AI vs. Human Drivers
December 9 2025Two 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...
Read moreSubstitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript
December 8 2025Here’s a fun paper: “The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich Manuscript-like ciphertext“:
Abstract: In this article, I investigate the hypothesis that the...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Vampire Squid Genome
December 6 2025The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) has the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced: more than 11 billion base pairs. That’s more than twice as large as the biggest squid...
Read moreNew Anonymous Phone Service
December 5 2025A new anonymous phone service allows you to sign up with just a zip code.
Read moreLike Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices
December 2 2025In his 2020 book, “Future Politics,” British barrister Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th century was “How much of our collective life should be...
Read moreBanning VPNs
December 1 2025This is crazy. Lawmakers in several US states are contemplating banning VPNs, because…think of the children!
As of this writing, Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy by...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Neon Squid Found on Israeli Beach
November 29 2025A meter-long flying neon squid (Ommastrephes bartramii) was found dead on an Israeli beach. The species is rare in the Mediterranean. As usual, you can also use this squid post...
Read morePrompt Injection Through Poetry
November 28 2025In a new paper, “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models,” researchers found that turning LLM prompts into poetry resulted in jailbreaking the...
Read moreHuawei and Chinese Surveillance
November 26 2025This quote is from House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company.
“Long before anyone had heard of Ren Zhengfei or Huawei, Wan Runnan had been...
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