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The AI Action Plan suggests Trump wants to inculcate a "try-first" culture through regulatory sandboxes for AI, which have already popped up in some US states (Aaron Mak/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digit

Listen to 8 hours of sound dedicated to Palestine - and act -
#DoingGood #EndGenocide
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Listen to 8 hours of sound dedicated to Palestine - and act - CDM Create Digital Music
Music and sound are not action -- at least, not normally. But sound can recenter you, rewire your brain, and let you catch your breath before that action. So I find myself returning to this eight-hour broadcast by London's Sister Midnight FM, which includes Palestinian artists who have long been featured on CDM, including Muqata'a, bint mbareh, and Dakn.

Action Alert from @… : Tell Congress: Don't Outlaw Encrypted Applications
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-outlaw-encrypted…

Tell Congress: Don't Outlaw Encrypted Applications
It shouldn't be against the law to provide an encrypted app. But if the STOP CSAM Act passes, it would make it a crime to offer encryption, because it could "facilitate" the sharing of illegal child abuse material (CSAM)—even if there's no evidence that a platform or service intended to do so. The law would undermine digital security for all internet users, impacting private messaging and email app providers, social media platforms, cloud storage providers, and many other internet intermediar…

CEO says they can only win on the experience. And yet every action they roll out makes it less and less possible for a professional to go in there and interact with someone knowledgeable.
https://www.guitarworld.com/music-industry/guitar-center-three-year-d…

Guitar Center secures three-year debt extension to ensure it can deliver on its business plan
The announcement comes amid increasing challenges for brick-and-mortar guitar stores and ongoing changes at Guitar Center to battle competition from digital retailers

Incredible if you think about it...
"The bug, when exploited, allows hackers to steal private digital keys from SharePoint servers without needing any credentials to log in. Once in, the hackers can remotely plant malware, and gain access to the files and data stored within"
Big #Microsoft

New zero-day bug in Microsoft SharePoint under widespread attack | TechCrunch
Security researchers say Microsoft customers should take immediate action to defend against the ongoing cyberattacks, and must assume they have already been compromised.

Continuously Updating Digital Twins using Large Language Models
Harry Amad, Nicol\'as Astorga, Mihaela van der Schaar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12091 …

Continuously Updating Digital Twins using Large Language Models
Digital twins are models of real-world systems that can simulate their dynamics in response to potential actions. In complex settings, the state and action variables, and available data and knowledge relevant to a system can constantly change, requiring digital twins to continuously update with these changes to remain relevant. Current approaches struggle in this regard, as they require fixed, well-defined modelling environments, and they cannot adapt to novel variables without re-designs, or i…

💸 Agency for college athlete payment deals agrees to loosen third-party restrictions
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/31/agency-for-college-athlete-payment-deals-agrees-to-loosen-third-party-restrictio…

Knowledge Graph Completion for Action Prediction on Situational Graphs -- A Case Study on Household Tasks
Mariam Arustashvili, J\"org Deigm\"oller, Heiko Paulheim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13675

Knowledge Graph Completion for Action Prediction on Situational Graphs -- A Case Study on Household Tasks
Knowledge Graphs are used for various purposes, including business applications, biomedical analyses, or digital twins in industry 4.0. In this paper, we investigate knowledge graphs describing household actions, which are beneficial for controlling household robots and analyzing video footage. In the latter case, the information extracted from videos is notoriously incomplete, and completing the knowledge graph for enhancing the situational picture is essential. In this paper, we show that, wh…

Whistlejacket is a Brand, Design and Communications Agency from the UK. They commissioned me to create illustrations and iconography, and build an interactive digital handbook for the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
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EU Digital Regulation and Guatemala: AI, 5G, and Cybersecurity
Victor Lopez Juarez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08315 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08315…

EU Digital Regulation and Guatemala: AI, 5G, and Cybersecurity
The paper examines how EU rules in AI, 5G, and cybersecurity operate as transnational governance and shape policy in Guatemala. It outlines the AI Act's risk approach, the 5G Action Plan and Security Toolbox, and the cybersecurity regime built on ENISA, NIS2, the Cybersecurity Act, and the Cyber Resilience Act. It traces extraterritorial channels such as the Brussels effect, private standards, supply chain clauses, and data transfer controls. Guatemala specific impacts include SME compliance co…

How Viable are Energy Savings in Smart Homes? A Call to Embrace Rebound Effects in Sustainable HCI
Christina Bremer, Harshit Gujral, Michelle Lin, Lily Hinkers, Christoph Becker, Vlad C. Coroam\u{a}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14653

How Viable are Energy Savings in Smart Homes? A Call to Embrace Rebound Effects in Sustainable HCI
As part of global climate action, digital technologies are seen as a key enabler of energy efficiency savings. A popular application domain for this work is smart homes. There is a risk, however, that these efficiency gains result in rebound effects, which reduce or even overcompensate the savings. Rebound effects are well-established in economics, but it is less clear whether they also inform smart energy research in other disciplines. In this paper, we ask: to what extent have rebound effects…

We have to fight with everything we have against the awful "Chat Control" proposal. It is very easy to explain why it is a very bad idea but because the subject is child abuse, everybody loses rational thinking capabilities it seems. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-contr…

Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Control now! The Chat Control 2.0 proposal in detail Changes proposed by the European Parliament

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Hume: Introducing System-2 Thinking in Visual-Language-Action Model
Humans practice slow thinking before performing actual actions when handling complex tasks in the physical world. This thinking paradigm, recently, has achieved remarkable advancement in boosting Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve complex tasks in digital domains. However, the potential of slow thinking remains largely unexplored for robotic foundation models interacting with the physical world. In this work, we propose Hume: a dual-system Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model with value-guided…

Multimodal Late Fusion Model for Problem-Solving Strategy Classification in a Machine Learning Game
Clemens Witt, Thiemo Leonhardt, Nadine Bergner, Mareen Grillenberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22426

Multimodal Late Fusion Model for Problem-Solving Strategy Classification in a Machine Learning Game
Machine learning models are widely used to support stealth assessment in digital learning environments. Existing approaches typically rely on abstracted gameplay log data, which may overlook subtle behavioral cues linked to learners' cognitive strategies. This paper proposes a multimodal late fusion model that integrates screencast-based visual data and structured in-game action sequences to classify students' problem-solving strategies. In a pilot study with secondary school students (N=149) p…

A Review of Various Datasets for Machine Learning Algorithm-Based Intrusion Detection System: Advances and Challenges
Sudhanshu Sekhar Tripathy, Bichitrananda Behera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02438

A Review of Various Datasets for Machine Learning Algorithm-Based Intrusion Detection System: Advances and Challenges
IDS aims to protect computer networks from security threats by detecting, notifying, and taking appropriate action to prevent illegal access and protect confidential information. As the globe becomes increasingly dependent on technology and automated processes, ensuring secured systems, applications, and networks has become one of the most significant problems of this era. The global web and digital technology have significantly accelerated the evolution of the modern world, necessitating the u…

TikTok's Research API: Problems Without Explanations
Carlos Entrena-Serrano, Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano, Raziye Buse \c{C}etin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09746

TikTok's Research API: Problems Without Explanations
Following the Digital Services Act of 2023, which requires Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) to facilitate data accessibility for independent research, TikTok augmented its Research API access within Europe in July 2023. This action was intended to ensure compliance with the DSA, bolster transparency, and address systemic risks. Nonetheless, research findings reveal that despite this expansion, notable limitations and inconsistencies persist withi…

Whistlejacket is a Brand, Design and Communications Agency from the UK. They commissioned me to create illustrations and iconography, and build an interactive digital handbook for the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
#Design #Illustration #Portfolio #Sustainability