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SSL/TLS Certificate Lifespans to Shrink to 47 Days by 2029
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/ssl-certificate-lifespans-shrink/

For folks who missed it due to timezones: I wrote a post about different options for sharing decision-making power with online communities, nudged by the situation around inaturalist. #citizenscience
https://tzovar.as/power-sharing/

Maduro Locks Up Economists Sharing Data on Venezuela's Decline (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-19/maduro-locks-up-economists-sharing-data-on-venezuela-s-decline
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p115#a250619p115

Ahh. ... Elon did it again...
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#SpaceX

LLM-Powered Swarms: A New Frontier or a Conceptual Stretch?
Muhammad Atta Ur Rahman, Melanie Schranz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14496 https://

LLM-Powered Swarms: A New Frontier or a Conceptual Stretch?
Swarm intelligence traditionally refers to systems of simple, decentralized agents whose local interactions lead to emergent, collective behavior. Recently, the term 'swarm' has been extended to describe AI systems like OpenAI's Swarm, where large language models (LLMs) act as collaborative agents. This paper contrasts traditional swarm algorithms with LLM-driven swarms exploring how decentralization, scalability, and emergence are redefined in modern artificial intelligence (AI). We implement …

Positive Sharing and Abstract Machines
Beniamino Accattoli, Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, Jui-Hsuan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14131 https://

Positive Sharing and Abstract Machines
Wu's positive $λ$-calculus is a recent call-by-value $λ$-calculus with sharing coming from Miller and Wu's study of the proof-theoretical concept of focalization. Accattoli and Wu showed that it simplifies a technical aspect of the study of sharing; namely it rules out the recurrent issue of renaming chains, that often causes a quadratic time slowdown. In this paper, we define the natural abstract machine for the positive $λ$-calculus and show that it suffers from an inefficiency: the quad…

The Travis Hunter Experience: How to maximize his fantasy potential https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45525668/2025-fantasy-football-idp-league-scoring-travis-hunter-eligibility

Investigation: healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island share sensitive data with Google, LinkedIn, and Snapchat via web trackers (The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/w…

We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech – The Markup
Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn

Adaptive Graph Shrinking for Quantum Optimization of Constrained Combinatorial Problems
Monit Sharma, Hoong Chuin Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14250 http…

Adaptive Graph Shrinking for Quantum Optimization of Constrained Combinatorial Problems
A range of quantum algorithms, especially those leveraging variational parameterization and circuit-based optimization, are being studied as alternatives for solving classically intractable combinatorial optimization problems (COPs). However, their applicability is limited by hardware constraints, including shallow circuit depth, limited qubit counts, and noise. To mitigate these issues, we propose a hybrid classical--quantum framework based on graph shrinking to reduce the number of variables …

Let's use Hanlon's Razor, and assume good faith in that the #inaturalist staff just needs a bit of help for how one could actually share decision-making power with a large online community.
To do that, I've written up some ideas of how other online communities (in #citizenscience, #openscience and beyond) have gone about doing that.
https://tzovar.as/power-sharing/