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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

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/

Do I know someone who has recent experience with a cost-neutral grant extension of an #SNSF project?
Specifically not career funding, but “regular” project funding, and in particular for reasons not explicitly listed in art. 7.6 of the General implementation regulations for the Funding Regulations.
#Research

Do I know someone who has recent experience with a cost-neutral grant extension of an #SNSF project?
Specifically not career funding, but “regular” project funding, and in particular for reasons not explicitly listed in art. 7.6 of the General implementation regulations for the Funding Regulations.
#Research

Do I know someone who has recent experience with a cost-neutral grant extension of an #SNSF project?
Specifically not career funding, but “regular” project funding, and in particular for reasons not explicitly listed in art. 7.6 of the General implementation regulations for the Funding Regulations.
#Research

Minimum pricing or volumetric taxation? Quantity, quality and competition effects of price regulations in alcohol markets
Celine Bonnet, Fabrice Etile, Sebastien Lecocq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14116

Minimum pricing or volumetric taxation? Quantity, quality and competition effects of price regulations in alcohol markets
Reforming alcohol price regulations in wine-producing countries is challenging, as current price regulations reflect the alignment of cultural preferences with economic interests rather than public health concerns. We evaluate and compare the impact of counterfactual alcohol pricing policies on consumer behaviors, firms, and markets in France. We develop a micro-founded partial equilibrium model that accounts for consumer preferences over purchase volumes across alcohol categories and over prod…

Canadian law enforcement seizes $40.5M in digital assets after shutting down TradeOgre crypto exchange, making it the largest Canadian crypto seizure to date. (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/340310/canada-confiscates-56m-bitcoin-xrp-c…

Canada Seizes $56M in Bitcoin, XRP and Other Crypto as It Shutters Exchange TradeOgre
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say the exchange failed to comply with money laundering regulations and also confiscated Ethereum and Litecoin, among other digital assets.

The BBC and UK's other public sector broadcasters call for new regulations to force platforms such as YouTube to give them a fairer deal and more prominence (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep…

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.

Source: RedBird IMI has scrapped plans to acquire the production arm of ITV; Jeff Zucker says RedBird IMI is reluctant to invest in England due to regulations (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/438165e7-994c-4eff-a722-79bc7fff6900

Want to complain about #Rx requirements for a #COVID booster in the US? #uspol
You have until September 13 to submit a written comment to the

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.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Reliable Interpretation of Radio Regulations
Zakaria El Kassimi, Fares Fourati, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09651 https://…

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Reliable Interpretation of Radio Regulations
We study question answering in the domain of radio regulations, a legally sensitive and high-stakes area. We propose a telecom-specific Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline and introduce, to our knowledge, the first multiple-choice evaluation set for this domain, constructed from authoritative sources using automated filtering and human validation. To assess retrieval quality, we define a domain-specific retrieval metric, under which our retriever achieves approximately 97% accuracy. B…

A five-layer framework for AI governance: integrating regulation, standards, and certification
Avinash Agarwal, Manisha J. Nene
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11332 https://

A five-layer framework for AI governance: integrating regulation, standards, and certification
Purpose: The governance of artificial iintelligence (AI) systems requires a structured approach that connects high-level regulatory principles with practical implementation. Existing frameworks lack clarity on how regulations translate into conformity mechanisms, leading to gaps in compliance and enforcement. This paper addresses this critical gap in AI governance. Methodology/Approach: A five-layer AI governance framework is proposed, spanning from broad regulatory mandates to specific stand…

China says Nvidia was found in violation of antitrust regulations in a preliminary investigation, in a brief statement without further details (Edwin Chan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-15/china-find…

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…

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.

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…

Apple doesn't include a charger in the box with the new M5 MacBook Pro in European countries, making users pay extra; the company cites local regulations (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/15/new-macbook-pro-lacks-charger-in-europe/

New MacBook Pro Does Not Include a Charger in the Box in Europe
The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip does not include a charger in the box in European countries, including the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Italy,...

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

Competition and Incentives in a Shared Order Book
Ren\'e A\"id, Philippe Bergault, Mathieu Rosenbaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10094 https://arxi…

Competition and Incentives in a Shared Order Book
Recent regulation on intraday electricity markets has led to the development of shared order books with the intention to foster competition and increase market liquidity. In this paper, we address the question of the efficiency of such regulations by analysing the situation of two exchanges sharing a single limit order book, i.e. a quote by a market maker can be hit by a trade arriving on the other exchange. We develop a Principal-Agent model where each exchange acts as the Principal of her own…

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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

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…

Research in Collaborative Learning Does Not Serve Cross-Silo Federated Learning in Practice
Kevin Kuo, Chhavi Yadav, Virginia Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12595 https://

Research in Collaborative Learning Does Not Serve Cross-Silo Federated Learning in Practice
Cross-silo federated learning (FL) is a promising approach to enable cross-organization collaboration in machine learning model development without directly sharing private data. Despite growing organizational interest driven by data protection regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA, the adoption of cross-silo FL remains limited in practice. In this paper, we conduct an interview study to understand the practical challenges associated with cross-silo FL adoption. With interviews spanning a diverse …

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[3/4]:
- Can Large Language Models Understand As Well As Apply Patent Regulations to Pass a Hands-On Paten...
Bhakti Khera, Rezvan Alamian, Pascal A. Scherz, Stephan M. Goetz

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…

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.

apparently there is a special type of Flash (presumably) memory for pachinko machines that guarantees the checksum will not change over machine lifetime
presumably because of gambling regulations requiring these machines to be externally verifiable to have untampered with firmware!

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.

DeePConverter: A Data-Driven Optimal Control Architecture for Grid-Connected Power Converters
Ruohan Leng, Linbin Huang, Huanhai Xin, Ping Ju, Xiongfei Wang, Eduardo Prieto-Araujo, Florian D\"orfler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08578

DeePConverter: A Data-Driven Optimal Control Architecture for Grid-Connected Power Converters
Grid-connected power converters are ubiquitous in modern power systems, acting as grid interfaces of renewable energy sources, energy storage systems, electric vehicles, high-voltage DC systems, etc. Conventionally, power converters use multiple PID regulators to achieve different control objectives such as grid synchronization and voltage/power regulations, where the PID parameters are usually tuned based on a presumed (and often overly-simplified) power grid model. However, this may lead to i…

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

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…

Extension of Spatial k-Anonymity: New Metrics for Assessing the Anonymity of Geomasked Data Considering Realistic Attack Scenarios
Simon Cremer, Lydia Jehmlich, Rainer Lenz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07505

Extension of Spatial k-Anonymity: New Metrics for Assessing the Anonymity of Geomasked Data Considering Realistic Attack Scenarios
Spatial data are gaining increasing importance in many areas of research. Particularly spatial health data are becoming increasingly important for medical research, for example, to better understand relationships between environmental factors and disease patterns. However, their use is often restricted by legal data protection regulations, since georeferenced personal information carries a high risk of re-identification of individuals. To address this issue, what are called geomasking methods a…

Exposing the Monsanto conspiracy.
This is why we need strong government regulations.
https://youtu.be/CxVXvFOPIyQ

Understanding Ethical Practices in AI: Insights from a Cross-Role, Cross-Region Survey of AI Development Teams
Wilder Baldwin, Sepideh Ghanavati, Manuel Woersdoerfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09219

Understanding Ethical Practices in AI: Insights from a Cross-Role, Cross-Region Survey of AI Development Teams
Recent advances in AI applications have raised growing concerns about the need for ethical guidelines and regulations to mitigate the risks posed by these technologies. In this paper, we present a mixed-method survey study - combining statistical and qualitative analyses - to examine the ethical perceptions, practices, and knowledge of individuals involved in various AI development roles. Our survey includes 414 participants from 43 countries, representing roles such as AI managers, analysts, d…

US Senator Ted Cruz introduces a bill that would let AI companies apply for exemptions from federal regulations to help them experiment with new technology (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/u…

"Global Shipping to Face First Industry-Wide Net-Zero Shipping Regulations by 2027"
#Ships #NetZero #Emissions #Climate

Global Shipping to Face First Industry-Wide Net-Zero Shipping Regulations by 2027 | Happy Eco News
The International Maritime Organization's net-zero shipping regulations, effective from 2027, mandate emissions reductions and introduce a global carbon pricing mechanism. Ships over 5,000 gross tonnage must meet new fuel standards or face penalties. A fund will support low-emission technologies and assist developing nations in transitioning to cleaner maritime practices.

#NorthDakota 's "low population, energy resources, cold climate and lax business regulations" attract data centers according to InForum
http…

Data centers are sprouting across North Dakota. How many are there and where will the next ones be planted?
The existing facilities that power AI and cryptocurrency will consume more power than what's generated by the Hoover dam alone, contributing to a demand that's expected to grow in coming years.

From @… for @… :
https://www.

The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago
Keywords and tags have never been a useful metric for distilling nuance. Pushing for regulations based on them is repeating a 30-year history of porn panic online.

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

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

FYI, an important action to take! Leave a public comment opposing the repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding. All the details are in this #standupforscience post on BlueSky:
https://bsky.app/profile…

A Type System for Data Privacy Compliance in Active Object Languages
Chinmayi Prabhu Baramashetru (University of Oslo, Norway), Paola Giannini (Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Italy), Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (University of Oslo, Norway), Olaf Owe (University of Oslo, Norway)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03831

A Type System for Data Privacy Compliance in Active Object Languages
Data protection laws such as GDPR aim to give users unprecedented control over their personal data. Compliance with these regulations requires systematically considering information flow and interactions among entities handling sensitive data. Privacy-by-design principles advocate embedding data protection into system architectures as a default. However, translating these abstract principles into concrete, explicit methods remains a significant challenge. This paper addresses this gap by propos…

Current State in Privacy-Preserving Text Preprocessing for Domain-Agnostic NLP
Abhirup Sinha, Pritilata Saha, Tithi Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03204 https://

Current State in Privacy-Preserving Text Preprocessing for Domain-Agnostic NLP
Privacy is a fundamental human right. Data privacy is protected by different regulations, such as GDPR. However, modern large language models require a huge amount of data to learn linguistic variations, and the data often contains private information. Research has shown that it is possible to extract private information from such language models. Thus, anonymizing such private and sensitive information is of utmost importance. While complete anonymization may not be possible, a number of diffe…

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.

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…

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

Satellite data show burst of deforestation in Myanmar rare earth mining hotspots https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/satellite-data-show-burst-of-deforestation-in-myanmar-rare-earth-mining-hotspots/

Satellite data show burst of deforestation in Myanmar rare earth mining hotspots
Myanmar’s Kachin state, near the border with China, is a global hub for rare earth minerals. But the dearth of regulations over mining these resources has come at a steep cost to the area’s subtropical and moist forests, according to researchers and satellite imagery collected by Mongabay. Civil society sources in the region, who requested […]

FPF Submits Comments to Inform Colorado Minor Privacy Protections Rulemaking Process
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-submits-comments-to-inform-colorado-minor-privacy-protections-rulemaking-process/
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How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms worldwide, with US platforms primarily targeting men and Chinese platforms mainly targeting women (Zilan Qian/ChinaTalk)
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-america-builds-ai-girlfriends

Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends
and what it all means

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…

This is randomly hilarious.
https://gws.sandbox.iam.s.uw.edu/ippa-010054
Someone was putting together a report on pollution regulations, namely "IPPA 010054, or the Industrial Pollution Prevention and Abatement (IPPA) Framework". They apparently let an AI insert illus…

Exploring IPPA 010054: 5 Key Insights
Uncover the secrets of IPPA 010054! This comprehensive guide delves into the unique features and benefits of this innovative product, offering an in-depth exploration of its capabilities. Discover how IPPA can transform your processes and why it's a game-changer for businesses seeking efficient solutions.

Well Dougie, it was your government that passed the enabling regulations almost six years ago.
On the 37 out of 444 municipalities that want it ->
1. How many asked to get rid of them?
2. How many actually have the cameras?
Just because it is a small number that want it doesn't indicate the majority doesn't want them. If they did, you would have trotted out that number.

"UN meeting closes with no moratorium on deep-sea mining; groups lament"
#UN #UnitedNations #DeepSeaMining

UN meeting closes with no moratorium on deep-sea mining; groups lament
Civil groups expressed dismay as the 30th International Seabed Authority (ISA) session recently ended in Jamaica without a moratorium on deep-sea mining, a process of extracting minerals from the seafloor, which experts say can damage marine ecosystems. The ISA Council finished the second reading of the draft regulations for the commercial exploitation of deep-sea minerals. However, the […]

UK delays introducing new cybersecurity legislation, again https://therecord.media/uk-cybersecurity-law-update-csrb-delayed-again

Switzerland proposes regulations forcing service providers to collect user IDs and disable encryption, threatening its status as a haven for privacy tech firms (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/switzerland-digital-privacy-law-proton-priv…

Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
Switzerland-based providers of secure email, VPNs and other digital services say a pending government proposal would be catastrophic to their ability to protect the privacy of users.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- Can Large Language Models Understand As Well As Apply Patent Regulations to Pass a Hands-On Paten...
Bhakti Khera, Rezvan Alamian, Pascal A. Scherz, Stephan M. Goetz

SBOMproof: Beyond Alleged SBOM Compliance for Supply Chain Security of Container Images
Jacopo Bufalino, Mario Di Francesco, Agathe Blaise, Stefano Secci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05798

SBOMproof: Beyond Alleged SBOM Compliance for Supply Chain Security of Container Images
Supply chain security is extremely important for modern applications running at scale in the cloud. In fact, they involve a large number of heterogeneous microservices that also include third-party software. As a result, security vulnerabilities are hard to identify and mitigate before they start being actively exploited by attackers. For this reason, governments have recently introduced cybersecurity regulations that require vendors to share a software bill of material (SBOM) with end users or…

Bringing Multi-Modal Multi-Task Federated Foundation Models to Education Domain: Prospects and Challenges
Kasra Borazjani, Naji Khosravan, Rajeev Sahay, Bita Akram, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07946

Bringing Multi-Modal Multi-Task Federated Foundation Models to Education Domain: Prospects and Challenges
Multi-modal multi-task (M3T) foundation models (FMs) have recently shown transformative potential in artificial intelligence, with emerging applications in education. However, their deployment in real-world educational settings is hindered by privacy regulations, data silos, and limited domain-specific data availability. We introduce M3T Federated Foundation Models (FedFMs) for education: a paradigm that integrates federated learning (FL) with M3T FMs to enable collaborative, privacy-preserving…

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

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…

Most of the 475 people arrested at Hyundai facility in Georgia are Korean nationals
The arrested workers were being held at Ice’s Folkston, Georgia detention facility.
Local Korean media said roughly 300 people detained were South Korean nationals.
“It is our understanding that none of those detained is directly employed by Hyundai Motor Co.
We prioritize the safety and well-being of everyone working at the site and comply with all laws and regulations wherever we op…

UK CMA designates Google with "strategic market status" in online search and advertising and will begin consultation on potential new regulations later in 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/google

Google search, AI Overviews, AI Mode and Discover designated for UK regulation
Google search has formally been designated with "strategic market status" by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

Industrial LLM-based Code Optimization under Regulation: A Mixture-of-Agents Approach
Mari Ashiga, Vardan Voskanyan, Fateme Dinmohammadi, Jingzhi Gong, Paul Brookes, Matthew Truscott, Rafail Giavrimis, Mike Basios, Leslie Kanthan, Wei Jie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03329

Industrial LLM-based Code Optimization under Regulation: A Mixture-of-Agents Approach
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) for code optimization have enabled industrial platforms to automate software performance engineering at unprecedented scale and speed. Yet, organizations in regulated industries face strict constraints on which LLMs they can use - many cannot utilize commercial models due to data privacy regulations and compliance requirements, creating a significant challenge for achieving high-quality code optimization while maintaining cost-effectiveness. W…

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

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.

Enhancing Systematic Interoperability: Convergences and Mismatches between Web 3.0 and the EU Data Act
Linyi Xu, Zihao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07356 https://

Enhancing Systematic Interoperability: Convergences and Mismatches between Web 3.0 and the EU Data Act
Interoperability is increasingly recognised as a foundational principle for fostering innovation, competition, and user autonomy in the evolving digital ecosystem. Existing research on interoperability predominantly focuses either on technological interoperability itself or on the legal regulations concerning interoperability, with insufficient exploration of their interdisciplinary intersection. This paper compares the technological interoperability in Web 3.0 with the theoretical framework of…

SustainableQA: A Comprehensive Question Answering Dataset for Corporate Sustainability and EU Taxonomy Reporting
Mohammed Ali, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Adam Jatowt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03000

SustainableQA: A Comprehensive Question Answering Dataset for Corporate Sustainability and EU Taxonomy Reporting
The growing demand for corporate sustainability transparency, particularly under new regulations like the EU Taxonomy, necessitates precise data extraction from large, unstructured corporate reports. Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, requires high-quality, domain-specific question-answering (QA) datasets to excel at particular domains. To address this, we introduce SustainableQA, a novel dataset and a scalable pipeline for generating a comprehensive …

TVS Sidekick: Challenges and Practical Insights from Deploying Large Language Models in the Enterprise
Paula Reyero Lobo, Kevin Johnson, Bill Buchanan, Matthew Shardlow, Ashley Williams, Samuel Attwood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26482

TVS Sidekick: Challenges and Practical Insights from Deploying Large Language Models in the Enterprise
Many enterprises are increasingly adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make internal processes more competitive and efficient. In response to public concern and new regulations for the ethical and responsible use of AI, implementing AI governance frameworks could help to integrate AI within organisations and mitigate associated risks. However, the rapid technological advances and lack of shared ethical AI infrastructures creates barriers to their practical adoption in businesses. This paper…

A Survey on Current Trends and Recent Advances in Text Anonymization
Tobias Deu{\ss}er, Lorenz Sparrenberg, Armin Berger, Max Hahnb\"uck, Christian Bauckhage, Rafet Sifa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21587

A Survey on Current Trends and Recent Advances in Text Anonymization
The proliferation of textual data containing sensitive personal information across various domains requires robust anonymization techniques to protect privacy and comply with regulations, while preserving data usability for diverse and crucial downstream tasks. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of current trends and recent advances in text anonymization techniques. We begin by discussing foundational approaches, primarily centered on Named Entity Recognition, before examining the tr…

Apple's support page says AirPods' new Live Translation won't be available to users in the EU and with an EU-region Apple Account, likely due to EU regulations (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/11/airpods-live-translation-eu-r…

AirPods Live Translation Blocked for EU Users With EU Apple Accounts
Apple's new Live Translation feature for AirPods will be off-limits to millions of European users when it arrives next week, with strict EU...

Measuring the Carbon Footprint of Cryptographic Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Marc Damie, Mihai Pop, Merijn Posthuma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04583 https://

Measuring the Carbon Footprint of Cryptographic Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) have attracted significant attention in response to privacy regulations, driving the development of applications that prioritize user data protection. At the same time, the information and communication technology (ICT) sector faces growing pressure to reduce its environmental footprint, particularly its carbon emissions. While numerous studies have assessed the energy footprint of various ICT applications, the environmental footprint of cryptographic PETs …

The Supreme Courtsaid on Friday that it will take up its latest gun rights case
and consider striking down a strict regulation on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii.
Trump’s administration had urged the justices to take the case.
The court will consider Hawaii’s law that bans guns on private property,
including businesses like stores and hotels,
unless the owner has specifically allowed them verbally or with a sign.

Supreme Court will consider overturning strict Hawaii gun law
The Supreme Court says it'll take up its latest gun rights case and consider striking down strict regulations on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii. President Donald Trump’s Republican administration had urged the justices to take the case, arguing the law violates the court’s 2022 ruling that found people have a right to carry firearms in public under the Second Amendment. The Hawaii law bans guns on private property unless the owner has specifically allowed them. The law also prohi…

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…

Deciphering Invariant Feature Decoupling in Source-free Time Series Forecasting with Proxy Denoising
Kangjia Yan, Chenxi Liu, Hao Miao, Xinle Wu, Yan Zhao, Chenjuan Guo, Bin Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05589

Deciphering Invariant Feature Decoupling in Source-free Time Series Forecasting with Proxy Denoising
The proliferation of mobile devices generates a massive volume of time series across various domains, where effective time series forecasting enables a variety of real-world applications. This study focuses on a new problem of source-free domain adaptation for time series forecasting. It aims to adapt a pretrained model from sufficient source time series to the sparse target time series domain without access to the source data, embracing data protection regulations. To achieve this, we propose …

Cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover threatens to hit British economic growth https://therecord.media/cyberattack-jaguar-land-rover-economic-growth-uk-government

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

The Department of Interior has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C., as
“the department of everything else”
— public lands, natural resources, wildlife regulations and the Bureau of Indian Affairs all fall under its auspices.
It is now also the tip of the spear in the Trump administration’s war on renewables. 
On July 17, the Interior Department announced that all wind and solar projects would have to undergo
“eleva…

How Interior is using environmental laws to suppress renewable energy
The Trump administration is turning environmentalists’ legal playbook against them.

QPADL: Post-Quantum Private Spectrum Access with Verified Location and DoS Resilience
Saleh Darzi, Saif Eddine Nouma, Kiarash Sedghighadikolaei, Attila Altay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03631

QPADL: Post-Quantum Private Spectrum Access with Verified Location and DoS Resilience
With advances in wireless communication and growing spectrum scarcity, Spectrum Access Systems (SASs) offer an opportunistic solution but face significant security challenges. Regulations require disclosure of location coordinates and transmission details, exposing user privacy and anonymity during spectrum queries, while the database operations themselves permit Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. As location-based services, SAS is also vulnerable to compromised or malicious users conducting spoo…

SafeEvalAgent: Toward Agentic and Self-Evolving Safety Evaluation of LLMs
Yixu Wang, Xin Wang, Yang Yao, Xinyuan Li, Yan Teng, Xingjun Ma, Yingchun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26100

SafeEvalAgent: Toward Agentic and Self-Evolving Safety Evaluation of LLMs
The rapid integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into high-stakes domains necessitates reliable safety and compliance evaluation. However, existing static benchmarks are ill-equipped to address the dynamic nature of AI risks and evolving regulations, creating a critical safety gap. This paper introduces a new paradigm of agentic safety evaluation, reframing evaluation as a continuous and self-evolving process rather than a one-time audit. We then propose a novel multi-agent framework SafeE…

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.

"Satellite data show burst of deforestation in Myanmar rare earth mining hotspots"
#Myanmar #Trees #Environment

Satellite data show burst of deforestation in Myanmar rare earth mining hotspots
Myanmar’s Kachin state, near the border with China, is a global hub for rare earth minerals. But the dearth of regulations over mining these resources has come at a steep cost to the area’s subtropical and moist forests, according to researchers and satellite imagery collected by Mongabay. Civil society sources in the region, who requested […]

Synthetic Survival Data Generation for Heart Failure Prognosis Using Deep Generative Models
Chanon Puttanawarut, Natcha Fongsrisin, Porntep Amornritvanich, Cholatid Ratanatharathorn, Panu Looareesuwan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04245

Synthetic Survival Data Generation for Heart Failure Prognosis Using Deep Generative Models
Background: Heart failure (HF) research is constrained by limited access to large, shareable datasets due to privacy regulations and institutional barriers. Synthetic data generation offers a promising solution to overcome these challenges while preserving patient confidentiality. Methods: We generated synthetic HF datasets from institutional data comprising 12,552 unique patients using five deep learning models: tabular variational autoencoder (TVAE), normalizing flow, ADSGAN, SurvivalGAN, and…

Hybrid Horizons: Policy for Post-Quantum Security
Anais Jaikissoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02317 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02317

Hybrid Horizons: Policy for Post-Quantum Security
The Age of Artificial Intelligence is here. In 2025, there are few regulations governing artificial intelligence. While the expansion of artificial intelligence is going in a relatively good direction, there is a risk that it can be misused. Misuse of technology is nothing new and will continue to happen. The lack of regulation in artificial intelligence is necessary because it raises the question of how we can move forward without knowing what the limits are. While artificial intelligence domi…

Affective Computing and Emotional Data: Challenges and Implications in Privacy Regulations, The AI Act, and Ethics in Large Language Models
Nicola Fabiano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20153

Affective Computing and Emotional Data: Challenges and Implications in Privacy Regulations, The AI Act, and Ethics in Large Language Models
This paper examines the integration of emotional intelligence into artificial intelligence systems, with a focus on affective computing and the growing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Claude, to recognize and respond to human emotions. Drawing on interdisciplinary research that combines computer science, psychology, and neuroscience, the study analyzes foundational neural architectures - CNNs for processing facial expressions and RNNs for sequential data, such …

Google's Ad Transparency tool no longer shows any political ads, past or present, from any EU countries ahead of new EU ad transparency regulations (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/google-ad-transparency-european-union/

Google Just Removed Seven Years of Political Advertising History from 27 Countries
Ahead of the European Union's Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising, Google's Ad Transparency Center no longer shows political ads from any countries in the EU.

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.

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…

Modeling and Managing Temporal Obligations in GUCON Using SPARQL-star and RDF-star
Ines Akaichi, Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki, Sabrina Kirrane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04652

Modeling and Managing Temporal Obligations in GUCON Using SPARQL-star and RDF-star
In the digital age, data frequently crosses organizational and jurisdictional boundaries, making effective governance essential. Usage control policies have emerged as a key paradigm for regulating data usage, safeguarding privacy, protecting intellectual property, and ensuring compliance with regulations. A central mechanism for usage control is the handling of obligations, which arise as a side effect of using and sharing data. Effective monitoring of obligations requires capturing usage trac…

Achieving Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Under R\'enyi Differential Privacy for Fair and Private Data Generation
Tobias Hyrup, Emmanouil Panagiotou, Arjun Roy, Arthur Zimek, Eirini Ntoutsi, Peter Schneider-Kamp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21815

Achieving Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Under Rényi Differential Privacy for Fair and Private Data Generation
As privacy regulations such as the GDPR and HIPAA and responsibility frameworks for artificial intelligence such as the AI Act gain traction, the ethical and responsible use of real-world data faces increasing constraints. Synthetic data generation has emerged as a promising solution to risk-aware data sharing and model development, particularly for tabular datasets that are foundational to sensitive domains such as healthcare. To address both privacy and fairness concerns in this setting, we p…

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…

ACT: Agentic Classification Tree
Vincent Grari, Tim Arni, Thibault Laugel, Sylvain Lamprier, James Zou, Marcin Detyniecki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26433 https://

ACT: Agentic Classification Tree
When used in high-stakes settings, AI systems are expected to produce decisions that are transparent, interpretable, and auditable, a requirement increasingly expected by regulations. Decision trees such as CART provide clear and verifiable rules, but they are restricted to structured tabular data and cannot operate directly on unstructured inputs such as text. In practice, large language models (LLMs) are widely used for such data, yet prompting strategies such as chain-of-thought or prompt op…

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…

Google's Ad Transparency tool no longer shows any political ads, past or present, from any EU countries ahead of new EU ad transparency regulations (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/google-ad-transparency-european-union/

Google Just Removed Seven Years of Political Advertising History from 27 Countries
Ahead of the European Union's Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising, Google's Ad Transparency Center no longer shows political ads from any countries in the EU.

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…

OECD lists 1,300 AI regulations, guidelines, and other policies worldwide as of September 2025, up ~30% since 2022, but international cooperation has stalled (Naoki Watanabe/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Global web of AI rules grows 30% in 3 years as cooperation stalls
US, Europe and China pursue their own aims, leaving rest of world behind

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.