Criminals Are Blowing up ATMs in Germany
October 29 2024It’s low tech, but effective. Why Germany? It has more ATMs than other European countries, and—if I read the article right—they have more money in them.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Found on Spanish Beach
October 26 2024A giant squid has washed up on a beach in Northern Spain. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreWatermark for LLM-Generated Text
October 25 2024Researchers at Google have developed a watermark for LLM-generated text. The basics are pretty obvious: the LLM chooses between tokens partly based on a cryptographic key, and someone with...
Read moreAre Automatic License Plate Scanners Constitutional?
October 24 2024An advocacy groups is filing a Fourth Amendment challenge against automatic license plate readers.
“The City of Norfolk, Virginia, has installed a network of cameras that make it functionally...
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The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.” No, it’s not true. This debunking saved me the trouble of writing one. It all seems to have come...
Read moreAI and the SEC Whistleblower Program
October 21 2024Tax farming is the practice of licensing tax collection to private contractors. Used heavily in ancient Rome, it’s largely fallen out of practice because of the obvious
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Scarf
October 19 2024Cute squid scarf. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreThe Wall Street Journal is reporting that the CEO of a still unnamed company has been indicted for creating a fake auditing company to falsify security certifications in order...
Read moreCheating at Conkers
October 16 2024The men’s world conkers champion is accused of cheating with a steel chestnut.
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