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Qualcomm releases patches to fix a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips, including three zero-days that "may be under limited, targeted exploitation" (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/phon

Phone chipmaker Qualcomm fixes three zero-days exploited by hackers | TechCrunch
Google's Threat Analysis Group, which investigates government-backed hacks, was credited with the discovery of the zero-days.

"Only two European states have net zero military emissions target, data shows"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Emissions

Domination and Total Domination Numbers in Zero-divisor Graphs of Commutative Rings
Sarah Anderson, Mike Axtell, Brenda Kroschel, Joe Stickles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02953

Domination and Total Domination Numbers in Zero-divisor Graphs of Commutative Rings
Zero-divisor graphs of commutative rings are well-represented in the literature. In this paper, we consider dominating sets, total dominating sets, domination numbers and total domination numbers of zero-divisor graphs. We determine the domination and total domination numbers of zero-divisor graphs are equal for all zero-divisor graphs of commutative rings except for $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times D$ in which $D$ is a domain. In this case, $γ(Γ(\mathbb{Z}_2 \times D)) = 1$ and $γ_t(Γ(\mathbb{Z}_2 \ti…

Most GOP staffers agree Medicaid cuts will fuck them in 2026 - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/07/07/most-gop-staffers-agree-medicaid-cuts-will-fuck-them-in-2026/

Four ways to build a zero-trust program for the AI world:
Think of AI as just another identity.
🤔 https://www.scworld.com/perspective/four-ways-to-build-a-zero-trust-program-for-the-ai-world

Four ways to build a zero-trust program for the AI world
Why AI tools deserve the least amount of trust.

Isn’t that the shortwave time station in Boulder? https://mastodon.social/@dirtypair/114592561887178563

Dirty Pair: Zero Context (@dirtypair@mastodon.social)
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We have a contender for leaf blowers in the category of stupid, harmful and pointless appliances. Using oil-powered string trimmer to cut the single blades of grass from between paving stones on a train platform. Noise, stench and almost zero efficiency.
#ecology

Tunable Epsilon Near Zero Metamaterial with Rotating Obround-Shaped Meta-Atoms
Rustam Balafendiev, Gagandeep Kaur, Jim A. Enriquez, Gaganpreet Singh, Alexander J. Millar, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Pavel Belov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04428

Tunable Epsilon Near Zero Metamaterial with Rotating Obround-Shaped Meta-Atoms
A new design of a microwave-range ENZ metamaterial consisting of rods with an obround cross-section is proposed. The plasma frequency of the metamaterial can be tuned by rotating the constituent meta-atoms. Tunability of the plasma frequency by 26% is demonstrated both experimentally and numerically. The observed tuning range is dramatically higher than in the one observed in natural materials at optical range.

ARMOUR US: Android Runtime Zero-permission Sensor Usage Monitoring from User Space
Yan Long, Jiancong Cui, Yuqing Yang, Tobias Alam, Zhiqiang Lin, Kevin Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02177

ARMOUR US: Android Runtime Zero-permission Sensor Usage Monitoring from User Space
This work investigates how to monitor access to Android zero-permission sensors which could cause privacy leakage to users. Moreover, monitoring such sensitive access allows security researchers to characterize potential sensor abuse patterns. Zero-permission sensors such as accelerometers have become an indispensable part of Android devices. The critical information they provide has attracted extensive research investigating how data collectors could capture more sensor data to enable both ben…

Effective Versions of Strong Measure Zero
Matthew Rayman
#toXiv_bot_toot

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MCP-Zero: Proactive Toolchain Construction for LLM Agents from Scratch
Function-calling has enabled large language models (LLMs) to act as tool-using agents, but injecting thousands of tool schemas into the prompt is costly and error-prone. We introduce MCP-Zero, a proactive agent framework that lets the LLM itself decide when and which external tools to retrieve, thereby assembling a task-specific toolchain from scratch. The framework is built upon three components: (1) Proactive Tool Request, where the model emits a structured $\left<\operatorname{tool\_assistan…

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Coexistence of gapless and gapped vortex modes with Majorana corner states in a 2D second-order topological superconductor
Although the appearance of vortex-localized states with zero energy in first-order topological superconductors is well known, their possibility to form in the higher-order topological phase of 2D systems has not been completely uncovered yet. Here we demonstrate the coexistence of zero-energy vortex modes and Majorana corner modes in the model of a 2D second-order topological superconductor. The model describes an interface between a normal layer supporting the topological insulating phase and …

How spyware, posing as an app from a humanitarian organization, spread among Syrian army officers via Telegram, and fueled the collapse of the Assad regime (Mobile Hacker)
https://www.mobile-hacker.com/2025/06/05/an…

Analysis of Spyware That Helped to Compromise a Syrian Army from Within
This case demonstrates that effective smartphone espionage doesn't always require expensive zero-day exploits or the development of sophisticated, custom and undetected spyware. Instead, attackers can achieve significant intelligence gains using older, off-the-shelf tools like Android SpyMax—especially when combined

A rank zero $p$-converse to a theorem of Gross--Zagier, Kolyvagin and Rubin
Ashay A. Burungale, Ye Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03465 https://

A rank zero $p$-converse to a theorem of Gross--Zagier, Kolyvagin and Rubin
Let $E$ be a CM elliptic curve defined over $\mathbb{Q}$ and $p$ a prime. We show that $${\mathrm corank}_{\mathbb{Z}_{p}} {\mathrm Sel}_{p^{\infty}}(E_{/\mathbb{Q}})=0 \implies {\mathrm ord}_{s=1}L(s,E_{/\mathbb{Q}})=0 $$ for the $p^{\infty}$-Selmer group ${\mathrm Sel}_{p^{\infty}}(E_{/\mathbb{Q}})$ and the complex $L$-function $L(s,E_{/\mathbb{Q}})$. Along with Smith's work on the distribution of $2^\infty$-Selmer groups, this leads to the first instance of the even parity Goldfeld conjectur…

ICYMI some positive news from this week: 'UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds'
'Climate Change Committee says current targets could be met provided country takes ‘steps forward’ to achieve them'
https://www.theguardian.co…

Zero-Day: Bluetooth-Lücke macht Millionen Kopfhörer zu Abhörstationen
Der in beliebten Modellen großer Hersteller verbaute Bluetooth-Chipsatz ist angreifbar. Hacker konnten so Anrufe starten und Geräte abhören.

Zero-Energy RIS-Assisted Communications With Noise Modulation and Interference-Based Energy Harvesting
Ahmad Massud Tota Khel, Aissa Ikhlef, Zhiguo Ding, Hongjian Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02625

Zero-Energy RIS-Assisted Communications With Noise Modulation and Interference-Based Energy Harvesting
To advance towards carbon-neutrality and improve the limited {performance} of conventional passive wireless communications, in this paper, we investigate the integration of noise modulation with zero-energy reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). In particular, the RIS reconfigurable elements (REs) are divided into two groups: one for beamforming the desired signals in reflection mode and another for harvesting energy from interference signals in an absorption mode, providing the power requ…

Towards Better Disentanglement in Non-Autoregressive Zero-Shot Expressive Voice Conversion
Seymanur Akti, Tuan Nam Nguyen, Alexander Waibel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04013

Towards Better Disentanglement in Non-Autoregressive Zero-Shot Expressive Voice Conversion
Expressive voice conversion aims to transfer both speaker identity and expressive attributes from a target speech to a given source speech. In this work, we improve over a self-supervised, non-autoregressive framework with a conditional variational autoencoder, focusing on reducing source timbre leakage and improving linguistic-acoustic disentanglement for better style transfer. To minimize style leakage, we use multilingual discrete speech units for content representation and reinforce embeddi…

Adapting Language Models to Indonesian Local Languages: An Empirical Study of Language Transferability on Zero-Shot Settings
Rifki Afina Putri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01645

Adapting Language Models to Indonesian Local Languages: An Empirical Study of Language Transferability on Zero-Shot Settings
In this paper, we investigate the transferability of pre-trained language models to low-resource Indonesian local languages through the task of sentiment analysis. We evaluate both zero-shot performance and adapter-based transfer on ten local languages using models of different types: a monolingual Indonesian BERT, multilingual models such as mBERT and XLM-R, and a modular adapter-based approach called MAD-X. To better understand model behavior, we group the target languages into three categori…

ICE agents locked inside Los Angeles store, besieged by crowd - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/06/06/ice-agents-locked-inside-los-angeles-store-besieged-by-crowd/

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Thermal Product Formula for Shear Modes
We investigate the validity of the thermal product formula proposed in [arXiv:2304.12339], for the shear channel fluctuations of R-charged black branes in five-dimensional AdS where the shear mode is coupled with charge diffusion mode at non-zero momentum. When these modes are suitably decoupled, we are able to obtain an exact formula for the two point functions of the boundary current and energy-momentum tensor in terms of the quasinormal modes of this channel. This exact formula is a simple m…

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Strategy Complexity of Büchi Objectives in Concurrent Stochastic Games
We study 2-player zero-sum concurrent (i.e., simultaneous move) stochastic Büchi games and Transience games on countable graphs. Two players, Max and Min, seek respectively to maximize and minimize the probability of satisfying the game objective. The Büchi objective is to visit a given set of target states infinitely often. This can be seen as a special case of maximizing the expected $\limsup$ of the daily rewards, where all daily rewards are in $\{0,1\}$. The Transience objective is to vis…

O meu respeito por quem só bate nos que estão ou quando estão em baixo é rigorosamente igual a zero.
Mesmo quando têm razão em parte do que dizem.

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Validity of a finite temperature expansion for dense nuclear matter
In this work we provide a new, well-controlled expansion of the equation of state of dense matter from zero to finite temperatures ($T$) while covering a wide range of charge fractions ($Y_Q$), from pure neutron to isospin symmetric nuclear matter. Our expansion can be used to describe neutron star mergers using the equation of state inferred from neutron star observations. We discuss how knowledge from low-energy nuclear experiments and heavy-ion collisions can be directly incorporated into th…

Exp4Fuse: A Rank Fusion Framework for Enhanced Sparse Retrieval using Large Language Model-based Query Expansion
Lingyuan Liu, Mengxiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04760

Exp4Fuse: A Rank Fusion Framework for Enhanced Sparse Retrieval using Large Language Model-based Query Expansion
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown potential in generating hypothetical documents for query expansion, thereby enhancing information retrieval performance. However, the efficacy of this method is highly dependent on the quality of the generated documents, which often requires complex prompt strategies and the integration of advanced dense retrieval techniques. This can be both costly and computationally intensive. To mitigate these limitations, we explore the use of zero-shot LLM-based que…

Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World will air in 2026
#rezero #anime

Determining our future savings might be a bit difficult. At our old house I knew the cost of filling an oil tank a couple of times a year. That cost went to zero and my Hydro bill went up. Based on the savings I had a 7.5 year ROI on my upfront geothermal install cost. Now I'm in a new home (10 days today) with only monthly averages for Hydro and Enbridge provided by the real estate listing. But that should be enough data to give me an approximate estimate.

Trying the MÁV Premium Lounge at Budapest-Keleti with #Interrail 1st class. Snacks and soft drinks available as #freeStuff. Only have time for a quick Coke Zero.

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The matter with(in) CPL
We introduce a two-parameter phenomenological extension of the $Λ$CDM model in which the equation of state parameter of the ``dust'' fluid becomes different from zero for redshifts below a transition value $z_t$. Using data from DESI DR2 BAO, DESY5 Sn~Ia and CMB distance priors ($R,l_A,ω_b$) data, we compare our model with the standard CPL parameterization $w_0-w_a$ for dynamical dark energy. Using the Deviance Information Criteria (DIC), we find that the two models are essentially indistingu…

Localized Functional Principal Component Analysis Based on Covariance Structure
Maria Laura Battagliola, Jan O. Bauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02836 http…

Localized Functional Principal Component Analysis Based on Covariance Structure
Functional principal component analysis (FPCA) is a widely used technique in functional data analysis for identifying the primary sources of variation in a sample of random curves. The eigenfunctions obtained from standard FPCA typically have non-zero support across the entire domain. In applications, however, it is often desirable to analyze eigenfunctions that are non-zero only on specific portions of the original domain-and exhibit zero regions when little is contributed to a specific direct…

AgentPorn.ai - Where Developers get their fix
https://agentporn.ai/

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ControlSpeech: Towards Simultaneous and Independent Zero-shot Speaker Cloning and Zero-shot Language Style Control
In this paper, we present ControlSpeech, a text-to-speech (TTS) system capable of fully cloning the speaker's voice and enabling arbitrary control and adjustment of speaking style. Prior zero-shot TTS models only mimic the speaker's voice without further control and adjustment capabilities while prior controllable TTS models cannot perform speaker-specific voice generation. Therefore, ControlSpeech focuses on a more challenging task: a TTS system with controllable timbre, content, and style at …

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Zero-Shot Streaming Text to Speech Synthesis with Transducer and Auto-Regressive Modeling
Zero-shot streaming text-to-speech is an important research topic in human-computer interaction. Existing methods primarily use a lookahead mechanism, relying on future text to achieve natural streaming speech synthesis, which introduces high processing latency. To address this issue, we propose SMLLE, a streaming framework for generating high-quality speech frame-by-frame. SMLLE employs a Transducer to convert text into semantic tokens in real time while simultaneously obtaining duration align…

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon Office (2008) - Read how my home office became zero-carbon in 2008, and the whole building zero-carbon from 2010! #lowCarbon #office #microgen -

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon Office (2008)
Read how my home office became zero-carbon in 2008, and the whole building zero-carbon from 2010! #lowCarbon #office #microgen

On a linear equation arising in the study of phase separation of BEC's
Christos Sourdis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05299 https://…

On a linear equation arising in the study of phase separation of BEC's
We consider the inner limit system describing the phase separation in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates linearized around the one-dimensional solution in an infinite strip with zero and periodic boundary conditions, and obtain optimal invertibility estimates for the Fourier modes without necessarily assuming orthogonality conditions.

Total progeny for spectrally negative branching L{\'e}vy processes with absorption
Christophe Profeta (LaMME)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04783 https://…

Total progeny for spectrally negative branching L{é}vy processes with absorption
We consider a spectrally negative branching L{é}vy process in which particles are killed upon crossing below zero. It is known that such a process becomes extinct almost surely if the drift toward -$\infty$ is sufficiently strong to counterbalance the reproduction rate. In this note, we study the tail asymptotics of the number of particles absorbed at the boundary during the lifetime of the process, in both the subcritical and critical regimes.

"James Cleverly takes on Kemi Badenoch over decision to ditch net zero targets"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero #Climate

Dynamic Models for Two Nonreciprocally Coupled Fields: A Microscopic Derivation for Zero, One, and Two Conservation Laws
Kristian Blom, Uwe Thiele, Alja\v{z} Godec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01105

Dynamic Models for Two Nonreciprocally Coupled Fields: A Microscopic Derivation for Zero, One, and Two Conservation Laws
We construct the dynamic models governing two nonreciprocally coupled fields for cases with zero, one, and two conservation laws. Starting from two microscopic nonreciprocally coupled Ising models, and using the mean-field approximation, we obtain closed-form evolution equations for the spatially resolved magnetization in each lattice. For single spin-flip dynamics, the macroscopic equations in the thermodynamic limit are closely related to the nonreciprocal Allen-Cahn equations, i.e. conservat…

Chern insulators in two and three dimensions: A global perspective
Jason G. Kattan, J. E. Sipe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04466 https://

Chern insulators in two and three dimensions: A global perspective
We introduce a second-quantized continuum model for bulk Chern insulators wherein the Hamiltonian features a static magnetic field that has the periodicity of the crystal's lattice and spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry even in the electronic ground state at zero temperature. The topological invariants characterizing the bulk band structure of Chern insulators in both two and three dimensions are written entirely in terms of the quantities in this Hamiltonian and are globally defined a…

A dimension reduction for extreme types of directed dependence
Sebastian Fuchs, Carsten Limbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04825 https://

A dimension reduction for extreme types of directed dependence
In recent years, a variety of novel measures of dependence have been introduced being capable of characterizing diverse types of directed dependence, hence diverse types of how a number of predictor variables $\mathbf{X} = (X_1, \dots, X_p)$, $p \in \mathbb{N}$, may affect a response variable $Y$. This includes perfect dependence of $Y$ on $\mathbf{X}$ and independence between $\mathbf{X}$ and $Y$, but also less well-known concepts such as zero-explainability, stochastic comparability and compl…

MPC in the Quantum Head (or: Superposition-Secure (Quantum) Zero-Knowledge)
Andrea Coladangelo, Ruta Jawale, Dakshita Khurana, Giulio Malavolta, Hendrik Waldner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22961

MPC in the Quantum Head (or: Superposition-Secure (Quantum) Zero-Knowledge)
The MPC-in-the-head technique (Ishai et al., STOC 2007) is a celebrated method to build zero-knowledge protocols with desirable theoretical properties and high practical efficiency. This technique has generated a large body of research and has influenced the design of real-world post-quantum cryptographic signatures. In this work, we present a generalization of the MPC-in-the-head paradigm to the quantum setting, where the MPC is running a quantum computation. As an application of our framework…

Towards a Characterization of Two-way Bijections in a Reversible Computational Model
Matteo Palazzo, Luca Roversi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03382 https://…

Towards a Characterization of Two-way Bijections in a Reversible Computational Model
We introduce an imperative, stack-based, and reversible computational model that characterizes Two-way Bijections both implicitly, concerning their computational complexity, and with zero-garbage.

Zero-Knowledge Verifiable Graph Query Evaluation via Expansion-Centric Operator Decomposition
Hao Wu, Changzheng Wei, Yanhao Wang, Li Lin, Yilong Leng, Shiyu He, Minghao Zhao, Hanghang Wu, Ying Yan, Aoying Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00427

Zero-Knowledge Verifiable Graph Query Evaluation via Expansion-Centric Operator Decomposition
This paper investigates the feasibility of achieving zero-knowledge verifiability for graph databases, enabling database owners to cryptographically prove the query execution correctness without disclosing the underlying data. Although similar capabilities have been explored for relational databases, their implementation for graph databases presents unique challenges. This is mainly attributed to the relatively large complexity of queries in graph databases. When translating graph queries into …

Ich habe mir - zu kaum was anderem wegen der Hitze in der Lage - einige Episoden von #ZeroDay angeschaut.
Ich mag Robert de Niro. Ein klasse Schauspieler.
DIe Episoden lassen mich immer wieder an Darth #Trump denken. Auch so ein egomaner und selbstherrlicher Paranoiker - unfähig zur Selbstkritik.

Zero Day (Miniserie 2025) ⭐ 7.0 | Drama, Thriller
50m | 16

Rethinking Broken Object Level Authorization Attacks Under Zero Trust Principle
Anbin Wu (The College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University), Zhiyong Feng (The College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University), Ruitao Feng (The Southern Cross University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02309

Rethinking Broken Object Level Authorization Attacks Under Zero Trust Principle
RESTful APIs facilitate data exchange between applications, but they also expose sensitive resources to potential exploitation. Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) is the top vulnerability in the OWASP API Security Top 10, exemplifies a critical access control flaw where attackers manipulate API parameters to gain unauthorized access. To address this, we propose BOLAZ, a defense framework grounded in zero trust principles. BOLAZ analyzes the data flow of resource IDs, pinpointing BOLA atta…

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Delay Update in determinant quantum Monte Carlo
Determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) is a widely used unbiased numerical method for simulating strongly correlated electron systems. However, the update process in DQMC is often a bottleneck for its efficiency. To address this issue, we propose a generalized delay update scheme that can handle both onsite and extended interactions. Our delay update scheme can be implemented in both zero-temperature and finite-temperature versions of DQMC. We apply the delay update scheme to various strongly c…

"In all my discussions with scientists across every sector, exactly zero think the journal system works well."
https://asterainstitute.substack.com/p/scientific-publishing-enough-is-enough

Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough
Why we're no longer funding journal publications

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Divisible minimal codes
Minimal codes are linear codes where all non-zero codewords are minimal, i.e., whose support is not properly contained in the support of another codeword. The minimum possible length of such a $k$-dimensional linear code over $\mathbb{F}_q$ is denoted by $m(k,q)$. Here we determine $m(7,2)$, $m(8,2)$, and $m(9,2)$, as well as full classifications of all codes attaining $m(k,2)$ for $k\le 7$ and those attaining $m(9,2)$. We give improved upper bounds for $m(k,2)$ for all $10\le k\le 17$. It turn…

An Introduction to Zero-Order Optimization Techniques for Robotics
Armand Jordana, Jianghan Zhang, Joseph Amigo, Ludovic Righetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22087

An Introduction to Zero-Order Optimization Techniques for Robotics
Zero-order optimization techniques are becoming increasingly popular in robotics due to their ability to handle non-differentiable functions and escape local minima. These advantages make them particularly useful for trajectory optimization and policy optimization. In this work, we propose a mathematical tutorial on random search. It offers a simple and unifying perspective for understanding a wide range of algorithms commonly used in robotics. Leveraging this viewpoint, we classify many trajec…

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Zero cycles, Mennicke symbols and $\mathrm{K}_1$-stability of certain real affine algebras
Let $R$ be a reduced real affine algebra of (Krull) dimension $d \ge 2$ such that either $R$ has no real maximal ideals, or the intersection of all real maximal ideals in $R$ has height at least one. In this article, we prove the following: (1) the $d$-th Euler class group $\text{E}^d(R)$, defined by Bhatwadekar-R.~Sridharan, is canonically isomorphic to the Levine-Weibel Chow group of zero cycles $\text{CH}_0(\text{Spec}(R))$; (2) the universal Mennicke symbol $\text{MS}_{d+1}(R)$ is canonical…

So, if you've been using Fly to deploy stuff you might want to reconsider. Given this true believer post on "AI" my trust into the security of their infrastructure has plummeted to zero. (My one deployment I had with them was incidentally already deleted before reading this 😅).
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

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Finite temperature QCD crossover at non-zero chemical potential: A Dyson-Schwinger approach
We study QCD at finite temperature and non-zero chemical potential to derive the critical temperature at the chiral phase transition (crossover). We solve a set of Dyson--Schwinger partial differential equations using the exact solution for the Yang--Mills quantum field theory based on elliptical functions. We derive a Nambu-Jona--Lasino (NJL) model of the quarks and obtain a very good agreement with recent lattice computations regarding the dependence of the critical temperature on the strong …

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Dirichlet improvability in $L_p$-norms
For a norm $F$ on $\mathbb{R}^2$, we consider the set of $F$-Dirichlet improvable numbers $\mathbf{DI}_F$. In the most important case of $F$ being an $L_p$-norm with $p=\infty$, which is a supremum norm, it is well-known that $\mathbf{DI}_F = \mathbf{BA}\cup \mathbb{Q}$, where $\mathbf{BA}$ is a set of badly approximable numbers. It is also known that $\mathbf{BA}$ and each $\mathbf{DI}_F$ are of measure zero and of full Hausdorff dimension. Using classification of critical lattices for unit …

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Hyperplane arrangements and the Gauss map of a pencil
We show that the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of a central hyperplane arrangement $\mathcal A$, coincide with the multidegrees of the Gauss map of a pencil of hypersurfaces naturally associated to $\mathcal A$. As a consequence, we obtain a proof of the Heron-Rota-Welsh conjecture for matroids representable over a field of characteristic zero.

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Kinetic approximation for equations of discrete turbulence in the subcritical case
We consider a damped/driven cubic NLS equation on a torus under the limit when first the amplitude of solutions goes to zero and then the period of the torus goes to infinity. We suggest another proof of the kinetic approximation for the energy spectrum under a subcritical scaling, extending to the exact solutions result obtained in [Dymov, Kuksin, Maiocchi, Vladuts '2023] for quasisolutions which were defined as the second order truncations of decompositions for the solutions in amplitude. The…

🏊‍♂️ Still no pool. Still chasing contractors.
One no-show after another, with zero communication. I get delays. What I don't get is being ghosted.
Third contractor showed promise. Local, knowledgeable, communicative. Now it’s a rain game.
Also: my desktop crashed mid-post. Overheating CPU drama. 3 years of weekly blog posts. Consecutive. No breaks.
Full update here −

Tooting My Own Horn: Three Years And Counting – Bob Mueller
I extended my weekly posting streak to three years this week. Still don't have the pool up. And I wonder about conspiracy theories.

Domain Adaptation Method and Modality Gap Impact in Audio-Text Models for Prototypical Sound Classification
Emiliano Acevedo, Mart\'in Rocamora, Magdalena Fuentes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04376

Domain Adaptation Method and Modality Gap Impact in Audio-Text Models for Prototypical Sound Classification
Audio-text models are widely used in zero-shot environmental sound classification as they alleviate the need for annotated data. However, we show that their performance severely drops in the presence of background sound sources. Our analysis reveals that this degradation is primarily driven by SNR levels of background soundscapes, and independent of background type. To address this, we propose a novel method that quantifies and integrates the contribution of background sources into the classifi…

I'm sure that companies providing zero career pipeline for junior software engineers today (because AI) will have absolutely no negative effects in 10-20 years' time

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InfoSAM: Fine-Tuning the Segment Anything Model from An Information-Theoretic Perspective
The Segment Anything Model (SAM), a vision foundation model, exhibits impressive zero-shot capabilities in general tasks but struggles in specialized domains. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) is a promising approach to unleash the potential of SAM in novel scenarios. However, existing PEFT methods for SAM neglect the domain-invariant relations encoded in the pre-trained model. To bridge this gap, we propose InfoSAM, an information-theoretic approach that enhances SAM fine-tuning by distil…

Israeli startup Zero Networks, which aims to prevent ransomware and other cyberattacks, raised $55M led by Highland Europe, taking its total funding to $100M (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/

Entretanto, parece que se concretizou o inevitšvel choque entre os dois superidiotas, o Trump e o Musk.
Era inevitšvel. Surpresa zero. Ališs, a minha única surpresa foi ter demorado tanto tempo.

We'll be using Copilot and whatever to fix whitespace in code (adding a few spicy bugs in the process) something rule based formatters have been able to do for decades at basically zero processing cost.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114777369432092953

La 4 temporada de Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World
SE ESTRENARÁ en 2026
#rezero

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Spatially Encoded Polaritonic Ultra-Strong Coupling in Gradient Metasurfaces with Epsilon-Near-Zero Modes
We introduce a platform to achieve ultra-strong coupling (USC) between light and matter using widely available materials. USC is a light-matter interaction regime characterized by coupling strengths exceeding 10% of the ground state energy. It gives rise to novel physical phenomena, such as efficient single-photon coupling and quantum gates, with applications in quantum sensing, nonlinear optics, and low-threshold lasing. Although early demonstrations in plasmonic systems have been realized, ac…

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The continuous-time limit of quasi score-driven volatility models
This paper explores the continuous-time limit of a class of Quasi Score-Driven (QSD) models that characterize volatility. As the sampling frequency increases and the time interval tends to zero, the model weakly converges to a continuous-time stochastic volatility model where the two Brownian motions are correlated, thereby capturing the leverage effect in the market. Subsequently, we identify that a necessary condition for non-degenerate correlation is that the distribution of driving innovati…

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ZEBRA: Leveraging Model-Behavioral Knowledge for Zero-Annotation Preference Dataset Construction
Recent efforts in LLM alignment have focused on constructing large-scale preference datasets via human or Artificial Intelligence (AI) annotators. However, such approaches rely on instance-wise supervision, incurring substantial annotation cost and limited interpretability. In this paper, we propose ZEBRA - a model behavior-wise zero-annotation framework that constructs preference data by leveraging model behavior knowledge derived from benchmark performances. ZEBRA binarizes response pairs by …

Zero-Trust Foundation Models: A New Paradigm for Secure and Collaborative Artificial Intelligence for Internet of Things
Kai Li, Conggai Li, Xin Yuan, Shenghong Li, Sai Zou, Syed Sohail Ahmed, Wei Ni, Dusit Niyato, Abbas Jamalipour, Falko Dressler, Ozgur B. Akan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23792

Zero-Trust Foundation Models: A New Paradigm for Secure and Collaborative Artificial Intelligence for Internet of Things
This paper focuses on Zero-Trust Foundation Models (ZTFMs), a novel paradigm that embeds zero-trust security principles into the lifecycle of foundation models (FMs) for Internet of Things (IoT) systems. By integrating core tenets, such as continuous verification, least privilege access (LPA), data confidentiality, and behavioral analytics into the design, training, and deployment of FMs, ZTFMs can enable secure, privacy-preserving AI across distributed, heterogeneous, and potentially adversari…

Magnetic field-free braiding and nontrivial fusion of Majorana bound states in high-temperature planar Josephson junctions
Pankaj Sharma, Narayan Mohanta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04338

Magnetic field-free braiding and nontrivial fusion of Majorana bound states in high-temperature planar Josephson junctions
Demonstration of non-Abelian statistics of zero-energy Majorana bound states (MBS) is crucial for long-sought-after decoherence-free topological quantum computing. The ability to move the MBS on a two-dimensional platform such as a planar Josephson junction is practically constrained by a fixed direction of applied magnetic field. In addition, the detrimental effects of the magnetic field on proximity-induced superconductivity in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures is an outstanding p…

Analyticity and asymptotic behavior of solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations with the zero sound speed in scaling critical spaces
Takayuki Kobayashi, Ryosuke Nakasato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01573

Analyticity and asymptotic behavior of solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations with the zero sound speed in scaling critical spaces
We consider the initial-value problem in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ $(d \ge 3)$ for the compressible Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations under the zero sound speed case (namely, $P'(ρ_*)=0$, where $P=P(ρ)$ stands for the pressure). The system is well-known as the Diffuse Interface model describing the motion of a vaper-liquid mixture in a compressible viscous fluid. The purposes of this paper are to obtain the global-in-time solution around the constant equilibrium states…

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DGMO: Training-Free Audio Source Separation through Diffusion-Guided Mask Optimization
Language-queried Audio Source Separation (LASS) enables open-vocabulary sound separation via natural language queries. While existing methods rely on task-specific training, we explore whether pretrained diffusion models, originally designed for audio generation, can inherently perform separation without further training. In this study, we introduce a training-free framework leveraging generative priors for zero-shot LASS. Analyzing naïve adaptations, we identify key limitations arising from m…

Rhythm Controllable and Efficient Zero-Shot Voice Conversion via Shortcut Flow Matching
Jialong Zuo, Shengpeng Ji, Minghui Fang, Mingze Li, Ziyue Jiang, Xize Cheng, Xiaoda Yang, Chen Feiyang, Xinyu Duan, Zhou Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01014

Rhythm Controllable and Efficient Zero-Shot Voice Conversion via Shortcut Flow Matching
Zero-Shot Voice Conversion (VC) aims to transform the source speaker's timbre into an arbitrary unseen one while retaining speech content. Most prior work focuses on preserving the source's prosody, while fine-grained timbre information may leak through prosody, and transferring target prosody to synthesized speech is rarely studied. In light of this, we propose R-VC, a rhythm-controllable and efficient zero-shot voice conversion model. R-VC employs data perturbation techniques and discretize s…

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EgoZero: Robot Learning from Smart Glasses
Despite recent progress in general purpose robotics, robot policies still lag far behind basic human capabilities in the real world. Humans interact constantly with the physical world, yet this rich data resource remains largely untapped in robot learning. We propose EgoZero, a minimal system that learns robust manipulation policies from human demonstrations captured with Project Aria smart glasses, $\textbf{and zero robot data}$. EgoZero enables: (1) extraction of complete, robot-executable ac…

"Hades", "Monument Valley": Netflix verliert einige seiner beste Spiele
Mehrere der besten Titel im bisherigen Netflix-Portfolio fliegen raus: Bald sind "Hades", "Katana Zero" und "Golden Idol" nicht mehr im Abo enthalten.

Vertex-transitive nut graph order-degree existence problem
Ivan Damnjanovi\'c
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Vertex-transitive nut graph order-degree existence problem
A nut graph is a nontrivial simple graph whose adjacency matrix has a simple eigenvalue zero such that the corresponding eigenvector has no zero entries. It is known that the order $n$ and degree $d$ of a vertex-transitive nut graph satisfy $4 \mid d$, $d \ge 4$, $2 \mid n$ and $n \ge d + 4$; or $d \equiv 2 \pmod 4$, $d \ge 6$, $4 \mid n$ and $n \ge d + 6$. Here, we prove that for each such $n$ and $d$, there exists a $d$-regular Cayley nut graph of order $n$. As a direct consequence, we obtain…

Zero-disparity Distribution Synthesis: Fast Exact Calculation of Chi-Squared Statistic Distribution for Discrete Uniform Histograms
Nikola Bani\'c, Neven Elezovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23416

Zero-disparity Distribution Synthesis: Fast Exact Calculation of Chi-Squared Statistic Distribution for Discrete Uniform Histograms
Pearson's chi-squared test is widely used to assess the uniformity of discrete histograms, typically relying on a continuous chi-squared distribution to approximate the test statistic, since computing the exact distribution is computationally too costly. While effective in many cases, this approximation allegedly fails when expected bin counts are low or tail probabilities are needed. Here, Zero-disparity Distribution Synthesis is presented, a fast dynamic programming approach for computing the…

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Exact volume-law entangled zero-energy eigenstates in a large class of spin models
Exact solutions for excited states in non-integrable quantum Hamiltonians have revealed novel dynamical phenomena that can occur in quantum many-body systems. This work proposes a method to analytically construct a specific set of volume-law-entangled zero-energy exact excited eigenstates in a large class of spin Hamiltonians. In particular, we show that all spin chains that satisfy a simple set of conditions host exact volume-law zero-energy eigenstates in the middle of their spectra. Examples…

ISI-Aware Code Design: A Linear Approach Towards Reliable Molecular Communication
Tamoghno Nath, Krishna Gopal Benerjee, Adrish Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23787

ISI-Aware Code Design: A Linear Approach Towards Reliable Molecular Communication
Intersymbol Interference (ISI) is a major bottleneck in Molecular Communication via Diffusion (MCvD), degrading system performance. This paper introduces two families of linear channel codes to mitigate ISI: Zero Pad Zero Start (ZPZS) and Zero Pad (ZP) codes, ensuring that each codeword avoids consecutive bit-1s. The ZPZS and ZP codes are then combined to form a binary ZP code, offering a higher code rate than linear ZP codes and allowing simple decoding via the Majority Location Rule (MLR). Ad…

Universality of convergence rate of rightmost eigenvalue of complex IID random matrices
Yutao Ma, Xinchen Hu
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Universality of convergence rate of rightmost eigenvalue of complex IID random matrices
Let $X$ be an $n\times n$ matrix with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) entries $x_{ij} \stackrel{\text { d }}{=} n^{-1 / 2} ξ$ with $ξ$ being a complex random variable of mean zero and variance one. Let $\{σ_i\}_{1\le i\le n}$ be the eigenvalues of $X,$ and $R_n:=\max_i \Re σ_i$ and $Z_n$ be some scaled version of $R_n.$ It was proved that $Z_n$ converges weakly to the Gumbel distribution $Λ$ under certain moment conditions on $ξ.$ We further prove that for a complex rando…

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A microscopic Normal Matrix Model for $(A)dS_2$
We describe the duality between the gravitating $c=1$ (compact) Sine-Gordon model and a normal matrix model. From a two-dimensional quantum gravity perspective and due to the periodic nature of the potential, this model admits both anti-de Sitter and de-Sitter saddles, similarly to simpler models of Sine-Dilaton gravity, as well as more complicated interpolating "wineglass wormhole" geometries. From a string theory perspective the Euclidean de-Sitter (genus zero) saddles are related to the pres…

Majorana zero modes in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid structures: Defining topology in short and disordered nanowires through Majorana splitting
Haining Pan, Sankar Das Sarma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00128

Majorana zero modes in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid structures: Defining topology in short and disordered nanowires through Majorana splitting
Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are bound midgap excitations at the ends of a 1D topological superconductor, which must come in pairs. If the two MZMs in the pair are sufficiently well-separated by a distance much larger than their individual localization length, then the MZMs behave as non-Abelian anyons which can be braided to carry out fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. In this `topological' regime of well-separated MZMs, their overlap is exponentially small, leading to exponentially…

ProRank: Prompt Warmup via Reinforcement Learning for Small Language Models Reranking
Xianming Li, Aamir Shakir, Rui Huang, Julius Lipp, Jing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03487

ProRank: Prompt Warmup via Reinforcement Learning for Small Language Models Reranking
Reranking is fundamental to information retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation, with recent Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly advancing reranking quality. While recent advances with LLMs have significantly improved document reranking quality, current approaches primarily rely on large-scale LLMs (>7B parameters) through zero-shot prompting, presenting high computational costs. Small Language Models (SLMs) offer a promising alternative because of their efficiency, but our prelimin…

The Error in a Smooth Weighted Prime Number Formula and Zero-free Regions for the Riemann Zeta Function
Songlin Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23795 https:…

The Error in a Smooth Weighted Prime Number Formula and Zero-free Regions for the Riemann Zeta Function
We study the error bound for a smooth weighted prime number theorem, and its implication to the zero-free region for the Riemann zeta function using the method of Pintz. We also give an application to the average number of smooth weighted Goldbach representations and generalize the result to the case of smooth weighted average k-Goldbach representations.

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Semicoarse Correlated Equilibria and LP-Based Guarantees for Gradient Dynamics in Normal-Form Games
Projected gradient ascent is known to satisfy no-external regret as a learning algorithm. However, recent empirical work shows that projected gradient ascent often finds the Nash equilibrium in settings beyond two-player zero-sum interactions or potential games, including those where the set of coarse correlated equilibria is very large. We show that gradient ascent in fact satisfies a stronger class of linear $Φ$-regret in normal-form games; resulting in a refined solution concept which we du…

Nonreciprocal superconducting critical currents with normal state field trainability in kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5
Jun Ge, Xiaoqi Liu, Pinyuan Wang, Haowen Pang, Qiangwei Yin, Hechang Lei, Ziqiang Wang, Jian Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04601

Nonreciprocal superconducting critical currents with normal state field trainability in kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5
Determining time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and chirality in the superconducting state and its relation to the symmetry and topology in the normal state are important issues in modern condensed matter physics. Here, we report the observation of nonreciprocal superconducting critical currents (Ic) at zero applied magnetic field: Ic exhibits different values in opposite directions, in both flakes and micro-bridges of the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5. Such spontaneous nonreciprocity requires TRS and…

The Age of Sensorial Zero Trust: Why We Can No Longer Trust Our Senses
Fabio Correa Xavier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00907 https://a…

The Age of Sensorial Zero Trust: Why We Can No Longer Trust Our Senses
In a world where deepfakes and cloned voices are emerging as sophisticated attack vectors, organizations require a new security mindset: Sensorial Zero Trust [9]. This article presents a scientific analysis of the need to systematically doubt information perceived through the senses, establishing rigorous verification protocols to mitigate the risks of fraud based on generative artificial intelligence. Key concepts, such as Out-of-Band verification, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as forensic col…

DS-TTS: Zero-Shot Speaker Style Adaptation from Voice Clips via Dynamic Dual-Style Feature Modulation
Ming Meng, Ziyi Yang, Jian Yang, Zhenjie Su, Yonggui Zhu, Zhaoxin Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01020

DS-TTS: Zero-Shot Speaker Style Adaptation from Voice Clips via Dynamic Dual-Style Feature Modulation
Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) technology have increased demand for personalized audio synthesis. Zero-shot voice cloning, a specialized TTS task, aims to synthesize a target speaker's voice using only a single audio sample and arbitrary text, without prior exposure to the speaker during training. This process employs pattern recognition techniques to analyze and replicate the speaker's unique vocal features. Despite progress, challenges remain in adapting to the vocal style of uns…

Trump uses Propecia for hair loss...
"His genitals shrank and changed shape" - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/06/02/his-genitals-shrank-and-changed-shape/

"‘It really is possible to be zero waste’: the restaurant with no bin"
#Restaurants #Food #ZeroWaste

Majoranas with a twist: Tunable Majorana zero modes in altermagnetic heterostructures
Andreas Hadjipaschalis, Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Jennifer Cano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00119

Majoranas with a twist: Tunable Majorana zero modes in altermagnetic heterostructures
Altermagnetism provides new routes to realize Majorana zero modes with vanishing net magnetization. We consider a recently proposed heterostructure consisting of a semiconducting wire on top of an altermagnet and with proximity-induced superconductivity. We demonstrate that rotating the wire serves as a tuning knob to induce the topological phase. For $d$-, $g$- and $i$-wave altermagnetic pairing, we derive angle-dependent topological gap-closing conditions. We derive symmetry constraints on an…

CoVoMix2: Advancing Zero-Shot Dialogue Generation with Fully Non-Autoregressive Flow Matching
Leying Zhang, Yao Qian, Xiaofei Wang, Manthan Thakker, Dongmei Wang, Jianwei Yu, Haibin Wu, Yuxuan Hu, Jinyu Li, Yanmin Qian, Sheng Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00885

CoVoMix2: Advancing Zero-Shot Dialogue Generation with Fully Non-Autoregressive Flow Matching
Generating natural-sounding, multi-speaker dialogue is crucial for applications such as podcast creation, virtual agents, and multimedia content generation. However, existing systems struggle to maintain speaker consistency, model overlapping speech, and synthesize coherent conversations efficiently. In this paper, we introduce CoVoMix2, a fully non-autoregressive framework for zero-shot multi-talker dialogue generation. CoVoMix2 directly predicts mel-spectrograms from multi-stream transcriptio…

Atlantic Council: US cyber power is hampered by an inefficient supply chain for zero days, with too few providers and "levels of middlemen" driving up costs (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

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Duality on the Thermodynamics of the Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) Secure Key Exchange Scheme
This study investigates a duality approach to information leak detection in the generalized Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise secure key exchange scheme proposed by Vadai, Mingesz, and Gingl (VMG-KLJN). While previous work by Chamon and Kish sampled voltages at zero-current instances, this research explores sampling currents at zero-voltage crossings. The objective is to determine if this dual approach can reveal information leaks in non-equilibrium KLJN systems. Results indicate that the duality met…

Many-particle hybridization of optical transitions from zero-mode Landau levels in HgTe quantum wells
S. Ruffenach, S. S. Krishtopenko, A. V. Ikonnikov, C. Consejo, J. Torres, X. Baudry, P. Ballet, B. Jouault, F. Teppe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00565

Many-particle hybridization of optical transitions from zero-mode Landau levels in HgTe quantum wells
We present far-infrared magnetospectroscopy measurements of a HgTe quantum well in the inverted band structure regime over the temperature range of 2 to 60 K. The particularly low electron concentration enables us to probe the temperature evolution of all four possible optical transitions originating from zero-mode Landau levels, which are split off from the edges of the electron-like and hole-like bands. By analyzing their resonance energies, we reveal an unambiguous breakdown of the single-pa…

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VoiceMark: Zero-Shot Voice Cloning-Resistant Watermarking Approach Leveraging Speaker-Specific Latents
Voice cloning (VC)-resistant watermarking is an emerging technique for tracing and preventing unauthorized cloning. Existing methods effectively trace traditional VC models by training them on watermarked audio but fail in zero-shot VC scenarios, where models synthesize audio from an audio prompt without training. To address this, we propose VoiceMark, the first zero-shot VC-resistant watermarking method that leverages speaker-specific latents as the watermark carrier, allowing the watermark to…

Apple fixes an iPhone zero-day used in Paragon spyware hacks after a Citizen Lab report found two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with the spyware (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/appl

Apple fixes new iPhone zero-day bug used in Paragon spyware hacks | TechCrunch
The iPhone maker quietly updated a February security advisory to publicize a flaw that was used to hack at least two journalists in Europe.

ReFlow-VC: Zero-shot Voice Conversion Based on Rectified Flow and Speaker Feature Optimization
Pengyu Ren, Wenhao Guan, Kaidi Wang, Peijie Chen, Qingyang Hong, Lin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01032

ReFlow-VC: Zero-shot Voice Conversion Based on Rectified Flow and Speaker Feature Optimization
In recent years, diffusion-based generative models have demonstrated remarkable performance in speech conversion, including Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and others. However, the advantages of these models come at the cost of requiring a large number of sampling steps. This limitation hinders their practical application in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we introduce ReFlow-VC, a novel high-fidelity speech conversion method based on rectified flow. Specifically, ReFlow-VC…

Lock Prediction for Zero-Downtime Database Encryption
Mohamed Sami Rakha, Adam Sorrenti, Greg Stager, Walid Rjaibi, Andriy Miranskyy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23985

Lock Prediction for Zero-Downtime Database Encryption
Modern enterprise database systems face significant challenges in balancing data security and performance. Ensuring robust encryption for sensitive information is critical for systems' compliance with security standards. Although holistic database encryption provides strong protection, existing database systems often require a complete backup and restore cycle, resulting in prolonged downtime and increased storage usage. This makes it difficult to implement online encryption techniques in high-…

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Contiguous Zero-Copy for Encrypted Transport Protocols
We propose in this paper to revisit the design of existing encrypted transport protocols to improve their efficiency. We call the methodology "Reverso" from reversing the order of field elements within a protocol specification. We detail how such a benign-looking change within the specifications may unlock implementation optimizations for encrypted protocols during data transport. To demonstrate our findings, we release quiceh, a QUIC implementation of QUIC VReverso, an extension of the QUIC V1…