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Unmasking Performance Gaps: A Comparative Study of Human Anonymization and Its Effects on Video Anomaly Detection
Sara Abdulaziz, Egor Bondarev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14083

Unmasking Performance Gaps: A Comparative Study of Human Anonymization and Its Effects on Video Anomaly Detection
Advancements in deep learning have improved anomaly detection in surveillance videos, yet they raise urgent privacy concerns due to the collection of sensitive human data. In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of anomaly detection performance under four human anonymization techniques, including blurring, masking, encryption, and avatar replacement, applied to the UCF-Crime dataset. We evaluate four anomaly detection methods, MGFN, UR-DMU, BN-WVAD, and PEL4VAD, on the anonymized UCF…

Any-to-any Speaker Attribute Perturbation for Asynchronous Voice Anonymization
Liping Chen, Chenyang Guo, Rui Wang, Kong Aik Lee, Zhenhua Ling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15565 h…

Any-to-any Speaker Attribute Perturbation for Asynchronous Voice Anonymization
Speaker attribute perturbation offers a feasible approach to asynchronous voice anonymization by employing adversarially perturbed speech as anonymized output. In order to enhance the identity unlinkability among anonymized utterances from the same original speaker, the targeted attack training strategy is usually applied to anonymize the utterances to a common designated speaker. However, this strategy may violate the privacy of the designated speaker who is an actual speaker. To mitigate this…

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Guess what you anonymous coward, “both sides”-ing a genocide is genocide denial.
And genocide denial is complicity in genocide.
Blocked right back, asshole.
(His post was in reply to https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115065419489536063)
@…

That’s an excellent move.
Let’s make it national.
Decades ago, my first wife was a librarian and met a lot of people. She was a friendly person. She befriended a guy who seemed to misunderstand friendship. We ended up having to refuse entry to CPS twice in the ensuing 3 weeks. Thankfully, they didn’t deem either anonymous report worth seeking a warrant.

Thirteen newsroom leaders and ethicists discuss elements of journalistic ethics, including dealing with AI, anonymous leaks, bias, lies, and audience needs (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/thirteen-journ

Thirteen Journalists on How They Are Rethinking Ethics 
We asked newsroom leaders and ethicists what they’re keeping or changing in an era of Trump, “fake news,” AI, and industry decline.

Curtis Yarvin wears racial hatred as a badge of honor
—and clearly doesn't come into contact with people of color on a regular basis.
Yarvin, who hides behind a screen, wouldn't have the guts to utter these slurs on the street. -- In the real world, that kind of talk tends to carry consequences.
Instead, he flings epithets from the safety of his tony Craftsman home in ultra-liberal Berkeley, performing racism online for an audience of anonymous far-right Twitter use…

Curtis Yarvin Just Can’t Stop Using This Racist Word
His slurs are public. His ideas are toxic. But to men like JD Vance, Yarvin is still worth following.

BBB is tegen subsidie voor waterstofproductie als (een gedeelte van) de waterstof wordt geëxporteerd. Mogen we aannemen dat de BBB ook tegen landbouwsubsidie is als (een deel van) de landbouwproductie wordt geëxporteerd?
https://boerburgerbeweging.nl/fr…

BBB wil per direct stoppen met subsidies voor buitenlandse klimaatwinst | BBB
Henk Vermeer: “Bizar. Nederland betaalt, België verduurzaamt.”

Exploiting Context-dependent Duration Features for Voice Anonymization Attack Systems
Natalia Tomashenko, Emmanuel Vincent, Marc Tommasi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15214

Exploiting Context-dependent Duration Features for Voice Anonymization Attack Systems
The temporal dynamics of speech, encompassing variations in rhythm, intonation, and speaking rate, contain important and unique information about speaker identity. This paper proposes a new method for representing speaker characteristics by extracting context-dependent duration embeddings from speech temporal dynamics. We develop novel attack models using these representations and analyze the potential vulnerabilities in speaker verification and voice anonymization systems.The experimental resu…

The FBI is searching the Maryland home and Washington office of
John Bolton, who served in President Donald Trump’s first administration as national security adviser
but later became critical of the president,
as part of an investigation into the handling of classified information.
Bolton was not detained and has not been charged with any crimes

FBI searches home of ex-Trump national security adviser Bolton
The FBI is searching the Maryland home and Washington office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton as part of an investigation into the handling of classified information. That's according to a person familiar with the matter Friday. The person was not authorized to discuss the investigation by name and spoke on the condition of anonymity. The person says Bolton was not detained and has not been charged with any crimes. FBI Director Kash Patel says cryptically online, “NO ONE is a…