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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...
Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio βDistress Detectionβ of Human Voices
Reversing course, Flock Safetyβthe surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readersβhas announced that...
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...
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 ...
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...
Details of Alan Turingβs Voice Encryption System
Really interesting piece of cryptographic history: In November 2023, a large cache of his wartime papers—nicknamed the “Bayley papers”—w...
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...
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 Actβs trusted flagger mechanism. Havi...
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...
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...