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Fast jeder zweite private Windows-PC noch mit Windows 10
Deutschland bleibt beim Umstieg auf Windows 11 im internationalen Vergleich zurück. Zehn Monate bleiben noch.
https://www.heise…

Just got these messages from @seengoals@mastodon.social, one of the members of Gaza Verified, basically accusing me of running a fundraiser for Gaza and keeping the proceeds (I have no fundraiser on any fundraising site anywhere) and extorting me to share his fundraiser or he’ll apparently go public with it.
So here’s what’s going to happening instead: Nabil has been removed Gaza Verified (

Rowspace, which builds AI tools for PE firms and hedge funds to organize unstructured data for decision-making, launches with $50M in seed and Series A funding (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/25/rowspace-sequ…

Exclusive: AI financial platform Rowspace raises $50 million round led by Sequoia to help investment firms take on messy data
Rowspace was founded by former Notion CTO Michael Manapat and former Uber corporate development director Yibo Ling.

»Sicherheitslücke bei Gemini — Ein Kalendereintrag reicht, um die KI zu manipulieren:
Laut Sicherheitsforscher:innen gelang es ganz ohne Malware, Gemini auszutricksen und private Informationen unbemerkt an Hacker weiterzuleiten. Inzwischen hat Google die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen verstärkt.«
Weshalb überrascht mich dies nicht & wie intelligent ist der Einsatz von KI & was ist dir deine Privatsphäre wert?!
🤷

Sicherheitslücke bei Gemini: Ein Kalendereintrag reicht, um die KI zu manipulieren | t3n
Laut Sicherheitsforscher:innen gelang es ganz ohne Malware, Gemini auszutricksen und private Informationen unbemerkt an Hacker weiterzuleiten. Inzwischen hat Google die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen verstärkt. Eigentlich soll Googles KI-Assistent Gemini den Arbeitsalltag erleichtern. Das System ist eng in die Workspace-Apps des Unternehmens integriert. So kann Gemini beispielsweise in Google Drive Dokumente finden und zusammenfassen oder im Kalender Termine […]

First Lady Melania Trump and director Brett Ratner held a private screening of their controversial Amazon-funded documentary, Melania, at the WH on Saturday (Lexy Perez/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Inside the White House Screening for Amazon’s ‘Melania’ Doc (Exclusive Photos)
The White House held a private screening of the doc on Saturday night that included black-tied VIPs, monogrammed popcorn tubs and a military band playing movie tunes.

I do #privacy consulting for sex workers. This is very bad news. If you know anyone that's in that field, please let them know about this.
https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-ad

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address
Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

Organisations are racing to embed AI into everyday life. But people don’t trust institutions and private enterprise to do this in a way that benefits them, and that’s a problem.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature…

The age of mistrust, and why it’s AI’s biggest problem
Organisations are racing to embed AI into everyday life. But people don’t trust institutions and private enterprise to do this in a way that benefits ...

chatcontrol e oscuramento: la guerra alla crittografia è in aumento. A causa di una losca collaborazione tra Stati Uniti e Unione Europea.
Sorveglianza di massa statale
Dopo la denuncia di Snowden nel 2013, ampie porzioni di Internet sono diventate crittografate, consentendo comunicazioni private e sicure. Non tutti hanno accolto con favore questo cambiamento. In particolare, l'FBI e altre agenzie governative statunitensi hanno combattuto quella che viene spesso definita la &q…

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-address-private-third-party/

Georgia taxpayers will get money back for contributions to K-12 private school scholarships - The Current
https://thecurrentga.org/2026/01/24/georgia-taxpayers-will-get-money-back-for-contributions-to-k-12-private-school-scholarships/

"Use of private jets to Davos has soared in the past three years. Is it time for a super-rich tax?"
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateSummit

‘Pure hypocrisy’: WEF slammed for soaring use of private jets to Davos
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has gotten off to a bumpy start as participants are criticised for their soaring use of private jets.

Exclusive: Russian negotiators soften hardline stance in private, US officials say. Ukrainians urge caution: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/exclusive-russian-negotiators-soften-hardline.html

Minimum step… blocking ICE on Bluesky.
If you are bridging from a Mastodon/Fediverse account to Bluesky through BridgyFed just send a Private Message to the bridgyfed account @… with the command:
"block @icegov.bsky.social”
And the block will be in place for your account. (you can do this with any account of course)
#ICE #Bluesky #NoFascists

Private jet carrying 8 people crashes at Maine airport (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5706035-faa-investigates-maine-crash/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p1#a260126p1

One question: does #Gitlab support private repositories with the free tier?

It's time to crush the patriarchy.
Humanity has to start by ridding itself of religion, because it underpins male hegemony.
No more monarchies.
No private landownership.
Cooperation, not capitalism.
Careful stewardship of the world's resources.
Fair distribution of resources.
Distributed smaller scale energy generation - because power shouldn't mean power over others.

An excellent explanation on why the hype about LNG and the claim from conservatives that 'renewables raise electricity prices"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk0Zm_xpk3c Interesting to hear about this from the US side. And yeah, who's to blame? Yup. Private power corporations, powe…

ICE detention facilities in FY 2026.
Colors are by type of contract, though many of the "jails" are themselves state facilities operated by private prison corporations, Bolded names indicate facilities opened or reactivated since October 1, 2024.
#ICE #immigrationdetention

Customize what happens when you start R: #rstats #environment

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JxckS/115953123606231418
Honestly, owning a private jet is just unethical. It tremendously harms the environment and withholds substantial amounts of money from society.
Even if you must regularly fly, there is no legitimat…

I've finally gotten Termux to rsync files via crontab. Needed to set up keychain, something I used to understand in the distant past. Now I have my own quantified-self data (well, location and battery) uploading to my private cloud.
#termux termux.api, python, rsync, crontab, keychain.

Waarom groeiende ongelijkheid jongeren berooft van hun toekomst volgens Gary Stevenson | #Tegenlicht - #VPRO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXwcqLl_2aY (23:11min)
Uit: De stille economische crisis volgens Gary Stevenson | VPRO Tegenlicht
https://tegenlicht.vpro.nl/artikelen/gary-stevenson-ongelijkheid-economische-crisis
Waarom de publieke sector en de private sector steeds armer worden ten koste van de rijkste 1%...
Aanrader!
/2

Thanks to another anonymous pledge via private mention, we’re up to $405/month with just $195 left to go :)
I’m going to go to bed now but I’ll update you again in the morning if any pledges come in during the night.
Thank you all so much; we’re getting close :)
💕 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116130113

Considering that under Trump, the US is turning into a fascist terror state where opponents of the orange leader are simply shot dead on the street by his private Gestapo, ICE, or persecuted by his terror justice system, I am considering completely disposing of all US hardware and services that I still use to some extent.
In addition to Linux and Pixel with GrapheneOS, I unfortunately still use a few Apple devices such as MacBook Air, iPhone, Watch, and iPad Mini, and of course I also …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Neighbourhood:
🎵 Private
#NowPlaying #TheNeighbourhood
https://open.spotify.com/track/1735xgk2J8CHCGY2LS1HM6

Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after ICE killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/tim-cook-captured/

Aside From That, Mr. Cook, What Did You Think of the Movie?
Let them eat popcorn...

Italy may be the first EU country to impose requirements on private charging points in its transposition of the EU REDIII into national law: newly installed private charging points must be able to communicate with smart meters from June 30 onwards.
https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?u…

Okay. Yeah. Putting out the call.
If you are a bisexual male who has dated both men and women can you DM or @ me for some private conversations please? #HeatedRivalry (after Episode 4)
RI/SE Mass/Boston area preferred.

#FensterFreitag private Krippe im Rheinland

Once again the Supreme Court makes it clear that it doesn't have the sense God gave a goose.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-tackles-hawaiis-vampire-rule-gun-owners-private-prope…

"Citizen scientists are spotting more and more rare frogs on private land"
#Frogs #Animals

Citizen scientists are spotting more and more rare frogs on private land
Threatened frogs aren’t just found in national parks – citizen scientists are finding them throughout private land too.

I bought me 6 month of @… family plan with @… . Will report how it goes.
(
Why?
Because I'm doing enough software maintenance already to not want to get a Virtual Private Server and plug N…

just released liboprf-0.9.4
it brings compatibility with python3.14
liboprf is a library implementing the OPRF from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9497.html and in addition it also provides a threshold variant (tOPRF) and a distributed key generation (DKG) protocol for the tOPRF shar…

House Democrats on private call: Impeach Noem, fly to Minnesota (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/25/democrats-minnesota-noem-impeach-walz-ellison
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p42#a260125p42

Gemini: "Google does not train its foundational models on private data under NDA, such as non-public chip documentation or confidential enterprise files. My training relies on publicly available web content, licensed datasets, and code."
Well that is unfortunate, because it's the actually interesting case for me to use it. 🤫

A profile of Sherrese Clarke, who grew HarbourView Equity Partners' assets to $2.7B by acquiring 70 music catalogs with songs from Bruno Mars, Nelly, and others (Jabari Young/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jabariyoung/2026…

Meet Private Equity’s Pop Culture Queen
Sherrese Clarke, founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners, has turned the music catalogs of top artists—including Bruno Mars, Nelly, and Justin Bieber—into lucrative alternative assets. Now she’s doing the same for film, television and sports.

"Largely unreported is the extent to which the NHS is bled white by a private sector enjoying the benefits of state sector staff education and training, charging NHS trusts £80bn in PFI payments for buildings that cost £13bn to construct, and reaping at least £10bn a year in “excess profits” from supplying drugs costing the NHS £23bn (five times their cost of production)."
What place does Britain occupy in the general crisis of capitalism? | Morning Star

Trump LEAKED PRIVATE CHATS with Macron and Rutte about Ukraine #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/trump-leaked-private-chats-with.html

Other business leaders at Saturday night’s White House Melania screening included Zoom CEO Eric Yuan; New York Stock Exchange CEO Lynn Martin; AMD CEO Lisa Su, and Amazon execs who funded the film, per the Hollywood Reporter https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Sensor Tower: EA led all publishers in 2025 with 200M PC and console downloads, ahead of its $55B deal to go private; Fortnite had the top console player base (Payton Turkeltaub/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/electronic-arts-game-downloa…

Electronic Arts Leads 2025 Game Downloads, Finds Gaming Report
Video game publisher and developer Electronic Arts came out on top in 2025, according to Sensor Tower’s 2026 State of Gaming Report.

6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available
#LetsEncrypt

Thanks to all who are submitting feedback on #LeftWordle, I truly appreciate it!
Private Messages to me aren’t necessary from my POV. If you're sharing something sensitive - of course, but to report a bug or request a feature, a public post w/ an @ mention is fine.
Maybe someone else has a similar problem, or found a workaround. Also, favs on a bug report or feature request can h…

#Reiche will offenbar die Solarwirtschaft genauso kaputtmachen, wie sie es damals unter Altmaier und der Windkraft gemacht hat.
Die Frau ist eine Katastrophe für die deutsche Wirtschaft!
Und jammert mir nie wieder vor, wie "furchtbar" doch Habeck war ...

Reiche-Pläne entfachen Debatte: Ministerin will private Solar-Besitzer zur Kasse bitten
Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche hat angekündigt, die Förderung für Solaranlagen zu beenden. Damit dürfte die private PV-Anlage für viele unwirtschaftlich werden. Das ist aber nicht alles, was Reiche plant.

Milliarden-Boost für Deep Tech: Regierung und KfW zünden den Deutschlandfonds
Mit einer Hebelwirkung von 130 Milliarden Euro soll der Deutschlandfonds private Investoren in Hochtechnologien wie KI, Quantencomputing und Biotech locken.

So former Dutch Minister and @… leader Sigrid Kaag is not part of Trump's "Board of Peace", but of his closely related "Gaza Executive Board", which has 4 members in common with the founding Executive Board of Trump's "Board of Peace": Witkoff, Kushner, Blair, Rowan

I was reminded today that Garry Tan, reportedly a centimillionaire, has the most entry-level ass booze in his private booze locker. No taste. It would be a kindness to confiscate these men's wealth and spare them from embarrassing themselves.

Google agrees to pay $68M to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that Google Assistant inappropriately recorded private conversations on users' devices (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…

https://www.wired.com/story/doxers-posing-as-cops-are-tricking-big-tech-firms-into-sharing-peoples-private-data/

Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Neighbourhood:
🎵 Private
#NowPlaying #TheNeighbourhood
https://theneighbourhoodofficial.bandcamp.com/track/private
https://open.spotify.com/track/1735xgk2J8CHCGY2LS1HM6

US private payrolls unexpectedly declined in November, the ADP employment report showed on Wednesday.
Private employment decreased by 32,000 jobs last month
after an upwardly revised 47,000 increase in October.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast private employment rising by 10,000 jobs after a previously reported 42,000 rebound in October.

Thoughts on keeping parts (assets *and* #nix code) of your public :nixos: #NixOS config private?
https://dis…

Public, reusable flake with private parts
I am looking for a way to have a public flake that is reusable as inputs in other flakes, but some parts of the flake are private. I think this is a very common thing, people sharing their config, but don’t want to share their secrets of course or some network settings. If those private parts are just plain files, then agenix or sops can be used, encrypted versions of those secrets are published (still kinda meh, but okay). The problem arises if some nix code should be concealed as well. Her…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/6]:
- Towards Attributions of Input Variables in a Coalition
Xinhao Zheng, Huiqi Deng, Quanshi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13411
- Knee or ROC
Veronica Wendt, Jacob Steiner, Byunggu Yu, Caleb Kelly, Justin Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07390
- Rethinking Disentanglement under Dependent Factors of Variation
Antonio Almud\'evar, Alfonso Ortega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07016 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112959235461894530
- Minibatch Optimal Transport and Perplexity Bound Estimation in Discrete Flow Matching
Etrit Haxholli, Yeti Z. Gurbuz, Ogul Can, Eli Waxman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00759 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113423933393275133
- Predicting Subway Passenger Flows under Incident Situation with Causality
Xiannan Huang, Shuhan Qiu, Quan Yuan, Chao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06871 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113632934357523592
- Characterizing LLM Inference Energy-Performance Tradeoffs across Workloads and GPU Scaling
Paul Joe Maliakel, Shashikant Ilager, Ivona Brandic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08219 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113831081884570770
- Universality of Benign Overfitting in Binary Linear Classification
Ichiro Hashimoto, Stanislav Volgushev, Piotr Zwiernik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10538 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113872351652969955
- Safe Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Engine Control
Julian Bedei, Lucas Koch, Kevin Badalian, Alexander Winkler, Patrick Schaber, Jakob Andert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16613 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113910356206562660
- A Statistical Learning Perspective on Semi-dual Adversarial Neural Optimal Transport Solvers
Roman Tarasov, Petr Mokrov, Milena Gazdieva, Evgeny Burnaev, Alexander Korotin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01310
- Improving the Convergence of Private Shuffled Gradient Methods with Public Data
Shuli Jiang, Pranay Sharma, Zhiwei Steven Wu, Gauri Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03652 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113961314098841096
- Using the Path of Least Resistance to Explain Deep Networks
Sina Salek, Joseph Enguehard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12108 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114023706252106865
- Distributional Vision-Language Alignment by Cauchy-Schwarz Divergence
Wenzhe Yin, Zehao Xiao, Pan Zhou, Shujian Yu, Jiayi Shen, Jan-Jakob Sonke, Efstratios Gavves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17028 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114063477202397951
- Armijo Line-search Can Make (Stochastic) Gradient Descent Provably Faster
Sharan Vaswani, Reza Babanezhad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00229 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114103018985567633
- Semantic Parallelism: Redefining Efficient MoE Inference via Model-Data Co-Scheduling
Yan Li, Zhenyu Zhang, Zhengang Wang, Pengfei Chen, Pengfei Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04398 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114120014622063602
- A Survey on Federated Fine-tuning of Large Language Models
Wu, Tian, Li, Sun, Tam, Zhou, Liao, Xiong, Guo, Li, Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12016 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114182234054681647
- Towards Trustworthy GUI Agents: A Survey
Yucheng Shi, Wenhao Yu, Jingyuan Huang, Wenlin Yao, Wenhu Chen, Ninghao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23434 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114263024618476521
- CONTINA: Confidence Interval for Traffic Demand Prediction with Coverage Guarantee
Chao Yang, Xiannan Huang, Shuhan Qiu, Yan Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13961 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114380404041503229
- Regularity and Stability Properties of Selective SSMs with Discontinuous Gating
Nikola Zubi\'c, Davide Scaramuzza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11602 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114538965060456498
- RECON: Robust symmetry discovery via Explicit Canonical Orientation Normalization
Alonso Urbano, David W. Romero, Max Zimmer, Sebastian Pokutta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13289 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114539124884913788
- RefLoRA: Refactored Low-Rank Adaptation for Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Models
Yilang Zhang, Bingcong Li, Georgios B. Giannakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18877 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114578778213033886
- SuperMAN: Interpretable and Expressive Networks over Temporally Sparse Heterogeneous Data
Bechler-Speicher, Zerio, Huri, Vestergaard, Gilad-Bachrach, Jess, Bhatt, Sazonovs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19193 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114578790124778172
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Sanders Slams Private Equity Scrooges Ending Paid Holidays for Walgreens Workers | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-walgreen-workers

Today was one of the rare occasions when I bought gas (petrol) for my plugin hybrid car. I went to the local Shell station to use its car wash as a great deal of salt is being put on the road recently and I wanted to protect the car, if I could.
When I got home I checked out the Shell webpage and found this item

LNG Canada | Shell Canada
LNG Canada, the largest private-sector energy investment in Canada’s history and the country’s first liquefied natural gas export facility, is located in Kitimat, British Columbia, in the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation.

“The core idea is that your conversations with an AI assistant should be as private as your conversations with a person. Not because you’re doing something wrong, but because privacy is what lets you think freely.”
Moxie Marlinspike, Confessions to a data lake https://confer.to/blog/2025/12/confess

Friday Links 26-03
This week I enjoyed the podcast about Venezuela, the blog post about asking, and the one from Lara Hogan about employees getting stuck.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/01/fr

Mithilfe privater #Satelliten der GHGSat-Konstellation wurden erstmals weltweit #Methanemissionen aus über 3000 Öl-, Gas- und #Kohleanlagen direkt erfasst.
Besonders betroffen si…

Private satellites pinpoint methane emissions from oil, gas and coal facilities worldwide
"The countries where we measure the largest oil and gas methane emissions are Turkmenistan, the U.S., Russia, Mexico and Kazakhstan."

Who's paying the attendees?
From: @…
https://assortedflotsam.com/@politicsbot/115951193821755824

DAMN. Dan Ahn went "full private investigator" mode on clowns hiding their affiliate sponsorships.
▶️ How a Chair Exposed the Worst YouTuber - Ahnestly
https://youtube.com/watch?v=S-wch_zWrV8&si=xc3xZ3wIOfn3l9-B

“My friend, we are completely aligned on Syria. We can do great things in Iran. I don’t understand what you are doing in Greenland”
– Macron to Trump in private message
My friend, we should be fucking over Brown people together like we always do, I don’t understand why you are trying to fuck over white people.

Trump shares private message from Macron offering G7 meeting in Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday offered to host a G7 summit in Paris in a private text message to US President Donald Trump, adding that he could invite “the Russians” on the sidelines. The US president then posted the message, which was authenticated on Tuesday morning by the French president's entourage, on his Truth Social platform.

Why This CEO Won’t Let Private Funds Near His Company’s 401(k) - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/why-this-ceo-wont-let-private-funds-near-his-companys-401-k-040dad07?st=3eJ7u2&r…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Jam:
🎵 Private Hell
#TheJam
https://thespecializedproject.bandcamp.com/track/private-hell
https://open.spotify.com/track/0LXGeRiwae59hBtZEQJxvM

I've set up a #TriliumNotes server to test it as a replacement for my job-related Trello. Phew... I've rarely seen an app that looks so daunting when you first start it up. Dozens of buttons, menus, features... and on first start it wants a password but you can't use it with multiple users. You need multiple servers for that or encrypt a set of private notes.
Trilium integra…

Trump dominiert die Schlagzeilen – und verändert dabei unsere Sprache. Medien übernehmen Begriffe, die Drohung verharmlosen und Völkerrecht verwischen. Wir brauchen Klartext, demokratische Wachsamkeit gegen den bequemen Rückzug ins Private. Denn Wegsehen war noch nie eine Lösung. #Kuratiert #Europa…

Nicht jedes Stöckchen, aber klare Worte: Warum Schweigen keine Option ist
Trump dominiert die Schlagzeilen – und verändert dabei unsere Sprache. Medien übernehmen Begriffe, die Drohung verharmlosen und Völkerrecht verwischen. Wir brauchen Klartext, demokratische Wachsamk…

Google agrees to pay $68 million to settle voice recording lawsuit https://therecord.media/google-settles-millions-privacy-recording

Mage Session 1:
Three mages enter the apartment of a missing person that increasingly looks like a crime scene. One of the characters is a private investigator, one an Etherite maker, the third a VA college student.
Investigator: »When we enter the apartment, DON'T touch anything. If you absolutely need to, I have a spare pair of gloves.«
*Group is entering the apartment*
The apartment is very messy. There is food left out on the counter for the last two days.

"The aim of the Ukraine government, the EU, the US government, the multilateral agencies and the American financial institutions now in charge of raising funds and allocating them for reconstruction is to restore the Ukrainian economy as a form of special economic zone, with public money to cover any potential losses for private capital."
Ukraine- Russia four years on – Michael Roberts Blog

Ukraine- Russia four years on
Today marks the end of the fourth year of the Ukraine-Russia war. After four years, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused staggering damage to Ukraine’s people and economy. There are wildly varyi…

„Evolution des Radios“? Erste private Radiosender spielen KI-generierte Songs
Private Radiosender beginnen damit, KI-generierte Musik zu spielen. Wenn auch als Unterhaltungswert deklariert, spielen ökonomische Interessen eine Rolle.

"Encrypted" Doesn't Mean "Private": What Your Messaging Apps Really Know About You
Encryption protects your words. Not your secrets.
🔒 https://snugg.social/en/blog/encrypted-doesnt-mean-private

"Encrypted" Doesn't Mean "Private": What Your Messaging Apps Really Know About You
WhatsApp says it's encrypted and private. But Meta still knows who you talk to, when, how often, and can infer almost everything else. Here's what "encrypted" actually means.

Grids aren’t ‘full’; we simply lack the tools to utilise the available capacity.
One such tool is allowing higher capacity at night: in the Dutch province of Overijssel, Flexible Connection Agreements provide an additional 135 MW of capacity for charging up to 2,000 HDVs.
https://

Blokstroom biedt ruimte in de nacht voor private laadinfrastructuur - Logistics Overijssel
Enexis heeft voor de provincie Overijssel 135 megawatt gevonden voor ‘blokstroom’, voldoende om ruim 2000 elektrische vrachtwagens op te laden.

Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app built on AT Protocol, making it the first private messenger natively available in the Bluesky app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/a-st

A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky's app | TechCrunch
Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

In Private Letters, Harvard and Trump Administration Escalate Duel (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/us/trump-harvard-letters-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p53#a251224p53

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Trump to hand some offsec ops against adversaries to the private sector, report,
--Canada to probe billboard facial recognition use,
--Pope Leo weighs in on Italian spyware scandal,
--Oracle bug led to theft of sensitive NHS docs,
--Coupang founder will go MIA at parliamentary hearing,
--Asahi will change cyber posture after ransom…

Trump to hand some offsec ops against adversaries to the private sector, report
Canada to probe billboard facial recognition use, Pope Leo weighs in on Italian spyware scandal, Oracle bug led to theft of sensitive NHS docs, Coupang founder will go MIA at parliamentary hearing, Asahi will change cyber posture after ransomware attack, Apple issues emergency updates, much more

U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced dumb-ass legislation today
that would allow private entities to play at Pirates🏴‍☠️in the Caribbean
The "Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act"
authorizes felon-president Trump to commission American pirates,
under "letters of marque"
to seize property and persons on land or sea.
Representative Tim Bimbo Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.

Patriots of the Caribbean: Lee Bill Authorizes American Privateers to Seize Cartel Assets with President’s Approval
U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation today that would allow private entities to stop drug cartel smuggling and violence. The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act authorizes President Trump, as provided under the Constitution, to commission American operators under letters of marque to seize cartel property and persons on land or sea. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.

Shot/chaser
Billionaires like Lurie and his buddies prefer philanthropy to taxes because they decide how much to pay and how it's used. We should not believe for a second that it has anything to do with helping non-rich San Franciscans. #sfpol

A guide to Andy Burnham
1) Broadly principled and well meaning.
2) Seduced by growthist thinking despite encouraging some green initiatives. Result, those initiatives are highly compromised and too small scale to count. Examples, i) Building on green space, ii) failure to enact effective measures to restrict private motoring - all carrots no sticks.
3) A tendency to associate with 'celebrities'.
/Contd
Andy Burnham seeks permission to stand in by-election

Burnham seeks permission to stand in by-election
Burnham seeks permission to stand in by-election

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/3]:
- Diffusion Modulation via Environment Mechanism Modeling for Planning
Hanping Zhang, Yuhong Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20422 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130110576555049
- Heterogeneity-Aware Client Selection Methodology For Efficient Federated Learning
Nihal Balivada, Shrey Gupta, Shashank Shreedhar Bhatt, Suyash Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20450 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/116130191233002036
- Prior-Agnostic Incentive-Compatible Exploration
Ramya Ramalingam, Osbert Bastani, Aaron Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20465 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_bot/116130245628406144
- PhyGHT: Physics-Guided HyperGraph Transformer for Signal Purification at the HL-LHC
Mohammed Rakib, Luke Vaughan, Shivang Patel, Flera Rizatdinova, Alexander Khanov, Atriya Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20475 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepex_bot/116130242350426528
- ActionEngine: From Reactive to Programmatic GUI Agents via State Machine Memory
Zhong, Faisal, Fran\c{c}a, Leesatapornwongsa, Szekeres, Rong, Nath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20502 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130180718734838
- Inner Speech as Behavior Guides: Steerable Imitation of Diverse Behaviors for Human-AI coordination
Rakshit Trivedi, Kartik Sharma, David C Parkes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20517 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130223344095649
- Stop-Think-AutoRegress: Language Modeling with Latent Diffusion Planning
Lovelace, Belardi, Zalouk, Polavaram, Kundurthy, Weinberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20528 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130628998822849
- Standard Transformers Achieve the Minimax Rate in Nonparametric Regression with $C^{s,\lambda}$ T...
Yanming Lai, Defeng Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20555 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130512372759166
- Personal Information Parroting in Language Models
Nishant Subramani, Kshitish Ghate, Mona Diab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20580 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130630309564204
- Characterizing Online and Private Learnability under Distributional Constraints via Generalized S...
Mo\"ise Blanchard, Abhishek Shetty, Alexander Rakhlin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20585 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130525452248337
- Amortized Bayesian inference for actigraph time sheet data from mobile devices
Daniel Zhou, Sudipto Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20611 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130543144314661
- Knowing the Unknown: Interpretable Open-World Object Detection via Concept Decomposition Model
Xueqiang Lv, Shizhou Zhang, Yinghui Xing, Di Xu, Peng Wang, Yanning Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20616 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130795466851481
- On the Convergence of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Perturbed Forward-Backward Passes
Boao Kong, Hengrui Zhang, Kun Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20646 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOC_bot/116130476952419594
- DANCE: Doubly Adaptive Neighborhood Conformal Estimation
Feng, Reich, Beaglehole, Luo, Park, Yoo, Huang, Mao, Boz, Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20652 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130551664144143
- Vision-Language Models for Ergonomic Assessment of Manual Lifting Tasks: Estimating Horizontal an...
Mohammad Sadra Rajabi, Aanuoluwapo Ojelade, Sunwook Kim, Maury A. Nussbaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20658 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130809228818544
- F10.7 Index Prediction: A Multiscale Decomposition Strategy with Wavelet Transform for Performanc...
Xuran Ma, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20712 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophIM_bot/116130530693731576
- Communication-Inspired Tokenization for Structured Image Representations
Davtyan, Sahin, Haghighi, Stapf, Acuaviva, Alahi, Favaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20731 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130824303022936
- SibylSense: Adaptive Rubric Learning via Memory Tuning and Adversarial Probing
Yifei Xu, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20751 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130739757479992
- Assessing the Impact of Speaker Identity in Speech Spoofing Detection
Anh-Tuan Dao, Driss Matrouf, Nicholas Evans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20805 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/116130218074059060
- Don't Ignore the Tail: Decoupling top-K Probabilities for Efficient Language Model Distillation
Sayantan Dasgupta, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20816 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130753521420972
- DRESS: A Continuous Framework for Structural Graph Refinement
Eduar Castrillo Velilla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20833 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/116130545112457981
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Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
👉 https://www.wired.com/stor…

Private Krankenversicherungen: Daten und KI als Schlüssel für bessere Versorgung
Nach Sicht der Privaten Krankenversicherer soll die Digitalisierung die Versorgung verbessern – mit offenen Systemen, klaren Datenregeln und erkennbarem Nutzen.

Bundesrat fordert Digitalabgabe: Tech-Giganten sollen Medienvielfalt finanzieren
Die Länderkammer macht Druck auf die Bundesregierung und fordert eine Sonderabgabe für globale Online-Plattformen, um die private Medienlandschaft zu stützen.

Reach makes its national UK newspapers' ABC print sales circulation figures private, joining News UK, Telegraph Media Group, and The Guardian (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/reach-prin…

Most national newspaper sales figures now secret as Reach takes auditing private
Print circulation figures for Reach national newspapers the Mirror, Express and Star titles will no longer be made public.

Sources: the Trump administration is weighing a substantial shift in its cyberstrategy, including by enlisting private companies to assist with cyberattacks (Adam Sella/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/us-cyberwarfare-privat…

U.S. Weighs Expanding Private Companies’ Role in Cyberwarfare
The proposal raises a host of questions about the legality and practicality of bolstering the involvement of the private sector in offensive cyberoperations.

'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school/

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge.
No wonder ICE hid this memo!
https://

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Anne Clark:
🎵 Sleeper In Metropolis
#NowPlaying #AnneClark
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Supreme Court skeptical of Hawaii's 'vampire rule' for gun owners (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-tackles-hawaiis-vampire-rule-gun-owners-private-property-rcna252389
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p112#a260120p112

A private investigator says the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday remained his "best customers" for two years after his 2005 conviction for disclosing private info (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/1…

Sources: UBS plans to make cryptocurrency investing available for some private banking clients in Switzerland, starting with bitcoin and ether (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/ubs-plans-crypto-tr…

»Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations:
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.«
On the one hand, I don't understand the people who use it, but on the other hand, a company that people don't care about because people are a product.
🙄

Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.

How tech companies, including Meta and OpenAI, are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/19/data-centers-power-gri…

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.
Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

Private guns, public oil: Trump's Venezuela plans start taking shape (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/15/politics/trump-private-contractors-venezuela-oil
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p84#a260115p84

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bundesrat fordert Digitalabgabe: Tech-Giganten sollen Medienvielfalt finanzieren

Source: smart ring maker Oura plans a tender offer for early investors at a 25% discount to its $11B valuation from Series E, aiming to stay private longer (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/smart-r…

SETI@home veröffentlicht Ergebnisse von 21 Jahren Distributed Computing
21 Jahre lang analysierten private Rechner Daten aus dem Weltall nach Spuren von Außerirdischen. Die verheißungsvollsten Signale werden jetzt überprüft.

Source: Greenoaks, one of Brex's top investors, will return twice its investment after Capital One's Brex acquisition for $5.15B in a half-cash, half-stock deal (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/exit-brex-investors-rising-zombie…

An Exit for Brex Investors; Rising Zombie Funds
Brex’s $5.15 billion agreement to sell to Capital One isn’t the kind of exit employees or investors would have dreamed of four years ago, when it was valued privately at $12.3 billion. But it appears to be a good enough ending to the corporate credit card startup’s run as a private company.For ...

US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market (Mike Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-priva…

Rural Fire Departments Squeezed By Software Prices As Investors Profit
Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.

Some private software companies including McAfee released earnings early to reassure investors worried about an AI-linked selloff, dubbed the "SaaSpocalypse" (Reshmi Basu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources and US tax lawyers: the IRS's planned audit of private equity and VC firms is faltering under President Trump, as many senior leaders leave the agency (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/business/irs-private…

Push to Audit Private Equity and Venture Capital Falters Under Trump
Specialists have left the I.R.S. and audits have been abandoned since the president returned to office.

"Claws" is becoming a term to describe OpenClaw-like agent systems that usually run on personal hardware and are a new layer on top of LLM agents (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
https://x.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126

Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) on X
Bought a new Mac mini to properly tinker with claws over the weekend. The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused :) I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically - giving my private data/keys to 400K lines of vibe coded

Stocks of private companies like OpenAI and SpaceX are being sold via invitation-only markets to the ultrawealthy before their IPOs, creating a two-tier system (Corrie Driebusch/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/priv…