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Dstack: A Zero Trust Framework for Confidential Containers
Shunfan Zhou, Kevin Wang, Hang Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11555 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1…

Dstack: A Zero Trust Framework for Confidential Containers
Web3 applications require execution platforms that maintain confidentiality and integrity without relying on centralized trust authorities. While Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) offer promising capabilities for confidential computing, current implementations face significant limitations when applied to Web3 contexts, particularly in security reliability, censorship resistance, and vendor independence. This paper presents dstack, a comprehensive framework that transforms raw TEE technolo…

Trustworthy and Confidential SBOM Exchange
Eman Abu Ishgair, Chinenye Okafor, Marcela S. Melara, Santiago Torres-Arias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13217 https://

Trustworthy and Confidential SBOM Exchange
Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) have become a regulatory requirement for improving software supply chain security and trust by means of transparency regarding components that make up software artifacts. However, enterprise and regulated software vendors commonly wish to restrict who can view confidential software metadata recorded in their SBOMs due to intellectual property or security vulnerability information. To address this tension between transparency and confidentiality, we propose Pe…

‘Push back – or they’ll eat you alive’: James Cromwell on life as Hollywood’s biggest troublemaker https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/17/push-back-or-they-will-eat-yo…

EthicsMH: A Pilot Benchmark for Ethical Reasoning in Mental Health AI
Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11648 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1…

EthicsMH: A Pilot Benchmark for Ethical Reasoning in Mental Health AI
The deployment of large language models (LLMs) in mental health and other sensitive domains raises urgent questions about ethical reasoning, fairness, and responsible alignment. Yet, existing benchmarks for moral and clinical decision-making do not adequately capture the unique ethical dilemmas encountered in mental health practice, where confidentiality, autonomy, beneficence, and bias frequently intersect. To address this gap, we introduce Ethical Reasoning in Mental Health (EthicsMH), a pilo…

"Confidential Western Australian government report warns gas exports risk slowing Asia’s move to clean energy"
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Distributed Finite-Horizon Optimal Control for Consensus with Differential Privacy Guarantees
Yuwen Ma, Yongqiang Wang, Sarah K. Spurgeon, Boli Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11917

Distributed Finite-Horizon Optimal Control for Consensus with Differential Privacy Guarantees
This paper addresses the problem of privacy-preserving consensus control for multi-agent systems (MAS) using differential privacy. We propose a novel distributed finite-horizon linear quadratic regulator (LQR) framework, in which agents share individual state information while preserving the confidentiality of their local pairwise weight matrices, which are considered sensitive data in MAS. Protecting these matrices effectively safeguards each agent's private cost function and control preferenc…

The blueprint – How Lewis Powell’s confidential memo became the secret manifesto for corporate takeover.

The players – From Joseph Coors to Roger Ailes to Leonard Leo—and how they built a machine to dominate politics.

The turning point – The Citizens United case and how a speculative lawsuit became the legal scaffolding for unlimited dark money.

The threat today – Why disclosure laws are crumbling, how dark money came to dictate elections, and how the John…

MASTER PLAN: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America
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The Right to Communications Confidentiality in Europe: Protecting Privacy, Freedom of Expression, and Trust
Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius, Wilfred Steenbruggen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08247

The Right to Communications Confidentiality in Europe: Protecting Privacy, Freedom of Expression, and Trust
In the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides comprehensive rules for the processing of personal data. In addition, the EU lawmaker intends to adopt specific rules to protect confidentiality of communications, in a separate ePrivacy Regulation. Some have argued that there is no need for such additional rules for communications confidentiality. This Article discusses the protection of the right to confidentiality of communications in Europe. We look at the right's…

Proof of Cloud: Data Center Execution Assurance for Confidential VMs
Filip Rezabek, Moe Mahhouk, Andrew Miller, Stefan Genchev, Quintus Kilbourn, Georg Carle, Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12469

Proof of Cloud: Data Center Execution Assurance for Confidential VMs
Confidential Virtual Machines (CVMs) protect data in use by running workloads inside hardware-isolated environments. In doing so, they also inherit the limitations of the underlying hardware. Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), which enforce this isolation, explicitly exclude adversaries with physical access from their threat model. Commercial TEEs, e.g., Intel TDX, thus assume infrastructure providers do not physically exploit hardware and serve as safeguards instead. This creates a tension…

Universal share based quantum multi secret image sharing scheme
Dipak K. Rabari, Yogesh K. Meghrajani, Laxmi S. Desai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12979 https://

Universal share based quantum multi secret image sharing scheme
Image security for information has become increasingly critical as internet become more prevalent due to hacking and unauthorized access. To ensure the security of confidential image data, image encryption using visual cryptography plays a crucial role. To share multiple images using visual cryptography, the company organizer utilizes the concept of a universal or common share. Likewise, quantum computing is an emerging technology that facilitates secure communication. The ability of quantum co…