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How To Protect Your Mental Health on Social Media as a Musician
https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2025/06/how-to-protect-your-mental-health-on-s…

How To Protect Your Mental Health on Social Media as a Musician
Social media as a musician can be a double-edged sword. Find tips to maintain your confidence and support your art.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/06/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reprioritizes-cybersecurity-efforts-to-protect-america/
Trump issued an executive order to “amend problema…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reprioritizes Cybersecurity Efforts to Protect America
STRENGTHENING THE NATION’S CYBERSECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to strengthen the nation's cybersecurity by focusing

EPA Administrator Zeldin vowed to protect human health and the environment. His proposed budget tells a different story
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/06/epa-administrator-zeldin-vowed-to-protect-human-health-and-the-environment-his-proposed-budget-tells-a-different-story/

SIGN THE PETITION: PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS. STOP BILL C-2
Prime Minister Mark Carney ran a campaign on leading Canada through Trump’s tariffs & attacks on sovereignty & a cost-of-living crisis. Instead, his first piece of legislation, Bill C-2, is an attack on migrants & privacy rights straight out of the Trump playbook.
Bill C-2 drastically restricts refugee protection, allows for mass deportations & gives security officials unchecked power to access everyone’s data…

SIGN THE PETITION: PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS. STOP BILL C-2 - Leadnow

Defend Public Health
is an all-volunteer network of public health researchers, healthcare workers, advocates and allies
fighting to protect the health of all.
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/

Q&A with Tamara Bralo, the head of journalist safety at Radio Free Asia, on Trump's cuts, the future of at-risk visa holders, jailed staffers abroad, and more (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/tamara

UN scientists propose ‘minerals trust’ to power green energy, protect communities
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/un-scientists-propose-minerals-trust-to-power-green-energy-protect-communities/

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/echosta…

Now is when it really matters
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF6WJLZttlN/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

Leigh McGowan on Instagram: "Kendrick Lamar showed more courage in the face of rising American tyranny than we’ve seen from ANY former American leader. If you swore an oath to protect this nation, where are you now?"
190K likes, 15K comments - iampoliticsgirl on February 10, 2025: "Kendrick Lamar showed more courage in the face of rising American tyranny than we’ve seen from ANY former American leader. If you swore an oath to protect this nation, where are you now?".

Once again: #FuckEricAdams
Unbelievable how he's managed to avoid jailtime breaking federal/state laws while City Council allows him to continue to break _their_laws as well.

https://…

No to 15 mph e-bike speed limit, yes to real safety! - Transportation Alternatives
A ridiculous 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes won't work. Tell Mayor Adams and City Council: We need effective, data-driven policies that protect everyone, and accountability for the corporations fueling chaos on our streets — not the cyclists surviving it.

"Top Ocean Experts Sound the Alarm Over Growing Marine Crisis Due To Climate Change"
#Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange

Top Ocean Experts Sound the Alarm Over Growing Marine Crisis Due To Climate Change - Inside Climate News
On the opening day of a global science conference, French fishery scientist Clea Abello presented research showing that marine protected areas could protect commercially valuable fisheries.

Faced with the growing risk that #LightPollution represents for the development of astronomy in Chile, international observatories with a presence in the country have formed a joint organization dedicated to protecting the dark skies of northern Chile: https://giantmagellan.org/2025/06/03/dark-skies-council-international-astronomical-observatories-join-forces-to-protect-chiles-skies/ - the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), the Giant Magellan Telescope, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), signed an agreement to create the Dark Skies Council; through this alliance, the institutions will work in a coordinated manner to protect Chile’s privileged skies.

Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauš-Mirim! https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1305/brazil-protect-the-mangroves-and-tropical-forests-of-taua-mirim

#petition Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauá-Mirim!
The people of the Tauá-Mirim region in the Amazon are urgently calling on the Brazilian government to protect their land. The rivers, mangroves and tropical forests south of São Luís in the state of Maranhão are threatened by infrastructure, industrial, and agricultural projects. Please support our petition.

So I've found my answer after maybe ~30 minutes of effort. First stop was the first search result on Startpage (https://millennialhawk.com/does-poop-have-calories/), which has some evidence of maybe-AI authorship but which is better than a lot of slop. It actually has real links & cites research, so I'll start by looking at the sources.
It claims near the top that poop contains 4.91 kcal per gram (note: 1 kcal = 1 Calorie = 1000 calories, which fact I could find/do trust despite the slop in that search). Now obviously, without a range or mention of an average, this isn't the whole picture, but maybe it's an average to start from? However, the citation link is to a study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32235930/) which only included 27 people with impaired glucose tolerance and obesity. Might have the cited stat, but it's definitely not a broadly representative one if this is the source. The public abstract does not include the stat cited, and I don't want to pay for the article. I happen to be affiliated with a university library, so I could see if I have access that way, but it's a pain to do and not worth it for this study that I know is too specific. Also most people wouldn't have access that way.
Side note: this doing-the-research protect has the nice benefit of letting you see lots of cool stuff you wouldn't have otherwise. The abstract of this study is pretty cool and I learned a bit about gut microbiome changes from just reading the abstract.
My next move was to look among citations in this article to see if I could find something about calorie content of poop specifically. Luckily the article page had indicators for which citations were free to access. I ended up reading/skimming 2 more articles (a few more interesting facts about gut microbiomes were learned) before finding this article whose introduction has what I'm looking for: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3127503/
Here's the relevant paragraph:
"""
The alteration of the energy-balance equation, which is defined by the equilibrium of energy intake and energy expenditure (1–5), leads to weight gain. One less-extensively-studied component of the energy-balance equation is energy loss in stools and urine. Previous studies of healthy adults showed that ≈5% of ingested calories were lost in stools and urine (6). Individuals who consume high-fiber diets exhibit a higher fecal energy loss than individuals who consume low-fiber diets with an equivalent energy content (7, 8). Webb and Annis (9) studied stool energy loss in 4 lean and 4 obese individuals and showed a tendency to lower the fecal energy excretion in obese compared with lean study participants.
"""
And there's a good-enough answer if we do some math, along with links to more in-depth reading if we want them. A Mayo clinic calorie calculator suggests about 2250 Calories per day for me to maintain my weight, I think there's probably a lot of variation in that number, but 5% of that would be very roughly 100 Calories lost in poop per day, so maybe an extremely rough estimate for a range of humans might be 50-200 Calories per day. Interestingly, one of the AI slop pages I found asserted (without citation) 100-200 Calories per day, which kinda checks out. I had no way to trust that number though, and as we saw with the provenance of the 4.91 kcal/gram, it might not be good provenance.
To double-check, I visited this link from the paragraph above: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022316622169853?via=ihub
It's only a 6-person study, but just the abstract has numbers: ~250 kcal/day pooped on a low-fiber diet vs. ~400 kcal/day pooped on a high-fiber diet. That's with intakes of ~2100 and ~2350 kcal respectively, which is close to the number from which I estimated 100 kcal above, so maybe the first estimate from just the 5% number was a bit low.
Glad those numbers were in the abstract, since the full text is paywalled... It's possible this study was also done on some atypical patient group...
Just to come full circle, let's look at that 4.91 kcal/gram number again. A search suggests 14-16 ounces of poop per day is typical, with at least two sources around 14 ounces, or ~400 grams. (AI slop was strong here too, with one including a completely made up table of "studies" that was summarized as 100-200 grams/day). If we believe 400 grams/day of poop, then 4.91 kcal/gram would be almost 2000 kcal/day, which is very clearly ludicrous! So that number was likely some unrelated statistic regurgitated by the AI. I found that number in at least 3 of the slop pages I waded through in my initial search.

Learning to Diagnose Privately: DP-Powered LLMs for Radiology Report Classification
Payel Bhattacharjee, Fengwei Tian, Ravi Tandon, Joseph Lo, Heidi Hanson, Geoffrey Rubin, Nirav Merchant, John Gounley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04450

Learning to Diagnose Privately: DP-Powered LLMs for Radiology Report Classification
Purpose: This study proposes a framework for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with differential privacy (DP) to perform multi-abnormality classification on radiology report text. By injecting calibrated noise during fine-tuning, the framework seeks to mitigate the privacy risks associated with sensitive patient data and protect against data leakage while maintaining classification performance. Materials and Methods: We used 50,232 radiology reports from the publicly available MIMIC-CXR …

Strolling the streets of Dublin.

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/echosta…

Raiders Must Use Their Greatest Strength to Mask Greatest Weakness https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-begas-patrick-graham-jakorian-bennett-jack-hones-nate-hobbs

this is basically "qu'ils mangent de la brioche" for the northeastern USA, isn't it
> the former chief executive and chairman of [massive stock broker] Cantor Fitzgerald also vowed to protect [Maine]’s lobster industry, telling the audience: “I love lobster”
https://ww…

GOP Senator Accidentally Reveals Howard Lutnick’s Tariff Ignorance
The heated exchange was the latest sign of growing impatience over the White House’s trade strategy.

Intentionally Unintentional: GenAI Exceptionalism and the First Amendment
David Atkinson, Jena D. Hwang, Jacob Morrison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05211 ht…

Intentionally Unintentional: GenAI Exceptionalism and the First Amendment
This paper challenges the assumption that courts should grant First Amendment protections to outputs from large generative AI models, such as GPT-4 and Gemini. We argue that because these models lack intentionality, their outputs do not constitute speech as understood in the context of established legal precedent, so there can be no speech to protect. Furthermore, if the model outputs are not speech, users cannot claim a First Amendment speech right to receive the outputs. We also argue that ex…

Fellow citizens: What are you going to do between now and July 4, 2026, to protect and preserve our independence from a tinpot dictator❓
So, fellow citizens, I ask you:
Bow down to authoritarianism and normalize anti-democratic behavior.
Or
Reflect on the challenges facing the nation and become an advocate for policies that align with liberty, freedom, sovereignty, democracy, and the principles enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
This is your America. The choice …

Give Me Liberty or a Tinpot Dictator
Peggy Noonan has been a voice of conservative reflection for The Wall Street Journal since leaving the Ronald Reagan administration as his primary speechwriter. Five of Noonan’s books have been New York Times bestsellers. Consuming every word of her weekly column keeps me politically balanced.In her...

Everything sounds better in Italian, part 1million..
https://puntarella.party/@carlux/114796105637027544
carlux@puntarella.party - Evitate Meta come la peste. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/protect-yourself-metas-latest-attack-privacy

"Everyone in the UK must prepare for missile attacks, warns top general"
Here we go again.
It's the 80s again
"Protect and Survive"
Or
"Protest and Survive"?
The first was a government pamphlet that included the advice to whitewash your windows in the event of an imminent nuclear attack.
The second was an EP Thompson pamphlet that helped launch the new wave of demonstrations and other actions against, among other things, …

Everyone in the UK must prepare for missile attacks, warns top general
Britons should learn how to shelter from air raids, possibly in drills with sirens, says ex-military chief Sir Richard Barrons who co-wrote the Strategic Defence Review

UN Climate Expert Urges Criminalization of Fossil Fuel Disinformation to Protect Basic Human Rights https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-crisis-disinformation-criminalization.html

UN Climate Expert Urges Criminalization of Fossil Fuel Disinformation to Protect Basic Human Rights
A new report to the UN General Assembly calls for criminalizing the spreading of disinformation regarding the climate crisis.

Fiona Hill’s argument is that
in a time of profound uncertainty,
Britain needs greater internal cohesion if it is to protect itself.
“We can’t rely exclusively on anyone any more,” she said,
arguing that Britain needed to have “a different mindset” based as much on traditional defence as on social resilience.
Some of that, Hill said, was about a greater recognition of the level of external threat and initiatives for greater integration,
by teaching first a…

"Giant Corporations Protect 15,000 Square Miles of Forests in Partnership With WWF Stewardship Program"
#Trees #Nature #Environment

Giant Corporations Protect 15,000 Square Miles of Forests in Partnership With WWF Stewardship Program
The WWF Forests Forward program has partnered with 26 big businesses to reduce deforestation and they've conserved 15 million sq-miles.

Journalist Mario Guevara's lawyer says ICE has not allowed Guevara's family to post bond, leaving Guevara in custody despite a federal judge's order (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-outraged-a

CPJ outraged at ICE refusal of judge’s order to release journalist Mario Guevara - Committee to Protect Journalists
Atlanta, July 2, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the decision by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities not to comply with a federal immigration judge order that granted bail to Atlanta-based Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara, who was originally arrested on First Amendment-related charges. Those charges were dropped on June 25. CPJ calls for Guevara’s immediate...

this *sounds* like SFMTA agreed to painting full 20-foot red curbs at every intersection, rather than the mere 10 feet at stop-controlled intersections that has been traffic engineer Ricardo Olea's policy. if so, good! parent organizing worked!
https://www.k…

SFMTA Coming Up Short on Daylighting SF’s Red Curbs, Parents Say
San Francisco’s transit agency says it will change its daylighting policy to ensure compliance with a California traffic safety law intended to protect pedestrians and cyclists.

Das Secure Mobile Networking Lab (SEEMOO) @… der @… hat zwei richtig tolle Open Source Apps entwickelt:
AirGuard für Android und iOS scannt regelmäßig (oder manuell) nach Tracking Tags wie z. B. Apple AirTags und kann so Stalking Tools si…

When you choose the armor for the female character based on its physical defense, but it actually turns out grossly indecent. I mean, how is it supposed to protect her if there's a huge uncovered area in the middle?
But thinking about it, my earlier best armor was swimming oil, i.e. walking around half-naked.
(in #Xenoblade Chronicles 3D)

Nokia, Nvidia, Safran, and 40 organizations plan to build an EU-funded unmanned drone project to protect critical infrastructure, set to launch in three years (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/busines…

So the betrayal of Ukraine by the US continues, delivering less desperately needed air defence missiles to protect civilian areas.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/pentagon-munitions-ukraine-halt-00436048

Up close, the aging visages of the moai are riddled with signs of erosion and staining.
They are gradually wearing away to dust.
Tuki, who works in Rapa Nui's tourism industry, is essentially watching these stunning figures slowly disappear.
"My father told me that the moai would go back into the ocean one day," she says.
Tuki's father, who died in 2020, was a famed contemporary moai sculptor.
The original statues, mostly carved between 110…

Is this the end for Easter Island's moai statues?
Easter Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect their heritage.

So if the U.S. Capitol Police had beefed up a protective detail on Murkowski and Murkowski’s family, to protect them from maga violence and give the Senator the sense of security to vote as they themselves now seem to think they should have, would things be different?
We may never know.
#USpol

A Review of Various Datasets for Machine Learning Algorithm-Based Intrusion Detection System: Advances and Challenges
Sudhanshu Sekhar Tripathy, Bichitrananda Behera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02438

A Review of Various Datasets for Machine Learning Algorithm-Based Intrusion Detection System: Advances and Challenges
IDS aims to protect computer networks from security threats by detecting, notifying, and taking appropriate action to prevent illegal access and protect confidential information. As the globe becomes increasingly dependent on technology and automated processes, ensuring secured systems, applications, and networks has become one of the most significant problems of this era. The global web and digital technology have significantly accelerated the evolution of the modern world, necessitating the u…

Colorado passed a law to protect trans people. These pastors repeatedly lied about it.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/colorado-passed-a-law-to-protect

Zohran's right. flex posts need to go the way of Andrew Cuomo's career
"we need bollards, we need to replace these flex delineators... there are New Yorkers who do not bike because they're afraid of their safety... we need to further protect our already protected bike lanes."

Since November 2024, Serbia had a sharp rise in attacks on journalists amid political unrest, including 23 physical assaults and 128 total attacks and threats (Attila Mong/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/alarming-escal

Alarming escalation in attacks on journalists amid political crisis in Serbia - Committee to Protect Journalists
Berlin, June 3, 2025—What journalists called a “witch hunt” atmosphere against government critics in Serbia one year ago has since escalated into a rise in attacks and threats against the press, following a deadly railway station collapse in November 2024 that triggered a widespread anti-corruption movement. Initial protests demanding accountability for the tragedy have turned...

Stability of non-supersymmetric vacua from calibrations
Vincent Menet, Alessandro Tomasiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02787 https://

Stability of non-supersymmetric vacua from calibrations
Supersymmetric vacua are protected from vacuum decay by energy positivity. No such argument is known for any non-supersymmetric vacua. In this paper, we try to extend to the latter a simpler argument based on calibrations, to at least protect them from decays mediated by D-brane bubbles, including their abelian bound states. We examine several classes of AdS$_4$ and AdS$_5$ solutions in type II string theory, including some new ones, involving coset spaces, sphere fibrations, Kähler--Einstein …

Norway to send F-35 fighter jets to Poland to cover transportation hub for Ukrainian military aid: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/norway-to-send-f-fighter.html

UK FCDO decision to cut back aid to education and to gender initiatives is devastating.
'In an open letter [to UK PM Keir Starmer] published today, several high-profile are joined by entrepreneurs, respected academics and concerned citizens from across the UK in warning that proposed cuts to the UK aid budget could have devastating consequences for millions of girls worldwide whose futures depend on access to education.'

Zip Bombs: simple, yet powerful in the fight against #AI bots
https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection

Please join me on July 7th for next month's MediaEd Club webinar for the Media Education Lab: "Privacy, Power, and Platforms"
https://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php/events/privacy-power-and-platforms
If you missed today's / this month…

How Trump's DOJ Plans to Use Law Weaponized Against Pro-Lifers to Protect Them Instead (Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell/The Daily Signal)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/06/19/how-trumps-doj-plans-use-law-weaponized-against-pro-lifers-protect-them/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p73#a250619p73

Ami·es journalistes : saviez-vous que vous pouvez trahir vos sources par l'utilisation d'une messagerie chiffrée protégeant mal votre graph social (c'est-Š-dire "qui parle Š qui") ?
Avec la complicité des États-Unis (pour Signal et Matrix) ou de la France (pour Olvid), c'est pourtant le cas.
Pour en savoir plus, je donne une conférence sur la protection des métadonnées par les messageries chiffrées Š @…

Echt, het is zó tijd om de guillotine uit het vet te halen
https://www.commondreams.org/news/did-republicans-vote-to-cut-medicaid

"Indigenous divers on Chile’s island restore seabed to protect seafood sources"
#Chile #Environment

Indigenous divers on Chile’s island restore seabed to protect seafood sources
Daniel Caniullán has been diving in the cold waters of the Guaitecas Archipelago in northern Patagonia, Chile, for more than 30 years. “Just by looking at the seabed landscape, you can tell what species you are going to find,” he says. Just as it is possible to recognize the loss of a diverse forest on […]

protect your hearing
#MusicianTips
https://muz4now.com/2011/protect-your-hearing/

protect your hearing
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Sea Shepherd fights to defend, conserve and protect the ocean. #ocean #environment

Sea Shepherd Global - Home
Sea Shepherd is an international, non-profit marine conservation organization that engages in direct action campaigns to defend wildlife, and conserve and protect the world’s ocean from illegal exploitation and environmental destruction.

„Schütz deine Privatsphäre heute.
Und eines Tages kann deine Privatsphäre dich schützen.“
#Threema #3maRTDeutsch #3maRTD

The U.S. military B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the coordinated strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House
-- but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.
The White House confirmed to Military.com that those involved in the mission, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, were invited to the White House's July 4 celebration.
It follows comments mad…

Pilots Who Conducted Iran Strikes Invited to White House on July 4, Raising Security Concerns
The B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House, but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/11/public-health-bodies-urged-launch-period-tracking-apps-protect-data
Public health bodies urged to launch period tracking apps to protect data

TO PROTECT THE WORLD FROM DEVASTATION

Encryption Is Not a Crime - Privacy Guides
Contrary to what some policymakers seem to believe, whether naively or maliciously, encryption is not a crime. Anyone asserting encryption is a tool for crime is either painfully misinformed or is attempting to manipulate legislators to gain oppressive power over the people. Encryption is not a crime, encryption is a shield.
🔑

Encryption Is Not a Crime
Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects all of us. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.

It’s not the mistakes that matter. Apple has made them before. The Newton, MobileMe, the butterfly keyboard. What matters is the posture. A company once defined by joyful provocation—by thinking different—is now defined by its defensiveness. Its leadership acts not like inventors but like stewards of a status quo. They protect margins like relics. They fear dilution. They optimize at the expense of surprise.

Apple’s Diet of Worms
On a crisp April morning in 1521, the twenty-one-year-old Emperor Charles V entered the Bishop’s Palace in Worms. The weight of a continent rested on his adolescent shoulders, and he carried it with the stiff dignity of someone raised to believe history itself had chosen him. He wore black

I donated to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
https://www.brennancenter.org/
"The Brennan Center for Justice is an independent, nonpartisan law and policy organization that works to reform, revitalize, and when necessary, defend our country’s systems of democracy a…

Really, Babas? I understand we all have the right to protect and potentially profit from our own IP, but this feels out of proportion.
St Michael's does incredible work in Herefordshire. Maybe the Barbarians' bigwigs should come and take a look.
Hereford hospice rugby team tackles Barbarians logo row - BBC News
https://…

Hereford hospice rugby team tackles Barbarians logo row
The Hospice Barbarians team is asked to tone down its logo by the official Barbarians FC.

Protect existing claimants, punish future ones.
That will guarantee a future Labour Govt.
I can't decide whether the most conservative Civil Service since before the Second World War is passively pushing back on the Labour Govt or whether the Govt is stupid all on its own.
#UKPolitics

Portugal incluído. Nice.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/green-news-8pjijreoz/-/a-mxqHnas_TPiVM9JgFxN9Ug:a:89340020-/0

EU and six member states take ‘historic step’ by ratifying UN treaty to protect the high seas
The High Seas Treaty has the potential to bring about a significant shift in global ocean conservation efforts. The European Union and six of its …

US 11.04.2025
"Justice Department Implements Critical National Security Program to Protect Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries"
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-implements-…

"L'obstruction, le retard ou l'affaiblissement de réglementations démocratiquement adoptées signalent un changement de priorités en faveur du profit privé Š court terme, au détriment des objectifs sociaux et environnementaux Š long terme"
#RulesToProtect #démocratie

#6 🚫 Protect against mass assignment using fillable or guarded model properties
📜 Monitor suspicious activities with comprehensive logging and alerting systems
📦 Vet third-party packages for active maintenance and security updates

Tasmanian leaders struggle with a basic fact: environment laws should protect the environment https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/23/tasmanian-leaders-environment-laws-protect

Think about this, a judge keeping somebody in jail to protect him from his government, the USA in 2025 moving towards fascism. Not maybe but surely.
https://apnews.com/article/abrego-garcia-deportation-immigration-trump-a94b2d9101bb0da10…

Judge again delays Abrego Garcia’s release from jail
A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia will stay in jail for now over concerns from his lawyers that he could be deported if he’s released. The judge was preparing to release him to await trial on human smuggling charges. Abrego Garcia’s attorneys had asked the judge Friday to delay his release. They raised concerns over what they described as “contradictory statements” by President Donald Trump’s administration. The Justice Department has said it intends to …

[OT] Protecting science: TIB builds dark archive for arXiv #arXiv; …

Protecting Science: TIB builds Dark Archive for arXiv - TIB-Blog
Research and science are international; it is not for nothing that we speak of international specialist communities. Although a service such as arXiv is operated by an institution based in the USA, namely Cornell University, it is used by researchers worldwide. Part of arXiv‘s funding has also been internationalised since 2010 with the introduction of arXiv membership. The TIB finances the German contribution together with the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF) and the Max…

This is yet another reason why @… and I prefer Signal.
https://bark.lgbt/@morgann/114573458516732593

AT&T launches Account Lock to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks, following similar features from T-Mobile, Verizon, and Google Fi (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/695916/att-account-lock-sim-swapping-attack

AT&T now lets you lock down your account to prevent SIM swapping attacks
AT&T is launching a new Account Lock feature that will let wireless customers prevent unauthorized changes to their account, such as phone number and SIM card transfers.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04977 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

ChainMarks: Securing DNN Watermark with Cryptographic Chain
With the widespread deployment of deep neural network (DNN) models, dynamic watermarking techniques are being used to protect the intellectual property of model owners. However, recent studies have shown that existing watermarking schemes are vulnerable to watermark removal and ambiguity attacks. Besides, the vague criteria for determining watermark presence further increase the likelihood of such attacks. In this paper, we propose a secure DNN watermarking scheme named ChainMarks, which genera…

GOP Senate Version of the Big Beautiful Bill Includes an Ugly Attack on Courts' Ability to Protect Constitutional Rights (Ilya Somin/Reason)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/14/gop-senate-version-of-the-big-beautiful-bill-includes-an-ugly-attack-on-courts-ability-to-protect-constitutional-rights/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p77#a250614p77

As we head off to a brief publishing break, don't miss today's Metacurity for a string of blockbuster cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Feds raid 29 North Korean laptop farms used to infiltrate US companies
--US feds re-up Iranian hacking warning,
--Europol busts $540m fraud ring,
--Iranian-linked Robert threatens to release Trump emails,
--ICC hit by 'sophisticated' cyberattack,
--Treasury Dept. hit by three big hacks…

Feds raid 29 North Korean laptop farms used to infiltrate US companies
US feds re-up Iranian hacking warning, Europol busts $540m fraud ring, Iranian-linked Robert threatens to release Trump emails, ICC hit by 'sophisticated' cyberattack, Treasury Dept. hit by three big hacks in past five years, Wyden says FBI fails to protect Capitol Hill mobiles, much more

After criticism, Senator Marsha Blackburn backs off her own AI provision compromise, saying "we can't block states from making laws that protect their citizens" (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-moratorium-trump-megabill-blackburn…

Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash
After critics called the bill a “get-out-jail-free-card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.

Russia frees Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, detained since March 2021, and Belarus frees Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, detained since July 2023 (Lauren Wolfe/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/russia-and-bel

Russia and Belarus release two journalists who had been detained for years - Committee to Protect Journalists
Paris, June 23, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko and Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, who had been unjustly detained for years by Russia and Belarus, respectively.   Russia freed Yesypenko on June 20 after he served a five-year prison sentence on charges of possessing and transporting explosives, which he denied. Karnei, detained for nearly 2...

"Samoa’s new marine spatial plan protects 30% of the country’s ocean"
#Samoa #Environment #Oceans #Conservation

Samoa’s new marine spatial plan protects 30% of the country’s ocean
Samoa, an archipelagic country composed of nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is on the frontline of climate change. Rising sea levels, ocean warming and acidification all pose significant threats to the country’s coastal communities. To help protect its future, the Samoan government announced June 3 that it has enacted a law establishing a […]

"Despite good-faith efforts by DSI [dense street imagery] providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and license plates, these measures fail to address broader privacy concerns. In this work, we find that increased data density and advancements in artificial intelligence enable harmful group membership inferences from supposedly anonymized data."
via @…

Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery
Spatially and temporally dense street imagery (DSI) datasets have grown unbounded. In 2024, individual companies possessed around 3 trillion unique images of public streets. DSI data streams are only set to grow as companies like Lyft and Waymo use DSI to train autonomous vehicle algorithms and analyze collisions. Academic researchers leverage DSI to explore novel approaches to urban analysis. Despite good-faith efforts by DSI providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and l…

Except...wild boars are very smart.
Kennesaw State researchers developing AI-powered drones to protect peanut farms from wildlife - News
https://www.kennesaw.edu/news/stories/2025/researchers-developing-ai-powered-drones-protect-peanut-farms.php

Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon (Chris Cameron/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/trump-withdraws-from-agreement-with-tribes-to-protect-salmon.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p159#a250612p159

While it may not feel like it since January,
the rule of law still matters.
The U.S. remains a signatory to dozens of international agreements related to the use of force,
which ultimately protect our national security interests.
We have a raft of U.S. laws, including a Constitution and Bill of Rights,
that determine how and when our nation may legally engage in conflict abroad.
We are ill-served as a public when the most crucial decision a government can …

Trump endangers US by ignoring rule of law – Marin Independent Journal - EUROPE SAYS
Congressional approval for military engagement still matters. Here’s why.

Towards Better Attribute Inference Vulnerability Measures
Paul Francis, David Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01710 https://arxiv.o…

Towards Better Attribute Inference Vulnerability Measures
The purpose of anonymizing structured data is to protect the privacy of individuals in the data while retaining the statistical properties of the data. An important class of attack on anonymized data is attribute inference, where an attacker infers the value of an unknown attribute of a target individual given knowledge of one or more known attributes. A major limitation of recent attribute inference measures is that they do not take recall into account, only precision. It is often the case tha…

Nations urged to make UN summit a 'turning point' for oceans #environment

Nations urged to make UN summit a 'turning point' for oceans
Nations will be under pressure to deliver more than just rhetoric at a UN oceans summit in France next week, including much-needed funds to better protect the world's overexploited and polluted seas.

Experts detail how the Trump administration has seriously weakened the public-private partnerships that protect US critical infrastructure from cyberattacks (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/n…

‘Suspended animation’: US government upheaval has frayed partnerships with critical infrastructure
Recent federal cuts, reorganizations and other disruptions have alarmed industry leaders, who say the government is a less reliable partner even as cyber threats increase.

EGNInfoLeaker: Unveiling the Risks of Public Key Reuse and User Identity Leakage in Blockchain
Chenyu Li, Xueping Liang, Xiaorui Gong, Xiu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01635

EGNInfoLeaker: Unveiling the Risks of Public Key Reuse and User Identity Leakage in Blockchain
While Ethereum's discovery protocols (Discv4/ Discv5) incorporate robust cryptographic designs to protect user privacy, real-world deployment reveals critical vulnerabilities when users deviate from security guidelines. In this paper, we design a system called EGNInfoLeaker. Our study is the first work that uncovers widespread public key reuse across Ethereum's peer-to-peer networks - a practice that fundamentally undermines the protocol's privacy guarantees. Through systematic analysis of 300 …

Justice Department Files Lawsuit to Stop New York's Unlawful "Protect Our Courts Act" from Obstructing Immigration Enforcement (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-lawsuit-stop-new-yorks-unlawful-protect-our-courts-act-obstructing
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p152#a250612p152

Azerbaijan gives eight journalists prison sentences ranging from 7.5 to 15 years, as part of a series of media trials set to obliterate independent reporting (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/8-journalists-g…

8 journalists given lengthy jail terms as Azerbaijan crushes free press - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, June 23, 2025— Eight Azerbaijani journalists have received prison sentences ranging from 7 ½ to 15 years, as part of an ongoing series of media trials likely to obliterate independent reporting in the Caucasus nation. In a closed-door trial on Monday, columnist and peace activist Bahruz Samadov was sentenced by a court in...

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…

Signals and Symptoms: ICS Attack Dataset From Railway Cyber Range
Anis Yusof, Yuancheng Liu, Niklaus Kang, Choon Meng Seah, Zhenkai Liang, Ee-Chien Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01768

Signals and Symptoms: ICS Attack Dataset From Railway Cyber Range
The prevalence of cyberattacks on Industrial Control Systems (ICS) has highlighted the necessity for robust security measures and incident response to protect critical infrastructure. This is prominent when Operational Technology (OT) systems undergo digital transformation by integrating with Information Technology (IT) systems to enhance operational efficiency, adaptability, and safety. To support analysts in staying abreast of emerging attack patterns, there is a need for ICS datasets that re…

"Insects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect them"
#Insects #Gardning

Here is what some existing medical research has to say about how to stay safe, one body part at a time.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-protect-yourself-during-protests/

How to Protect Yourself during Protests
Demonstrators face tear gas, flash bangs, coronavirus and surveillance

As Florida’s Republican government moves to construct a sprawling new immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, environmental groups and a wide range of other activists have begun to mobilize against "Gater Gitmo"
Florida’s Republican attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced last week that construction of the jail,
at the site of a disused airbase in the Big Cypress National Preserve, had begun.
According to Fox 4 Now, an affiliate in Southw…

Environmental and Indigenous Groups Mobilize to Stop 'Alligator Alcatraz' | Common Dreams
"This scheme is not only cruel, it threatens the Everglades ecosystem that state and federal taxpayers have spent billions to protect," said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04459 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

WET: Overcoming Paraphrasing Vulnerabilities in Embeddings-as-a-Service with Linear Transformation Watermarks
Embeddings-as-a-Service (EaaS) is a service offered by large language model (LLM) developers to supply embeddings generated by LLMs. Previous research suggests that EaaS is prone to imitation attacks -- attacks that clone the underlying EaaS model by training another model on the queried embeddings. As a result, EaaS watermarks are introduced to protect the intellectual property of EaaS providers. In this paper, we first show that existing EaaS watermarks can be removed by paraphrasing when att…

"Anna Gomez doesn’t know how long she’ll remain on the Federal Communications Commission under President Donald Trump. But for the time being, she says she’s speaking out against “this administration’s campaign of censorship and control.”
'I have not been quiet': Federal official urges Americans to fight Trump's censorship - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/push-back-against-trump-to-protect-precious-liberties-lone-democrat-on-fcc-urges-kentuckians/

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…

Insects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect them https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/17/insects-dying-25-easy-and-effective-ways-you-can-help-aoe

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Apple unveils updates to help parents protect kids and teens, including easier Child Accounts setup, stronger defaults, and granular App Store age ratings (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/11/ios-26-expands-family-tool…

iOS 26: Apple will expand family tools for child accounts - 9to5Mac
Apple today announced updates aimed at helping parents protect kids online, as part of its broader push to make Apple platforms safer.

"Bangladesh protects sacred forests to strengthen biodiversity conservation"
#Bangladesh #Trees #Biodiversity

Bangladesh protects sacred forests to strengthen biodiversity conservation
With an aim to protect biodiversity that’s become fragmented and is scattered across the country, Bangladesh is listing all the old, sacred and socially important trees and forests. The Forest Department has been collecting information from the locals in various parts of the country about locations and details of sites that are centuries-old and sacred […]

Evaluating Query Efficiency and Accuracy of Transfer Learning-based Model Extraction Attack in Federated Learning
Sayyed Farid Ahamed, Sandip Roy, Soumya Banerjee, Marc Vucovich, Kevin Choi, Abdul Rahman, Alison Hu, Edward Bowen, Sachin Shetty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23791

Evaluating Query Efficiency and Accuracy of Transfer Learning-based Model Extraction Attack in Federated Learning
Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative learning framework designed to protect client data, yet it remains highly vulnerable to Intellectual Property (IP) threats. Model extraction (ME) attacks pose a significant risk to Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) platforms, enabling attackers to replicate confidential models by querying black-box (without internal insight) APIs. Despite FL's privacy-preserving goals, its distributed nature makes it particularly susceptible to such attacks. This p…

A Hybrid Intrusion Detection System with a New Approach to Protect the Cybersecurity of Cloud Computing
Maryam Mahdi Al-Husseini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19934

A Hybrid Intrusion Detection System with a New Approach to Protect the Cybersecurity of Cloud Computing
Cybersecurity is one of the foremost challenges facing the world of cloud computing. Recently, the widespread adoption of smart devices in cloud computing environments that provide Internet-based services has become prevalent. Therefore, it is essential to consider the security threats in these environments. The use of intrusion detection systems can mitigate the vulnerabilities of these systems. Furthermore, hybrid intrusion detection systems can provide better protection compared to conventio…

Saudi Arabia executes prominent Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who was arrested in 2018 over Twitter posts alleging corruption within the Saudi royal family (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/saudi-arabia-e

Saudi Arabia executes journalist Turki al-Jasser on treason, terrorism charges  - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., June 14, 2025 — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced the Saturday execution of prominent Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who had been detained for seven years on charges of treason, foreign collaboration, funding terrorism, and endangering national security and unity.  Saudi authorities arrested al-Jasser in 2018 and seized his devices, believing that he...

A supercharged HIV vaccine could offer strong protection with just one injection, a study in mice has indicated.
Developed by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Scripps Research Center, the vaccine includes two "adjuvants"
—materials that help stimulate the immune system response.
In the experiments, the dual-adjuvant vaccine was found to produce a wider diversity of antibodies to protect against an HIV protein than with either s…

HIV: Supercharged Vaccine Could Protect Well With Just One Dose
The approach employed by the research team could be used against other diseases—including COVID-19 and influenza.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman warns against companies trying to game the site with AI-generated content, saying "human verification is top of mind for us right now" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a86fb03a-8781-40b5-a077-1d677e546ecf

Reddit vows to stay human to emerge a winner from artificial intelligence
Chief Steve Huffman warns of ‘arms race’ to protect its devoted online communities from AI-generated content