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“Many questions remain about the fund-raising for this project,
including the amount of each contribution,
the agreement reached with each contributor,
what promises may have been or may yet be made in exchange for what presumably will be substantial contributions,
and why the White House chose to allow donors to remain anonymous,”
Mr. Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote in letters to several donors

Donors to Trump’s Ballroom Are Asked Why They Chose to Remain Incognito
Senator Richard Blumenthal is requesting information from business interests whose donations were not disclosed by the White House.

Gathering of asynchronous robots on circle with limited visibility using finite communication
Avisek Sharma, Satakshi Ghosh, Buddhadeb Sau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04004 https…

Gathering of asynchronous robots on circle with limited visibility using finite communication
This work addresses the gathering problem for a set of autonomous, anonymous, and homogeneous robots with limited visibility operating in a continuous circle. The robots are initially placed at distinct positions, forming a rotationally asymmetric configuration. The robots agree on the clockwise direction. In the $θ$-visibility model, a robot can only see those robots on the circle that are at an angular distance $<θ$ from it. Di Luna \textit{et. al.} [DISC'20] have shown that, in $π/2$ visi…

😼 Answerman - Is Superhero Burnout at the Box Office Affecting Anime Films?
#anime

Answerman - Is Superhero Burnout at the Box Office Affecting Anime Films?
If superhero fatigue is affecting anime, it's only in a good way. Read on to find out why.

@… @… thanks … it took a few minutes for me to realise why the style was vaguely familiar.
Found in Zotero:
The Controlled Detonation Of My Anonymity — Ludicity —

“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…

Panel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets

“The anonymous communications network, which included more than 100K SIM cards & 300 servers, could interfere with emergency response services and could be used to conduct encrypted communication.”
Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N.

Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N.
The Secret Service discovered more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers, which could disable cellular towers or be used to conduct surveillance.

How to Get Actual Privacy and Utility from Privacy Models: the k-Anonymity and Differential Privacy Families
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, David S\'anchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11299

How to Get Actual Privacy and Utility from Privacy Models: the k-Anonymity and Differential Privacy Families
Privacy models were introduced in privacy-preserving data publishing and statistical disclosure control with the promise to end the need for costly empirical assessment of disclosure risk. We examine how well this promise is kept by the main privacy models. We find they may fail to provide adequate protection guarantees because of problems in their definition or incur unacceptable trade-offs between privacy protection and utility preservation. Specifically, k-anonymity may not entirely exclude …

Content Anonymization for Privacy in Long-form Audio
Cristina Aggazzotti, Ashi Garg, Zexin Cai, Nicholas Andrews
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12780 https://a…

Content Anonymization for Privacy in Long-form Audio
Voice anonymization techniques have been found to successfully obscure a speaker's acoustic identity in short, isolated utterances in benchmarks such as the VoicePrivacy Challenge. In practice, however, utterances seldom occur in isolation: long-form audio is commonplace in domains such as interviews, phone calls, and meetings. In these cases, many utterances from the same speaker are available, which pose a significantly greater privacy risk: given multiple utterances from the same speaker, an…

PrivWeb: Unobtrusive and Content-aware Privacy Protection For Web Agents
Shuning Zhang, Yutong Jiang, Rongjun Ma, Yuting Yang, Mingyao Xu, Zhixin Huang, Xin Yi, Hewu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11939

PrivWeb: Unobtrusive and Content-aware Privacy Protection For Web Agents
While web agents gained popularity by automating web interactions, their requirement for interface access introduces significant privacy risks that are understudied, particularly from users' perspective. Through a formative study (N=15), we found users frequently misunderstand agents' data practices, and desired unobtrusive, transparent data management. To achieve this, we designed and implemented PrivWeb, a trusted add-on on web agents that utilizes a localized LLM to anonymize private informa…