wissen nicht, dass sich #Gezeiten täglich verschieben und sich örtlich stark unterscheiden. Gerade auf

Misunderstanding the tide is putting millions at risk on UK coasts – here’s what you need to know
Four in ten people surveyed were unaware that tides come in twice daily, that they vary in timing each day, and that they differ in height across the country.

Yet it comes with a big risk. That is, the incredible dependence of US stock market growth on the performance of a handful of tech giants. The Magnificent 7 - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla - collectively comprise one third of the valuation of America's entire S&P 500.
BBC News - The Silicon Valley 'AI factory' at the heart of the tech race - BBC News

TIL this song was banned from space but loved by David Bowie.
Listen at your own risk.
https://youtu.be/9EEZAivzl1Q?si=PUgne2NLRF0W_8Tu

I guess the Chamber of Commerce just likes the fossils more than it likes the insurance industry…and all the rest of us.
Appeals court pauses California law requiring companies to report climate-related financial risk - https://

Europe faces 'significant risk' of major war if Russia starts mobilization, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/europe-faces-significant-risk-of.html

A look at the social debates in Chile over AI investments, emblematic of clashes happening globally over balancing economic growth with environmental concerns (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/technology/chile-ai-politics.html

How Chile Embodies A.I.’s No-Win Politics
Political debates have flared across Chile over artificial intelligence. Should the nation pour billions into A.I. and risk public backlash, or risk being left behind?

If you have a risk register, and your organization does not have an SBOM for your built apps, the lack of an SBOM goes in your risk register. If you don't have a risk register, make one, and add your lack of SBOMs to it.

from my link log —
Entrepreneurs don't have a special gene for risk, they come from families with money.
https://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-for-risk-they-come-from-families-with-money/

Norway’s green transition is putting Sami culture at risk | Environment | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12/19/norways-green-transition-is-putting-sami-culture-at-risk?traffic_source=rss

college_freshmen: Dutch college freshman (1995)
A small network of friendships among freshmen at Dutch College in 1994-1995. Friendship ties were surveyed at 7 different times over the year, and each edge is timestamped. The direction of an edge indicates that person i named person j, and the edge weight represents their level of friendship, ranging from -1 (risk of conflict) to 3 (best friend).
This network has 32 nodes and 3062 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Tim…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/3]:
- Optimizing Text Search: A Novel Pattern Matching Algorithm Based on Ukkonen's Approach
Xinyu Guan, Shaohua Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16927 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115762062326187898
- SpIDER: Spatially Informed Dense Embedding Retrieval for Software Issue Localization
Shravan Chaudhari, Rahul Thomas Jacob, Mononito Goswami, Jiajun Cao, Shihab Rashid, Christian Bock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16956 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_bot/115762248476963893
- MemoryGraft: Persistent Compromise of LLM Agents via Poisoned Experience Retrieval
Saksham Sahai Srivastava, Haoyu He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16962 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762140339109012
- Colormap-Enhanced Vision Transformers for MRI-Based Multiclass (4-Class) Alzheimer's Disease Clas...
Faisal Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16964 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115762196702065869
- Probing Scientific General Intelligence of LLMs with Scientist-Aligned Workflows
Wanghan Xu, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16969 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115762050529328276
- PAACE: A Plan-Aware Automated Agent Context Engineering Framework
Kamer Ali Yuksel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16970 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115762054461584205
- A Women's Health Benchmark for Large Language Models
Elisabeth Gruber, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17028 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115762049873946945
- Perturb Your Data: Paraphrase-Guided Training Data Watermarking
Pranav Shetty, Mirazul Haque, Petr Babkin, Zhiqiang Ma, Xiaomo Liu, Manuela Veloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17075 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115762077400293945
- Disentangled representations via score-based variational autoencoders
Benjamin S. H. Lyo, Eero P. Simoncelli, Cristina Savin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17127 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115762251753966702
- Biosecurity-Aware AI: Agentic Risk Auditing of Soft Prompt Attacks on ESM-Based Variant Predictors
Huixin Zhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17146 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762318582013305
- Application of machine learning to predict food processing level using Open Food Facts
Arora, Chauhan, Rana, Aditya, Bhagat, Kumar, Kumar, Semar, Singh, Bagler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17169 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioBM_bot/115762302873829397
- Systemic Risk Radar: A Multi-Layer Graph Framework for Early Market Crash Warning
Sandeep Neela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17185 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfinRM_bot/115762275982224870
- Do Foundational Audio Encoders Understand Music Structure?
Keisuke Toyama, Zhi Zhong, Akira Takahashi, Shusuke Takahashi, Yuki Mitsufuji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17209 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115762341541572505
- CheXPO-v2: Preference Optimization for Chest X-ray VLMs with Knowledge Graph Consistency
Xiao Liang, Yuxuan An, Di Wang, Jiawei Hu, Zhicheng Jiao, Bin Jing, Quan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17213 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762574180736975
- Machine Learning Assisted Parameter Tuning on Wavelet Transform Amorphous Radial Distribution Fun...
Deriyan Senjaya, Stephen Ekaputra Limantoro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17245 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot/115762447037143855
- AlignDP: Hybrid Differential Privacy with Rarity-Aware Protection for LLMs
Madhava Gaikwad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17251 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762396593872943
- Practical Framework for Privacy-Preserving and Byzantine-robust Federated Learning
Baolei Zhang, Minghong Fang, Zhuqing Liu, Biao Yi, Peizhao Zhou, Yuan Wang, Tong Li, Zheli Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17254 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762402470985707
- Verifiability-First Agents: Provable Observability and Lightweight Audit Agents for Controlling A...
Abhivansh Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17259 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMA_bot/115762225538364939
- Warmer for Less: A Cost-Efficient Strategy for Cold-Start Recommendations at Pinterest
Saeed Ebrahimi, Weijie Jiang, Jaewon Yang, Olafur Gudmundsson, Yucheng Tu, Huizhong Duan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17277 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/115762214396869930
- LibriVAD: A Scalable Open Dataset with Deep Learning Benchmarks for Voice Activity Detection
Ioannis Stylianou, Achintya kr. Sarkar, Nauman Dawalatabad, James Glass, Zheng-Hua Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17281 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115762361858560703
- Penalized Fair Regression for Multiple Groups in Chronic Kidney Disease
Carter H. Nakamoto, Lucia Lushi Chen, Agata Foryciarz, Sherri Rose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17340 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/115762446402738033
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Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles announced a flash flood warning for the region beginning on Tuesday
and is urging people to use caution while traveling for the upcoming holiday.
The city is also deploying staff with the Los Angeles homeless services authority (Lahsa) to get supplies and hotel vouchers to those living outside.

Zeugen mit Todesangst - Brutalo-Szenen auf Autobahn: Hooligans in U-Haft #News #Nachrichten

SHERLOCK: Towards Dynamic Knowledge Adaptation in LLM-enhanced E-commerce Risk Management
Nan Lu, Yurong Hu, Jiaquan Fang, Yan Liu, Rui Dong, Yiming Wang, Rui Lin, Shaoyi Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08948

SHERLOCK: Towards Dynamic Knowledge Adaptation in LLM-enhanced E-commerce Risk Management
The growth of the e-commerce industry has intensified the adversarial dynamics between shadow economy actors and risk management teams. Companies often conduct risk investigations into suspicious cases to identify emerging fraud patterns, thereby enhancing both preemptive risk prevention and post-hoc governance. However, the sheer volume of case analyses imposes a substantial workload on risk management analysts, as each case requires the integration of long-term expert experience and meticulou…

Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
AVON: Where is Orac?
SOOLIN: Behind a panel in section four.
AVON: We have to get Orac outside.
TARRANT: Why risk it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/498 B7B5

https://apnews.com/article/russia-starlink-musk-ukraine-space-china-canada-c69c1fda5ffc93828712ab723e606a2c

Russia's new anti-satellite weapon project would target Starlink with space shrapnel
NATO-nation intelligence services believe Russia is developing a weapon to target Starlink satellites. Intelligence findings seen by The Associated Press say the weapon could release pellets to disable multiple satellites. Analysts have doubts, saying such a weapon could create chaos in space and risk other vital orbiting systems. But a Canadian space commander has told the AP that such a weapon is “not implausible.” Starlink's services are used by Ukraine. Russia views the constellation as…

Is risk vs reward worth it for Raiders LT Kolton Miller to return? https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/12/11/risk-reward-raiders-lt-kolton-miller-return-injured-reserve/87719319…

Can Risk-taking AI-Assistants suitably represent entities
Ali Mazyaki, Mohammad Naghizadeh, Samaneh Ranjkhah Zonouzaghi, Amirhossein Farshi Sotoudeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08114

Can Risk-taking AI-Assistants suitably represent entities
Responsible AI demands systems whose behavioral tendencies can be effectively measured, audited, and adjusted to prevent inadvertently nudging users toward risky decisions or embedding hidden biases in risk aversion. As language models (LMs) are increasingly incorporated into AI-driven decision support systems, understanding their risk behaviors is crucial for their responsible deployment. This study investigates the manipulability of risk aversion (MoRA) in LMs, examining their ability to repl…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115758956800148047
Fuck me. Climate risk data is going private, i.e. the financiers will have that info but not the public.

Ten public schools in Canberra will be closed today and at least another 10 will be partially closed due to potential asbestos contamination.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-14/several-act-schools-closed-after-asbestos-risk-fo…

Snap closure of several Canberra schools after asbestos found in decorative coloured sand
A snap closure has been issued for a number of schools in the ACT over fears of asbestos exposure.

"Data protection is important to us. We don't put that at risk lighty" - Wildberger.
Aber muss halt sein, kann man nix machen. Tut uns wirklich leid!
#DigitalGipfel

Allowing fair elections with the risk of losing is way too risky for the Trump administration, too many people will get jailed afterwards, so they won't let it happen. A good thing to realize.
#trump #usa #politics

Risk-Budgeted Control Framework for Balanced Performance and Safety in Autonomous Vehicles
Pei Yu Chang, Vishnu Renganathan, Qadeer Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10442 https:…

Risk-Budgeted Control Framework for Balanced Performance and Safety in Autonomous Vehicles
This paper presents a risk-budgeted monitor with a control framework that certifies safety for autonomous driving. In this process, a sliding window is proposed to monitor for insufficient barrier residuals or nonzero tail risk, ensuring system safety. When the safety margin deteriorates, it triggers switching the safety constraint from a performance-based relaxed-control barrier function (R-CBF) to a conservative conditional value at risk (CVaR-CBF) to address the safety concern. This switchin…

An older adult with underlying health conditions is believed to be the first person to die from a rare strain of bird flu,
but Washington state health officials said on Friday the risk to the public is low.
The person – from Grays Harbor county, about 78 miles (125km) south-west of Seattle – had a backyard flock of domestic poultry that had been exposed to wild birds.
The person was treated for the H5N5 bird flu strain after becoming seemingly the first known human infected…

OpenAI details efforts to secure its ChatGPT Atlas browser against prompt injection attacks, including building an "LLM-based automated attacker" (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/openai-say…

OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks | TechCrunch
OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an "LLM-based automated attacker."

DOJ must release Epstein files by Friday or risk repercussions, law's co-author says (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-must-release-epstein-files-friday-risk-repercussions-laws-co-autho-rcna249574
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p75#a251217p75

China’s coastal cities are sinking as seas rise at record speed #China

China’s coastal cities are sinking as seas rise at record speed
Sea levels are rising faster than at any time in 4,000 years, scientists report, with China’s major coastal cities at particular risk. The rapid increase is driven by warming oceans and melting ice, while human activities like groundwater pumping make it worse. In some areas, the land itself is sinking faster than the ocean is rising. Still, researchers see progress as cities like Shanghai adopt new technologies to stabilize the ground and prepare for the future.

A look at the system for distribution of direct media subsidies developed for the government of Denmark, which spends ~0.2% of its GDP on direct media subsidies (Rasmus Kleis Nielsen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2…

As the U.S. starves its public media, Denmark wants to figure out a better way to subsidize private news publishers
"A foundation can pick winners on the basis of its own values and priorities and support them from private sources. But if the state does the same with public funds, we risk the appearance (or even worse, the reality) of politicians picking winners on the basis of their own ad hoc, pa…

TikTok pushes merchants to use a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking to TikTok Shop rather than merchants' own sites, frustrating some merchants (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-shops-new-…

TikTok Shop’s New Ad Policy Risks Alienating Merchants
As TikTok readies itself for the expected sale of its U.S. business to a new venture controlled by American investors, the company is trying to boost its commerce business, TikTok Shop. But the measures it has taken risk alienating merchants who sell on the shopping service. TikTok Shop in ...

Mining the deep-sea could further threaten endangered sharks and rays https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/mining-the-deep-sea-could-further-threaten-endangered-sharks-and-rays/

Mining the deep-sea could further threaten endangered sharks and rays
New research has found that deep-sea mining in international waters could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras — many of which are already at risk of extinction. Chondrichthyes, the class of cartilaginous fish that includes sharks, rays and chimaeras, are among the most threatened vertebrates on Earth, with more than 37% […]

Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Risk:A Machine Learning Approach
Alvaro Ortiz, Tomasa Rodrigo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12416 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.124…

Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Risk:A Machine Learning Approach
We introduce a novel high-frequency daily panel dataset of both markets and news-based indicators -- including Geopolitical Risk, Economic Policy Uncertainty, Trade Policy Uncertainty, and Political Sentiment -- for 42 countries across both emerging and developed markets. Using this dataset, we study how sentiment dynamics shape sovereign risk, measured by Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads, and evaluate their forecasting value relative to traditional drivers such as global monetary policy and m…

New OpenAI models likely to pose "high" cybersecurity risk
OpenAI says the cyber capabilities of its frontier AI models are accelerating and warns Wednesday that upcoming models are likely to pose a "high" risk […]
😶‍🌫️ https://www.axios.com/2025/12/10/openai-ne

Exclusive: New OpenAI models likely pose "high" cybersecurity risk, company says
OpenAI says it's stepping up efforts to protect against attacks.

Maybe Framework should concentrate on their products and not on platforming and sponsoring fascists https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/secure-boot-bypass-risk-on-nearly-200-000-linux-framework-sytems/

Ukraine's nuclear plants at risk, Russian drones in Europe | Ukraine This Week: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/ukraines-nuclear-plants-at-risk.html

Time's Up: Study Says We're At Risk Of New Ice Age | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/11/times-study-says-were-risk-new-ice-age

Biased-Attention Guided Risk Prediction for Safe Decision-Making at Unsignalized Intersections
Chengyang Dong, Nan Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12428 https://

Biased-Attention Guided Risk Prediction for Safe Decision-Making at Unsignalized Intersections
Autonomous driving decision-making at unsignalized intersections is highly challenging due to complex dynamic interactions and high conflict risks. To achieve proactive safety control, this paper proposes a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) decision-making framework integrated with a biased attention mechanism. The framework is built upon the Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) algorithm. Its core innovation lies in the use of biased attention to construct a traffic risk predictor. This predictor assesses …

A new study has found that
eating 50 grams (1.76 ounces) or more of high-fat cheese a day
correlates with a lower risk of developing dementia.
That includes all cheeses with more than 20 percent fat content,
like brie, gouda, cheddar, parmesan, gruyere, and mozzarella.
The extensive, long-term study followed 27,670 adults in Sweden for around 25 years.
The findings establish an association between daily consumption of high-fat cheese
and lower demen…

Cheese Linked to Lower Dementia Risk in 25-Year Study
One of the finest foods available to humanity may carry an unexpected benefit.

"Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years"
#Europe #Bees #Insects

OpenAI warns new models pose 'high' cybersecurity risk
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-warns-new-models-pose-high-cybersecurity-risk-2025-12-10/

»Why Shortened URLs Pose a Security Risk«
On Mastodon / Fediverse, shortening the URL is not necessary at all, because they are not marked in their full length. Apart from the shorter tracking, their data collection frenzy as well as their timing is also very inconvenient.
🚫 https://…

Why Shortened URLs Pose a Security Risk - Acer Corner
Shortened URLs are widely used in the digital world. They are small, concise links that replace long web addresses, making them easier to share across social media, emails, and text messages. Popular services like Bitly and TinyURL have become household names for this reason. Despite their convenience, shortened URLs also…

Explainability, risk modeling, and segmentation based customer churn analytics for personalized retention in e-commerce
Sanjula De Alwis, Indrajith Ekanayake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11604

Explainability, risk modeling, and segmentation based customer churn analytics for personalized retention in e-commerce
In online retail, customer acquisition typically incurs higher costs than customer retention, motivating firms to invest in churn analytics. However, many contemporary churn models operate as opaque black boxes, limiting insight into the determinants of attrition, the timing of retention opportunities, and the identification of high-risk customer segments. Accordingly, the emphasis should shift from prediction alone to the design of personalized retention strategies grounded in interpretable ev…

Danish intelligence classifies Trump's America as a security risk (Antoaneta Roussi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/danish-intelligence-classifies-donald-trump-america-as-security-risk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p34#a251211p34

Blackstone President Jonathan Gray says AI risk is "top of our list" when evaluating deals; sources: the firm backed down from buying companies vulnerable to AI (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/35d80b4d-eecd-424b-9350-8da138036d7e

"Confidential Western Australian government report warns gas exports risk slowing Asia’s move to clean energy"
#Australia #Energy

"Federal regulators have rescinded a set of guidelines for large banking institutions to consider the financial dangers of the climate crisis when making decisions about business strategy, risk management, and strategic planning."
Fed accused of putting 'financial system at risk' with new 'capitulation' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/federal-reserve-2674210146/

COVID vaccines protect children from severe illness per CDC.
⬇️76% reduced risk of ER visits in kids 9 mo. to 4 years
⬇️56% reduced risk of ER visits in kids 5 - 17 years
-- @drruth.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/atranscendedman.bsky.social/po…

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/11/number-of-wild-bee-species-at-risk-of-extinction-in-europe-doubles-in-10-years

A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/20/josh-woodward-google-gemini-ai-safety.html

Google was at risk of losing its dominance — until it promoted this AI executive
Josh Woodward, a 16-year Google veteran, is tasked with running the Gemini app and going head-to-head with OpenAI in the booming generative AI market.

"UK public’s awareness of flood risk ‘dangerously low’, MPs warn"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Flooding

The US FCC announces proceedings to potentially bar Hong Kong telecom HKT and its subsidiaries from accessing domestic US networks, citing its ties to China (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/us-block-h

FCC moves to expel one of Hong Kong’s largest telco companies from U.S. networks
The U.S. has taken steps to block one of Hong Kong’s largest phone companies from accessing the country's domestic telecom networks over national security concerns.

Protecting public health abroad benefits Americans.
In a globalized world, diseases and their social and economic impacts do not stay within national boundaries.
Increased rates of untreated HIV in any part of the world increase the risk of transmission for U.S. citizens.
Changes made in the first year of Trump’s second term to address the global HIV epidemic won't keep Americans safe.
In September 2025, the U.S. Department of State announced its "America First…

HIV knows no borders, and the Trump administration’s new strategy leave Americans vulnerable – an HIV-prevention expert explains
The America First Global Health Strategy aims to secure US interests but may instead undermine it by design.

Appeals court halts California's climate risk disclosure
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5612742-california-climate-disclosure-law-halted/

"New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds"
#NewZealand #Climate #ClimateChange

On Thursday, 11 of the UK's leading oncologists, economists and medical ethicists will meet at the Department of Health’s headquarters in London
to make a decision that will have consequences for millions of men.
The National Screening Committee (NSC) will issue a recommendation on whether to launch the first NHS screening programme for prostate cancer.
Celebrities, sports stars and politicians, including Sir Chris Hoy and David Lammy, have campaigned for the greater us…

NHS could start prostate cancer screening — which men are eligible?
The National Screening Committee is expected to recommend the first-ever screening programme for the disease next week, but only for those at the highest risk

Nearly 47 million Americans at high risk of potential health hazards from fossil fuel infrastructure, study finds https://phys.org/news/2025-11-million-americans-high-potential-health.html

Nearly 47 million Americans at high risk of potential health hazards from fossil fuel infrastructure, study finds
Fossil fuels release pollutants into the air when extracted and burned, but there's more to their production than massive oil rigs diving deep into Earth and smoky power plants. Those processes are examples of only the first and last—and generally most visible—moments in a fossil fuel's five-stage journey.

"Study warns up to a quarter of Philippine vertebrates risk extinction"
#Phillippines #Animals

Study warns up to a quarter of Philippine vertebrates risk extinction
The Philippines, long recognized as one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, could lose nearly a quarter of its unique land-dwelling vertebrate species unless urgent conservation action is taken, according to a new study. In a paper published in Science of The Total Environment, researchers assessed 1,294 species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. […]

Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/extinctions-already-happening-in-wales-as-report-lists-3000-at-risk-species/
…

Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species
Nearly 3,000 species in the country of Wales, in the U.K., are now found in just a handful of locations, according to a recent report. These species include hundreds of plants, fungi and mosses, as well as 25 bird, six mammal, five freshwater fish and one amphibian species. The report, produced by Natural Resources Wales […]

Senator Marsha Blackburn said
“I look forward to introducing the
"TRUMP AMERICA AI Act"
in the new year to create one federal rulebook for AI
to protect children, creators, conservatives, and communities"
Combats the consistent pattern of bias against conservative figures demonstrated by Big Tech and AI systems by requiring:
Audits of high-risk AI systems to undergo regular bias evaluations to prevent discrimination based on protected characte…

Blackburn Unveils National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

In a tense meeting at the White House on Friday,
Trump tossed aside maps of the front line,
and urged Kyiv to concede its entire Donbas region to Russia to clinch a deal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is rallying the support of his European partners
after the bruising meeting with Trump,
in which he was told to make concessions to end the war or risk facing destruction at the hands of Russia.


After tense Trump meeting, Zelensky seeks European support
In an often fraught encounter, Trump told Zelensky to accept Putin’s latest deal or face destruction at Russian hands, according to those familiar with events.

The National Press Club is deeply troubled by President Trump’s comments today regarding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Mr. Khashoggi’s murder inside a diplomatic facility was a grave violation of human rights and a direct attack on press freedom.
That fact is not in dispute.

National Press Club Statement on President Trump’s Remarks on the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 – The National Press Club is deeply troubled by President Trump’s comments today regarding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Mr. Khashoggi’s murder inside a diplomatic facility was a grave violation of human rights and a direct attack on press freedom. That fact is not in dispute. For reporters around the world — and for those who risk their lives to report on powerful figures, governments, and global events — statements that appear to minimize or excuse t…

Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
The chemical industry finally got its wish.
Industry lobbyists have long pushed the federal government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the
💥cancer risk 💥from chemicals,
one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
Last week, in a highly unusual move,
👉the Environmental Protection Agency embraced that approach
in announcing that it is revi…

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.