@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThousands of officers and staff employed by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have been offered payments of £7,500 (€8,700) after a data breach resulted in their personal details being published in error.
https://www.irishtimes.com…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources detail Musk's time at xAI after he left DOGE: he oversaw the design of the racy chatbot Ani, employees turned over biometric data to train avatars, more (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/musk-tesla-compens…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeWe're halfway through the post-Thanksgiving week, and the cyber news machine is cranking back up again, so check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Indian government retreats from spy app mandate,
--US DOJ seizes Myanmar scam center website,
--Coupang execs sold company stock before breach was announced,
--Coupang is reviewing compensation for breach victims,
--Korea's Gmarket hit by string of una…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialClimate justice took center stage at Pre-COP30 as African and Global South advocates made their case clear: adaptation finance isn't charity—it's survival.
CSOs pushed for locally-rooted indicators in the Global Goal on Adaptation, fair compensation for communities displaced by green projects, and recognition of food sovereignty in climate policy.
h…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe IAB proposes draft legislation to protect publishers from AI companies using their content to train models and generate summaries without compensation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/02/iab-ai-accountability-publishers-act
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeIf I am reading this correctly, Northern Ireland police, who just received compensation of £7,500 per officer for having their personal details published in error on the internet, were revictimized today when the Northern Ireland court system again published their personal details.
@relcfp@mastodon.socialTOC: Journal of Jewish Ethics 10.1-2 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136596/toc-journal-jewish-ethics-101-2
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCoupang says it is offering $1B in compensation to all 33.7M customers affected by South Korea's biggest-ever data breach, after an ex-staffer accessed data (Shinhye Kang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDoes tossing a laptop in the river destroy evidence?
The Coupang hacker allegedly disposed of the laptop used in the breach by throwing it into a river.
https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/hacker-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFiling: Disney CEO Bob Iger's pay package rose 11.5% in 2025 to $45.8M; the Disney board is expected to name his successor early this year (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/disney-ceo-bob-iger-pay-package-compensatio…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialTOC: Journal of Jewish Ethics 10.1-2
https://ift.tt/WdnR0QC
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/vMXlZkp
@cdarwin@c.imOver the past quarter-century, political, legal and economic changes have reshaped the relationship between wealth and political power in America.
Economists say wealth is now more concentrated at the very top than at any time since the Gilded Age.
The tech and market revolutions of recent decades have created riches on an unprecedented scale.
Changing norms on executive compensation and lower-tax policies under Republican and Democratic administrations have helped insul…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThere’s a lot to be said about that story beyond just “Spotify sucks:” how internships can be exploitative, how creators in general do not receive (and historically long have not received) proper compensation for their own work, how orgs especially treat women and especially Black women as disposable free labor. Details left as an exercise for the reader.
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTwo freelance journalists say the UK's Daily Express stole their articles, rewriting one seemingly using AI, and offered £100 only once they reached out (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/express-offers-compensa…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL pushing for performance-based compensation as part of new CBA with referees https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6879706/2025/12/10/nfl-referees-officials-collective-bargaining/
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialYet more proof that our collective resources are being spent on the wrong things. #climatechange #inequality
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"given that #Trump has recently removed public service provision of golf courses in his own country, then transferring his Scottish golf courses to community ownership in Scotland is merely a part-compensation to the common weal" -- @…
@benb@osintua.eu'We will become homeless' — Russians protest in Kursk Oblast over loss of compensation payments for property lost during Ukraine's incursion: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/we-will-become-homeless-russians.html
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caJason Proctor is contributing to the CBC's live blog scroll from a legal perspective and as always, his stuff is illumniating. I'll paste his report in because it can get lost in the scroll easily.
"Creditors circle as cull looms
Jason Proctor
I'm Jason Proctor, a reporter with CBC Vancouver who looked into a series of lawsuits facing the owners of Universal Ostrich Farms Inc.
Last month, I spoke with three creditors who are watching today's ruling with great interest — and some skin in the game.
B.C. Supreme Court judges have ordered the farm's owners to repay debts worth more than $250,000 but, up until now, the creditors have been unable to collect. Normally in this kind of situation, a creditor would move to seize the business assets — but because in this case those assets are ostriches caught up in a legal battle, that's been challenging, to say the least.
All three creditors have tried to garnish the CFIA to intercept any money the agency might pay out as compensation for killing the birds (potentially up to $3,000 a bird, the CFIA says) but it remains to be seen how that will work. The creditors, however, told me they are anxious to recoup their losses.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394?ts=1762453717737
@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot@mastoxiv.pageDispersion-Aware Modeling Framework for Parallel Optical Computing
Ziqi Wei, Yuanjian Wan, Yuhu Cheng, Xiao Yu, Peng Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18897 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18897 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18897
arXiv:2511.18897v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Optical computing represents a groundbreaking technology that leverages the unique properties of photons, with innate parallelism standing as its most compelling advantage. Parallel optical computing like cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) based offers powerful computational capabilities but also introduces new challenges, particularly concerning dispersion due to the introduction of new frequencies. In this work, we extend existing theories of cascaded MZI systems to develop a generalized model tailored for wavelength-multiplexed parallel optical computing. Our comprehensive model incorporates component dispersion characteristics into a wavelength-dependent transfer matrix framework and is experimentally validated. We propose a computationally efficient compensation strategy that reduces global dispersion error within a 40 nm range from 0.22 to 0.039 using edge-spectrum calibration. This work establishes a fundamental framework for dispersion-aware model and error correction in MZI-based parallel optical computing chips, advancing the reliability of multi-wavelength photonic processors.
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@marjolica@social.linux.pizzaAny chance the UK might also start looking at the effective Google search monopoly?
We are supposed to be independent of the EU now, but all that seems to mean is that we are in thrall to the US instead.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl95eg33k1o
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Samsung plans to acquire $1.73B of its stock for employee and executive compensation, as part of a performance-linked scheme introduced in October 2025 (Kyu-seok Shim/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/samsung-e…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe BBC apologizes to President Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his January 6 speech together but rejects his demands for compensation (Noor Nanji/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c874nw4g2zzo
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Ohio’s largest utility pushes to slash rooftop solar compensation"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower
@metacurity@infosec.exchange"The government and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) are forcing financial firms to compensate voice phishing victims, regardless of who is at fault, fanning concerns over how far consumer protection should go without distorting incentives in the financial system, market watchers said Monday."
@cdarwin@c.imIf you know something about Basic Income, you may be aware that
👉one of the first proposals for a Basic Income came from Thomas Paine, hero of the American and French revolutions.
In 1797, after a stint in a French prison, Paine wrote the pamphlet
"Agrarian Justice",
⭐️which sets out an argument for taxing land and distributing the proceeds among the population at large as compensation for landlessness.
Paine’s proposal to tax land and distribute the …
@arXiv_condmatdisnn_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for cond-mat.dis-nn. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.dis-nn/new
[1/1]:
- Compensation between the parameters of the Jonschers's Universal Relaxation Law in disordered mat...
Anthony N. Papathanassiou, Elias Sakellis
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI told staff it was ending the six-month "vesting cliff" that required new employees to work for at least six months before their equity vests (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tec…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSEC filing: WBD says the Ellisons offered David Zaslav a compensation package of several hundred million dollars, which Zaslav said was inappropriate to discuss (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ins
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, to let publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/841222/rsl-licensing-ai-spec-launch
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: the MLS-Apple TV deal will end in 2029, three and a half years earlier than planned; compensation averages $250M for the three remaining full seasons (Sportico)
https://www.sportico.com/leagues/soccer/2025/apple-mls-streaming-contract-cha…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPresident Trump plans to sue the BBC "for anywhere between a billion and $5B" next week, after the BBC rejected his compensation demands over a misleading edit (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI was just looking up David Blunkett on Wikipedia, for reasons.
I knew he'd been blind from birth, but bloody hell this is quite some opening paragraph to the "Early life" section:
[Blunkett] grew up in an underprivileged family; in 1959 he endured a family tragedy when his father was gravely injured in an industrial accident: he fell into a vat of boiling water while at work as a foreman for the East Midlands Gas Board, dying a month later. This left the surviving family in poverty, especially since the board refused to pay compensation for two years because his father had worked past the retirement age, dying at the age of 67.
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
2026 has been designated as the International Year of the Woman Farmer by the United Nations, in an effort to increase and improve food security across the planet. Once again we call upon the fairer sex to save humanity.
Women led farms are on the rise in Canada. From the 2021 #StatsCan report, there were 80,000 female farm operators, representing 30% of total farm operators, up from 25% in 1991. In general female participation is increasing while men are decreasing. Farming is an industry where women operators can achieve wage parity with male counterparts because compensation is based on market conditions, but currently most women led farms are smaller with less annual revenues.
A helpful #AI tells me a female farmer could could be called a farmerette, a farmeress, or farmHER. So helpful...
Two articles are linked - a feel good news piece from the CBC, and more solid demographic info from FCC-FAC.ca.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Agriculture
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/women-career-agriculture-1.7443846
https://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/knowledge/women-in-canadian-agriculture
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, to let publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/841222/rsl-licensing-ai-spec-launch
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caI don't know how much of Musk’s newly "approved" salary of $1 Trillion is stocks or compensation or what… I don't really care.
And I also don't want to hold up Steve Jobs as any kind of Saint. But he was different.
"I was worth about over $1 million when I was 23, and over $10 million when I was 24, and over $100 million when I was 25, and it wasn't that important,” Jobs revealed in a 1996 PBS documentary.”
#Wealth #Obscene #Rich #selfishness
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/steve-jobs-worth-billions-said-230015767.html?guccounter=1
