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So Bitvise, the developer of an SSH client that competes with PuTTY, the widely-used open-source SSH and Telnet client, somehow got hold of the domain putty.org and is using it to promote its own products.
Here's how Bitvise responded to a tech blogger/journalist who wrote about this situation.
https://blog.pupred.…

WikiMixQA: A Multimodal Benchmark for Question Answering over Tables and Charts
Negar Foroutan, Angelika Romanou, Matin Ansaripour, Julian Martin Eisenschlos, Karl Aberer, R\'emi Lebret
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15594

WikiMixQA: A Multimodal Benchmark for Question Answering over Tables and Charts
Documents are fundamental to preserving and disseminating information, often incorporating complex layouts, tables, and charts that pose significant challenges for automatic document understanding (DU). While vision-language large models (VLLMs) have demonstrated improvements across various tasks, their effectiveness in processing long-context vision inputs remains unclear. This paper introduces WikiMixQA, a benchmark comprising 1,000 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) designed to evaluate cross-…

A hastily organised summit with unclear outcomes
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2kzn1nw1d4t?post=asset:7766b68f-32c0-4212-8b1e-c214a098d74b#post

Live updates: Trump meets Putin in Alaska for Ukraine talks
The US and Russian leaders exchanged two handshakes before travelling together in Trump's limo to the summit.

Numerical evaluation of deliberative discussions of the UK food system: stimuli, demographics, and opinion reversion
John Buckell, Thomas Hancock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14102 …

Numerical evaluation of deliberative discussions of the UK food system: stimuli, demographics, and opinion reversion
There is increasing acknowledgement - including from the UK government - of the benefit of employing deliberative processes (deliberative fora, citizens' juries, etc.). Evidence suggests that the qualitative reporting of deliberative fora are often unclear or imprecise. If this is the case, their value to policymakers could be diminished. In this study we develop numerical methods of deliberative processes to document people's preferences, as a complement to qualitative analysis. Data are taken…

Convergence to equilibrium for a class of exchange economies
R. S. MacKay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11770 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Convergence to equilibrium for a class of exchange economies
For a class of stochastic dynamical models of exchange economies that we call ``fully connected Cobb-Douglas'', the paper proves convergence of the probability distribution to an equilibrium, in total variation metric as time goes to infinity. The convergence is exponential and the equilibrium is determined uniquely by the number of agents, their ``exponents'', and the initial amounts of money and goods in the economy.

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NASA is looking for a CISO.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/839985100?mod=djemCybersecruityPro&tpl=cs

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)/Senior Agency Information Security Officer (SAISO)
The incumbent serves as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Senior Agency Information Security Officer (SAISO) leading the cybersecurity and privacy strategy and program implementation to protect NASA's missions and enterprise. Responsibilities include establishing strategy, policies, programs, and frameworks for the security of classified and unclassified information and information systems at NASA. Also, manages the Cybersecurity and Privacy Division within the Office of the CIO.

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International Criminal Court hit with cyber security attack
https://apnews.com/article/international-court-cyberattack-hague-netherlands-50ac8b2f53928fc1f05163c67b09c4bf

International Criminal Court hit with cyber security attack
The International Criminal Court says it has been hit by a “sophisticated” cyberattack. The court said Monday the incident, which happened last week, has been contained, but it has not disclosed the impact or motive. A court-wide analysis is underway, and measures are being taken to limit damage. The attack coincided with a NATO summit in The Hague, raising security concerns. The ICC, which handles high-profile war crimes cases, has faced espionage attempts in the past. It remains unclear i…

Culinary Crossroads: A RAG Framework for Enhancing Diversity in Cross-Cultural Recipe Adaptation
Tianyi Hu, Andrea Morales-Garz\'on, Jingyi Zheng, Maria Maistro, Daniel Hershcovich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21934

Culinary Crossroads: A RAG Framework for Enhancing Diversity in Cross-Cultural Recipe Adaptation
In cross-cultural recipe adaptation, the goal is not only to ensure cultural appropriateness and retain the original dish's essence, but also to provide diverse options for various dietary needs and preferences. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a promising approach, combining the retrieval of real recipes from the target cuisine for cultural adaptability with large language models (LLMs) for relevance. However, it remains unclear whether RAG can generate diverse adaptation results. Our a…