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 @…
ok, so, you know how the standards (C/POSIX) allow malloc(0) to return NULL?
i went to refresh my memory after a discussion of a security issue today and as best as i can tell, no commonly used OS has ever had malloc(0) return NULL, including historical ones¹. windows, glibc, musl, BSDs, all return a non-NULL pointer to some object
¹…
TFW you build a site with @… and web platform standards (== semantic HTML, modern CSS, a little bit of JavaScript, and a dash of ARIA) and you look at Lighthouse for the first time …
Looks like industry best practices actually work. (Sorry for using my platform to ruin anyone’s day. 🥰) 🍋
"Journalism screwed itself over by betting
on Meta and its profit-over-society peers.
Now, nobody trusts “the media” and
everyone is going bankrupt. The next bet
is on generative AI, with its inability to
distinguish truth from “hallucinations” –
fabrications that on the page become lies.
The Continent is an attempt to prove
journalism can be done differently.
Expect more of this in what our team
has decided to call our “serious era”.
We’re no longer a start-up. We’re going
to empower more people with quality
journalism. We’re going to help others
launch newspapers. We’re going to
stay sane. And we’re going to prove
that African excellence can set global
standards."
@… reaches 5 years and 200 issues. If you're not already receiving their copy via @… (or email, telegram or WhatsApp if you must) then it's really worth signing up to remind yourself just how big and diverse the world ist.
This weeks highlights are an extraordinary story about how Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe directly interfered with Mozambique's election. Plus a frankly beautiful photo piece on Addis Ababa
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
Modeling and Visualization Reasoning for Stakeholders in Education and Industry Integration Systems: Research on Structured Synthetic Dialogue Data Generation Based on NIST Standards
Wei Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16952
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
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
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 …
Warum humanoide Roboter ihre eigenen Sicherheitsregeln brauchen
Roboter, die direkt neben Menschen arbeiten, bergen einzigartige Sicherheitsrisiken. Daher fordert ein Gremium jetzt neue Standards für die Humanoiden.
Behavior Driven Development for 3D Games
Fernando Pastor Ric\'os, Beatriz Mar\'in, I. S. W. B. Prasetya, Tanja E. J. Vos, Joseph Davidson, Karel Hovorka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17057
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
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
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
The ancient Celts upheld values such as truthfulness, loyalty, faithfulness, generosity, hospitality, honesty, righteousness, justice, bravery and courage.
These are part of an honourable life.
We want to try something partly new, using ancient values that meet today's highest moral standards as a compass.
Why not adopt the superior habits of thought and the ancestral knowledge of the druids and go the Nua-Celtic way?
A tree without healthy roots dies and fall…
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…
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://
Just received a friend request on Facebook by someone named Peter Waldmeier.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.waldmeier.865
He seemed such a nice person, I think he is a model in a Scandinavian country.
When I asked him why he was sending me a friend request he go…
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…
The plastic insert in my NanoVNA H4 box went missing, so I guess I need to bite the bullet and print a rugged box and insert for it. This looks fairly good; any suggestions for alternatives to consider?
https://www.printables.com/model/991671-nanovna-h4-rugged-box/files…
#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:
For people doing web perf
Links? Links! - Infrequently Noted
#rss
They say “purity tests” we say “basic standards.”
Die ePetition 180898 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Verkehrswesen mit dem Titel
Forderung nach gesetzlichen Standards für gewerbliche Abschleppunternehmen im Bereich privater Parkflächen
kann bis zum Dienstag 29. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition werden gesetzliche Standards für …
Hello, I made this #article as a accessible resource to those who might be looking for cables and don't know the standards, or even know that not all cables are the same. I hope this helps anyone
https…
I've had a number of reasons to want to understand the standards (did you know that the industry work group creating the standards has vested interests in what is/ is not included, what the test method is, etc. So of course you can trust them without knowing the details, right?).
So this👇 is spot on:
https://
I've had a number of reasons to want to understand the standards (did you know that the industry work group creating the standards has vested interests in what is/ is not included, what the test method is, etc. So of course you can trust them without knowing the details, right?).
So this👇 is spot on:
https://
🔊 #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
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…
Ich lese ja keine Nachrichten mehr zu #Meta und seine Services, denn Meta ist ein ganz übles Unternehmen, das mMn die demokratischen Standards, wie wir sie in Europa hochhalten, nicht erfüllt und erfüllen will.
Die EU sollte auf die Kontosperrungen durch Meta so reagieren: Alle Meta Services werden in der EU gesperrt, um die Gleichheit im Bereich Meinungsäußerungsrecht zu garantieren und eine Beein…
The impact of parameter spread of high-temperature superconducting Josephson junctions on the performance of quantum-based voltage standards
Guanghong Wen, Yi Zhu, Yingxiang Zheng, Shuhe Cui, Ji Wang, Yanyun Ren, Hao Li, Guofeng Zhang, Lixing You
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12989
"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
The Trump administration announces plans to reorganize the US AI Safety Institute into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/06/03/t…
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
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.
By corporate policy you're not allowed to cuss at the Google AI
Radiochromic Film Dosimetry for VHEE and UHDR: Considerations for the CLEAR Facility and Comparisons with Alanine, RPL and Dosimetry Phantoms
V. F. Rieker, J. J. Bateman, L. M. Wroe, M. Caloz, V. Grilj, Y. Q. Aguiar, A. Sch\"uller, C. Bailat, W. Farabolini, A. Gilardi, C. Robertson, P. Korysko, A. Malyzhenkov, S. Stapnes, M. -C. Vozenin, M. Dosanjh, R. Corsini
Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity
New integrity-focused standards are necessary to enable the trusted AI services of tomorrow.
🔐 https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/web-3-0-requires-data-integrity/
"the additional expenditure on the NHS is not about improving our living standards, but about correcting the physical consequences of the appalling food that the neoliberal food supply industry is delivering to us, which is grossly detrimental to our health. We are not, in other words, better off as a consequence of this additional expenditure" -- @…
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
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
"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."
It’s new job time! Yesterday was my first day with https://www.tmforum.org/ where I’ll be helping publish Open API standards (described by OpenAPI, I know it’s confusing!) that can be adopted across industries.
First impressions: Enterprise software tools are a very different world!
Turbulent relations between France and Israel are nothing new,
but even by those historical standards the crisis caused by President Emmanuel Macron’s apparently⭐️ imminent readiness to recognize a Palestinian state is acute.
https:…
Oklahoma sued over school standards that mix Christianity with right-wing lies
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma-sued-over-school-standards
["Overture" for Cats (2019) plays in the background]
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, whose members include AMD, Cisco, HPE, and Intel, publishes the 1.0 specification for enhancing Ethernet standards for AI and HPC (Sean Michael Kerner/Network World)
https://www.networkworld.com/ar…
I think it is time to start organizing Peoples' Courts to try FFOTUS and his maga-klan.
Right now it is sufficient to define the general shape of the courts, their jurisdiction, the outline of procedures, and to enunciate the "natural law" standards to which the accused will be measured.
I generally hate the concept of "natural law", but in this case it is apt because that's what the maga-heads seem to like (see abominations such many cases from SCOTUS…
An Efficient Hardware Implementation of Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication over $GF(2^m)$ on FPGA
Ruby Kumari, Tapas Rout, Babul Saini, Jai Gopal Pandey, Abhijit Karmakar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12359
Breaking: First Convicted Felon Arrives at Alligator Auschwitz
#USpol #Indivisible #50501Movement
Na was denkt Ihr? Gegen...
* die rassistische, fremdenfeindliche, Europarechtswidrige Politik der Grenzabweisungen?
* das zukunftszerstörende Zurückrollen der Klimapolitik?
* die unsoziale Rentenpolitik?
* das Aufweichen von sozialen Standards?
Na, was könnte prominenten Politikern der SOZIALdemokratischen Partei denn wichtig sein?
Die Antwort könnte Mitglieder und Anhänger der Partei verunsichern.
Frequency-responsive RCS characteristics and scaling implications for ISAC development
Sa\'ul Fenollosa, Monika Drozdowska, Wenfei Yang, Sergio Mic\'o-Rosa, Alejandro Castilla, Alejandro Lopez-Escudero, Jian Li, Narcis Cardona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12235
You probably know I get frowny when browser makers lie about support or pretend their late implementation of a feature is somehow new, so I am suffering from a bunch of confirmation bias (and validation) here:
“Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past”
https://infrequently.org/2025…
Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
Timo Salomon, Mehmet Mueller, Philipp Meyer, Thomas C. Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13261
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
Nonmention:
If you are victim to a ransomware attack and your data gets leaked on the darknet, you shouldn't write a press release that this happened "despite your high security standards", when everyone can see your standards in your password file PW.docx.
#infosec #ransomware
Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
Timo Salomon, Mehmet Mueller, Philipp Meyer, Thomas C. Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13261
There's no male loneliness epidemic, just people with standards and men who don't want to work on themselves.
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.
…
"Here is the thing: the video describes, at an excruciatingly slow pace (at least by the standards of our generation’s TikTok-formatted brains), with the terms and phraseology of 1968, and during no less than one and a half hours, the very computer you are using to read this article. Yes, the one on your lap or on your desk."
https://
Anthropic CEO says a 10-year moratorium on AI regulation is "far too blunt an instrument" and calls for US federal transparency standards for AI companies (Dario Amodei/New York Times)
https://www.nyti…
Software Security Mapping Framework: Operationalization of Security Requirements
Sung Une Lee, Liming Dong, Zhenchang Xing, Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed, Stefan Avgoustakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11051
The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year
as Trump’s trade policy disrupts international commerce and increases economic uncertainty,
the World Bank said on Tuesday in a report that underscores the toll of America’s trade war.
Despite the weakening outlook, the global economy is not expected to fall into a recession, the World Bank said.
However, the trade tension is setting the stage for the weakest decade of growth since the 1960s.
Economic dev…
AI Risk-Management Standards Profile for General-Purpose AI (GPAI) and Foundation Models
Anthony M. Barrett, Jessica Newman, Brandie Nonnecke, Nada Madkour, Dan Hendrycks, Evan R. Murphy, Krystal Jackson, Deepika Raman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23949
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
Threats of retribution from Donald Trump are hardly a novelty,
but even by his standards, the US president’s warnings of wrathful
vengeance in recent days have represented a dramatic escalation.
In the past week, 💥Trump has threatened deportation, loss of US citizenship or arrest against, respectively, the world’s richest person, the prospective future mayor of New York and Joe Biden’s former homeland security secretary.
⚠️The head-spinning catalogue of warnings may h…