Hacking Food Labeling Laws
August 25 2023This article talks about new Mexican laws about food labeling, and the lengths to which food manufacturers are going to ensure that they are not effective. There are...
Read moreParmesan Anti-Forgery Protection
August 24 2023The Guardian is reporting about microchips in wheels of Parmesan cheese as an anti-forgery measure.
Read moreDecember’s Reimagining Democracy Workshop
August 23 2023Imagine that we’ve all—all of us, all of society—landed on some alien planet, and we have to form a government: clean slate. We don’t have any legacy systems from...
Read moreApplying AI to License Plate Surveillance
August 22 2023License plate scanners aren’t new. Neither is using them for bulk surveillance. What’s new is that AI is being used on the data, identifying “suspicious” vehicle behavior:
Typically, Automatic...
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White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge
August 21 2023At Black Hat last week, the White House announced an AI Cyber Challenge. Gizmodo reports:
The new AI cyber challenge (which is being abbreviated “AIxCC”) will have a...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Brand Fish Sauce
August 19 2023Squid Brand is a Thai company that makes fish sauce: It is part of Squid Brand’s range of “personalized healthy fish sauces” that cater to different consumer groups, which include...
Read moreBots Are Better than Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs
August 18 2023Interesting research: “An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs“:
Abstract: For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAS have been widely used as a means of protection against bots. Throughout the...
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Detecting “Violations of Social Norms” in Text with AI
August 17 2023Researchers are trying to use AI to detect “social norms violations.” Feels a little sketchy right now, but this is the sort of thing that AIs will get better...
Read moreUK Electoral Commission Hacked
August 16 2023The UK Electoral Commission discovered last year that it was hacked the year before. That’s fourteen months between the hack and the discovery. It doesn’t know who was behind...
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