Friday Squid Blogging: Biology and Ecology of the Colossal Squid
December 14 2024Good survey paper. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreUltralytics Supply-Chain Attack
December 14 2024Last week, we saw a supply-chain attack against the Ultralytics AI library on GitHub. A quick summary:
On December 4, a malicious version 8.3.41 of the popular AI library...
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Jailbreaking LLM-Controlled Robots
December 11 2024Surprising no one, it’s easy to trick an LLM-controlled robot into ignoring its safety instructions.
Read moreFull-Face Masks to Frustrate Identification
December 10 2024This is going to be interesting. It’s a video of someone trying on a variety of printed full-face masks. They won’t fool anyone for long, but will survive casual scrutiny....
Read moreTrust 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...
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