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A010061: Binary self or Colombian numbers: numbers that cannot be expressed as the sum of distinct terms of the form 2^k+1 (k>=0), or equivalently, numbers not of form m + sum of binary digits of m

3D graph, threejs - webGL ➡️ decompwlj.com/3Dgraph/Binary_s
3D graph Gen, threejs animation ➡️ decompwlj.com/3DgraphGen/Binar
2D graph, first 500 terms ➡️ decompwlj.com/2Dgraph500terms/

Meet the 2025 #IgNobel Prize winners

Does #alcohol enhance one's foreign #language fluency? Do West African #lizards have a preferred #pizza topping? And can painting #cows with #zebra stripes help repel biting flies? These and other unusual #research questions were honored tonight in a virtual ceremony to announce the 2025 recipients of the annual Ig #Nobel Prizes. Yes, it's that time of year again, when the serious and the #silly converge—for #science.

arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Ars Technica · Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winnersBy Jennifer Ouellette

Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza topping?
Does alcohol enhance one's foreign language fluency?
And can painting cows with zebra stripes help repel biting flies?

The Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the Nobel Prizes; they honor "achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think."

arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Ars Technica · Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winnersBy Jennifer Ouellette

Interesting links of the week:

Strategy:

* doublepulsar.com/the-elephant- - @GossiTheDog talks outsourcing
* ncsc.gov.uk/schemes/assured-cy - choo, choo, all aboard to PQC hype express
* interseclab.org/research/the-i - say, you wanna buy a wall?

Threats:

* thedfirreport.com/2025/09/08/b - stick all the ransomware groups in a blender?

Bugs:

* dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-a - how much trust do you have in zero trust?

Exploitation:

* hackingthe.cloud/gcp/exploitat - elevating your good self into the cloud
* tu.berlin/fileadmin/www/100022 - busting in and out of 5G networks
* gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mes - hey .cn, there's a hole in your wall
* zerosalarium.com/2025/09/Dumpi - dumping LSASS again
* blog.zsec.uk/pyldapgui/ - scraping LDAP with @zephrfish

Hardening:

* petefinnigan.com/weblog/archiv - analysing user profiles in Oracle

Nerd:

* paolozaino.wordpress.com/2025/ - rewriting RISC OS in a modern language with @DarkL0rd
* phishyurl.com/ - making trustworthy links untrustworthy

#security, #research

Medium · The Elephant in The Biz: outsourcing of critical IT and cybersecurity functions risks UK economic…Recently, there’s been three major UK ransomware and/or extortion incidents at three big UK companies — Co-op Group, Marks and Spencer and…