Trust Issues in AI
December 9 2024This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders. It originally appeared as a response to Evgeny Morozov in Boston Review‘s forum, “The AI We Deserve.”
For a technology that...
Read moreDetecting Pegasus Infections
December 6 2024This tool seems to do a pretty good job.
The company’s Mobile Threat Hunting feature uses a combination of malware signature-based detection, heuristics, and machine learning to look for...
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AI and the 2024 Elections
December 4 2024It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance...
Read moreAlgorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad
December 3 2024In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics—but it won’t necessarily be for the worse.
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate...
Read moreDetails about the iOS Inactivity Reboot Feature
December 2 2024I recently wrote about the new iOS feature that forces an iPhone to reboot after it’s been inactive for a longish period of time. Here are the technical details, discovered...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid-Inspired Needle Technology
November 30 2024Interesting research: Using jet propulsion inspired by squid, researchers demonstrate a microjet system that delivers medications directly into tissues, matching the effectiveness of traditional needles. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreRace Condition Attacks against LLMs
November 29 2024These are two attacks against the system components surrounding LLMs:
We propose that LLM Flowbreaking, following jailbreaking and prompt injection, joins as the third on the growing list of...
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NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments
November 27 2024The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world (including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda). We assumed that those countries...
Read moreWhat Graykey Can and Can’t Unlock
November 26 2024This is from 404 Media:
The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world, is only able to retrieve partial data...
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