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The Diplomat (2023) has only gotten better in its second and third seasons.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_diplomat

Azure: Zone-redundantes NAT Gateway und 400-Gigabit-ExpressRoute
Microsoft erweitert Azure Networking um zonenredundantes NAT Gateway V2 und kündigt 400-Gigabit-ExpressRoute für 2026 an. Neue Sicherheitsfeatures inklusive.

Taiwan Bans China’s RedNote App for a Year, Citing Fraud
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/taiwan-bans-china-s-rednote-app-for-a-year-citing-fraud-worries

Don't Just Chase "Highlighted Tokens" in MLLMs: Revisiting Visual Holistic Context Retention
Xin Zou, Di Lu, Yizhou Wang, Yibo Yan, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Xu Zheng, Linfeng Zhang, Xuming Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02912

Don't Just Chase "Highlighted Tokens" in MLLMs: Revisiting Visual Holistic Context Retention
Despite their powerful capabilities, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from considerable computational overhead due to their reliance on massive visual tokens. Recent studies have explored token pruning to alleviate this problem, which typically uses text-vision cross-attention or [\texttt{CLS}] attention to assess and discard redundant visual tokens. In this work, we identify a critical limitation of such attention-first pruning approaches, i.e., they tend to preserve semanticall…

Watched Star Trek Section 31, a movie about the off-book starfleet characters trying to stop someone blowing up a quarter of the galaxy.
Might be the worst Star Trek ever made.
A crew with a mercenary ex-empressess from the mirror world, a mole, and no trust between 'em. They don't seem to get on but rescue the galaxy anyway. Maybe blow up a quarter of the mirror galaxy instead. Hurray. Genocide of our own galaxy averted.
Jokes aren't funny, characters aren't convincing, script full of dud. Somehow the murdering dictator is redeemed without any redemption arc.
Only for star trek completionists.
#watching #tv #starTrek

Radiant Silvergun: an abundance of weapons
I'm not great at scrolling shooters, though I enjoy their spectacle and the panic they induce as the number of bullets increases. Radiant Silvergun not only has a great many bullets, it also has a great many weapons, all but one of which I forget to use. This makes things very tricky indeed, especially when you're supposed to be firing around corners using a homing missile and I'm stuck firing upwards like a lemon.

"Pineapple Waste Soil Amendment Transforms Deserts into Productive Farmlands"
#Pineapples #Deserts
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Pineapple Waste Soil Amendment Transforms Deserts into Productive Farmlands | Happy Eco News
A pineapple waste soil amendment developed by researchers at Khalifa University boosts desert soil water retention by 32% and doubles nutrient storage, helping arid regions grow more food.

RE: https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/
Eles andem aí.

Fine letter from Kate Macintosh on UK Labour Party's irrational retention of the Right to Buy council housing. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/06/why-labour-lacks-credibility-when-it-comes-to-housing

Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metcurity for the crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--US, Canada warn of Chinese-linked Brickstorm malware that gains long-term access,
--Intellexa had access to personal data of Predator spyware targets,
--Int'l partners release AI security guide for OT orgs,
--Phreeli cellco doesn't ask for identifying info,
--Taiwan suspends Rednote over fraud cases,
--Alb…

US, Canada warn of Chinese-linked Brickstorm malware that gains long-term access
Intellexa had access to personal data of Predator spyware targets, Int'l partners release AI security guide for OT orgs, Phreeli cellco doesn't ask for identifying info, Taiwan suspends Rednote over fraud cases, Albiriox Android malware evolves quickly, NCSC debuts proactive notifications, much more