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Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/10/building-regulations-nature-biodiversity-analysis-england

I don't know if I'm amused or despairing at the reaction to an unofficial bluesky post that it is going to use face id and CC ID for UK users because of the Online Harms regulations.
Rest of the world expressions of surprise aren't surprising but I thought better of those that are in the UK and experienced online.
I guess that's why we have the Regulations that assert perfect purity in all things, even if it doesn't really define what is pure only that to be …

#DrumpfEra #EPA moves to end limits on #greenhouse gas emissions by US power plants

EPA moves to repeal limits on greenhouse gas emissions by power plants
The EPA announced proposals to significantly loosen Biden-era regulations on pollution from power plants, including mercury and carbon dioxide.

President Trump's spending bill could limit local control over zoning and environmental regulations for AI data centers, worrying state lawmakers (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-political-battle-is-brewing-over-data-centers/…

A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers
An AI-related provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” could restrict state-level legislation of energy-hungry data centers—and is raising bipartisan objections across the US.

Remember, Trump’s DoE is trying to roll back accessibility requirements for buildings (Section 504).
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New Attempt to Roll Back Accessibility Requirements - Comments Needed
For over forty years the United States has had regulations that say new buildings must be accessible to people with disabilities if the building is built by an organization that receives federal funds. Now the trump administration is taking the first steps to undo this long history of access in the

Switzerland 🇨🇭 to ease #EV charging in apartment buildings: The Ständerat has voted in favour of the 'Unverbietbarkeit' of installing home EV charging points, which means that owner's associations cannot prohibit them.
The same applies to rental properties. This is a major step that will help more Swiss to switch.
The Bundesrat must now amend law(s) and regulations.

My great failure in life is that I never put myself in a position to monetise being this embarrassingly incompetent.
#auspol #australia #government

The Trump administration has quietly fast-tracked a massive oil expansion project that environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers warned could have a destructive impact on local communities and the climate.
As reported recently by the Oil and Gas Journal,
👉 the plan “involves expanding the Wildcat Loadout Facility, a key transfer point for moving Uinta basin crude oil to rail lines that transport it to refineries along the Gulf Coast.”
🔥The goal of the plan is to transfer an …

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With congressional approval and Trump's subsequent signature July 4, the 2025 tax reconciliation bill offers expanded opportunities for the oil and gas industry.

🐞 Nebraska residents call for tighter insecticide regulations after contamination event
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/04/nebraska-residents-call-for-tighter-insecticide-regulations-after-contamination-event/…

Nebraska residents call for tighter insecticide regulations after contamination event
By Shannon Kelleher More than four years after a massive contamination event tied to pesticide-coated farm seeds rocked a rural Nebraska community, environmental and public health advocates are calling on state officials to remove regulatory exemptions for the coated seeds, and to monitor waterways for the pesticide pollutants.

Which part of the Oath of Enlistment do you think Marines in LA will uphold?
"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

Sources: Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange Bullish has confidentially filed for a US IPO amid surging demand for digital assets under the Trump administration (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1f0442f9-48f5-4fe3-890b-9acbb7057d2f

Peter Thiel-backed crypto group Bullish files for Wall Street IPO
Group seeking to tap a wave of enthusiasm for digital assets as Trump vows to cut regulations

Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations | Marfa Public Radio https://www.marfapublicradio.org/news/2025-06-30/truckers-say-oil-and-gas-companies…

Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations
The fracking industry says its operators strictly adhere to regulations, and it has “no greater priority” than ensuring worker and community safety.

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RIVCoin: an alternative, integrated, CeFi/DeFi-Vaulted Cryptocurrency
This whitepaper introduces RIVCoin, a cryptocurrency built on Cosmos, fully stabilized by a diversified portfolio of both CeFi and DeFi assets, available in a digital, non-custodial wallet called RIV Wallet, that aims to provide Users an easy way to access the cryptocurrency markets, compliant to the strictest AML laws and regulations up to date. The token is a cryptocurrency at any time stabilized by a basket of assets: reserves are invested in a portfolio composed long term by 50% of CeFi ass…

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Compliance-to-Code: Enhancing Financial Compliance Checking via Code Generation
Nowadays, regulatory compliance has become a cornerstone of corporate governance, ensuring adherence to systematic legal frameworks. At its core, financial regulations often comprise highly intricate provisions, layered logical structures, and numerous exceptions, which inevitably result in labor-intensive or comprehension challenges. To mitigate this, recent Regulatory Technology (RegTech) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant attention in automating the conversion of regula…

"There is no reason to believe [rent controls] have any effect on new housing construction. One could go a step further: economically, land use reforms and stronger rent regulations should go together."
https://jwmason.org/slackwire/can-zohran-do-it/

The South Coast Air Quality Management District will hold a public hearing Friday on two proposed regulations designed to limit key pollutants that form smog.
If adopted, the rules would phase out the sale of gas-powered furnaces and water heaters in the region.
Officials say the plan is crucial for reducing air pollution and improving public health, while opponents fear higher consumer costs.

Regulators seek to phase out gas-powered appliances in Southern California
The South Coast Air Quality Management District is poised to vote on regulations that would limit emissions of nitrogen oxides — the key pollutants that form smog.

DOGE Flacks Work To Ax Dozens Of Gun Regulations - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/doge-flacks-work-to-ax-dozens-of-gun-regulations/

Last boost: I like — or at least appreciate — regulation, and that's why I initially resisted using rideshare apps or other similar services. And I'd say that all the information that's come out about those companies since they launched has only shown that regulations are, overall, a net benefit for a working society.

Google Search Advertising after Dobbs v. Jackson
Yelena Mejova, Ronald E. Robertson, Catherine A. Gimbrone, Sarah McKetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06640 …

Google Search Advertising after Dobbs v. Jackson
Search engines have become the gateway to information, products, and services, including those concerning healthcare. Access to reproductive health has been especially complicated in the wake of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, splintering abortion regulations among the states. In this study, we performed an audit of the advertisements shown to Google Search users seeking information about abortion across the United States during the year following t…

Tool for Supporting Debugging and Understanding of Normative Requirements Using LLMs
Alex Kleijwegt, Sinem Getir Yaman, Radu Calinescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05504

Tool for Supporting Debugging and Understanding of Normative Requirements Using LLMs
Normative requirements specify social, legal, ethical, empathetic, and cultural (SLEEC) norms that must be observed by a system. To support the identification of SLEEC requirements, numerous standards and regulations have been developed. These requirements are typically defined by stakeholders in the non-technical system with diverse expertise (e.g., ethicists, lawyers, social scientists). Hence, ensuring their consistency and managing the requirement elicitation process are complex and error-p…

Industrial Flexibility Investment Under Uncertainty: A Multi-Stage Stochastic Framework Considering Energy and Reserve Market Participation
Amund Norland, Lasse Skare, Ole Jakob Viken, Stian Backe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08638

Industrial Flexibility Investment Under Uncertainty: A Multi-Stage Stochastic Framework Considering Energy and Reserve Market Participation
The global energy transition toward net-zero emissions by 2050 is expected to increase the share of variable renewable energy sources (VRES) in the energy mix. As a result, industrial actors will encounter more complex market conditions, characterized by volatile electricity prices, rising carbon costs, and stricter regulations. This situation calls for the industry to capitalize on opportunities in both spot-price arbitrage and reserve market participation, while also meeting future regulatory…

OH – food for thought: “They've found ways to be successful critics – emphasis on successful. They get invited to conferences, win awards, maintain influence … that success might come from never truly threatening the system.
Maybe aggressive rhetoric and a bridge-burning approach isn’t a bug but a feature. When the house is on fire, you don’t negotiate with the arsonists about fire safety regulations. You sound the alarm, loudly and repeatedly.
In a truly existential fight, w…

Fatigue - Übermüdung bei Seeleuten nimmt zu. Das bestätigt auch eine Studie der Uni Cardiff.
Schon die erlaubte Arbeitszeit von bis zu 90 Stunden pro Woche führt zu Übermüdung.
Diese Zeiten werden teils noch überschritten
https://splash247.com/fatigue-among-se

Fatigue among seafarers on the rise
Work-related fatigue among cargo ship crews is growing worse, despite international regulations and onboard monitoring aimed at ensuring sufficient rest for seafarers, according to a new study from Ca

Human-Centered Interactive Anonymization for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning: A Case for Human-Guided k-Anonymity
Sri Harsha Gajavalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04104

Human-Centered Interactive Anonymization for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning: A Case for Human-Guided k-Anonymity
Privacy-preserving machine learning (ML) seeks to balance data utility and privacy, especially as regulations like the GDPR mandate the anonymization of personal data for ML applications. Conventional anonymization approaches often reduce data utility due to indiscriminate generalization or suppression of data attributes. In this study, we propose an interactive approach that incorporates human input into the k-anonymization process, enabling domain experts to guide attribute preservation based…

Density Discontinuity Regression
Surya T Tokdar, Rik Sen, Haoliang Zheng, Shuangjie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05581 https://ar…

Density Discontinuity Regression
Many policies hinge on a continuous variable exceeding a threshold, prompting strategic behavior by agents to stay on the favorable side. This creates density discontinuities at cutoffs, evident in contexts like taxable income, corporate regulations, and academic grading. Existing methods detect these discontinuities, but systematic approaches to examine how they vary with observable characteristics are lacking. We propose a novel, interpretable Bayesian framework that jointly estimates both th…

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Spatial Network Calculus: Toward Deterministic Wireless Networking
This paper extends the classical network calculus to spatial scenarios, focusing on wireless networks with differentiated services and varying transmit power levels. Building on a spatial network calculus, a prior extension of network calculus to spatial settings, we propose a generalized framework by introducing regulations for stationary marked point processes. The regulations correspond to two key constraints: the total transmit power of all transmitters within a spatial region and the cumul…

Yes, I support Trump's big, beautiful bill. Just not this one part. (Sarah Huckabee Sanders/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/26/state-ai-regulations-ban-obbb/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p83#a250626p83

Don't guess -- check your security regulations.

On Monday, Trump began his latest round of tariff threats, insisting that “we’re done” negotiating
as economists warned about a surge in consumer prices that could arise from taxing imports.
The White House also proceeded with its aggressive and legally contested plans to eliminate scores of federal regulations
and deport millions of migrants.
The immigration crackdown, in particular, could come to the detriment of many sectors, like agriculture, that rely heavily on …

Trump Takes Reins on U.S. Economy With Policy Bill and Tariffs Renewal
President Trump has achieved much of his agenda, leaving the fate of the economy squarely in his hands.

MusGO: A Community-Driven Framework For Assessing Openness in Music-Generative AI
Roser Batlle-Roca, Laura Ib\'a\~nez-Mart\'inez, Xavier Serra, Emilia G\'omez, Mart\'in Rocamora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03599

MusGO: A Community-Driven Framework For Assessing Openness in Music-Generative AI
Since 2023, generative AI has rapidly advanced in the music domain. Despite significant technological advancements, music-generative models raise critical ethical challenges, including a lack of transparency and accountability, along with risks such as the replication of artists' works, which highlights the importance of fostering openness. With upcoming regulations such as the EU AI Act encouraging open models, many generative models are being released labelled as 'open'. However, the definiti…

Many people regard horse racing as a harmless sport in which the animals are willing participants who thoroughly enjoy the thrill. The truth is that behind the scenes lies a story of immense suffering. https://www.animalaid.org.uk/the-issues/our-campaigns/horse-racing/…

Horse Racing - Animal Aid
Many people regard horse racing as a harmless sport in which the animals are willing participants who thoroughly enjoy the thrill. The truth is that behind the scenes lies a story of immense suffering. 2024 statistics: 214 horses killed as a result of racing on British racecourses, 557 abuses of whip regulations, 598 horses with racing industry passports sent to slaughter.

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Embedding-Based Federated Data Sharing via Differentially Private Conditional VAEs
Francesco Di Salvo, Hanh Huyen My Nguyen, Christian Ledig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02671

Embedding-Based Federated Data Sharing via Differentially Private Conditional VAEs
Deep Learning (DL) has revolutionized medical imaging, yet its adoption is constrained by data scarcity and privacy regulations, limiting access to diverse datasets. Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized training but suffers from high communication costs and is often restricted to a single downstream task, reducing flexibility. We propose a data-sharing method via Differentially Private (DP) generative models. By adopting foundation models, we extract compact, informative embeddings, re…

Exploring Responsible Innovation efforts in Canada and the world
Ria Chakraborty, Bruna S. de Mendon\c{c}a, Katya Driscoll, Rodolfo R. Soldati, Ray Laflamme
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05192

Exploring Responsible Innovation efforts in Canada and the world
The global landscape for quantum technologies (QTs) is rapidly changing, and proper understanding of their impact and subsequent regulations need to match this pace. A Responsible Innovation (RI) approach and guiding principles have been proposed to accompany this development. We examine practical efforts globally and in Canada, from industry to research to governments, and analyze the current status of quantum technological advances under the RI framework. We analyze and compare what is being …

Ich nutze #AI täglich, im wesentlichen für meine Arbeit. AI dafür manchmal gut genug und manchmal nicht. Und es bleibt eine Black Box.
Was mich stört, ist unter anderem, daß die besten Modelle nicht offen sind und sich in den Händen weniger Player befinden. Daher spielt die AI Gesetzesinitiative der Republikaner in den #USA

"Fixer les prix des livres au détail est une politique commune en Europe, mais comment la prévention de la concurrence affecte-t-elle les libraires et les acheteurs ? Christos Genakos, Lorien Sabatino et Tommaso Valletti constatent que lorsque la possibilité d'offrir des prix plus bas aux clients est limitée, les vendeurs se tournent vers la concurrence sur le service Š la clientèle et la variété des livres - améliorant ainsi l'expérience des acheteurs."

Legal Requirements Translation from Law
Anmol Singhal, Travis Breaux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02846 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.0284…

Legal Requirements Translation from Law
Software systems must comply with legal regulations, which is a resource-intensive task, particularly for small organizations and startups lacking dedicated legal expertise. Extracting metadata from regulations to elicit legal requirements for software is a critical step to ensure compliance. However, it is a cumbersome task due to the length and complex nature of legal text. Although prior work has pursued automated methods for extracting structural and semantic metadata from legal text, key l…

Tesla stock jumped Friday because Trump's Department of Transportation scrapped some safety regulations that were preventing approval of Tesla's Full Self Driving.
I hope prospective buyers learn this fact and extract its key implication: "Elon admits that Tesla's Full Self Driving is unsafe and unfixable".
#Tesla

Ontario NDP, Liberals successfully stall Bill 5 after filibustering until midnight Thursday | CBC News
Bill 5 would create so-called "special economic zones" where the government can exempt companies or projects from complying with provincial laws or regulations. It would also replace the province's endangered species act, replacing it with an new law that critics say waters down protections.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ndp-liberals-stall-bill-5-after-filibuster-1.7546691

Researchers have discovered a breakthrough link between
organ failure and long Covid
after overcoming contentious Covid-era autopsy regulations
and one of the medical profession’s most high-profile legal disputes.
https://archive.md/TrZ32

It's impressive how much you can get away with as long as you have an authoritative presence and a veneer of righteous, supposedly justified snark. I wish Pirate a merry sunset your game according to EU regulations.

I just ran across this on LinkedIn: yet another study showing that LLMs embed and amplify human biases in the training data—this time in resume screening.
Yet this is the technology Trump, Musk, and DOGE want to use to rewrite things like HUD regulations and to replace human support agents.

Gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening via language model retrieval
Kyra Wilson and Aylin Caliskan examine gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening and suggest protective policies.

Towards 3D Semantic Image Synthesis for Medical Imaging
Wenwu Tang, Khaled Seyam, Bin Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00206 https://a…

Towards 3D Semantic Image Synthesis for Medical Imaging
In the medical domain, acquiring large datasets is challenging due to both accessibility issues and stringent privacy regulations. Consequently, data availability and privacy protection are major obstacles to applying machine learning in medical imaging. To address this, our study proposes the Med-LSDM (Latent Semantic Diffusion Model), which operates directly in the 3D domain and leverages de-identified semantic maps to generate synthetic data as a method of privacy preservation and data augme…

Meaningful Data Erasure in the Presence of Dependencies
Vishal Chakraborty, Youri Kaminsky, Sharad Mehrotra, Felix Naumann, Faisal Nawab, Primal Pappachan, Mohammad Sadoghi, Nalini Venkatasubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00343

Meaningful Data Erasure in the Presence of Dependencies
Data regulations like GDPR require systems to support data erasure but leave the definition of "erasure" open to interpretation. This ambiguity makes compliance challenging, especially in databases where data dependencies can lead to erased data being inferred from remaining data. We formally define a precise notion of data erasure that ensures any inference about deleted data, through dependencies, remains bounded to what could have been inferred before its insertion. We design erasure mechani…

Tree-Based Text Retrieval via Hierarchical Clustering in RAGFrameworks: Application on Taiwanese Regulations
Chia-Heng Yu, Yen-Lung Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13607

Tree-Based Text Retrieval via Hierarchical Clustering in RAGFrameworks: Application on Taiwanese Regulations
Traditional Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems employ brute-force inner product search to retrieve the top-k most similar documents, then combined with the user query and passed to a language model. This allows the model to access external knowledge and reduce hallucinations. However, selecting an appropriate k value remains a significant challenge in practical applications: a small k may fail to retrieve sufficient information, while a large k can introduce excessive and irrelevant c…

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Companies like Amazon, Google , Microsoft, Apple are incompatible with the kind of democracies and states I like to live in. They are too large and powerful, there is no healthy market, they don't care about the law, ethics etc, it's just about power and money.
Maybe more of their services should be forbidden in Europe combined with a large investment in European companies that deliver services that can comply with our laws and regulations? 🤔

“Microsoft has no magical 'get out of US surveillance law' card to play, and its sovereign private cloud is writing checks it cannot cash."
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/microsoft-announces-new-sov…

Microsoft has announced new 'sovereign cloud' services - but just how sovereign can they be?
Microsoft has announced new ‘sovereign cloud’ services for Europe in response to regulations and concerns about control, security and privacy.

#GiftLink
DOGE enters ATF with mandate to slash gun regulations - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/44FHrsk

Novel Benchmark for NER in the Wastewater and Stormwater Domain
Franco Alberto Cardillo, Franca Debole, Francesca Frontini, Mitra Aelami, Nan\'ee Chahinian, Serge Conrad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01938

Novel Benchmark for NER in the Wastewater and Stormwater Domain
Effective wastewater and stormwater management is essential for urban sustainability and environmental protection. Extracting structured knowledge from reports and regulations is challenging due to domainspecific terminology and multilingual contexts. This work focuses on domain-specific Named Entity Recognition (NER) as a first step towards effective relation and information extraction to support decision making. A multilingual benchmark is crucial for evaluating these methods. This study deve…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton: • 3/20/23 •
Big victory against Biden:
Last night a federal court blocked the Admin's radical "waters of the
US" rule,
which imposes a leftist environmental agenda on Texas, crushing new regs, and oppressive economic costs.
I will always fight to keep Biden's boots off the necks of Texans!

Researchers tested 200 toddlers — 96 chemicals were lurking in their bodies #UnitedStates

Researchers tested 200 toddlers — 96 chemicals were lurking in their bodies
Researchers testing urine from 2- to 4-year-olds in four U.S. states uncovered 96 different chemicals, many of them unmonitored and linked to hormone and brain disruption. Legacy toxins like triclosan are slowly declining, yet replacements such as DINCH plasticizer and modern pesticides are rising. Toddlers—especially the youngest, later-born, and those from minority groups—often carried higher levels than their own mothers. Scientists urge expanded biomonitoring and stricter regulations be…

Exclusive: Thune urges "light touch" on AI regulations (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/thune-ai-moratorium-big-beautiful-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p6#a250625p6

Explainable AI Systems Must Be Contestable: Here's How to Make It Happen
Catarina Moreira, Anna Palatkina, Dacia Braca, Dylan M. Walsh, Peter J. Leihn, Fang Chen, Nina C. Hubig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01662

Explainable AI Systems Must Be Contestable: Here's How to Make It Happen
As AI regulations around the world intensify their focus on system safety, contestability has become a mandatory, yet ill-defined, safeguard. In XAI, "contestability" remains an empty promise: no formal definition exists, no algorithm guarantees it, and practitioners lack concrete guidance to satisfy regulatory requirements. Grounded in a systematic literature review, this paper presents the first rigorous formal definition of contestability in explainable AI, directly aligned with stakeholder …

Choosing the Right Battery Model for Data Center Simulations
Paul Kilian, Philipp Wiesner, Odej Kao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17739 https://

Choosing the Right Battery Model for Data Center Simulations
As demand for computing resources continues to rise, the increasing cost of electricity and anticipated regulations on carbon emissions are prompting changes in data center power systems. Many providers are now operating compute nodes in microgrids, close to renewable power generators and energy storage, to maintain full control over the cost and origin of consumed electricity. Recently, new co-simulation testbeds have emerged that integrate domain-specific simulators to support research, devel…

I just ran across this on LinkedIn: yet another study showing that LLMs embed and amplify human biases in the training data—this time in resume screening.
Yet this is the technology Trump, Musk, and DOGE want to use to rewrite things like HUD regulations and to replace human support agents.

Gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening via language model retrieval
Kyra Wilson and Aylin Caliskan examine gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening and suggest protective policies.

Sources: Senate Parliamentarian raised concerns that the tax bill's ban on states from enforcing AI regulations may violate Senate rules, advising a rewrite (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Find a Scapegoat: Poisoning Membership Inference Attack and Defense to Federated Learning
Wenjin Mo, Zhiyuan Li, Minghong Fang, Mingwei Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00423

Find a Scapegoat: Poisoning Membership Inference Attack and Defense to Federated Learning
Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a global machine learning model with coordination from a central server, without needing to share their raw data. This approach is particularly appealing in the era of privacy regulations like the GDPR, leading many prominent companies to adopt it. However, FL's distributed nature makes it susceptible to poisoning attacks, where malicious clients, controlled by an attacker, send harmful data to compromise the model. Most e…

Common Corpus: The Largest Collection of Ethical Data for LLM Pre-Training
Pierre-Carl Langlais, Carlos Rosas Hinostroza, Mattia Nee, Catherine Arnett, Pavel Chizhov, Eliot Krzystof Jones, Ir\`ene Girard, David Mach, Anastasia Stasenko, Ivan P. Yamshchikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01732

Common Corpus: The Largest Collection of Ethical Data for LLM Pre-Training
Large Language Models (LLMs) are pre-trained on large amounts of data from different sources and domains. These data most often contain trillions of tokens with large portions of copyrighted or proprietary content, which hinders the usage of such models under AI legislation. This raises the need for truly open pre-training data that is compliant with the data security regulations. In this paper, we introduce Common Corpus, the largest open dataset for language model pre-training. The data assem…

EU competition chief Teresa Ribera rejects claims DMA enforcement could be traded to avoid Trump's tariffs, and urges mutual respect for each side's regulations (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Vector fields as a framework for modelling the mobility of commodities
Sima Farokhnejad, Ang\'elica S. da Mata, Mariana Macedo, Ronaldo Menezes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02047

Vector fields as a framework for modelling the mobility of commodities
Commodities, including livestock, flow through trade networks globally, with trajectories that can be effectively captured using mobility pattern modelling approaches similar to those used in human mobility studies. However, documenting these movements comprehensively presents significant challenges; it can be unrealistic, costly, and may conflict with data protection regulations. As a result, mobility datasets typically contain uncertainties due to sparsity and limitations in data collection. …

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RIVCoin: an alternative, integrated, CeFi/DeFi-Vaulted Cryptocurrency
This whitepaper introduces RIVCoin, a cryptocurrency built on Cosmos, fully stabilized by a diversified portfolio of both CeFi and DeFi assets, available in a digital, non-custodial wallet called RIV Wallet, that aims to provide Users an easy way to access the cryptocurrency markets, compliant to the strictest AML laws and regulations up to date. The token is a cryptocurrency at any time stabilized by a basket of assets: reserves are invested in a portfolio composed long term by 50% of CeFi ass…

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Query, Don't Train: Privacy-Preserving Tabular Prediction from EHR Data via SQL Queries
Electronic health records (EHRs) contain richly structured, longitudinal data essential for predictive modeling, yet stringent privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR) often restrict access to individual-level records. We introduce Query, Don't Train (QDT): a structured-data foundation-model interface enabling tabular inference via LLM-generated SQL over EHRs. Instead of training on or accessing individual-level examples, QDT uses a large language model (LLM) as a schema-aware query planner to g…

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Fuzzbox:
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#Fuzzbox
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Query, Don't Train: Privacy-Preserving Tabular Prediction from EHR Data via SQL Queries
Josefa Lia Stoisser, Marc Boubnovski Martell, Kaspar M\"artens, Lawrence Phillips, Stephen Michael Town, Rory Donovan-Maiye, Julien Fauqueur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21801

Query, Don't Train: Privacy-Preserving Tabular Prediction from EHR Data via SQL Queries
Electronic health records (EHRs) contain richly structured, longitudinal data essential for predictive modeling, yet stringent privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR) often restrict access to individual-level records. We introduce Query, Don't Train (QDT): a structured-data foundation-model interface enabling tabular inference via LLM-generated SQL over EHRs. Instead of training on or accessing individual-level examples, QDT uses a large language model (LLM) as a schema-aware query planner to g…

Exploring the Effectiveness of Deep Features from Domain-Specific Foundation Models in Retinal Image Synthesis
Zuzanna Skorniewska, Bartlomiej W. Papiez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11753

Exploring the Effectiveness of Deep Features from Domain-Specific Foundation Models in Retinal Image Synthesis
The adoption of neural network models in medical imaging has been constrained by strict privacy regulations, limited data availability, high acquisition costs, and demographic biases. Deep generative models offer a promising solution by generating synthetic data that bypasses privacy concerns and addresses fairness by producing samples for under-represented groups. However, unlike natural images, medical imaging requires validation not only for fidelity (e.g., Fréchet Inception Score) but also…

Trump is upset that in the lower courts his administration has lost 96 percent of the time so far, accordingto one analysis.
The president’s apologists have asserted that this shows that the courts are biased against Trump.
In reality it is the law that is biased against actions that defy the web of statutes, regulations, rules, contracts, and case law that have long been part of our legal system.
Trump has even suggested that he may not be bound by the oath he swore on …

Trump’s stunning streak of losses in lower courts
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Designing a Custom Chaos Engineering Framework for Enhanced System Resilience at Softtech
Ethem Utku Aktas, Burak Tuzlutas, Burak Yesiltas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14281

Designing a Custom Chaos Engineering Framework for Enhanced System Resilience at Softtech
Chaos Engineering is a discipline which enhances software resilience by introducing faults to observe and improve system behavior intentionally. This paper presents a design proposal for a customized Chaos Engineering framework tailored for Softtech, a leading software development company serving the financial sector. It outlines foundational concepts and activities for introducing Chaos Engineering within Softtech, while considering financial sector regulations. Building on these principles, t…

Between Regulation and Accessibility: How Chinese University Students Navigate Global and Domestic Generative AI
Qin Xie, Ming Li, Fei Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14377

Between Regulation and Accessibility: How Chinese University Students Navigate Global and Domestic Generative AI
Despite the rapid proliferation of generative AI in higher education, students in China face significant barriers in accessing global tools like ChatGPT due to regulations and constraints. Grounded in the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) model, this study employs qualitative interviews to investigate how Chinese university students interact with both global and domestic generative AIs in the learning process. Findings reveal that engagement is shaped by accessibilit…

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