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A joint investigation by Canadian privacy authorities finds TikTok collected sensitive personal data from hundreds of thousands of Canadian children under 13 (Catharine Tunney/CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tiktok-privacy-commissioners-1.7640974…

Privacy commissioners find TikTok collected sensitive data from Canadian children | CBC News
TikTok's tools to keep children off its platform were largely ineffective and the immensely popular social media app was collecting sensitive information from underage users, a joint investigation from Canadian privacy authorities found.

🧮 CBEX crypto scam: AI-hyped Ponzi scheme defrauds African investors
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CBEX crypto scam: AI-hyped Ponzi scheme defrauds African investors
Embarrassed and in debt, Edwin was left reeling after losing $16,000 to CryptoBridge Exchange (CBEX), one of the crypto-trading platforms preying on investors in Africa.

It's just one crazy day after another in cybersecurity lately, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--SharePoint attacks hit 400 organizations, campaign now includes ransomware.
--French cops bust xss.is admin and shutter the platform,
--Trump's AI action plan boosts Silicon Valley powerhouses,
--AZ state hackers likely behind other breach efforts,
--Hacker installed wiper software in Am…

SharePoint attacks hit 400 organizations, campaign now includes ransomware
French cops bust xss.is admin and shutter the platform, Trump's AI action plan boosts Silicon Valley powerhouses, AZ state hackers likely behind other breach efforts, Hacker installed wiper software in Amazon's AI Q assistant, Old Ivanti flaws plague Japan, much more

From OCL to JSX: declarative constraint modeling in modern SaaS tools
Antonio Bucchiarone, Juri Di Rocco, Damiano Di Vincenzo, Alfonso Pierantonio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17629

From OCL to JSX: declarative constraint modeling in modern SaaS tools
The rise of Node.js in 2010, followed by frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue.js, has accelerated the growth of low code development platforms. These platforms harness modern UIX paradigms, component-based architectures, and the SaaS model to enable non-experts to build software. The widespread adoption of single-page applications (SPAs), driven by these frameworks, has shaped low-code tools to deliver responsive, client side experiences. In parallel, many modeling platforms have moved to th…

Navigating Equity and Reflexive Practices in Gigwork Design: A Journey Mapping Experience
Alicia E. Boyd, Danielle Cummings, Angie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16808 https:/…

Navigating Equity and Reflexive Practices in Gigwork Design: A Journey Mapping Experience
How do we create ethical and equitable experiences on global platforms? How might UX designers and developers incorporate reflexive practices--a continuous self-evaluation of one's assumptions and biases--to mitigate assumptions and workers' experience? This tutorial will explore ways to build equitable user experiences using gig work platforms as a target use case. With the rise of gig work platforms, the informal digital economy has altered how algorithmic systems manage occasional workers; i…

BetterComp, which provides compensation management services for HR teams, raised a $33M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/22/bettercomp-raises-33m-expand-compensation-management-pl…

BetterComp raises $33M to expand compensation management platform - SiliconANGLE
BetterComp raises $33M to expand compensation management platform - SiliconANGLE

How to take action against cbs canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert because potus wanted them to?
Do not support cbs, paramount's channels (cbs, nickelodeon, mtv, showtime, bet, comedy central, etc.) platforms and projects: cancel any subscriptions to their services (and tell them why), don't watch and do not praise their work online, do not buy tickets to their movies. So too skydance.
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An event visualization software based on Phoenix for the CEPC experiment
Yu-Jie Zeng, Tian-Zi Song, Xue-Sen Wang, Yu-Mei Zhang, Tao Lin, Zheng-Yun You
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17118

An event visualization software based on Phoenix for the CEPC experiment
In high-energy physics~(HEP) experiments, visualization software plays a pivotal role in detector design, offline software development, and event data analysis. The visualization tools integrate detailed detector geometry with complex event data models, providing the researchers with invaluable insights into experimental results. Phoenix is an emerging general-purpose visualization platform for the current and next-generation HEP experiments. In this study, we develop an event display software …

US healthcare was already uniquely cost-ineffective. It's gonna get worse with these two.
(Tylenol = paracetamol)
https://apnews.com/article/tylenol-cause-autism-trump-kennedy-0847ee76eedecbd5e9baa6888b567d66

Trump makes unfounded claims about Tylenol, vaccines and autism
President Donald Trump is using the platform of the presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism. Speaking Monday from the White House, the president said women should not take acetaminophen, also known by the brand name Tylenol, “during the entire pregnancy.” He also raised unfounded concerns about vaccines. The Trump administration has been under immense pressure from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s diverse Make America Healthy Again movement to prov…

A Pilot Study on LLM-Based Agentic Translation from Android to iOS: Pitfalls and Insights
Zhili Zeng (Jack), Kimya Khakzad Shahandashti (Jack), Alvine Boaye Belle (Jack), Song Wang (Jack), Zhen Ming (Jack), Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16037

A Pilot Study on LLM-Based Agentic Translation from Android to iOS: Pitfalls and Insights
The rapid advancement of mobile applications has led to a significant demand for cross-platform compatibility, particularly between the Android and iOS platforms. Traditional approaches to mobile application translation often rely on manual intervention or rule-based systems, which are labor-intensive and time-consuming. While recent advancements in machine learning have introduced automated methods, they often lack contextual understanding and adaptability, resulting in suboptimal translations…