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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 @…

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

Modeling and Visualization Reasoning for Stakeholders in Education and Industry Integration Systems: Research on Structured Synthetic Dialogue Data Generation Based on NIST Standards
This study addresses the structural complexity and semantic ambiguity in stakeholder interactions within the Education-Industry Integration (EII) system. The scarcity of real interview data, absence of structured variable modeling, and lack of interpretability in inference mechanisms have limited the analytical accuracy and policy responsiveness of EII research. To resolve these challenges, we propose a structural modeling paradigm based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NI…

Court Rules EPA Failed to Properly Consider, Update Water Pollution Standards For Oil Refineries, Plastics Plants https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/…

Court Rules EPA Failed to Properly Consider, Update Water Pollution Standards For Oil Refineries, Plastics Plants
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency acted unlawfully in declining to update water pollution control standards for seven major industries. The industries include petroleum refineries, inorganic and organic chemical manufacturers, and factories that manufacture plastics, fertilizer, pesticides and nonferrous metals. The court agreed with conservation groups that the Clean Water Act requires the EPA to consider technological advancements in cont…

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…

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.

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

Behavior Driven Development for 3D Games
Computer 3D games are complex software environments that require novel testing processes to ensure high-quality standards. The Intelligent Verification/Validation for Extended Reality Based Systems (iv4XR) framework addresses this need by enabling the implementation of autonomous agents to automate game testing scenarios. This framework facilitates the automation of regression test cases for complex 3D games like Space Engineers. Nevertheless, the technical expertise required to define test scr…

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…

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.

Filters of Identity: AR Beauty and the Algorithmic Politics of the Digital Body
Miriam Doh, Corinna Canali, Nuria Oliver
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19611 h…

Filters of Identity: AR Beauty and the Algorithmic Politics of the Digital Body
This position paper situates AR beauty filters within the broader debate on Body Politics in HCI. We argue that these filters are not neutral tools but technologies of governance that reinforce racialized, gendered, and ableist beauty standards. Through naming conventions, algorithmic bias, and platform governance, they impose aesthetic norms while concealing their influence. To address these challenges, we advocate for transparency-driven interventions and a critical rethinking of algorithmic …

from my link log —
JA4 : a suite of network fingerprinting standards.
https://github.com/FoxIO-LLC/ja4
saved 2025-03-07 https://d…

GitHub - FoxIO-LLC/ja4: JA4+ is a suite of network fingerprinting standards
JA4+ is a suite of network fingerprinting standards - FoxIO-LLC/ja4

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:

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

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

They say “purity tests” we say “basic standards.”

"Fuel firms can challenge California’s emission limits, supreme court rules"
#US #USA #America #California…

Trump administration sues California over egg standards that drive up prices (Ross O'Keefe/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3467425/trump-administration-sues-california-over-egg-standards-that-drive-up-prices/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p145#a250709p145

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…

Towards an Approach for Evaluating the Impact of AI Standards
Julia Lane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13839 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

Towards an Approach for Evaluating the Impact of AI Standards
There have been multiple calls for investments in the development of AI standards that both preserve the transformative potential and minimize the risks of AI. The goals of AI standards, particularly with respect to AI data, performance, and governance, are to promote innovation and public trust in systems that use AI. However, there is a lack of a formal or shared method to measure the impact of these standardization activities on the goals of innovation and trust. This concept paper proposes …

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…

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…

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

The impact of parameter spread of high-temperature superconducting Josephson junctions on the performance of quantum-based voltage standards
Quantum metrology based on Josephson junction array reproduces the most accurate desired voltage by far, therefore being introduced to provide voltage standards worldwide. In this work, we quantitatively analyzed the dependence of the first Shapiro step height of the junction array at 50 GHz on the parameter spread of 10,000 Josephson junctions by numerical simulation with resistively shunted junction model. The results indicate an upper limit spread of the critical current and resistance of th…

"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 …

Frequency Differences between Clocks on the Earth and the Moon
Mingyue Zhang, J\"urgen M\"uller, Sergei M. Kopeikin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16377

Frequency Differences between Clocks on the Earth and the Moon
Based on general relativity, clock comparisons enable the determination of the gravity potential relative to a stable reference. Lunar surface clocks, owing to the Moon's low-noise conditions, high orbital stability, and broad Earth visibility, are promising reference clocks for global-scale comparisons between terrestrial clocks. Meanwhile, the need for an independent lunar time system-driven by future lunar navigation-requires maintaining links to terrestrial standards. This Letter simulates …

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…

The Wiretap: Trump Says Goodbye To The AI Safety Institute
The Trump administration has announced plans to reorganize the U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI) into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).

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 …

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

Radiochromic Film Dosimetry for VHEE and UHDR: Considerations for the CLEAR Facility and Comparisons with Alanine, RPL and Dosimetry Phantoms
Radiochromic films (RCFs) offer valuable two-dimensional dosimetry capabilities with a conceptually simple operating principle that requires minimal investment, making them particularly suitable for very high energy electron (VHEE) FLASH dosimetry where dosimetry standards are currently lacking. However, achieving high-accuracy measurements with RCFs presents significant practical challenges. Without the standardised protocols that ensure reliable outcomes across applications and facilities, kn…

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…

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" -- @…

Neoliberalism is consuming our well-being
As The Guardian has noted: Britain is on track to become a “National Health State” where half of all public spending is allocated to the NHS and social care by the end of the decade, according to a leading thinktank. They added: As the chancellor came under pressure on Thursday to defend her...

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

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…

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…

The Brainless Propaganda of Stephen Miller #fascism

The Brainless Propaganda of Stephen Miller
Even by the standards of right-wing rhetoric, Miller’s public statements are uncommonly shameless. He treats his audience as stupid and gullible. 

"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."

Jens Müller & Julius Wiedemann
None of the previous 48 entries in the Library section of this magazine have dealt with what is commonly referred to as a "coffee table book". Today we rectify such omission by showcasing a massive, recent, and by all standards, very desirable book from Taschen, the legendary German publishing house.

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 …

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…

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!

Uncalibrated Cosmic Standards as a Robust Test on Late-Time Cosmological Models
Yihao Wang, Weikang Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04333 https://

Uncalibrated Cosmic Standards as a Robust Test on Late-Time Cosmological Models
We present a minimally model-dependent framework for testing late-time cosmological models using Uncalibrated Cosmic Standards (UCS), including standard rulers and standard candles, without relying on absolute calibrations. The method exploits a tight, model-insensitive correlation between the sound horizons at recombination and the drag epoch. By avoiding dependence on pre-recombination physics and the amplitude of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) power spectra, the UCS framework reduces …

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:…

France’s Macron Faces Dilemma With Intention to Recognize Palestinian State
The French-Israeli relationship has always been turbulent, but the prospect that President Emmanuel Macron may recognize a Palestinian state has brought tension to a new level.

Builder introduces hurricane-resistant homes exceeding Category 5 standards, offering safety and sustainability for families in storm-prone areas. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Builder unveils incredible homes that can withstand Category 5 hurricanes: 'Just one solid, continuous wall'
Onx Homes unveiled storm-resistant houses designed to withstand even the strongest hurricanes, providing a safe haven for families in at-risk regions.

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…

Ultra Ethernet Consortium publishes 1.0 specification, readies Ethernet for HPC, AI
The UEC 1.0 specification includes a modern RDMA approach, new transport protocols, and congestion control mechanisms designed for AI and HPC requirements.

Не ОРИ — комиссия по разработке XMPP оштрафована за отказ сотрудничать с властями РФ
http://roskomsvoboda.org/ru/post/russia-fines-xmpp-foundation-for-not-being-info-distributor/

Не ОРИ — комиссия по разработке XMPP оштрафована за отказ сотрудничать с властями РФ
Независимая некоммерческая организация XMPP Standards Foundation оштрафована за неуплату административного штрафа, возложенного на неё за повторный отказ исполнять обязанности организатора распространения информации (ОРИ).

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…

[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:

Steam Bends to Payment Processors on Porn Games https://www.404media.co/steam-bends-to-payment-processors-on-porn-games/

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

An Efficient Hardware Implementation of Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication over $GF(2^m)$ on FPGA
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is widely accepted for ensuring secure data exchange between resource-limited IoT devices. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommended implementation, such as B-163, is particularly well-suited for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Here, Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication (ECPM) is the most time-critical and resource-intensive operation due to the finite field multiplier. This paper proposes a new implementation method of finite …

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

Frequency-responsive RCS characteristics and scaling implications for ISAC development
This paper presents an investigation on the Radar Cross-Section (RCS) of various targets, with the objective of analysing how RCS properties vary with frequency. Targets such as an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV), a pedestrian, and a full-scale car were measured in the frequency bands referred to in industry standards as FR2 and FR3. Measurements were taken in diverse environments, indoors and outdoors, to ensure comprehensive scenario coverage. The methodology employed in RCS extraction perform…

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…

Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

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

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
The automotive industry is undergoing a software-as-a-service transformation that enables software-defined functions and post-sale updates via cloud and vehicle-to-everything communication. Connectivity in cars introduces significant security challenges, as remote attacks on vehicles have become increasingly prevalent. Current automotive designs call for security solutions that address the entire lifetime of a vehicle. In this paper, we propose to authenticate and authorize in-vehicle services …

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

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 …

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

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
The automotive industry is undergoing a software-as-a-service transformation that enables software-defined functions and post-sale updates via cloud and vehicle-to-everything communication. Connectivity in cars introduces significant security challenges, as remote attacks on vehicles have become increasingly prevalent. Current automotive designs call for security solutions that address the entire lifetime of a vehicle. In this paper, we propose to authenticate and authorize in-vehicle services …

There's no male loneliness epidemic, just people with standards and men who don't want to work on themselves.

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…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04333 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Uncalibrated Cosmic Standards as a Robust Test on Late-Time Cosmological Models
We present a minimally model-dependent framework for testing late-time cosmological models using Uncalibrated Cosmic Standards (UCS), including standard rulers and standard candles, without relying on absolute calibrations. The method exploits a tight, model-insensitive correlation between the sound horizons at recombination and the drag epoch. By avoiding dependence on pre-recombination physics and the amplitude of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) power spectra, the UCS framework reduces …

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, …

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.

"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://

Doug Engelbart
As in any human group, there are certain pilgrimages, certain rites of passage that all software developers apparently must go through. They are various and equally anecdotical: to compile and boot their own Linux kernel; to read "The Art of Computer Programming" in its entirety (and then send their CV to Bill Gates); to give a presentation in a conference; and finally, to sit through the whole duration of "The Mother of All Demos", the recording of the unavoidable presentation made by Douglas …

Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says (Jasper Ward/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-department-says-columbia-university-violated-federal-anti-2025-06-04/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p120#a250604p120

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…

Opinion | Anthropic C.E.O.: Don’t Let A.I. Companies off the Hook
The A.I. industry needs to be regulated, with a focus on transparency.

Logical Inferentialism & Attacks on Classical Logic
Khashayar Irani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04295 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.0…

Logical Inferentialism & Attacks on Classical Logic
This paper undertakes a foundational inquiry into logical inferentialism with particular emphasis on the normative standards it establishes and the implications these pose for classical logic. The central question addressed herein is: 'What is Logical Inferentialism & How do its Standards challenge Classical Logic?' In response, the study begins with a survey of the three principal proof systems that is, David Hilbert's axiomatic systems and Gerhard Gentzen's natural deduction and his sequent c…

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

Software Security Mapping Framework: Operationalization of Security Requirements
The escalating complexity of modern software development environments has heightened concerns around supply chain security. However, existing frameworks often fall short in translating abstract security principles into concrete, actionable practices. This paper introduces the Software Security Mapping Framework, a structured solution designed to operationalize security requirements across hierarchical levels -- from high-level regulatory standards (e.g., ISM, Australia cybersecurity standard pu…

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…

World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War
Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards.

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

AI Risk-Management Standards Profile for General-Purpose AI (GPAI) and Foundation Models
Increasingly multi-purpose AI models, such as cutting-edge large language models or other 'general-purpose AI' (GPAI) models, 'foundation models,' generative AI models, and 'frontier models' (typically all referred to hereafter with the umbrella term 'GPAI/foundation models' except where greater specificity is needed), can provide many beneficial capabilities but also risks of adverse events with profound consequences. This document provides risk-management practices or controls for identifying…

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 …

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…

Bridging the Gap in Vision Language Models in Identifying Unsafe Concepts Across Modalities
Yiting Qu, Michael Backes, Yang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11155

Bridging the Gap in Vision Language Models in Identifying Unsafe Concepts Across Modalities
Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly applied to identify unsafe or inappropriate images due to their internal ethical standards and powerful reasoning abilities. However, it is still unclear whether they can recognize various unsafe concepts when presented in different modalities, such as text and images. To address this, we first compile the UnsafeConcepts dataset, featuring 75 unsafe concepts, i.e., ``Swastika,'' ``Sexual Harassment,'' and ``Assaults,'' along with associated 1.5K im…

Watermarking Without Standards Is Not AI Governance
Alexander Nemecek, Yuzhou Jiang, Erman Ayday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23814 https://

Watermarking Without Standards Is Not AI Governance
Watermarking has emerged as a leading technical proposal for attributing generative AI content and is increasingly cited in global governance frameworks. This paper argues that current implementations risk serving as symbolic compliance rather than delivering effective oversight. We identify a growing gap between regulatory expectations and the technical limitations of existing watermarking schemes. Through analysis of policy proposals and industry practices, we show how incentive structures di…