Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Helps Discover New Marine Species
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Helps Discover New Marine Species The Squid is a new scientific machine: One of the technological...
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Anthropic’s Opus 5 Is Better at Resisting Prompt Injection
Anthropic’s Opus 5 Is Better at Resisting Prompt Injection The chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved...
Facial Recognition at Madison Square Garden
Facial Recognition at Madison Square Garden Last month, the story broke (alternate link) that Madison Square Garden uses facial recognition...
American Being Prosecuted for Wiping His Phone Before Handing It Over to Border Officials
American Being Prosecuted for Wiping His Phone Before Handing It Over to Border Officials He’s being prosecuted for giving border...
Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide
Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide This essay originally appeared in The Guardian....
Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue
Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in...
Long-Lived Vulnerability in Microsoft Secure Boot
Long-Lived Vulnerability in Microsoft Secure Boot Microsoft’s Secure Boot has had a serious vulnerability for most of its existence. An...
Measuring LLMs’ Ability to Perform Cryptanalysis
Measuring LLMs’ Ability to Perform Cryptanalysis There’s new benchmark measuring AI’s ability to perform mathematical cryptanalysis. Anthropic’s frontier model actually...
Axon Is Another License Plate Surveillance Company
Axon Is Another License Plate Surveillance Company Governments are switching, but I’m not sure it makes a difference: …some municipalities,...
Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell Surveillance Van
Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell Surveillance Van Yet another Israeli mass surveillance company: Made by Israeli surveillance company Cognyte, the...
Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid Catch in the Falklands
Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid Catch in the Falklands Lower catch this year. As usual, you can also use this...
Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient” This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in The Guardian. Major...
End-to-End Encryption and “Going Dark”
End-to-End Encryption and “Going Dark” New paper: “Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: End-to-End Encryption and the Third Round of...
First-Person Identity Theft Story
First-Person Identity Theft Story Harrowing story of an identity theft victim. Yes, the person made a mistake—they gave the scammer...
MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance
MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance It’s a lot: According to information obtained by The Tech, MIT is...
