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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 ...

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…

ICE, which has no authority to police US citizens, is creepily using data to spy on observers and activists.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/ice-using-private-data-to-intimidate-observers-and-activists-advocates-say…

“EU Revives Plan for Year-Long Data Retention Across Digital Services, Including Encrypted Apps … Officials insist they do not intend to compromise encryption or read private messages. What they want is the so-called metadata: who contacted whom, from where, at what time, and through which service.” – https://

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.

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

Confronting the Challenges of Sensitive #OpenData
When governments collect sensitive data about private individuals, personal #privacy and governmental #transparency come into conflict. How…

Confronting the Challenges of Sensitive Open Data
When governments collect sensitive data about private individuals, personal privacy and governmental transparency come into conflict. How should we resolve this tension?

CFO Palantir talking about how they're working to make the various data streams of surveillance efficiently useful and remove the needle-in-a-haystack anonymity we have previously enjoyed. Awesome.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/opinion

“This seems the best bang for your buck; it’s less per year than private school.”, said the future mother.
UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health
https://www.theguar…

I do not support or condone malicious hacking, destruction of private data, or the unwilling sharing of private data.
Unless it's Nazis. Then screw 'em.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes…

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

Data-hungry #AI company tricks users into uploading more private and intimate data to feed their learning algorithms. There, fixed it for you.
#OpenAI Launches #ChatGPT

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, its third in the greater Memphis area (Sophie Bates/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/xai-musk-data-center-missis…

Elon Musk's xAI to third data center in Memphis area
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, plans to spend $20 billion on a data center in Southaven, Mississippi. Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday that this is the largest private investment in the state's history. The center, called MACROHARDRR, will be near Memphis, Tennessee, and is xAI's third in the area. xAI CFO Anthony Armstrong says it will house the world's largest supercomputer. The project faces scrutiny over environmental concerns, especially regarding air pollution near predominantly Black co…

#Sky's scaremongering is not going to work.
They simply need to drop the pricing (€52 a month on their 'Sky Signature' aka. Entertainment package €40 a month on Sky Sports)
And abolish the Saturday 3PM bollocks (in Ireland anyway) for Premier League games, and maybe people will pay for it then.
The wording on this is just laughable.
'Dodgy boxes' are not i…

"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

It was National Voter Registration Day,
and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was on her way to a small liberal arts college
for a voter registration event.
That’s when she learned the US Department of Justice
was suing her over how she manages Maine’s voter registrant list.
While the DOJ appearing as the official plaintiff was new,
what the federal government sought through the lawsuit
—access to Maine’s complete, unredacted voter roll file

Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

You're going to want to sit down for this.
Or maybe not.
Kohler has started selling a smart camera. For your toilet. Yep, a camera.
And in typical #IOT fashion, lo and behold, it's not secure.

Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private
Kohler is getting the scoop on people’s poop.

Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users "banking-level privacy" with a "compliance record" (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/09/circle-privacy-stablecoin-aleo-uds…

Exclusive: Circle stablecoin for ‘banking-level privacy’ to launch on Aleo blockchain
Blockchains make data public, but Aleo founder Howard Wu hopes to lure big banks and institutions to crypto through semi-private stablecoins.

Anybody familiar with the details of how thread local storage on aarch64 is implemented abi wise?
Like if I'm working on a bare metal embedded platform with two cores and i want some data to be private per core using gcc thread local attributes how do i actually make that work so accesses to that data get a pointer to a per core context object and look it up as an offset into it etc?

ACLU and EFF Sue a City Blanketed With Flock Surveillance Cameras https://www.404media.co/aclu-and-eff-sue-a-city-blanketed-with-flock-surveillance-cameras/

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 ...

What the White House is calling the
"Genesis Mission" is to speed research and scientific discovery
by analyzing massive science, engineering, energy and health care data sets in the federal government, university and private sector
with supercomputing technology.
It's an AI initiative the White House hopes will result in quicker breakthroughs in areas of research including disease therapies. 
Michael Krastios, science adviser to the president, t…

Trump signs executive order launching "Genesis" mission to expedite scientific discovery using AI
A White House official called Genesis "the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program."

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/5]:
- Look-Ahead Reasoning on Learning Platforms
Haiqing Zhu, Tijana Zrnic, Celestine Mendler-D\"unner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14745 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115575981129228810
- Deep Gaussian Process Proximal Policy Optimization
Matthijs van der Lende, Juan Cardenas-Cartagena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18214 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115610315210502140
- Spectral Concentration at the Edge of Stability: Information Geometry of Kernel Associative Memory
Akira Tamamori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23083 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115644325602130493
- xGR: Efficient Generative Recommendation Serving at Scale
Sun, Liu, Zhang, Wu, Yang, Liang, Li, Ma, Liang, Ren, Zhang, Liu, Zhang, Qian, Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11529 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115723008170311172
- Credit Risk Estimation with Non-Financial Features: Evidence from a Synthetic Istanbul Dataset
Atalay Denknalbant, Emre Sezdi, Zeki Furkan Kutlu, Polat Goktas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12783 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115729287232895097
- The Semantic Illusion: Certified Limits of Embedding-Based Hallucination Detection in RAG Systems
Debu Sinha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15068 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115740048142898391
- Towards Reproducibility in Predictive Process Mining: SPICE -- A Deep Learning Library
Stritzel, H\"uhnerbein, Rauch, Zarate, Fleischmann, Buck, Lischka, Frey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16715 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115745910810427061
- Differentially private Bayesian tests
Abhisek Chakraborty, Saptati Datta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15502 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/111843467510507382
- SCAFFLSA: Taming Heterogeneity in Federated Linear Stochastic Approximation and TD Learning
Paul Mangold, Sergey Samsonov, Safwan Labbi, Ilya Levin, Reda Alami, Alexey Naumov, Eric Moulines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04114
- Adjusting Model Size in Continual Gaussian Processes: How Big is Big Enough?
Guiomar Pescador-Barrios, Sarah Filippi, Mark van der Wilk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07588 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/112965266196097314
- Non-Perturbative Trivializing Flows for Lattice Gauge Theories
Mathis Gerdes, Pim de Haan, Roberto Bondesan, Miranda C. N. Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13161 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_heplat_bot/113327593338897860
- Dynamic PET Image Prediction Using a Network Combining Reversible and Irreversible Modules
Sun, Zhang, Xia, Sun, Chen, Yang, Liu, Zhu, Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22674 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/113401026110345647
- Targeted Learning for Variable Importance
Xiaohan Wang, Yunzhe Zhou, Giles Hooker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02221 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/113429912435819479
- Refined Analysis of Federated Averaging and Federated Richardson-Romberg
Paul Mangold, Alain Durmus, Aymeric Dieuleveut, Sergey Samsonov, Eric Moulines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01389 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/113588027268311334
- Embedding-Driven Data Distillation for 360-Degree IQA With Residual-Aware Refinement
Abderrezzaq Sendjasni, Seif-Eddine Benkabou, Mohamed-Chaker Larabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12667 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/113672538318570349
- 3D Cell Oversegmentation Correction via Geo-Wasserstein Divergence
Peter Chen, Bryan Chang, Olivia A Creasey, Julie Beth Sneddon, Zev J Gartner, Yining Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01890 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/113949981686723660
- DHP: Discrete Hierarchical Planning for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Agents
Shashank Sharma, Janina Hoffmann, Vinay Namboodiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01956 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/113949997485625086
- Foundation for unbiased cross-validation of spatio-temporal models for species distribution modeling
Diana Koldasbayeva, Alexey Zaytsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03480
- GraphCompNet: A Position-Aware Model for Predicting and Compensating Shape Deviations in 3D Printing
Juheon Lee (Rachel), Lei (Rachel), Chen, Juan Carlos Catana, Hui Wang, Jun Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09652 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114017924551186136
- LookAhead Tuning: Safer Language Models via Partial Answer Previews
Liu, Wang, Luo, Yuan, Sun, Liang, Zhang, Zhou, Hooi, Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19041 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114227502448008352
- Constraint-based causal discovery with tiered background knowledge and latent variables in single...
Christine W. Bang, Vanessa Didelez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21526 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114238919468512990
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New Android malware can capture private messages, researchers warn https://therecord.media/new-android-malware-captures-private-messages

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…