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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Aug 30

Denmark invests 80M DKK in digital sovereignty.

Minister of Digital Affairs @carolinestage.bsky.social will lead initiatives to reduce dependency of big tech. Money will be spent on developing and testing alternatives.

www.digmin.dk/digitaliseri...

Regeringen afsætter 80 millioner kroner til digital suverænitet

I en usikker verden med handelskrige og geopolitiske spændinger er det ikke nok at diskutere, hvordan Danmark bliver mindre afhængig af store techgiganter. Derfor vil regeringen med sit finanslovsfors...

www.digmin.dk

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Dan Plyukhin @dplyukhin.bsky.social · Jun 23

I gave a talk at PLDI '25 about the future of Actor GC in Apache Pekko - with applications to #akka #erlang and #elixir. It's the culmination of my 6+ year PhD at UIUC, and I tried to make the talk really fun and easy to follow :)

Check it out here: www.youtube.com/live/lGM37Z3...

The title is "CRGC: Fault-Recovering Actor GC in Apache Pekko". The authors are Dan Plyukhin (SDU), Gul Agha (UIUC), and Fabrizio Montesi (SDU)

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Jun 12

#AI-powered peer reviews are here: `ReviwerGPT' landed at AAAI

aaai.org/aaai-launche...

The high volume of papers for flagship conferences like AAAI is putting a strain on reviewers--nothing new here. Tools to help reduce workload are clearly needed. But are #LLMs the right way to do that?

AAAI Launches AI-Powered Peer Review Assessment System - AAAI

AAAI, a leading nonprofit dedicated to advancing scientific research and collaboration, launches AI-Powered peer review assessment system.

aaai.org

Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Jun 10

This is the result of a fantastic interdisciplinary collaboration with Jan Stentoft, @securitycapybara.bsky.social, Kent Wickstrøm, Oliver Schmitt, @vckeating.bsky.social, Amelie Theussen, Louise Tumchewics, and Judith Kankam-Boateng.

Part of cyber-smv.dk, funded by @industriensfond.bsky.social

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Jun 10

Our key takeaways:
➡️ High cybersecurity awareness alone does not significantly improve performance.
➡️ When awareness translates into C-SCRM practices, financial performance improves
➡️ C-SCRM is the key link between awareness and better results, especially in financial terms.

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Jun 10

Cyber threats are one of the top global business risks and
SMEs are especially exposed. So what helps SMEs most?

We explore how cybersecurity awareness and cybersecurity supply chain risk management (C-SCRM) impact financial and commercial performance in small and medium-sized manufacturers.

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Jun 10

What links cybersecurity awareness and supply chain risk management, and why does it matter for small manufacturers?

We explore how these factors shape firm performance in our latest paper doi.org/10.1108/SCM-... in the journal Supply Chain Management.

#Cybersecurity #SupplyChain #C-SCRM #SMEs

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · May 8

How GenAI will help in education /s. Vasari's chapter on Giotto has a story about a commission gone bad. Here is the original (de Vere), GPT-4, Claude 3.5, and Google Search. You just have to ask the right question—even on old, famous content!—to break it BADLY! #Italy25

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Ilya Sergey @ilyasergey.bsky.social · Apr 29

We need a conference on Usable Formal Methods.

Every submission to it must come with a verifier,a set of positive/negative examples for it, and, most importantly, an exercise. A review may give a positive score only if it provides a solution to the exercise, which is accepted by the verifier.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Apr 21

The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration.

We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs

The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...

www.techspot.com

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Apr 24

📢 Workshop on Safe Production in Uncertain Times

📅 24 June at @sdu.dk #Kolding

A deep dive at the intersection of #cybersecurity, #geopolitics, and #governance in the context of safe production.

👉 event.sdu.dk/gaa-hjem-moe... 👈

Organised by cyber-smv.dk funded by @industriensfond.bsky.social

SDU Kolding Campus, a modern building with a unique architectural design featuring angular windows and glass facades, situated by a serene water body with reflections of the building and surrounding trees. The image is overlaid with the title of the workshop 'Safe Production in Uncertain Times: Cybersecurity, Geopolitics and Governance. at the top and logos of the organisers and funders at the bottom: SDU, HOLTEC.DK, ODENSE ROBOTICS, INDUSTRIENS FOND, and BUSINESS KOLDING.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · Mar 26

The EU announced a defence and security preparedness development plan. Good.

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Mar 27

Precisely. That's another great point. Thanks.

Many outlets reported attempts to compromise the personal devices of Trump, Vance, and Harris during the campaign. So, even if the Signal protocol itself is not breached, the devices they used could be compromised.

Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Mar 27

Fair point. Although one could argue that the human factor is also a security factor. Nonetheless, the use of Signal in such context remains in breach of protocol, policy and law.

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Mar 27

Here is one of the latest arstechnica.com/information-...

More than this, the use of Signal shows that the discussion was taking place on personal devices, not on government issued secured ones, and outside of the reach of federal record laws. Project 2025 recommends using Signal exactly for this.

Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes

Swapping QR codes in group invites and artillery targeting are latest ploys.

arstechnica.com

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Mar 21

This is the last reminder: the deadline for some positions is in a few days!

⏳ Assistant and associate positions: deadline 24 March

⏳ Full professor and centre leader position: deadline 7 April

Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Mar 21

The full professorship is a *really* great opportunity: it includes a chair and leadership position for a brand-new research centre, for which funding has already been secured!

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Mar 21

As part of the creation of an entire new IT campus in the city of Vejle, Denmark, we're hiring multiple professors in Computer Science at all levels (tenure-track assistant, associate, full). It is a very exciting and ambitious project, backed by both the public and private sectors.

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Mar 21

📢 #AcademicJobs Multiple Computer Science professor positions (all levels) available @sdu.dk 🇩🇰.

Assistant and associate positions: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Full professor and centre leader position: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Mar 18

🚨 Europe’s digital dependence is a ticking time bomb – but we can still turn the tide.

Jan Stentoft, @vckeating.bsky.social, and I explore how Europe's reliance on digital imports threatens our sovereignty and security and how we can reclaim control over our digital future.

tinyurl.com/2p9hwnc3

Forskere: Europas digitale afhængighed truer vores sikkerhed. Men vi kan stadig genvinde suveræniteten : Digital - Altinget | Nyheder, analyser og debat om dansk politik

Europa er dybt afhængig af ikke-europæisk digital teknologi, hvilket truer vores suverænitet og sikkerhed. Initiativer som Eurostack og open-source-løsninger kan styrke uafhængigheden. Det kræver poli...

www.altinget.dk

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Dec 1

Welcome back!

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Nov 28

📢 Faculty Job! We're hiring Assistant (tenure-track) & Associate Professors in AI, Cybersecurity & Programming Languages in our research group @sdu.dk 🇩🇰

🔗 About us: acp.sdu.dk
📝 Apply: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
⏳ Deadline: 2025-02-01

#AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs

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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · Nov 27

#GeologyJokes make me happy 😊

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Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Nov 25

If you are wondering if the outfits in the picture were planned to match the Italian flag... no, it is...an emergent property of the system architecture 😅

Marco Peressotti @mperessotti.bsky.social · Nov 25

If you are curious about Valentino's work, check this out 👉https://doi.org/10.21996/ryyc-7h13 👈

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