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Explicit Min-wise Hash Families with Optimal Size
Xue Chen, Shengtang Huang, Xin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10431 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10431

Explicit Min-wise Hash Families with Optimal Size
We study explicit constructions of min-wise hash families and their extension to $k$-min-wise hash families. Informally, a min-wise hash family guarantees that for any fixed subset $X\subseteq[N]$, every element in $X$ has an equal chance to have the smallest value among all elements in $X$; a $k$-min-wise hash family guarantees this for every subset of size $k$ in $X$. Min-wise hash is widely used in many areas of computer science such as sketching, web page detection, and $\ell_0$ sampling. …

If you're using Chrome, don't use VPN extensions like FreeVPN.One unless you don't mind it taking screenshots of every website you visit. (Use VPNs like Mullvad or Proton)
https://cyberinsider.com/chrome-vpn-extension-with-100k-i…

Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit
FreeVPN.One, a verified Chrome extension with over 100k installs on the Chrome Web Store, is taking screenshots of sites users visit.

It's not Easy: Applying Supervised Machine Learning to Detect Malicious Extensions in the Chrome Web Store
Ben Rosenzweig, Valentino Dalla Valle, Giovanni Apruzzese, Aurore Fass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21590

It's not Easy: Applying Supervised Machine Learning to Detect Malicious Extensions in the Chrome Web Store
Google Chrome is the most popular Web browser. Users can customize it with extensions that enhance their browsing experience. The most well-known marketplace of such extensions is the Chrome Web Store (CWS). Developers can upload their extensions on the CWS, but such extensions are made available to users only after a vetting process carried out by Google itself. Unfortunately, some malicious extensions bypass such checks, putting the security and privacy of downstream browser extension users a…

Update on attempt to emulate a Shockwave Director web page: I have tried the DirPlayer Chrome extension but get this error:
"Could not deserialize 'VWCF' chunk"
I included both <object> and <embed> tags pointing to the same .dcr file. Does anyone have other emulators to recommend?

Iris RESTful Server and IrisTileSource: An Iris implementation for existing OpenSeaDragon viewers
Ryan Erik Landvater, Navin Kathawa, Mustafa Yousif MD, Ulysses Balis MD
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06615

Iris RESTful Server and IrisTileSource: An Iris implementation for existing OpenSeaDragon viewers
The Iris File Extension (IFE) is a low overhead performance-oriented whole slide image (WSI) file format designed to improve the image rendering experience for pathologists and simplify image management for system administrators. However, static hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) file servers cannot natively stream subregions of high-resolution image files, such as the IFE. The majority of contemporary WSI viewer systems are designed as browser-based web applications and leverage OpenSeaDragon …

is it just me, or did keyboard controls for video players stop working on macOS Safari a while ago? pressing k or space to pause works, but pressing again just jumps forward one frame or something instead of resuming. disabling all content blockers doesn't help & having the same problem on Nebula oO
EDIT: it was just me! I had the StopTheMadness For Web Apps extension active!

Deadline extension for #SeMatS2025
2nd Int. Workshop on Semantic Materials Science - Harnessing the Power of Semantic Web Technologies in Materials Science, co located at #ISWC2025
New Deadline: Aug 9, 2025, AoE
Please, spread the news and submit! :)

CodeGenLink: A Tool to Find the Likely Origin and License of Automatically Generated Code
Daniele Bifolco, Guido Annicchiarico, Pierluigi Barbiero, Massimiliano Di Penta, Fiorella Zampetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01077

CodeGenLink: A Tool to Find the Likely Origin and License of Automatically Generated Code
Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used in software development tasks nowadays. Unlike reusing code taken from the Web, for LLMs' generated code, developers are concerned about its lack of trustworthiness and possible copyright or licensing violations, due to the lack of code provenance information. This paper proposes CodeGenLink, a GitHub CoPilot extension for Visual Studio Code aimed at (i) suggesting links containing code very similar to automatically generated code, and (ii) whenever …

Improving Runtime Performance of Tensor Computations using Rust From Python
Kimmie Harding, Daniel M. Dunlavy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01495 https://arxi…

Improving Runtime Performance of Tensor Computations using Rust From Python
In this work, we investigate improving the runtime performance of key computational kernels in the Python Tensor Toolbox (pyttb), a package for analyzing tensor data across a wide variety of applications. Recent runtime performance improvements have been demonstrated using Rust, a compiled language, from Python via extension modules leveraging the Python C API -- e.g., web applications, data parsing, data validation, etc. Using this same approach, we study the runtime performance of key tensor …