Age Verification Using Facial Scans
April 18 2025Discord is testing the feature:
“We’re currently running tests in select regions to age-gate access to certain spaces or user settings,” a spokesperson for Discord said in a...
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CVE Program Almost Unfunded
April 16 2025Mitre’s CVE’s program—which provides common naming and other informational resources about cybersecurity vulnerabilities—was about to be cancelled, as the US Department of Homeland Security failed to renew the...
Read moreSlopsquatting
April 16 2025As AI coding assistants invent nonexistent software libraries to download and use, enterprising attackers create and upload libraries with those names—laced with malware, of course.
Read moreUpcoming Speaking Engagements
April 15 2025This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving an online talk on AI and trust for the Weizenbaum Institute on April 24,...
Read moreChina Sort of Admits to Being Behind Volt Typhoon
April 14 2025The Wall Street Journal has the story:
Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that Beijing was behind a widespread series of alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, according...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid and Efficient Solar Tech
April 11 2025Researchers are trying to use squid color-changing biochemistry for solar tech. This appears to be new and related research to a 2019 squid post. As usual, you can also use this...
Read moreAI Vulnerability Finding
April 11 2025Microsoft is reporting that its AI systems are able to find new vulnerabilities in source code:
Microsoft discovered eleven vulnerabilities in GRUB2, including integer and buffer overflows in...
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Reimagining Democracy
April 11 2025Imagine that all of us—all of society—have landed on some alien planet and need to form a government: clean slate. We do not have any legacy systems from the...
Read moreHow to Leak to a Journalist
April 9 2025Neiman Lab has some good advice on how to leak a story to a journalist.
Read moreArguing Against CALEA
April 8 2025At a Congressional hearing earlier this week, Matt Blaze made the point that CALEA, the 1994 law that forces telecoms to make phone calls wiretappable, is outdated...
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