The second season of the Netflix reality competition show Squid Game: The Challenge has dropped. (Too many links to pick a few—search for it.) As usual, you can also use...
Read moreOver the past few decades, it’s become easier and easier to create fake receipts. Decades ago, it required special paper and printers—I remember a company in the UK advertising...
Read moreThe Department of Justice has indicted thirty-one people over the high-tech rigging of high-stakes poker games.
In a typical legitimate poker game, a dealer uses a shuffling machine to...
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For many in the research community, it’s gotten harder to be optimistic about the impacts of artificial intelligence.
As authoritarianism is rising around the world, AI-generated “slop” is overwhelming...
Read moreMicrosoft is warning of a scam involving online payroll systems. Criminals use social engineering to steal people’s credentials, and then divert direct deposits into accounts that they control. Sometimes...
Read moreThese days, the most important meeting attendee isn’t a person: It’s the AI notetaker.
This system assigns action items and determines the importance of what is said. If it becomes...
Read moreI can’t believe that I haven’t yet posted this picture of a giant squid at the Smithsonian. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
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Below, co-authors Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders share five key insights from their new book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our...
Read moreInteresting article about the arms race between AI systems that invent/design new biological pathogens, and AI systems that detect them before they’re created:
The team started with a basic...
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Signal has just rolled out its quantum-safe cryptographic implementation.
Ars Technica has a really good article with details:
Ultimately, the architects settled on a creative solution. Rather than bolt...
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