AI and the Evolution of Social Media
March 19 2024Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed...
Read moreDrones and the US Air Force
March 18 2024Fascinating analysis of the use of drones on a modern battlefield—that is, Ukraine—and the inability of the US Air Force to react to this change.
The F-35A certainly remains...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Operation Squid
March 16 2024Operation Squid found 1.3 tons of cocaine hidden in frozen fish. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
Read moreImproving C++
March 15 2024C++ guru Herb Sutter writes about how we can improve the programming language for better security.
The immediate problem “is” that it’s Too Easy By Default™ to write security...
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Burglars Using Wi-Fi Jammers to Disable Security Cameras
March 13 2024The arms race continues, as burglars are learning how to use jammers to disable Wi-Fi security cameras.
Read moreJailbreaking LLMs with ASCII Art
March 12 2024Researchers have demonstrated that putting words in ASCII art can cause LLMs—GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2—to ignore their safety instructions. Research paper.
Read moreUsing LLMs to Unredact Text
March 11 2024Initial results in using LLMs to unredact text based on the size of the individual-word redaction rectangles. This feels like something that a specialized ML system could be trained on.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: New Plant Looks Like a Squid
March 9 2024Newly discovered plant looks like a squid. And it’s super weird:
The plant, which grows to 3 centimetres tall and 2 centimetres wide, emerges to the surface for as...
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Essays from the Second IWORD
March 9 2024The Ash Center has posted a series of twelve essays stemming from the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2023).
- Aviv Ovadya, Democracy as Approximation: A... Read more
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