AI and Voter Engagement
November 18 2025Social media has been a familiar, even mundane, part of life for nearly two decades. It can be easy to forget it was not always that way.
In 2008, social...
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November 17 2025The next three in this series on online events highlighting interesting uses of AI in cybersecurity are online: #4, #5, and #6. Well worth watching.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Pilot Whales Eat a Lot of Squid
November 15 2025Short-finned pilot wales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) eat at lot of squid:
To figure out a short-finned pilot whale’s caloric intake, Gough says, the team had to combine data from a...
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
November 15 2025This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
- My coauthor Nathan E. Sanders and I are speaking at the Rayburn House Office Building in... Read more
The Role of Humans in an AI-Powered World
November 14 2025As AI capabilities grow, we must delineate the roles that should remain exclusively human. The line seems to be between fact-based decisions and judgment-based decisions.
For example, in a medical...
Read moreBook Review: The Business of Secrets
November 13 2025The Business of Secrets: Adventures in Selling Encryption Around the World by Fred Kinch (May 24, 2024)
From the vantage point of today, it’s surreal reading about the commercial cryptography...
Read moreOn Hacking Back
November 12 2025Former DoJ attorney John Carlin writes about hackback, which he defines thus: “A hack back is a type of cyber response that incorporates a counterattack designed to proactively...
Read morePrompt Injection in AI Browsers
November 11 2025This is why AIs are not ready to be personal assistants:
A new attack called ‘CometJacking’ exploits URL parameters to pass to Perplexity’s Comet AI browser hidden instructions that...
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New Attacks Against Secure Enclaves
November 10 2025Encryption can protect data at rest and data in transit, but does nothing for data in use. What we have are secure enclaves. I’ve written about this before:
Almost...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Game: The Challenge, Season Two
November 8 2025The second season of the Netflix reality competition show Squid Game: The Challenge has dropped. (Too many links to pick a few—search for it.) As usual, you can also use...
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