Defending against AI Lobbyists
February 17 2023When is it time to start worrying about artificial intelligence interfering in our democracy? Maybe when an AI writes a letter to The New York Times opposing the regulation...
Read moreChatGPT Is Ingesting Corporate Secrets
February 16 2023According to internal Slack messages that were leaked to Insider, an Amazon lawyer told workers that they had “already seen instances” of text generated by ChatGPT that...
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Camera the Size of a Grain of Salt
February 15 2023Cameras are getting smaller and smaller, changing the scale and scope of surveillance.
Read moreWhat Will It Take?
February 14 2023What will it take for policy makers to take cybersecurity seriously? Not minimal-change seriously. Not here-and-there seriously. But really seriously. What will it take for policy makers to take...
Read moreOn Pig Butchering Scams
February 14 2023“Pig butchering” is the colorful name given to online cons that trick the victim into giving money to the scammer, thinking it is an investment opportunity. It’s a rapidly...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Is a Blockchain Thingy
February 11 2023I had no idea—until I read this incredibly jargon-filled article: Squid is a cross-chain liquidity and messaging router that swaps across multiple chains and their native DEXs via axlUSDC. So there. As...
Read moreA Hacker’s Mind Is Now Published
February 11 2023Tuesday was the official publication date of A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back. It broke into the 2000s on...
Read moreHacking the Tax Code
February 10 2023The tax code isn’t software. It doesn’t run on a computer. But it’s still code. It’s a series of algorithms that takes an input—financial information for the year—and produces...
Read moreMary Queen of Scots Letters Decrypted
February 9 2023This is a neat piece of historical research.
The team of computer scientist George Lasry, pianist Norbert Biermann and astrophysicist Satoshi Tomokiyo—all keen cryptographers—initially thought the batch...
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