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Bruce Schneier on Systems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEBv0STiYhI Bruce is one of my favorite writers. He packs profoundness. Also honored that he's an advisor at Automattic, truly one of my idols. His blogs and books rocked my world when I was young.View……
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HomeBlog Comments Clive Robonson • October 5, 2026 10:27 AM @ Bruce, ALL, We talk about security by obscurity But not with encryption systems. Now AI is getting to the point older codes and ciphers are getting broken we should think that “obscurity” is……
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How American Political Campaigns Are Using AI—and What They’re Spending on the Tools This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian. New campaign finance disclosure data shines a light on which US political campaigns……
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HomeBlog Comments ResearcherZero • September 18, 2026 11:42 PM @lurker The Russian state has another digital system with which it can target foreign citizens. Russia is collecting a wide range of Romainian user data using an advertising platform. The……
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Cyberattack on Connected Fridges in France Another IoT cyberattack, this one in France: Hackers gained control of the software that regulates the temperatures of the refrigeration units, forcing some to warm to 50C (120F) overnight, according to one……
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Friday Squid Blogging: I Caught a Squid On Wednesday I spent a day fishing, on a small boat out of Gloucester, MA. We caught many cod (none of which we could keep), and a bunch of hake and mackerel (all of which we could keep). And…I caught a squid! Near as……
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Apple’s Verified Photography System Apple just released a system called “Reference Image.” It can verify the image is exactly as taken by an iPhone—new models only—without tying it to a specific iPhone or photographer. It can also verify that……
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HomeBlog Friday Squid Blogging: EU is Trying to Fight Unregulated Squid Fishing The EU is recommending import controls to combat unregulated squid fishing in the Southwest Atlantic. I’m not optimistic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about……
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Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports, evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers: To determine this, CR dug through thousands of pages of automakers’ privacy……
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I Want Better Reporting on AI Genie Behavior AI systems are regularly completing tasks in ways that their prompters don’t want or intend. Some of them are disturbing, and some of them are dangerous. This is something I’ve been calling “genie behavior,”……
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Research on Models Engaging in Genie-Like Behavior New paper: “Self-Jailbreaking: Language Models Can Reason Themselves Out of Safety Alignment After Benign Reasoning Training.” Abstract: We discover a novel and surprising phenomenon of unintentional……
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