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#Amazon has kept pushing back the date when they say they will enable CDK CLI anonymous telemetry collection. Current enable date is Oct 1, 2025.
Lots of comments suggesting it should be an opt-in, not opt-out.
https://git…

❗ NOTICE: CDK CLI will begin to collect anonymous telemetry data on or after Oct 1st, 2025 · Issue #34892 · aws/aws-cdk
Status In-Progress. Doc page on CLI Telemetry: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/cli-telemetry.html Last communication on 8/29/25: Hi all, I'm updating the launch date on this thread to say ...

A convenient link to opt out of #LinkedIn using your data to train some genai
https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/m/settings/data-for-ai-improvement

OpenAI says ChatGPT Atlas' opt-in browser memories feature can remember key details from users' web browsing to improve chat responses and offer suggestions (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas

If you “honour” my #DoNotTrack* signal, why don't you just shut the fuck up, dear https://docs.spring.io? 🙄
* More accurately:

I enjoy encountering these little sentences that sound utterly dystopian without context

Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3569eaed-d031-4d04-af79-3b3d7c6e836f

Okay, hear me out: a system or kernel level program, structured similar to anti-virus and running in the background, but instead of isolating computer viruses it prevents network access for recently updated apps using AI features that should have been opt-in.

The dream of safe C/C code is here.
I have been following this development, and I am in awe at how much has been achieved, now available as a package:
https://fil-c.org/install_optfil
You can get drunk on the details here:

Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3569eaed-d031-4d04-af79-3b3d7c6e836f

Flow-Opt: Scalable Centralized Multi-Robot Trajectory Optimization with Flow Matching and Differentiable Optimization
Simon Idoko, Arun Kumar Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09204

Flow-Opt: Scalable Centralized Multi-Robot Trajectory Optimization with Flow Matching and Differentiable Optimization
Centralized trajectory optimization in the joint space of multiple robots allows access to a larger feasible space that can result in smoother trajectories, especially while planning in tight spaces. Unfortunately, it is often computationally intractable beyond a very small swarm size. In this paper, we propose Flow-Opt, a learning-based approach towards improving the computational tractability of centralized multi-robot trajectory optimization. Specifically, we reduce the problem to first lear…

Google's New AI Health Tool: Opt in or Risk Losing Benefits - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-health-tool-opt-in-risk-losing-benefits-2025-10

Quellensteuer mit Opt-Out in Basel
(in der Waadt gibt es das Äquivalent der monatlichen Anzahlungen, auch freiwillig - man bekommt eine Rechnung, aber man muss nicht anzahlen)
https://apropos.simplecast.com/episodes/quellensteuer-fur-alle-in-der-schweiz-NnKj_J5Y

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Hackers exposed government ID photos of 70,000 Discord users,
--DHS has forced cybersecurity pros to work on immigrant deportation,
--CA now requires browsers to honor data sharing opt outs,
--DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit are in cahoots,
--FCC data incident reporting rules are destined for oblivion,
--Telstra denies Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters bre…

Hackers exposed government ID photos of 70,000 Discord users
DHS has forced cybersecurity pros to work on immigrant deportation, CA now requires browsers to honor data sharing opt outs, DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit are in cahoots, FCC data incident reporting rules are destined for oblivion, Telstra denies Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters breach, much more

California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing https://therecord.media/california-signs-law-opt-out-browsers

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that will require web browsers to add settings that allow residents to opt out of third-party data collection (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/california-signs-law-opt-out-browsers

California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing
The California Consumer Privacy Act, signed in 2018, gave Californians the right to send opt-out signals, but major browsers have not had to make opt-outs simple to use.

Are Voters Willing to Collectively Secure Elections? Unraveling a Practical Blockchain Voting System
Zhuolun Li, Haluk Sonmezler, Faiza Shirazi, Febin Shaji, Tymoteusz Mroczkowski, Dexter Lardner, Matthew Alain Camus, Evangelos Pournaras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08700

Are Voters Willing to Collectively Secure Elections? Unraveling a Practical Blockchain Voting System
Ensuring ballot secrecy is critical for fair and trustworthy electronic voting systems, yet achieving strong secrecy guarantees in decentralized, large-scale elections remains challenging. This paper proposes the concept of collectively secure voting, in which voters themselves can opt in as secret holders to protect ballot secrecy. A practical blockchain-based collectively secure voting system is designed and implemented. Our design strikes a balance between strong confidentiality guarantees a…

Done.
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115389279859384745

Encountering a lot of the scam where I buy something in the UK and it recognizes my US credit card and charges me in dollars instead of pounds. With a currency conversion fee, often 3% or more. I do not have the option to prevent this. Mostly this is at POS terminals in restaurants, etc.
Uber also does this but they have a clear notification, an opt-out, and a sort of reasonable 1.5% fee. Still don't want it, I have 0% fee on my credit card.

In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of decades in prison, large fines, and other penalties. These federal charges eventually lead to his death in 2013.
No AI company was ever charged under federal laws.

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: (@volpeon)
> OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear. It's kind of hilarious that they go "if you don't want me to pirate your movies, you ne...

Bob Iger says 80% of new sign-ups to ESPN's streaming service, which was launched in August, opt for the bundle that includes Disney and Hulu (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/espn-streaming-disney-hulu-bob-iger-1236616258/
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ESPN Streaming Step-Up Going “Extremely Well,” With 80% Of Subscribers Also Taking Disney+ & Hulu, Bob Iger Says
ESPN's launch last August of a beefed-up direct-to-consumer streaming service has been "a real success for a number of reasons," Disney CEO Bob Iger told Wall Street analysts Thursday.

When LLM apologists tell me that models will get better[Citation Needed], what they fail to understand is that my disinterest is moral, not utilitarian.
I don’t care if we’ll see better models.
I care if we’ll see models that are trained entirely on corpuses created with informed consent*, using compute, electric, and water resources well understood and agreed upon.
* No, opt-out is not consent. Settling legal cases is not consent. Buried deep in some TOS is not consent.

@… okay but opt-in

Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin https://www.404media.co/reddit-answers-ai-suggests-users-try-heroin/

In GrapheneOS, you can now opt into a new feature called security preview releases. This allows you to receive monthly security patches earlier than the standard schedule.
For example, the 2025092701 security preview release already includes additional patches from the November 2025 and December 2025 Android Security Bulletins, along with fixes for several CVEs.
Full details can be found here:

Unfortunately, the idea for a #Rust #Clippy rule to forbid all expect and #unwrap use is still open.

Lint idea: forbid all expect and unwrap use · Issue #6636 · rust-lang/rust-clippy
What it does It would be nice to have a restriction lint (i.e., totally opt-in) that allows clippy users to completely ban all expect and unwrap use from a codebase. Functions or other items that a...

Reddit starts a limited test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark beside the usernames of notable people or businesses (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/reddit-is-testing-verification-badges/

Reddit is testing verification badges | TechCrunch
Verified users will actually be notable figures, not just people who paid for the checkmark.

Reddit starts a limited test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark beside the usernames of notable people or businesses (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/reddit-is-testing-verification-badges/

Reddit is testing verification badges | TechCrunch
Verified users will actually be notable figures, not just people who paid for the checkmark.

Mastodon plans to add Bluesky-like starter packs to suggest accounts to follow for new users, but will allow accounts to opt out of being included in Packs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/mastodon-is-taki…

Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs' | TechCrunch
Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

Efficient $\varepsilon$-approximate minimum-entropy couplings
Spencer Compton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19598 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19598

Efficient $\varepsilon$-approximate minimum-entropy couplings
Given $m \ge 2$ discrete probability distributions over $n$ states each, the minimum-entropy coupling is the minimum-entropy joint distribution whose marginals are the same as the input distributions. Computing the minimum-entropy coupling is NP-hard, but there has been significant progress in designing approximation algorithms; prior to this work, the best known polynomial-time algorithms attain guarantees of the form $H(\operatorname{ALG}) \le H(\operatorname{OPT}) + c$, where $c \approx 0.53…

YouTube is using AI to upscale videos uploaded at between 240p and 720p to HD on TV screens, but users can opt out, and plans 4K upscaling "in the near future" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/808717/youtube-automatic-ai…

YouTube will let you opt out of AI upscaling on low-res videos
YouTube is aiming to improve the viewing experience on TV screens with an instant shopping tool and visual upgrades for low-resolution videos.

YouTube is using AI to upscale videos uploaded at between 240p and 720p to HD on TV screens, but users can opt out, and plans 4K upscaling "in the near future" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/808717/youtube-automatic-ai…

YouTube will let you opt out of AI upscaling on low-res videos
YouTube is aiming to improve the viewing experience on TV screens with an instant shopping tool and visual upgrades for low-resolution videos.

Sources: YouTube reorganizes its leadership team, with three product teams reporting to CEO Neal Mohan, and announces a "voluntary exit program" for US staff (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/youtube-announces-ai-reorg-and-layoffs

YouTube announces AI reorg and layoffs
Neal Mohan's internal memo about YouTube's "next frontier" and opt-in layoffs.