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Russian propaganda media Sputnik shuts down operations in Azerbaijan amid tensions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/russian-propaganda-media-sputnik-shuts.html

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.

Excellent article by @… , a staff writer for Privacy Guides, on the risks of government overreach to privacy.
This section focuses on the issue of chat control:

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Sad to hear that Maggie Boden has passed away. Her work on creativity e.g. her book "The Creative Mind" framed much of my work when I was a research student, bridging philosophy, psychology and computer science.
https://staff.sussex.ac.uk/news/articl

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