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New accreditation awards to archive services https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/new-accreditation-awards-to-archive-services/

New accreditation awards to archive services - The National Archives
Following a recent Archive Service Accreditation Panel, the UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee is pleased to announce the latest awards to archive services.

Sammy Obeid tried to organize a show in #Singapore
This did not go well. Had to submit his whole script in advance. Ultimately rejected.
That's the thing with Singapore, it's an awesome place to visit, but it's also not very democratic. Protests need a permit, etc.

Glasgow City Council is grappling with widespread disruption to its digital services more than a week after a serious cyberattack forced core systems offline.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/glasgow-city-council-ser…

Glasgow City Council services still crippled a week after cyberattack
Glasgow City Council is grappling with widespread disruption to its digital services more than a week after a serious cyberattack forced core systems offline.

Public health lawyers and experts praised Friday’s Supreme Court decision upholding Affordable Care Act-directed coverage of preventive services
-- but cautioned that legal challenges to health policy may now shift toward the evidence underpinning federal recommendations.
The 2010 Obamacare law requires task force-recommended services be covered by private insurers with no cost-sharing.
The high court ruled 6-3 that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is constitutional be…

Indian software services provider Tata Consultancy Services plans to cut 2% of its global workforce, or about 12,000 employees, by March 31, 2026 (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business

Am i the only one who got an e-transfer from the Yahoo Class Action?
$155.51 CAD, not bad at all.
#yahoo

From First Use to Final Commit: Studying the Evolution of Multi-CI Service Adoption
Nitika Chopra, Taher A. Ghaleb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20095 https://

From First Use to Final Commit: Studying the Evolution of Multi-CI Service Adoption
Continuous Integration (CI) services, such as GitHub Actions and Travis CI, are widely adopted in open-source development to automate testing and deployment. Though existing research often examines individual services in isolation, it remains unclear how projects adopt and transition between multiple services over time. To understand how CI adoption is evolving across services, we present a preliminary study analyzing the historical CI adoption of 18,924 Java projects hosted on GitHub between J…

After a few days in the emptied Spain (dozens living in a small town on the mountains of Almería), I've been thinking that reducing services like health care or education because there is no people just put the nail in the coffin. Services are not expenses but investment. People won't move to a place without services. You need to keep them or confront overpopulation in a place while emptying another

FCC Chair Brendan Carr appears to blame Google for the Fox standoff and says "get a deal done Google"; the FCC has no authority over services like YouTube TV (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/fcc-chairman-google-g…

FCC Chair Urges Google to Reach Deal Restoring Fox News to YouTube TV
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr urged Google to reach a deal with Fox Corp. for YouTube TV. The FCC does not have authority to regulate services like YouTube TV.

A post from the archive 📫:
Invalid Access to memory location in KUDU App Services
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/invalid-access-to-memory-location-in-kudu-app-services

A New Rail Line May Come to New York. Will a Housing Boom Follow?
The Interborough Express, a rail line connecting Brooklyn and Queens, could spur the building of tens of thousands of homes. Obstacles await.
#ibx

After the transformation away from US services and products, it's time to go one step further.
As I have already announced, I will soon be replacing my Pixel 9 with Graphene OS with a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS from Murena.
Although I personally really appreciate Graphene OS and am an avid user, I'm not sure what the future will bring under the fascist Trump. As I said, he can force US companies to hand over data of European users or turn off their services for Europe with t…

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Remove Music From Streaming Services
https://pitchfork.com/news/godspeed-you-black-emperor-remove-music-from-streaming-services/?utm_source=fl…

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Remove Music From Streaming Services
The Canadian post-rock band has pulled its discography from Spotify, Tidal, and Amazon Music, with Apple Music soon to follow

Evaluating satellite and reanalysis rainfall estimates for climate services in agriculture: a comprehensive methodology
Danny Parsons, David Stern, Denis Ndanguza, Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla, James Musyoka, John Bagiliko, Graham Clarkson, Peter Dorward
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20471

Evaluating satellite and reanalysis rainfall estimates for climate services in agriculture: a comprehensive methodology
High-resolution rainfall estimates from satellite and reanalysis data sources (SRE) could play a major role in improving climate services for agriculture. This is particularly relevant in regions that predominantly rely on rain-fed farming but lack a dense network of ground-based measurements to provide localised historical climate information, as in most of the Global South. However, there is a need for a framework which practitioners can use to determine the suitability of these estimated dat…

Yesterday, it was Romania:
Flash floods after torrential rainstorms kill at least 3 people and force hundreds of evacuations.
https://apnews.com/article/romania-flash-floods-rain-evacuations-886009c299a3b120d1a96f2f5083eb6c

Flash floods in Romania kill at least 1 person and force hundreds of evacuations
Officials in Romania say flash floods in the northeast of the country have killed at least one person. The torrential rainstorms that triggered the flooding happened overnight into Monday. Hundreds of people were forced to leave their homes as Romania’s rescue services deployed teams in the hard-hit counties of Neamt and Suceava. Helicopters and firefighters rescued residents. Some of them were trapped in their homes by floodwaters. Authorities said that 890 people were evacuated from Neamt C…

People go on about algorithms and how much they know us, but streaming services I've had for maybe over a decade each still recommend me the most random garbage (the genres of which I've never watched anything even CLOSE to), so I'm not convinced these algorithms know much of SHIT 😂

«erases the history&work of the people who quietly labored to create better digital services for the public; in their place, it proposes that one man alone can define “design” for the country. And we find that new definition in the way the site’s constructed: it is digital design intended for the privileged few, one that actively excludes people who don’t conform to a specific, discriminatory definition of “eligible.”»
Great piece by @… on the notional design studio
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

The Case for Time-Shared Computing Resources
Pierre Jacquet, Adrien Luxey-Bitri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19287 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19287

The Case for Time-Shared Computing Resources
The environmental impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) continues to grow, driven notably by increasing usage, rebound effects, and emerging demands. However, despite the virtual nature of its services, the sector remains inherently constrained by its materiality and cannot rely on an infinite pool of resources. As a result, the wide variety of supported services may need to be managed under stricter limits within hosting facilities in the future. Contrary to common assumpt…

Good riddance. It was always meant to end eventually, 2 big egos can’t stay together for a long time. But with all the damage that he did, I’ll be having a hard time forgiving anyone still supporting him. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-…

Linode is having a outage in one DC in Newark. And it’s going really bad:
Impact to LKE services has been confirmed to have also extended to our data centers in Dallas, Fremont, Sydney, Tokyo 2, Toronto and Washington due to the interaction with our data center in Newark.

Streaming Remote rendering services: Comparison of QUIC-based and WebRTC Protocols
Daniel Mej\'ias, Inhar Yeregui, \'Angel Mart\'in, Roberto Viola, Pablo Angueira, Jon Montalb\'an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22132

Streaming Remote rendering services: Comparison of QUIC-based and WebRTC Protocols
The proliferation of Extended Reality (XR) applications, requiring high-quality, low-latency media streaming, has driven the demand for efficient remote rendering solutions. This paper focuses on holographic conferencing in virtual environments and their required uplink and downlink media transmission capabilities. By examining Media over QUIC (MoQ), Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) over QUIC (RoQ), and Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), we assess their latency performance over Wi-Fi and 5…

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity quietly ended the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project, a program that offered free services to vulnerable critical infrastructure sectors and was first launched in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.

Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.

When you get the option to `Sign in with Google/Microsoft/Facebook` you're really using #OAuth. Aside from those platforms knowing what you're doing everywhere all the time, there are compelling reasons for both 3rd party services and users. (not many, but a few).
But if you DO link your #Microsoft /

Poor Software Product Management Chronicles: E-Auth, I-Auth, OAuth, Fuck Off
From the This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things department. When you are registering or logging into an online or app service and they ...

Is Your LLM Overcharging You? Tokenization, Transparency, and Incentives
Ander Artola Velasco, Stratis Tsirtsis, Nastaran Okati, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21627

Is Your LLM Overcharging You? Tokenization, Transparency, and Incentives
State-of-the-art large language models require specialized hardware and substantial energy to operate. As a consequence, cloud-based services that provide access to large language models have become very popular. In these services, the price users pay for an output provided by a model depends on the number of tokens the model uses to generate it -- they pay a fixed price per token. In this work, we show that this pricing mechanism creates a financial incentive for providers to strategize and mi…

Trump admin weighs sanctions on EU officials over Digital Services Act, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/trump-admin-weighs-sanctions-on.html

Dear companies: this is my periodic reminder that’s it’s ok to not maximize revenues & profits. It’s ok to make and sell products & services at a fair price, treat and pay employees fairly, give investors a fair ROI and be a good neighbor in communities where you have a presence. These might even be the foundations of a great long term company.

Happened again today...some asshat from an extermination company going door to door. When I said I wasn't interested he started mocking me for the cobwebs on my house. Wanted to argue. Wouldn't leave until I threatened to carry him to the curb-as if that's going to get him a sale.
And these guys are always like that. I guess it takes a bastard to sell bastard services.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15797 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Utilization and Profitability of Tractor Services for Maize Farming in Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipality, Ghana
Maize farming is a major livelihood activity for many farmers in Ghana. Unfortunately, farmers usually do not obtain the expected returns on their investment due to reliance on rudimentary, labor-intensive, and inefficient methods of production. Using cross-sectional data from 359 maize farmers, this study investigates the profitability and determinants of the use of tractor services for maize production in Ejura-Sekyedumase, Ashanti Region of Ghana. Results from descriptive and profitability a…

Google claims its ‘AI’ is, well, actually, environmentally fine:
https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/measuring_the_environmental_impact_of_delivering_ai_at_google_scale.pdf
Media uncritically parrots it:

At its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).
Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not fre…

Dubai-based Qlub, which offers contactless payment services to restaurants, raised $30M co-led by Shorooq and Cherry Ventures, taking its total funding to $72M (Nicolas Parasie/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

An ACL2s Interface to Z3
Andrew T. Walter (Northeastern University), Panagiotis Manolios (Northeastern University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19014 https://

An ACL2s Interface to Z3
We present Lisp-Z3, an extension to the ACL2s systems programming framework (ASPF) that supports the use of the Z3 satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solver. Lisp-Z3 allows one to develop tools written using the full feature set of Common Lisp that can use both ACL2/s (either ACL2 or ACL2s) and Z3 as services, combining the power of SMT and interactive theorem proving. Lisp-Z3 is usable by anyone who would like to interact with Z3 from Common Lisp, as it does not depend on the availability of…

Mind the Language Gap in Digital Humanities: LLM-Aided Translation of SKOS Thesauri
Felix Kraus, Nicolas Blumenr\"ohr, Danah Tonne, Achim Streit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19537

Mind the Language Gap in Digital Humanities: LLM-Aided Translation of SKOS Thesauri
We introduce WOKIE, an open-source, modular, and ready-to-use pipeline for the automated translation of SKOS thesauri. This work addresses a critical need in the Digital Humanities (DH), where language diversity can limit access, reuse, and semantic interoperability of knowledge resources. WOKIE combines external translation services with targeted refinement using Large Language Models (LLMs), balancing translation quality, scalability, and cost. Designed to run on everyday hardware and be easi…

"Blockchain-Enabled Zero Trust Framework for Securing FinTech Ecosystems Against Insider Threats and Cyber Attacks"
Avinash Singh, Vikas Pareek, Asish Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19976 …

"Blockchain-Enabled Zero Trust Framework for Securing FinTech Ecosystems Against Insider Threats and Cyber Attacks"
Fintech provides technological services to increase operational efficiency in financial institutions, but traditional perimeter-based defense mechanisms are insufficient against evolving cyber threats like insider attacks, malware intrusions, and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). These vulnerabilities expose Fintech organizations to significant risks, including financial losses and data breaches. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a blockchain-integrated Zero Trust framework, ad…

Good stuff, but I hope this includes the capacity to change the default behaviour on a per-post basis.
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115062415406387422

Engineering Automotive Digital Twins on Standardized Architectures: A Case Study
Stefan Ramdhan, Winnie Trandinh, Istvan David, Vera Pantelic, Mark Lawford
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18662

Engineering Automotive Digital Twins on Standardized Architectures: A Case Study
Digital twin (DT) technology has become of interest in the automotive industry. There is a growing need for smarter services that utilize the unique capabilities of DTs, ranging from computer-aided remote control to cloud-based fleet coordination. Developing such services starts with the software architecture. However, the scarcity of DT architectural guidelines poses a challenge for engineering automotive DTs. Currently, the only DT architectural standard is the one defined in ISO 23247. Thoug…

CIgrate: Automating CI Service Migration with Large Language Models
Md Nazmul Hossain, Taher A. Ghaleb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20402 https://arxiv.org/p…

CIgrate: Automating CI Service Migration with Large Language Models
Continuous Integration (CI) configurations often need to be migrated between services (e.g., Travis CI to GitHub Actions) as projects evolve, due to changes in service capabilities, usage limits, or service deprecation. Previous studies reported that migration across CI services is a recurring need in open-source development. However, manual migration can be time-consuming and error-prone. The state-of-the-art approach, CIMig, addresses this challenge by analyzing past migration examples to cre…

There is only one appropriate response to these threats from Trump: fuck off. (Or, some more diplomatically worded version of the same.)
Unfortunately, I doubt European leaders have to backbone to defend EU / EEA sovereignty. https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/115093…

I've completed my move away from Google Workspace for my email and calendars. I dumped Google for search months ago but the mail move took a little more time. I do not want to support Google financially and if I can avoid using their services I will.

The Trump administration is planning to change the visa system for skilled foreign workers,
a program at the center of a dispute between immigration hard-liners and tech industry leaders,
said the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Joseph Edlow, the director of U.S.C.I.S., said the test to become a U.S. citizen was "too easy" and should change.
“The test as it’s laid out right now, it’s not very difficult,”
Mr. Edlow said on Thur…

Trump Administration Plans Changes to H-1B Visas and U.S. Citizenship Tests
In an interview with The New York Times, the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the test to become a U.S. citizen was too easy.

"We Have Glue and a Dream: A Case Study on Just for Fun Outreach at the Lemmen Library and Archives" https://creativelibrarypractice.org/2025/07/21/we-have-glue-and-a-dream/

A #visual guide on #troubleshooting #Kubernetes deployments

Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11bn with Coordinated TDMA on Real-Time Applications
Seungmin Lee, Changmin Lee, Si-Chan Noh, Joonsoo Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18755 https…

Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11bn with Coordinated TDMA on Real-Time Applications
Wi-Fi plays a crucial role in connecting electronic devices and providing communication services in everyday life. Recently, there has been a growing demand for services that require low-latency communication, such as real-time applications. The latest amendments to Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.11bn, are being developed to address these demands with technologies such as the multiple access point coordination (MAPC). In this paper, we demonstrate that coordinated TDMA (Co-TDMA), one of the MAPC techniques, e…

Parliamentarian rejects GOP attempt to prohibit federal subsidies for health plans that cover abortion services (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5370563-parliamentarian-rules-aca-abortion-subsidies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p22#a250626p22

Arrêté dans 2 pharmacies et aucunes n’ont des masques n95/kn95, juste des masques de tissu (qui Š ma connaissance n’aident pas vraiment dans la situation actuelle)
Fascinant/triste qu’après une pandémie planétaire c’est toujours aussi difficile de trouver des masques.
#montreal

Two-Stage TSO-DSO Services Provision Framework for Electric Vehicle Coordination
Yi Wang, Dawei Qiu, Fei Teng, Goran Strbac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18110 https://

Two-Stage TSO-DSO Services Provision Framework for Electric Vehicle Coordination
High renewable penetration has been witnessed in power systems, resulting in reduced system inertia and increasing requirements for frequency response services. Electric vehicles (EVs), owing to their vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities, can provide cost-effective frequency services for transmission system operators (TSOs). However, EVs that are inherently connected to distribution networks may pose voltage security issues for distribution system operators (DSOs) when supporting TSO frequency. T…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Weg von Google Drive, Dropbox & Co.: Online-Services selbst hosten | c’t uplink

Post-Quantum and Blockchain-Based Attestation for Trusted FPGAs in B5G Networks
Ilias Papalamprou, Nikolaos Fotos, Nikolaos Chatzivasileiadis, Anna Angelogianni, Dimosthenis Masouros, Dimitrios Soudris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21073

Post-Quantum and Blockchain-Based Attestation for Trusted FPGAs in B5G Networks
The advent of 5G and beyond has brought increased performance networks, facilitating the deployment of services closer to the user. To meet performance requirements such services require specialized hardware, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). However, FPGAs are often deployed in unprotected environments, leaving the user's applications vulnerable to multiple attacks. With the rise of quantum computing, which threatens the integrity of widely-used cryptographic algorithms, the need…

Alright, all of the Pis are now in use. There were quite a few services I didn't want to run in Proxmox and that was the main reason to have a "few" Raspberry Pis in the rack.
1: Primary DNS
2: Secondary DNS
3: PiHole
4: VPN (Tailscale)
5: Power/UPS status
#homelab

Typepad is shutting down on September 30 and users' "account and all related services will be permanently deactivated"; users can export content before then (Everything Typepad)
https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html

“the original compressors — now installed in Esbjerg — demonstrated an 8 MWe load change within just 30 seconds for one compressor, which makes it very promising for the FCR, aFRR and mFRR markets.”
First results from 🇩🇰 Esbjerg’s 🌊 Heat Pump, still to be qualified for ancillary grid services.
From: @…

»Telegram Purged Chinese Crypto Scam Markets—Then Watched as They Rebuilt:
Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto-scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.«
Is anyone of you surprised? But the real question is, how do I convince people to stop using Telegram?
🤷

Telegram Purged Chinese Crypto Scam Markets—Then Watched as They Rebuilt
Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.

Syntactic Completions with Material Obligations
David Moon, Andrew Blinn, Thomas J. Porter, Cyrus Omar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16848 https://arxiv.org/p…

Syntactic Completions with Material Obligations
Code editors provide essential services that help developers understand, navigate, and modify programs. However, these services often fail in the presence of syntax errors. Existing syntax error recovery techniques, like panic mode and multi-option repairs, are either too coarse, e.g. in deleting large swathes of code, or lead to a proliferation of possible completions. This paper introduces $\texttt{tylr}$, a parser and editor generator that completes arbitrarily malformed code by inserting ob…

Ah, c’est intéressant, ça! (Je l’avais raté, h/t Š @….)
VoilŠ la détermination du Grand Conseil concernant les licences et produits informatiques:
«Le parlement invite le Conseil d'Etat Š tout mettre en oeuvre pour diminuer l'exposition de l’Etat de Vaud aux services et licences et produits informatiques américains, en envisageant de les rempla…

Ah, c’est intéressant, ça! (Je l’avais raté, h/t Š @….)
VoilŠ la détermination du Grand Conseil concernant les licences et produits informatiques:
«Le parlement invite le Conseil d'Etat Š tout mettre en oeuvre pour diminuer l'exposition de l’Etat de Vaud aux services et licences et produits informatiques américains, en envisageant de les rempla…

Ah, c’est intéressant, ça! (Je l’avais raté, h/t Š @….)
VoilŠ la détermination du Grand Conseil concernant les licences et produits informatiques:
«Le parlement invite le Conseil d'Etat Š tout mettre en oeuvre pour diminuer l'exposition de l’Etat de Vaud aux services et licences et produits informatiques américains, en envisageant de les rempla…

Polish president vetoes Ukraine aid law, threatens Starlink services for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/polish-president-vetoes-ukraine-aid.html

Public media faces its most urgent threat yet.
Despite overwhelming public opposition,
the House has passed a rescissions package that would eliminate $1.1 billion in already-approved funding for public media.
If enacted, it would strip essential services from communities and could force rural stations off the air.
The Senate will take up the bill next.
⭐️Contact your Senators now and urge them to vote NO

Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/india-bans-streami…

India bans streaming apps you’ve never heard of — but millions watch | TechCrunch
India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers — for allegedly promoting "obscene" content.

This TTC rider was fed up with subway delays. So he built a real-time map to help other users
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/this-ttc-rider-was-fed-up-with-subway-delays-so-he-…

New York City-based cybersecurity company Axonius acquires Cynerio, which offers healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management services, for $180M (Golan Hazani/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hkek009mdle

Cyber unicorn Axonius acquires Cynerio in $180M deal to expand into healthcare security
Move expands company’s offerings amid growing threats to connected medical devices.

“There are arguments to be made that if the intelligence services were being created from scratch now, we wouldn’t have a separate HUMINT versus SIGINT agency,” suggests Rory Cormac, an expert at the University of Nottingham.
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/08/

The choices facing Britain’s next MI6 chief
Human espionage has never been harder, costlier—or more important

Trivial Trojans: How Minimal MCP Servers Enable Cross-Tool Exfiltration of Sensitive Data
Nicola Croce, Tobin South
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19880 https://

Trivial Trojans: How Minimal MCP Servers Enable Cross-Tool Exfiltration of Sensitive Data
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) represents a significant advancement in AI-tool integration, enabling seamless communication between AI agents and external services. However, this connectivity introduces novel attack vectors that remain largely unexplored. This paper demonstrates how unsophisticated threat actors, requiring only basic programming skills and free web tools, can exploit MCP's trust model to exfiltrate sensitive financial data. We present a proof-of-concept attack where a malicio…

BLOCKS: Blockchain-supported Cross-Silo Knowledge Sharing for Efficient LLM Services
Zhaojiacheng Zhou, Hongze Liu, Shijing Yuan, Hanning Zhang, Jiong Lou, Chentao Wu, Jie Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21033

BLOCKS: Blockchain-supported Cross-Silo Knowledge Sharing for Efficient LLM Services
The hallucination problem of Large Language Models (LLMs) has increasingly drawn attention. Augmenting LLMs with external knowledge is a promising solution to address this issue. However, due to privacy and security concerns, a vast amount of downstream task-related knowledge remains dispersed and isolated across various "silos," making it difficult to access. To bridge this knowledge gap, we propose a blockchain-based external knowledge framework that coordinates multiple knowledge silos to pr…

Governors and state legislatures will be staring at a quite substantial reduction in Medicaid tax revenue.
They will then be faced with three choices:
-one, raise some other sort of tax;
-two, cut some other state service, like education;
-three, cut Medicaid services.
As congressional Republicans well know,
most states are going to choose number three, because it’s the easiest path.
And that brings devastation.
If you want to see why Republica…

How Can the Democrats Be Losing to These Cruel, Stupid, Inept People?
You may have noticed: While Republicans debate Medicaid and other cuts, there’s one aspect of Trump’s big ugly bill that absolutely cannot be discussed.

Pony AI gets a permit to provide fully driverless robotaxi services in Shanghai, making it the only company with permits in all four of China's biggest cities (Pretish M J/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/pony-ai

Really weird, so DHL Canada said that starting June 20th they could no longer operate because of the new anti-scabs law.
I'm seeing a package of mine moving on June 23rd within Ontario. (Was sent to me before the strike)
Looking at DHL reddit, tons of people are receiving packages through 3rd party companies.
So what's the deal? How does that work?
#dhl

Evaluating Citizen Satisfaction with Saudi Arabia's E-Government Services: A Standards-Based, Theory-Informed Approach
Mohammed O. Alannsary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17912

Evaluating Citizen Satisfaction with Saudi Arabia's E-Government Services: A Standards-Based, Theory-Informed Approach
As digital government platforms become central to public service delivery, understanding citizen assessment is crucial for enhancing usability, trust, and inclusivity. This study investigates citizen satisfaction with the e-government services in Saudi Arabia through a quality-in-use framework based on ISO/IEC 25010 and ISO/IEC 25022 standards, interpreted through the lens of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). A structured questionnaire was administered to 500 citiz…

J’ai pas le courage d’écouter des dizaines d’heures du Tour de France mais le documentaire Netflix est un bel aperçu (même 1 an en retard!).
Encore plein de choses que je comprends pas, ils pourraient certainement mieux faire pour expliquer certaines stratégies.
#tourdefrance

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US House of Representatives bans WhatsApp on security grounds
--US Cybercom played a role in Iran attack,
--Crypto scam services return after Telegram beheading,
--NoName DDoS'ed Dutch cities ahead of NATO summit,
--REvil members released in Russia,
--Coinbase poseur stole millions from crypto holders,
--Critical infrastructure defense project …

US House of Representatives bans WhatsApp on security grounds
US Cybercom played a role in Iran attack, Crypto scam services return after Telegram beheading, NoName DDoS'ed Dutch cities ahead of NATO summit, REvil members released in Russia, Coinbase poseur stole millions from crypto holders, Critical infrastructure defense project disbanded, much more

Servant, Stalker, Predator: How An Honest, Helpful, And Harmless (3H) Agent Unlocks Adversarial Skills
David Noever
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19500 https://

Servant, Stalker, Predator: How An Honest, Helpful, And Harmless (3H) Agent Unlocks Adversarial Skills
This paper identifies and analyzes a novel vulnerability class in Model Context Protocol (MCP) based agent systems. The attack chain describes and demonstrates how benign, individually authorized tasks can be orchestrated to produce harmful emergent behaviors. Through systematic analysis using the MITRE ATLAS framework, we demonstrate how 95 agents tested with access to multiple services-including browser automation, financial analysis, location tracking, and code deployment-can chain legitimat…

Spotify Co-President and CBO Alex Norström says price increases are "part of our toolbox now", adding that they will be accompanied by new services and features (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ca650ba7-8240-43bd-af3a-047718437e31

Spotify signals further price rises as it rolls out new services
Price increases and cost-cutting led to streamer’s first annual profit last year

SDVDiag: A Modular Platform for the Diagnosis of Connected Vehicle Functions
Matthias Wei{\ss}, Falk Dettinger, Michael Weyrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19403 https://

SDVDiag: A Modular Platform for the Diagnosis of Connected Vehicle Functions
Connected and software-defined vehicles promise to offer a broad range of services and advanced functions to customers, aiming to increase passenger comfort and support autonomous driving capabilities. Due to the high reliability and availability requirements of connected vehicles, it is crucial to resolve any occurring failures quickly. To achieve this however, a complex cloud/edge architecture with a mesh of dependencies must be navigated to diagnose the responsible root cause. As such, manua…

Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/india-bans-streami…

India bans streaming apps you’ve never heard of — but millions watch | TechCrunch
India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers — for allegedly promoting "obscene" content.

Bien qu’ayant encore un nombre d’usagers très respectable, le nombre d’usagés actifs sur #qlub a chuté dramatiquement en juin
https://fedidb.com/servers/qlub.social

Parks Associates: 33% of US internet households subscribe to a DTC sports-specific streamer and 40% of sports viewers exclusively watch sports via streamers (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/study-33

Study: 33% of US Internet Households Subscribe to a Direct-to-Consumer Sports Streaming Service
D2C sports service viewers are the heaviest spenders on streaming video services shelling out an average of $111 per month on all streaming subscriptions according to Parks Associates

Well color me surprised. Had no hope Cuomo would lose that one and lost faith in America quite a while ago.
Good job #NYC
https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/1147418…

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity end a 2022 project offering free cybersecurity tools to critical infrastructure sectors at risk from Russian attacks (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/…

Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.

Enabling Content Management Systems as an Information Source in Model-driven Projects
Joan Giner-Miguelez, Abel G\'omez, Jordi Cabot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19797 https:/…

Enabling Content Management Systems as an Information Source in Model-driven Projects
Content Management Systems (CMSs) are the most popular tool when it comes to create and publish content across the web. Recently, CMSs have evolved, becoming \emph{headless}. Content served by a \emph{headless CMS} aims to be consumed by other applications and services through REST APIs rather than by human users through a web browser. This evolution has enabled CMSs to become a notorious source of content to be used in a variety of contexts beyond pure web navigation. As such, CMS have become …

Power is out in a big part of downtown Toronto. Yonge Street Bay Street around college.
What’s magical is that pedestrians are taking over all intersections since the street light stopped working
#toronto

Internal memo: Indian IT services giant TCS forms a new unit for AI-based operations and names Amit Kapur, who led TCS' UK and Ireland business, as its chief (Sai Ishwarbharath B/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias

I'm always curious of how a device becomes worse with time when it comes to their AI / speech recognition. Like how do you make it dumber?
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/23/google-home-assistant-tease-major-improvements/

At a "couples retreat" for human-AI pairs, users of services like Replika and Nomi grapple with the virtual reality and emotional limits of their partners (Sam Apple/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/couples-retrea

My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.

Simons ouvre son 2e magasin dans la grande région de Toronto (et 1er directement dans la ville)
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/simons-to-open-first-urban-toronto-store-yorkdale-shopping-cent…

As i'm sitting for the 30th minute with waiting music on the phone.. i'm very much looking forward to the new iOS feature to wait on my behalf and have me avoid that awful music.

Demand is growing for expensive personalized dating services that vet members before first dates; Tinder's paid users have fallen for two years amid app fatigue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The ultimate life hack is to record your condo board meeting town hall on a AI note taker and read the summary after.
2.5 hours saved.
#condolife

Can someone who knows University of Toronto answer this:
Why is there so much people practicing dance within the Myhal Centre all the time?
#toronto #UoT

Lily Cheng, NIMBY councillor of #Willowdale in Toronto went to South Korea.
What did she learn? She learned about sleek parking infrastructure. In South Korea! Speak about missing the forest for the trees
Also Toronto transit isn't randomly underdevelopped, it's something she can actually influence as a councillor. She's saying that as if it just happened and th…

My first experience watching motor racing in person.
Very nice to have access to it so close to home.
#indycar #indyto

First Toronto bike share dock was installed east of the 404 and north of the 401 on #Sheppard and Brian Drive. Technically #NorthYork but essentially first station in North #Scarborough

Amazon launches at-home diagnostic services in six Indian cities in partnership with Orange Health Labs, marking its entry into India's diagnostics market (Menaka Doshi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

A few notes on iPadOS 26 audio and video capture
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/06/a-few-notes-on-ipados-26-audio-and-video-capture/

Kraken secures a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland to offer crypto services across the EU, following Coinbase's approval in Luxembourg last week (Callan Quinn/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/327112/kraken-license-europes-new-rules

Kraken Becomes Latest to Win a License Under Europe's New Rules
Approval from Ireland's central bank gives Kraken the ability to operate across 27 EU states as it races to catch up to rival Coinbase.

Je pensais pas réussir Š me rendre Š #Winnipeg cette semaine mais la fin de la grève s’est fait juste au bon moment.
#aircanada

So Facebook is now having fake chat bots asks random questions into Facebook groups. Getting closer and closer to dead internet theory
#facebook #facebookgroups

Une belle gang de toto ceux la
"La chambre de commerce réclame des « études impartiales » pour mesurer l’imprégnation de l’arsenic dans la population, explique M. Beaupré, qui dit ne pas savoir si la Direction de santé publique est impartiale."
Pis eux, sont impartiaux??

Currently also impacted by the Air Canada strike, as my Wednesday flight is likely not going to happen.
Booked a fully refundable train ticket on VIA for Thursday.
There were still a few tickets left for Wednesday and Thursday. Even when things are that bad, people don't switch to train. Quite surprising honestly, i thought i would sell out right away.
#aircanada…

Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?
#cobol