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A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks (Martina Di Licosa/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinadilico

How A Berkeley Professor Built Billion-Dollar Companies In His Lab
Tech giants including Google fund Ion Stoica's lab, from which he launched companies like $62 billion Databricks. Now he's helping fellow profs find private funding.

Zelensky proposes former Prime Minister Shmyhal as Ukraine's new defense minister: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/zelensky-proposes-former-prime-minister.html

A Review of Privacy Metrics for Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data Generation
Frederik Marinus Trudslev, Matteo Lissandrini, Juan Manuel Rodriguez, Martin B{\o}gsted, Daniele Dell'Aglio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11324

A Review of Privacy Metrics for Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data Generation
Privacy Preserving Synthetic Data Generation (PP-SDG) has emerged to produce synthetic datasets from personal data while maintaining privacy and utility. Differential privacy (DP) is the property of a PP-SDG mechanism that establishes how protected individuals are when sharing their sensitive data. It is however difficult to interpret the privacy loss ($\varepsilon$) expressed by DP. To make the actual risk associated with the privacy loss more transparent, multiple privacy metrics (PMs) have b…

We have to fight with everything we have against the awful "Chat Control" proposal. It is very easy to explain why it is a very bad idea but because the subject is child abuse, everybody loses rational thinking capabilities it seems. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-contr…

Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Control now! The Chat Control 2.0 proposal in detail Changes proposed by the European Parliament

When Explainability Meets Privacy: An Investigation at the Intersection of Post-hoc Explainability and Differential Privacy in the Context of Natural Language Processing
Mahdi Dhaini, Stephen Meisenbacher, Ege Erdogan, Florian Matthes, Gjergji Kasneci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10482

When Explainability Meets Privacy: An Investigation at the Intersection of Post-hoc Explainability and Differential Privacy in the Context of Natural Language Processing
In the study of trustworthy Natural Language Processing (NLP), a number of important research fields have emerged, including that of \textit{explainability} and \textit{privacy}. While research interest in both explainable and privacy-preserving NLP has increased considerably in recent years, there remains a lack of investigation at the intersection of the two. This leaves a considerable gap in understanding of whether achieving \textit{both} explainability and privacy is possible, or whether t…

Exploring User Security and Privacy Attitudes and Concerns Toward the Use of General-Purpose LLM Chatbots for Mental Health
Jabari Kwesi, Jiaxun Cao, Riya Manchanda, Pardis Emami-Naeini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10695

Exploring User Security and Privacy Attitudes and Concerns Toward the Use of General-Purpose LLM Chatbots for Mental Health
Individuals are increasingly relying on large language model (LLM)-enabled conversational agents for emotional support. While prior research has examined privacy and security issues in chatbots specifically designed for mental health purposes, these chatbots are overwhelmingly "rule-based" offerings that do not leverage generative AI. Little empirical research currently measures users' privacy and security concerns, attitudes, and expectations when using general-purpose LLM-enabled chatbots to …

Writer and artist Jade Song on redefining perfection
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Writer and artist Jade Song on redefining perfection – The Creative Independent
Writer and artist Jade Song discusses transitioning between mediums, making money from her art, and marveling at the gift of a residency.

Trump's proposal – Can meetings really end the war?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/trumps-proposal-can-meetings-really.html

Natural Language Translation of Formal Proofs through Informalization of Proof Steps and Recursive Summarization along Proof Structure
Seiji Hattori, Takuya Matsuzaki, Makoto Fujiwara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09726

Natural Language Translation of Formal Proofs through Informalization of Proof Steps and Recursive Summarization along Proof Structure
This paper proposes a natural language translation method for machine-verifiable formal proofs that leverages the informalization (verbalization of formal language proof steps) and summarization capabilities of LLMs. For evaluation, it was applied to formal proof data created in accordance with natural language proofs taken from an undergraduate-level textbook, and the quality of the generated natural language proofs was analyzed in comparison with the original natural language proofs. Furtherm…

The trial for an $8B lawsuit by Meta investors against Mark Zuckerberg and other leaders opens over claims tied to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-privacy-cambridge-analyti…