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https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88
“Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built …

How Silicon Valley enabled China's digital police state
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known. Firms including IBM, Dell, and Cisco sold billions in technology to Chinese police and government agencies, despite repeated warnings that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities. Critically, American surveillance technologies allowed a b…

Leveraging Blockchain and Proxy Re-Encryption to secure Medical IoT Records
Abdou-Essamad Jabri (UPJV, MIS), C. Drocourt (UPJV, MIS), Mostafa Azizi (UPJV, MIS), Gil Utard (UPJV, MIS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08402

Leveraging Blockchain and Proxy Re-Encryption to secure Medical IoT Records
The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare has revolutionized patient monitoring and data collection, allowing real-time tracking of vital signs, remote diagnostics, and automated medical responses. However, the transmission and storage of sensitive medical data introduce significant security and privacy challenges. To address these concerns, blockchain technology provides a decentralized and immutable ledger that ensures data integrity, , and transparency. Unlike public bloc…

Yeah, Jimmy “I’m actually quite in favour of business and capitalism and all that”* Wales, the surveillance capitalist and Fandom-president adtech man who once told me he doesn’t believe in any form of government regulation – not even in food standards or healthcare – can go fuck himself.
Find better heroes. Or even better yet, get over the whole stupid concept itself.
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A distributed routing protocol for sending data from things to the cloud leveraging fog technology in the large-scale IoT ecosystem
Mohammad Reza Akbari, Hamid Barati, Ali Barati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03524

A distributed routing protocol for sending data from things to the cloud leveraging fog technology in the large-scale IoT ecosystem
Fog computing integrates cloud and edge resources. According to an intelligent and decentralized method, this technology processes data generated by IoT sensors to seamlessly integrate physical and cyber environments. Internet of Things uses wireless and smart objects. They communicate with each other, monitor the environment, collect information, and respond to user requests. These objects have limited energy resources since they use batteries to supply energy. Also, they cannot replace their …

⛏️ Behind our screens: The truth about ‘artisanal’ mining and ‘natural’ technology
https://globalvoices.org/2025/10/05/behind-our-screens-the-truth-about-artisanal-mining-and-natural-technology/

Behind our screens: The truth about ‘artisanal’ mining and ‘natural’ technology
“It would be disingenuous to attempt to disentangle the human rights abuses connected to creating technologies from their environmental impacts.”

Strategic Analysis of Dissent and Self-Censorship
Joshua J. Daymude, Robert Axelrod, Stephanie Forrest
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03731 https://arxiv.org/p…

Strategic Analysis of Dissent and Self-Censorship
Expressions of dissent against authority are an important feature of most societies, and efforts to suppress such expressions are common. Modern digital communications, social media, and Internet surveillance and censorship technologies are changing the landscape of public speech and dissent. Especially in authoritarian settings, individuals must assess the risk of voicing their true opinions or choose self-censorship, voluntarily moderating their behavior to comply with authority. We present a…

Seems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/

Semantic Technologies in Practical Demand Response: An Informational Requirement-based Roadmap
Ozan Baris Mulayim, Yuvraj Agarwal, Mario Berg\'es, Steve Schaefer, Mitali Shah, Derek Supple
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01459

Semantic Technologies in Practical Demand Response: An Informational Requirement-based Roadmap
The future grid will be highly complex and decentralized, requiring sophisticated coordination across numerous human and software agents that manage distributed resources such as Demand Response (DR). Realizing this vision demands significant advances in semantic interoperability, which enables scalable and cost-effective automation across heterogeneous systems. While semantic technologies have progressed in commercial building and DR domains, current ontologies have two critical limitations: t…

Unpacking Maximum Extractable Value on Polygon: A Study on Atomic Arbitrage
Daniil Vostrikov, Yash Madhwal, Andrey Seoev, Anastasiia Smirnova, Yury Yanovich, Alexey Smirnov, Vladimir Gorgadze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21473

Unpacking Maximum Extractable Value on Polygon: A Study on Atomic Arbitrage
The evolution of blockchain technology, from its origins as a decentralized ledger for cryptocurrencies to its broader applications in areas like decentralized finance (DeFi), has significantly transformed financial ecosystems while introducing new challenges such as Maximum Extractable Value (MEV). This paper explores MEV on the Polygon blockchain, with a particular focus on Atomic Arbitrage (AA) transactions. We establish criteria for identifying AA transactions and analyze key factors such a…