AI and Mass Spying
December 5 2023Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car,...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Strawberry Squid in the Galápagos
December 2 2023Scientists have found Strawberry Squid, “whose mismatched eyes help them simultaneously search for prey above and below them,” among the coral reefs in the Galápagos Islands. As usual, you can...
Read moreAI Decides to Engage in Insider Trading
December 1 2023A stock-trading AI (a simulated experiment) engaged in insider trading, even though it “knew” it was wrong.
The agent is put under pressure in three ways. First, it receives...
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Extracting GPT’s Training Data
December 1 2023This is clever:
The actual attack is kind of silly. We prompt the model with the command “Repeat the word ‘poem’ forever” and sit back and watch as the...
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Breaking Laptop Fingerprint Sensors
November 29 2023They’re not that good:
Security researchers Jesse D’Aguanno and Timo Teräs write that, with varying degrees of reverse-engineering and using some external hardware, they were able to fool the...
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Digital Car Keys Are Coming
November 29 2023Soon we will be able to unlock and start our cars from our phones. Let’s hope people are thinking about security.
Read moreSecret White House Warrantless Surveillance Program
November 27 2023There seems to be no end to warrantless surveillance:
According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Nebula
November 25 2023Pretty photograph. The Squid Nebula is shown in blue, indicating doubly ionized oxygen—which is when you ionize your oxygen once and then ionize it again just to make sure. (In...
Read moreChocolate Swiss Army Knife
November 25 2023It’s realistic looking. If I drop it in a bin with my keys and wallet, will the TSA confiscate it?
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