Abstract: Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly employed for data collection in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) owing to their flexibility and real-time operational capabilities. However, ...

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The TeamPCP hacking group continues its supply-chain rampage, now compromising the massively popular "LiteLLM" Python package on PyPI and claiming to have stolen data from hundreds of thousands of ...

This year has already seen the publication of notable short fiction collections, including Lauren Groff’s “Brawler,” Sydney Rende’s “I Could Be Famous,” Kim Samek’s “I Am the Ghost Here,” and Senaa ...

Abstract: Local differential privacy (LDP) provides lightweight and provable privacy protection and has wide applications in private data collection. Key-value data, as a popular NoSQL structure, ...

As AI becomes a part of everyday life—from writing assistants to smart home devices—it’s natural to have AI and privacy concerns, and to wonder how these tools gather and use personal information.

These are challenging times by any metric, but here’s something that’s also true: 2026 is shaping up to be a great year for books. Some of our most talented writers are delivering novels, nonfiction ...

One year after DeepSeek's R1 model triggered what Marc Andreessen called "AI's Sputnik moment," the regulatory dust has begun to settle — and the picture that emerges carries important implications ...

Google has agreed to a preliminary $135 million settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by Android users who accused it of harvesting their data without consent. The suit alleged that since ...

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. It's easy to ...

February 3, 2026: We’ve updated this post to include an analysis of the new microdata released at the end of January 2026. After several months of delay, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...