Ik zou het een geweldige stunt vinden als Musk gedeporteerd wordt door Trump.
Of, misschien nog beter, als Musk genoeg medestanders in de regering kan vinden om het 25e amendement in te roepen.
One might think that Microsoft's storage of the actual contents (not just the meta-data) all phone calls from Gaza and the West Bank might violate both US and EU privacy laws.
The US might ignore this, but I suspect the EU could use the GDPR to levy very large, punitive fines on Microsoft.
"‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians"
Current State in Privacy-Preserving Text Preprocessing for Domain-Agnostic NLP
Abhirup Sinha, Pritilata Saha, Tithi Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03204 https://
A Type System for Data Privacy Compliance in Active Object Languages
Chinmayi Prabhu Baramashetru (University of Oslo, Norway), Paola Giannini (Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Italy), Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (University of Oslo, Norway), Olaf Owe (University of Oslo, Norway)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03831
Rädda Valhallabadet! I have spent so many enjoyable hours of my life in this lovely public swimhall from the 1950s. Goteborg would not be Goteborg without it. Please sign this petition to save it from unnecessary demolition:
https://www.mittskifte.org/petitions/radda-valhallabadet
Love it when regulation kicks us in the ass.
The new Pangu-Pro-MoE model from Ascend Tribe (Huawei) ships with a license that forbids use inside the EU.
Why? Probably to dodge any messy GDPR debates.
After the WHOIS debacle sparked by GDPR, we can add yet another item to the ever-growing list of regulation-created problems.
"3. Conditions for License Grant. You represent and warrant that You will not, access, download, install, run, deploy, integrate, modify, or other…
U.S. law firm Susman Godfrey defeats Trump executive order (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-law-firm-susman-godfrey-defeats-trump-executive-order-2025-06-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p146#a250627p146
Friday Links 25-13
Too many random links this week.
The interview with the creator of Praise You (sampled by Fatboy Slim) is pretty good, what a strong woman.
If you need some inspiration to get on a bike, watch the video about riding 2500 km in London.
https://christof.damian…
Leeuwarden stuurt per ongeluk mail met 'openstaande belasting' naar 5000 mensen
https://nos.nl/artikel/2580835-leeuwarden-stuurt-per-ongeluk-mail-met-openstaande-belasting-naar-5000-mensen
'De gedupeerde…