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Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Android: Google verbietet anonyme Apps
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Sources: Anonymous Content, the production company behind Spotlight, is undergoing layoffs; the estimated cut is less than 15% from a total staff of about 130 (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/anonymous-content-layoffs-1236498446/

Anonymous Content Cutting Around 15% Of Staff
Anonymous Content will be conducting lay offs impacting less than 15% of staff.

La recension de Renée Filbey de « Les filles de Jeanne » d'Andrée Lévesque, un de mes livres d'histoire préférés de ces dernières années.
https://histoireengagee.ca/les-filles-de-jeanne-histoire-de-vies-anonymes-1658-1915/

SegReConcat: A Data Augmentation Method for Voice Anonymization Attack
Ridwan Arefeen, Xiaoxiao Miao, Rong Tong, Aik Beng Ng, Simon See
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18907 https://…

SegReConcat: A Data Augmentation Method for Voice Anonymization Attack
Anonymization of voice seeks to conceal the identity of the speaker while maintaining the utility of speech data. However, residual speaker cues often persist, which pose privacy risks. We propose SegReConcat, a data augmentation method for attacker-side enhancement of automatic speaker verification systems. SegReConcat segments anonymized speech at the word level, rearranges segments using random or similarity-based strategies to disrupt long-term contextual cues, and concatenates them with th…

So what, are the US armed forces a mercenary force working for a billionaire now? Are they literally potus and friends’ private army, navy, air force, coast guard and space force?
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schakowsky.house.gov you rep me. How is this anywhere near legal?

Pentagon accepts anonymous $130M gift for payroll amid shutdown
The Pentagon has confirmed it's accepted an anonymous $130 million gift to help pay members of the military during the government shutdown. The announcement Friday raises ethical questions after President Donald Trump had said a friend offered the gift to defray any shortfalls. While large and unusual, the gift amounts to a small contribution toward the billions needed to cover service member paychecks. The Trump administration told Congress last week that it used $6.5 billion to make payroll. …

Aggregate Fictitious Play for Learning in Anonymous Polymatrix Games (Extended Version)
Semih Kara, Tamer Ba\c{s}ar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19371 https://

Aggregate Fictitious Play for Learning in Anonymous Polymatrix Games (Extended Version)
Fictitious play (FP) is a well-studied algorithm that enables agents to learn Nash equilibrium in games with certain reward structures. However, when agents have no prior knowledge of the reward functions, FP faces a major challenge: the joint action space grows exponentially with the number of agents, which slows down reward exploration. Anonymous games offer a structure that mitigates this issue. In these games, the rewards depend only on the actions taken; not on who is taking which action. …

Fun fact: the military, when they're paid by a third party for their service, are called "mercenaries".
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/anonymous-donor-military-pay-shutdown

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Department confirmed on Friday.

»Browser, Einstellungen, Werkzeug — So surft man im Internet möglichst spurlos:
Völlig anonym im Internet unterwegs zu sein, ist praktisch unmöglich. Aber wer Browser, Suchmaschine und Zusatzprogramme richtig wählt und nutzt, kann seine digitale Spur stark genug verwischen, um den üblichen Datenschnüfflern das Geschäft zu vermiesen.«
Genau das und doch nehmen mMn wohl rel sehr wenige Menschen dies wirklich ernst.
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Browser, Einstellungen, Werkzeug: So surft man im Internet möglichst spurlos
Völlig anonym im Internet unterwegs zu sein, ist praktisch unmöglich. Aber wer Browser, Suchmaschine und Zusatzprogramme richtig wählt und nutzt, kann seine digitale Spur stark genug verwischen, um den üblichen Datenschnüfflern das Geschäft zu vermiesen.

PerFace: Metric Learning in Perceptual Facial Similarity for Enhanced Face Anonymization
Haruka Kumagai, Leslie W\"ohler, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20281

PerFace: Metric Learning in Perceptual Facial Similarity for Enhanced Face Anonymization
In response to rising societal awareness of privacy concerns, face anonymization techniques have advanced, including the emergence of face-swapping methods that replace one identity with another. Achieving a balance between anonymity and naturalness in face swapping requires careful selection of identities: overly similar faces compromise anonymity, while dissimilar ones reduce naturalness. Existing models, however, focus on binary identity classification "the same person or not", making it dif…

Google greift bei Android durch und beendet die Ära anonymer Apps! 📱
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10617479?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon