Ban Private Jets Now! #environment #BanPrivateJets

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Sign our petition to ban private jets

At 1:09 a.m. EDT on November 2,
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, carrying Haven Demo and 17 other satellites,
including ones that will be operated by South Korea's Agency for Defense Development (ADD),
the Berlin-based company Exolaunch,
Turkey's Fergani Space,
and U.S. weather-forecasting outfit Tomorrow Companies,
and Starcloud, which carried an NVIDIA H100 AI chip to see if it’s possible to build an artificial intelligence-…

Elon Musk Launches Satellite To Test Systems For Private Space Station
SpaceX launched 18 satellites, including Haven Demo, a key test for the world's first private space station.

Yankees even series with Red Sox; Dodgers move onto NLDS; Big Ten eyeing $2 billion private equity deal

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/yankees

ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/31/ice-plans-cash-rewards-for-private-bounty-hunters-to-locate-and-track-immigrants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p27#a251101p27

Sample-Efficient Differentially Private Fine-Tuning via Gradient Matrix Denoising
Ali Dadsetan, Frank Rudzicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01137 https://arxi…

Sample-Efficient Differentially Private Fine-Tuning via Gradient Matrix Denoising
We address the challenge of sample efficiency in differentially private fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) using DP-SGD. While DP-SGD provides strong privacy guarantees, the added noise significantly increases the entropy of gradient matrices, disrupting their low-rank structure and slowing optimization. We propose a post-processing algorithm that leverages random matrix theory to denoise gradients, restore low-rank structure, and improve alignment with the original signal. Applied to …

Private Learning of Littlestone Classes, Revisited
Xin Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00076 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00076…

Private Learning of Littlestone Classes, Revisited
We consider online and PAC learning of Littlestone classes subject to the constraint of approximate differential privacy. Our main result is a private learner to online-learn a Littlestone class with a mistake bound of $\tilde{O}(d^{9.5}\cdot \log(T))$ in the realizable case, where $d$ denotes the Littlestone dimension and $T$ the time horizon. This is a doubly-exponential improvement over the state-of-the-art [GL'21] and comes polynomially close to the lower bound for this task. The advancem…

Silver Lake, whose $24B deal to take Dell private in 2013 became its calling card, sees a similar setup in EA: a recognizable brand with predictable cash flows (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/si…

Trump commutes 7-year prison sentence of former private equity CEO David Gentile (Rebecca Shabad/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-commutes-7-year-prison-sentence-former-private-equity-ceo-david-rcna246744
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p52#a251201p52

Privately Estimating Black-Box Statistics
G\"unter F. Steinke, Thomas Steinke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00322 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00322…

Privately Estimating Black-Box Statistics
Standard techniques for differentially private estimation, such as Laplace or Gaussian noise addition, require guaranteed bounds on the sensitivity of the estimator in question. But such sensitivity bounds are often large or simply unknown. Thus we seek differentially private methods that can be applied to arbitrary black-box functions. A handful of such techniques exist, but all are either inefficient in their use of data or require evaluating the function on exponentially many inputs. In this…

Dutch government has let all messages within the judicial system run via Solvinity, a company now about to be sold by a UK-based private equity firm to US-based Kyndryl. Which brings the data within reach of the Trump regime.

Niet alleen DigiD: ook geheime info rechtspraak en Justitie in geding bij overname IT-bedrijf
Er is onrust ontstaan over de aangekondigde overname van IT-dienstverlener Solvinity – leverancier van DigiD – door een Amerikaans bedrijf. Door de systemen van Solvinity lopen uiterst gevoelige data van onder meer het ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid, het Openbaar Ministerie en de rechtspraak. Die dreigen binnen het bereik van de Amerikaanse regering te komen.

private func nonisolated nonsensical hello() async { }

»Keyhive: Local-first access control«
I will have to read this online article carefully this weekend. Do any of you have any other tips to inform me about Local-First web?
📓 https://www.inkandswitch.com/keyhive/notebook/

Keyhive: Local-first access control
Keyhive is a project exploring local-first access control. It aims to provide a firm basis for secure collaboration, similar to the guarantees of private chat but for any local-first application.

Random quick rough mock I made this morning, but only posting it now @… https://social.coop/@scottjenson/115300084480889349

"That's it. That's why every government in the world allowed US Big Tech companies to declare open season on their people's private data and ready cash.
The alternative was tariffs. Well, I don't know if you've heard, but we've got tariffs now!
I mean, if someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep following their orders. So…Happy Liberation Day?" - @…
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

Andrew will head into exile at King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-jeffrey-epstein-virginia-roberts-giuffre-sarah-ferguson-elizabeth-ii-b2856836.html

Using grok in a private window, I love helping Elon musk on his road to success.

Differentially Private Learning of Exponential Distributions: Adaptive Algorithms and Tight Bounds
Bar Mahpud, Or Sheffet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00790 https://

Differentially Private Learning of Exponential Distributions: Adaptive Algorithms and Tight Bounds
We study the problem of learning exponential distributions under differential privacy. Given $n$ i.i.d.\ samples from $\mathrm{Exp}(λ)$, the goal is to privately estimate $λ$ so that the learned distribution is close in total variation distance to the truth. We present two complementary pure DP algorithms: one adapts the classical maximum likelihood estimator via clipping and Laplace noise, while the other leverages the fact that the $(1-1/e)$-quantile equals $1/λ$. Each method excels in a d…

Nice, if you use DNS via Tailscale AdGuard/pihole can work even if you have Private Relay turned on!!

#Utah Senator Mike Lee is trying to steal public lands again. This time he's trying to hide his intentions in language about immigration and wildfires, but it's ultimately about making public lands private for extraction industry donors to him.
#utpol

RE: https://mastodon.ozioso.online/@Photochromprints/115816333352828758
That toll house is still there, although it's a private home now. The area beyond it has become a popular park with a large play area for kids. The pier in the dist…

Rich rejoice as 17 acres of #LongBeach Airport to be converted to private jet storage in $60 million renovation to build 5 hangar #PrivateJet campus at underutilized #SouthernCalifornia municipal airport .

Home-Base Hangar Option Opens in Houston - Sky Harbour LLC
(New York, NY) – Sky Harbour Group will host a cocktail reception at its new, private aviation campus at Sugar Land Regional Airport from 6 p.m.-9 p.m., Wednesday, May 19.

Ansonsten Fazit zu den lustigen 'Mini Cabins' im Nachtzug der ÖBB, so eine Art private Sardinendose:
Sehr fancy, aber nur was für gelenkige Leute.
Und leider nur eine sehr dünne Decke für die ziemlich frische Belüftung.
Die Länge war für mich ok, aber die sind wirklich sehr schmal. Mein Oberschenkelknochen ist länger, als die breit sind.

In its Q3 earnings, Alphabet said the profit included "net gains on equity securities of $10.7B," in part from a private company, which sources say is Anthropic (Bloomberg)

Now that the Vondelkerk has burned down, they can finally bulldoze the site and build high-rise luxury housing in central Amsterdam to sell to foreign investors and private equity. It's a great opportunity for the market!

Door discussies hier viel mijn oog op @… , interessante europese cloud provider. Prettig prijsmodel ook.
https://jottacloud.com/

Apologies, cleary visibility: 'private' in masto (Node.js Mastodon client) doesn’t mean private.
🤷‍♂️

Investigation finds Putin’s secret Crimea compound with private hospital: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/investigation-finds-putins-secret-crimea.html

Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
[…] The @… Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world. […]
🗨️ ht…

Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR). This new ratchet enhances the Signal Protocol’s resilience against future quantum computing threats while maintaining our existing security guar...

"Private equity believes Americans will pay anything to save their pets."
- The rise of Big Vet
▶️ Wall Street's Shocking Plan For America's Pets - More Perfect Union
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Po6muzvQgEk&si=LGhx3dY2u6Yw2kEt

"Ministers to crack down on ‘for-profit’ litter enforcers in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

Looking for private instance messengers, Matrix is ok but the over-secure design makes it hard for normals to cope with phone changes etc

"The plan could involve an ‘incentive based pricing structure’ for contractors, according to the report"
Kristi Noem mulls using private bounty hunters to track down immigrants, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-ice-bounty-hunters-report-b2856825.html

Health Stuff

Recovered somewhat from whatever that weird fit was at the end of last year.

NHS still has me on some sort of list I think, appointment might turn up next year. Last contact with them they were suggesting maybe November.
But the private treatment gave me the
MRI which
showed nothing weird and post-fit symptoms have been reducing.
Experimented with eating meat to see if that helped.
Tried eating meat for a month to see if it reduced the post-fit symptoms. Maybe it did? Tried vegetarian again and maybe it got worse?
Hard to tell with intermittent symptoms and a terrible memory.
Decided it's more likely to do good than harm (to me, entirely harm to the animals obviously), and eat meat till the end of the year.
While I'm better, I don't really feel fully recovered enough to want to change things so more meat next year I think.
One of those symptoms is that booze tolerance dropped to like zero. Very rarely had more than four pints in a day this year and very rarely more than one night a
week.
Much high number than the target there really.
Tripped over a guy-rope and fell onto the wrist.
Did two days of the festival and the drive home thinking it almost certainly wasn't broken and only confirmed it was when I got home and the hospital put it in a cast.

Mr Mountbatten Windsor, private citizen.

Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress https://www.404media.co/red-hat-investigating-breach-impacting-as-many-as-28-000-customers-including-the-navy-and-congress…

Brookfield is launching a cloud company called Radiant and a new $10B AI fund, and plans to acquire up to $100B in land, data centers, and power assets for AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/brookfield-start-cloud-b…

Brookfield to Start Cloud Business to Lower Cost of AI
Private-equity firm Brookfield is starting its own cloud business, going up against tech giants like Amazon by arguing it can bring down the costs of developing AI. The firm, which has long invested in infrastructure and energy, is becoming the first major investment firm to try to lease chips ...

The buried lede: #letter delivery will continue in #Denmark via the private sector. Should that fail, however, the government’s legally required to act to resume service.
Expect shenanigans.
#mail

Goodbye Udo Kier
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/udo-kier-dead-own-private-idaho-andy-warhol-frankenstein-1236590259/

Udo Kier Dead: 'Andy Warhol's Frankenstein' Star Was 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.

Cancel billionaires
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/115635779318419465

From subtle shifts in the procedural mechanics of
self-defense doctrine
to substantive expansions of justified lethal force,
legislatures are delegating larger amounts of
“violence work”
to the private sphere.
These regulatory innovations layer on top of existing rules that broadly authorize private violence
—both defensive and offensive
—for self-protection and the ostensible maintenance of law and order.
Yet such significant authority…

THE NEW OUTLAWRY - Columbia Law Review
Introduction From subtle shifts in the procedural mechanics of self-defense doctrine to substantive expansions of justified lethal force, many red-state legislatures across the country are delegating larger amounts of “violence work” to the private sphere. In the wake of antiracism protests in summer 2020, Republican-dominated legislatures proposed a slew of such measures. The measures provide […]

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

“She said the pair were "acting on conscience on what we thought was the right thing in the face of a collapsing climate, which is something that wasn't ever really discussed in the court".”
When will the courts take the fate of the planet into consideration?
#climatecatastrophe https://news.sky.com/story/just-stop-oil-activists-who-sought-to-spray-paint-taylor-swifts-private-jet-spared-jail-13458632

A look at the system for distribution of direct media subsidies developed for the government of Denmark, which spends ~0.2% of its GDP on direct media subsidies (Rasmus Kleis Nielsen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2…

As the U.S. starves its public media, Denmark wants to figure out a better way to subsidize private news publishers
"A foundation can pick winners on the basis of its own values and priorities and support them from private sources. But if the state does the same with public funds, we risk the appearance (or even worse, the reality) of politicians picking winners on the basis of their own ad hoc, pa…

#OpenAI is different. unlike robber barons orf yore, they didn’t #enslave masses, to pick cotton, extract oil or steel. They mined something more diffuse — every thought ever written, every photo ever shared, every line of code ever posted — and turned it into private property.
As Altman's

OpenAI Just Became America's Biggest Foundation. Now What?
OpenAI announced this week that their nonprofit now controls a $130 billion stake of the company, one of the largest philanthropic fortunes in America. I spent a decade giving away hundreds of millions in corporate philanthropy.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
D’Angelo:
🎵 When We Get By
#DAngelo
https://thelordss.bandcamp.com/track/dangelo-when-we-get-by-the-lordss-2023-private-jazzy-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1DNkxLaGqAIU43kHQkunoE

I agree with the following but understand why folks would like to be private too!
Fernando Borretti:: "I Wish People Were More Public"
Probably not a popular thing to say today. The zeitgeisty thing to say is that we should all log off and live terrible cottagecore solarpunk lives raising chickens and being mindful. I wish people were more online and more public. I have rarely wished the opposite. Consider this post addressed to you, the reader." --> Read the whol…

I got to slap the spoiler of a car with a thin blue line flag sticker just now, when the douchebag driver blatantly ran a red light and nearly crashed into perpendicular traffic. Wish I had a brick!
Once again, there's no reason for private cars in #NYC. #BanCars

"The ultra-wealthy no longer wait in lines, navigate public institutions, or share community space with ordinary Americans. And that’s the real danger: once the richest begin living outside the civic sphere, they stop caring whether the rest of society works at all. A nation where the wealthy secede into a private realm is a nation confronting oligarchy."
**This unspoken threat is hastening America's downfall — and it's not MAGA** - Raw Story
https://archive.ph/ZBnaK#selection-845.71-863.167

Prompts are not as private as you think they are.
https://www.quantable.com/ai/the-old-rules-are-dead/

Source: OpenAI authorized up to $10.3B in shares for sale, but only $6.6B was sold, which insiders see as a sign of staff confidence and strong investor demand (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/openai-share-sale-500-billion-valuation.html…

OpenAI wraps $6.6 billion share sale at $500 billion valuation
OpenAI has completed a $6.6 billion secondary share sale at a $500 billion valuation, cementing its status as the most valuable private company in the world.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CR/new
[1/1]:
- Private Learning of Littlestone Classes, Revisited
Xin Lyu
https://

Good NYT piece (gift link). Tl;dr: Financial whiz kids want to get their hands on mainstream retirement & insurance money so it can be plowed into unregulated private-debt markets and crypto. What could go wrong? https://www.

The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?
A group of financiers is trying to convince the public to invest heavily in private equity and crypto — a risky gambit with some real 1920s vibes.

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.

Top court rules EU nations must mutually recognize same-sex marriages
The Court of Justice of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday that any refusal to do this 'is contrary to EU law' and 'infringes not only the freedom to move and reside, but also the fundamental right to respect for private and family life.'

Top court rules EU nations must mutually recognize same-sex marriages
The Court of Justice of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday that any refusal to do this 'is contrary to EU law' and 'infringes not only the freedom to move and reside, but also the fundamental right to respect for private and family life.

While I love Man on the Inside I am sad a show about Private Investigators doesn't spend any time shitting on corrupt police work.
#tv

🏒 Rapid rise of private club and travel teams found in youth sports
#sports

Rapid rise of private club and travel teams found in youth sports
A new study provides evidence of the explosive growth of private club and travel teams in youth sports over the past 60 years.

"He said chain migration is a “dirtier” way of characterizing what he called “a bedrock of our immigration process when it comes to family reunification.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/nyregio

I don’t usually post things like this - maybe due to a yearly sense of failure 😅 (by most conventional metrics) or alternatively a reluctance to rub it in if others have had even harder years. But I’ve come to think that not just private gratitude, but occasional public sharing might actually be beneficial. & so, having now dawdled / hedged long enough, here are some things I'm thankful for in 2025 😂 -
- Going from pain when using a mouse, playing keys, & many other basic &…

Leading Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have launched an investigation into the Trump Administration’s
use of private platforms like
Truth Social and X for official business.
https://meidasnews.com…

RIP Udo Kier. I loved him in many things but he's particularly great opposite River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho. Later he appeared again with Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic.
Perhaps it is time to watch Spermula in honor of his divers oeuvre. I think he had a lot of fun in his career.

Just published 🚀: Private AI Investment is on a GDP-Scale
#musings

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…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DS/new
[1/1]:
- Private Learning of Littlestone Classes, Revisited
Xin Lyu
https://

It Sure Looks Like Kash Patel Used the FBI's Jet to Go on a Date (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/202430/kash-patel-fbi-private-jet-wrestling-date
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p150#a251029p150

Had Fun

Bought a car/micro-camper

Bought a van to do up as a micro-camper, and did a temporary rush job of that conversion myself while waiting in the list for the pro to do it.
Then the pro gave himself a health criss the week it was booked so I took apart my temp job and only got another temp kit-job in it's place.
Went out in it like four times during that and then broke my wrist and couldn't really use it or improve it.
Then had to take it apart even more to try
and figure out where the ad-blue hole was.
I will do a proper permanent job of the
floor and walls and ceiling and adjustments to the kit-job to make it the nicest it's been so far during the spring next year.
My assumption that the prior conversion
into a van and for wheelchair-access meant the microcamper conversion was half-done already turned out to be false.
If I buy a new one, it'll be one that has never been wheelchair adapted.
But it's going okay. Only scraped it once so far.
Fewer than aimed for or booked, but I broke my wrist and had to cancel the second half of the summer.
Went to a conference about money and computers and fringe decentralized social media and it wasn't as boring as you might expect and felt pretty much like a festival.
Exactly the target number! It's lovely.
Took 3 times longer than I'd hoped and
50% more money than I'd planned for really.
Still improvements to make but they will
be incremental and gradual over the coming year or two now.
It's been interest-only for 20 years so a big old lump sum payment that I never really expected to be able to make. Expected to have to sell and move at the end of the mortgage term.
But surprisingly the stocks ISA got high enough to pay it off after all, so I did that.
Cash-flow ruined by that and the bedroom but should start to feel a bit richer next year.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

From 2030*, passengers of private jets departing from the Netherlands will pay a flight tax of €420 to €2,100, depending on distance. So far, they only paid €29.40, just like ordinary airline passengers.
Yay for Dutch parliament!
https://www.rtl.nl/nieu…

Tweede Kamer wil vliegbelasting voor privéjets 14 tot 71 keer verhogen: 'Toonbeeld van verspilling'
De Tweede Kamer wil dat passagiers van privévliegtuigen veel meer vliegbelasting gaan betalen. De Kamer heeft zojuist een voorstel van GroenLinks-PvdA aangenomen, waarin de vliegbelasting voor privéjets omhoog gaat van 29,40 euro per passagier tot 420 euro of zelfs 2100 euro.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115629217753099927
This will have no effect on people of moderate beliefs or none, but will dampen considerably the actions of religious extremists. Which is a good thing.
Religion is a private, personal thing. When brought into publi…

The Economist, the FT, and Dow Jones are licensing their archives and live content to enterprise clients for use in their private LLMs (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-economist-licenses-its-content-to-enterprise-clients-…

The Economist licenses its content to enterprise clients’ private LLMs
The Economist and Factiva are actively driving LLM licensing deals with enterprise clients' private large language models LLMs.

Donald Trump has set free a private equity executive
who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence
for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme
that defrauded thousands of victims.
David Gentile, 59, a onetime resident of Nassau County, N.Y.,
had reported to prison on Nov. 14, and was released on Wednesday, according to Bureau of Prisons records and a White House official who was not authorized to discuss the matter.
Mr…

Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.

Wow, if you search for signal messenger on DuckDuckGo using Chrome, the actual @… web site is the *third* entry following ads for “Signal Private Messenger – Free Download” that leads to the site appmaus.com and “Get Signal Messenger | Install Signal App” that leads to the site filelocations.com.
DuckDuckGo should be held criminally liable for anyone who…

The US CBP signs a two-year deal with AI logistics company Altana, and will use its platform for real-time trade enforcement, forced labor detection, and more (Mackenzie Weinger/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/cbp-altana-ai-trade

Exclusive: CBP taps Altana's AI for trade enforcement
Private firms and federal agencies are looking for ways to navigate supply-chain uncertainty.

Private prison executives revel in profiting off ICE arrests in earnings calls
https://prismreports.org/2025/10/23/private-prison-executives-revel-in-ice-arrests/

Cory Booker Weds Alexis Lewis in a Private Ceremony (Sadiba Hasan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/style/cory-booker-wedding-alexis-lewis.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p16#a251130p16

CUII Liste — Diese Webseite ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Die CUII hat entschieden, diese Seite ohne gerichtlichen Beschluss zu sperren. Selbstjustiz? Nein danke!
Die CUII ist eine private Organisation, die sich selbst das Recht nimmt, Webseiten zu sperren, die ihrer Meinung nach gegen das Urheberrecht verstoßen. Dies geschieht ohne gerichtliche Beschlüsse - und Internetanbieter ziehen mit.
🚫

CuiiListe.de - Gesperrte Domains
Die CUII Liste zeigt dir, welche Domains von der CUII gesperrt sind und wie du die Zensur umgehen kannst.

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.

EA reports Q2 net bookings down 13% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.88B est., and says it will no longer issue forward-looking financial guidance due to its $55B sale (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/electronic-arts-sales-down-ea…

Electronic Arts Sales Down, Suspends Earnings Calls
Electronic Arts saw its sales fall 13% year over year during the July-September quarter.

RE Mike Lee’s execrable proposal for "Pirates of the Caribbean "
a few days ago
—it’s bad, but
sadly in line with the right-wing movement to expand private actors’ privilege to use violence.
Darrell Miller wrote about this in what we called
“the new outlawry”
https://www.

THE NEW OUTLAWRY - Columbia Law Review
Introduction From subtle shifts in the procedural mechanics of self-defense doctrine to substantive expansions of justified lethal force, many red-state legislatures across the country are delegating larger amounts of “violence work” to the private sphere. In the wake of antiracism protests in summer 2020, Republican-dominated legislatures proposed a slew of such measures. The measures provide […]

Private payroll losses accelerated in the past four weeks, ADP reports
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/private-payroll-losses-accelerated-in-the-past-four-weeks-adp-reports-.html

Jamf says PE firm Francisco Partners agreed to take the device management software maker private in an all-cash deal valued at ~$2.2B, set to close in Q1 2026 (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/jamf-to

Sources: Francisco Partners is in talks to acquire Jamf, which provides remote device management tools, taking it private; Jamf has a market cap of ~$1.5B (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/francisco-partners-buy-jamf…

Mike Johnson is rumored to have a Grindr profile...
Board Proposes To Take Grindr Private In $3.5B Deal - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/board-proposes-to-take-grindr-private-in-3-5b-deal/

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…

Born on this date, 1757
William Blake
The copy of The Tyger going to auction in Christie’s
Old Masters To Modern Day Sale
on December 3 is the only one in private ownership
and was once owned by
The Wind In The Willows author Kenneth Grahame
https://www.

Rare print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem expected to sell for up to £120,000
The print comes from the rare first issue of Blake’s Songs Of Experience.

'An obligation to challenge the indictment': Lindsey Halligan is now a 'private citizen' — here's what that could mean for the dozens of other cases with her name on them
https://lawandcrime.com/uncategorized/an-obligation-to-challenge-the-indictment-lindsey-halligan-is-now-a-private-citizen-heres-what-that-could-mean-for-the-dozens-of-other-cases-with-her-name-on-them/

Fed Lost Access to Private Jobs Data Ahead of Government Shutdown (Nick Timiraos/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/fed-lost-access-to-private-jobs-data-ahead-of-government-shutdown-95225bd4?st=X3jCUU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p118#a251022p118

Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform providing a "secure, fortified space" to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/818364/google-private-ai-compute

Google is introducing its own version of Apple’s private AI cloud compute
Google is rolling out Private AI Compute to use the cloud for AI requests while keeping on-device levels of privacy, a similar feature to Apple. 

OpenAI launches Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered autonomous cybersecurity research agent that can identify and help patch vulnerabilities, in private beta (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-unveils-aardvark-a…

OpenAI unveils 'Aardvark,' a GPT-5-powered agent for autonomous cybersecurity research
OpenAI said the new cybersecurity agent can identify, explain, and help fix vulnerabilities. Here's how it works.

The collapse of two US firms, First Brands and Tricolor,
has shone a light on private credit and its growing influence in the global economy.
The failures have led to ballooning losses at traditional banks,
and, coupled with worries about the health of US regional banks,
have raised concerns about weak lending standards and potential threats from an opaque corner of the so-called "shadow banking" sector

PitchBook: the biggest US private startups raised $150B in 2025, surpassing the previous high of $92B in 2021, boosted by large funding rounds by AI startups (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f989b72-0722-4b0a-9a50-876417abc06f

Uruguay used to rely heavily on oil & gas-based power.
But as the economy grew and electricity demand threatened to overtake supply from the early 2010s,
it needed to add additional generating capacity, and fast.
New hydro wasn’t an option as it had already made the most of that resource.
To chart the way forward, the president appointed Ramón Méndez Galain,
a particle physicist from the private sector,
as the country’s director of energy
— a pos…

'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for 10 straight months
Uruguay achieves energy independence by running on 100% renewable energy for 10 consecutive months, setting a global sustainability example.

Sources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/onetrus…

OneTrust, Privacy Startup Last Valued at $4.5 Billion, Discusses Private Equity Sale
OneTrust, a nine-year-old startup that benefited from a wave of European and U.S. laws regulating how companies collect and share website data, is exploring a sale—possibly to private equity buyers, according to people familiar with the discussions. The Atlanta-based startup, which sells privacy ...

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.

Ripple's shares trade between $135 and $170 in private markets, up ~2x-3x since early 2025, valuing the company at $22B-$30B after several major acquisitions (Nina Bambysheva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2025/10/28/insid…

Inside Ripple’s $180 Billion Reinvention
Freed from its SEC lawsuit, Ripple, long a blockchain payments company with little actual business, is finally acquiring its way toward a legitimate multibillion-dollar crypto empire.

Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to buy NYSE-listed DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers and digital infrastructure operators (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29…

Flock Surveillance
refers to the camera and data systems developed by Flock Safety,
-- a private technology company that provides automated license plate recognition  and
vehicle-tracking networks to
police departments, homeowners’ associations, and private businesses across the U.S.
🔥This system enables mass tracking of drivers and data sharing across police and private networks
without sufficient oversight,
raising serious concerns about privacy, …

What is FLOCK surveillance w/ EFF's Sarah Hamid; Oakland Police Commission w/ Ricardo Garcia Acosta and Omar Farmer | KPFA
Flock Surveillance refers to the camera and data systems developed by Flock Safety, a private technology company that provides automated license plate recognition  and vehicle-tracking networks to police departments, homeowners’ associations, and private businesses across the U.S. This system enables mass tracking of drivers and data sharing across police and private networks without sufficient oversight, … Continued

Grindr ends talks on a $3.46B take-private deal by shareholders Ray Zage and James Lu, who own 60% of Grindr, citing uncertainty over the deal's financing (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/grindr-special-commi…

Grindr board members Ray Zage and James Lu, part of an investor group that owns more than 60%, offer to take Grindr private for ~$3.46B; GRND closes up 18.63% (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/grindr-shareholders-offer-take-dating-app-p…

Sources: Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, is exploring a sale, after its stock fell 90% since its 2021 IPO (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9e865858-c0eb-4c73-9185-db9f49ea9978

Sources: Raymond Zage and James Lu, who control most of Grindr, are in talks to take it private after a Temasek unit sold shares pledged for personal loans (Liz Hoffman/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/13/2025/grindr-explor…

Grindr explores take-private after lender calls insiders’ loans
Dating app’s controlling shareholders are discussing buyout financing with Fortress Investment Group for a deal that would likely have national-security implications, people familiar with the matter said.