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🏴‍☠️🐒🏝️ Found my long lost diskette 22 of "The Secret of Monkey Island", will finally be able to finish a play-through after all these years.

Meeting of the Secret Order

Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me.
It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lxpdmdidch2…

I'll be presenting a lightning talk on secret provisioning using Terraform anywhere between 16h30 and 18h at #pts25

Customize what happens when you start R: #rstats #environment

Its clear that Trump is effectively if not literally a Russian agent hell bent on destroying the USA...
"As president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO Chrissy Lynch said in July after the Republicans passed the budget reconciliation bill cutting clean energy tax credits: “Working families shouldn’t have to purchase energy from billionaire oil tycoons and foreign governments or let them set the price of our energy bills.”
Her observation hit home earlier this week, when Joe Wallace, Costas Paris, Alex Leary, and Collin Eaton of the Wall Street Journal reported that the comments of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Trump at their meeting in Alaska on August 15 in which they talked about doing more business together were not vague goodwill. ExxonMobil and Russia’s biggest energy company, Rosneft, have been in secret talks to resume a partnership to extract Russian oil, including in the Arctic, that had been severed by Russia’s attack on Ukraine in 2022."
#USPolitics #RenewableEnergy
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-30-2025?r=103mi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

We discovered the "Star City Secret Cinema" in which the movie you're about to see remains a mystery until the curtain goes up. We invited some friends we knew would absolutely be up for it.
Tonight's showing turned out to be Elliot Silverstein's "The Car" from 1977, which the host aptly described as "imagine Jaws, but with a car instead". James Brolin starred in this ridiculous, yet very enjoyable, movie. The writing was bananas, but so too w…

The Car (1977 film) - Wikipedia

@… Hello! 👋 I saw this game and thought of you! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1977610/Long_Gone/ :)

Long Gone on Steam
Decades have passed, play as a survivor stranded in an old suburban neighborhood. Explore the secret lives of people Long Gone through their forgotten belongings and platform through overgrown streets in this 3D pixel narrative adventure inspired by games of old. Oh, and watch out for the zombies.

Nice, finally
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/312002/the-rose-field-the-book-of-dust-volume-three-by-pullman-philip/9780241458693

The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three
‘Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the opening to the world of the roses?’ ‘Defend it,’ Lyra said. ‘Die defending it.’ When readers left Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she was alone, in the ruins of a deserted city. Pantalaimon had run from her – part of himself – in search of her imagination, which he believed she had lost. Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her dæmon. And Malcolm, loyal Malcolm, too journeyed far …

I should have kept my mouth shut when I went to my neighbourhood internet provider to pay the monthly fee, but I asked the hypothetical how much it would cost to upgrade from my 10 years old 100-Mbps limit. They immediately upgraded me to 500 Mbps, correcting the monthly fee to minus €0,50 🤯
There goes my secret deterrent against going off the rails with playing all the video games. You might've noticed it's kind of a problem 😑

The FBI Has Secret Jeffrey Epstein Prison Tape With No ‘Missing Minute’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-fbi-has-secret-jeffrey-epstein-prison-tape-with-no-missing-minute/

> "Secret Blizzard hackers are also taking advantage of Russia's domestic interception systems, including the System for Operative Investigative Activities (SORM), to carry out their large-scale AiTM campaigns."
https://www.bleepin…

Microsoft: Russian hackers use ISP access to hack embassies in AiTM attacks
Microsoft warns that a cyber-espionage group linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) is targeting diplomatic missions in Moscow using local internet service providers.

Trump revokes Secret Service protection for former VP Harris, AP sources say (Seung Min Kim/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-secret-service-protection-894d6ca3f202c0a854390d653c101673
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p11#a250829p11

Microsoft says Russia's Secret Blizzard hacking group is impersonating Kaspersky and leveraging Russian ISPs to spy on foreign embassies in Moscow (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Secret intelligence: how partisans disrupt Russia's logistics #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/secret-intelligence-how-partisans-disrupt.html

I'm not sure whether or not I agree with the conclusions, but sharing this as an interesting read on tradeoffs in #socialHousing, from a knowledgeable person and good writer

New Secret Knots. Basically about the Tech Sector.
Fantastic.
(Original title: The Mesh)
https://thesecretknots.com/comic/the-mesh/

"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."
-Thornton Wilder
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Polynomial Lattices for the BIKE Cryptosystem
Michael Schaller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23641 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23641

Polynomial Lattices for the BIKE Cryptosystem
In this paper we introduce a rank $2$ lattice over a polynomial ring arising from the public key of the BIKE cryptosystem \cite{aragon2022bike}. The secret key is a sparse vector in this lattice. We study properties of this lattice and generalize the recovery of weak keys from \cite{BardetDLO16}. In particular, we show that they implicitly solved a shortest vector problem in the lattice we constructed. Rather than finding only a shortest vector, we obtain a reduced basis of the lattice which ma…

Experimenting with Permutation Wordle
Aurora Hiveley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23452 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23452

Experimenting with Permutation Wordle
Consider a game of permutation wordle in which a player attempts to guess a secret permutation of length $n$ in as few guesses as possible. In each round, the guessing player is told which indices of their guessed permutation are correct. How can we optimize the player's strategy? Samuel Kutin and Lawren Smithline (arXiv:2408.00903) propose a strategy called "cyclic shift" in which all incorrect entries are shifted one index to the right in successive guesses, and they conjecture its optimality…

High-Performance Fully Passive Discrete-State Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution With Local Local Oscillator
Yu Zhang, Xuyang Wang, Chenyang Li, Jie Yun, Qiang Zeng, Zhiliang Yuan, Zhenguo Lu, Yongmin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23327

High-Performance Fully Passive Discrete-State Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution With Local Local Oscillator
We propose and demonstrate a fully passive discrete-state continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD), which can eliminate all modulator side channels on the source side, using a local local oscillator (LLO). The CV-QKD system achieves a maximum transmission length of 100 km with a repetition rate of 1 GHz using specially designed phase rotation and discretization methods, and the corresponding secret key bit rate is 127 kbps, as estimated based on the amplitude of prepared states at …

Trump cancels Kamala Harris’ Secret Service detail that was extended by undisclosed Biden order https://ground.news/article/trump-cancels-kamala-harris-secret-service-detail-that-was-extended-by-undisclosed-biden-order

Sparse Regression Codes for Secret Key Agreement: Achieving Strong Secrecy and Near-Optimal Rates for Gaussian Sources
Emmanouil M. Athanasakos, Hariprasad Manjunath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20157

Sparse Regression Codes for Secret Key Agreement: Achieving Strong Secrecy and Near-Optimal Rates for Gaussian Sources
Secret key agreement from correlated physical layer observations is a cornerstone of information-theoretic security. This paper proposes and rigorously analyzes a complete, constructive protocol for secret key agreement from Gaussian sources using Sparse Regression Codes (SPARCs). Our protocol systematically leverages the known optimality of SPARCs for both rate-distortion and Wyner-Ziv (WZ) coding, facilitated by their inherent nested structure. The primary contribution of this work is a compr…

Bill Parcells used Dan Campbell as secret weapon to motivate Cowboys players https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/detroit-lions/news/bill-parcells-used-dan-campbell-secret-weapon-motiva…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
Queens of the Stone Age:
🎵 The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
#QueensoftheStoneAge
https://escapetherazor.bandcamp.com/track/the-lost-art-of-keeping-a-secret-demo-queens-of-the-stone-age-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/1RwDsaft1szD0FO3DVEtaT

Sources: a secretive project offering influencers $250-$8,000 a month to boost Democrats kicked off in July; creators were told 90 influencers were taking part (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influe…

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.

How the Trump administration undermined its own strategic position
A Secret Program Allowed VOA to Broadcast Television into North Korea.
Now It’s Gone.
https://www.cjr.org/news/trump-lake-secret-program-voice-of-ame…

A Secret Program Allowed VOA to Broadcast Television into North Korea. Now It’s Gone.
How the Trump administration undermined its own strategic position.

Staining and locking computer vision models without retraining
Oliver J. Sutton, Qinghua Zhou, George Leete, Alexander N. Gorban, Ivan Y. Tyukin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22000

Staining and locking computer vision models without retraining
We introduce new methods of staining and locking computer vision models, to protect their owners' intellectual property. Staining, also known as watermarking, embeds secret behaviour into a model which can later be used to identify it, while locking aims to make a model unusable unless a secret trigger is inserted into input images. Unlike existing methods, our algorithms can be used to stain and lock pre-trained models without requiring fine-tuning or retraining, and come with provable, comput…

I have discovered a secret Jira install at work 🤢

Physical Layer Group Key Generation With the Aid of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Vahid Shahiri, Guyue Li, Hamid Behroozi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00714

Physical Layer Group Key Generation With the Aid of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have the ability to alter the wireless environment by making changes in the impinging signal. Motivated by this ability, in this study, we exploit the RIS to make the aggregate reflecting channels of different user terminals (UTs) as similar as possible to be able to extract common group secret keys from their channels. Specifically, the RIS will adjust its parameters to pave the way for group key generation (GKG) based on the physical channels of the U…

🏃🏿‍♀️‍➡️ Researchers find that individual practice is the secret to maintaining high team performance over time
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-individual-secret-high-team.html

Researchers find that individual practice is the secret to maintaining high team performance over time
When it comes to learning and retaining complex skills, a new study from Texas A&M University uncovered a surprising finding: in the context of teams, having employees practice skills alone may be the best way to help the team succeed.

Trump cancels Kamala Harris' Secret Service detail that was extended by undisclosed Biden order (Edward-Isaac Dovere/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/29/politics/kamala-harris-secret-service-canceled-trump-biden
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p9#a250829p9

remembering __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED today

Great article from NYT about sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan from the UAE. For me it illustrates the bigger problem of the middle-east/gulfstates, the absence of any meaningful democracy, too rich oligarchs with too much power. Politically the people are living in medieval times there.

Conquering Soccer and Arming Warlords
The Emirati vice president is best known as the owner of Manchester City, a top English soccer team. Behind the scenes, he has been described as the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars.

Some Mathematical Problems Behind Lattice-Based Cryptography
Chuanming Zong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23438 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Some Mathematical Problems Behind Lattice-Based Cryptography
In 1994, P. Shor discovered quantum algorithms which can break both the RSA cryptosystem and the ElGamal cryptosystem. In 2007, D-Wave demonstrated the first quantum computer. These events and further developments have brought a crisis to secret communication. In 2016, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched a global project to solicit and select a handful of encryption algorithms with the ability to resist quantum computer attacks. In 2022, it announced four candidat…

#WritersCoffeeClub
30. Have you ever written as a commission? If not, would you?
31. How was this month for you, writing-wise?
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30. Not for payment but yes. I participated in the "Secret Santa" event where a bunch of people wrote short stories using prompts from each other on what they wanted to read.
I'm mostly satisfied with how it turned out.

Replaced article(s) found for physics.comp-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.comp-ph/new
[1/1]:
- SECRET: Stochasticity Emulator for Cosmic Ray Electrons
Nikolas Frediani, Michael Kr\"amer, Philipp Mertsch, Kathrin Nippel

Russia's 'largest and most secret' drone factory showcased in Kremlin-media propaganda video: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/21/russias-largest-and-most-secret.html

Dorothea Baur reflecting on #AI tech bros going all in on even your most personal data. Claiming to help you solve a problem which they helped create in the beginning:
"A breach of trust enabled by AI now becomes the justification for surveillance-based trust systems. And the very people who helped break the system are offering to fix it – in exchange for your iris. That’s not a safety fe…

I Stolenly Swear That I Am Up to (No) Good: Design and Evaluation of Model Stealing Attacks
Daryna Oliynyk, Rudolf Mayer, Kathrin Grosse, Andreas Rauber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21654

I Stolenly Swear That I Am Up to (No) Good: Design and Evaluation of Model Stealing Attacks
Model stealing attacks endanger the confidentiality of machine learning models offered as a service. Although these models are kept secret, a malicious party can query a model to label data samples and train their own substitute model, violating intellectual property. While novel attacks in the field are continually being published, their design and evaluations are not standardised, making it challenging to compare prior works and assess progress in the field. This paper is the first to address…

Jets held secret player-led practice on Sunday https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46033166/jets-held-secret-practice-where-players-called-plays-sunday

Is everyone using Reeder (classic) for reading RSS? Or do you have a secret app that you love? I want to know about it ☺️
#RSS

This Send/Sync Secret Separates Professional From Amateur #Rust Developers
https://blog.cuongle.dev/p/this-sendsync-secret-separates-professional-and-amat…

Just leaked, secret video of ICE recruiting center...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryvljjccqL8

Sure do wonder what that Trump admin representative spent all that time talking about in secret with her last week.
https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/news-i8koidj5z/-/a-63GyKXj-S0qRqfOMUcoFKw:a:43591897-/0

Quantum Secret Sharing with Classical and Quantum Shares
Hua Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17364 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17364

Quantum Secret Sharing with Classical and Quantum Shares
In quantum secret sharing, a quantum secret state is mapped to multiple shares such that shares from qualified sets can recover the secret state and shares from other forbidden sets reveal nothing about the secret state; we study the setting where there are both classical shares and quantum shares. We show that the quantum secret sharing problem with both classical and quantum shares is feasible if and only if any two qualified sets have some quantum share in common. Next, for threshold quantum…

"President Blabbermouth gave Iran enough advance warning they had time to move all their enriched uranium to a secret location — and now we have no idea where it is."
Iran taunts Donny: “your mother was a hamster”
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/iran-taunts-donny-your-mother-was

Top Secret D-Day Maps Found in Cardboard Box Detail Scary Defenses Faced By Allies at the 5 Landing Beaches https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/top-secret-d-day-maps-found-in-cardboard-box-detail-scary-defense…

Top Secret D-Day Maps Found in Cardboard Box Detail Scary Defenses Faced By Allies at the 5 Landing Beaches
Top-secret WWII maps used by Allied troops for the famous D-Day landings were found in a cardboard box after being purchased for just $10.

An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line.
All they have to do is keep it secret
—and agree to restrictions on their content.
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secre…

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.

Asymptotically Optimal Secure Aggregation for Wireless Federated Learning with Multiple Servers
Zhenhao Huang, Kai Liang, Yuanming Shi, Songze Li, Youlong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23680

Asymptotically Optimal Secure Aggregation for Wireless Federated Learning with Multiple Servers
In this paper, we investigate the transmission latency of the secure aggregation problem in a \emph{wireless} federated learning system with multiple curious servers. We propose a privacy-preserving coded aggregation scheme where the servers can not infer any information about the distributed users' local gradients, nor the aggregation value. In our scheme, each user encodes its local gradient into $\sK$ confidential messages intended exclusively for different servers using a multi-secret shari…

Microsoft: Kremlin monitors foreign embassies in Moscow through cyber-espionage at ISP level https://therecord.media/russia-fsb-turla-espionage-foreign-embassies-isp-level

Las Vegas Raiders Insider: Player With Unknown Future Was Secret Standout at Minicamp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/player-unknown-future-secret-standout-minicamp/?adt_ei=[email]

Hurray!
https://www.sciencealert.com/coffee-could-be-the-secret-to-healthy-aging-for-women-scientists-discover

Coffee Could Be The Secret to Healthy Aging For Women, Scientists Discover
The daily ritual of imbibing a hot cup of freshly brewed and fragrant coffee isn't just good for the soul – it may be one of the ways to smooth the road to healthy aging for women.

Coinbase says it played a "key role" in the US Secret Service's seizure of $225M linked to crypto investment scams, and Tether burned the $225M in frozen USDT (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-key-rol…

List of the Kremlin’s secret contractors: Russian businesses profiting from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/list-of-the-kremlins-secret.html

“Every one of us has a secret book,” Hélène Cixous says. She’s talking about childhood books, and I have those too, but if you look in my backpack you’ll always find a secret book of the moment. One of my most magical secret books has been Dime-Store Alchemy by the poet Charles Simic.
https://salrandolph.sub…

A Return to Talisman Books
Certain books act like talismans. One of mine is Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic's book about the artist Joseph Cornell.

How protogens are designed.
Original: #protogen

Sources: a secretive project offering influencers $250-$8,000 a month to boost Democrats kicked off in July; creators were told 90 influencers were taking part (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influe…

In The secret of my success spielt Michael J. Fox einen jungen Mann vom Land der von der Postabteilung wo er Post verteilte zum Manager aufstieg, der eine Managerfreundin hatte.
Ich hatte tatsächlich mal einen jungen Kollegen vom Land der von der Postabteilung wo er Post verteilte (u.a. an mich, so habe ich ihn kennengelernt) zum Managet aufstieg, der eine Managerfreundin aus den USA hatte. Die habe ich sogar kennengelernt und wir haben einen tollen Abend verbracht, während er abspülte.

In The secret of my success spielt Michael J. Fox einen jungen Mann vom Land der von der Postabteilung wo er Post verteilte zum Manager aufstieg, der eine Managerfreundin hatte.
Ich hatte tatsächlich mal einen jungen Kollegen vom Land der von der Postabteilung wo er Post verteilte (u.a. an mich, so habe ich ihn kennengelernt) zum Managet aufstieg, der eine Managerfreundin aus den USA hatte. Die habe ich sogar kennengelernt und wir haben einen tollen Abend verbracht, während er abspülte.

Trump just discovered an awful secret weapon - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-dictator/?u=19402cb5c9e29cc6d…

No shit, Sherlock.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/24/live-trump-announces-ceasefire-no-confirmation-from-israel-iran?update=3797073

Thousands of people are being relocated to the UK as part of a secret £850m scheme set up after a personal data leak of Afghans who supported British forces, it can now be reported.
https://www.

Donkey Kong Bananza game details
The secret TRUE boss reveal in Donkey Kong Bananza is just 👌👌👌 so damn good

Um, CNN, the whole "secret" part of secret police is that they wear masks and operate outside of the law. There's no "but" there - they are secret police. Warrantless, going outside the purview of their mission by disappearing US citizens, and so on, it's pretty clear what they are. #FuckICE
Imagine being naive enough to write "apparently to protect age…

southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social)
This is not an apt moment to use the word "but." https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/ice-cbp-police-los-angeles-immigration

TIL Baltimore has been drastically decreasing homicides for the past several years through non-police interventions focused on conflict mediation and treating "root causes of gun violence, such as poverty, mental health, and housing issues"
https://popular.info/p/the-secret-to-b

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

CHP to protect ex-VP Kamala Harris after Trump pulls Secret Service detail, sources say (Richard Winton/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-29/chp-protection-kamala-harris
http://www.memeorandum.com/250830/p19#a250830p19

I am reading about the AI data mining decisions Kadrey v Meta and Bartz v Anthropic.
And wow am I surprised at the thinness of the analysis of those decisions. The judges seem to be distracted by vacuous distinctions while missing the actual fact that as a whole this AI theft of the work of others is unconscionable and contrary to the US Constitutional purposes of copyright and trademark, and the statutory purposes of trade secret and trademark.
I'll have to write my concern…

Every young quarterback's secret best friend for 2025 NFL season: Top support for Jayden Daniels, other stars

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

Las Vegas Raiders Insider Says Free Agent Signing Was A Secret Standout at Minicamp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/free-agent-signing-secret-standout-minicamp/?adt_ei=[email]

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader shares secret behind 'Boot Buddies' tradition https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-cheerleader-secret-behind-boot-buddies-tradition

In recent months, there have been several documented incidents in which individuals posing as ICE agents have leveraged the opacity and fear surrounding immigration operations to commit serious crimes.
In Florida, a woman has been arrestedfor allegedly impersonating an ICE officer and kidnapping her ex-boyfriend’s wife.
She’s accused of going to the victim’s workplace wearing a T-shirt with “ICE” emblazoned on the front and ordering the woman to go with her.
She then allege…

Federal Lawmakers Demand Information on ICE Agents’ Use of Masks, Unmarked Cars
Rep. Summer Lee says federal agents are “operating like a secret police force.”…

🌋 Deep life's survival secret: Crustal faulting generates key energy sources, study shows
#biology

Deep life's survival secret: Crustal faulting generates key energy sources, study shows
Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that "all life depends on sunlight." In a study published in Science Advances, the researchers identified how microbes in deep subsurface areas can derive energy from chemical reactions driven by crustal faulting, offering critical insights into life deep below Earth's surface.

❝The message here clearly isn’t “Don’t commit fraud,” which would be laughable coming from Donald Trump, of all people. Nor, despite what some commentators have said, is it all about revenge — although Trump is, indeed, a remarkably vindictive person.
It’s about intimidation: “If you get in our way we will ruin your life.”
…
Tyrannies don’t always get their way by establishing a secret police force that arrests people at will — although we’re getting that too. Much of their power comes not from overt violence but from their ability to threaten people’s careers and livelihoods, up to and including trumped-up accusations of criminal behavior.❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all-lisa-cook?publication_id=277517&post_id=171826668&isFreemail=true&r=57k62s&triedRedirect=true

Trump revokes Secret Service detail for Harris that Biden had extended (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/29/trump-revokes-harris-security/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU2NDQwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU3ODIyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTY0NDAwMDAsImp0aSI6IjMwYjQyNWRhLWU2ZmUtNDAxNS1hYjNiLTdiYzRjYmM0ZWNlYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI1LzA4LzI5L3RydW1wLXJldm9rZXMtaGFycmlzLXNlY3VyaXR5LyJ9.vVrpTRV2J-OLkmwlfc8HdVydkJ4xnXI9UTT5iD6iR18&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p39#a250829p39

Cowboys' secret weapon bringing 'energy' to practice is unlikely source https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-secret-weapon-bringing-energy-practice-unlikely-source

At a clandestine math conclave in Berkeley in May, a chatbot powered by o4-mini answered some of the hardest solvable problems much faster than a mathematician (Lyndie Chiou/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article…

Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI
The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs

Guardians of the Regime: When and Why Autocrats Create Secret Police
Marius Mehrl, Mila Pfander, Theresa Winner, Cornelius Fritz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10194

Guardians of the Regime: When and Why Autocrats Create Secret Police
Autocrats use secret police to stay in power, as these organizations deter and suppress opposition to their rule. Existing research shows that secret police are very good at this but, surprisingly, also that they are not as ubiquitous in autocracies as one may assume, existing in less than 50% of autocratic country-years. We thus explore under which conditions secret police emerge in dictatorships. For this purpose, we apply statistical variable selection techniques to identify which of several…

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Revokes Kamala Harris's Secret Service Protection (Tyler Pager/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/29/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.h08.eS3m.UD8NNfV7IfkZ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p55#a250829p55

Underrated X factors for each NFC North team in 2025 season: Secret keys for Bears, Lions, Packers, Vikings

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

"using a secret subpoena to force Colorado officials to ignore state laws and hand over private financial information of residents sponsoring unaccompanied immigrant children. The state’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis is allegedly demanding that those state officials comply under threat of termination, according to court documents reviewed by The Lever. "
Whistleblower Lawsuit Exposes Trump’s Secret ICE Plot
https://www.levernews.com/whistleblower-lawsuit-exposes-trumps-secret-ice-plot/

Masked ICE agents are only the start of the assault on government transparency.
Now, government attorneys that are arguing to deport immigrants are doing so in secret.
The Intercept reports on two separate instances immigration judges in New York City declined to identify the government attorneys for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In the first case Judge ShaSha Xu said,
“We’re not really doing names publicly.”
But that’s not really true. Because she *did* ID…

Government Attorneys Now On Board With The Whole Secret Police Thing
Judges are letting government attorneys do the ugly work of mass deportations anonymously.

Engineer Pleads Guilty to Stealing for Chinese Government's Benefit Trade Secret Technology Designed for Missile Launch and Detection (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/engineer-pleads-guilty-stealing-chinese-governments-benefit-trade-secret-technology-designed
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p130#a250721p130

Evolving k-Threshold Visual Cryptography Schemes
Xiaoli Zhuo, Xuehu Yan, Lintao Liu, Wei Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15917 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15…

Evolving k-Threshold Visual Cryptography Schemes
In evolving access structures, the number of participants is countably infinite with no predetermined upper bound. While such structures have been realized in secret sharing, research in secret image sharing has primarily focused on visual cryptography schemes (VCS). However, there exists no construction for $(k,\infty)$ VCS that applies to arbitrary $k$ values without pixel expansion currently, and the contrast requires enhancement. In this paper, we first present a formal mathematical definit…

Researchers show how a weakness in OpenAI's Connectors let sensitive data be extracted from a Google Drive account using an indirect prompt injection attack (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/poisoned-document-could-leak-secret-data-chatgpt/

A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT
Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

Cowboys 'secret weapon' Joe Milton predicted to make noise during minicamp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cowboys-secret-weapon-joe-milton-predicted-to-make-noise-during-minicamp

Russia denies reports about Putin's alleged secret push for Iran nuclear deal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/russia-denies-reports-about-putins.html

JD Vance flew to Montana for secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News executives (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-murdoch-fox-news-secret-meeting-b2769061.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p1#a250720p1

Airbus' Acubed and Google spinout SandboxAQ test MagNav, a quantum-sensing navigation device and potential GPS alternative, for 150 flight hours across the US (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-to

The secret to Dak Prescott’s success in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/the-secret-to-dak-prescotts-success-in-2025

Trump Has a Nasty Secret Nickname for Stephen Miller, Biographer Reveals (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-has-a-secret-insulting-nickname-for-stephen-miller-biographer/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p23#a250618p23

As unrest and military troops overtake Los Angeles, terrifying scenes are also unfolding in smaller communities around the country.
They, too, are being invaded by what resembles a secret police force, often indistinguishable from random thugs.
https://www.washington…

The secret police descending on Small Town, U.S.A.
Masked immigration officials are storming towns and arresting people.

Chinese chip equipment supplier E-Town sues Applied Materials in the Beijing IP Court over alleged trade secret theft; Applied Materials hired two E-Town staff (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/u…

An Enigma Wrapped in a Wonderful Secret (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/an-enigma-wrapped-in-a-wonderful-secret-trump-epsitein-files-bondi
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p44#a250718p44

Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.
https://www.wired.com/story/poisoned-document-could-leak-secret-dat…

A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT
Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

When the FCC approved Skydance's takeover last night,
I emailed Scheiring for his take because he described, in an essay for Politico Mag last fall, how the authoritarian Hungarian president Orbšn
"consolidated media control through centralized propaganda, market pressure and loyal billionaires."
 
Consider some of this week's media stories:
Trump is saying he has a secret side deal with incoming Paramount owner David Ellison.
Not conte…

Fascist Secret Police Cars (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/fascist-secret-police-cars
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p63#a250819p63

Chairman Rand Paul Releases Final Report Detailing Secret Service Failures in Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump (Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs)
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/reps/chairman-rand-paul-releases-final-report-detailing-secret-service-failures-in-attempted-assassination-of-president-donald-j-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p27#a250713p27

6 Secret Service agents suspended over conduct during attempted Trump assassination (Josh Margolin/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/secret-service-agents-suspended-conduct-attempted-trump-assassination/story?id=123628351
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p146#a250709p146