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Since Microsoft is organising a European Sovereign Tech Fund, we should ask Lockheed Martin to put together a European Sovereign Defense Fund. There’s probably also opportunity here to bring Amazon in to advise on EU labour standards and have McDonald’s take the lead on food safety policy in the EU.
CC @…

My biggest issue with all the SBOM standards is the lack of a requirement to include hashes for each component/file, instead of just one big hash or signature. For forensic investigations or incident response, that level of detail is actually the most important aspect.
#sbom #dfir

Upscale AI, which is building a suite of open standards-based networking tools for AI infrastructure, raised a $100M seed led by Mayfield and Maverick Silicon (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/17/up

Upscale AI gets $100M for a new kind of AI networking infrastructure built on open standards - SiliconANGLE
Upscale AI gets $100M for a new kind of AI networking infrastructure built on open standards - SiliconANGLE

Understanding #Perses: Open Standards for #Observability Dashboarding in #CNCF

The phrase "LOWERING STANDARDS" along with "bypassing ethics" & "promoting injustice" are phrases that encapsulate everything Fat Nixon does.


#trump #fbi
From: @…

F.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards, Alarming Agents
The plan appears to be part of a broader effort to shift the agency’s focus from tracking national security threats to fighting crime. The Trump administration is preparing to lower the recruitment standards for F.B.I. agents, eliciting alarm from many agents who worry that the move will undermine …

We have long had problems with slumlords in the US.
And we have long had codes related to habitability standards in residential buildings.
What #MayorLurie could do is direct the Dept of Public Health and Dept of building inspection to review these codes, and perhaps even more importantly what the penalties are for non-compliance, and work with the departments and if needed state …

Mayor Lurie makes marathon visits to S.F. low-income housing. But what can he do?
Mayor Lurie visited two neighborhoods and six subsidized housing complexes over the past month. Tenants are hoping for change.

We have long had problems with slumlords in the US.
And we have long had codes related to habitability standards in residential buildings.
What #MayorLurie could do is direct the Dept of Public Health and Dept of building inspection to review these codes, and perhaps even more importantly what the penalties are for non-compliance, and work with the departments and if needed state …

Mayor Lurie makes marathon visits to S.F. low-income housing. But what can he do?
Mayor Lurie visited two neighborhoods and six subsidized housing complexes over the past month. Tenants are hoping for change.

SpaceX’s mantra of “move fast and break things” is way too slow by the standards of the 1960s. Mercury took 2 years 7 months to fly (from announcement), Gemini 3 years 3 months. It’s been 7 years since Elon announced Starship and it has yet to complete a mission, let alone a crew rated one. Sad.

Irgendwie war das spiel gegen die französinnen um einiges spannender. Die spanierinnen spiel sehr taktisch, mehr defensiv und warten auf standards. Hoffe nur das die nicht in letzter minute, es sirht sehr nach verlängerung aus.
Zwei spiele mit verlängerung, das geht in die knochen, erst recht wie franzlssinen drauf gehalten haben.
#FrauenEM

I’m not a professional coder, I just write code when I need it written.
Even I know that the most dangerous point in the evolution of a program is the point when it runs without obvious errors. https://m.phase.org/@parsingphase/115072135180061094

Ich bin heute auf dem @… Summit in Berlin. Sprecht mich gerne an, falls ihr mich erkennt. 😎 #SCSSummit #Sovereigncloudstack

Filter-And-Refine: A MLLM Based Cascade System for Industrial-Scale Video Content Moderation
Zixuan Wang, Jinghao Shi, Hanzhong Liang, Xiang Shen, Vera Wen, Zhiqian Chen, Yifan Wu, Zhixin Zhang, Hongyu Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17204

Filter-And-Refine: A MLLM Based Cascade System for Industrial-Scale Video Content Moderation
Effective content moderation is essential for video platforms to safeguard user experience and uphold community standards. While traditional video classification models effectively handle well-defined moderation tasks, they struggle with complicated scenarios such as implicit harmful content and contextual ambiguity. Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) offer a promising solution to these limitations with their superior cross-modal reasoning and contextual understanding. However, two key ch…

Why does the #BBC use terms like “Iran-backed Houthis” or “Hamas-run hospital,” but avoid labels such as “US-backed IDF” or referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an “indicted war criminal.”?
'Why 'Hamas-run hospital' but never ‘US-backed IDF’?': Zohran Mamdani calls out double standards on Israel-Gaza coverage; slams BBC - Times of India

'Why 'Hamas-run hospital' but never ‘US-backed IDF’?': Zohran Mamdani calls out double standards on Israel-Gaza coverage; slams BBC - Times of India
US News: Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has accused the BBC of biased reporting on the Israel-Gaza conflict, criticizing their selective language.

Novel Multi-Agent Action Masked Deep Reinforcement Learning for General Industrial Assembly Lines Balancing Problems
Ali Mohamed Ali, Luca Tirel, Hashim A. Hashim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16635

Novel Multi-Agent Action Masked Deep Reinforcement Learning for General Industrial Assembly Lines Balancing Problems
Efficient planning of activities is essential for modern industrial assembly lines to uphold manufacturing standards, prevent project constraint violations, and achieve cost-effective operations. While exact solutions to such challenges can be obtained through Integer Programming (IP), the dependence of the search space on input parameters often makes IP computationally infeasible for large-scale scenarios. Heuristic methods, such as Genetic Algorithms, can also be applied, but they frequently …

I forget standards wonks aren’t the only ones paying attention to proposals.
“Please, can we have ARIA Notify”
https://www.nicchan.me/blog/please-can-we-have-aria-notify/
I was meh initially, and gave a pile of feedback in ARIA WG and at TPAC. It …

Please, can we have ARIA Notify - Nic Chan
A hate letter to live regions.

In Numeris Veritas: An Empirical Measurement of Wi-Fi Integration in Industry
Vyron Kampourakis, Christos Smiliotopoulos, Vasileios Gkioulos, Sokratis Katsikas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16987

In Numeris Veritas: An Empirical Measurement of Wi-Fi Integration in Industry
Traditional air gaps in industrial systems are disappearing as IT technologies permeate the OT domain, accelerating the integration of wireless solutions like Wi-Fi. Next-generation Wi-Fi standards (IEEE 802.11ax/be) meet performance demands for industrial use cases, yet their introduction raises significant security concerns. A critical knowledge gap exists regarding the empirical prevalence and security configuration of Wi-Fi in real-world industrial settings. This work addresses this by mini…

Development of a Standardized Testing Environment for QRNGs based on Semiconductor Laser Phase Noise
Matthias Ostner, Innocenzo De Marco, Christian Roubal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17471

Development of a Standardized Testing Environment for QRNGs based on Semiconductor Laser Phase Noise
Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) based on semiconductor laser phase noise are an inexpensive and efficient resource for true random numbers. Commercially available technology allows for designing QRNG setups tailored to specific use cases. However, it is important to constantly monitor whether the QRNG is performing according to the desired security standards in terms of independence and uniform distribution of the generated numbers. This is especially important in cryptographic applica…

Verifying User Interfaces using SPARK Ada: A Case Study of the T34 Syringe Driver
Peterson Jean
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16681 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Verifying User Interfaces using SPARK Ada: A Case Study of the T34 Syringe Driver
The increase in safety and critical systems improved Healthcare. Due to their risk of harm, such systems are subject to stringent guidelines and compliances. These safety measures ensure a seamless experience and mitigate the risk to end-users. Institutions like the Food and Drug Administration and the NHS, respectively, established international standards and competency frameworks to ensure industry compliance with these safety concerns. Medical device manufacturing is mainly concerned with st…

Kann die EU bitte mal aufhören, im vorauseilenden Kotau vor Trump all das abzuschaffen, was die EU ausmacht?
(Zum Beispiel gemeinsame Sicherheitsstandards für Produkte wie Autos, zum Beispiel hohe Standards für Lebensmittel, zum Beispiel recht gute Regeln für Datenschutz und die Kontrolle von digitalen Prozessen?)

En FWB, on redouble trois fois plus qu'ailleurs et ça coûte cher, psychologiquement et financièrement. ⬇️
#FWB #Wallonie #Bruxelles

Spectrum Opportunities for the Wireless Future: From Direct-to-Device Satellite Applications to 6G Cellular
Theodore S. Rappaport, Todd E. Humphreys, Shuai Nie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18672

Spectrum Opportunities for the Wireless Future: From Direct-to-Device Satellite Applications to 6G Cellular
For the next-generation wireless networks and beyond, both the upper mid-band (7 GHz-24 GHz) and terahertz (100 GHz-1 THz) spectra are gaining global attention from service providers, academic research groups, policy makers, and standards organizations. This article provides an in-depth analysis of recent regulatory rulings and spectrum preferences issued by international standard bodies such as the International Telecommunications Union and Federal Communications Commission as they seek to ide…

The Office of Management and Budget has drafted a memorandum that directs federal agencies to fully migrate to a post-quantum cryptographic standard,.
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/07/omb-draft-memo-sets-agenc…

OMB draft memo sets agency and vendor quantum security standards
The Office of Management and Budget is drafting a new memorandum to outline steps for the federal government’s migration to a post-quantum cryptographic standard.

One of the biggest cultural issues we have is that no major media or journalistic institutions have been reinforcing norms of what things *should* look like. That corruption isn’t normal, that cronyism isn’t normal, that lies and scandals should be punished, that incompetence is disqualifying.
They’ve simply stopped pointing out that there are any standards at are, or that there used to be a bar of any sort. And now an entire generation doesn’t know this concept at all.

It was a challenging week for Americans that strongly assert that organisations enforcing their own standards to supress speech cannot be censorship, even if that action is as a result of backroom coercion from a more powerful entity that may or may not be a government.

In a July 11 arbitration hearing between Politico and the PEN Guild, Politico argued that some Politico AI experiments aren't subject to editorial standards (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/politico

Politico’s recent AI experiments shouldn’t be subject to newsroom editorial standards, its editors testify
In a July arbitration hearing, Politico faced allegations that two generative AI tools violated its union contract.

An array of bulk-acoustic-wave sensors as a high-frequency antenna for gravitational waves
G. Albani, M. Borghesi, L. Canonica, R. Carobene, F. De Guio, M. Faverzani, E. Ferri, R. Gerosa, A. Ghezzi, A. Giachero, C. Gotti, D. Labranca, L. Mariani, A. Nucciotti, G. Pessina, D. Rozza, T. Tabarelli de Fatis
https://arxiv.org/abs/250…

An array of bulk-acoustic-wave sensors as a high-frequency antenna for gravitational waves
In their simplest form, bulk acoustic wave (BAW) devices consist of a piezoelectric crystal between two electrodes that transduce the material's vibrations into electrical signals. They are adopted in frequency control and metrology, with well-established standards at frequencies of 5~MHz and above. Their use as a resonant-mass strain antenna for high-frequency gravitational waves has been recently proposed (Goryachev and Tobar, 2014). The estimated power spectral density sensitivity at the res…

On the Variational Costs of Changing Our Minds
David Hyland, Mahault Albarracin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17957 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17957

On the Variational Costs of Changing Our Minds
The human mind is capable of extraordinary achievements, yet it often appears to work against itself. It actively defends its cherished beliefs even in the face of contradictory evidence, conveniently interprets information to conform to desired narratives, and selectively searches for or avoids information to suit its various purposes. Despite these behaviours deviating from common normative standards for belief updating, we argue that such 'biases' are not inherently cognitive flaws, but rath…

From Text to Actionable Intelligence: Automating STIX Entity and Relationship Extraction
Ahmed Lekssays, Husrev Taha Sencar, Ting Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16576

From Text to Actionable Intelligence: Automating STIX Entity and Relationship Extraction
Sharing methods of attack and their effectiveness is a cornerstone of building robust defensive systems. Threat analysis reports, produced by various individuals and organizations, play a critical role in supporting security operations and combating emerging threats. To enhance the timeliness and automation of threat intelligence sharing, several standards have been established, with the Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX) framework emerging as one of the most widely adopted. Howeve…

For people doing web perf
Links? Links! - Infrequently Noted
#rss

#PGP bzw. genauer #OpenPGP gibt es in verschiedenen Standards:
- RFC 2440
- RFC 4880
- RFC 9580 und
- LibrePGP
Johannes Roth und Falko Strenzke haben die Unterschiede zwischen den wichtigsten Standards herausgearbeitet:

Had to time-shift again. Two gorgeous goals. Ekitike’s calm demeanor is incredible, not just in finishing but also nobody can really rile him. Just plays on, unbothered.
Both Szoboszlai and Gravenberch were again terrific.
The passing was frustrating, as some intentional efforts at possession would have allowed more control. But while passing standards were lacking, passing percentage was still 4% higher than Everton in the second half, narratives be damned.

Improving the lifetime of aluminum-based superconducting qubits through atomic layer etching and deposition
Neha Mahuli (AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Pasadena, CA, USA), Joaquin Minguzzi (AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Pasadena, CA, USA), Jiansong Gao (AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Pasadena, CA, USA), Rachel Resnick (Google Research), Sandra Diez (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Cosmic Raj (AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Pasadena, CA, USA), Guillaume Mar…

Improving the lifetime of aluminum-based superconducting qubits through atomic layer etching and deposition
We present a dry surface treatment combining atomic layer etching and deposition (ALE and ALD) to mitigate dielectric loss in fully fabricated superconducting quantum devices formed from aluminum thin films on silicon. The treatment, performed as a final processing step prior to device packaging, starts by conformally removing the native metal oxide and fabrication residues from the exposed surfaces through ALE before \textit{in situ} encapsulating the metal surfaces with a thin dielectric laye…

Compressed Video Quality Enhancement: Classifying and Benchmarking over Standards
Xiem HoangVan, Dang BuiDinh, Sang NguyenQuang, Wen-Hsiao Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10407 …

Compressed Video Quality Enhancement: Classifying and Benchmarking over Standards
Compressed video quality enhancement (CVQE) is crucial for improving user experience with lossy video codecs like H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, and H.266/VVC. While deep learning based CVQE has driven significant progress, existing surveys still suffer from limitations: lack of systematic classification linking methods to specific standards and artifacts, insufficient comparative analysis of architectural paradigms across coding types, and underdeveloped benchmarking practices. To address these gaps, …

Wie die EU digitale Zwillinge für die Gesundheitsversorgung einsetzen will
Die EU fördert die digitale Gesundheitsversorgung mit virtuellen Zwillingen. Noch fehlen verbindliche Standards, aber das soll sich ändern.

Towards Temporal Knowledge Graph Alignment in the Wild
Runhao Zhao, Weixin Zeng, Wentao Zhang, Xiang Zhao, Jiuyang Tang, Lei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14475

Towards Temporal Knowledge Graph Alignment in the Wild
Temporal Knowledge Graph Alignment (TKGA) seeks to identify equivalent entities across heterogeneous temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) for fusion to improve their completeness. Although some approaches have been proposed to tackle this task, most assume unified temporal element standards and simplified temporal structures across different TKGs. They cannot deal with TKGA in the wild (TKGA-Wild), where multi-scale temporal element entanglement and cross-source temporal structural imbalances are c…

Protecting our furry friends: EU sets first ever minimum standards for dog and cat welfare - Talking Europe
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20250711-protecting-our-furry-friends-eu-sets-first-ever-minimum-standards-for-dog-and-cat-welfare

Today I’m a very proud and happy open standards maintainer: OpenAPI 3.2 is now available! The release notes are a good place to find out what’s new (it’s a lot!) https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/releases
Huge thanks to our contributor community, you are amazing!!

Airalogy: AI-empowered universal data digitization for research automation
Zijie Yang, Qiji Zhou, Fang Guo, Sijie Zhang, Yexun Xi, Jinglei Nie, Yudian Zhu, Liping Huang, Chou Wu, Yonghe Xia, Xiaoyu Ma, Yingming Pu, Panzhong Lu, Junshu Pan, Mingtao Chen, Tiannan Guo, Yanmei Dou, Hongyu Chen, Anping Zeng, Jiaxing Huang, Tian Xu, Yue Zhang
https://

Airalogy: AI-empowered universal data digitization for research automation
Research data are the foundation of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven science, yet current AI applications remain limited to a few fields with readily available, well-structured, digitized datasets. Achieving comprehensive AI empowerment across multiple disciplines is still out of reach. Present-day research data collection is often fragmented, lacking unified standards, inefficiently managed, and difficult to share. Creating a single platform for standardized data digitization needs to overc…

"Würden Sie zukünftig auf Bau(qualitäts-)standards verzichten (z.B. bei Schallschutz, Mauer- / Rohbauarbeiten, Gebäudeentwässerung), um den Hausbau / Wohnungskauf spürbar (ca. 10%) günstiger zu machen?"

An excellent read on how Google is killing the Open Web through attacks on XML and other technical standards.
https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/

#Orwell wrote about the #JustTransition in 1947 ("Toward European Unity"):
«The European peoples, and especially the British, have long owed their high standard of life to direct or indirect exploitation of the coloured peoples. [...] But it is by no means certain that we can afford these th…

AI Regulation in Latin America: Overview and Emerging Trends in Key Proposals
https://fpf.org/blog/global/ai-regulation-in-latin-america-overview-and-emerging-trends-in-key-proposals/
@…

E-21 Level Instability Frequency Dissemination over 2067 km noisy Telecommunication Infrastructure
Fa-Xi Chen, Li-Bo Li, Jiu-Peng Chen, Kan Zhao, Jian-Yu Guan, Yang Xu, Lei Hou, Fei Zhou, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Qiang Zhang, Hai-Feng Jiang, Jian-Wei Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14192

E-21 Level Instability Frequency Dissemination over 2067 km noisy Telecommunication Infrastructure
The realization of ultra stable optical frequency transmission through fiber networks is critical for advancing global optical frequency standards and enabling applications such as redefining the second in the International System of Units, geophysical sensing, quantum network construction, and fundamental physics experiments. However, achieving high reliability and low instability optical frequency carrier transmission links over distances exceeding thousands of kilometers remains technically …

"We Need a Standard": Toward an Expert-Informed Privacy Label for Differential Privacy
Onyinye Dibia, Mengyi Lu, Prianka Bhattacharjee, Joseph P. Near, Yuanyuan Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15997

"We Need a Standard": Toward an Expert-Informed Privacy Label for Differential Privacy
The increasing adoption of differential privacy (DP) leads to public-facing DP deployments by both government agencies and companies. However, real-world DP deployments often do not fully disclose their privacy guarantees, which vary greatly between deployments. Failure to disclose certain DP parameters can lead to misunderstandings about the strength of the privacy guarantee, undermining the trust in DP. In this work, we seek to inform future standards for communicating the privacy guarantees …

Hey, just a reminder that Thursday 18th there’s the “IPTC Photo Metadata Conference 2025”, a free Zoom event open to all. I’m a speaker (focusing on #C2PA). It looks like it should be interesting for anyone interested in the tangle of issues about media provenance, #genAI, publishing workflow, social media, and…

Photo Metadata Conference 2025 - IPTC
IPTC is the global standards body of the news media. We provide the technical foundation for the news ecosystem.

RFSS: A Comprehensive Multi-Standard RF Signal Source Separation Dataset with Advanced Channel Modeling
Hao Chen, Rui Jin, Dayuan Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12106 https://…

RFSS: A Comprehensive Multi-Standard RF Signal Source Separation Dataset with Advanced Channel Modeling
The rapid evolution of wireless communication systems has created complex electromagnetic environments where multiple cellular standards (2G/3G/4G/5G) coexist, necessitating advanced signal source separation techniques. We present RFSS (RF Signal Source Separation), a comprehensive open-source dataset containing 52,847 realistic multi-standard RF signal samples with complete 3GPP standards compliance. Our framework generates authentic baseband signals for GSM, UMTS, LTE, and 5G NR with advanced…

#API #Standards ARE #Data Standards
https:…

I wonder, did Cheeto have Kimmel cancelled because Kimmel wouldn't allow Melanomia on The Man Show, no matter how much she begged, for not meeting the show's quality standards?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPocO7VKsR8

Obesity & diet
I wouldn't normally share a positive story about the new diet drugs, because I've seen someone get obsessed with them who was at a perfectly acceptable weight *by majority standards* (surprise: every weight is in fact perfectly acceptable by *objective* standards, because every "weight-associated" health risk is its own danger that should be assessed *in individuals*). I think two almost-contradictory things:
1. In a society shuddering under the burden of metastasized fatmisia, there's a very real danger in promoting the new diet drugs because lots of people who really don't need them will be psychologically bullied into using them and suffer from the cost and/or side effects.
2. For many individuals under the assault of our society's fatmisia, "just ignore it" is not a sufficient response, and also for specific people for whom decreasing their weight can address *specific* health risks/conditions that they *want* to address that way, these drugs can be a useful tool.
I know @… to be a trustworthy & considerate person, so I think it's responsible to share this:
#Fat #Diet #Obesity

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#BBCProms
- 2025
Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC Concert Orchestra is joined by Grammy-winning sensation Samara Joy and band, in classic songs and musical standards, paying tribute to past legends.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ft7q

Approaches for modelling the term-structure of default risk under IFRS 9: A tutorial using discrete-time survival analysis
Arno Botha, Tanja Verster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15441

Approaches for modelling the term-structure of default risk under IFRS 9: A tutorial using discrete-time survival analysis
Under the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 9, credit losses ought to be recognised timeously and accurately. This requirement belies a certain degree of dynamicity when estimating the constituent parts of a credit loss event, most notably the probability of default (PD). It is notoriously difficult to produce such PD-estimates at every point of loan life that are adequately dynamic and accurate, especially when considering the ever-changing macroeconomic background. In renderi…

Man am I glad to have moved away from the :archlinux: #ArchLinux ecosystem. The #AUR is such a mess. Dependencies vanishing - no notifications. Packaging standards changing, people manually complaining to please follow standards. No real way to submit patches. Adopting dead packages takes ages. No asserti…

5 supporters on trial for corruption charges & now bribery being investigated from a Chinese fundraiser.
But his spokesperson says, #EricAdams has “always demanded the highest ethical and legal standards.” 😂
☑️ Adams Adviser Suspended From Campaign After Giving Cash to Reporter

A five-layer framework for AI governance: integrating regulation, standards, and certification
Avinash Agarwal, Manisha J. Nene
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11332 https://

A five-layer framework for AI governance: integrating regulation, standards, and certification
Purpose: The governance of artificial iintelligence (AI) systems requires a structured approach that connects high-level regulatory principles with practical implementation. Existing frameworks lack clarity on how regulations translate into conformity mechanisms, leading to gaps in compliance and enforcement. This paper addresses this critical gap in AI governance. Methodology/Approach: A five-layer AI governance framework is proposed, spanning from broad regulatory mandates to specific stand…

Here are the email addresses to make your voice heard at Disney/ABC:
👉General Issues: DisneyABCtv_Support@disney.com
👉Publicity / Corporate Comms: Ashley.r.kline@disney.com
👉Audience Information: cheryl.pratesa@abc.com
👉Investor Relations: alexia.quadrani@disney.com
👉Disney Advertising: Disney.Advertising@disney.com
If anyone needs sample language, here’s a starting point you can copy and paste:
Dear Disney/ABC Leadership,
Your decision to silence a comedian for a harmless joke while protecting and platforming voices that openly promote cruelty is indefensible. It reeks of hypocrisy, cowardice, and corporate complicity.
Suppressing humor while elevating propaganda is how fascism gains ground. You are helping it along.
This is a warning: every dollar I once spent on Disney subscriptions, merchandise, films, and parks will now be withheld. I will also be encouraging others to cancel, divest, and pressure your advertisers and shareholders until Disney/ABC adopts clear, viewpoint-neutral standards that respect all voices equally.
History will not remember kindly the corporations that bent to fear and power, silencing dissent while protecting division. Right now, Disney/ABC is on the wrong side of that history. Shame on you. We will remember!
Sincerely,
- From Rob Brezsny on a different Social Media platform
#BoycottDisney #JimmyKImmel #FreedomOfSpeech

📏 Optical frequency comb integration transforms absolute distance measurement precision
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-optical-frequency-absolute-distance-precision.html

Optical frequency comb integration transforms absolute distance measurement precision
The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully developed a length measurement system that achieves a level of precision approaching the theoretical limit allowed by quantum physics.

Oxford University Press stops publishing a journal sponsored by China's Ministry of Justice after years of concerns it did not meet standards on DNA collection (Amy Hawkins/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/scie…

Unfortunately, standards work may be a function of who has the biggest platform for social media polls (that maybe pre-judge the outcome).
I’m hoping those who work in or near #accessibility can offer some feedback to more fundamental, not pre-judged, questions here:

PeerTube is a decentralized alternative to YouTube
that doesn't believe in harvesting user data and pushing people into echo chambers via a proprietary algorithm.
Built on open standards and federation,
it lets communities host and share video without depending on a central server.
https://news.itsfoss.com/peertube-7…

Decentralized YouTube Alternative Adds Live Streame Scheduling Option in Latest Release
Also adds multilingual emails, improved admin tools, and session management.

Rex-Osprey launches the first spot dogecoin and XRP ETFs in the US after the SEC approved generic listing standards, paving the way for speedier ETF listings (Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/crypto/sec-paves-way…

SEC paves way for speedier crypto ETF listings as XRP and dogecoin ETFs launch
Rex Osprey launched the first spot XRP and doge ETFs today, while Grayscale will soon launch its just-approved multi-asset fund.

Multi-Agent Synergy-Driven Iterative Visual Narrative Synthesis
Wang Xi, Quan Shi, Tian Yu, Yujie Peng, Jiayi Sun, Mengxing Ren, Zenghui Ding, Ningguang Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13285

Multi-Agent Synergy-Driven Iterative Visual Narrative Synthesis
Automated generation of high-quality media presentations is challenging, requiring robust content extraction, narrative planning, visual design, and overall quality optimization. Existing methods often produce presentations with logical inconsistencies and suboptimal layouts, thereby struggling to meet professional standards. To address these challenges, we introduce RCPS (Reflective Coherent Presentation Synthesis), a novel framework integrating three key components: (1) Deep Structured Narrat…

K2-18b Does Not Meet The Standards of Evidence For Life
Kevin B. Stevenson, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, E. M. May, Ravi K. Kopparapu, Thomas J. Fauchez, Jacob Haqq-Misra, Mary Anne Limbach, Edward W. Schwieterman, Kristin S. Sotzen, Shang-Min Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05961

K2-18b Does Not Meet The Standards of Evidence For Life
K2-18b, a temperate sub-Neptune, has garnered significant attention due to claims of possible biosignatures in its atmosphere. Low-confidence detections of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and/or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) have sparked considerable debate, primarily around arguments that their absorption features are not uniquely identifiable. Here, we consider a different question from the astrobiology standards of evidence framework: Have we detected an authentic signal? To answer this, we analyzed prev…

Every time I see someone saying something like "we should bring this back" or "how come no website/app does this anymore" I just go like "bet" and implement it into my own website because fuck the modern internet "standards" set by shitty companies I'm gonna use my free will to do whatever I want (and so should you).

SHACL Validation in the Presence of Ontologies: Semantics and Rewriting Techniques
Anouk Oudshoorn, Magdalena Ortiz, Mantas Simkus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12286

SHACL Validation in the Presence of Ontologies: Semantics and Rewriting Techniques
SHACL and OWL are two prominent W3C standards for managing RDF data. These languages share many features, but they have one fundamental difference: OWL, designed for inferring facts from incomplete data, makes the open-world assumption, whereas SHACL is a constraint language that treats the data as complete and must be validated under the closed-world assumption. The combination of both formalisms is very appealing and has been called for, but their semantic gap is a major challenge, semantical…

Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
ZEN: Confirmed. Scanners in operation. [It displays a blurry visual of the alien spaceship.]
TARRANT: Doesn't maintain your usual standards, Zen. [The focus sharpens.] Some kind of alien.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/32 B7B3

Standards-Compliant DM-RS Allocation via Temporal Channel Prediction for Massive MIMO Systems
Sehyun Ryu, Hyun Jong Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11064 h…

Standards-Compliant DM-RS Allocation via Temporal Channel Prediction for Massive MIMO Systems
Reducing feedback overhead in beyond 5G networks is a critical challenge, as the growing number of antennas in modern massive MIMO systems substantially increases the channel state information (CSI) feedback demand in frequency division duplex (FDD) systems. To address this, extensive research has focused on CSI compression and prediction, with neural network-based approaches gaining momentum and being considered for integration into the 3GPP 5G-Advanced standards. While deep learning has been …

In-Loop Filtering Using Learned Look-Up Tables for Video Coding
Zhuoyuan Li, Jiacheng Li, Yao Li, Jialin Li, Li Li, Dong Liu, Feng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09494 https://…

In-Loop Filtering Using Learned Look-Up Tables for Video Coding
In-loop filtering (ILF) is a key technology in video coding standards to reduce artifacts and enhance visual quality. Recently, neural network-based ILF schemes have achieved remarkable coding gains, emerging as a powerful candidate for next-generation video coding standards. However, the use of deep neural networks (DNN) brings significant computational and time complexity or high demands for dedicated hardware, making it challenging for general use. To address this limitation, we study a prac…

"Without reaching such dimensions, and thankfully without breaking neither your back nor your wallet, “The Computer” is as gorgeous as it is unwieldy. Its almost 500 pages, of impeccable glossy paper, retrace the impact of the computer as a vector of social change. Be sure to enjoy it on your couch or sitting on a table. You have been warned."

Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/11/toxic-pfas-above-proposed-safety-limits-in-almost-all-english-waters-tested

Physics-Based 3D Simulation for Synthetic Data Generation and Failure Analysis in Packaging Stability Assessment
Samuel Seligardi, Pietro Musoni, Eleonora Iotti, Gianluca Contesso, Alessandro Dal Pal\`u
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13989

Physics-Based 3D Simulation for Synthetic Data Generation and Failure Analysis in Packaging Stability Assessment
The design and analysis of pallet setups are essential for ensuring safety of packages transportation. With rising demands in the logistics sector, the development of automated systems utilizing advanced technologies has become increasingly crucial. Moreover, the widespread use of plastic wrapping has motivated researchers to investigate eco-friendly alternatives that still adhere to safety standards. We present a fully controllable and accurate physical simulation system capable of replicating…

I would suspect that many birth-citizenship US citizens could not pass this citizenship test.
(I note that the USCIS website for citizenship test materials has many items blocked by Privacy Badger and Ublock Origin - in other words, the website has trackers, some of which are private companies.)
Just read the hogwash in this announcement:
"“American citizenship is the most sacred citizenship in the world and should only be reserved for aliens who will fully embrace our…

USCIS Unveils First Changes to Naturalization Test in Multi-Step Overhaul of American Citizenship Standards
Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services posted a Federal Register notice announcing implementation of the 2025 naturalization civics test.

Toward quantum-safe scalable networks: an open, standards-aware key management framework
Ane Sanz, Asier Atutxa, David Franco, Jasone Astorga, Eduardo Jacob, Diego L\'opez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09453

Toward quantum-safe scalable networks: an open, standards-aware key management framework
With the advent of quantum computing, the increasing threats to security poses a great challenge to communication networks. Recent innovations in this field resulted in promising technologies such as Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), which enables the generation of unconditionally secure keys, establishing secure communications between remote nodes. Additionally, QKD networks enable the interconnection of multinode architectures, extending the point-to-point nature of QKD. However, due to the lim…

Migrants were locked up in temporary detention facility at Fort Bliss despite 60 violations of federal standards | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fort-bliss-tent-camp-ice-migrants-b2827936.html

Connected and Exposed: Cybersecurity Risks, Regulatory Gaps, and Public Perception in Internet-Connected Vehicles
Henrietta Hegyi, Laszlo Erdodi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15306

Connected and Exposed: Cybersecurity Risks, Regulatory Gaps, and Public Perception in Internet-Connected Vehicles
The rapid advancement of Internet-connected vehicle technologies has introduced a new era of smart mobility, while simultaneously raising significant cybersecurity and privacy concerns. This paper explores the evolving threat landscape associated with connected vehicles, focusing on risks such as unauthorized remote access and the potential leakage of personal data. To assess the current state of protection, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of 16 international standards and regulations, ev…

Optical sound pressure measurement using Fabry-p\'erot cavity for primary acoustic standards
Koto Hirano, Wataru Kokuyama, Hajime Inaba, Sho Okubo, Tomofumi Shimoda, Hironobu Takahashi, Keisuke Yamada, Hideaki Nozato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10480

Optical sound pressure measurement using Fabry-pérot cavity for primary acoustic standards
Optical sound pressure measurement is a promising technology to establish primary acoustic standards without reliance on specific types of microphones. We developed a precision optical sound pressure measurement system by combining a Fabry-pérot optical cavity, a phase-stabilized optical frequency comb, and a custom-made phasemeter. The optical cavity detects changes in the air's refractive index induced by sound waves as changes in its resonance frequency. A continuous-wave laser frequency is…

EU-Bericht: Großteil erfasster illegaler Produkte aus China
Produkte auf dem EU-Markt müssen gewisse Standards erfüllen. Nicht alle importierten Artikel aus dem Ausland tun das. Nun legt die EU einen Bericht dazu vor.

Expanding ML-Documentation Standards For Better Security
Cara Ellen Appel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12003 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507…

Expanding ML-Documentation Standards For Better Security
This article presents the current state of ML-security and of the documentation of ML-based systems, models and datasets in research and practice based on an extensive review of the existing literature. It shows a generally low awareness of security aspects among ML-practitioners and organizations and an often unstandardized approach to documentation, leading to overall low quality of ML-documentation. Existing standards are not regularly adopted in practice and IT-security aspects are often no…

TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial content must be disclosed (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/15/tiktoks-new-guideli…

TikTok's new guidelines add subtle changes for LIVE creators, AI content, and more | TechCrunch
TikTok is preparing an update to its Community Guidelines, which dictate the rules for participating on the social video platform as well as what standards the company uses to determine the videos that make it onto its For You feed.

Trump wields his ‘secret weapon’: College accreditation
Trump and his allies are using college accreditation to exert pressure on colleges and universities,
an effort that threatens the independence of accreditors and the stability of the institutions they approve.

Accrediting agencies, which have existed for more than a century, determine whether colleges meet standards of quality
by evaluating every aspect of their finances, operations and student achievement.

Trump wields his ‘secret weapon’: College accreditation
The administration is trying to make good on Trump’s campaign promise to use accreditation, a critical stamp of approval for colleges, to remake higher education.

Oklahoma sued over school standards that mix Christianity with right-wing lies
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma-sued-over-school-standards

LLM-based Triplet Extraction for Automated Ontology Generation in Software Engineering Standards
Songhui Yue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00140 https://arxiv…

LLM-based Triplet Extraction for Automated Ontology Generation in Software Engineering Standards
Ontologies have supported knowledge representation and whitebox reasoning for decades; thus, the automated ontology generation (AOG) plays a crucial role in scaling their use. Software engineering standards (SES) consist of long, unstructured text (with high noise) and paragraphs with domain-specific terms. In this setting, relation triple extraction (RTE), together with term extraction, constitutes the first stage toward AOG. This work proposes an open-source large language model (LLM)-assiste…

TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial content must be disclosed (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/15/tiktoks-new-guideli…

TikTok's new guidelines add subtle changes for LIVE creators, AI content, and more | TechCrunch
TikTok is preparing an update to its Community Guidelines, which dictate the rules for participating on the social video platform as well as what standards the company uses to determine the videos that make it onto its For You feed.

Readout of a solid state spin ensemble at the projection noise limit
Rouven Maier, Cheng-I Ho, Andrej Denisenko, Marina Davydova, Peter Knittel, J\"org Wrachtrup, Vadim Vorobyov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11854

Readout of a solid state spin ensemble at the projection noise limit
Spin ensembles are central to quantum science, from frequency standards and fundamental physics searches to magnetic resonance spectroscopy and quantum sensing. Their performance is ultimately constrained by spin projection noise, yet solid-state implementations have so far been limited by much larger photon shot noise. Here we demonstrate a direct, quantum non-demolition readout of a mesoscopic ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond that surpasses the photon shot-noise limit and …

SC-TPTP: An Extension of the TPTP Derivation Format for Sequent-Based Calculus
Julie Cailler, Simon Guilloud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11349 https://

SC-TPTP: An Extension of the TPTP Derivation Format for Sequent-Based Calculus
Motivated by the transfer of proofs between proof systems, and in particular from first order automated theorem provers (ATPs) to interactive theorem provers (ITPs), we specify an extension of the TPTP derivation text format to describe proofs in first-order logic: SC-TPTP. To avoid multiplication of standards, our proposed format over-specifies the TPTP derivation format by focusing on sequent formalisms. By doing so, it provides a high level of detail, is faithful to mathematical tradition, a…

[Thread] an NYT standards editor responds to criticism of its recent Zohran Mamdani story, says the "ultimate source" was Columbia data that Mamdani confirmed (Patrick Healy/@patrickhealynyt)
https://x.com/patrickhealynyt/status/1941262786006483418

Patrick Healy (@patrickhealynyt) on X
As the @nytimes assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, I’ve received reader feedback regarding our reporting on Zohran Mamdani’s 2009 application to Columbia University. To provide context on how the reporting came together, I wanted to share some information:

scikit-package -- software packaging standards and roadmap for sharing reproducible scientific software
S. Lee, C. Myers, A. Yang, T. Zhang, S. J. L. Billinge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03328

scikit-package -- software packaging standards and roadmap for sharing reproducible scientific software
Scientific advancement relies on the ability to share and reproduce results. When data analysis or calculations are carried out using software written by scientists there are special challenges around code versions, quality and code sharing. scikit-package provides a roadmap to facilitate code reuse and sharing with minimal effort through tutorials coupled with automated and centralized reusable workflows. The goal of the project is to provide pedagogical and practical tools for scientists who …

Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez says age-related cognitive decline among elected officials is a major issue for voters.
Ms. Perez was hesitant to name any particular colleague, because she said the problem was bigger than any one person.
But she said she was “concerned” about what she had heard about Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, 88,
the nonvoting delegate representing Washington, D.C., who is clinging to her seat despite clear signs of mental decline.

This Democrat Wants Cognitive Standards in Congress. Her Colleagues Disagree.
Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez says age-related cognitive decline among elected officials is a major issue for voters.

Understanding NFTs from EIP Standards
Minfeng Qi, Qin Wang, Guangsheng Yu, Ruiqiang Li, Victor Zhou, Shiping Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07190 https://…

Understanding NFTs from EIP Standards
We argue that the technical foundations of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) remain inadequately understood. Prior research has focused on market dynamics, user behavior, and isolated security incidents, yet systematic analysis of the standards underpinning NFT functionality is largely absent. We present the first study of NFTs through the lens of Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs). We conduct a large-scale empirical analysis of 191 NFT-related EIPs and 10K+ Ethereum Magicians discussions (as of …

This Democrat Wants Cognitive Standards in Congress. Her Colleagues Disagree. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/politics/age-cognitive-standards-congress.html

Identification of Violin Reduction via Contour Lines Classification
Phil\'emon Beghin, Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans, Fran\c{c}ois Glineur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07743

Identification of Violin Reduction via Contour Lines Classification
The first violins appeared in late 16th-century Italy. Over the next 200 years, they spread across Europe and luthiers of various royal courts, eager to experiment with new techniques, created a highly diverse family of instruments. Around 1750, size standards were introduced to unify violin making for orchestras and conservatories. Instruments that fell between two standards were then reduced to a smaller size by luthiers. These reductions have an impact on several characteristics of violins, …

California SB 243, which would mandate safety protocols for AI companion chatbots, has passed the State Assembly and Senate and now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/a-ca

A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law | TechCrunch
SB 243 passed the California Senate on Thursday and heads to Gov. Newsom's desk. If SB 243 is enacted, California would become the first state to require operators to implement safety protocols for AI companions and hold companies legally accountable if their chatbots fail to meet those standards.

What Gets Measured Gets Managed: Mitigating Supply Chain Attacks with a Link Integrity Management System
Johnny So, Michael Ferdman, Nick Nikiforakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14583

What Gets Measured Gets Managed: Mitigating Supply Chain Attacks with a Link Integrity Management System
The web continues to grow, but dependency-monitoring tools and standards for resource integrity lag behind. Currently, there exists no robust method to verify the integrity of web resources, much less in a generalizable yet performant manner, and supply chains remain one of the most targeted parts of the attack surface of web applications. In this paper, we present the design of LiMS, a transparent system to bootstrap link integrity guarantees in web browsing sessions with minimal overhead. A…

Sources: NIST withheld publishing an AI safety report and several other AI documents at the end of Biden's term to avoid clashing with the Trump administration (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-biden-administrations-u…

Inside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety
The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump's second term as president—and never published the results.

TELSAFE: Security Gap Quantitative Risk Assessment Framework
Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Chandra Thapa, Derui Wang, Rayne Holland, Wei Shao, Seyit Camtepe, Hajime Suzuki, Rajiv Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06497

TELSAFE: Security Gap Quantitative Risk Assessment Framework
Gaps between established security standards and their practical implementation have the potential to introduce vulnerabilities, possibly exposing them to security risks. To effectively address and mitigate these security and compliance challenges, security risk management strategies are essential. However, it must adhere to well-established strategies and industry standards to ensure consistency, reliability, and compatibility both within and across organizations. In this paper, we introduce a …