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Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
The Swiss government could soon require service providers with more than 5,000 users to collect government-issued identification, retain subscriber data for six months and, in many cases, disable encryption.
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Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
Swiss-based providers of secure email, VPNs and other digital services say a pending government proposal would be catastrophic to their ability to protect the privacy of users.

„IT-Sicherheit muss Chefsache sein“: Der Chef des Ransomware-Teams im LKA NRW spricht ware Worte.
Übrigens: Das letzte Sicherheitsnetz ist Backup. Schaut, dass eures nicht reissen kann. Also, dass kein noch so guter Angreifer (und die Ransomware-Gangs sind da top!) euer Backup verändern/löschen kann.
Für Einzelpersonen heisst das meist: 2-3 USB-Festplatten in Rotation und nur angeschlossen, wenn nötig.
(Ab 06:03 Uhr dann.hinter der 💰🧱)

Noen ganger kjenner jeg på frustrasjonen over at det er arbeidsledere og et hierarki som bestemmer over meg på jobben. Det er urettferdig at bare et fåtall har kontroll over viktige avgjŸrelser som former min arbeidshverdag, mens vi som faktisk utfŸrer arbeidet sjelden får si vår mening eller påvirke det som skjer.
Jeg Ÿnsker meg en arbeidsplass der alle oss arbeidere sammen tar de viktige avgjŸrelsene som angår arbeidsdagen og framtiden vår. For meg er det viktig at ingen enkeltperson…

When I'm on the road and set up Airplay from my Mac on the random “smart” TV in the hotel/Airbnb/etc, about half the time my browsers lose the ability to play video. Searching the Internet turns up many similar problems, but not this one. Happens all the time. This just a well-known fail?
#MacOS #airplay

Switzerland proposes regulations forcing service providers to collect user IDs and disable encryption, threatening its status as a haven for privacy tech firms (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/switzerland-digital-privacy-law-proton-priv…

Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
Switzerland-based providers of secure email, VPNs and other digital services say a pending government proposal would be catastrophic to their ability to protect the privacy of users.

Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
After nearly a decade in limbo and years of negotiations,
a treaty announced in June and set to come into effect over coming months,
will scrap most barriers to travel and trade that went up after Britain’s divorce from the E.U. became official at the end of 2020.

Some 40,000 Gibraltarians will regain what millions of traveling Brits miss most:
the ability to wander unfettered, without passports or time limits, througho…

The Brits who beat Brexit: Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
Nearly a decade after Britain quit the E.U., British residents of Gibraltar on the southern tip of Spain, will regain travel and commercial access under a treaty.

Another demonstration that we MUST differentiate between the ability to reproduce some kind of data and the ability to perform abstract reasoning.
So-called “artificial intelligence” tools are just stochastic parrots.
Beware the marketing hype.
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Hippocampal plasticity and navigational skills in blindness https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/1228782 "We discuss how cross-modal plasticity repurposes the visual cortex for navigation, the role of sensory substitution devices in facilitating spatial learning, and behavioral …

Hippocampal Plasticity and Navigational Skills in Blindness

Navigation is a fundamental cognitive ability that relies on the hippocampus, a brain region that is known for its role in spatial representation and memory. In individuals with congenital blindness, the absence of visual input leads to significant neuroplastic adaptations that support alternative navigation strategies. This review examines the structural and functional modifications of the hippocampus in individuals who are blind and explores the broader neural mechanisms underlying…

“Supreme Court win for girl with epilepsy expected to make disability lawsuits against schools easier”
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-disabilities-schools-education-access-lawsuits-56f67cf12f1f9c4a7e…

Supreme Court rules for girl with epilepsy in case over access to education
A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy has won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that’s expected to make it easier for families of children with disabilities to sue schools over access to education. Thursday's ruling comes after her family said her Minnesota school district didn’t do enough to get her the disability accommodations she needs to learn. The girl and her family appealed to the Supreme Court after lower courts ruled against their disability discrimination case. Some courts h…

MoSE: Unveiling Structural Patterns in Graphs via Mixture of Subgraph Experts
Junda Ye, Zhongbao Zhang, Li Sun, Siqiang Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09337 https://

MoSE: Unveiling Structural Patterns in Graphs via Mixture of Subgraph Experts
While graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in learning from graph-structured data, their reliance on local, pairwise message passing restricts their ability to capture complex, high-order subgraph patterns. leading to insufficient structural expressiveness. Recent efforts have attempted to enhance structural expressiveness by integrating random walk kernels into GNNs. However, these methods are inherently designed for graph-level tasks, which limits their applicability to ot…