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Hold on to your hats and check out today's Metacurity for a ton of major infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--SharePoint server software security flaw sparked global attacks,
--France probes Musk's X over fraudulent data extraction,
--UK backtracks on encryption backdoors,
--Microsoft to stop Chinese digital escorts,
--Russia is kicking WhatsApp out,
--419k impacted by Louis Vuitton Hong Kong breach,
--UNC38…

SharePoint server software security flaw sparked global attacks
France probes Musk's X over fraudulent data extraction, UK backtracks on encryption backdoors, Microsoft to stop Chinese digital escorts, Russia is kicking WhatsApp out, 419k impacted by Louis Vuitton Hong Kong breach, UNC3886 hit Singapore with cyberattack, much more

Data Augmentation for Maltese NLP using Transliterated and Machine Translated Arabic Data
Kurt Micallef, Nizar Habash, Claudia Borg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12853 https://

Data Augmentation for Maltese NLP using Transliterated and Machine Translated Arabic Data
Maltese is a unique Semitic language that has evolved under extensive influence from Romance and Germanic languages, particularly Italian and English. Despite its Semitic roots, its orthography is based on the Latin script, creating a gap between it and its closest linguistic relatives in Arabic. In this paper, we explore whether Arabic-language resources can support Maltese natural language processing (NLP) through cross-lingual augmentation techniques. We investigate multiple strategies for a…

Weyl nodes in CeRu$_4$Sn$_6$ studied by dynamical mean-field theory
Jor\=unas Dobilas, Martin Brass, Frank T. Ebel, Silke Pasche, Karsten Held
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12944

Weyl nodes in CeRu$_4$Sn$_6$ studied by dynamical mean-field theory
The heavy fermion compound CeRu$_4$Sn$_6$ has recently shown to exhibit a spontaneous nonlinear Hall effect, indicating its topological nature. This is consistent with the lack of inversion symmetry that allows for the existence of Weyl nodes. Here, we employ density functional theory plus dynamical mean-field theory, which is state-of-the-art for such correlated materials, and study the topology of CeRu$_4$Sn$_6$. We find five inequivalent Weyl nodes of either type I or II, each having sixteen…

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My 9mm goes bang again: here's the front entrance to Harold's Square framed by Paris Baguette which isn't from Paris but rather from South Korea
#photo #photography #ithaca

Logical Dependence of Physical Determinism on Set-theoretic Metatheory
Justin Clarke-Doane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02567 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0256…

Logical Dependence of Physical Determinism on Set-theoretic Metatheory
Baroque questions of set-theoretic foundations are widely assumed to be irrelevant to physics. In this article, I challenge this assumption. I argue that even the fundamental physical question of whether a theory is deterministic - whether it fixes a unique future given the present - can depend on choice of set-theoretic axiom candidates over which there is deep disagreement. Suppose, as is customary, that a deterministic theory is one whose mathematical formulation yields a unique solution to …

Evidence for inverse Compton scattering in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies
I. H. Whittam, M. J. Jarvis, Eric J. Murphy, N. J. Adams, R. A. A. Bowler, A. Matthews, R. G. Varadaraj, C. L. Hale, I. Heywood, K. Knowles, L. Marchetti, N. Seymour, F. Tabatabaei, A. R. Taylor, M. Vaccari, A. Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06677

Evidence for inverse Compton scattering in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies
Radio continuum emission provides a unique opportunity to study star-formation unbiased by dust obscuration. However, if radio observations are to be used to accurately trace star-formation to high redshifts, it is crucial that the physical processes which affect the radio emission from star-forming galaxies are well understood. While inverse Compton (IC) losses from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are negligible in the local universe, the rapid increase in the strength of the CMB energy …

On lit beaucoup sur l’usage de l’IA générative des étudiant·e·s aux États-Unis, mais jusqu’ici je n’ai pas vu d’étude des usages dans le contexte suisse (romande).
La contribution de Hervé Barras et Natalie Sarrasin (« Usages de l’IA par des étudiants et conséquences pour l’enseignement ») dans cet ouvrage en open access est donc une lecture fortement intéressante face Š la rentrée universitaire…

On lit beaucoup sur l’usage de l’IA générative des étudiant·e·s aux États-Unis, mais jusqu’ici je n’ai pas vu d’étude des usages dans le contexte suisse (romande).
La contribution de Hervé Barras et Natalie Sarrasin (« Usages de l’IA par des étudiants et conséquences pour l’enseignement ») dans cet ouvrage en open access est donc une lecture fortement intéressante face Š la rentrée universitaire…

On lit beaucoup sur l’usage de l’IA générative des étudiant·e·s aux États-Unis, mais jusqu’ici je n’ai pas vu d’étude des usages dans le contexte suisse (romande).
La contribution de Hervé Barras et Natalie Sarrasin (« Usages de l’IA par des étudiants et conséquences pour l’enseignement ») dans cet ouvrage en open access est donc une lecture fortement intéressante face Š la rentrée universitaire…