Describing and understanding personality structure is fundamental to predict and explain human behavior. Recent research calls for large personality item pools to be analyzed from the bottom-up, as item-level analysis may reveal meaningful differences often obscured by aggregation. This study introduces and applies Taxonomic Graph Analysis (TGA), a comprehensive network psychometrics framework aimed at identifying hierarchical structures in personality from the bottom-up, to an open-source 300-item IPIP-NEO dataset (N = 149,337). This framework addresses key methodological challenges that have hindered accurate recovery of hierarchical structures, including local independence violations, wording effects, dimensionality assessment, and structural robustness.

Whether or not you think humans *should* be announcing our presence to the cosmos, we’re doing it, anyway. Both intentionally, and not. And if aliens really…

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules.

AsyncRAT exploits ConnectWise ScreenConnect via fileless loader, stealing credentials and crypto data, maintaining persistence through fake Skype Upd

Microsoft announced that, starting today, individual Windows developers will no longer have to pay for publishing their applications on the Microsoft Store.

The company said that developers can now submit Win32 (including. NET WPF and WinForms), UWP, PWA,.NET MAUI, or Electron apps to the Microsoft Store without paying any registration fees.

Redmond will also handle each app’s hosting and signing, eliminating the need for developers to pay for these services.

My fourth installment of interesting research papers that I have read over the past few weeks and would like to share with my community.

A minuscule diamond containing billions of impurities can be induced to produce enough force to bend a cantilever.