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Big Bird: Privacy Budget Management for W3C's Privacy-Preserving Attribution API
Pierre Tholoniat, Alison Caulfield, Giorgio Cavicchioli, Mark Chen, Nikos Goutzoulias, Benjamin Case, Asaf Cidon, Roxana Geambasu, Mathias L\'ecuyer, Martin Thomson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05290

Big Bird: Privacy Budget Management for W3C's Privacy-Preserving Attribution API
Privacy-preserving advertising APIs like Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA) are designed to enhance web privacy while enabling effective ad measurement. PPA offers an alternative to cross-site tracking with encrypted reports governed by differential privacy (DP), but current designs lack a principled approach to privacy budget management, creating uncertainty around critical design decisions. We present Big Bird, a privacy budget manager for PPA that clarifies per-site budget semantics and in…

China's state radio has added 80 new frequencies since Radio Free Asia was cut, including those previously used by RFA, and increased its broadcasting hours (Washington Post)

Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia
Beijing expanded its state propaganda, including to the persecuted Tibetan and Uyghur minorities, as RFA pulled back.

Altman's iris-scanning orbs may have us in a privacy tizzy, but let's not forget that Zuck is hoping to recoup the $60B he lost on VR by gathering data in Meta's Ray-Bans—for AI, yes, but probably also to personalize ads you won't be able to look away from https://www.

I just installed Privacy Badger, a browser extension from @… that automatically learns to block invisible trackers https://privacybadger.org/

Privacy Badger

Ich wurde vom Falter zu dem geplanten Staatstrojaner interviewt: https://www.falter.at/zeitung/20250603/wie-pflanzt-man-einen-staatstrojaner-ein-herr-professor

Spionage-Software: Wie pflanzt man einen Staatstrojaner ein, Herr Professor?
Verfassungsschützer wollen die verschlüsselte Kommunikation von Terroristen überwachen können. Der Experte René Mayrhofer zweifelt an den Regierungsplänen und erklärt, was der Trojaner mit dem Schwarzmarkt zu tun hat

📣 Calling all GÉANT Project partners…
Got an idea for digital research, data transfer or secure storage solutions to support open science?
The 2025 GÉANT Above-the-Net Services Incubator is officially open for proposals!
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Develop and test your innovative idea
✅ Deliver impact to the whole community through new, shared, open-source services
✅ Help shape the future of GÉANT's Above-the-Net services portfolio
Learn more: …

GÉANT Project Above-the-Net Services Incubator: Call for Proposals | GÉANT CONNECT Online
The GÉANT (GN5-2) Project’s Above-the-Net Services incubator is looking for practical proposals around three areas of service concept investment being developed by the GN5-2 Above-the-Net Services team. These are: Digital Research Environment (DRE) Object Storage Infrastructure Data Movement Infrastructure Through the incubator, the GN5-2 project will offer person months (PMs) to project partners to develop

Raiders trade proposal adds Patriots $16 million starting defender https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-trade-proposal-adds-patriots-16-million-starting-de…

High-ranking federal officials have suggested that #birdflu virus should be left to "rip" through poultry farms across the U.S.
— but experts warn that this hands-off approach could hasten the beginning of a new pandemic

RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic.

UN scientists propose ‘minerals trust’ to power green energy, protect communities
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/un-scientists-propose-minerals-trust-to-power-green-energy-protect-communities/

Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/06/trump-radio-free-asia-cuts-china-propaganda/