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Lock screen ads. Imagine that.
I will never regret swearing off #Samsung devices after being fleeced by them twice. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114626009365316134…

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads Glance AI is coming to numerous Samsung phones as an opt-in experience this month. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/samsung-teams-up-with-glance-to-use-your-face-in-ai-generated-lock-screen-ads/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I wish RSS/Atom had opt-in CSS.
I appreciate that I can effectively download a website and read it whenever I want, but so many websites I read are quite pretty.
I’d love it if they showed up just as pretty in my feed reader, with the option to toggle it per feed.

Congress has approved the first national school voucher plan,
which will help all but the wealthiest families pay for private school and other educational expenses.
The plan, passed on Thursday as part of Republicans’ all-encompassing domestic policy bill,
now heads to the desk of President Trump, who is expected to sign it into law.
Families who earn up to 300 percent of their area’s median income, equivalent to more than $300,000 in some parts of the country,
…

Congress Passes a National School Voucher Program
The plan, part of the Republican domestic policy bill, includes all but the wealthiest families. But states must opt in, which could limit its reach.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00140 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

Balancing Profit and Fairness in Risk-Based Pricing Markets
Dynamic, risk-based pricing can systematically exclude vulnerable consumer groups from essential resources such as health insurance and consumer credit. We show that a regulator can realign private incentives with social objectives through a learned, interpretable tax schedule. First, we provide a formal proposition that bounding each firm's \emph{local} demographic gap implicitly bounds the \emph{global} opt-out disparity, motivating firm-level penalties. Building on this insight we introduce …

it feels important to keep saying: SPA as an app framework default (and not an opt-in feature) was a mistake

Balancing Profit and Fairness in Risk-Based Pricing Markets
Jesse Thibodeau, Hadi Nekoei, Afaf Ta\"ik, Janarthanan Rajendran, Golnoosh Farnadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00140

Balancing Profit and Fairness in Risk-Based Pricing Markets
Dynamic, risk-based pricing can systematically exclude vulnerable consumer groups from essential resources such as health insurance and consumer credit. We show that a regulator can realign private incentives with social objectives through a learned, interpretable tax schedule. First, we provide a formal proposition that bounding each firm's \emph{local} demographic gap implicitly bounds the \emph{global} opt-out disparity, motivating firm-level penalties. Building on this insight we introduce …

You don’t get to opt out of politics.
Not really.
Because while you’re
“too busy” or “too cool” or “too disillusioned” to vote,
someone else is voting.
And if that someone wants to ban books, force pregnancies, erase history, gut healthcare, or unleash the police state, guess what?

Like It or Not, You’re in It — So Act Like It
🗳️🔥 You can say you don’t care about politics.

Mastodon (and other Fedi software) should stop stripping the C2PA manifest from the EXIF of uploaded media.
In the long run there are lots of good C2PA things to be done, but for now, just get out of the way and let the emergent ecosystem of tools work with it.
Probably best as an opt-in, although in all the software I've seen, to get C2PA in your images you have to explicitly request it, so one assumes anyone who does that and shares wants to share the provenance too.

My apartment management company has joined the undisclosed-AI bandwagon.

Make your voices heard.
I also added something to a few bugs. @… really needs to go back to the drawing board and think about whose problems they are trying to solve. Because who is this proposal for? The only beneficiaries are AI companies.

Task Allocation of UAVs for Monitoring Missions via Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation and Experimental Validation
Hamza Chakraa, Fran\c{c}ois Gu\'erin, Edouard Leclercq, Dimitri Lefebvre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20626

Task Allocation of UAVs for Monitoring Missions via Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation and Experimental Validation
This study addresses the optimisation of task allocation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) within industrial monitoring missions. The proposed methodology integrates a Genetic Algorithms (GA) with a 2-Opt local search technique to obtain a high-quality solution. Our approach was experimentally validated in an industrial zone to demonstrate its efficacy in real-world scenarios. Also, a Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulator for the UAVs team is introduced. Moreover, insights about the correlatio…

Zo kan hij zijn bedrijven nog sneller de grond in jagen
https://nos.nl/artikel/2569129-musk-stopt-als-adviseur-van-regering-trump-na-bezuinigingsmissie

@… @… we love opt-in accessibility 😭

The UK CMA giving Google "strategic market status" could allow publishers to opt out of Google AI Overviews without removing websites from search (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/cma-to…

CMA set to force Google to work more fairly with UK publishers
CMA sets out plans to start curbing Google power in the UK and will address secrecy and unfairness around Google AI Overviews.

Exploring Cultural Variations in Moral Judgments with Large Language Models
Hadi Mohammadi, Efthymia Papadopoulou, Yasmeen F. S. S. Meijer, Ayoub Bagheri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12433

Exploring Cultural Variations in Moral Judgments with Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance across many tasks, but their ability to capture culturally diverse moral values remains unclear. In this paper, we examine whether LLMs can mirror variations in moral attitudes reported by two major cross-cultural surveys: the World Values Survey and the PEW Research Center's Global Attitudes Survey. We compare smaller, monolingual, and multilingual models (GPT-2, OPT, BLOOMZ, and Qwen) with more recent instruction-tuned models (GPT-4o,…

The EU says Apple and Meta will not face sanctions immediately after their 60 day DMA grace period ends on June 26, following €500M and €200M fines in April (Peggy Corlin/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06…

Apple and Meta to escape sanctions for failing to meet digital rules
The European Commission will opt not to impose immediate financial penalties on Apple and Meta—even if they fail to comply with the legislation by next week's deadline. #EuropeNews

Malicious earworms and useful memes, how the far-right surfs on TikTok audio trends
Marloes Geboers, Marcus B\"osch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20695 h…

Malicious earworms and useful memes, how the far-right surfs on TikTok audio trends
With its features of remix, TikTok is the designated platform for meme-making and dissemination. Creative combinations of video, emoji, and filters allow for an endless stream of memes and trends animated by sound. The platform has focused its moderation on upholding physical safety, hence investing in the detection of harmful challenges. In response to the DSA, TikTok implemented opt-outs for personalized feeds and features allowing users to report illegal content. At the same time, the platfo…

Context-Aware CodeLLM Eviction for AI-assisted Coding
Kishanthan Thangarajah, Boyuan Chen, Shi Chang, Ahmed E. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18796 http…

Context-Aware CodeLLM Eviction for AI-assisted Coding
AI-assisted coding tools powered by Code Large Language Models (CodeLLMs) are increasingly integrated into modern software development workflows. To address concerns around privacy, latency, and model customization, many enterprises opt to self-host these models. However, the diversity and growing number of CodeLLMs, coupled with limited accelerator memory, introduce practical challenges in model management and serving efficiency. This paper presents CACE, a novel context-aware model eviction s…