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Always always always adopt your pets.
Shelter dogs have such wonderful personalities.
▶️ Rob Lowe has some thoughts about surprise puppy presents
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/12/23/rob-lowe-do…

Rob Lowe says dog adoptions should be like a Hollywood 'screen test'
Rob Lowe is known for being an avid dog lover. He shares what he's learned from years of being a dog dad and partnership with Ultimate Pet Nutrition.

Interview with WPP CEO Cindy Rose, who says AI puts pressure on the ad agency's pricing and WPP has 10K data scientists and software engineers and 12K creatives (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3eb36aed-8366-4db9-8ea0-e7484416dc43

The Communiqués Podcasts
The cases are the accounts from completed medico-legal death investigations of the Coroners Courts, and our team of senior medical and nursing practitioners present this information to meet the needs of clinicians...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.great…

Federal lawmakers sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
demanding information on any plans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has
to use Graphite, a spyware program that can access
— without the owner’s knowledge or consent
— a phone’s location data, photos, and encrypted applications, including WhatsApp and Signal.
Last year, the Biden administration paused the contract with Paragon Solutions, which operates Graphite,
while it …

Lawmakers Demand Information About Potential Use of Paragon Spyware by ICE
The lawmakers warned that allowing ICE to use spyware “threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech.”…

Good morning, Petar

from my link log —
FastCDC: efficient content-defined chunking for data deduplication.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc16/technical-sessions/presentation/xia
saved 2025-10-01

The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops
"According to the Securities and Exchange Commission filings, his fund, Scion Asset Management, bought $187.6 million in puts on Nvidia and $912 million in puts on Palantir, as CNN reports.
Burry similarly made a long-term $1 billion bet from 2005 onwards against the US mortgage market, anticipating its collapse. His fund rose a whopping 489 percent when the market did subsequently fall apart in 2008."
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The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops
Michael Burry, who shorted the housing market in 2008, has bet over $1 billion that the shares of AI companies Nvidia and Palantir will fall.

MammoDINO: Anatomically Aware Self-Supervision for Mammographic Images
Sicheng Zhou, Lei Wu, Cao Xiao, Parminder Bhatia, Taha Kass-Hout
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11883 https://…

MammoDINO: Anatomically Aware Self-Supervision for Mammographic Images
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has transformed vision encoder training in general domains but remains underutilized in medical imaging due to limited data and domain specific biases. We present MammoDINO, a novel SSL framework for mammography, pretrained on 1.4 million mammographic images. To capture clinically meaningful features, we introduce a breast tissue aware data augmentation sampler for both image-level and patch-level supervision and a cross-slice contrastive learning objective that l…

PATCH: Mitigating PII Leakage in Language Models with Privacy-Aware Targeted Circuit PatcHing
Anthony Hughes, Vasisht Duddu, N. Asokan, Nikolaos Aletras, Ning Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07452

PATCH: Mitigating PII Leakage in Language Models with Privacy-Aware Targeted Circuit PatcHing
Language models (LMs) may memorize personally identifiable information (PII) from training data, enabling adversaries to extract it during inference. Existing defense mechanisms such as differential privacy (DP) reduce this leakage, but incur large drops in utility. Based on a comprehensive study using circuit discovery to identify the computational circuits responsible PII leakage in LMs, we hypothesize that specific PII leakage circuits in LMs should be responsible for this behavior. Therefor…

Well…
It’s still a remarkable display of ego to ask POTUS to get involved with a healthcare scheduling matter. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3m4onydufic2x

Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
Cancer metastasized to the bone is truly awful and I wouldn’t wish it even on a genuinely terrible and less than human person. [contains quote post or other embedded content]