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Neuerdings beschäftige ich mich musikalisch immer eine Woche lang mehr oder weniger mit einem Album, um damit an meine Jugendzeit anzuknüpfen, wo ich mir im Monat bestenfalls zwei neue Platten kaufen konnte und damit entsprechend viel Zeit verbrachte. Album der vergangenen Woche war "Vaudeville 8:45" der Band "The Trackers". Hauptakteure: die Jazzmusiker Gary Husband (dr, key) und Alf Terje Hana (git, key), das Album ist ein Jazzrock-Fusion-Feuerwerk.

Tip: When you use DuckDuckGo's web browser you can generate a free email address that forwards to an email address of your choice but also removes trackers along the way. Handy for subscriptions and "giveaways".

For each email you get a report on what trackers were removed.

https://duckduckgo.com/email

Evaluation of PID Performance at CEPC and Optimization with Combined dN/dx and Time-of-Flight Data
Dian Yu (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China), Houqian Ding (Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China), Yunyun Fan (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, Beijing, China), Yongfeng Zhu (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, Beijing, China), Ming Qi (Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China)

Evaluation of PID Performance at CEPC and Optimization with Combined dN/dx and Time-of-Flight Data
This work presents a comprehensive study of charged-hadron particle identification (PID) at the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC), based on full simulation of hadronic $Z$-pole events. A unified PID strategy is developed by combining energy loss measurements (dN/dx) from the time projection chamber (TPC) and time-of-flight (ToF) information from both the inner (ITK) and outer (OTK) silicon trackers. The PID discriminant is constructed using residuals between measured and expected obser…

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers https://www.404media.co/tiktok-shop-sells-viral-gps-trackers-marketed-to-stalkers/

Sources: the US secretly embedded location trackers in select AI chip and server shipments, including Dell and Super Micro, to detect illegal China diversions (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-embeds-track…

US embeds trackers in AI chip shipments to catch diversions to China, sources say
U.S. authorities have secretly placed location tracking devices in targeted shipments of advanced chips they see as being at high risk of illegal diversion to China, according to two people with direct knowledge of the previously unreported law enforcement tactic.
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Unter diesem Regime ist es sowas von unwahrscheinlich, dass diese Daten missbraucht werden.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/4-health-trackers-id-recommend-to-anyone-and-why-they-make-such-a-big-difference/

I would suspect that many birth-citizenship US citizens could not pass this citizenship test.
(I note that the USCIS website for citizenship test materials has many items blocked by Privacy Badger and Ublock Origin - in other words, the website has trackers, some of which are private companies.)
Just read the hogwash in this announcement:
"“American citizenship is the most sacred citizenship in the world and should only be reserved for aliens who will fully embrace our…

USCIS Unveils First Changes to Naturalization Test in Multi-Step Overhaul of American Citizenship Standards
Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services posted a Federal Register notice announcing implementation of the 2025 naturalization civics test.

When Trackers Date Fish: A Benchmark and Framework for Underwater Multiple Fish Tracking
Weiran Li, Yeqiang Liu, Qiannan Guo, Yijie Wei, Hwa Liang Leo, Zhenbo Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06400

When Trackers Date Fish: A Benchmark and Framework for Underwater Multiple Fish Tracking
Multiple object tracking (MOT) technology has made significant progress in terrestrial applications, but underwater tracking scenarios remain underexplored despite their importance to marine ecology and aquaculture. We present Multiple Fish Tracking Dataset 2025 (MFT25), the first comprehensive dataset specifically designed for underwater multiple fish tracking, featuring 15 diverse video sequences with 408,578 meticulously annotated bounding boxes across 48,066 frames. Our dataset captures var…

#Firefox sends marketing pushes
I don't get it... I use it daily, so you can't send me the thing second time!

from my link log —
AdBlock Tester: test your AdBlock extensions.
https://adblock-tester.com/
saved 2025-08-05 https://dotat.at/:/KG9P7…

Beyond Gaze Overlap: Analyzing Joint Visual Attention Dynamics Using Egocentric Data
Kumushini Thennakoon, Yasasi Abeysinghe, Bhanuka Mahanama, Vikas Ashok, Sampath Jayarathna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12419

Beyond Gaze Overlap: Analyzing Joint Visual Attention Dynamics Using Egocentric Data
Joint visual attention (JVA) provides informative cues on human behavior during social interactions. The ubiquity of egocentric eye-trackers and large-scale datasets on everyday interactions offer research opportunities in identifying JVA in multi-user environments. We propose a novel approach utilizing spatiotemporal tubes centered on attention rendered by individual gaze and detect JVA using deep-learning-based feature mapping. Our results reveal object-focused collaborative tasks to yield hi…

Har varit en sväng till Danmark i tre dagar. Nu är annonserna i mina paddar på danska och för danska företag. Tänk om säpo var lika effektiva som ad-trackers 😅

News sites with 100 ad-tech trackers running real-time advertising auctions based on compiled individual dossiers, writing stories about creepy resource-hungry AI.

Multi-State Tracker: Enhancing Efficient Object Tracking via Multi-State Specialization and Interaction
Shilei Wang, Gong Cheng, Pujian Lai, Dong Gao, Junwei Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11531

Multi-State Tracker: Enhancing Efficient Object Tracking via Multi-State Specialization and Interaction
Efficient trackers achieve faster runtime by reducing computational complexity and model parameters. However, this efficiency often compromises the expense of weakened feature representation capacity, thus limiting their ability to accurately capture target states using single-layer features. To overcome this limitation, we propose Multi-State Tracker (MST), which utilizes highly lightweight state-specific enhancement (SSE) to perform specialized enhancement on multi-state features produced by …

"I use arch" was born on bug trackers to cut short all of the question about software versions. "I use arch" basically meant "I already have everything updated, let's continue from there"
At least for me

White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says the US is exploring software or physical methods to track the location of AI chips, as part of AI Action Plan (Bloomberg)

Why do people link to comicsands.com? It is a website that is has more trackers than a golden stag on opening day of the hunting season.
My "privacy badger" and Ublock Origin plug-ins turn bright red should I visit that web site.

New results from fast timing iLGAD sensor on Timepix4
Daan Oppenhuis (on behalf of the Timepix4 telescope group)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09308 https://a…

New results from fast timing iLGAD sensor on Timepix4
With the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) the number of collisions per bunch crossing increases. To cope with these high rates in the pixel trackers, per-pixel time measurements are required, which implies the need for fast sensors. The inverse Low-Gain Avalanche Detector (iLGAD) is one of the fast sensor options that is being investigated. This paper will show the results of an inverse Low-Gain Avalanche Detector (iLGAD) with a pitch of 55 \textmu m, a thickness of 250~\textmu m …

The Impact of Device Type, Data Practices, and Use Case Scenarios on Privacy Concerns about Eye-tracked Augmented Reality in the United States and Germany
Efe Bozkir, Babette B\"uhler, Xiaoyuan Wu, Enkelejda Kasneci, Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09285

The Impact of Device Type, Data Practices, and Use Case Scenarios on Privacy Concerns about Eye-tracked Augmented Reality in the United States and Germany
Augmented reality technology will likely be prevalent with more affordable head-mounted displays. Integrating novel interaction modalities such as eye trackers into head-mounted displays could lead to collecting vast amounts of biometric data, which may allow inference of sensitive user attributes like health status or sexual preference, posing privacy issues. While previous works broadly examined privacy concerns about augmented reality, ours is the first to extensively explore privacy concern…

Every Keystroke You Make: A Tech-Law Measurement and Analysis of Event Listeners for Wiretapping
Shaoor Munir, Nurullah Demir, Qian Li, Konrad Kollnig, Zubair Shafiq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19825

Every Keystroke You Make: A Tech-Law Measurement and Analysis of Event Listeners for Wiretapping
The privacy community has a long track record of investigating emerging types of web tracking techniques. Recent work has focused on compliance of web trackers with new privacy laws such as Europe's GDPR and California's CCPA. Despite the growing body of research documenting widespread lack of compliance with new privacy laws, there is a lack of robust enforcement. Different from prior work, we conduct a tech-law analysis to map decades-old U.S. laws about interception of electronic communicati…

Hyperspectral Mamba for Hyperspectral Object Tracking
Long Gao, Yunhe Zhang, Yan Jiang, Weiying Xie, Yunsong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08265 https://ar…

Hyperspectral Mamba for Hyperspectral Object Tracking
Hyperspectral object tracking holds great promise due to the rich spectral information and fine-grained material distinctions in hyperspectral images, which are beneficial in challenging scenarios. While existing hyperspectral trackers have made progress by either transforming hyperspectral data into false-color images or incorporating modality fusion strategies, they often fail to capture the intrinsic spectral information, temporal dependencies, and cross-depth interactions. To address these …

CosinorAge: Unified Python and Web Platform for Biological Age Estimation from Wearable- and Smartwatch-Based Activity Rhythms
Jinjoo Shim, Jacob Hunecke, Elgar Fleisch, Filipe Barata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01089

CosinorAge: Unified Python and Web Platform for Biological Age Estimation from Wearable- and Smartwatch-Based Activity Rhythms
Every day, millions of people worldwide track their steps, sleep, and activity rhythms with smartwatches and fitness trackers. These continuously collected data streams present a remarkable opportunity to transform routine self-tracking into meaningful health insights that enable individuals to understand -- and potentially influence -- their biological aging. Yet most tools for analyzing wearable data remain fragmented, proprietary, and inaccessible, creating a major barrier between this vast …