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Shoddy excuse 1: “Maybe it was technically a work device, provided by and owned by the employer, and she shouldn’t have used it for personal things”
Then both the employer and the tech vendors involved should have made it not only possible but easy by default for her to quarantine her personal use.
The onus for that kind of opsec should not fall to individuals. That’s just ducking accountability, the kind of cognitive outsourcing large players use to dodge the costs of running their own org.
This is basically “we don’t need to install railings on our corporate balconies; employees just need to never fall off.”
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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-…

heise | Verzockt mit Outsourcing: Wie Apple von China (zu) abhängig wurde
Seit Apples großer Existenzkrise 1996 setzt das Unternehmen konsequent auf externe Fertigung, vor allem in Asien. Diese Entwicklung ist nur schwer umzukehren.

Oh Jaguar Land Rover is *another* UK company that outsourced their computer security to Tata Consultancy Services. (Like Marks and Spencer - but in the case of JLR they're also owned by Tata.)
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115212986094072683

Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Attached: 1 image In my own story, I discovered JLR outsourced different cybersecurity areas to TCS and then made many of the UK team redundant 6 months ago. https://doublepulsar.com/the-elephant-in-the-biz-outsourcing-of-critical-it-and-cybersecurity-functions-risks-uk-economic-96205e0585bf

Access Control for Information-Theoretically Secure Key-Document Stores
Yin Li, Sharad Mehrota, Shantanu Sharma, Komal Kumari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10730

Access Control for Information-Theoretically Secure Key-Document Stores
This paper presents a novel key-based access control technique for secure outsourcing key-value stores where values correspond to documents that are indexed and accessed using keys. The proposed approach adopts Shamir's secret-sharing that offers unconditional or information-theoretic security. It supports keyword-based document retrieval while preventing leakage of the data, access rights of users, or the size (\textit{i}.\textit{e}., volume of the output that satisfies a query). The proposed …

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.

#edu

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

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

"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?

Experts say TCS' decision to cut 12K jobs signals the start of an AI-fueled trend that could eliminate ~500K jobs in India's $283B IT sector within three years (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-

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, …

The Basic B*** Effect: The Use of LLM-based Agents Reduces the Distinctiveness and Diversity of People's Choices
Sandra C. Matz, C. Blaine Horton, Sofie Goethals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02910

The Basic B*** Effect: The Use of LLM-based Agents Reduces the Distinctiveness and Diversity of People's Choices
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly act on people's behalf: they write emails, buy groceries, and book restaurants. While the outsourcing of human decision-making to AI can be both efficient and effective, it raises a fundamental question: how does delegating identity-defining choices to AI reshape who people become? We study the impact of agentic LLMs on two identity-relevant outcomes: interpersonal distinctiveness - how unique a person's choices are relative to others - and intrapersona…

DevLicOps: A Framework for Mitigating Licensing Risks in AI-Generated Code
Pratyush Nidhi Sharma, Lauren Wright, Anne Herfurth, Munsif Sokiyna, Pratyaksh Nidhi Sharma, Sethu Das, Mikko Siponen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16853

DevLicOps: A Framework for Mitigating Licensing Risks in AI-Generated Code
Generative AI coding assistants (ACAs) are widely adopted yet pose serious legal and compliance risks. ACAs can generate code governed by restrictive open-source licenses (e.g., GPL), potentially exposing companies to litigation or forced open-sourcing. Few developers are trained in these risks, and legal standards vary globally, especially with outsourcing. Our article introduces DevLicOps, a practical framework that helps IT leaders manage ACA-related licensing risks through governance, incid…

Societies usually known as 'civilised' don't seem to keep their civilisations going without an ample supply of very cheap labour. Slavery, indentured servitude, outsourcing to low-wage countries, (undocumented) immigration, and lately robots, provided that throughout the course of history, and those are now complemented by robotic 'intelligence' – a.k.a. AI – for non-physical labour. I wonder where it will end. If it ever will.

"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

PP-STAT: An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Statistical Analysis Framework using Homomorphic Encryption
Hyunmin Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12093 https://…

PP-STAT: An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Statistical Analysis Framework using Homomorphic Encryption
With the widespread adoption of cloud computing, the need for outsourcing statistical analysis to third-party platforms is growing rapidly. However, handling sensitive data such as medical records and financial information in cloud environments raises serious privacy concerns. In this paper, we present PP-STAT, a novel and efficient Homomorphic Encryption (HE)-based framework for privacy-preserving statistical analysis. HE enables computations to be performed directly on encrypted data without …

"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