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AI Advertising Company Hacked
At least some of this is coming to light: Doublespeed, a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz a16z that uses a phone farm to manage at least hundreds of AI-gen...
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Schneier on Security
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Someone Boarded a Plane at Heathrow Without a Ticket or Passport
I’m sure there’s a story here: Sources say the man had tailgated his way through to security screening and passed security, meaning he was not detected carrying...
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Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government....
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Chinese Surveillance and AI
New report: “The Party’s AI: How China’s New AI Systems are Reshaping Human Rights.” From a summary article: China is already the world’s largest exporter of AI...
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Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI
Cast your mind back to May of this year: Congress was in the throes of debate over the massive budget bill. Amidst the many seismic provisions, Senator Ted Cruz...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking and signing books at the Chicago Public Library in Chicago, Illinois, USA, at 6:0...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Eating a Diamondback Squid
I have no context for this video—it’s from Reddit—but one of the commenters adds some context: Hey everyone, squid biologist here! Wanted to add some stuff you...
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Building Trustworthy AI Agents
The promise of personal AI assistants rests on a dangerous assumption: that we can trust systems we haven’t made trustworthy. We can’t. And today’s versions are...
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AIs Exploiting Smart Contracts
I have long maintained that smart contracts are a dumb idea: that a human process is actually a security feature. Here’s some interesting research on training A...
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FBI Warns of Fake Video Scams
The FBI is warning of AI-assisted fake kidnapping scams: Criminal actors typically will contact their victims through text message claiming they have kidnapped...
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AI vs. Human Drivers
Two competing arguments are making the rounds. The first is by a neurosurgeon in the New York Times. In an op-ed that honestly sounds like it was paid for by Wa...
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Substitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript
Here’s a fun paper: “The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich Manuscript-like ciphertext“: Abstract: In this article,...