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Ahead of CZ's sentencing on April 30, a look at the contrast between CZ/Binance and SBF/FTX, as Binance claims more than 40M new users in 2023, up 30% YoY (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-…

Ex-Binance CEO CZ May Be Richest Person Ever in Jail in US
The ex-CEO is about to learn if he’ll be the richest US inmate ever. But, with friends on the company’s board, his ownership of the exchange intact and the mother of his children helping to run the show, his case is nothing like FTX’s.

If you're on an online community, please search "elephant in the room" and share what the elephants are.
Here's the ones from the future of coding slack:
- DCI architecture (not sure what that is)
- Haskell crypto
- Code quality
- Incoherence of ownership
- No one in UK government listens to evidence
- Functional reactive programming
- IDEs
- Browsers being crap at resizing in tiling window managers
- The elephant being the…

RobWE: Robust Watermark Embedding for Personalized Federated Learning Model Ownership Protection
Yang Xu, Yunlin Tan, Cheng Zhang, Kai Chi, Peng Sun, Wenyuan Yang, Ju Ren, Hongbo Jiang, Yaoxue Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19054

RobWE: Robust Watermark Embedding for Personalized Federated Learning Model Ownership Protection
Embedding watermarks into models has been widely used to protect model ownership in federated learning (FL). However, existing methods are inadequate for protecting the ownership of personalized models acquired by clients in personalized FL (PFL). This is due to the aggregation of the global model in PFL, resulting in conflicts over clients' private watermarks. Moreover, malicious clients may tamper with embedded watermarks to facilitate model leakage and evade accountability. This paper presen…

Few things excite the #TNGOP like micromanaging #Memphis from a distance.
Our state constitution has a home-rule clause that provides for cities to govern themselves, but any time Memphis tries to govern itself, the plantation owners in the legislature ram through a bill saying “oh no you don’t…

A car to go anywhere, anytime*
*as long as it doesn't rain or is foggy
https://futurism.com/cybertruck-owners-already-rusting

Reviewing the NFL rule changes, plus recapping Tuesday’s news https://theathletic.com/5372386/2024/03/27/reviewing-the-nfl-rule-changes-plus-recapping-tuesdays-news/

Reviewing the NFL rule changes, plus recapping Tuesday’s news
This is the digital version of Scoop City. If you want it earlier, start every morning with Scoop City delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Jim Harbaugh has almost gone full Walter White since moving from Michigan to L.A., living in an RV at a trailer park. I need a Gardner Minshew-like photoshoot. Today’s NFL update: 🔬New kickoff rules examined 🎥 One play everyone is copying 🤝 NBA-style trades? 📑 Tre’Davious White a Ram The NFL’s annual owners meetings ended y…

A car to go anywhere, anytime*
*as long as it doesn't rain or is foggy
https://futurism.com/cybertruck-owners-already-rusting

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As "censorship free" social network Parler returns to the iOS App Store, CEO Ryan Rhodes talks new features, moderation, and building "a true open platform" (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/parler-app-store-free-speech-censorship/…

Parler's New Owners Swear This Time Will Be Different
The “free speech” social media alternative is back on Apple’s App Store ahead of its official relaunch.

The owners of a rural #Christian boarding school for "troubled" boys have been arrested and charged with kidnapping as an investigation into further criminal allegations continues.
Five boys have run away from the school, Lighthouse Christian Academy, this year, with some escapees asking a neighbor to call 911. Lighthouse previously accepted girls, until a former principal was …

The owners of a Christian boarding school in Missouri are jailed and charged with kidnapping crimes
The husband and wife owners of a Missouri boarding school for boys have been jailed and charged with felony crimes after a lengthy investigation by a county sheriff.