1/4 In yet another act of shameless self-promotion, I want to share our new preprint: "Learning Nonlinear Dynamics: Improving the Estimation Efficiency and Reliability of Gaussian Process State-Space Models." Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2606.24691 Any feedback or suggestions are very welcome!

Learning Nonlinear Dynamics: Improving the Estimation Efficiency and Reliability of Gaussian Process State-Space Models

Understanding dynamic systems is a central goal in many scientific disciplines. State-space models provide a general framework for studying latent dynamic systems based on indirect observations. Howev...

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Across the globe lawmakers are trying to take away your right to be anonymous and have private conversations online. We're pushing back, but we need your support: eff.org/spring

Claw Back Your Privacy

Support free expression and fight the mass surveillance used for control and intimidation.

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Yes, VPNs can help you get around certain types of geographic restrictions, but it’s very important you do your due diligence before downloading one. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

Before you strap a dashcam to your face and sprint out into the world filming everything and everyone in your life, there are some civil liberties and privacy concerns to consider. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans

Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But in the past year,

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There are myriad ways that law enforcement can access the content or other metadata of push notifications. Let’s fix that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About

A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. And there are myriad ways that law enforcement can

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Let us know what to focus on in 2026 by answering our 5 min survey. All responses are anonymous. A better internet doesn't build itself. https://form.typeform.com/to/X98zpbtI

Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about how OpenAI’s missed revenue targets threaten the stability of the circular AI economy, and how token-based billing is increasingly costing as much as a human employee. youtu.be/fmK40iq-U6Y?...

AI bubble: How OpenAI’s missed targets threaten AI’s circular financing | Ed Zitron

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Solidarity with @accessnow.org. Thousands of participants from hundreds of organizations (including ours) were days away from gathering in Zambia to convene for RightsCon. At the last minute the PRC stepped in, objecting to participation from Taiwanese speakers. www.rightscon.org/rc26-stateme...

A statement to our community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

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"When an FBI agent wants to look through Americans’ conversations scooped up as part of a national security intelligence program," it should require "a warrant signed by a judge just as if they were trying to search your email account or your house,” @mguariglia.bsky.social told @njspotlightnews.org

Weighing privacy and security, Congress punts again on spying law | NJ Spotlight News

Digital surveillance net, intended to thwart subversive acts by foreigners, often sweeps up data on U.S. citizens

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Next week, Utah will become the first state in the nation (to our knowledge) to target VPN use to avoid legally mandated age-verification gates. They won't create a safer internet, only a significantly less private one. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Utah’s New Law Targeting VPNs Goes Into Effect Next Week

For the last couple of years, we’ve watched the same predictable cycle play out across the globe: a state (or country) passes a clunky age-verification mandate, and, without fail, Virtual Private

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Transaction Denied, a new book by former EFF Activism Director Rainey Reitman, explores the often-hidden practice of financial companies shuttering the accounts of online speakers who haven’t broken any laws. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Former EFF Activism Director's New Book, Transaction Denied, Explores

Transaction Denied sheds new light on a serious problem that often hides in the shadows, and pushes us to ask an increasingly important question: “Is it ever OK for financial intermediaries to act as

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“We know that information that's been anonymized can very easily be reidentified,” EFF’s Tori Noble told @proofnews.bsky.social. “[HIPAA] is not enough protection.” www.proofnews.org/womans-talk...

Woman’s Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court

Talkspace has amassed “one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,” according to reports to investors, containing 140 million message exchanges.

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Some states are amending public records laws to exclude broad swaths of ALPR information from public disclosure. No thanks. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Open Records Laws Reveal ALPRs’ Sprawling Surveillance. Now States

Reporters, community advocates, EFF, and others have used public records laws to reveal and counteract abuse, misuse, and fraudulent narratives around how law enforcement agencies across the country

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When Kierkegaard Got Cancelled Mocked by Copenhagen’s most notorious scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of deeply personal attacks & the silence of friends and allies By Daniel Goodman www.plough.com/en/topics/fa... Kierkegaard at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #Books #Literature

🧵1️⃣/4️⃣ Government information is public memory – and it needs protecting. The Preservation of Government Information: A Call to Action urges institutions and individuals to commit to preserving the public record. Read it. Sign it. Share it. 📝 publicinformationtrust.org

EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social joined @kqednews.kqed.org’s “Close All Tabs” to discuss how her cybersecurity background let her help survivors of stalkerware abuse, and how activists & researchers are beginning to turn the tide against a sprawling, largely hidden industry. www.kqed.org/news/120817...

Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware | KQED

In 2018, researcher Eva Galperin made a discovery about a colleague. He had been sexually abusing women for decades, and threatening to expose their private information using “stalkerware” — hidden applications that allow people to spy on another person’s private life through their mobile device. This set Eva on a new path. She went on to found the Coalition Against Stalkerware, a network of researchers and advocacy groups working to limit the spread of stalkerware and support survivors of tech-

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We're figuring out how to dissenshitify the internet with Cory Doctorow! Join us on May 14 to find out how to make the internet better for not just yourself, but for everyone. www.eff.org/event/effec...

EFFecting Change: How to Disenshittify the Internet

The internet didn’t get worse by accident; it’s been systematically molded into what we have today. Join Wendy Liu live in conversation with Cory Doctorow about Cory's latest book, Enshittification.

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ORG calls on the ICO "to begin a formal investigation into data protection breaches and accessibility issues with the [eVisa] scheme." “Migrants are being failed by the Home Office, which didn’t properly assess the risks of a digital-only roll-out." 🗣️ ORG's @sarahalsherif.bsky.social. Read more ⬇️

UK data watchdog accused of dragging feet on eVisa investigation | Computer Weekly

Despite longstanding data protection issues with the Home Office’s electronic visa system being flagged five months ago, the UK’s data regulator is yet to take any action

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What If Cephalopods Are the Closest Thing to Alien Intelligence? What if the most profound encounter with a truly alien intelligence isn’t light-years away, but lurking beneath the waves of our oceans and seas? www.thecollector.com/cephalopods-... #cephalopods #animals

👀 Big Tech is watching you! But with some simple steps you can improve your privacy. Here's how to use end-to-end encryption in Murena's Password Manager.

So after a little under a year and a half of people telling me that Stargate was a “$500bn project backed by the US government” it comes out that it “maybe never really existed,” just like I always said

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Sources: OpenAI has, in practice, abandoned its Stargate JV in favor of large bilateral deals; execs say its guiding principle remains to "build more compute" (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Privacy isn't about hiding something, EFF's Cindy Cohn said when discussing her book Privacy's Defender at Georgetown University. “It’s really about making sure others don’t get to control your life,” she said. Read more about Cohn’s talk: thehoya.com/science/sur....

Surveillance Expert Examines Data Privacy, Autonomy, and Power

An expert on digital surveillance argued that data privacy is essential to maintaining individual autonomy in the digital age at a Georgetown University event April 10. Cindy Cohn…

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Every single quote like this is so far removed from reality that they may as well be talking about necromancy

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Jesus Christ, this is more dystopic than anything Philip K Dick ever wrote but it’s what the Russo Brothers want for your AI Slop future

A bill moving in Congress this week would require ID checks for all internet users, just to use many online tools, and could lock minors out entirely. The GUARD Act is a sweeping age-gating mandate. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The GUARD Act Isn’t Targeting Dangerous AI—It’s Blocking Everyday

Lawmakers in Congress are moving quickly on the GUARD Act, an age-gating bill restricting minors’ access to a wide range of online tools, with a key vote expected this week. The proposal is framed as

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News: The Information reports that OpenAI projects its $20-a-month ChatGPT Plus subscriptions will drop from 44 Million subscribers in 2025 to 9 million subscribers in 2026. It claims it will make the difference up by getting 102M new "ChatGPT Go" subscribers. www.wheresyoured.at/openai-proje...

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 3mo ago

What a peculiar article! Says 112m paid subs at the $5-a-month tier up from *THREE MILLION* in 2025, but also $20-a-month subscribers will decrease by *80%* from 44M to 9m? I dunno this reads to me like OpenAI is churning its $20-a-month subs! www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

When California leads, other states follow—especially on tech. We can’t let California lead the U.S. into an unconstitutional social media ban that destroys privacy and harms youth. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Act Now to Stop California’s Paternalistic and Privacy-Destroying

California lawmakers are fast-tracking A.B. 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before

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First time AI has brought me any joy only because you know how annoyed they are that this keeps happening

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3mo ago

OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures (Will Knight/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The Ghostty founder is leaving GitHub When you read his blog post, I want you to keep this image in your mind mitchellh.com/writing/ghos...

Parliament continues to pursue an approach to online safety that doesn't work. The Australian under-16 social media ban has failed to make any difference and people have sought ways around it. Digital ID age checks come at the cost of everyone's privacy and free expression. The math ain't mathing.

Most Australian teens admit the social media ban isn’t working as they try to sidestep age verification blocks with face masks and their parents’ IDs

A new survey found more than 60% of Australian kids between 12 and 15 are still using at least one social media platform following a ban implemented last year.

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