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https://www.wired.com/story/armed-guards-muscle-milk-senate-investigation-doge-takeover-details/
“A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essent…

Armed Guards and Muscle Milk: Senate Investigation Reveals DOGE Takeover Details
A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists.

Sources allege that nonprofit Ruby Central took control of some Ruby open-source projects from their maintainers without consent, after pressure from Shopify (Joel Drapper)
https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/

The MAGA base loves this so-called “crackdown.”
But not because it’s making D.C. safe.
They love that it’s making D.C. miserable.
They appear to know the victims of this charade aren’t criminals,
but ordinary people just trying to live their lives.
https://www.

MAGA knows DC takeover isn't about crime — which is why they love it
Trump's war on the Smithsonian reveals that this is about childish resentment, not safety

MAGA knows DC takeover isn't about crime — which is why they love it - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/25/maga-knows-dc-takeover-isnt-about-crime-which-is-why-they-love-it/

Spatio-Temporal Directed Graph Learning for Account Takeover Fraud Detection
Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi, William Andrew Byron, Xin Sun, Amirfarrokh Iranitalab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20339

Spatio-Temporal Directed Graph Learning for Account Takeover Fraud Detection
Account Takeover (ATO) fraud poses a significant challenge in consumer banking, requiring high recall under strict latency while minimizing friction for legitimate users. Production systems typically rely on tabular gradient-boosted decision trees (e.g., XGBoost) that score sessions independently, overlooking the relational and temporal structure of online activity that characterizes coordinated attacks and "fraud rings." We introduce ATLAS (Account Takeover Learning Across Spatio-Temporal Dire…

I wrote a few words about how I made the @… bot and what I learned as part of doing so.
I'd also love some feedback on the current alt-text-strategy!
#openstreetmap #panoramax
https://tzovar.as/panoramax-bot/

Examples of creative data visualizations, mostly ggplot: #ggplot #dataviz

“50 years ago we had solid engineering practice and none of that techbro bullshit!”
50 years ago: