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On Dec. 6, people across the United States marched.
They protested.
They carried banners:
No war on Venezuela.
No blood for oil.
US hands off Venezuela.
They chanted and waved Venezuelan flags.
Trump says he’s coming to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
-- He’s promised it’s only a matter of time.
The United States has amassed the largest military buildup in the Caribbean since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. 
But accordi…

Thousands march across US against Trump’s drive for war in Venezuela
Over the weekend, thousands of people protested in more than 65 cities across the United States against US intervention in Venezuela. This is episode 80 of Stories of Resistance.

I made connections between Frantz Fanon's idea of "psychic alienation" and Rollo May's view of the potentialities of power before realizing that they were contemporaries, both psychiatrists, and probably communicated with each other at some point in their lives
Then I remembered that Hannah Arendt and Isaac Asimov were ALSO contemporaries in the mid 20th century.
Of the four, it is wild to see how Asimov is so clearly outclassed in his understanding of human int…

The quantum communication power of indefinite causal order
Xuanqiang Zhao, Benchi Zhao, Giulio Chiribella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08507 https://arxiv.or…

The quantum communication power of indefinite causal order
Quantum theory is in principle compatible with scenarios where physical processes take place in an indefinite causal order, a possibility that was shown to yield advantages in several information processing tasks. However, advantages in communication, the most basic form of information processing, have so far remained controversial and hard to prove. Here we develop a framework that can be used to rigorously assess the role of causal order in a scenario where communication links are built by as…

The Greenland sea cables are probably being closely monitored, but redundancy seems minimal likely limited to OneWeb satellite connectivity and some VSAT links.
Looking at the routing side, AS8818 announces just two /19s and one /22 (and two /32s in IPv6) with a single upstream provider, Level 3 Inc. This suggests that Layer 3 redundancy is even more constrained.
I would have expected at least one EU-based provider as an additional upstream...
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Where to watch Patriots vs. Buccaneers: TV channel, live stream and preview for Week 10

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/where-to-watch-patriot…

Robust and Efficient Collaborative Learning
Abdellah El Mrini, Sadegh Farhadkhan, Rachid Guerraoui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08311 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Robust and Efficient Collaborative Learning
Collaborative machine learning is challenged by training-time adversarial behaviors. Existing approaches to tolerate such behaviors either rely on a central server or induce high communication costs. We propose Robust Pull-based Epidemic Learning (RPEL), a novel, scalable collaborative approach to ensure robust learning despite adversaries. RPEL does not rely on any central server and, unlike traditional methods, where communication costs grow in $\mathcal{O}(n^2)$ with the number of nodes $n$,…

Over-The-Air Phase Calibration of Spaceborne Phased Array for LEO Satellite Communications
Wei Zhang, Ding Chen, Bin Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08011 https://

Over-The-Air Phase Calibration of Spaceborne Phased Array for LEO Satellite Communications
To avoid the unpredictable phase deviations of the spaceborne phased array (SPA), this paper considers the over-the-air (OTA) phase calibration of the SPA for the low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications, where the phase deviations of the SPA and the unknown channel are jointly estimated with multiple transmissions of the pilots. Moreover, the Cramer Rao Bound (CRB) is derived, and the optimization of beam patterns is also presented to lower the root mean squared error (RMSE) of the OTA c…

@… coming after you? Where is this escalating from?

Coming of age during war, where mistakes can cost a life: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/04/coming-of-age-during-war.html

#DataRetention

Czechia illegally stored citizens’ phone data: here’s what it means
The ruling affects metadata from calls and texts, shows who communicated and where; lawmakers must revise rules, tightening access and protecting privacy.