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A website set up by a Danish software developer floods EU lawmakers with emails opposing planned EU "Chat Control" laws to fight CSAM by scanning encrypted apps (Sam Clark/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/one-man-spam-…

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill
A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

Optimization via a Control-Centric Framework
Liraz Mudrik, Isaac Kaminer, Sean Kragelund, Abram H. Clark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05455 https://arxiv.org…

Optimization via a Control-Centric Framework
Optimization plays a central role in intelligent systems and cyber-physical technologies, where the speed and reliability of convergence directly impact performance. In control theory, optimization-centric methods are standard: controllers are designed by repeatedly solving optimization problems, as in linear quadratic regulation, $H_\infty$ control, and model predictive control. In contrast, this paper develops a control-centric framework for optimization itself, where algorithms are construct…

DOGE is still slashing government contracts, with around $2.2 billion in cyber contracts cut through August 2025.
Check out today's Metacurity for more on which contracts have been cut and other top infosec developments you should know, including
--18 popular JavaScript code packages were compromised by malware,
--WhatsApp former security chief accuses Meta of security and privacy flaws,
--Treasury sanctions Myanmar and Cambodia scam businesses and people,
--IC…

DOGE has slashed government cyber contracts by $2.2 billion so far
18 popular JavaScript code packages compromised by malware, WhatsApp ex-security chief accuses Meta of security and privacy flaws, Treasury sanctions Myanmar & Cambodia scam workers and firms, ICE is spending $4m on facial to hunt for cop assaulters, Hacked Boris Johnson files leaked, much more

Sharing but Not Caring: Similar Outcomes for Shared Control and Switching Control in Telepresence-Robot Navigation
Juho Kalliokoski, Evan G. Center, Steven M. LaValle, Timo Ojala, Basak Sakcak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05672

Sharing but Not Caring: Similar Outcomes for Shared Control and Switching Control in Telepresence-Robot Navigation
Telepresence robots enable users to interact with remote environments, but efficient and intuitive navigation remains a challenge. In this work, we developed and evaluated a shared control method, in which the robot navigates autonomously while allowing users to affect the path generation to better suit their needs. We compared this with control switching, where users toggle between direct and automated control. We hypothesized that shared control would maintain efficiency comparable to control…

Open letter: 40 European companies oppose the EU's "Chat Control" proposal, which forces services to scan messages for CSAM, fearing it would mandate backdoors (CryptPad Blog)
https://blog.cryptpad.org/2025/10/07/open-letter-against-chat-control/

Europe's future is at stake: Open letter against Chat Control
European SMEs have united to direct a strong open letter to urge ministers of EU member states to oppose Chat Control and to defend privacy and a strong European tech industry.

Harvard economist Jason Furman estimates that investments in data centers and information-processing software accounted for 92% of US GDP growth in H1 2025 (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/data-centers-gdp-g…

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says
Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

ASPI researchers: Myanmar's online scam centers on the Thai border rose from 11 to 27 since 2021's military coup, holding an estimated 100K trafficked people (Rebecca Ratcliffe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-devel…

The new iPhones have an 18MP Center Stage front camera that features a new square sensor and can use AI to automatically adjust the field of view and rotation (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/iphone/774679/iphone-17-front-facing-came…

iPhone 17’s front-facing camera gets Center Stage
iPhone 17 has a new square sensor that enables Center Stage and lets you take landscape selfies without rotating the phone.

A deep dive on Huawei's Ascend AI chip production, SMIC, TSMC, US export controls, HBM bottlenecks, China's HBM issues, Huawei's data center chips, and more (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/09/08/hu

Huawei Ascend Production Ramp: Die Banks, TSMC Continued Production, HBM is The Bottleneck
Compute is the lifeblood of AI. He who controls the spice controls the universe the compute will control the production of tokens and reap the benefits of AI. Without compute you do not have a seat…

OpenAI expands its ~$5 ChatGPT Go plan to 16 new Asian countries, including Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam, after launching it in August (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/openais-affordable-ch…

OpenAI's affordable ChatGPT Go plan expands to 16 new countries in Asia | TechCrunch
OpenAI is expanding its $5 per month ChatGPT Go plan to 16 more countries.