Deepfakes are now mimicking heartbeats
In a nutshell
- Recent research reveals that high-quality deepfakes unintentionally retain the heartbeat patterns from their source videos, undermining traditional detection methods that relied on... Read more
Friday Squid Blogging: Pyjama Squid
May 3 2025The small pyjama squid (Sepioloidea lineolata) produces toxic slime, “a rare example of a poisonous predatory mollusc.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
Read morePrivacy for Agentic AI
May 3 2025Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. AI systems will start acting as agents, doing things on our behalf with some degree of autonomy. I think it’s worth thinking...
Read moreNCSC Guidance on “Advanced Cryptography”
May 2 2025The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre just released its white paper on “Advanced Cryptography,” which it defines as “cryptographic techniques for processing encrypted data, providing enhanced functionality over...
Read moreUS as a Surveillance State
May 2 2025Two essays were just published on DOGE’s data collection and aggregation, and how it ends with a modern surveillance state. It’s good to see this finally being talked about. EDITED TO...
Read moreWhatsApp Case Against NSO Group Progressing
April 30 2025Meta is suing NSO Group, basically claiming that the latter hacks WhatsApp and not just WhatsApp users. We have a procedural ruling:
Under the order, NSO Group is...
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This seems like an important advance in LLM security against prompt injection:
Google DeepMind has unveiled CaMeL (CApabilities for MachinE Learning), a new approach to stopping prompt-injection attacks...
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The company doesn’t keep logs, so couldn’t turn over data:
Windscribe, a globally used privacy-first VPN service, announced today that its founder, Yegor Sak, has been fully acquitted by...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Facts on Your Phone
April 26 2025Text “SQUID” to 1-833-SCI-TEXT for daily squid facts. The website has merch. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
Read moreCryptocurrency Thefts Get Physical
April 25 2025Long story of a $250 million cryptocurrency theft that, in a complicated chain events, resulted in a pretty brutal kidnapping.
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