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For those out of the Loop:
#Google, #Meta, Microsoft, any of the tech companies who provide "portals" to news and content, scrape this content and shove it in a feed that they have control over (obstensibly based on your "habits" and "preferences"). The portal keeps the $ad.revenue$ th…

found an academic arguing in defense of those liberian county flags imfamous for looking like archetypal mspaint doodles
https://steven-knowlton.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf3746/files/knowltonliberianflags.pdf

The House has voted on a bipartisan basis
to restore labor rights to 1 million federal workers
after Donald Trump yanked them away in an executive order earlier this year,
in a rare show of defiance against the president by over a dozen GOP members.
In a 231 to 195 vote on Thursday afternoon,
the House passed the "Protect America’s Workforce Act",
which would nullify Trump’s ordersin March and August to exempt workers at dozens of agencies from c…

House Passes Bill to Undo Trump Order to End Federal Workers’ Bargaining Rights
The bill passed with 20 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting “yes,” in a rare rebuke to Trump.

“Can you transfer €50,000 right now? And keep it quiet.” A message from the CEO like this can make anyone’s heart skip a beat.
This is one of the most common social engineering tactics out there: fake authority urgency fear. When the “CEO” is giving the order, it’s easy to act first and think later.
That’s why training #digitalmindfulness matters–pausing and grounding our…

Enhancing the mass resolving power of FRIB's proposed high-voltage MR-ToF mass separator and spectrometer: addressing non-ideal conditions
Christian Michael Ireland, Franziska Maria Maier, Einstein Dhayal, Erich Leistenschneider, Ryan Ringle, Austin Sjaarda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11741

Enhancing the mass resolving power of FRIB's proposed high-voltage MR-ToF mass separator and spectrometer: addressing non-ideal conditions
Multi-reflection time-of-flight mass separators and spectrometers (MR-ToF MSs) are indispensable tools at radioactive ion beam (RIB) facilities. These electrostatic ion beam traps act as highly selective mass separators and high-precision mass spectrometers for rare and exotic nuclei. When well-tuned and designed to minimize higher-order flight-time aberrations, state-of-the-art MR-ToF MSs approach, and slightly exceed, mass resolving powers of \( m / Δm = 10^6 \). Achieving \( m / Δm > 3 \cd…

Higher-Order Feature Attribution: Bridging Statistics, Explainable AI, and Topological Signal Processing
Kurt Butler, Guanchao Feng, Petar Djuric
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06165

Higher-Order Feature Attribution: Bridging Statistics, Explainable AI, and Topological Signal Processing
Feature attributions are post-training analysis methods that assess how various input features of a machine learning model contribute to an output prediction. Their interpretation is straightforward when features act independently, but becomes less direct when the predictive model involves interactions such as multiplicative relationships or joint feature contributions. In this work, we propose a general theory of higher-order feature attribution, which we develop on the foundation of Integrate…

The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to
👉 dismantle protections for trans and intersex people
in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities,
according to a government memo obtained by Prism. 
The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s first-day executive order that,
among other things, targeted protec…

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, memo says
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order

Autonomy Matters: A Study on Personalization-Privacy Dilemma in LLM Agents
Zhiping Zhang, Yi Evie Zhang, Freda Shi, Tianshi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04465 https://

Autonomy Matters: A Study on Personalization-Privacy Dilemma in LLM Agents
Large Language Model (LLM) agents require personal information for personalization in order to better act on users' behalf in daily tasks, but this raises privacy concerns and a personalization-privacy dilemma. Agent's autonomy introduces both risks and opportunities, yet its effects remain unclear. To better understand this, we conducted a 3$\times$3 between-subjects experiment ($N=450$) to study how agent's autonomy level and personalization influence users' privacy concerns, trust and willin…

Cybersecuritybeeld Nederland 2025, wat me opviel in de tekst is dat de Cloud-act wel wordt genoemd maar FISA en Executive Order 12333 helemaal niet?
https://www.nctv.nl/documenten/2025/11/26/cybersecuritybeeld-nederland-2025

Cybersecuritybeeld Nederland 2025 | Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid
Het Cybersecuritybeeld Nederland 2025 (CSBN 2025) biedt inzicht in de digitale dreiging, de belangen die daardoor kunnen worden aangetast, de digitale weerbaarheid en digitale risico’s. 

I am supremely confident that some minister, who is totally not having a massage with a lobbyist or property developer, will always do what's right in order to protect the water supply for communities large and small. No need to be concerned that the sale of Stag & Doe tickets will somehow poison me or cause E.coli deaths. Absolutely trustworthy.
#Onpoli #CleanWaterAct
https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill-56-clean-water-act/

Schluss mit dem gefährlichen #Microsoft-#Daten-#Larifari.
Wir fordern die #Bundeskanzlei auf:
1. …

Schluss mit dem gefährlichen Microsoft-Daten-Larifari
Die Gefahr der totalen Microsoft-Abhängigkeit ist real. Unsere digitale Souveränität steht auf dem Spiel, und wir dürfen nicht warten, bis es zu spät ist. Die fast vollständige Abhängigkeit der Schweizer Bundesverwaltung von einem US-Konzern ist ein fundamentales Sicherheitsrisiko. Es geht um sensible Daten der Armee und aller Bundesbehörden – Informationen, die auf keinen Fall in fremde Hände gelangen dürfen. Die Probleme heissen CLOUD Act, FISA Section 702 und Executive Order 1233…

Sequential analysis in a continuous spin-noise quantum sensor
Elisabet Roda-Salichs, Giulio Gasbarri, Antoni Alou, Michalis Skotiniotis, Aleksandra Sierant, Diana M\'endez-Avalos, Morgan W. Mitchell, John Calsamiglia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16177

Sequential analysis in a continuous spin-noise quantum sensor
Many control and detection applications require real-time analysis of signals from sensors, in order to quickly and accurately act upon events revealed by the sensors. Such signal analysis benefits from statistical models of signal and sensor behavior. This creates a need for data analysis methods that are simultaneously model-based, computationally efficient and causal, in the sense that they employ only sensor data available prior to a specific point in time. In this work, we implement sequen…

All of this *just* happened in two totally separate cases,
so be careful with differing stories about where things stand:
- TRO granted in the Rhode Island case (Judge Jack McConnell), but no written order yet.
- Trump admin was given until Monday to act in the Mass. case (Judge Indira Talwani).
https://

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
NEWS: The Trump admin's decision to suspend SNAP benefits due to the shutdown has been blocked. In two cases, both judges found the government action is likely illegal. Although a judge in Mass gave the admin until Monday to reverse course, a judge in Rhode Island issued a TRO from the bench today. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Good Morning #Canada
Today, while doing my morning Google thingy, I learned that Elon Musk has Canadian Citizenship. Now I need a shower.
Canada is pretty picky when we look for individuals who should be Canadian. Only 6 non-citizens have ever been recognized as Honorary Canadians, which takes an Act of Parliament to be designated with the honour. It provides zero rights or privileges but looks good on your resume. It is far more likely that non-citizens could be awarded the Order of Canada as they are eligible if they have made a significant contribution to Canadian society or had a positive impact on the world at large. As of August 2025, 8,647 people have been appointed to the order, an average of 150 per year since the honour was established in 1967. There is no list of non-Canadian recipients, as the government doesn't track them separately, but Queen Elizabeth II was awarded her Sovereign badge in 1970.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Welcome
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/who-are-the-honorary-canadians-1.1155903

After the Online Safety Act’s onerous internet age restrictions took effect this summer,
it didn’t take long for Brits to get around them.
Some methods went viral, like using video game Death Stranding’s photo mode to bypass face scans.
But in the end, the simplest solution won out: --- VPNs.
Virtual private networks have proven remarkably effective at circumventing the UK’s age checks,
letting users spoof IP addresses from other countries so that the checks neve…

The VPN panic is only getting started
The UK government is facing calls to add age restrictions to VPNs in order to stop them being used to… get around age restrictions.