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Sources: Apple plans to acquire Brighter AI, a German startup specializing in anonymizing face and license plate data, to enhance privacy features on Vision Pro (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/03/apple-brighter-ai/

Apple may be acquiring this AI startup for Vision Pro privacy
Apple is set to acquire Brighter AI, a specialist in anonymizing visual data, to boost privacy in Apple Vision Pro and future devices.

Distribution-Agnostic Database De-Anonymization Under Obfuscation And Synchronization Errors
Serhat Bakirtas, Elza Erkip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01366 h…

Distribution-Agnostic Database De-Anonymization Under Obfuscation And Synchronization Errors
Database de-anonymization typically involves matching an anonymized database with correlated publicly available data. Existing research focuses either on practical aspects without requiring knowledge of the data distribution yet provides limited guarantees, or on theoretical aspects assuming known distributions. This paper aims to bridge these two approaches, offering theoretical guarantees for database de-anonymization under synchronization errors and obfuscation without prior knowledge of dat…

So, I've been recently having a conversation with several folk about Slack vs Discord and which platform may be more advantagous for organizing events and building community. I and others were surprised to learn of how wide the gulf is on various people's ranges of experiences on each service, in terms of community, harassment, security tools, and users feeling welcomed.
I recognize that my experience as a femme-presenting person who uses my real identity is different from that of an anonymous person with a profile photo showing a bearded guy in a Patagonia vest holding up an IPA. This tracks with the discussions I've had today: tech bros generally seem to lean toward one platform while all of my other business-owning women friends opt to steer away from that service almost entirely.
If you're femme and use your real identity online, do you have a preference for Slack or Discord? Have you ever opted out of using either Slack or Discord? In addition to discussion of general vibes and security tools, we also can all recognize that there are some surveillance/privacy tradeoffs in play, as well. (Just as, if you're an organizer, maybe you have thoughts about which service offers tools or features or pricing that steers you one way or another, as well?)
What are your stories on this topic?

Ukraine soll USA über Absetzung Saluschnyjs informiert haben
Zwei mit der Angelegenheit vertrauten Personen zufolge hat die ukrainische Regierung das US-Präsidialamt über seine Pläne, Oberkommandeur Walerij Saluschnyj entlassen zu wollen, informiert.
Saluschnyj war offenbar mit dem ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj wegen militärischer Strategien und anderen Fragen aneinandergeraten. Zudem…
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Kiew: Selenskyj wollte Armeechef Saluschny entlassen
Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj soll versucht haben, Armeechef Saluschnyj zu entlassen. Doch der weigerte sich. Wohl auch auf Druck der USA und Großbritanniens hat Selenskyj seine Entscheidung nun rückgängig gemacht.

Wenn ich von meinem Arbeitgeber eine „Unwiderrufliche Freistellung“ bekommen habe, darf ich jederzeit einen neuen Job annehmen.
Sehe ich das richtig? 🤔

Ammonium-rich bright areas on #Ceres demonstrate complex chemical activity: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01281-2 -> The discovery of a new ammonium salt on the dwarf planet Ceres confirms a complex chemical activity: https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2024/03/27/the-discovery-of-a-new-ammonium-salt-on-the-dwarf-planet-ceres-confirms-a-complex-chemical-activity/

Here’s one of the dumber anonymously sourced quotes you’ll read today.
“‘The pay is egregious, but it is something we have learned to accept,’ says one longtime entertainment analyst.”
https://deadline.com/2024/05/ceo-salaries-2023-hollywood-media-1…

Media CEO Pay Mostly Up For 2023 Amid Strikes, Industry Contraction
Media CEO pay was high in 2023 amid Hollywood strikes, industry contraction and lots of questions about the future of the industry.

Anonymous social media app Sidechat has become both a place for dialog and a breeding ground for hate speech amid US college protests over the Israel-Hamas war (Sofia Barnett/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-sidechat-fanned-the-flame…