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Autobranche: Stellenabbau bei ZFs Antriebssparte
Der befürchtete Verkauf der "Division E" des Autozulieferers ZF Friedrichshafen ist vom Tisch, doch auf die Belegschaft kommen "harte Einschnitte" zu.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-02/cyber-group-extorting-executives-with-claims-of-stolen-data
Hackers Extort Executives After Claiming Oracle Apps Breach

Hackers Extort Executives After Claiming Oracle Apps Breach
Executives and technology departments at large organizations are being extorted by a notorious ransomware group that claims to have stolen their data from a suite of popular Oracle Corp. applications.

Disney agrees to pay $10M to settle an FTC complaint that alleges Disney failed to designate certain YouTube videos as being made for children (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/02/disney-ftc-settlement-lawsuit-youtube-video-child…

Exclusive: Disney will pay $10M to settle children's privacy lawsuit with FTC
Disney conceded it made an administrative error in how it characterized videos it uploaded to YouTube.

"[Scotland is] almost exactly as wealthy as the eurozone countries but we’re exporting wealth at twice the rate of even the most indebted poor countries. Can I get you to reflect on that – Scotland is rich like Europe but leaks wealth much, much worse than sub-Saharan Africa...
Since devolution, the cumulative total of the wealth we have exported is now well over £280 billion" -- Robin McAlpine

I Stolenly Swear That I Am Up to (No) Good: Design and Evaluation of Model Stealing Attacks
Daryna Oliynyk, Rudolf Mayer, Kathrin Grosse, Andreas Rauber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21654

I Stolenly Swear That I Am Up to (No) Good: Design and Evaluation of Model Stealing Attacks
Model stealing attacks endanger the confidentiality of machine learning models offered as a service. Although these models are kept secret, a malicious party can query a model to label data samples and train their own substitute model, violating intellectual property. While novel attacks in the field are continually being published, their design and evaluations are not standardised, making it challenging to compare prior works and assess progress in the field. This paper is the first to address…

Cornell Close to White House Settlement of Up to $100 Million (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/cornell-close-to-white-house-settlement-of-up-to-100-million
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p132#a250801p132

I also updated my newsletter
https://buttondown.com/seedling/archive/august-2025-update/
I am down to sending an email like every 4 months

Robert Saleh clarifies 'sign stealing' comments that sparked verbal altercation with Jaguars coach Liam Coen

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ro…

Cybercriminals are trying to extort executives with data allegedly stolen through Oracle tool https://therecord.media/possible-clop-campaign-extortion-executives-stolen-data

Put up a new batch of public domain image cutouts, this time focusing on transportation:
https://seedling.itch.io/modified-public-domain-art/devlog/1021855/new-images-transportation
These will look better if you're in light mo…