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A Tight Context-aware Privacy Bound for Histogram Publication
Sara Saeidian (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Inria Saclay), Ata Yavuzy{\i}lmaz (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Leonhard Grosse (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Georg Schuppe (SEBx), Tobias J. Oechtering (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508…

A Tight Context-aware Privacy Bound for Histogram Publication
We analyze the privacy guarantees of the Laplace mechanism releasing the histogram of a dataset through the lens of pointwise maximal leakage (PML). While differential privacy is commonly used to quantify the privacy loss, it is a context-free definition that does not depend on the data distribution. In contrast, PML enables a more refined analysis by incorporating assumptions about the data distribution. We show that when the probability of each histogram bin is bounded away from zero, stronge…

Holographic lasing with dielectric metasurfaces
Ayesheh Bashiri (Institute of Solid-State Physics, Friedrich Schiller University, Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich Schiller University), Aleksandr Vaskin (Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich Schiller University), Muyi Yang (Institute of Solid-State Physics, Friedrich Schiller University, Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich Schiller University, Max Planck School of Photonics), Katsuya Tanaka (Institute of Solid-State Physics…

Holographic lasing with dielectric metasurfaces
Light-emitting metasurfaces provide a compact, integrated solution for simultaneous light generation and beam shaping, making them a promising candidate for advanced photonic applications. However, existing approaches for tailoring far-field emission patterns primarily operate in the spontaneous emission regime, where low coherence limits precise light control. Here, we present a light-emitting metasurface system with holographic lasing output, composed of a binary-structured metasurface integr…

In Oxford for the Humanities and Data Science group AGM and public panel: what have the humanities and data science achieved in collaboration?
Our last event as an Alan Turing Institute group!
https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.u

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

The @… team is hosting an event in London again. Meet at the ARIA offices and hear about building new tools for science.
Ink & Switch is hosting another Social in London on Nov. 11th at the Alan Turing Institute. I'll share some early scientific work in Patchwork, & Marcel will give a peek at the Playbook…

Ink & Switch London: Building new tools for Science · Luma
Ink & Switch's mission is to help computers become better tools for thought. We believe that the promise of computers as "intelligence amplifiers" or "bicycles…

«The UK public doesn’t trust AI — the Tony Blair Institute is very worried!»
Looks like a good part of the UK's public has the good sense to neither trust Tony Blair nor LLMs 😂
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/22/the-uk-public-doesnt-trust-ai-the-tony-blair-institute-is-very-worried/

An interview with Dzaky Putra, editor-in-chief of Indonesian political news outlet WIUI, which shares news with its Gen Z audience using a casual tone and memes (Matthew Leake/Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a

Fundamental Noise and Gravitational-Wave Sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA)
Teviet Creighton (South Texas Space Science Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), Philippe Lognonn\'e (Universit\'e Paris Cit\'e, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris), Mark P. Panning (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), James Trippe (Vanderbilt Lunar Labs Initiative, Vanderbilt University), Volker Quetschke (South Texas Space Science Institute, University of Texas …

"Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals"
#FossilFuels #Cliamte #ClimateChange

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals
The countries participating in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), currently taking place in Brazil, must cancel fossil fuel concessions in order to keep the Paris Agreement alive. This is the main message of a paper published in the journal Nature and signed by experts Martí Orta, Gorka Muñoa and Marcel Llavero, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and Guillem Rius, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (IS…

🐠 3D-printed helix shelters increase baby coral survival rates
#coral

3D-printed helix shelters increase baby coral survival rates
To dramatically increase coral survival rates, scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) have developed innovative 3D-printed ceramic structures that provide crucial protection for baby corals. These new designs offer a low-cost and scalable solution to enhance reef recovery worldwide.

Why do people hate?
#politics

Why do people hate? | CBC Radio
Even in the name of love, we can justify hatred, even murder, of the other. But why do we hate others? Scholars from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) have identified a list of 10 reasons why one group may hate another group. They also have suggestions on how to break the cycle of hate.