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i get it that all kind of military secrets get leaked on #war #thunder for details that are unrealistic. but for the love of god, is there no #dutch person that

Geez, I realized I hadn’t posted several recent books. There were a couple Nigerian science fiction books:
“Rosewater” by Tade Thompson. A mysterious alien biodome heals people when it opens up once a year, but Kaaro, who has some special abilities, begins to uncover some secrets that point to a more sinister purpose.
Loved the first half, but thought it fell off in the second half.
3/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
Tade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winn…

#ACAB All Cops Are Broadcasting
https://it4sec.substack.com/p/breaking-tetra-a-backdoor-in-cryptography

Imagine not trusting me with your secrets. Couldn't be you. DM me your secrets now!

from my link log —
Forbidden secrets of ancient X11 scaling technology revealed!
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed
saved 2025-06-24

Where Luke assures Gospel readers all secrets will be disclosed (8:17) I notice he neglects to mention there will be fuck-all you can do about it.

Ad Spend Secrets: eCommerce Marketing Strategies
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/ad-spend-secrets-ecommerce-marketing-strategies/

Bees are collapsing in the U.S.
A key to their secrets might vanish.
The Bee Lab’s potential closure comes at a tough time for bees.

Droege studies native bees,
the types of pollinators that only live in the wild,
as opposed to honeybees,
which are farmed and bred for profit.
Entomologists stress that honeybees and native bees are different —
sort of like farmed chickens and wild birds.
But they can be exposed to the same threats,

Bees are collapsing in the U.S. A key to their secrets might vanish.
The top federal lab on native bees is set to close under President Trump’s budget.

Will we ever decode the writing system used by the Inca?
Gift article, no paywall.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archiv

Unraveling the Secrets of the Inca Empire
For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Quite the scoop for the Washington Times.
Hackers compromised the National Reconnaissance Office, with sources saying they likely obtained information on key technologies for CIA operations.
Hackers breach intelligence website used by CIA
https://www.

The First Detection of Molecular Activity in the Largest Known Oort Cloud Comet - ALMA Imaging of C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein) at 16.6 au from the Sun: #Comet Ever Observed Reveals Its Secrets with ALMA’s Powerful Gaze: https://public.nrao.edu/news/largest-oort-cloud-comet-ever-observed-reveals-its-secrets-with-almas-powerful-gaze/ - giant comet’s molecular activity and chemistry detected at record distance.

Unearthed Video of Trump Judging Teen Models Goes Viral Amid Epstein ‘Secrets’ Bombshell
https://www.mediaite.com/media/entertainment/unearthed-video-of-trump-judging-teen-models-goes-viral-amid-epstein-secrets-bombshell/

#privacy

How to Disappear: Secrets of the World’s Greatest Privacy Experts
Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find

Filing: Apple sues Di Liu, a former senior product designer who worked on the Vision Pro, for allegedly stealing trade secrets and taking them to Snap (Ethan Baron/SiliconValley.com)
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/06/30/apple-san-jos…

Apple claims San Jose engineer stole trade secrets, took them to rival
Allegations of theft of Apple’s trade secrets in recent years have led to criminal and civil court cases.

from my link log —
Unlocking sudoku's secrets with graph theory and abstract algebra.
https://chalkdustmagazine.com/features/unlocking-sudokus-secrets/
saved 2025-04-14

Unlocking sudoku's secrets - Chalkdust
Sara Logsdon looks to graph theory and abstract algebra for help on the puzzle page

Any of you old fogeys remember #ShariLewis and #Lambchop? A new documentary is coming out this weekend. Says here Shari had a drunk Lambchop routine she’d do at nightclubs, and that she’d order lamb at restaurants just to freak people out.

The Surprising Secrets of Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: From Playboy to Dirty Jokes
A revealing chat with the team behind a new documentary—and a certain sassy sock puppet herself—about who the woman behind all those beloved children’s shows really was.

Stream processing systems promise fresh results, strong consistency, and S3-based cost savings. But pitfalls exist. At Berlin Buzzwords, Yingjun Wu explored „The Dark Secrets of Stream Processing“.
Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/0kiQpzscZOY?si=4QVETM5z2eKeEiVl
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WOOT '25 conference schedule has been announced!
I'm pleased to say that I have not one but two papers (one as first author) being presented there:
"Security through Transparency: Tales from the RP2350 Hacking Challenge", Marius Muench, University of Birmingham; Aedan Cullen and Kévin Courdesses, Independent; Thomas 'stacksmashing' Roth, Hextree; Andrew Zonenberg, IOActive
"Extraction of Secrets from 40nm CMOS Gate Dielectric Breakdown Antifus…

WOOT '25 Technical Sessions

Ouch. https://mastodon.social/@verge/114873651194085068

„Donkey Kong Bananza is Nintendo going full galaxy brain.“
Can’t wait! 🫨
https://www.polygon.com/news/613165/switch-2-donkey-kong-bananza-creation-secrets-development

Nintendo’s Donkey Kong team sounds increasingly bananas
Many of the core ideas for the new Switch 2 game came from unexpected sources, Nintendo reveals

Bees are collapsing in the U.S. A key to their secrets might vanish. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/06/22/bee-disappear-pollinator-federal-lab/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUwNTY0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUxOTQ3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTA1NjQ4MDAsImp0aSI6IjIwZTAxNmEwLThlNGQtNDIxOS1iYTY5LWRiYjNiNDNkMTM4ZiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjUvMDYvMjIvYmVlLWRpc2FwcGVhci1wb2xsaW5hdG9yLWZlZGVyYWwtbGFiLyJ9.LntYuHdlIZzR_A8kzU2uksRc_vKIiFt0mb_pT6WUqVo&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p73#a250622p73

Spring Secret Starter: Managing #Secrets in Your #SpringBoot App
https://lucas-fern…

Will we ever decode the writing system used by the Inca?
Gift article, no paywall.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archiv

Unraveling the Secrets of the Inca Empire
For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Been playing Transiruby and the exploration poetics are top-notch, like rivalling Super Metroid good, which is a distinct rarity among metroidvanias.
Something the original Super Metroid had was required secrets and the expectation that you'd actually read the map as a gameplay skill. Many many metroidvanias don't have that, including favorites like Ori, but it's one of the things that makes Hollow Knight stand out. Transiruby sadly doesn't have maps-as-rewards, but it does have moments where consulting the map is expected (water cog is a big one since it's in the middle of an already-explored area by the time you can access it). The game also requires revisits with the coin door mechanic, but marks the things you need on the map and structures revisits really nicely with a variety of shortcuts that open up as you gain abilities.
I was kinda sad when the first movement power was double jump (le sigh) but the second movement power is really neat and original, so I'm happy again.
Besides the big things, there are a lot of little moments where there's ludonarrative harmony between the choice structures and the area themes/plot points.
Haven't finished it yet, but so far it's headed into my top tier of metroidvanias, or very close, even despite fairly simple combat and easy (if fun) bosses.
#Transiruby #AmPlaying #Metroidvania

Third attempt, it calls this round replacing #ubuntu and the manual partition page seemed to have things right, but I'm surprised an installer that takes so long has so little to say. /var/log/installer peeps a DEBUG now and then, but betrays no secrets. 52 minutes and counting, just passed probert.network and another flurry of udevadm empty queue successes.

Why are so many people still afraid of losing their power even though they have no (relevant) power? In other words, decentralized Internet and its advantage, if implemented accordingly, is as positive for privacy as business secrets. Yes, there are always some crazy people who exploit this for their perversity and politics, but you can catch them even if they are properly investigated ~ #MindNode…

Halogen abundance evidence for the formation and metasomatism of the primary lunar crust: #moon –> new clues about formation.

Las Vegas Raiders Coach Pete Carroll’s Strategies For Defying Old Age Revealed https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-defying-old-age-secrets/?adt_ei=[email]

Orbital Decay of the Ultra-hot Jupiter TOI-2109b - Tidal Constraints and Transit-timing Analysis: #planet’s orbital decay to understand how stars dissipate energy.

tactically leaking fake state secrets on war thunder forum to mislead enemies

Goodbye John, it was good to know you.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-cryptome-co-founder

In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know. He made real the idea – revolutionary in its...

Cells mark other cells for destruction by the immune system through opsonization. Sigils to destroy objects are the most closely guarded secrets in Chaos Magic (don’t dare ask my fox for one that works on a certain car brand)
Here is the sigil to mark an object for removal in my organization.
https://

Apple sues Jon Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti over iOS 26 leaks, alleging a plot to access Apple employee's iPhone for trade secrets; Prosser denies the claim (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/17/apple-sues-jon-prosser-ios-26-leaks/

Apple Sues Jon Prosser Over iOS 26 Leaks
Earlier this year, YouTuber Jon Prosser shared multiple videos showing off what he claimed to be re-created renderings of what was then presumed to...

Oh dear. One of the contractors at work, working remotely, needs me to send him some secrets.
We have a well-documented team process for this, giving full instructions on how to create a public/private keypair and how to proceed from that point.
I have just received an email from him containing his private key ...

Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the attempted extradition by the US of an alleged Chinese hacker of vaccine secrets who was arrested in Italy last week, and fast-fashion ecommerce company Shein’s plans to go public
https://www.

Accused Chinese hacker claims mistaken identity - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the attempted extradition by the US of an alleged Chinese ...

Detecting Hard-Coded Credentials in Software Repositories via LLMs
Chidera Biringa, Gokhan Kul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13090 https://

Detecting Hard-Coded Credentials in Software Repositories via LLMs
Software developers frequently hard-code credentials such as passwords, generic secrets, private keys, and generic tokens in software repositories, even though it is strictly advised against due to the severe threat to the security of the software. These credentials create attack surfaces exploitable by a potential adversary to conduct malicious exploits such as backdoor attacks. Recent detection efforts utilize embedding models to vectorize textual credentials before passing them to classifier…

'Gonna get his wish': Top Dem warns Trump to get 'wonderful secrets' spilled - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/msn/trump-epstein-2673355461/

US military IT specialist arrested for allegedly trying to leak secrets to foreign government https://therecord.media/defense-intelligence-agency-it-specialist-suspected-leak-foreign-government

"Hedgehog poo could hold important secrets about local biodiversity"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Hedgehogs #Animals

Hedgehog poo could hold important secrets about local biodiversity
The spiny mammals are on the decline, but they hold the secrets to biodiversity in their local areas.

Yop,
Je viens de réuploader ma présentation éclair effectuée Š Pass the Salt 2025, Š propos du déploiement de secrets dans les infrastructures virtualisées en utilisant AF_VSOCK. J'ai ajouté des sous-titres en anglais et en français pour celleux que ça intéresse !
https://peertube.stream/w/eidYHtjaeE6n

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Passion Pit:
🎵 Little Secrets
#PassionPit
https://keendj.bandcamp.com/track/passion-pit-little-secrets-steed-lord-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3kb38wezoUA8ki5jPYy3t5

Carbon-rich Dust Injected into the #InterstellarMedium by Galactic WC Binaries Survives for Hundreds of Years: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/addf30 -> Embry‑Riddle Professor, Undergrads Unlock Secrets of Cosmic Dust With the Webb Telescope: https://news.erau.edu/headlines/embry-riddle-professor-undergrads-unlock-secrets-of-cosmic-dust-with-the-webb-telescope

Quantum secret sharing in a triangular superconducting quantum network
Haoxiong Yan, Allen Zang, Joel Grebel, Xuntao Wu, Ming-Han Chou, Gustav Andersson, Christopher R. Conner, Yash J. Joshi, Shiheng Li, Jacob M. Miller, Rhys G. Povey, Hong Qiao, Eric Chitambar, Andrew N. Cleland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10878

Quantum secret sharing in a triangular superconducting quantum network
We present a three-node quantum communication testbed with a triangular topology, each side of the triangle formed by a 1.3-meter-long transmission line. We demonstrate state transfer and entanglement generation between any two nodes, generate genuine multipartite entangled GHZ states, and implement quantum secret sharing (QSS) of classical information. Our experiments show that the QSS protocol can effectively detect eavesdropping, ensuring the secure sharing of secrets. This device forms a te…

This is the first I've heard of this:
“They’re finding backdoors in Barbie dolls,” said Antani, now CEO of Horizon3.ai, a cybersecurity firm, referring to concerns from researchers who successfully hacked the microphone of a digitally connected version of the toy."
https://

Smartphones have become an intelligence treasure trove
Hackers tied to China's government have tried repeatedly to access the phones of prominent Americans, part of Beijing's sprawling cyberespionage efforts. Smartphones and other mobile devices present significant national security and cybersecurity risks, as foreign government hackers exploit vulnerabilities in mobile networks and apps to spy on people and steal secrets. And people's careless use of mobile devices to share sensitive information is another concern. National security experts say th…

The Secrets Must Not Flow: Scaling Security Verification to Large Codebases (extended version)
Linard Arquint, Samarth Kishor, Jason R. Koenig, Joey Dodds, Daniel Kroening, Peter M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00595

The Secrets Must Not Flow: Scaling Security Verification to Large Codebases (extended version)
Existing program verifiers can prove advanced properties about security protocol implementations, but are difficult to scale to large codebases because of the manual effort required. We develop a novel methodology called *Diodon* that addresses this challenge by splitting the codebase into the protocol implementation (the *Core*) and the remainder (the *Application*). This split allows us to apply powerful semi-automated verification techniques to the security-critical Core, while fully-automat…

The US prosecution of quant trader Richard Ho could define how quant algorithms can become stolen property and have a major impact on Wall Street's talent war (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04108 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

An Extension of the Adversarial Threat Model in Quantitative Information Flow
In this paper, we propose an extended framework for quantitative information flow (QIF), aligned with the previously proposed core-concave generalization of entropy measures, to include adversaries that use Kolmogorov-Nagumo $f$-mean to infer secrets in a private system. Specifically, in our setting, an adversary uses Kolmogorov-Nagumo $f$-mean to compute its best actions before and after observing the system's randomized outputs. This leads to generalized notions of prior and posterior vulnera…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16772 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Assessing Social Alignment: Do Personality-Prompted Large Language Models Behave Like Humans?
The ongoing revolution in language modeling has led to various novel applications, some of which rely on the emerging social abilities of large language models (LLMs). Already, many turn to the new cyber friends for advice during the pivotal moments of their lives and trust them with the deepest secrets, implying that accurate shaping of the LLM's personality is paramount. To this end, state-of-the-art approaches exploit a vast variety of training data, and prompt the model to adopt a particula…

Tesla sues ex-Optimus engineer Zhongjie Li, who worked at Tesla from 2022 to 2024, accusing him of stealing humanoid robot info and setting up a rival startup (Dana Hull/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

First Detection of Circular Polarization in Radio Continuum Toward a Massive #Protostar: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade99b -> Unlocking cosmic secrets of stellar birth - first glimpse of magnetism near an infant massive star: https://www.iist.ac.in/massive_star

Detecting Hard-Coded Credentials in Software Repositories via LLMs
Chidera Biringa, Gokhan Kul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13090 https://

Detecting Hard-Coded Credentials in Software Repositories via LLMs
Software developers frequently hard-code credentials such as passwords, generic secrets, private keys, and generic tokens in software repositories, even though it is strictly advised against due to the severe threat to the security of the software. These credentials create attack surfaces exploitable by a potential adversary to conduct malicious exploits such as backdoor attacks. Recent detection efforts utilize embedding models to vectorize textual credentials before passing them to classifier…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Strawberry Switchblade:
🎵 Secrets
#StrawberrySwitchblade
https://open.spotify.com/track/4MDJFxhm7sh0nNVVk1tzHU

learn 👇

Italy arrests Chinese citizen Xu Zewei; a source says Xu is linked to hacking group Hafnium that breached Microsoft in 2021 to steal COVID-19 vaccine secrets (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f7299b6f-2b58-46c0-bbe5-e650357e8f48

"DOGE secured the power to view records that contain competitors’ trade secrets, nonpublic details about government contracts, and sensitive regulatory actions or other information."
'Vulnerable': New alarm as Musk's 'God tier access' to damaging data revealed - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/musk-private-data/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThisClassicalLife
John Williams, London Symphony Orchestra & William Ross:
🎵 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets "Fawkes the Phoenix"
#JohnWilliams #LondonSymphonyOrchestra #newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oGEkW0xML5TlDeFdkvYJW

Dissenter Update: June 2, 2025 https://thedissenter.org/dissenter-update-june-2-2025/

Court filing: Deel alleges Rippling's "competitive intelligence manager" Brett Alexander Johnson posed as a customer to access Deel's product and business info (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/abd988f6-e524-48d9-8433-27c…

New spying claims emerge in Silicon Valley corporate espionage scandal
HR start-ups Rippling and Deel trade allegations their leaders directed efforts to steal company secrets from one another

ZKTorch: Compiling ML Inference to Zero-Knowledge Proofs via Parallel Proof Accumulation
Bing-Jyue Chen, Lilia Tang, Daniel Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07031

ZKTorch: Compiling ML Inference to Zero-Knowledge Proofs via Parallel Proof Accumulation
As AI models become ubiquitous in our daily lives, there has been an increasing demand for transparency in ML services. However, the model owner does not want to reveal the weights, as they are considered trade secrets. To solve this problem, researchers have turned to zero-knowledge proofs of ML model inference. These proofs convince the user that the ML model output is correct, without revealing the weights of the model to the user. Past work on these provers can be placed into two categories…

The EU Commission fines European takeaway groups Delivery Hero and Glovo €329M for taking part in an "online food delivery cartel", closing a July 2024 probe (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b0f37773-e68b-4c31-a7d5-b6ce8b9542d8…

EU fines Delivery Hero and Glovo €329mn for takeaway ‘cartel’
European Commission says European food delivery groups shared trade secrets

Now settled into low-Earth orbit, #SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) has begun delivering its sky survey data to a public archive on a weekly basis, allowing anyone to use the data to probe the secrets of the cosmos: https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/spherex-universe-map/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23847 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Seven Security Challenges That Must be Solved in Cross-domain Multi-agent LLM Systems
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving into autonomous agents that cooperate across organizational boundaries, enabling joint disaster response, supply-chain optimization, and other tasks that demand decentralized expertise without surrendering data ownership. Yet, cross-domain collaboration shatters the unified trust assumptions behind current alignment and containment techniques. An agent benign in isolation may, when receiving messages from an untrusted peer, leak secrets or viola…

Seven Security Challenges That Must be Solved in Cross-domain Multi-agent LLM Systems
Ronny Ko, Jiseong Jeong, Shuyuan Zheng, Chuan Xiao, Taewan Kim, Makoto Onizuka, Wonyong Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23847

Seven Security Challenges That Must be Solved in Cross-domain Multi-agent LLM Systems
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving into autonomous agents that cooperate across organizational boundaries, enabling joint disaster response, supply-chain optimization, and other tasks that demand decentralized expertise without surrendering data ownership. Yet, cross-domain collaboration shatters the unified trust assumptions behind current alignment and containment techniques. An agent benign in isolation may, when receiving messages from an untrusted peer, leak secrets or viola…