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Sources: the BBC's board has approved a significant outsourcing drive and is in talks with US tech giants as partners, seeking urgent savings (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/11/bbc-seeks-savings-overseas-…

Outsourcing of services boosts green exports https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325005547

Trump is asking SCOTUS to permit outsourcing torture
Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D.,
is the case where the Trump administration asks the justices to effectively neutralize the Convention Against Torture
According to Trump’s lawyers, the administration can simply wait until after an immigration judge has conducted a proceeding that determines whether a particular noncitizen may be deported to a particular country,
and then, if that noncitizen is allowed t…

Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture
Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.

France's Capgemini plans to acquire US-listed IT outsourcing company WNS for $3.3B in cash, seeking to boost its agentic AI services; WNS serves 600 clients (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07…

Capgemini to Buy WNS for $3.3 Billion to Boost ‘Agentic’ AI
France’s Capgemini SE plans to acquire IT outsourcing company WNS Holdings Ltd. for $3.3 billion in cash, beating rival suitors to a deal aimed at expanding its AI operations.

Vulnerability-Based Optimal Grid Defense Strategies for Enhancing Cyber-Physical Energy System Resilience
Eric T\"onges, Philipp H\"artel, Martin Braun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09766

Vulnerability-Based Optimal Grid Defense Strategies for Enhancing Cyber-Physical Energy System Resilience
An approach is proposed to identify optimal asset protection strategies based on vulnerability assessment outcomes. Traditional bilevel attacker-defender models emphasize worstcase scenarios but offer limited defensive guidance. In contrast, trilevel models introduce high computational complexity and rely on fixed network configurations. The proposed critical-components method leverages vulnerability assessment results to determine protection strategies, effectively outsourcing the upper-level …

Habe eben mit einer Mitarbeiterin der Telekom-Hotline telefoniert. Sie fragte nach dem Wetter.
Ich sagte: Schlecht, 18 Grad.
Sie: Bei uns 36. Wissen Sie, wo Sie gelandet sind?
Ich: Na?
Sie: In Pristina.
Aber die Luftfeuchtigkeit sei nicht so hoch, daher ginge es.
Pristina, hm. 1/2
#outsourcing

"If you don't integrate AI into your workflow, you'll be left behind." At least, that's what I keep being told. But seeing just how far "ahead" outsourcing their brain to a subscription service has gotten people, I really am genuinely wondering: left behind HOW, exactly?

COALESCE: Economic and Security Dynamics of Skill-Based Task Outsourcing Among Team of Autonomous LLM Agents
Manish Bhatt, Ronald F. Del Rosario, Vineeth Sai Narajala, Idan Habler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01900

COALESCE: Economic and Security Dynamics of Skill-Based Task Outsourcing Among Team of Autonomous LLM Agents
The meteoric rise and proliferation of autonomous Large Language Model (LLM) agents promise significant capabilities across various domains. However, their deployment is increasingly constrained by substantial computational demands, specifically for Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) resources. This paper addresses the critical problem of optimizing resource utilization in LLM agent systems. We introduce COALESCE (Cost-Optimized and Secure Agent Labour Exchange via Skill-based Competence Estimation…

"Eventually, I stopped responding to my body. I was responding instead to a dashboard." — @…
This is a great point and very much translates to so many other parts of life/work where people stop listening to their "body" (or to their org/product/offering), outsourcing/numbing/dumbing down their decision making based on dashboards of col…

Why I Gave Up My Smartwatch
Somewhere between the first time I tapped my wrist to skip a song and the three hundredth time I anxiously checked my resting heart rate, I started to hate my Apple Watch. The promise of the smartwatch was elegance, convenience, optimization. What I got was constant data drip, subtle panic,

Het lijkt er sterk op dat min of meer 'ontwikkelde' – maar ook minder ontwikkelde – landen niet kunnen functioneren zonder o.a.:
1. Goedkope arbeid (zoals [quasi-]slavernij, uitgebuite arbeidsmigranten, outsourcing naar lage-lonen-landen);
2. Kwalijke stoffen (zoals landbouwgif, pfas, zware metalen, plastics, en allerlei andere milieuvervuiling);
3. Politieke structuren die gevoelig blijven voor onwenselijke beïnvloeding (omkoping, lobbying, corruptie, misinformatie, …

An LLM's Apology: Outsourcing Awkwardness in the Age of AI
Twm Stone, Anna Soligo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13685 https://arxiv.…

An LLM's Apology: Outsourcing Awkwardness in the Age of AI
A key part of modern social dynamics is flaking at short notice. However, anxiety in coming up with believable and socially acceptable reasons to do so can instead lead to 'ghosting', awkwardness, or implausible excuses, risking emotional harm and resentment in the other party. The ability to delegate this task to a Large Language Model (LLM) could substantially reduce friction and enhance the flexibility of user's social life while greatly minimising the aforementioned creative burden and mora…

"EU open to carbon offsets on path to 2040 emissions target"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Emissions #Climate

EU open to carbon offsets on path to 2040 emissions target
The European Commission has controversially proposed allowing international carbon offsets to help meet the EU’s 2040 climate targets, raising concerns about outsourcing the emission reduction actions. #EuropeNews

SoK: Current State of Ethereum's Enshrined Proposer Builder Separation
Maxwell Koegler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18189 https://a…

SoK: Current State of Ethereum's Enshrined Proposer Builder Separation
Initially introduced to Ethereum via Flashbots' MEV-boost, Proposer-Builder Separation allows proposers to auction off blockspace to a market of transaction orderers, known as builders. PBS is currently available to validators through the aforementioned MEV-boost, but its unregulated and relay-dependent nature has much of the Ethereum community calling for its enshrinement. Providing a protocol-integrated PBS marketspace and communication channel for payload outsourcing is termed PBS enshrineme…

"EU open to carbon offsets on path to 2040 emissions target"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Emissions #Climate

EU open to carbon offsets on path to 2040 emissions target
The European Commission has controversially proposed allowing international carbon offsets to help meet the EU’s 2040 climate targets, raising concerns about outsourcing the emission reduction actions. #EuropeNews

Computational Attestations of Polynomial Integrity Towards Verifiable Machine-Learning
Dustin Ray, Caroline El Jazmi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11458 https…

Computational Attestations of Polynomial Integrity Towards Verifiable Machine-Learning
Machine-learning systems continue to advance at a rapid pace, demonstrating remarkable utility in various fields and disciplines. As these systems continue to grow in size and complexity, a nascent industry is emerging which aims to bring machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS) to market. Outsourcing the operation and training of these systems to powerful hardware carries numerous advantages, but challenges arise when privacy and the correctness of work carried out must be ensured. Recent advance…

"EU open to carbon offsets on path to 2040 emissions target"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Emissions #Climate

EU open to carbon offsets on path to 2040 emissions target
The European Commission has controversially proposed allowing international carbon offsets to help meet the EU’s 2040 climate targets, raising concerns about outsourcing the emission reduction actions. #EuropeNews

All the talk from the G7 about India and Canada working together to use AI for government "efficiency" sounds a lot like outsourcing our education and public services to a call centre.
This Liberal government seems hellbent on destroying the public service and public programs.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #AI #G7