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FPF Releases Updated Report on the State Comprehensive Privacy Law Landscape
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-updated-report-on-the-state-comprehensive-privacy-law-landscape/
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A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide (Sam Knight/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/19/how-what…

How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation
The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike, Sam Knight writes. What are we all doing there?

Ukraine's Special Forces confirm 'successful fire attack' on Russia's Stavrolen petrochemical plant: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/ukraines-special-forces-confirm-successful.html

These are three arguments for web dev serv. APIs, even if you have to take a critical look at them in detail:
»Speed Comparison: Benchmarking programming languages using the Leibniz formula for calculating π«
— 2025-12-12
📊 https://niklas-heer.github.io/speed-comparison/…

Call for papers | Catholic Record Society 68th Annual Conference | 1-2 July 2026 | London & online https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133845/call-papers-catholic-record-society-68th-annual-conference-1-2-…

A new vision: Comparing electrical prostheses in the race to end blindness https://www.jfophth.com/a-new-vision-comparing-electrical-prostheses-in-the-race-to-end-blindness/

Cakeberra!
All pictures in the book are from the charity’s 2017 Cake Off competition, in which the theme was ‘Canberra’. They were professionally captured, but unutilised until now.
Learning your ABCs? It's a piece of cake with this charity's Canberra-themed book | Region Canberra

Learning your ABCs? It's a piece of cake with this charity's Canberra-themed book | Region Canberra
Imagine you're on a bus, driving around discovering Canberra icons made of cake - and learning your ABCs along the…

Apple confirmed that Google Gemini will power the next-generation version of Siri that is slated to launch later this year.
The next-generation version of Siri is expected to be introduced with iOS 26.4,
which will likely be released to the general public in March or April.
The new capabilities will include better understanding of a user's personal context, on-screen awareness, and deeper per-app controls.
For example, Apple showed an iPhone user asking Siri abou…

Apple Confirms Google Gemini Will Power Next-Generation Siri This Year
In a statement shared with CNBC today, Apple confirmed that Google Gemini will power the next-generation version of Siri that is slated to launch...

Efficient Bayesian Inference from Noisy Pairwise Comparisons
Till Aczel, Lucas Theis, Wattenhofer Roger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09333 https://arxiv.org/…

Efficient Bayesian Inference from Noisy Pairwise Comparisons
Evaluating generative models is challenging because standard metrics often fail to reflect human preferences. Human evaluations are more reliable but costly and noisy, as participants vary in expertise, attention, and diligence. Pairwise comparisons improve consistency, yet aggregating them into overall quality scores requires careful modeling. Bradley-Terry-based methods update item scores from comparisons, but existing approaches either ignore rater variability or lack convergence guarantees,…

Within minutes of federal agents with ICE, the DEA and FBI arriving at the workplace,
a rapid response network mobilized to confront the agents carrying out an immigration raid at the Bro-Tex distribution center.
As community members rallied to halt the raid,
federal agents cordoned off the area and began trying to clear protesters.
Agents used pepper balls, OC canisters and pepper spray on the crowd
as they tried to clear a path for a convoy of their vehicles, s…

Insight from the Bro-Tex Raid: What Activists Saw While Confronting ICE - UNICORN RIOT
Unicorn Riot heard from two locals who mobilized in response to an immigration raid in St. Paul on the morning of Nov. 18.