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“Service academies to accept conservative alternative to SAT and ACT”
And it is called the CLT?
They’ll have to find it first.
Hey oh!
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/military-academies-clt-standardized-test-00564290…

»Anonyme E-Mails versenden — So schützen Sie Ihre Privatsphäre im Netz:
Anonyme E-Mails können Ihre Privatsphäre schützen. Verschiedene Tools und Methoden bieten effektive Möglichkeiten, um die eigene Identität zu verschleiern.«
Die meisten Menschen hier kennen und nutzen es sicherlich schon. Schade, dass die nicht auch OpenPGP für E-Mail Verschlüsselung erwähnen. Es geht ja immer darum wie was wann weshalb mensch es einsetzt.
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Privatsphäre und Identität schützen: So senden Sie E-Mails ganz anonym
Anonyme E-Mails können Ihre Privatsphäre schützen. Verschiedene Tools und Methoden bieten effektive Möglichkeiten, um die eigene Identität zu verschleiern.

Eine interessante Strategie war es, am Anfang dieses 'Gipfels', der eine Aneinanderreihung von Frontalveranstaltungen war, anzukündigen, dass später noch Dinge verkündet würden.
Ich habe hinterher mit verschiedenen Menschen gesprochen, die alle nicht sagen konnten, was das hätte gewesen sein können.
#DigitalGipfel

Gorgeous freshly emerged peacock butterfly in the garden just now
#UKButterflies #insects #Nature

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
The Environmental Protection Agency has 💥ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all efforts to publish research,
according to two agency employees familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week
⚠️and instru…

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

Advancing Conversational AI with Shona Slang: A Dataset and Hybrid Model for Digital Inclusion
Happymore Masoka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14249 https://ar…

Advancing Conversational AI with Shona Slang: A Dataset and Hybrid Model for Digital Inclusion
African languages remain underrepresented in natural language processing (NLP), with most corpora limited to formal registers that fail to capture the vibrancy of everyday communication. This work addresses this gap for Shona, a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe and Zambia, by introducing a novel Shona--English slang dataset curated from anonymized social media conversations. The dataset is annotated for intent, sentiment, dialogue acts, code-mixing, and tone, and is publicly available at https…

SynBench: A Benchmark for Differentially Private Text Generation
Yidan Sun, Viktor Schlegel, Srinivasan Nandakumar, Iqra Zahid, Yuping Wu, Yulong Wu, Hao Li, Jie Zhang, Warren Del-Pinto, Goran Nenadic, Siew Kei Lam, Anil Anthony Bharath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14594

SynBench: A Benchmark for Differentially Private Text Generation
Data-driven decision support in high-stakes domains like healthcare and finance faces significant barriers to data sharing due to regulatory, institutional, and privacy concerns. While recent generative AI models, such as large language models, have shown impressive performance in open-domain tasks, their adoption in sensitive environments remains limited by unpredictable behaviors and insufficient privacy-preserving datasets for benchmarking. Existing anonymization methods are often inadequate…

Bargeld ist weder günstig noch anonym
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191596

Bargeld ist weder günstig noch anonym
Jeder Geldschein ist einzigartig – das macht ihn zu einem potenziellen Überwachungsinstrument: Du hast Überwachungsinstrumente im Portemonnaie. Bargeld ist also schon lange weder Anonym noch günsti…

Animania !
https://youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw?si=CC1RVjAncJVYxE2k

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed through Santa Ana, California, in June, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system.
Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars.
In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves.
There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents o…

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.