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DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-privacy-th

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-privacy-threshold-analysis-foia/

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Very sensible call for far more caution and a much needed reality-check on 'AI' adoption: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2019026272/oxford-professor-s-ai-disaster-warning

There’s a lesson here, perhaps, about the tangled relationship between what is •typical• and what is •correct•, and what it is that LLMs actually do:
When medical professionals ask medical questions in technical medical language, the answers they get are typically correct.
When non-professional ask medical questions in a perhaps medically ill-formed vernacular mode, the answers they get are typically wrong.
The LLM readily models both of these things. Despite having no notion of correctness in either case, correctness is more statistically typical in one than the other.
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Australia's online age restrictions take effect, requiring platforms to verify users are 18 before they can access content including porn and R-rated games (Ahmed Yussuf/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-09/privacy-c…

Age verification for R-rated games and websites raises privacy concerns
New online safety codes requiring R-rated games and websites to verify their users' ages come into effect, prompting concerns about online privacy.

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Japan’s loosening of its privacy laws in the name of AI competitiveness, bumper quarterly results from Asia’s biggest chip giants and Korea's response to soaring RAM prices.

In Japan it’s AI first, privacy last - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Japan’s loosening of its privacy laws in the name of ...

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DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Marsupials Previously Thought Extinct for 6,000 Years Discovered: ‘A once-in-a-lifetime discovery’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/marsupials-previously-thought-extinct-for-6000-years-discovered-a-once-in-a-lifetime-di…

Marsupials Previously Thought Extinct for 6,000 Years Discovered: ‘A once-in-a-lifetime discovery’
In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’

Tips I can give you from my experience as a musicial weirdo if you’re looking to redevelop a sense of intrinsic purpose and meaning:
Beware of leaning on extrinsic validation (winning a contest, getting a grant, getting a job) for your psychological well-being. Those things may be important for practical purposes, but psychologically they are all empty calories.
Three •good• sources of purpose and meaning in your work that can sustain you:
- your own sense of satisfaction in your work
- sharing work via meaningful, sustained human connections
- the sheer joy of making and doing

One advantage of being an artistic weirdo who makes completely commercially non-viable music is that I have a •lot• of practice forging that sense of purpose and meaning for myself when the world is aggressively not handing it to me.
Software development has been coasting on a wave of profitability / employability for several decades, and as a discipline perhaps has an underdeveloped sense of intrinsic purpose. Now is a good time to for us to redevelop that as a community, regardless of future job market prospects.