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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.

A key element of the administration’s proposal is to redefine what it means for air pollution to cause harm.
If a pollutant causes climate change, it would no longer count as hurting us.
This runs counter to both basic logic and a growing mountain of science documenting direct harms from greenhouse gas

Proposed Rule: Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards | US EPA
The proposed rule on the reconsideration of the greenhouse gas endangerment finding and motor vehicle rule

EPA seeks to cancel scientific basis for climate regulations (Ben Geman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/29/epa-cancel-climate-regulations-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p28#a250729p28

Sources: DOGE has built an AI tool aiming to cut 50% of federal regulations, or around 100,000 rules, by the first anniversary of Trump's inauguration (Washington Post)

DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations
The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new AI tool to eliminate federal regulations, aiming to cut 50 percent of rules by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Huh?! This is beyond stupid, this is insane and also possibly unlawful.
First, US Federal regulation repeal must follow the Administrative Procedures Act.
Second, regulations are often based on experience and a well informed evaluation and weighing of competing interests, short term and long term.
The DOG-E's think they are so smart that they can use a chunk of software (inaccurately called "intelligence") to willy-nilly pick out regulations to discard.

Regulations: The MA thesis must be submitted at least 30 days before the date of the defense.
Student (sending me their thesis 1 week before the end of the exam period, after months of total radio silence): Yeah, but I really want to defend it next Friday, otherwise I’d lose a whole semester!!!1!11
#AcademicChatter

Regulations: The MA thesis must be submitted at least 30 days before the date of the defense.
Student (sending me their thesis 1 week before the end of the exam period, after months of total radio silence): Yeah, but I really want to defend it next Friday, otherwise I’d lose a whole semester!!!1!11
#AcademicChatter

Regulations: The MA thesis must be submitted at least 30 days before the date of the defense.
Student (sending me their thesis 1 week before the end of the exam period, after months of total radio silence): Yeah, but I really want to defend it next Friday, otherwise I’d lose a whole semester!!!1!11
#AcademicChatter

From Law to Gherkin: A Human-Centred Quasi-Experiment on the Quality of LLM-Generated Behavioural Specifications from Food-Safety Regulations
Shabnam Hassani, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Daniel Amyot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20744

From Law to Gherkin: A Human-Centred Quasi-Experiment on the Quality of LLM-Generated Behavioural Specifications from Food-Safety Regulations
Context: Laws and regulations increasingly affect software design and quality assurance, but legal texts are written in technology-neutral language. This creates challenges for engineers who must develop compliance artifacts such as requirements and acceptance criteria. Manual creation is labor-intensive, error-prone, and requires domain expertise. Advances in Generative AI (GenAI), especially Large Language Models (LLMs), offer a way to automate deriving such artifacts. Objective: We present…

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/

DOGE built an AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations
The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new artificial intelligence tool to slash federal regulations,
with the goal of eliminating half of Washington’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of Trump’s inauguration,

The tool, called the
“DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool,” is supposed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations
to determine which can be eliminated as they are no longer required…

DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations
The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new AI tool to eliminate federal regulations, aiming to cut 50 percent of rules by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Prompt template for a fictitious LLM agent in a content-flagging experiment
Marie-Therese Sekwenz, Daria Simons, Alina Wundsam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21842 https://

Prompt template for a fictitious LLM agent in a content-flagging experiment
Digital regulations such as the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA) represent major efforts to shape human-centered and human rights-based frameworks for society. Yet, as these laws are translated into practice, challenges emerge at the intersection of technology, law, and design. This paper presents a qualitative case study examining how designers act as mediators between abstract legal requirements and real-world digital experiences for users, focusing on the design of content reporti…

Electrolyzers Bidding in Electricity Markets under Green Hydrogen Regulations and Uncertainty
Andrea Gloppen Johnsen, Lesia Mitridati, Jalal Kazempour, Line Roald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20702

Electrolyzers Bidding in Electricity Markets under Green Hydrogen Regulations and Uncertainty
Hydrogen produced through electrolysis offers a pathway to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors by replacing gray hydrogen derived from natural gas reforming when produced using renewable power. However, grid-connected electrolyzers may inadvertently increase power-system emissions, resulting in hydrogen whose life-cycle intensity is similar to or higher than that of gray hydrogen. To address the high cost barrier of electrolytic hydrogen, both the E.U. and U.S. have introduced subsidy schemes con…

Quantum-Inspired Audio Unlearning: Towards Privacy-Preserving Voice Biometrics
Shreyansh Pathak, Sonu Shreshtha, Richa Singh, Mayank Vatsa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22208 https…

Quantum-Inspired Audio Unlearning: Towards Privacy-Preserving Voice Biometrics
The widespread adoption of voice-enabled authentication and audio biometric systems have significantly increased privacy vulnerabilities associated with sensitive speech data. Compliance with privacy regulations such as GDPR's right to be forgotten and India's DPDP Act necessitates targeted and efficient erasure of individual-specific voice signatures from already-trained biometric models. Existing unlearning methods designed for visual data inadequately handle the sequential, temporal, and hig…

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/23/britain-toxic-chemicals-labour-tory-brexit-regulations?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/23/britain-toxic-chemicals-labour-tory-brexit-regulations?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Doctors at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
would be barred from performing abortions
-- even in cases of rape and incest
-- under new rules proposed by the Trump administration.
The draft regulations
-- which also forbid providers from counseling female veterans about terminating a pregnancy
-- have generated nearly 20,000 comments in the federal register from conservative activists, abortion rights supporters and female veterans, many of them survi…

Guard-GBDT: Efficient Privacy-Preserving Approximated GBDT Training on Vertical Dataset
Anxiao Song, Shujie Cui, Jianli Bai, Ke Cheng, Yulong Shen, Giovanni Russello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20688

Guard-GBDT: Efficient Privacy-Preserving Approximated GBDT Training on Vertical Dataset
In light of increasing privacy concerns and stringent legal regulations, using secure multiparty computation (MPC) to enable collaborative GBDT model training among multiple data owners has garnered significant attention. Despite this, existing MPC-based GBDT frameworks face efficiency challenges due to high communication costs and the computation burden of non-linear operations, such as division and sigmoid calculations. In this work, we introduce Guard-GBDT, an innovative framework tailored f…

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DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/26/doge-ai-tool-cut-regulations-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUzNTAyNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU0ODg0Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTM1MDI0MDAsImp0aSI6IjAxNWQ1NzRmLTRmNDAtNDBjYS04M2YwLWY0NGFmZmZkYzkxZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI1LzA3LzI2L2RvZ2UtYWktdG9vbC1jdXQtcmVndWxhdGlvbnMtdHJ1bXAvIn0.z17OUPzuSx-jtQATWZcaOwF5JZehWDvi6fXB2jr-rbE&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p22#a250726p22

Newly-Uncovered Roman Mosaic Depicts What Appear to be Flip-Flops at the Bottom of a Pool https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/newly-uncovered-roman-mosaic-depicts-what-appear-to-be-flip-flops-at-the-bottom-of-a-pool/…

Newly-Uncovered Roman Mosaic Depicts What Appear to be Flip-Flops at the Bottom of a Pool
Just as the sandals depicted 1,600 years ago are reminiscent of the flip-flop, their placement in the pool area is reminiscent of Italian gym regulations

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

What's Really Different with AI? -- A Behavior-based Perspective on System Safety for Automated Driving Systems
Marcus Nolte, Nayel Fabian Salem, Olaf Franke, Jan Heckmann, Christoph H\"ohmann, Georg Stettinger, Markus Maurer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20685

What's Really Different with AI? -- A Behavior-based Perspective on System Safety for Automated Driving Systems
Assuring safety for ``AI-based'' systems is one of the current challenges in safety engineering. For automated driving systems, in particular, further assurance challenges result from the open context that the systems need to operate in after deployment. The current standardization and regulation landscape for ``AI-based'' systems is becoming ever more complex, as standards and regulations are being released at high frequencies. This position paper seeks to provide guidance for making qualifi…

There is only one appropriate response to these threats from Trump: fuck off. (Or, some more diplomatically worded version of the same.)
Unfortunately, I doubt European leaders have to backbone to defend EU / EEA sovereignty. https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/115093…

Tackling Federated Unlearning as a Parameter Estimation Problem
Antonio Balordi, Lorenzo Manini, Fabio Stella, Alessio Merlo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19065 https://

Tackling Federated Unlearning as a Parameter Estimation Problem
Privacy regulations require the erasure of data from deep learning models. This is a significant challenge that is amplified in Federated Learning, where data remains on clients, making full retraining or coordinated updates often infeasible. This work introduces an efficient Federated Unlearning framework based on information theory, modeling leakage as a parameter estimation problem. Our method uses second-order Hessian information to identify and selectively reset only the parameters most se…

The Government Just Made it Harder for The Public to Comment on Regulations https://www.404media.co/the-government-just-made-it-harder-for-the-public-to-comment-on-regulations/

In Europe (and increasingly in the US too), EV charging networks that are exclusive to a single brand have become a thing of the past. China now also wants #EV charging networks to be open to all brands.

China Introduces New Regulations: Automakers Must Fully Open Supercharging Stations, Breaking Brand Barriers | ChinaEVHome
By the end of 2027, China targets more than 100,000 high-power charging stations nationwide.

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…

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

Organisational justice moderates the link between leadership, work engagement and innovation work behaviour
Rahmat Sabuhari, Rusman Soleman, Marwan Man Soleman, Johan Fahri, Muhammad Rachmat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20320

Organisational justice moderates the link between leadership, work engagement and innovation work behaviour
Regional civil servants in Indonesia, especially in the eastern regions, are now required to exhibit innovative work behavior (IWB) as mandated by national regulations. While transformational leadership (TFL) and work engagement (WE) are believed to foster such behavior, the impact and the moderating role of organizational justice (OJ) remain underexplored. This study addresses that gap by examining how TFL and WE contribute to IWB development within the context of public sector work, with OJ p…

Federated Learning for Large Models in Medical Imaging: A Comprehensive Review
Mengyu Sun, Ziyuan Yang, Yongqiang Huang, Hui Yu, Yingyu Chen, Shuren Qi, Andrew Beng Jin Teoh, Yi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20414

Federated Learning for Large Models in Medical Imaging: A Comprehensive Review
Artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated considerable potential in the realm of medical imaging. However, the development of high-performance AI models typically necessitates training on large-scale, centralized datasets. This approach is confronted with significant challenges due to strict patient privacy regulations and legal restrictions on data sharing and utilization. These limitations hinder the development of large-scale models in medical domains and impede continuous updates and tr…

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

"Nobody should control the end user": Exploring Privacy Perspectives of Indian Internet Users in Light of DPDPA
Sana Athar, Devashish Gosain, Anja Feldmann, Mannat Kaur, Ha Dao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17962

"Nobody should control the end user": Exploring Privacy Perspectives of Indian Internet Users in Light of DPDPA
With the rapid increase in online interactions, concerns over data privacy and transparency of data processing practices have become more pronounced. While regulations like the GDPR have driven the widespread adoption of cookie banners in the EU, India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) promises similar changes domestically, aiming to introduce a framework for data protection. However, certain clauses within the DPDPA raise concerns about potential infringements on user privacy, giv…

Towards a Real-World Aligned Benchmark for Unlearning in Recommender Systems
Pierre Lubitzsch, Olga Ovcharenko, Hao Chen, Maarten de Rijke, Sebastian Schelter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17076

Towards a Real-World Aligned Benchmark for Unlearning in Recommender Systems
Modern recommender systems heavily leverage user interaction data to deliver personalized experiences. However, relying on personal data presents challenges in adhering to privacy regulations, such as the GDPR's "right to be forgotten". Machine unlearning (MU) aims to address these challenges by enabling the efficient removal of specific training data from models post-training, without compromising model utility or leaving residual information. However, current benchmarks for unlearning in reco…

From Carbon Brief
Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
A “critical assessment” report commissioned by the Trump administration to justify a rollback of US climate regulations contains at least 100 false or misleading statements, according to a Carbon Brief factcheck involving dozens of leading climate scientists.

Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Fuzzbox:
🎵 Rules And Regulations
#Fuzzbox
https://open.spotify.com/track/6VVvIL9IHjux3MiJ3ew5ZV

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

DOGE plans to use AI to identify 50% of 200,000 federal regulations that can be eliminated by Trump | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-ai-regulation-trump-musk-b2796625.html

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 …

We need this to gain more widespread adoption asap. PayPal is heavily pushing shops and restaurants to offer their Payment method. This must not be accepted as they are evil fuckers. https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/115065835725739378

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…

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? 🤔

An inside look into how a coalition of state legislators plan to take on data brokers https://therecord.media/state-coalition-lawmakers-data-broker-rules

"Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with new regulations, including the EU DSA, UK Online Safety Act, and US Take It Down Act (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/bluesky-rolls-out-mass…

Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines | TechCrunch
Some of the changes represent an effort by Bluesky to purposefully shape its community and the behavior of its users, nudging them to be nicer and more respectful of others.

“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.

Closer to Reality: Practical Semi-Supervised Federated Learning for Foundation Model Adaptation
Guangyu Sun, Jingtao Li, Weiming Zhuang, Chen Chen, Chen Chen, Lingjuan Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16568

Closer to Reality: Practical Semi-Supervised Federated Learning for Foundation Model Adaptation
Foundation models (FMs) exhibit remarkable generalization but require adaptation to downstream tasks, particularly in privacy-sensitive applications. Due to data privacy regulations, cloud-based FMs cannot directly access private edge data, limiting their adaptation. Federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-aware alternative, but existing FL approaches overlook the constraints imposed by edge devices -- namely, limited computational resources and the scarcity of labeled data. To address these…

GridCodex: A RAG-Driven AI Framework for Power Grid Code Reasoning and Compliance
Jinquan Shi, Yingying Cheng, Fan Zhang, Miao Jiang, Jun Lin, Yanbai Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12682

GridCodex: A RAG-Driven AI Framework for Power Grid Code Reasoning and Compliance
The global shift towards renewable energy presents unprecedented challenges for the electricity industry, making regulatory reasoning and compliance increasingly vital. Grid codes, the regulations governing grid operations, are complex and often lack automated interpretation solutions, which hinders industry expansion and undermines profitability for electricity companies. We introduce GridCodex, an end to end framework for grid code reasoning and compliance that leverages large language models…

America's Labor Unions are Backing State Regulations for AI Use in Workplaces - Slashdot
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/16/0512211/americas-labor-unions-are-backing-state-regulations-for-ai-use-in-workplaces

Temporary Suspension of Acceptance of Mail to the United States Due to Changes in U.S. Customs and Regulations (郵便局)
https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2025/0825_01_en.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p145#a250825p145

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…

"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/

Scientists slam Trump regime climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/trump-epa-climate-change-report

A Concept for Efficient Scalability of Automated Driving Allowing for Technical, Legal, Cultural, and Ethical Differences
Lars Ullrich, Michael Buchholz, Jonathan Petit, Klaus Dietmayer, Knut Graichen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18326

A Concept for Efficient Scalability of Automated Driving Allowing for Technical, Legal, Cultural, and Ethical Differences
Efficient scalability of automated driving (AD) is key to reducing costs, enhancing safety, conserving resources, and maximizing impact. However, research focuses on specific vehicles and context, while broad deployment requires scalability across various configurations and environments. Differences in vehicle types, sensors, actuators, but also traffic regulations, legal requirements, cultural dynamics, or even ethical paradigms demand high flexibility of data-driven developed capabilities. In…

#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.

Don't guess -- check your security regulations.

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

Stochastic urban planning for housing: Reduce regulations with no provision to provide housing supporting the mix of incomes in California.
After all, in our system, return on capital plays no role in determining what price developers demand for building./s
https://www.s…

Stochastic urban planning for housing: Reduce regulations with no provision to provide housing supporting the mix of incomes in California.
After all, in our system, return on capital plays no role in determining what price developers demand for building./s
https://www.s…

The scale of investment and the involvement of governments means ROI must be found (or rather created) now, by any means necessary! Demand already is being forcefully created to justify these expenditures. Business models, regulations and policies/politics are pivoted in lockstep. Aside from all the conceptual, ethical and environmental issues of LLMs and their required infrastructure, these shifts are already also impacting chip/hardware production pipelines and start spelling the end of pe…

samim (@samim@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6m, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* As a % of GDP, spending on AI infra has already exceeded spending on telecom and internet infrastructure from the dot-com boom—and it’s still growing. This spending is so big it’s acting as a sort of privat…

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…

US Health and Human Services centralized medical database – Uh oh
 
This week the Health and Human Services (HHS) agency and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are announcing an initiative to create a centralized database of individual’s health information. The stated rationale for this effort is to improve access to innovative health solutions and improve user access and security. A part of this initiative will include updates to the HIPAA regulations. The effort…

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

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

Columbia University trustees removed control of the student disciplinary process from the University Senate,
with the trustees taking control themselves of the process through the provost’s office.
The intent was to make sure that any student guilty of violating university regulations during an anti-genocide protest would be severely punished.
One goal is to make sure that students engaged in such protest are removed from the university and can’t do it again.
Anot…

The Situation at Columbia XVIII
When I first started writing here about what was going on at Columbia, part of the motivation was that I didn’t understand myself a lot of what was happening, especially the actions of the tr…

Implications of Current Litigation on the Design of AI Systems for Healthcare Delivery
Gennie Mansi, Mark Riedl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15981 https://…

Implications of Current Litigation on the Design of AI Systems for Healthcare Delivery
Many calls for explainable AI (XAI) systems in medicine are tied to a desire for AI accountability--accounting for, mitigating, and ultimately preventing harms from AI systems. Because XAI systems provide human-understandable explanations for their output, they are often viewed as a primary path to prevent harms to patients. However, when harm occurs, laws, policies, and regulations also shape AI accountability by impacting how harmed individuals can obtain recourse. Current approaches to XAI e…

Sources: UK plans to designate Apple and Google as holding a "strategic market advantage" over rivals, subjecting them to new regulations and potential fines (Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/

UK moving on new penalties for Apple and Google amid trade discussions with Trump
The United Kingdom is preparing to single out Apple and Google under its new Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumers Act.

A bottleneck model with shared autonomous vehicles: Scale economies and price regulations
Koki Satsukawa, Yuki Takayama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08848 https://

A bottleneck model with shared autonomous vehicles: Scale economies and price regulations
This study examines how scale economies in the operation of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) affect the efficiency of a transportation system where SAVs coexist with normal vehicles (NVs). We develop a bottleneck model where commuters choose their departure times and mode of travel between SAVs and NVs, and analyze equilibria under three SAV-fare scenarios: marginal-cost pricing, average-cost pricing, and unregulated monopoly pricing. Marginal-cost pricing reduces commuting costs but results i…

Conformidade com os Requisitos Legais de Privacidade de Dados: Um Estudo sobre T\'ecnicas de Anonimiza\c{c}\~ao
Andr\'e Menolli, Luiz Fernando Nunes, Thiago A. Coleti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18360

Conformidade com os Requisitos Legais de Privacidade de Dados: Um Estudo sobre Técnicas de Anonimização
The protection of personal data has become a central topic in software development, especially with the implementation of the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) in Brazil and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union. With the enforcement of these laws, certain software quality criteria have become mandatory, such as data anonymization, which is one of the main aspects addressed by these regulations. The aim of this article is to analyze data anonymization techniques a…

Consultation by @… on the proposed network code on demand response (and changes to three related electricity regulations)
Deadline: 12 September.

Targeted Consultation to support the establishment of a new network code on demand response
Targeted Consultation to support the establishment of a new network code on demand response

Remember, Trump’s DoE is trying to roll back accessibility requirements for buildings (Section 504).
@… wrote about this and her 9 June update links to a newer comment template:
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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

California privacy regulator approves watered-down AI rules https://therecord.media/california-privacy-agency-approves-ai-rules

Can Large Language Models Understand As Well As Apply Patent Regulations to Pass a Hands-On Patent Attorney Test?
Bhakti Khera, Rezvan Alamian, Pascal A. Scherz, Stephan M. Goetz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10576

Can Large Language Models Understand As Well As Apply Patent Regulations to Pass a Hands-On Patent Attorney Test?
The legal field already uses various large language models (LLMs) in actual applications, but their quantitative performance and reasons for it are underexplored. We evaluated several open-source and proprietary LLMs -- including GPT-series, Anthropic, Deepseek and Llama-3, variants -- on parts of the European Qualifying Examination (EQE) for future European Patent Attorneys. OpenAI o1 led with 0.82 accuracy and 0.81 F1 score, whereas (Amazon Web Services) AWS Llama 3.1 8B lagged at 0.50 accura…

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.

A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors, but says it can file further challenges (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/so…

Efficient Knowledge Graph Unlearning with Zeroth-order Information
Yang Xiao, Ruimeng Ye, Bohan Liu, Xiaolong Ma, Bo Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14013 https://

Efficient Knowledge Graph Unlearning with Zeroth-order Information
Due to regulations like the Right to be Forgotten, there is growing demand for removing training data and its influence from models. Since full retraining is costly, various machine unlearning methods have been proposed. In this paper, we firstly present an efficient knowledge graph (KG) unlearning algorithm. We remark that KG unlearning is nontrivial due to the distinctive structure of KG and the semantic relations between entities. Also, unlearning by estimating the influence of removed compo…

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…

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins says the GENIUS Act is a "historic step" and the SEC is weighing an "innovation exemption" from regulations to incentivize tokenization (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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
Read more here.

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.

Connected and Exposed: Cybersecurity Risks, Regulatory Gaps, and Public Perception in Internet-Connected Vehicles
Henrietta Hegyi, Laszlo Erdodi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15306

Connected and Exposed: Cybersecurity Risks, Regulatory Gaps, and Public Perception in Internet-Connected Vehicles
The rapid advancement of Internet-connected vehicle technologies has introduced a new era of smart mobility, while simultaneously raising significant cybersecurity and privacy concerns. This paper explores the evolving threat landscape associated with connected vehicles, focusing on risks such as unauthorized remote access and the potential leakage of personal data. To assess the current state of protection, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of 16 international standards and regulations, ev…

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The US SEC launches Project Crypto, an initiative to "modernize" securities regulations to allow for crypto-based trading (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/sec-debuts-project-crypto-to-bring-us-financial-mark…

SEC debuts 'Project Crypto' to bring U.S. financial markets 'on chain'
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday debuted "Project Crypto," a plan to modernize securities regulations to allow crypto-based trading.

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.

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…

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.

Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with new regulations, including EU's DSA, the UK Online Safety Act, and the US Take It Down Act (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/bluesky-roll…

Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines | TechCrunch
Some of the changes represent an effort by Bluesky to purposefully shape its community and the behavior of its users, nudging them to be nicer and more respectful of others.

US warns tech companies against complying with European and British ‘censorship’ laws https://therecord.media/tech-companies-ftc-censorship-laws

SoK: Data Minimization in Machine Learning
Robin Staab, Nikola Jovanovi\'c, Kimberly Mai, Prakhar Ganesh, Martin Vechev, Ferdinando Fioretto, Matthew Jagielski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10836

SoK: Data Minimization in Machine Learning
Data minimization (DM) describes the principle of collecting only the data strictly necessary for a given task. It is a foundational principle across major data protection regulations like GDPR and CPRA. Violations of this principle have substantial real-world consequences, with regulatory actions resulting in fines reaching hundreds of millions of dollars. Notably, the relevance of data minimization is particularly pronounced in machine learning (ML) applications, which typically rely on large…

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…

A Task Taxonomy for Conformance Checking
Jana-Rebecca Rehse, Michael Grohs, Finn Klessascheck, Lisa-Marie Klein, Tatiana von Landesberger, Luise Pufahl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11976

A Task Taxonomy for Conformance Checking
Conformance checking is a sub-discipline of process mining, which compares observed process traces with a process model to analyze whether the process execution conforms with or deviates from the process design. Organizations can leverage this analysis, for example to check whether their processes comply with internal or external regulations or to identify potential improvements. Gaining these insights requires suitable visualizations, which make complex results accessible and actionable. So fa…

Sources: Google, Meta, and other tech firms have met with Brazilian officials as new regulations on tech are being shaped, with Trump's tariffs as a backdrop (Ana Ionova/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/world/americas/brazil-big-tech…

Brazil Clamped Down on Big Tech. Trump’s Tariffs Could Change That.
With President Trump on their side, U.S. technology companies now have more leverage in Brazil, where they seek to influence new rules policing their platforms.

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.

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

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

A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors, but says it can file further challenges (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/so…

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.

Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Anthropic's growth to ~$5B in ARR, focusing on B2B, AI talent wars, open-source models, safety regulations, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/a-cheeky-pint-with-anthropic-ceo

A Cheeky Pint with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei joins John Collison to talk about Anthropic's growth to almost $5 billion in ARR, how AI models show capitalistic impulses, predictions for an agentic future, the economics of model businesses, and the 19th-century concept of vitalism.

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!

Asian financial hubs are updating stablecoin regulations and companies like Ant Group plan to become issuers, driven by US' embrace of dollar-pegged stablecoins (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08…