Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
December 17 2025For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It...
Read moreChinese Surveillance and AI
December 16 2025New report: “The Party’s AI: How China’s New AI Systems are Reshaping Human Rights.” From a summary article:
China is already the world’s largest exporter of AI powered...
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Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI
December 15 2025Cast your mind back to May of this year: Congress was in the throes of debate over the massive budget bill. Amidst the many seismic provisions, Senator Ted...
Read moreUpcoming Speaking Engagements
December 15 2025This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
- I’m speaking and signing books at the Chicago Public Library in Chicago, Illinois, USA, at... Read more
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Eating a Diamondback Squid
December 13 2025I have no context for this video—it’s from Reddit—but one of the commenters adds some context:
Hey everyone, squid biologist here! Wanted to add some stuff you might find...
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Building Trustworthy AI Agents
December 12 2025The promise of personal AI assistants rests on a dangerous assumption: that we can trust systems we haven’t made trustworthy. We can’t. And today’s versions are failing us in...
Read moreAIs Exploiting Smart Contracts
December 12 2025I have long maintained that smart contracts are a dumb idea: that a human process is actually a security feature.
Here’s some interesting research on training AIs to automatically...
Read moreFBI Warns of Fake Video Scams
December 10 2025The FBI is warning of AI-assisted fake kidnapping scams:
Criminal actors typically will contact their victims through text message claiming they have kidnapped their loved one and demand...
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AI vs. Human Drivers
December 9 2025Two competing arguments are making the rounds. The first is by a neurosurgeon in the New York Times. In an op-ed that honestly sounds like it was paid...
Read moreSubstitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript
December 8 2025Here’s a fun paper: “The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich Manuscript-like ciphertext“:
Abstract: In this article, I investigate the hypothesis that the...
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