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North Carolina adopts new Trump-backed US House districts aimed at gaining a Republican seat (Gary D. Robertson/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-congress-redistricting-trump-5dccfdf94253efb56c59bbb3d3e3a6d8
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p72#a251022p72

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Four-term North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, a leader in education reform, dies at 88 (Gary D. Robertson/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-gov-jim-hunt-obit-0edf223c7e614acab5d3a76cb2d9c1f3
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p125#a251218p125

Comparison of Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Garbled Circuit Techniques in Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Inference
Kalyan Cheerla (University of North Texas), Lotfi Ben Othmane (University of North Texas), Kirill Morozov (University of North Texas)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07457

Comparison of Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Garbled Circuit Techniques in Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Inference
Machine Learning (ML) is making its way into fields such as healthcare, finance, and Natural Language Processing (NLP), and concerns over data privacy and model confidentiality continue to grow. Privacy-preserving Machine Learning (PPML) addresses this challenge by enabling inference on private data without revealing sensitive inputs or proprietary models. Leveraging Secure Computation techniques from Cryptography, two widely studied approaches in this domain are Fully Homomorphic Encryption (F…

Homeland Security: Immigration enforcement operations are underway in Charlotte, North Carolina (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-charlotte-immigration-federal-33e2339744cd3b2fa3999099c509f90a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251115/p50#a251115p50

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 17: Vicki Jarrett
So far she's published a couple of really good novels and a collection of short stories. She strikes me as the type of author who aims for quality, not quantity.
I adored her first novel "Nothing is Heavy", based on real life experiences in Edinburgh. Her other novel, "Always North" is an eco-thriller set in Svalbard, a Norwegian arctic island.
Both great…

North Carolina GOP announce plans to vote on new House map amid nationwide redistricting battle (Gary Robertson/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-congress-redistricting-house-b32b6b1c52d9f59efac41c3b8c0db971
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p91#a251013p91