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This is a delightful segment on RNZ (nights with Emile Donovan) talking about 'perfect pitch'... https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018993777/shower-thoughts-what-is-perfect-pitch

Let’s be crystal clear about what this law actually accomplishes: It makes it harder for adults to access perfectly legal (and often helpful) information and services. It forces people to create detailed trails of their online activit…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

Let’s be crystal clear about what this law actually accomplishes: It makes it harder for adults to access perfectly legal (and often helpful) information and services. It forces people to create detailed trails of their online activit…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

Managing Correlations in Data and Privacy Demand
Syomantak Chaudhuri, Thomas A. Courtade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02856 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02856

Managing Correlations in Data and Privacy Demand
Previous works in the differential privacy literature that allow users to choose their privacy levels typically operate under the heterogeneous differential privacy (HDP) framework with the simplifying assumption that user data and privacy levels are not correlated. Firstly, we demonstrate that the standard HDP framework falls short when user data and privacy demands are allowed to be correlated. Secondly, to address this shortcoming, we propose an alternate framework, Add-remove Heterogeneous …

Dougal told to pay $425m for breaching millions of users’ privacy | Technology News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/9/4/google-told-to-pay-425m-for-breaching-millions-of-users-privacy?traffic_sou…

Google told to pay $425m for breaching millions of users’ privacy
US tech giant says jury decision misunderstands its products and it will appeal.

i guess i have skills

More than 80 percent of the occupied West Bank would become part of Israel,
according to a new annexation proposal drafted by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday. 
The hardline Minister presented a map showing all of the West Bank as a part of Israel,
including Bethlehem, the Jordan Valley, and the entire Palestinian countryside, while only six Palestinian cities
— Jenin, Tulkarem, Nablus, Jericho, Ramallah, and Hebron
— were marked as isolated gh…

The new Israeli map proposing to annex 80% of the West Bank, explained
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich released a map proposing to annex over 80% of the West Bank. He’s not far off from the rest of the Israeli political establishment — even the “pragmatic” opposition.

Amplify With Purpose: Business & Life Unlocked
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/amplify-with-purpose-business-life-unlocked/

The UK's Online Safety Act shows the UK prioritized government control over improving safety, becoming a cautionary tale in internet regulation for democracies (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

Terry McLaurin trade proposals: Analyzing 5 potential offers for the Commanders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6531861/2025/08/04/terry-mclaurin-trade-proposals-commanders/