Mastodawn

The US Army has reduced the frequency of mandatory cybersecurity training from once a year to once every five years

https://defensescoop.com/2026/03/31/army-cybersecurity-training-policy-change/

Commanders now responsible for cybersecurity training after Army cuts online course requirement to once every 5 years

Commanders are now responsible for preparing their soldiers and civilians on cybersecurity, according to a senior service official who said the change was intended to give unit leaders more flexibility.

DefenseScoop

kaoudis 8h ago

kaoudis 9h ago

72 Microseasons 10h ago

A new microseason in the "Pure and clear" (清明 Seimei) division has begun:

Swallows return (玄鳥至 Tsubame kitaru)

This microseason will last until April 9.

kaoudis 14h ago

Adam Shostack

15h ago

Please nitpick the following (or suggest an authority, such as NIST or CISA )

A vulnerability is a weakness that can be exploited to gain some goal or milestone for an attacker, such as the ability to run code. Vulnerabilities are usually bugs which get patched, and weaknesses are a broader set that includes susceptibility to threats. Code which demonstrates that a vulnerability is exploitable is called “proof-of-concept” or PoC. A PoC may be developed into an exploit, which is code that actually achieves that goal. Weaponized exploit code has been made production-ready with reliability or integration into some attack framework. The attackers may be not be malicious, for example external researchers or penetration testers.

kaoudis 16h ago

Lindsey Kuper 17h ago

RE: https://birdbutt.com/@colinstu/116338099556672672

meanwhile, my grad student can't run the experiment he needs to do to get the figure I asked him to get, because he doesn't have enough RAM

kaoudis 16h ago

Unseen Japan 18h ago

In 1910, a wayward Armenian from Erzurum arrived in Tokyo. In his distant future lay the sweet crunch of melonpan. This dessert would capture the hearts of a nation and beyond. Learn more about the unique origins of Japan's beloved bread treat.

https://unseen-japan.com/melonpan-armenian-history/

#japan #Unseenjapan #ujwebsite #food #history #armenia

kaoudis 16h ago

Bodil 21h ago

A bit of a wrinkle for pescetarians there.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-25837-0

Rapid self-recognition ability in the cleaner fish - Scientific Reports

Whether animals are self-aware has important implications for our approaches to both animal cognition and animal welfare. A landmark moment in animal cognition research was when great apes passed the mark-test and demonstrated mirror self-recognition (MSR). Animals that pass the mark-test are capable of visually self-recognising and considered to be self-aware. Other taxa, including a fish, the cleaner wrasse (cleaner fish: Labroides dimidiatus) have also now passed the mark-test, forcing a rethink of the mental and neurological requirements for MSR. Previous research has largely focused on which species can pass the mark-test, rather than the processes underlying MSR. Here, we marked mirror-naïve cleaner fish with an ecologically relevant mark resembling an ectoparasite and then undertook detailed behavioural observations after exposure to a mirror. We found that cleaner fish achieve MSR rapidly, implying self-awareness prior to mirror exposure. By observing the exact timing of MSR in individuals, we could also report previously undocumented differences in pre- and post-MSR behaviours, including post-MSR exploratory behaviour of the mirror’s reflective properties. We find remarkable parallels between the processing of MSR in humans and cleaner fish, suggesting that some aspects of self-awareness are conserved across animal taxa.

Nature

kaoudis 16h ago

Forever getting a snack before getting groceries because the cost of one single serving now is less than the cost of having every snack there is in my house both in dollars and calories

kaoudis 1d ago

Molly White 1d ago

“It’s honestly been eye opening (in a bad way) to see how special interests work in our system” says the Head of Politics at Kalshi, which pays Donald Trump Jr. to sit on its advisory board and has spent over a million in lobbying over the past ~year. The government has just filed a lawsuit to intervene to protect Kalshi from several state regulators.

#Kalshi

kaoudis 3d ago

The Muni platforms at the Market St stations are so *long* for the weeny little two car trains Muni usually runs

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