🚨 This week colleague Olya Ohrimenko is at @acm_ccs 2024 presenting our work ElephantDP 🐘 on state continuity for securely maintaining privacy budgets for differential privacy 🕵️. Led by Jiankai Jin @jasonj_2525 with @yuvalyarom @tobycmurray Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup. 1/N

When the Metro Tunnel opens, you can skip the tram from the CBD and step straight into Melbourne’s world-renowned biomedical research hub via Parkville Station.

If the UK can do it, why can't Australia? https://t.co/3POmYxD52r via @computing_news

🚨The deeply embattled National Anti-Corruption Commission has completed its first investigations - and in all 3 cases says no corruption found. Refuses to say if Angus Taylor's "watergate" was one - despite 2 of 3 relating to "procurement". #watergate https://t.co/CAojitTZ87

Intern position at @brave : https://t.co/vdfPWPJIQP My team is looking for strong students interested in private, secure and trustworthy ML. Feel free to email me with the subject line "Brave Internship 2025" and highlight your 3 most significant publications on these topics.

This is an insightful take on how to be successful at blogging by @danwilliamsphil. A couple of thoughts: – The most basic requirement is to have something worth sharing, but I guess that goes without saying. – Most of these aren't immutable traits and anyone can develop them. –

Happy to see U of T professor and Vector faculty member Nicolas Papernot helping to lead the Canadian AI Safety program at CIFAR.

This hits too close to home 😅

Touching story of the innovations of an immigrant overcoming adversity. As with so many other skilled immigrants, Australia benefits. Short sighted to scape goat people who want to build a better society, economy and world. We should welcome them instead.

I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency @fk_media accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”

The US has net positive immigration flow from every country on Earth but one. Australia.

Tenure-track assistant professorship in foundations of computer science with a focus on logic and automated reasoning at Lund University. SATisfaction virtually guaranteed! Application deadline Jan 8. https://t.co/Gk7I5iPEy7

Politeness Tier List Tier C: New Yorkers Tier B: US Southerners Tier A: Canadians Tier S: ICLR authors when replying to reviewers

Whelp we got a submission in! #SafetyFirst

Dear @arc_gov_au If you are going to give us just a few weeks to submit a Discovery Project EoI, at least have the courtesy to not change the requirements of the ROPE section for this year. From Disgruntled

What's next? 12 hours to submit 0.5-1 page? 6 hours to submit 0.25-0.5 page? How long for submitting one word?? #notconsultation

ALHR is very concerned that the establishment of a 1 day timeframe for people & organisations to make a submission to the Inquiry into the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 makes a mockery of the important role played by Senate Committee Inquiries 1/

The latest version of MP-SPDZ allows calling high-level functionality from C++. This bridges a gap when the virtual machine design is too restrictive for an application but the high-level functionality is necessary.