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us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems - Windows 95 also being phased out
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/the-faa-seeks-to-eliminate-floppy-disk-usage-in-air-traffic-co…

FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems - Windows 95 also being phased out
Millions trust their lives daily to floppy disks and Windows 95.

Evolution of Cluster Alignments as Evidence of Large-scale Structure Formation in the Universe: #GalaxyClusters trace invisible highways of dark matter stretching up to a billion light years across the universe; even more remarkable, the clusters point the way to their neighbors.

Researchers: cybercriminals are increasingly turning from "bulletproof" hosts to "residential proxies" that disguise malicious traffic as normal online activity (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cybercriminals

Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight
In an effort to evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly turning to “residential proxy” services that cover their tracks by making it look like everyday online activity.

Wow. I guess that article* by @…
amounted to an advertisement for slimeball “residential proxy” vendors.
I have ~15 times as many *new* networks (by route) caught trying to get my users’ mail today than is normal. I’m up to blocking 4771 (includes some aggregation) and some days don’t get *ANY* new ones.
Today’s batch are from around th…

Cybercriminals turn to “residential proxy” services to hide malicious traffic
"You cannot technically distinguish which traffic in a node is bad and which traffic is good." For years, gray market services known as “bulletproof” …

Hunting in the Dark: Metrics for Early Stage Traffic Discovery
Max Gao, Michael Collins, Ricky Mok, kc Claffy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05213 https://

Hunting in the Dark: Metrics for Early Stage Traffic Discovery
Threat hunting is an operational security process where an expert analyzes traffic, applying knowledge and lightweight tools on unlabeled data in order to identify and classify previously unknown phenomena. In this paper, we examine threat hunting metrics and practice by studying the detection of Crackonosh, a cryptojacking malware package, has on various metrics for identifying its behavior. Using a metric for discoverability, we model the ability of defenders to measure Crackonosh traffic as …

TigAug: Data Augmentation for Testing Traffic Light Detection in Autonomous Driving Systems
You Lu, Dingji Wang, Kaifeng Huang, Bihuan Chen, Xin Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05932

TigAug: Data Augmentation for Testing Traffic Light Detection in Autonomous Driving Systems
Autonomous vehicle technology has been developed in the last decades with recent advances in sensing and computing technology. There is an urgent need to ensure the reliability and robustness of autonomous driving systems (ADSs). Despite the recent achievements in testing various ADS modules, little attention has been paid on the automated testing of traffic light detection models in ADSs. A common practice is to manually collect and label traffic light data. However, it is labor-intensive, and…

Got slammed by an unidentified but certainly "#AI"-related #distributed #crawler this week, it drove one site's traffic to 10× average. Today I tired of playing Whac-a-Mole and blocked the two bigge…

Trump blasts MAGA focus on Jeffrey Epstein after memo causes uproar | Crime News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/9/trump-blasts-maga-focus-on-jeffrey-epstein-after-memo-causes-uproar?traffic_source=rss

Dynamic Campus Origin-Destination Mobility Prediction using Graph Convolutional Neural Network on WiFi Logs
Godwin Badu-Marfo, Bilal Farooq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05507

Dynamic Campus Origin-Destination Mobility Prediction using Graph Convolutional Neural Network on WiFi Logs
We present an integrated graph-based neural networks architecture for predicting campus buildings occupancy and inter-buildings movement at dynamic temporal resolution that learns traffic flow patterns from Wi-Fi logs combined with the usage schedules within the buildings. The relative traffic flows are directly estimated from the WiFi data without assuming the occupant behaviour or preferences while maintaining individual privacy. We formulate the problem as a data-driven graph structure repre…

A Distributed Consensus Algorithm for Autonomous Vehicles Deciding Entering Orders on Intesections without Traffic Signals
Younjeong Lee, Young Yoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03486

A Distributed Consensus Algorithm for Autonomous Vehicles Deciding Entering Orders on Intesections without Traffic Signals
We propose a methodology for connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to determine their passing priority at unsignalized intersections where they coexist with human-driven vehicles (HVs). Assuming that CAVs can perceive the entry order of surrounding vehicles using computer vision technology and are capable of avoiding collisions, we introduce a voting-based distributed consensus algorithm inspired by Raft to resolve tie-breaking among simultaneously arriving CAVs. The algorithm is structured arou…

We need to develop good practices for bots and crawlers that are acceptable for all parties involved. Otherwise AI will suffocate the open web.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/keeping-web-under-weight-ai-crawlers

Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers
If you run a site on the open web, chances are you've noticed a big increase in traffic over the past few months, whether or not your site has been getting more viewers, and you're not alone. Operators everywhere have observed a drastic increase in automated traffic—bots—and in most cases attribute...

Ich muss sagen, Mapy (https://mapy.com) find ich wirklich eine nette auf OpenStreetMap aufsetzende ~App. Routen planen und finden scheint leicht zu gehen.
Bei Locations (Suche) wird es dann aber schon leider wieder wenig. Wäre cool, wenn einfach alles aus

Bike lane closed due to goose traffic jam 🦆
#Frankfurt #mdRzA #urbanwildlife

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

https://www.wired.com/story/cybercriminals-are-hiding-malicious-web-traffic-in-plain-sight/
Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight

Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight
In an effort to evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly turning to “residential proxy” services that cover their tracks by making it look like everyday online activity.

Beyond Advertising: Mechanism Design for Platform-Wide Marketing Service "QuanZhanTui"
Ningyuan Li, Zhilin Zhang, Tianyan Long, Yuyao Liu, Rongquan Bai, Yurong Chen, Xiaotie Deng, Pengjie Wang, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02931

Beyond Advertising: Mechanism Design for Platform-Wide Marketing Service "QuanZhanTui"
On e-commerce platforms, sellers typically bid for impressions from ad traffic to promote their products. However, for most sellers, the majority of their sales come from organic traffic. Consequently, the relationship between their ad spending and total sales remains uncertain, resulting in operational inefficiency. To address this issue, e-commerce platforms have recently introduced a novel platform-wide marketing service known as QuanZhanTui, which has reportedly enhanced marketing efficienc…

$\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$: Dual-Conditional Deep Generation of Network Traffic Data for Network Intrusion Detection System Balancing
Yifan Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05844

$\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$: Dual-Conditional Deep Generation of Network Traffic Data for Network Intrusion Detection System Balancing
Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) face challenges due to class imbalance, affecting their ability to detect novel and rare attacks. This paper proposes a Dual-Conditional Batch Normalization Variational Autoencoder ($\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$) for generating balanced and labeled network traffic data. $\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$ improves the model's adaptability to different data categories and generates realistic category-specific data by incorporating Conditional Batch Normalization (C…

Color me unsurprised.
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/114823551288713925

ICC arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over alleged persecution of women | Women's Rights News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/8/icc-arrest-warrants-for-taliban-leaders-over-alleged-persecution-of-women?traffic_source=rss

A connected network for whom?
About a year ago, I helped move some young relatives in and out of Boston, one leaving Chinatown, the other moving in on September 1 (locally, the day when most of the students renting in the area move in; it causes predictably awful traffic and parking problems).  Because of the parking problems, I did most of this help using a bicycle with a 300lb capacity.  

A connected network for whom?
About a year ago, I helped move some young relatives in and out of Boston, one leaving Chinatown, the other moving in on September 1 (locally, the day when most of the students renting in the area …

Twenty-Five Years of the Intelligent Driver Model: Foundations, Extensions, Applications, and Future Directions
Shirui Zhou, Shiteng Zheng, Junfang Tian, Rui Jiang, and H. M. Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05909

Twenty-Five Years of the Intelligent Driver Model: Foundations, Extensions, Applications, and Future Directions
The Intelligent Driver Model (IDM), proposed in 2000, has become a foundational tool in traffic flow modeling, renowned for its simplicity, computational efficiency, and ability to capture diverse traffic dynamics. Over the past 25 years, IDM has significantly advanced car-following theory and found extensive application in intelligent transportation systems, including driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicle control. However, IDM's deterministic framework and simplified assumptions fac…

History Extra podcast: The Scottish Enlightenment: everything you wanted to know
Episode webpage: http://www.historyextra.com/
Media file:

From Marginal to Joint Predictions: Evaluating Scene-Consistent Trajectory Prediction Approaches for Automated Driving
Fabian Konstantinidis, Ariel Dallari Guerreiro, Raphael Trumpp, Moritz Sackmann, Ulrich Hofmann, Marco Caccamo, Christoph Stiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05254

From Marginal to Joint Predictions: Evaluating Scene-Consistent Trajectory Prediction Approaches for Automated Driving
Accurate motion prediction of surrounding traffic participants is crucial for the safe and efficient operation of automated vehicles in dynamic environments. Marginal prediction models commonly forecast each agent's future trajectories independently, often leading to sub-optimal planning decisions for an automated vehicle. In contrast, joint prediction models explicitly account for the interactions between agents, yielding socially and physically consistent predictions on a scene level. However…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18776 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csOH_…

Quantum Annealing-Enhanced Virtual Traffic Lights and its Evaluation Using a Quantum-in-the-Loop Simulation Testbed
Virtual Traffic Light (VTL) is a traffic control method that does not require traffic signal-related infrastructure for roadway intersections. Connected vehicles (CVs) are given right-of-way based on prevailing traffic conditions, such as estimated times of arrival (ETAs) of vehicles, the number of CVs in different approaches, and their emissions. These factors are considered in line with the objectives of the VTL application. Aiming to optimize traffic flow by reducing delays, VTL generates Si…

Iran says Israeli ‘treasure trove’ of secret documents to be unveiled soon | Politics News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/8/iran-says-israeli-treasure-trove-of-secret-documents-to-be-unveiled-soon?traffic_source=rss

LeAD: The LLM Enhanced Planning System Converged with End-to-end Autonomous Driving
Yuhang Zhang, Jiaqi Liu, Chengkai Xu, Peng Hang, Jian Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05754

LeAD: The LLM Enhanced Planning System Converged with End-to-end Autonomous Driving
A principal barrier to large-scale deployment of urban autonomous driving systems lies in the prevalence of complex scenarios and edge cases. Existing systems fail to effectively interpret semantic information within traffic contexts and discern intentions of other participants, consequently generating decisions misaligned with skilled drivers' reasoning patterns. We present LeAD, a dual-rate autonomous driving architecture integrating imitation learning-based end-to-end (E2E) frameworks with l…

observing the (approximate) 55th anniversary of the disastrous/canceled powder ridge festival by sitting in traffic in #connecticut.

Avoid the word "pedestrian." You marginalize a basic human activity when you give it a four-syllable Greek-derived name.
Say walk, on foot, foot traffic whenever you can.

What they don't say (but is clear to all):
In order to protect themselves against the US.
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/114654374046615933

Why is My Route Different Today? An Algorithm for Explaining Route Selection
Aaron Schild, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Anupam Gupta, Kostas Kollias, Ali Sinop
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05604

Why is My Route Different Today? An Algorithm for Explaining Route Selection
Users of routing services like Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Waze frequently wonder why a given route is proposed. This question particularly arises when dynamic conditions like traffic and road closures cause unusual routes to be proposed. While many dynamic conditions may exist in a road network at any time, only a small fraction of those conditions are typically relevant to a given user's route. In this work, we introduce the concept of a simple valid explanation (SVE), which consists of a sm…

Global Optimization of Multi-Flyby Trajectories for Multi-Orbital-Plane Constellations Inspection
An-Yi Huang, Hong-Xin Shen, Zhao Li, Cong Sun, Chao Sheng, Zheng-Zhong Kuai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02943

Global Optimization of Multi-Flyby Trajectories for Multi-Orbital-Plane Constellations Inspection
The rapid expansion of mega-constellations in low Earth orbits has posed significant challenges to space traffic management, necessitating periodic inspections of satellites to ensure the sustainability of the space environment when economically feasible. This study addresses the orbital design challenge associated with inspecting numerous satellites distributed across multiple orbital planes through flybys by proposing an innovative orbital-plane-based inspection strategy. The proposed methodo…

On-Demand Multimedia Delivery in 6G: An Optimal-Cost Steiner Tree Approach
Zien Wang, Xiucheng Wang, Nan Cheng, Wenchao Xu, Wei Quan, Ruijin Sun, Conghao Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04589

On-Demand Multimedia Delivery in 6G: An Optimal-Cost Steiner Tree Approach
The exponential growth of multimedia data traffic in 6G networks poses unprecedented challenges for immersive communication, where ultra-high-definition, multi-quality streaming must be delivered on demand while minimizing network operational costs. Traditional routing approaches, such as shortest-path algorithms, fail to optimize flow multiplexing across multiple destinations, while conventional Steiner tree methods cannot accommodate heterogeneous quality-of-service (QoS) requirements-a criti…

Junk-Traffic-Flut: Rekord-DDoS-Angriff auf Provider mit 7,3 TBit/s
Groß angelegte DDoS-Attacken werden immer heftiger. Cloudflare meldet einen Angriff mit einer Datenmenge von 7,3 Terabit pro Sekunde auf einen Host-Provider.

Finally got to ride a double-decker bus! The people, they look like ants down there. #BusStuff

A global urban road network self-adaptive simplification workflow from traffic to spatial representation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05164-9
Data for 35 cities. Looks similar to the neatnet method

A global urban road network self-adaptive simplification workflow from traffic to spatial representation - Scientific Data
Urban road network is crucial for understanding and revealing the spatial logic of urban organization and evolution. However, existing urban road network datasets like OpenStreetMap are designed for traffic studies, treating each lane as a distinct spatial unit of mobility, which may not align with urban studies considering each road as an integration space for social and cultural dynamics. This study established a novel workflow to self-adaptively transform the global urban road network from t…

Valencia Street desperately needs wider sidewalks: they're absurdly substandard for the pedestrian traffic they carry. But there’s no plan for that, so the city is about to plant a new tree here that will then be an obstacle in the middle of the sidewalk when finally widened 🫠

In *today's* #WatchDogsLegion was a prophecy, not a video game:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/beekeeper-unleashed-a-swarm-of-b…

Beekeeper Unleashed a Swarm of Bees on Police During Traffic Stop
A routine seatbelt stop turned into an insect ambush when a 70-year-old beekeeper allegedly sicced his bees on two traffic officers...

Flow-Attentional Graph Neural Networks
Pascal Plettenberg, Dominik K\"ohler, Bernhard Sick, Josephine M. Thomas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06127 https…

Flow-Attentional Graph Neural Networks
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become essential for learning from graph-structured data. However, existing GNNs do not consider the conservation law inherent in graphs associated with a flow of physical resources, such as electrical current in power grids or traffic in transportation networks, which can lead to reduced model performance. To address this, we propose flow attention, which adapts existing graph attention mechanisms to satisfy Kirchhoffś first law. Furthermore, we discuss how t…

STSBench: A Spatio-temporal Scenario Benchmark for Multi-modal Large Language Models in Autonomous Driving
Christian Fruhwirth-Reisinger, Du\v{s}an Mali\'c, Wei Lin, David Schinagl, Samuel Schulter, Horst Possegger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06218

STSBench: A Spatio-temporal Scenario Benchmark for Multi-modal Large Language Models in Autonomous Driving
We introduce STSBench, a scenario-based framework to benchmark the holistic understanding of vision-language models (VLMs) for autonomous driving. The framework automatically mines pre-defined traffic scenarios from any dataset using ground-truth annotations, provides an intuitive user interface for efficient human verification, and generates multiple-choice questions for model evaluation. Applied to the NuScenes dataset, we present STSnu, the first benchmark that evaluates the spatio-temporal …

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall, a Google Ad Manager tool to help publishers generate revenue beyond ads, including via micropayments (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-a

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue | TechCrunch
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.

Effect of the Gotthard Base Tunnel:
👉 a modest but statistically significant decline in the number of cars 🚗
👉 a substantial induced rail demand effect resulting from the travel time savings 🚅
Conclusion by the authors:
on such touristic routes, road and rail transport are not perfect substitutes
My personal conclusion:
👉 Modal shift needs push & pull measures
👉 Without other measures (pricing, reduced capacity, slowing), adding capacity only increas…

The Effect of the Gotthard Base Tunnel on Road Traffic: A Synthetic Control Approach
The opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in 2017, the longest railway tunnel in the world, marked a milestone in Swiss transport policy. The tunnel, a part of the New Rail Link through the Alps, serves as a key instrument of the so-called "modal shift policy," which aims to transfer transalpine freight traffic from road to rail. The reduction in travel time by train between northern and southern Switzerland raised expectations that a substantial share of tourist-oriented passenger traffic would …

I don’t know if it’s true, but it feels true. About 80% of traffic to ASP.NET is caused by the auto-linking of the name.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.RO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/new
[1/2]:
- On the Robotic Uncertainty of Fully Autonomous Traffic: From Stochastic Car-Following to Mobility...
Hangyu Li, Xiaotong Sun, Chenglin Zhuang, Xiaopeng Li

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

From Translink
Partial closures on Pattullo Bridge coming next week
Bridge closed northbound for one night and southbound for two nights

The Pattullo Bridge will be partially closed to traffic three nights in a row next week so crews can perform scheduled maintenance work.
Monday June 9 9pm to 5am closed Northbound
Tuesday June 10 9pm to 5am closed
Southbound
Wednesday June 11 9pm to 5am closed Southbound
1/2

Color me cynical, but I wonder if Google, like Cloudflare and Fastly, will soon be announcing its own AI crawling traffic monetization scheme for all you content creators. Everyone gonna want their cut?

Adaptive Traffic-Following Scheme for Orderly Distributed Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems
Anahita Jain, Husni Idris, John-Paul Clarke, Daniel Delahaye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00703

Adaptive Traffic-Following Scheme for Orderly Distributed Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems
We present an adaptive control scheme to enable the emergence of order within distributed, autonomous multi-agent systems. Past studies showed that under high-density conditions, order generated from traffic-following behavior reduces travel times, while under low densities, choosing direct paths is more beneficial. In this paper, we leveraged those findings to allow aircraft to independently and dynamically adjust their degree of traffic-following behavior based on the current state of the air…

I wish all these people would just hurry up and die.
- Joni Ernst stuck in traffic

49ers CB Deommodore Lenoir arrested after officers allege obstruction of justice in traffic stop

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-c

Out of the Past: An AI-Enabled Pipeline for Traffic Simulation from Noisy, Multimodal Detector Data and Stakeholder Feedback
Rex Chen, Karen Wu, John McCartney, Norman Sadeh, Fei Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21349

Out of the Past: An AI-Enabled Pipeline for Traffic Simulation from Noisy, Multimodal Detector Data and Stakeholder Feedback
How can a traffic simulation be designed to faithfully reflect real-world traffic conditions? Past data-driven approaches to traffic simulation in the literature have relied on unrealistic or suboptimal heuristics. They also fail to adequately account for the effects of uncertainty and multimodality in the data on simulation outcomes. In this work, we integrate advances in AI to construct a three-step, end-to-end pipeline for generating a traffic simulation from detector data: computer vision f…

TSMC CEO C. C. Wei blames worsening traffic for delays in expanding its new Japan facility, and reaffirms plans to spend $100B in Arizona in the next five years (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

‘We do this to survive’: Harvesting opium poppies in Myanmar’s Shan State | Drugs News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/6/7/we-do-this-to-survive-harvesting-opium-poppies-in-myanmars-shan-state?traffic_source=rss

Pegasus: A Universal Framework for Scalable Deep Learning Inference on the Dataplane
Yinchao Zhang, Su Yao, Yong Feng, Kang Chen, Tong Li, Zhuotao Liu, Yi Zhao, Lexuan Zhang, Xiangyu Gao, Feng Xiong, Qi Li, Ke Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05779

Pegasus: A Universal Framework for Scalable Deep Learning Inference on the Dataplane
The paradigm of Intelligent DataPlane (IDP) embeds deep learning (DL) models on the network dataplane to enable intelligent traffic analysis at line-speed. However, the current use of the match-action table (MAT) abstraction on the dataplane is misaligned with DL inference, leading to several key limitations, including accuracy degradation, limited scale, and lack of generality. This paper proposes Pegasus to address these limitations. Pegasus translates DL operations into three dataplane-orien…

Urban Solitude 🈳
城市孤独 🈳
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan SS, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Now you understand the slogan "Death to the IDF".
Israeli air strikes kill dozens in Gaza amid worsening humanitarian crisis | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/2…

Israeli air strikes kill dozens in Gaza amid worsening humanitarian crisis
Calls for ceasefire grow as US and Israeli leaders discuss potential truce amid escalating violence in Gaza.

H'mmm... My @forgejo instance has been hit very hard last night by AI crawlers, including from
* https://openai.com/gptbot (125,467 hits in 24 hours)
*

#Google verabschiedet sich von der klassischen #Websuche: KI-Systeme wie ChatGPT & Perplexity liefern direkte Antworten, ohne Traffic weiterzuleiten. Newsletter, Podcasts, Communities: Direkte Leserbindung wird im KI-Zeitalter zur Überlebensstrategie. Wer seine Inhalte nicht für KI optimiert und…

‘Open prison’: The forced labour driving India’s $5 trillion economy dream | Labour Rights | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/6/7/open-prison-the-forced-labour-driving-indias-5-trillion-economy-dream?traffic_source=rss

CityPulse: Real-Time Traffic Data Analytics and Congestion Prediction
Idriss Djiofack Teledjieu, Irzum Shafique
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01971 https://…

CityPulse: Real-Time Traffic Data Analytics and Congestion Prediction
CityPulse is a proof-of-concept big data pipeline designed to enable real-time urban mobility analytics using scalable, containerized components -- without reliance on physical sensor infrastructure. The system simulates the ingestion of 11 million traffic-related records representing urban phenomena such as vehicle congestion, GPS coordinates, and weather conditions. Data is ingested through a Dockerized Apache Kafka cluster, coordinated by ZooKeeper, and processed in real time using Apache Sp…

this *sounds* like SFMTA agreed to painting full 20-foot red curbs at every intersection, rather than the mere 10 feet at stop-controlled intersections that has been traffic engineer Ricardo Olea's policy. if so, good! parent organizing worked!
https://www.k…

SFMTA Coming Up Short on Daylighting SF’s Red Curbs, Parents Say
San Francisco’s transit agency says it will change its daylighting policy to ensure compliance with a California traffic safety law intended to protect pedestrians and cyclists.

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 3210 nodes and 6157 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Minimizing Ray Tracing Memory Traffic through Quantized Structures and Ray Stream Tracing
Moritz Grauer, Johannes Hanika, Carsten Dachsbacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24653

Minimizing Ray Tracing Memory Traffic through Quantized Structures and Ray Stream Tracing
Memory bandwidth constraints continue to be a significant limiting factor in ray tracing performance, particularly as scene complexity grows and computational capabilities outpace memory access speeds. This paper presents a memory-efficient ray tracing methodology that integrates compressed data structures with ray stream techniques to reduce memory traffic. The approach implements compressed BVH and triangle representations to minimize acceleration structure size in combination with ray stream…

I have contributed a public statement in the currently open consultation on EU data retention plans: https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/on-mass-data-retention/
You might want to do so as well.

On data retention laws: Why this is (still) not a good balance between mass surveillance and law enforcement | René Mayrhofer
The latest effort to legalize mass data retention of communication traffic metadata is still problematic. I try to make my most pressing argument why the balance between preventing harm and causing potential harm is not met.

A Reliable Vertical Federated Learning Framework for Traffic State Estimation with Data Selection and Incentive Mechanisms
Zijun Zhan, Yaxian Dong, Daniel Mawunyo Doe, Yuqing Hu, Shuai Li, Shaohua Cao, Zhu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01285

A Reliable Vertical Federated Learning Framework for Traffic State Estimation with Data Selection and Incentive Mechanisms
Vertical Federated Learning (VFL)-based Traffic State Estimation (TSE) offers a promising approach for integrating vertically distributed traffic data from municipal authorities (MA) and mobility providers (MP) while safeguarding privacy. However, given the variations in MPs' data collection capabilities and the potential for MPs to underperform in data provision, we propose a reliable VFL-based TSE framework that ensures model reliability during training and operation. The proposed framework c…

Maryland DOT launches new policy of quick-fix road diets with paint & plastic "bollards" after initial test projects work well. Approach is try it for 6-9 months and see if it works in place of long studies.
https://www.

Maryland plans more ‘quick build’ road safety changes, citing success across state
Planners have a menu of traffic calming measures to consider for each site.

Everybody complaining about getting hammered with #AI traffic seems to think that these are crawlers scraping for training data.
How likely is it that this is a complete misconception and this is all inference time?
Most public companies give their cralwers and RAG agents different user agent strings. But what about security services trawling through their data?

The railway I need for commuting is closed for the next couple of weeks. So I commuted by car the first time since ages.
I won't become a fan of commuting by car. The fact that I need to concentrate on the traffic is so utterly annoying 😒

Latent Factorization of Tensors with Threshold Distance Weighted Loss for Traffic Data Estimation
Lei Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22441 https://…

Latent Factorization of Tensors with Threshold Distance Weighted Loss for Traffic Data Estimation
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) rely heavily on complete and high-quality spatiotemporal traffic data to achieve optimal performance. Nevertheless, in real-word traffic data collection processes, issues such as communication failures and sensor malfunctions often lead to incomplete or corrupted datasets, thereby posing significant challenges to the advancement of ITS. Among various methods for imputing missing spatiotemporal traffic data, the latent factorization of tensors (LFT) model…

Enhancing Car-Following Models with Bike Dynamics for Improved Traffic Simulation
Nico Ostendorf, Keno Garlichs, Lars Wolf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00062

Enhancing Car-Following Models with Bike Dynamics for Improved Traffic Simulation
Road traffic simulations are crucial for establishing safe and efficient traffic environments. They are used to test various road applications before real-world implementation. SUMO is a well-known simulator for road networks and intermodal traffic, often used in conjunction with other tools to test various types of applications. Realistic simulations require accurate movement models for different road users, such as cars, bicycles, and buses. While realistic models are already implemented for …

Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic to their sites (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall, a Google Ad Manager tool to help publishers generate revenue beyond ads, including via micropayments (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-a

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue | TechCrunch
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.

Nonlinear Oscillatory Response of Automated Vehicle Car-following: Theoretical Analysis with Traffic State and Control Input Limits
Sixu Li, Yang Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24029

Nonlinear Oscillatory Response of Automated Vehicle Car-following: Theoretical Analysis with Traffic State and Control Input Limits
This paper presents a framework grounded in the theory of describing function (DF) and incremental-input DF to theoretically analyze the nonlinear oscillatory response of automated vehicles (AVs) car-following (CF) amidst traffic oscillations, considering the limits of traffic state and control input. While prevailing approaches largely ignore these limits (i.e., saturation of acceleration/deceleration and speed) and focus on linear string stability analysis, this framework establishes a basis …

A Comprehensive Survey on Network Traffic Synthesis: From Statistical Models to Deep Learning
Nirhoshan Sivaroopan, Kaushitha Silva, Chamara Madarasingha, Thilini Dahanayaka, Guillaume Jourjon, Anura Jayasumana, Kanchana Thilakarathna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01976

A Comprehensive Survey on Network Traffic Synthesis: From Statistical Models to Deep Learning
Synthetic network traffic generation has emerged as a promising alternative for various data-driven applications in the networking domain. It enables the creation of synthetic data that preserves real-world characteristics while addressing key challenges such as data scarcity, privacy concerns, and purity constraints associated with real data. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive review of synthetic network traffic generation approaches, covering essential aspects such as data types, gene…

Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic to their sites (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Google told publishers it is hiring new staff to market its ad tech to big advertisers and ad agencies, signaling a renewed focus on publisher ad tech (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google Tries to Win Over Publishers Amid AI Search Tensions
Google’s relations with publishers have suffered lately, as its shift to AI-powered searches has hurt traffic being sent to publishers’ web sites. But Google is now taking steps to curry favor with publishers. In recent weeks, Google staffers on its ad tech unit that helps publishers sell ad ...

Detecting Switching Attacks On Traffic Flow Regulation For Changing Driving Patterns
Sanchita Ghosh, Tanushree Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23033 https:/…

Detecting Switching Attacks On Traffic Flow Regulation For Changing Driving Patterns
Modern traffic management systems increasingly adopt hierarchical control strategies for improved efficiency and scalability, where a local traffic controller mode is chosen by a supervisory controller based on the changing large-scale driving patterns. Unfortunately, such local metering controllers are also vulnerable to cyberattacks that can disrupt the controller switching, leading to undesired, inefficient, and even unsafe traffic operations. Additionally, the detection of such attacks beco…

A Model-Data Dual-Driven Resource Allocation Scheme for IREE Oriented 6G Networks
Tao Yu, Simin Wang, Shunqing Zhang, Xiaojing Chen, Zi Xu, Xin Wang, Jiandong Li, Junyu Liu, Sihai Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03508

A Model-Data Dual-Driven Resource Allocation Scheme for IREE Oriented 6G Networks
The rapid and substantial fluctuations in wireless network capacity and traffic demand, driven by the emergence of 6G technologies, have exacerbated the issue of traffic-capacity mismatch, raising concerns about wireless network energy consumption. To address this challenge, we propose a model-data dual-driven resource allocation (MDDRA) algorithm aimed at maximizing the integrated relative energy efficiency (IREE) metric under dynamic traffic conditions. Unlike conventional model-driven or dat…

Hey NY, let Eric Adams know that he's a piece of shit.. er, wait, sorry, I meant let him know that making ebikes limited to 15mph (not the motor speed, but literally pedaling faster than 15mph) with *criminal* charges if you go faster is a terrible idea. Cars will still have a 25mph (or more) speed limit, only ebikes will be criminally charged for keeping up with car traffic on the road.
#NYC

E-Bike Rule — Transportation Alternatives
Biking is not a crime, but Mayor Adams wants it to be.

‘Going hungry’: More than 700 Palestinians killed seeking aid in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/5/going-hungry-more-than-700-palestinians-killed-seeking-aid-in-gaza?traffic_source=rss

Why the EU should choose China over the US | European Union | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/6/20/why-the-eu-should-choose-china-over-the-us?traffic_source=rss

Why the EU should choose China over the US
EU interests may no longer be best served by alliance with US – especially under Trump’s increasingly dangerous agenda.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03568 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Confidence-Guided Human-AI Collaboration: Reinforcement Learning with Distributional Proxy Value Propagation for Autonomous Driving
Autonomous driving promises significant advancements in mobility, road safety and traffic efficiency, yet reinforcement learning and imitation learning face safe-exploration and distribution-shift challenges. Although human-AI collaboration alleviates these issues, it often relies heavily on extensive human intervention, which increases costs and reduces efficiency. This paper develops a confidence-guided human-AI collaboration (C-HAC) strategy to overcome these limitations. First, C-HAC employ…

Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation via Discrepancy-Weighted Experience Replay
Xinrun Xu, Jianwen Yang, Qiuhong Zhang, Zhanbiao Lian, Zhiming Ding, Shan Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00042

Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation via Discrepancy-Weighted Experience Replay
Continually adapting edge models in cloud-edge collaborative object detection for traffic monitoring suffers from catastrophic forgetting, where models lose previously learned knowledge when adapting to new data distributions. This is especially problematic in dynamic traffic environments characterised by periodic variations (e.g., day/night, peak hours), where past knowledge remains valuable. Existing approaches like experience replay and visual prompts offer some mitigation, but struggle to e…

Sources: Google told publishers it is hiring new staff to market its ad tech to big advertisers and ad agencies, signaling a renewed focus on publisher ad tech (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google Tries to Win Over Publishers Amid AI Search Tensions
Google’s relations with publishers have suffered lately, as its shift to AI-powered searches has hurt traffic being sent to publishers’ web sites. But Google is now taking steps to curry favor with publishers. In recent weeks, Google staffers on its ad tech unit that helps publishers sell ad ...

Exploring Traffic Simulation and Cybersecurity Strategies Using Large Language Models
Lu Gao, Yongxin Liu, Hongyun Chen, Dahai Liu, Yunpeng Zhang, Jingran Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16699

Exploring Traffic Simulation and Cybersecurity Strategies Using Large Language Models
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyberattacks due to their complex, interconnected nature. Ensuring the cybersecurity of these systems is paramount to maintaining road safety and minimizing traffic disruptions. This study presents a novel multi-agent framework leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance traffic simulation and cybersecurity testing. The framework automates the creation of traffic scenarios, the design of cyberattack str…

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

The Daily Beast says Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling Google referral traffic; Vox CEO says OpenAI is a good partner but still undervalues content (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Daily Beast gains on Reddit and Facebook as Google traffic falls
Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling referral traffic from Google for the Daily Beast, Cannes Lions event hears.

Comparison of Rochester with Buffalo shows why cities should remove, not underground, their bad highways.
Draws one good lesson & one bad one:
Yes, plan in advance for what you want to do.
No, don't try to "build consensus". Build support. Consensus-seeking doesn't avoid "paralysis by analysis," it creates it.

Rochester gave up on a highway and filled it in. Should Baltimore?
Rochester gave up lanes of highway traffic to turn a trench into green space — and wants to do more.

One tick and ‘anti-Semitic’ fruit: The curse of being Palestinian | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/4/one-tick-and-anti-semitic-fruit-the-curse-of-being-palestinian?traffic_source=rss

Coordinated Control of Autonomous Vehicles for Traffic Density Reduction at a Signalized Junction: An MPC Approach
Rudra Sen, Subashish Datta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21302

Coordinated Control of Autonomous Vehicles for Traffic Density Reduction at a Signalized Junction: An MPC Approach
The effective and safe management of traffic is a key issue due to the rapid advancement of the urban transportation system. Connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) possess the capability to connect with each other and adjacent infrastructure, presenting novel opportunities for enhancing traffic flow and coordination. This work proposes a dual-mode model predictive control (MPC) architecture that tackles two interrelated issues: mitigating traffic density at signalized junctions and facilitating s…

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Similarweb: since the launch of Google's AI Overviews, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs grew from 56% in May 2024 to 69% in May 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/chat

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines | TechCrunch
Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024 to now under 1.7 billion.

Google pulls 352 apps from the Play Store that were part of an ad fraud scheme behind 1.5B daily bid requests and whose estimated impact is in the seven-figures (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/google

Google Wipes 350 Android Apps Tied to Ad Fraud Driving 1.5B Daily Bid Requests
Traffic generated by the IconAds scheme primarily originated from Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S.

Geminet: Learning the Duality-based Iterative Process for Lightweight Traffic Engineering in Changing Topologies
Ximeng Liu, Shizhen Zhao, Xinbing Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23640

Geminet: Learning the Duality-based Iterative Process for Lightweight Traffic Engineering in Changing Topologies
Recently, researchers have explored ML-based Traffic Engineering (TE), leveraging neural networks to solve TE problems traditionally addressed by optimization. However, existing ML-based TE schemes remain impractical: they either fail to handle topology changes or suffer from poor scalability due to excessive computational and memory overhead. To overcome these limitations, we propose Geminet, a lightweight and scalable ML-based TE framework that can handle changing topologies. Geminet is built…

‘Restricted’: Nearly 7 billion people worldwide lack full civil rights | Freedom of the Press News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/2/restricted-nearly-7-billion-people-worldwide-lack-full-civil-rights?traffic_source=rss

Characterization of latency and jitter in TSN emulation
\'Alex Gracia, Jos\'e Luis Briz, H\'ector Blanco-Alcaine, Juan Segarra, Alitzel G. Torres-Mac\'ias, Antonio Ram\'irez-Trevi\~no
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02133

Characterization of latency and jitter in TSN emulation
This research focuses on timestamping methods for profiling network traffic in software-based environments. Accurate timestamping is crucial for evaluating network performance, particularly in Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN). We explore and compare four timestamping techniques within a TSN emulation context, though its findings extend to other network scenarios. The study leverages the Mininet emulator to model TSN networks, defining hosts, bridges, links, and traffic streams. It characterizes …

Video: Israeli drone kills Palestinian carrying sack of flour | Crime | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/6/30/video-israeli-drone-kills-palestinian-carrying-sack-of-flour?traffic_source=rss

Norwegian pension fund divests from companies selling to Israeli military | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/30/norwegian-pension-fund-divests-from-companies-selling-to-israeli-military?traffic_source=rss

At least 66 children dead of malnutrition in Gaza as Israel tightens siege | Israel-Iran conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/29/at-least-66-children-dead-of-malnutrition-in-gaza-as-israel-tightens-siege?traffic_source=rss

Ukraine says drones destroyed Russia’s helicopters, air defences in Crimea | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/28/ukraine-says-drones-destroyed-russias-helicopters-air-defences-in-crimea?traffic_source=rss