Air raid sirens sound in Bahrain; missiles, drones target Kuwait

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Fair Observer

Iran Triggers Hormuz Chokepoint Crisis and Risk of Global Stagflation

Iran has blocked the Strait of Hormuz, causing a rise in fuel and fertilizer prices. In turn, these will cause shortages and prices of food to rise. Asian economies that rely on Gulf energy will ...
IEEE

Robust and Reverse-Engineering Resilient PUF Authentication and Key-Exchange by Substring Matching

Abstract: This paper proposes novel robust and low-overhead physical unclonable function (PUF) authentication and key exchange protocols that are resilient against reverse-engineering attacks. The ...
IEEE

Partial Shading Losses in Half-Cut PV Modules: Experiments, Circuit Simulation, and an Analytical Loss Function

Abstract: This study establishes an integrated approach to quantify partial shading losses in commercial half-cut photovoltaic modules. Systematic indoor experiments were conducted on a 440 W c-Si ...
Fair Observer

Remittance Inflow in Bangladesh: From Record Highs to Future Challenges

In 2024–25, Bangladesh's remittances reached a record $30.04 billion, representing a 25.50% increase from the previous year, driven by government reforms and a shift from the informal hundi system to ...
TechRepublic

How to Extract a Substring in Excel Using FIND() and MID() Functions

Learn how to use MID() and FIND() and then combine them to parse substrings from inconsistent data. Parsing data is a common task in Excel. For the most part, you’ll do so when you need to work with ...
GitHub

Single Step KDF (NIST SP 800-56C)

This is an implementation of the single-step key derivation function as described in NIST SP 800-56C revision 1, chapter 4. It is an unopinionated approach towards the subject, allowing all 3 options ...