Friday Squid Blogging: Chromatophores
July 22 2023Neat:
Chromatophores are tiny color-changing cells in cephalopods. Watch them blink back and forth from purple to white on this squid’s skin in an Instagram video taken by...
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AI and Microdirectives
July 21 2023Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws.
All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized instructions for how to comply with the law, sent directly by...
Read moreThe Atlantic Council released a detailed commentary on the White House’s new “Implementation Plan for the 2023 US National Cybersecurity Strategy.” Lots of interesting bits.
So far, at least...
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Practice Your Security Prompting Skills
July 20 2023Gandalf is an interactive LLM game where the goal is to get the chatbot to reveal its password. There are eight levels of difficulty, as the chatbot gets increasingly...
Read moreDisabling Self-Driving Cars with a Traffic Cone
July 18 2023You can disable a self-driving car by putting a traffic cone on its hood:
The group got the idea for the conings by chance. The person claims a few...
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Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records
July 17 2023Interesting forensics in connection with a serial killer arrest:
Investigators went through phone records collected from both midtown Manhattan and the Massapequa Park area of Long Island—two areas connected...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Balloon Squid
July 15 2023Masayoshi Matsumoto is a “master balloon artist,” and he made a squid (and other animals). As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
Read moreBuying Campaign Contributions as a Hack
July 14 2023The first Republican primary debate has a popularity threshold to determine who gets to appear: 40,000 individual contributors. Now there are a lot of conventional ways a candidate can...
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