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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Washing Up on Cape Cod Beach

Lots of articles about this. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog modera...

πŸ“… Jul 17, 2026 πŸ‘οΈ 0 Views
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Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio β€œDistress Detection” of Human Voices

Reversing course, Flock Safetyβ€”the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readersβ€”has announced that...

πŸ“… Jul 17, 2026 πŸ‘οΈ 0 Views
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Your Vision. Your Legacy. Your Future.

This month, we celebrate 36 years of EFF and a mission that is bigger than any one of us. Thanks to EFF, communities around the world are demanding that technol...

πŸ“… Jul 17, 2026 πŸ‘οΈ 0 Views
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How the Watch Dogs Video Game Series Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues

When Ubisoft's Watch Dogs 2 was released in 2016, it was a headtrip for those of us working on digital-rights issues in the Bay Area. During the day, I'd fight ...

πŸ“… Jul 17, 2026 πŸ‘οΈ 0 Views
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Enterprise Tech

Presentation: From OTEL to SLMs: Distilling Frontier Model Behaviour from Production Telemetry

Ben O'Mahony discusses building custom AI-powered Language Server Protocols (LSPs) that go beyond standard rule-based checkers. He explains how to instrument AI...

πŸ“… Jul 17, 2026 πŸ‘οΈ 0 Views
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Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System

Really interesting piece of cryptographic history: In November 2023, a large cache of his wartime papers—nicknamed the “Bayley papers”—w...

πŸ“… Jul 17, 2026 πŸ‘οΈ 0 Views
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Protecting Privacy in an AI Era

Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal (alternate link) that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy i...

πŸ“… Jul 16, 2026 πŸ‘οΈ 0 Views
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EFF and ARTICLE 19 Submission to the European Commission on the DSA Trusted Flagger Guidelines

EFF and ARTICLE 19 have submitted joint comments to the European Commission on draft guidelines for the Digital Services Act’s trusted flagger mechanism. Havi...

πŸ“… Jul 16, 2026 πŸ‘οΈ 0 Views
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A Video Screen That Is Also a Camera

Amazing: Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, however, managed to create a new type of pixel that can simultaneously do both. This hypercharged pixel, ca...

πŸ“… Jul 15, 2026 πŸ‘οΈ 0 Views
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Cyber Security

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the numbe...

πŸ“… Jul 14, 2026 πŸ‘οΈ 0 Views