TikTok Editorial Analysis
January 2 2024TikTok seems to be skewing things in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. (This is a serious analysis, and the methodology looks sound.)
Conclusion: Substantial Differences in Hashtag...
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AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos
December 29 2023Wow:
To test PIGEON’s performance, I gave it five personal photos from a trip I took across America years ago, none of which have been published online. Some photos...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Sqids
December 29 2023They’re short unique strings: Sqids (pronounced “squids”) is an open-source library that lets you generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers. These IDs are short, can be generated from a custom alphabet...
Read moreAI and Lossy Bottlenecks
December 28 2023Artificial intelligence is poised to upend much of society, removing human limitations inherent in many systems. One such limitation is information and logistical bottlenecks in decision-making.
Traditionally, people have been...
Read moreNew iPhone Security Features to Protect Stolen Devices
December 27 2023Apple is rolling out a new “Stolen Device Protection” feature that seems well thought out:
When Stolen Device Protection is turned on, Face ID or Touch ID authentication is...
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Google Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps
December 26 2023Google Maps now stores location data locally on your device, meaning that Google no longer has that data to turn over to the police.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Parts into Fertilizer
December 23 2023It’s squid parts from college dissections, so it’s not a volume operation. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
Read moreBen Rothke’s Review of A Hacker’s Mind
December 23 2023Ben Rothke chose A Hacker’s Mind as “the best information security book of 2023.”
Read moreData Exfiltration Using Indirect Prompt Injection
December 22 2023Interesting attack on a LLM:
In Writer, users can enter a ChatGPT-like session to edit or create their documents. In this chat session, the LLM can retrieve information from...
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Cyberattack on Ukraine’s Kyivstar Seems to Be Russian Hacktivists
December 21 2023The Solntsepek group has taken credit for the attack. They’re linked to the Russian military, so it’s unclear whether the attack was government directed or freelance. This is one of...
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