California Bar No. 347496 · Los Angeles
StartupsEngineeringPrivacy
A startup lawyer for technology founders: entity formation, contracts, IP, and privacy counsel from an IAPP-certified attorney.
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Practice areas
Four verticals. One point of contact.
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Intellectual Property
U.S. Trademarks - Copyrights
U.S. trademark clearance, filing, and prosecution before the USPTO, plus copyright registration where it matters. International brands and foreign counsel: direct U.S. representation, foreign-associate rates by email.
Search the registers first
- USPTO trademarks ↗The federal register, free.
- Copyright records ↗The Copyright Office's records.
Flat legal fee$500+ USPTO filing feesscope confirmed at intake
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Entities
LLC - C-Corp - S-Corp - Nonprofit
Formation plus the governance documents needed to actually operate the company: operating agreement or bylaws and initial consents, EIN, ownership and capitalization basics, and initial state filings.
Start here, free
- Readiness checklist →Entity, IP, contracts, data.
- Name availability ↗Search California's register first.
Flat legal fee$500+ state filing feesscope confirmed at intake
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Data & Privacy
CCPA - CPRA - GDPR - AI governance
Privacy policies and notices, CCPA/CPRA and GDPR issue spotting, data governance, and AI governance from IAPP-certified counsel. Further work is scoped separately where your data practices or regulatory footprint require it.
Read the law first
- Privacy atlas ↗The maps: U.S., California, Europe.
Flat legal fee$500scope confirmed at intake
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Contracts
NVCA Series A - Drafting - Review
The NVCA model Series A financing set at a flat fee, plus NDAs, Terms of Service, services agreements, SaaS and licensing paper, and vendor contracts - drafted or reviewed and redlined against the deal you're actually doing.
Free, no engagement
- Free forms →Incorporation, SAFEs, the NVCA set.
Flat legal feefrom $100scope confirmed at intake
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How it works
Four steps, in order.
Step 0100
Tell me about your matter
A short questionnaire, scoped to what's reasonably necessary to evaluate the matter - nothing more.
Step 0200
Conflict check and scoping
A conflict check runs before anything substantive is discussed, then the scope and fee structure are confirmed.
Step 0300
Engagement letter, e-signed
A clear, written agreement with every required disclosure, signed before work begins.
Step 0400
Work begins
You get a direct line to the attorney handling your matter - not a triage queue.
About - 03
Attorney
Eric Adar Carver, Esq.
Trained at UC Berkeley School of Law (Law & Technology certificate, Berkeley Technology Law Journal). Advised the European Parliament in Brussels with the Center for Democracy & Technology on net neutrality, IP protection, and data privacy. Prior experience at Fenwick & West and Ballard Spahr on technology, IP, and privacy matters. Built compliance, terms of service, and privacy infrastructure at Squire Technologies for Apple Tap to Pay with Stripe, and led engineering as founder/CTO of Knowbody, Inc.
Certifications
CIPP/US
Certified Information Privacy Professional / United States
CIPP/E
Certified Information Privacy Professional / Europe
CIPM
Certified Information Privacy Manager
CIPT
Certified Information Privacy Technologist
Education & training
UC Berkeley School of Law
Juris DoctorBerkeley Technology Law Journal
PRO BONOLAW & TECHGEN AI
UCLA
B.A. of Philosophy
DEAN'S HONORSCLUB QUIDDITCH
Certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), not the State Bar of California. CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, and CIPT are certification marks of the IAPP.
Bar admission
California
State Bar No. 347496
Admitted in California only. This site does not represent admission in any other jurisdiction.
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What I read
Technology, as it lands.
Filings, decisions, preprints and launch reporting, collected nightly from public feeds. Every card opens at whoever published it.
SIGNAL / 100 HEADLINESCOLLECTED NIGHTLY
- newsResilience takes centre stage at the NAVISP Industry DaysResilience, maritime and drone applications, and alternative navigation technologies were on the menu of the sixth edition of the European Space Agency's (ESA) NAVISP Industry Days, which brought together over 350 parti…ESA · 22 Oct↗
- newsMMX Lifts Off on Mission to Explore Moons of MarsThe five-year mission will return samples from Mars’ moon Phobos and answer long-standing questions about the moon’s origin.Space Scout · 22 Oct↗
- newsHelp a lost lunar rover find its way in new ESA competitionA small rover is alone on the Moon, with no signal and no idea of its position. All it has is a panoramic camera and an aerial map of the Moon’s surface. The lunar night is fast approaching… can you help the rover find …ESA · 22 Oct↗
- newsNew Mexico wins $25bn ruling against Meta in privacy lawsuit - VerdictVerdict · 22 Oct↗
- newsESA Open Days 2026ESA Open Days 2026 welcomed over 23 000 visitors across its six establishments, giving the public the opportunity to discover more about Europe’s space activities, meet the people behind the missions and explore how ESA…ESA · 22 Oct↗
- newsESA Council approves appointment of two new directorsThe European Space Agency Council has approved the appointment of two new directors: Andrzej Banasiak as Director of Commercialisation and Industry Partnership, and Nicolaus Hanowski as Director of Space Operations.ESA · 22 Oct↗
- newsStars brewing in a nebulous cauldronFrom the ESA Blogs.ESA · 22 Oct↗
- newsMoon crane to take a load off lunar landersFrom the ESA Blogs.ESA · 22 Oct↗
- newsAPOD: 2026 October 22 – The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 22 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or phot…NASA · 22 Oct↗
- newsFires Char New GuineaEmissions on both sides of the island are unusually high as human-set fires spread in a landscape parched by drought.NASA · 22 Oct↗
- newsMeta Ordered to Pay Record $25 Billion in New Mexico Privacy Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal - Security BoulevardSecurity Boulevard · 22 Oct↗
- newsFaster to Science: A Letter to the Science CommunityNASA Science wants to deliver science faster, so we’re changing how we compete and select missions. On Monday, October 26, we will host a virtual NASA Science Town Hall.NASA · 22 Oct↗
- newsIntroducing Our New Surveillance Self-Defense Guide: Online Privacy for Parents and YouthThe internet is a vast and confusing place no matter your age. Trying to help youth engage with it safely and privately is a complicated topic that touches on many different skillsets and ideas. But just because it’s co…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 21 Oct↗
- newsInteroperability vs. Security: Why not both?An open internet where people can freely build, share, and remix each other's work is a powerful engine of grassroots innovation we’ve all benefited from. In recent decades, however, corporations have taken control…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion to New Mexico in Data-Privacy Case - WSJWSJ · 21 Oct↗
- newsSong Ga-in wins ‘Miari Pass’ copyright lawsuit as U.S. court dismisses case and warns against AI abuse - 스포츠조선스포츠조선 · 21 Oct↗
- newsEFF to Brazil’s ANPD: Data Privacy and Free Expression Must Underpin Platform RegulationsThe Brazilian National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) plays a pivotal role in the regulation of digital platforms according to new legislation approved in Brazil. Throughout this year, EFF has presented comments, filed s…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta fined $25bn for 'lies' over user data privacy - BBCBBC · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta hit with $25-billion penalty for misleading Facebook users about data privacy - Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times · 21 Oct↗
- newsAnthropic, music publishers square off on 'fair use' defense in AI copyright case - ReutersReuters · 21 Oct↗
- newsNASA Conducts RS-25 Engine Test in Support of Future Artemis MissionsNASA tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the developmental engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (5…NASA · 21 Oct↗
- newsChina readies first commercial resupply craft, first booster reflight, and next landing attemptAs its launch cadence continues to grow, China is stepping further towards reusable rockets as… The post China readies first commercial resupply craft, first booster reflight, and next landing attempt appeared first on …NASASpaceflight · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta ordered to pay $25 billion in user privacy case - Mashable SEAMashable SEA · 21 Oct↗
- newsNASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, ExplorationInterstellar probes. Lunar drones. Helicopters on Mars. When a group of Caltech graduate students and enthusiasts began conducting rocket-propulsion tests in Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco on Oct. 31, 1936, they had no idea tha…NASA · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta ordered to pay $25bn to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica data-privacy case - The GuardianThe Guardian · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and VideosABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos · 21 Oct↗
- preprintThink Harder Where It Matters: Item-Level Adaptive Recursion for Sequential RecommendationExisting sequential recommenders usually allocate a fixed computational budget to every item in a user's interaction history, regardless of the item's contribution to the final prediction. We challenge this de facto des…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintPhysiCalWorld: In-Context Physics Calibration for World ModelsExisting world models typically perceive a scene through current visual frame or a narrow history window. However, these observations may not reveal the physics properties that determine transition dynamics, such as an …arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintEnvironment Duels: A Microcosm of LLM Co-EvolutionThrough a tangle of real-world interactions, from synthetic training pipelines to data shared on the open web, frontier LLMs absorb what their predecessors and competitors create. How well does each model play its role …arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintThe End of Consensus Research?Consensus is a fundamental problem in distributed computing and at the core of state machine replication (SMR). Despite decades of active human research, discovering practical low-latency solutions to the problem is sti…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintQuant-Arena: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Quantitative Trading ResearchQuantitative research is an iterative loop: a researcher proposes a market hypothesis, implements it as an executable signal, tests it on historical data, and decides what to keep. Existing benchmarks score formulas, co…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintMultimodal Embodied Agents: A Unified Capability-centric Perspective from Computer-Use to Robot-UseMultimodal agents (MMAs) sustain interaction through reasoning, memory, tools, and feedback, most visibly as computer-use agents, while robotic systems (RSs) couple sensing and actuation under physical dynamics. We defi…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- newsEFF’s State Legislative Agenda to End ALPR Mass SurveillancePolice agencies across the U.S. have deployed Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) to capture images of passing vehicles along with time, date, and GPS coordinates. While the technology itself isn’t new (ALPRs have e…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 21 Oct↗
- preprintAsymmetric On-Policy Distillation Learns In-Context ExplorationSequential decision-making under partial observability is difficult because agents must explore to infer hidden, task-relevant information before acting effectively. Learning such information-gathering behaviors tabula …arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintBatchBench: Benchmarking AI Robustness to Batch Effects and Domain Shift in Biomedical Images - A JUMP Cell Painting LeaderboardDespite recent advances, current AI systems remain highly susceptible to domain shifts, particularly in biomedical imaging, where images are usually acquired under substantially different experimental conditions. Althou…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintDifferentially Private Sparse Reward Estimation with Preference FeedbackReinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) has become a central paradigm for aligning Large Language Models with human values. However, the reliance on sensitive preference data necessitates rigorous differential…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintAtomicRL: Atomic Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationVision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise in robotic manipulation, but imitation learning (IL) alone often struggles to master complex long-horizon skills. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers an effective av…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy Violations - The New York TimesThe New York Times · 21 Oct↗
- preprintVX-One: Typed, Calibrated Decision Heads for Real-Time Perimeter Triage - An empirical study of unknown-attack honesty, cascade gray zones, and calibration under driftPerimeter triage faces a latency/semantics trade-off: signature engines are fast and format-safe but blind to unseen attacks, while generative models are semantic but slow and produce unparseable output. In late 2026 a …arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintParallel AI Agent Collaboration as Graph-Structured Distributed Block OptimizationParallel AI agents can produce useful local edits yet degrade a shared solution when their edits are combined. We model this coordination problem as discrete block optimization with an exactly evaluable objective and a …arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty to New Mexico in data privacy case - ReutersReuters · 21 Oct↗
- preprintCharts as Epistemic Actions for Experience-Driven Agentic Data AnalysisData agents built on ReAct-style loops now execute complex analytical workflows over structured data, yet their intermediate reasoning still runs almost entirely through text. Human analysts instead move between numbers…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- newsAustralian Authors Push AI Copyright Law, 98% Agree [2026] - tech-insider.orgtech-insider.org · 21 Oct↗
- newsSpaceX will attempt to reach weekly Starship launches by early 2027"We have had significant constructive engagement with the FAA."Arstechnica · 21 Oct↗
- newsJefferson County Health Department Pays $2.25M to Settle Data Breach Lawsuit - The HIPAA JournalThe HIPAA Journal · 21 Oct↗
- newsNASA to Conduct NCAA Flyover, Engage Fans at University of AlabamaAs part of the agency’s Inspiration Tour, NASA will conduct a flyover at the University of Alabama vs. Texas A&M football game in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Saturday, Oct. 24. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will pilot o…NASA · 21 Oct↗
- preprintGhostFaceMPC: Privacy-Preserving Face Recognition with Multi-Party ComputationFacial recognition has become central to modern authentication systems, security frameworks, and personalized services. However, its widespread adoption is hindered by severe privacy risks, particularly surrounding unau…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintFree-XOR TFHE via Lazy BootstrappingGate bootstrapping (GB) is a widely used technique in FHEW-like fully homomorphic encryption schemes, such as TFHE, for evaluating Boolean gates while simultaneously reducing the noise of the resulting ciphertext. Howev…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- newsEFF Launches Guide to Help Parents and Youth Protect Privacy OnlineGuide Includes Easy, Quick Ways To Identify and Protect Against Online Threats SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published “ Online Privacy for Parents and Youth ,” a new guide to help familie…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 21 Oct↗
- preprintCommit or Abstain? System One Decision Models, LLMs, and Missing Legal AuthorityGiven the enormous number of claims to be checked, verifiable legal AI requires scalable, cost-effective models that answer the practical needs of law. System One decision models are built on large language models but, …arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- preprintPrivacy Preference Controls for Agentic SystemsIn response to vast and widespread online tracking, regulators and technologists alike have worked to develop laws and tools that allow people to express their privacy preferences. These measures seek to offer users gre…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- newsTracks Along the Longest Drive on Another WorldWritten by Vandi Verma, Chief Engineer for Robotic Operations at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Oct. 12, 2026 Since the last blog update, Perseverance has achieved a major milestone on Mars. On Sol 2006 (Oct. 11, 2026…NASA · 21 Oct↗
- preprintCharacterizing and Defending Utility-Hijacking in Instruction-Tuning Data SelectionInstruction-data selectors choose which instruction-following records are used for fine-tuning, improving alignment quality, raising training efficiency, and filtering out harmful records. A selector's choices thus dire…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- newsTechnoMile Recognized as a 2026 Inc. Power Partner Award WinnerTechnoMile, the leading AI solution that unifies growth, contracts, compliance, and security workflows, has been named a 2026 Inc. Power Partner Awards winner, recognizing the company among the leading B2B […] The post …SpaceNews · 21 Oct↗
- preprintCompaction Laundering: Provenance Destruction in Context-Compacting Coding AgentsCoding agents that run long enough must compact their context, summarizing the conversation, discarding the original, and carrying the summary forward as memory. We show that in popular open-source coding agents this st…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- newsScience on the Space Station with NASA Astronaut Jessica WatkinsNASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Jessica Watkins works inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox on Oct. 9, 2026, safely mixing living cell samples with a bioink and then filling a specia…NASA · 21 Oct↗
- preprintLinear Self-Symmetries of Inverse-Based S-boxes: Generic Rigidity and ApplicationsFinite-field inversion is a basic nonlinear building block in the design of S-boxes for symmetric cryptography. In inverse-based S-boxes, finite-field inversion is often combined with linear or affine layers that may pr…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- newsGlobal Satcom Services Revenues to Reach $145 Billion by 2035Paris, France | October 2026 – Global satellite services revenues are forecast to grow 44% to reach $145 billion by 2035, according to the 33rd edition of Novaspace’s Satellite Connectivity […] The post Global Satcom Se…SpaceNews · 21 Oct↗
- newsAirbus Ships First Lightweight Vulcain Aft Bay for Ariane 6 Block 2Airbus Netherlands has delivered the first lightweight Vulcain Aft Bay for Ariane 6 as part of the rocket’s Block 2 upgrades. The total weight reduction, however, appears to be more modest than originally anticipated. I…European Spaceflight · 21 Oct↗
- preprintWhere Do LLMs Learn to Recommend AI?Asked what to study, which career to pursue, or what product to build, large language models (LLMs) often recommend AI-related options. We ask where this tendency comes from by comparing models before and after fine-tun…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- preprintDo Flow-Generation Tools Matter? Unsupervised Characterization of MQTT Traffic Across Public DatasetsMessage Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is widely used in IoT environments due to its lightweight publish-subscribe design and suitability for resource-constrained networks. While current MQTT security studies mainly f…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintLocation-of-interest vs. Current-location Privacy in Multi-hop CommunicationConsider a standard multi-hop wireless radio network in which nodes relay messages for one another. While the contents of messages may be sensitive and thus encrypted, the very fact that two radios communicated can leak…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- newsSee Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic ImagesWinning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World competitions reveal the hidden interactions that govern everyday life. The post See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images first appeared on Quanta…Quanta Magazine · 21 Oct↗
- preprintThe Privacy Paradox Is a Misnomer: Data Under Structural UncertaintyThe infamous privacy paradox refers to the apparent inconsistency between people's stated concern for privacy and their readiness to disclose personal information. This phenomenon has sparked two largely disconnected li…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- preprintPrompt Injection Through Forensic Evidence: A Taxonomy and Proof of Concept of Anti-Forensic Attacks on LLM-Assisted Digital InvestigationsLarge language models (LLMs) are entering digital forensics as examination assistants and autonomous agents. Digital forensics inverts the usual setting for indirect prompt injection: the evidence under analysis is atta…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintBeyond Policy Engines: Binding-Complete Execution AdmissionPolicy engines determine whether evaluated policies permit a request, but a correct ALLOW decision does not establish complete governance-source participation, exact context binding, or sufficient grounds for execution …arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintVMSpec: A Decompiler-based Approach against Virtual Machine ObfuscationMalicious actors frequently obfuscate their code to hinder investigative reverse engineering efforts. Among the most formidable techniques is virtual machine (VM) obfuscation: programs are translated into bytecode for a…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintCertMoE: Robustness Certification for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs via Routing-Aware SmoothingProvable robustness is a cornerstone of trustworthy machine learning, aiming to guarantee model predictions under adversarial perturbations. Existing certification frameworks, inspired by abstract interpretation or symb…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintUncensored Is Not Unbiased: Abliteration Removes Refusals but Not Script-Dependent Bias About Taiwan"Abliterated" ("uncensored") builds of open-weight language models remove the activation direction that mediates refusal, and are popular partly on the assumption that a model that no longer refuses is also free of poli…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- preprintPolicy Central: Detecting Conflicts, Redundancy, and Similarity in Deployed Police PolicyPolicy Central is a deployed system that helps police departments find relationships between sections of their written policy: whether two sections conflict, are redundant, are merely similar, or are different. We descr…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- newsVB Assets LLC Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Roku in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware - 24-7 Press Release24-7 Press Release · 21 Oct↗
- preprintSituating Vulnerability: An Ethical Governance Framework for Anthropomorphic AI InteractionLarge language models increasingly address users in the register of care: they remember personal details, adopt a first-person emotional voice, and sustain relationships across many sessions. This anthropomorphic mode o…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- preprintTwo for One: Privileged Learning for Resource-Constrained ScreeningMachine learning systems are often developed under data-rich conditions but deployed when only incomplete information is available. A natural example arises in colour fundus photography (CFP), where both eyes are common…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- preprintFrom Canon to Nikon: Camera Domain Shift and Potential Equity Implications in Retinal AIDiabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of preventable blindness, yet access to regular screening remains limited worldwide. AI offers a scalable approach, but its performance can be sensitive to image quality and acqui…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- newsVictory! Court Rules OPM Data Disclosure to DOGE Is UnlawfulIn a victory for data privacy, a federal court in New York definitively ruled that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) violated the law when it disclosed millions of federal employee records to DOGE agents. In a su…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 20 Oct↗
- preprintAI Security Literacy: Ecosystem-based Competency Framework and K-12 Learning PlatformAdoption of artificial intelligence in K-12 schools has outpaced guidance for students, teachers, and administrators. Existing AI-literacy frameworks emphasize understanding and use; cybersecurity frameworks predate AI-…arXiv cs.CY · 20 Oct↗
- preprintArtificial Intelligence and Job Design: A Dynamic FrameworkThis study aims to deepen the understanding of artificial intelligence's (AI) impact on work by introducing and describing the AI-Job Dynamics Framework. Drawing from sociotechnical systems theory, complexity theory, an…arXiv cs.CY · 20 Oct↗
- preprintThe GenAI Who Knew Too Little: Revisiting Transactive Memory Systems in Human GenAI CollaborationGenerative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming knowledge work, creating new collaborative dynamics that challenge tradi-tional human-human interaction patterns. This study investigates how Transactiv…arXiv cs.CY · 20 Oct↗
- news$6M settlement reached in 23andMe data breach lawsuit - Mountain View VoiceMountain View Voice · 20 Oct↗
- newsMcDonald’s Israel sued for $1 million over alleged patent infringement - CTechCTech · 20 Oct↗
- federal registerMedicare Program; Implementation of Sections 6219, 6220, and 6224 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026This proposed rule would implement section 6219 (Adjustments to Medicare Part D Cost-Sharing Reductions for Low-Income Individuals), section 6220 (Requiring Enhanced and Accurate Lists of (REAL) Health Providers Act), a…Proposed Rule · Federal Register · 20 Oct↗
- newsRequire Police to Get a Warrant to Search ALPR DataThis post was co-written by Andi Cao , an EFF legal intern. Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are mass surveillance. They photograph every passing car and log where and when it was captured, building a searchable …Electronic Frontier Foundation · 19 Oct↗
- newsAnthropic sued by major Canadian news publishers for copyright claims in Ontario court - CBCCBC · 19 Oct↗
- newsAnnouncing Privacy Badger for Safari on macOSExciting news for Safari users: Privacy Badger is now available on Safari for macOS! You’ll need Safari version 26.5 or higher to use it. Whether you want to protect yourself from data brokers or just don’t want Big Tec…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 19 Oct↗
- discussionAI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train robotsHacker News · 19 Oct34↗
- newsEFF Launches Privacy Badger for Safari on macOSFree Tracker Blocker Used by Millions Will Protect Even More Users' Privacy SAN FRANCISCO—Privacy Badger, the award-winning tracker blocker made by the member-supported digital rights nonprofit Electronic Frontier …Electronic Frontier Foundation · 19 Oct↗
- newsAI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are “staggering.” The post AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? first appeared o…Quanta Magazine · 19 Oct↗
- newsChinese online retailer Temu agrees to data privacy curbs in Texas lawsuit - Companies - The Jakarta PostThe Jakarta Post · 17 Oct↗
- newsHe Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark ArtMoritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are fundamentally broken — but not unfixable. The post He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Da…Quanta Magazine · 16 Oct↗
- newsComcast Found Liable for $213M in Patent Infringement Suit - TVTechnologyTVTechnology · 16 Oct↗
- newsIn Memoriam: Barry SteinhardtBarry Steinhardt, a lifelong privacy champion and an early leader in the battle for digital civil liberties who served as EFF’s president in 1998-99, died last week at age 73. A Connecticut native, Steinhardt led the Ve…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 16 Oct↗
- newsOur Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration’s Social Media Surveillance Moves Forward. Here’s What the Court Said.No one should have to choose between speaking freely and protecting their immigration status. Yet that’s precisely the choice the Trump administration’s mass surveillance of online speech forces on noncitizens living in…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 15 Oct↗
- newsPRESS RELEASE: Voting Rights and Privacy Organizations Sue Trump-Vance Administration Over Secretive Collection of Millions of Americans’ Voter RecordsThe League of Women Voters, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s secretive and unl…Electronic Privacy Information Center · 15 Oct↗
- newsPRESS RELEASE: Voting Rights and Privacy Organizations Sue Trump-Vance Administration Over Secretive Collection of Millions of Americans’ Voter RecordsThe League of Women Voters, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s secretive and unl…Electronic Privacy Information Center · 15 Oct↗
- newsHow Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks in soil trade nutrients with plants, help keep carbon underground, and strike bargains without having a brain. The post How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy…Quanta Magazine · 15 Oct↗
- newsWe’re Asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to End Warrantless ALPR SearchesToday, EFF joined the ACLU of Wisconsin in filing a petition to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, asking it to rule that the state’s constitution requires a warrant for retrospective searches of ALPR databases used by law en…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 14 Oct↗
- newsTriplet of ‘Ghostly’ Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is — and Isn’tA collision may have left these galaxies without dark matter. That spells trouble for alternative gravity theories. The post Triplet of ‘Ghostly’ Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is — and Isn’t first appeared on Quant…Quanta Magazine · 14 Oct↗
- newsApple challenges Taction’s $5.7B patent verdict, says damages were based on ‘guesswork’ - 9to5Mac9to5Mac · 13 Oct↗
- newsUSA Today Hits OpenAI With $250 Million-Plus Copyright Lawsuit Over ChatGPT - Law CommentaryLaw Commentary · 12 Oct↗
- newsFirst Solar Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit - Ink World MagazineInk World Magazine · 12 Oct↗
- newsResilience takes centre stage at the NAVISP Industry DaysResilience, maritime and drone applications, and alternative navigation technologies were on the menu of the sixth edition of the European Space Agency's (ESA) NAVISP Industry Days, which brought together over 350 parti…ESA · 22 Oct↗
- newsMMX Lifts Off on Mission to Explore Moons of MarsThe five-year mission will return samples from Mars’ moon Phobos and answer long-standing questions about the moon’s origin.Space Scout · 22 Oct↗
- newsHelp a lost lunar rover find its way in new ESA competitionA small rover is alone on the Moon, with no signal and no idea of its position. All it has is a panoramic camera and an aerial map of the Moon’s surface. The lunar night is fast approaching… can you help the rover find …ESA · 22 Oct↗
- newsNew Mexico wins $25bn ruling against Meta in privacy lawsuit - VerdictVerdict · 22 Oct↗
- newsESA Open Days 2026ESA Open Days 2026 welcomed over 23 000 visitors across its six establishments, giving the public the opportunity to discover more about Europe’s space activities, meet the people behind the missions and explore how ESA…ESA · 22 Oct↗
- newsESA Council approves appointment of two new directorsThe European Space Agency Council has approved the appointment of two new directors: Andrzej Banasiak as Director of Commercialisation and Industry Partnership, and Nicolaus Hanowski as Director of Space Operations.ESA · 22 Oct↗
- newsStars brewing in a nebulous cauldronFrom the ESA Blogs.ESA · 22 Oct↗
- newsMoon crane to take a load off lunar landersFrom the ESA Blogs.ESA · 22 Oct↗
- newsAPOD: 2026 October 22 – The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 22 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or phot…NASA · 22 Oct↗
- newsFires Char New GuineaEmissions on both sides of the island are unusually high as human-set fires spread in a landscape parched by drought.NASA · 22 Oct↗
- newsMeta Ordered to Pay Record $25 Billion in New Mexico Privacy Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal - Security BoulevardSecurity Boulevard · 22 Oct↗
- newsFaster to Science: A Letter to the Science CommunityNASA Science wants to deliver science faster, so we’re changing how we compete and select missions. On Monday, October 26, we will host a virtual NASA Science Town Hall.NASA · 22 Oct↗
- newsIntroducing Our New Surveillance Self-Defense Guide: Online Privacy for Parents and YouthThe internet is a vast and confusing place no matter your age. Trying to help youth engage with it safely and privately is a complicated topic that touches on many different skillsets and ideas. But just because it’s co…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 21 Oct↗
- newsInteroperability vs. Security: Why not both?An open internet where people can freely build, share, and remix each other's work is a powerful engine of grassroots innovation we’ve all benefited from. In recent decades, however, corporations have taken control…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion to New Mexico in Data-Privacy Case - WSJWSJ · 21 Oct↗
- newsSong Ga-in wins ‘Miari Pass’ copyright lawsuit as U.S. court dismisses case and warns against AI abuse - 스포츠조선스포츠조선 · 21 Oct↗
- newsEFF to Brazil’s ANPD: Data Privacy and Free Expression Must Underpin Platform RegulationsThe Brazilian National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) plays a pivotal role in the regulation of digital platforms according to new legislation approved in Brazil. Throughout this year, EFF has presented comments, filed s…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta fined $25bn for 'lies' over user data privacy - BBCBBC · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta hit with $25-billion penalty for misleading Facebook users about data privacy - Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times · 21 Oct↗
- newsAnthropic, music publishers square off on 'fair use' defense in AI copyright case - ReutersReuters · 21 Oct↗
- newsNASA Conducts RS-25 Engine Test in Support of Future Artemis MissionsNASA tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the developmental engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (5…NASA · 21 Oct↗
- newsChina readies first commercial resupply craft, first booster reflight, and next landing attemptAs its launch cadence continues to grow, China is stepping further towards reusable rockets as… The post China readies first commercial resupply craft, first booster reflight, and next landing attempt appeared first on …NASASpaceflight · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta ordered to pay $25 billion in user privacy case - Mashable SEAMashable SEA · 21 Oct↗
- newsNASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, ExplorationInterstellar probes. Lunar drones. Helicopters on Mars. When a group of Caltech graduate students and enthusiasts began conducting rocket-propulsion tests in Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco on Oct. 31, 1936, they had no idea tha…NASA · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta ordered to pay $25bn to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica data-privacy case - The GuardianThe Guardian · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and VideosABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos · 21 Oct↗
- preprintThink Harder Where It Matters: Item-Level Adaptive Recursion for Sequential RecommendationExisting sequential recommenders usually allocate a fixed computational budget to every item in a user's interaction history, regardless of the item's contribution to the final prediction. We challenge this de facto des…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintPhysiCalWorld: In-Context Physics Calibration for World ModelsExisting world models typically perceive a scene through current visual frame or a narrow history window. However, these observations may not reveal the physics properties that determine transition dynamics, such as an …arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintEnvironment Duels: A Microcosm of LLM Co-EvolutionThrough a tangle of real-world interactions, from synthetic training pipelines to data shared on the open web, frontier LLMs absorb what their predecessors and competitors create. How well does each model play its role …arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintThe End of Consensus Research?Consensus is a fundamental problem in distributed computing and at the core of state machine replication (SMR). Despite decades of active human research, discovering practical low-latency solutions to the problem is sti…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintQuant-Arena: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Quantitative Trading ResearchQuantitative research is an iterative loop: a researcher proposes a market hypothesis, implements it as an executable signal, tests it on historical data, and decides what to keep. Existing benchmarks score formulas, co…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintMultimodal Embodied Agents: A Unified Capability-centric Perspective from Computer-Use to Robot-UseMultimodal agents (MMAs) sustain interaction through reasoning, memory, tools, and feedback, most visibly as computer-use agents, while robotic systems (RSs) couple sensing and actuation under physical dynamics. We defi…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- newsEFF’s State Legislative Agenda to End ALPR Mass SurveillancePolice agencies across the U.S. have deployed Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) to capture images of passing vehicles along with time, date, and GPS coordinates. While the technology itself isn’t new (ALPRs have e…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 21 Oct↗
- preprintAsymmetric On-Policy Distillation Learns In-Context ExplorationSequential decision-making under partial observability is difficult because agents must explore to infer hidden, task-relevant information before acting effectively. Learning such information-gathering behaviors tabula …arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintBatchBench: Benchmarking AI Robustness to Batch Effects and Domain Shift in Biomedical Images - A JUMP Cell Painting LeaderboardDespite recent advances, current AI systems remain highly susceptible to domain shifts, particularly in biomedical imaging, where images are usually acquired under substantially different experimental conditions. Althou…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintDifferentially Private Sparse Reward Estimation with Preference FeedbackReinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) has become a central paradigm for aligning Large Language Models with human values. However, the reliance on sensitive preference data necessitates rigorous differential…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- preprintAtomicRL: Atomic Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationVision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise in robotic manipulation, but imitation learning (IL) alone often struggles to master complex long-horizon skills. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers an effective av…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy Violations - The New York TimesThe New York Times · 21 Oct↗
- preprintVX-One: Typed, Calibrated Decision Heads for Real-Time Perimeter Triage - An empirical study of unknown-attack honesty, cascade gray zones, and calibration under driftPerimeter triage faces a latency/semantics trade-off: signature engines are fast and format-safe but blind to unseen attacks, while generative models are semantic but slow and produce unparseable output. In late 2026 a …arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintParallel AI Agent Collaboration as Graph-Structured Distributed Block OptimizationParallel AI agents can produce useful local edits yet degrade a shared solution when their edits are combined. We model this coordination problem as discrete block optimization with an exactly evaluable objective and a …arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- newsMeta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty to New Mexico in data privacy case - ReutersReuters · 21 Oct↗
- preprintCharts as Epistemic Actions for Experience-Driven Agentic Data AnalysisData agents built on ReAct-style loops now execute complex analytical workflows over structured data, yet their intermediate reasoning still runs almost entirely through text. Human analysts instead move between numbers…arXiv cs.AI · 21 Oct↗
- newsAustralian Authors Push AI Copyright Law, 98% Agree [2026] - tech-insider.orgtech-insider.org · 21 Oct↗
- newsSpaceX will attempt to reach weekly Starship launches by early 2027"We have had significant constructive engagement with the FAA."Arstechnica · 21 Oct↗
- newsJefferson County Health Department Pays $2.25M to Settle Data Breach Lawsuit - The HIPAA JournalThe HIPAA Journal · 21 Oct↗
- newsNASA to Conduct NCAA Flyover, Engage Fans at University of AlabamaAs part of the agency’s Inspiration Tour, NASA will conduct a flyover at the University of Alabama vs. Texas A&M football game in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Saturday, Oct. 24. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will pilot o…NASA · 21 Oct↗
- preprintGhostFaceMPC: Privacy-Preserving Face Recognition with Multi-Party ComputationFacial recognition has become central to modern authentication systems, security frameworks, and personalized services. However, its widespread adoption is hindered by severe privacy risks, particularly surrounding unau…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintFree-XOR TFHE via Lazy BootstrappingGate bootstrapping (GB) is a widely used technique in FHEW-like fully homomorphic encryption schemes, such as TFHE, for evaluating Boolean gates while simultaneously reducing the noise of the resulting ciphertext. Howev…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- newsEFF Launches Guide to Help Parents and Youth Protect Privacy OnlineGuide Includes Easy, Quick Ways To Identify and Protect Against Online Threats SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published “ Online Privacy for Parents and Youth ,” a new guide to help familie…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 21 Oct↗
- preprintCommit or Abstain? System One Decision Models, LLMs, and Missing Legal AuthorityGiven the enormous number of claims to be checked, verifiable legal AI requires scalable, cost-effective models that answer the practical needs of law. System One decision models are built on large language models but, …arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- preprintPrivacy Preference Controls for Agentic SystemsIn response to vast and widespread online tracking, regulators and technologists alike have worked to develop laws and tools that allow people to express their privacy preferences. These measures seek to offer users gre…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- newsTracks Along the Longest Drive on Another WorldWritten by Vandi Verma, Chief Engineer for Robotic Operations at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Oct. 12, 2026 Since the last blog update, Perseverance has achieved a major milestone on Mars. On Sol 2006 (Oct. 11, 2026…NASA · 21 Oct↗
- preprintCharacterizing and Defending Utility-Hijacking in Instruction-Tuning Data SelectionInstruction-data selectors choose which instruction-following records are used for fine-tuning, improving alignment quality, raising training efficiency, and filtering out harmful records. A selector's choices thus dire…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- newsTechnoMile Recognized as a 2026 Inc. Power Partner Award WinnerTechnoMile, the leading AI solution that unifies growth, contracts, compliance, and security workflows, has been named a 2026 Inc. Power Partner Awards winner, recognizing the company among the leading B2B […] The post …SpaceNews · 21 Oct↗
- preprintCompaction Laundering: Provenance Destruction in Context-Compacting Coding AgentsCoding agents that run long enough must compact their context, summarizing the conversation, discarding the original, and carrying the summary forward as memory. We show that in popular open-source coding agents this st…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- newsScience on the Space Station with NASA Astronaut Jessica WatkinsNASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Jessica Watkins works inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox on Oct. 9, 2026, safely mixing living cell samples with a bioink and then filling a specia…NASA · 21 Oct↗
- preprintLinear Self-Symmetries of Inverse-Based S-boxes: Generic Rigidity and ApplicationsFinite-field inversion is a basic nonlinear building block in the design of S-boxes for symmetric cryptography. In inverse-based S-boxes, finite-field inversion is often combined with linear or affine layers that may pr…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- newsGlobal Satcom Services Revenues to Reach $145 Billion by 2035Paris, France | October 2026 – Global satellite services revenues are forecast to grow 44% to reach $145 billion by 2035, according to the 33rd edition of Novaspace’s Satellite Connectivity […] The post Global Satcom Se…SpaceNews · 21 Oct↗
- newsAirbus Ships First Lightweight Vulcain Aft Bay for Ariane 6 Block 2Airbus Netherlands has delivered the first lightweight Vulcain Aft Bay for Ariane 6 as part of the rocket’s Block 2 upgrades. The total weight reduction, however, appears to be more modest than originally anticipated. I…European Spaceflight · 21 Oct↗
- preprintWhere Do LLMs Learn to Recommend AI?Asked what to study, which career to pursue, or what product to build, large language models (LLMs) often recommend AI-related options. We ask where this tendency comes from by comparing models before and after fine-tun…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- preprintDo Flow-Generation Tools Matter? Unsupervised Characterization of MQTT Traffic Across Public DatasetsMessage Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is widely used in IoT environments due to its lightweight publish-subscribe design and suitability for resource-constrained networks. While current MQTT security studies mainly f…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintLocation-of-interest vs. Current-location Privacy in Multi-hop CommunicationConsider a standard multi-hop wireless radio network in which nodes relay messages for one another. While the contents of messages may be sensitive and thus encrypted, the very fact that two radios communicated can leak…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- newsSee Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic ImagesWinning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World competitions reveal the hidden interactions that govern everyday life. The post See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images first appeared on Quanta…Quanta Magazine · 21 Oct↗
- preprintThe Privacy Paradox Is a Misnomer: Data Under Structural UncertaintyThe infamous privacy paradox refers to the apparent inconsistency between people's stated concern for privacy and their readiness to disclose personal information. This phenomenon has sparked two largely disconnected li…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- preprintPrompt Injection Through Forensic Evidence: A Taxonomy and Proof of Concept of Anti-Forensic Attacks on LLM-Assisted Digital InvestigationsLarge language models (LLMs) are entering digital forensics as examination assistants and autonomous agents. Digital forensics inverts the usual setting for indirect prompt injection: the evidence under analysis is atta…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintBeyond Policy Engines: Binding-Complete Execution AdmissionPolicy engines determine whether evaluated policies permit a request, but a correct ALLOW decision does not establish complete governance-source participation, exact context binding, or sufficient grounds for execution …arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintVMSpec: A Decompiler-based Approach against Virtual Machine ObfuscationMalicious actors frequently obfuscate their code to hinder investigative reverse engineering efforts. Among the most formidable techniques is virtual machine (VM) obfuscation: programs are translated into bytecode for a…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintCertMoE: Robustness Certification for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs via Routing-Aware SmoothingProvable robustness is a cornerstone of trustworthy machine learning, aiming to guarantee model predictions under adversarial perturbations. Existing certification frameworks, inspired by abstract interpretation or symb…arXiv cs.CR · 21 Oct↗
- preprintUncensored Is Not Unbiased: Abliteration Removes Refusals but Not Script-Dependent Bias About Taiwan"Abliterated" ("uncensored") builds of open-weight language models remove the activation direction that mediates refusal, and are popular partly on the assumption that a model that no longer refuses is also free of poli…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- preprintPolicy Central: Detecting Conflicts, Redundancy, and Similarity in Deployed Police PolicyPolicy Central is a deployed system that helps police departments find relationships between sections of their written policy: whether two sections conflict, are redundant, are merely similar, or are different. We descr…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- newsVB Assets LLC Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Roku in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware - 24-7 Press Release24-7 Press Release · 21 Oct↗
- preprintSituating Vulnerability: An Ethical Governance Framework for Anthropomorphic AI InteractionLarge language models increasingly address users in the register of care: they remember personal details, adopt a first-person emotional voice, and sustain relationships across many sessions. This anthropomorphic mode o…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- preprintTwo for One: Privileged Learning for Resource-Constrained ScreeningMachine learning systems are often developed under data-rich conditions but deployed when only incomplete information is available. A natural example arises in colour fundus photography (CFP), where both eyes are common…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- preprintFrom Canon to Nikon: Camera Domain Shift and Potential Equity Implications in Retinal AIDiabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of preventable blindness, yet access to regular screening remains limited worldwide. AI offers a scalable approach, but its performance can be sensitive to image quality and acqui…arXiv cs.CY · 21 Oct↗
- newsVictory! Court Rules OPM Data Disclosure to DOGE Is UnlawfulIn a victory for data privacy, a federal court in New York definitively ruled that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) violated the law when it disclosed millions of federal employee records to DOGE agents. In a su…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 20 Oct↗
- preprintAI Security Literacy: Ecosystem-based Competency Framework and K-12 Learning PlatformAdoption of artificial intelligence in K-12 schools has outpaced guidance for students, teachers, and administrators. Existing AI-literacy frameworks emphasize understanding and use; cybersecurity frameworks predate AI-…arXiv cs.CY · 20 Oct↗
- preprintArtificial Intelligence and Job Design: A Dynamic FrameworkThis study aims to deepen the understanding of artificial intelligence's (AI) impact on work by introducing and describing the AI-Job Dynamics Framework. Drawing from sociotechnical systems theory, complexity theory, an…arXiv cs.CY · 20 Oct↗
- preprintThe GenAI Who Knew Too Little: Revisiting Transactive Memory Systems in Human GenAI CollaborationGenerative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming knowledge work, creating new collaborative dynamics that challenge tradi-tional human-human interaction patterns. This study investigates how Transactiv…arXiv cs.CY · 20 Oct↗
- news$6M settlement reached in 23andMe data breach lawsuit - Mountain View VoiceMountain View Voice · 20 Oct↗
- newsMcDonald’s Israel sued for $1 million over alleged patent infringement - CTechCTech · 20 Oct↗
- federal registerMedicare Program; Implementation of Sections 6219, 6220, and 6224 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026This proposed rule would implement section 6219 (Adjustments to Medicare Part D Cost-Sharing Reductions for Low-Income Individuals), section 6220 (Requiring Enhanced and Accurate Lists of (REAL) Health Providers Act), a…Proposed Rule · Federal Register · 20 Oct↗
- newsRequire Police to Get a Warrant to Search ALPR DataThis post was co-written by Andi Cao , an EFF legal intern. Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are mass surveillance. They photograph every passing car and log where and when it was captured, building a searchable …Electronic Frontier Foundation · 19 Oct↗
- newsAnthropic sued by major Canadian news publishers for copyright claims in Ontario court - CBCCBC · 19 Oct↗
- newsAnnouncing Privacy Badger for Safari on macOSExciting news for Safari users: Privacy Badger is now available on Safari for macOS! You’ll need Safari version 26.5 or higher to use it. Whether you want to protect yourself from data brokers or just don’t want Big Tec…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 19 Oct↗
- discussionAI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train robotsHacker News · 19 Oct34↗
- newsEFF Launches Privacy Badger for Safari on macOSFree Tracker Blocker Used by Millions Will Protect Even More Users' Privacy SAN FRANCISCO—Privacy Badger, the award-winning tracker blocker made by the member-supported digital rights nonprofit Electronic Frontier …Electronic Frontier Foundation · 19 Oct↗
- newsAI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are “staggering.” The post AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? first appeared o…Quanta Magazine · 19 Oct↗
- newsChinese online retailer Temu agrees to data privacy curbs in Texas lawsuit - Companies - The Jakarta PostThe Jakarta Post · 17 Oct↗
- newsHe Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark ArtMoritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are fundamentally broken — but not unfixable. The post He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Da…Quanta Magazine · 16 Oct↗
- newsComcast Found Liable for $213M in Patent Infringement Suit - TVTechnologyTVTechnology · 16 Oct↗
- newsIn Memoriam: Barry SteinhardtBarry Steinhardt, a lifelong privacy champion and an early leader in the battle for digital civil liberties who served as EFF’s president in 1998-99, died last week at age 73. A Connecticut native, Steinhardt led the Ve…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 16 Oct↗
- newsOur Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration’s Social Media Surveillance Moves Forward. Here’s What the Court Said.No one should have to choose between speaking freely and protecting their immigration status. Yet that’s precisely the choice the Trump administration’s mass surveillance of online speech forces on noncitizens living in…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 15 Oct↗
- newsPRESS RELEASE: Voting Rights and Privacy Organizations Sue Trump-Vance Administration Over Secretive Collection of Millions of Americans’ Voter RecordsThe League of Women Voters, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s secretive and unl…Electronic Privacy Information Center · 15 Oct↗
- newsPRESS RELEASE: Voting Rights and Privacy Organizations Sue Trump-Vance Administration Over Secretive Collection of Millions of Americans’ Voter RecordsThe League of Women Voters, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s secretive and unl…Electronic Privacy Information Center · 15 Oct↗
- newsHow Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks in soil trade nutrients with plants, help keep carbon underground, and strike bargains without having a brain. The post How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy…Quanta Magazine · 15 Oct↗
- newsWe’re Asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to End Warrantless ALPR SearchesToday, EFF joined the ACLU of Wisconsin in filing a petition to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, asking it to rule that the state’s constitution requires a warrant for retrospective searches of ALPR databases used by law en…Electronic Frontier Foundation · 14 Oct↗
- newsTriplet of ‘Ghostly’ Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is — and Isn’tA collision may have left these galaxies without dark matter. That spells trouble for alternative gravity theories. The post Triplet of ‘Ghostly’ Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is — and Isn’t first appeared on Quant…Quanta Magazine · 14 Oct↗
- newsApple challenges Taction’s $5.7B patent verdict, says damages were based on ‘guesswork’ - 9to5Mac9to5Mac · 13 Oct↗
- newsUSA Today Hits OpenAI With $250 Million-Plus Copyright Lawsuit Over ChatGPT - Law CommentaryLaw Commentary · 12 Oct↗
- newsFirst Solar Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit - Ink World MagazineInk World Magazine · 12 Oct↗
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