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Yesterday evening, Tesla reported first-quarter earnings for 2025, and they were abysmal: Profits dropped 71 percent from the same time last year.

Musk sounded bitter on the call with investors that followed, blaming the company’s misfortune on protesters who have raged at Tesla dealerships around the world over his role running DOGE and his ardent support of far-right politicians.

“The protests that you’ll see out there, they’re very organized. They’re paid for,” he said, without evidence.

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Brave Software, das Unternehmen hinter dem gleichnamigen Browser, wurde von Brendan Eich gegründet. Er ist vor allem als Erfinder von JavaScript aus seiner Zeit bei Netscape Communications bekannt und war später Mitbegründer von Mozilla. Er blieb bis weit in die 2000er Jahre bei der Mozilla Foundation und deren gewinnorientiertem Teil, der Mozilla Corporation. Im Jahr 2014 wurde er zum CEO der Mozilla Corporation ernannt, was zumindest bei einigen wenigen Personen innerhalb von Mozilla und bei vielen Personen außerhalb des Unternehmens sofort zu Gegenreaktionen führte.

Warum war die Ernennung von Eich zum CEO so umstritten? Weil er 2008 1.000 Dollar zur Unterstützung der kalifornischen Proposition 8 gespendet hatte, einer vorgeschlagenen Änderung der kalifornischen Verfassung zum Verbot der gleichgeschlechtlichen Ehe. Eich schrieb 2012, als die Spende entdeckt wurde, einen Blogbeitrag, in dem er sich verteidigte, sich nicht entschuldigte und bestritt, dass die Spende ihn zu einem Fanatiker mache. [...]

Data collection is ubiquitous. Data are useful for a variety of purposes, from supporting research to helping allocate political representation. It benefits society to enable data use for such purposes, but it’s also important to protect people’s privacy in the process. Organizations across industry and government are increasingly turning to differential privacy (DP), an approach to privacy-preserving data analysis that limits how much information about an individual is learned from an analysis. Chances are DP has been used to provide a privacy guarantee for an analysis of your data: Companies like Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Uber, as well as government agencies like the U.S. Census Bureau have all used it in the past several years.

Not all differential privacy systems are created equal, though. The strength of privacy protections offered by DP depends on a “privacy loss budget” parameter, called epsilon. Epsilon is a measure of the amount of information “leaked” about individuals from the use of their data. This value can be chosen to be anything from zero to infinity, where smaller epsilon values correspond to stronger levels of privacy protections. Privacy protections can vary wildly according to how epsilon is set: bigger epsilons can leak much more information about individuals. For example, when epsilon is 0.1, an observer or attacker is 1.1 times more likely to learn something about you, compared to if they had never seen your data. If epsilon is 10, this becomes 22,000 times more likely. Despite epsilon’s importance as an indicator of privacy risk, it is seldom communicated to the people whose personal data are used by technology companies and other large organizations. This is in part because epsilon is difficult to reason about, even among experts. It is a unitless and contextless parameter, making it challenging to map onto real-world outcomes. Furthermore, it specifies probabilistic guarantees, meaning people must reason under uncertainty to fully grasp its implications. However, not explaining epsilon to people who are deciding whether to share their data under DP leaves them ill-informed about the protections that are being offered.

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Data collection is ubiquitous. Data are useful for a variety of purposes, from supporting research to helping allocate political representation. It benefits society to enable data use for such purposes, but it’s also important to protect people’s privacy in the process. Organizations across industry and government are increasingly turning to differential privacy (DP), an approach to privacy-preserving data analysis that limits how much information about an individual is learned from an analysis. Chances are DP has been used to provide a privacy guarantee for an analysis of your data: Companies like Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Uber, as well as government agencies like the U.S. Census Bureau have all used it in the past several years.

Not all differential privacy systems are created equal, though. The strength of privacy protections offered by DP depends on a “privacy loss budget” parameter, called epsilon. Epsilon is a measure of the amount of information “leaked” about individuals from the use of their data. This value can be chosen to be anything from zero to infinity, where smaller epsilon values correspond to stronger levels of privacy protections. Privacy protections can vary wildly according to how epsilon is set: bigger epsilons can leak much more information about individuals. For example, when epsilon is 0.1, an observer or attacker is 1.1 times more likely to learn something about you, compared to if they had never seen your data. If epsilon is 10, this becomes 22,000 times more likely. Despite epsilon’s importance as an indicator of privacy risk, it is seldom communicated to the people whose personal data are used by technology companies and other large organizations. This is in part because epsilon is difficult to reason about, even among experts. It is a unitless and contextless parameter, making it challenging to map onto real-world outcomes. Furthermore, it specifies probabilistic guarantees, meaning people must reason under uncertainty to fully grasp its implications. However, not explaining epsilon to people who are deciding whether to share their data under DP leaves them ill-informed about the protections that are being offered.

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The original was posted on /r/nosleep by /u/_Marvin35 on 2025-04-23 16:07:24+00:00.

I haven’t told anyone this. Not my family, not my friends. I’m not even sure why I’m writing it down here. I guess I just need someone to believe me. Or at least, to read this before it happens again tonight.

It’s been exactly one year since my younger brother Elias died.

He was three years younger than me, but always seemed older. Calmer, kinder, more grounded. While I was the loud one, the one who pushed boundaries, Elias was the type to read in silence, to smile without needing a reason.

The cancer hit fast. Acute leukemia. The doctors didn’t sugarcoat it. They gave us a few months, maybe. But in the end, it was barely eight weeks.

I spent most of that time with him. I helped him eat when he couldn’t lift his arms, held his hand when he was too weak to speak, tried to joke around just to make him laugh. In the final hours, when he was barely there, he looked right at me. Not scared. Not sad.

Just… knowing.

“Don’t stay alone,” he whispered.

That was the last thing he ever said.

After that, everything shut down. There was a flatline on the monitor, a few soft words from the nurse, and then nothing. The world just... stopped.

I didn’t cry much. Not at first. I think part of me refused to believe he was really gone. I disconnected from everything—school, friends, routines. I slept all day, stayed awake all night, barely ate. I thought maybe the silence would help me process it.

Instead, it left space for something else.

The first time I heard his voice again, it was around 3 a.m. I hadn’t been asleep—just lying there, staring at the ceiling, the window cracked open to let in the late October wind.

“Are you there?”

It was faint. Soft. Coming from the hallway.

I froze. Not because I was afraid, but because I knew that voice.

I got up, opened the door, turned on the lights—nothing. Every door was locked. Windows closed. No sound except my own heartbeat.

The next night, it happened again. Same time. Same voice.

“Are you there?”

I told myself it was a trick of memory. Auditory hallucinations. Lack of sleep. That made sense… right?

But the voice kept coming back. Every night, at 3 a.m. sharp.

And then the footsteps started.

Soft, deliberate steps across the hallway floor, stopping just outside my bedroom. Never louder than a whisper, but impossible to ignore.

Eventually, I started locking my door at night. I played white noise, music, anything. Sometimes I’d fall asleep with a podcast playing just to drown it out. But none of it worked. The sound always cut through. Always him.

Then came the knocking.

Three soft taps. Then his voice, closer now:

“Please. Open the door.”

It never sounded threatening. Not angry or vengeful. Just… pleading. Almost sad.

I told myself I wouldn’t give in. I wasn’t going to open the door. I wasn’t going to play into whatever this was—grief, trauma, madness.

But it didn’t stop.

Then it got worse.

I started finding things around the apartment—objects I hadn’t seen in years. Stuff I knew was in a box on the attic, sealed and forgotten.

A small, worn-out toy dinosaur on the windowsill. His favorite, the one he carried everywhere as a kid.

A half-drunk Capri Sun on the kitchen table—wild cherry, the exact flavor he used to beg Mom to buy.

Each day, something new. Each night, his voice.

Like the past was leaking into the present. Or something was trying to lure me back.

Last night, I found his old diary on my desk.

It had gone with him to the hospital. I’d packed it in his bag. He never wrote much in it, but it was something that brought him comfort. It never came back home with us. I’m absolutely certain of that.

And yet, there it was.

Dusty. Locked. Familiar.

I opened it.

Only one sentence had been added, written in a shaky but unmistakable hand on the last page:

“I found a place for you.”

That’s when I knew this wasn’t just memory. This wasn’t just grief. Something was actively reaching out.

I’ve tried everything. I left town. Booked hotel rooms. Stayed with friends. I even rented a cabin hours away, in the middle of nowhere, and turned off my phone. But no matter where I go—at 3 a.m., I hear him.

Even when I’m awake.

Even when I know he can’t possibly be there.

And every night, his voice changes. Just a little. Subtle at first. A slightly slower rhythm. A flatter tone. Like a recording wearing down. Like a mask slowly slipping.

If it’s really Elias…

Why does he sound less and less like himself with every visit?

Tonight is the anniversary of his death. One full year.

And I’m hearing him already.

No waiting for 3 a.m. this time. He’s early.

I hear footsteps in the hallway. Slower than usual.

More deliberate.

Closer.

Then the whisper.

“Please.”

“Open the door.”

I shouldn’t. I know I shouldn’t. Every part of me screams not to.

But something inside me is whispering that tonight is different. That if I open it now, it might finally end. That maybe I’ll see him. Just one more time. That maybe…

Maybe it won’t stop unless I do.

I’m standing up now.

I’m walking to the door.

My hand is on the lock.

I’m going to open it.

WhatsApp is launching a new “Advanced Chat Privacy” feature that aims to prevent people from taking conversations outside the app. When the setting is turned on, you can block others from exporting your chat history and automatically downloading photos and videos sent in the app.

The feature will prevent people from using messages for Meta AI as well, which you can currently use to ask questions within a chat and generate images.

By default, WhatsApp saves photos and videos in a chat to your phone’s local storage. It also lets you and your recipients export chats (with or without media) to your messages, email, or notes app. The Advanced Chat Privacy setting will prevent this in group and individual chats.

WhatsApp doesn’t say whether Advanced Chat Privacy will prevent people from taking screenshots of your messages, or if users can still manually download media from chats. The Verge reached out to WhatsApp for more information but didn’t immediately hear back.

“We think this feature is best used when talking with groups where you may not know everyone closely but are nevertheless sensitive in nature,” WhatsApp says in its announcement. WABetaInfo first spotted this feature earlier this month, and now it’s rolling out to the latest version of the app.

You can turn on the setting by tapping the name of your chat and selecting Advanced Chat Privacy. WhatsApp says this is only the “first version” of this feature, as the company plans to add more protections in the future.

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The unique throwback sci-fi film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow didn't make the splash it was hoping for with audiences. In fact, we feel it's an overlooked film here at JoBlo as Chris Bumbray tries to shine a light on the alien invasion film with a retrospective video. He recommends it highly by saying, "If you haven't seen this movie, I urge you to check it out. It's a fun, old-fashioned adventure with a great score by Edward Shearmur, who never entirely became the A-list composer he should have been. It has a bouncy pace and even an early example of post-mortem casting with Laurence Olivier playing the bad guy despite having died 13 years before this came out. Give it a shot!"

However, some movies can still find audiences late in life, and perhaps that can happen with the new physical release of Sky Captain. Blu-ray.com has announced that Shout Factory will be distributing a new special 4K remastered Blu-ray this summer. Sky Captain was written and directed by Kerry Conran and stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, and Michael Gambon.The new two-disc 4K Blu-ray is due to hit retailers on May 27.

The description reads,

"When giant robots attack New York City, intrepid reporter Polly Perkins (Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow) enlists the aid of ace aviator and old flame Joseph 'Sky Captain' Sullivan (two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law) to stop a plot to destroy the world before it's too late. Co-starring Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie, Sky Captain And The World of Tomorrow will thrill and amaze you right through to the action-packed finale."

Special Features and Technical Specs:

DISC ONE -- 4K BLU-RAY

• NEW 4K TRANSFER FROM THE 35MM DIGITAL NEGATIVE
• DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
• Audio Commentary with Director Kerry Conran, Production Designer Kevin Conran, Animation Director Steve Yamamoto, and Visual Effects Supervisor Darin Hollings
• Audio Commentary with Producer Jon Avnet
• Optional English subtitles for the main feature

DISC TWO -- BLU-RAY

• NEW 4K TRANSFER FROM THE 35MM DIGITAL NEGATIVE
• Audio Commentary with Director Kerry Conran, Production Designer Kevin Conran, Animation Director Steve Yamamoto, and Visual Effects Supervisor Darin Hollings
• Audio Commentary with Producer Jon Avnet
• "Brave New World" -- A Two-Part Look at the making of Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow
• "The Art of World of Tomorrow" Featurette
• "Anatomy of A Virtual Scene"
• The Original Six-Minute Short
• Deleted Scenes
• Gag Reel
• Theatrical Trailers
• Optional English subtitles for the main feature

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