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Interesting, PhantomCard, NFC-based fraude/malware.
https://www.threatfabric.com/blogs/phantomcard-new-nfc-driven-android-malware-emerging-in-brazil

PhantomCard: New NFC-driven Android malware emerging in Brazil 🇧🇷
PhantomCard is a sophisticated Android malware leveraging NFC relaying techniques.

Ein sehr lesenswerter Text von Herta Müller zur Lage im Nahen Osten:
#hertamuller

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Heartbreakers:
🎵 Chinese Rocks
#TheHeartbreakers
https://johnnythunderstheheartbreakers.bandcamp.com/track/chinese-rocks-yonkers-demo
https://open.spotify.com/track/0oXw08kbTaXumYDNV9gQWL

In a saner environment, we’d be having a reasonable conversation about that: in what ways, if any, can a machine that repeats contextual patterns with no sense of meaning augment humans thinking through tricky things? In ways can it mislead? When, if ever, is it worth the tradeoffs? the resource costs? etc etc.
Right now, the off-the-charts money and hype make that reasonable conversation impossible except perhaps in hushed corners. (Please do not have that argument in my replies. I am tired.)
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A Right-Wing Influencer Tried to Be a Tradwife. It Almost Broke Her. (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/opinion/lauren-southern-tradwife-maga.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p127#a250811p127

Treedepth and 2-treedepth in graphs with no long induced paths
J\k{e}drzej Hodor, Freddie Illingworth, Tomasz Mazur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04445 https://

Treedepth and 2-treedepth in graphs with no long induced paths
Huynh, Joret, Micek, Seweryn, and Wollan (Combinatorica, 2022) introduced a graph parameter, later referred to as 2-treedepth and denoted $\mathrm{td}_2(\cdot)$. The parameter is the natural 2-connected version of treedepth. For every graph, 2-treedepth is at most the treedepth but can be much smaller: long paths have arbitrary treedepth but 2-treedepth equal to 2. We prove a converse, showing that every graph $G$ with no induced path on $t$ vertices has treedepth less than $2 \cdot t^{\mathrm{…

If you want to try out #Piefed but don't like it's ui try out #Blorp. It's kinda similar to #Voyager but works with piefed. Voyager will also support Piefed soon.

Trade fodder? Cowboys could flip pending FA worth $10 million a year for position of need https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/12/jalen-tolbert-cowboys-most-tradeable-expendab…

Frequency-Assisted Adaptive Sharpening Scheme Considering Bitrate and Quality Tradeoff
Yingxue Pang, Shijie Zhao, Haiqiang Wang, Gen Zhan, Junlin Li, Li Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08854

Frequency-Assisted Adaptive Sharpening Scheme Considering Bitrate and Quality Tradeoff
Sharpening is a widely adopted technique to improve video quality, which can effectively emphasize textures and alleviate blurring. However, increasing the sharpening level comes with a higher video bitrate, resulting in degraded Quality of Service (QoS). Furthermore, the video quality does not necessarily improve with increasing sharpening levels, leading to issues such as over-sharpening. Clearly, it is essential to figure out how to boost video quality with a proper sharpening level while al…

On a planté un albizia il y a plus de 6 ans au centre du jardin. D'année en année, on l'a vu grand... Rapetisser, au gré des gels tardifs. Cette année, il a enfin dépassé sa taille initiale, affichant une taille impressionnante... D'1,20 m. Mais cette année, pour la première fois, il arbore ses premières fleurs. On atteindra encore un peu pour manger sous son ombre, mais le voir fleurir, ça n'a pas de prix...