Friday Squid Blogging: Truckload of Squid Spills in Rhode Island

Ugh: A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat.…

• Local authorities have dubbed it the “Squidpocalypse of ’26.
• ” That would be twenty tons of squid.

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AI Doesn’t Mean the End of Mathematics—at Least Not Yet

This essay was written with Kasra Rafi, and originally appeared in The Guardian.…

• Earlier this month, about 40 top mathematicians gathered at OpenAI’s o…
• The meeting was off-the-record, but if recent articles by mathematicia…

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LLM-Based Social Engineering Scams

OpenAI disrupted a social engineering group from Cambodia that used ChatGPT.…

• Its scope is impressive: The network simultaneously conducted multiple…
• For instance, operators used dating personas to build trust before int…

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Spyware for Babies

The New York Times has a long article (alt link) on surveillance systems aimed at babies.They are increasingly using AI.…

• Nanit and its rivals want to own 24/7 health tracking for the sub-four…
• And their already astonishing levels of baby data collection are just …

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Black Hat State of Security Vendors

Andy Ellis has a roundup of the security vendors at Black Hat this year.Key Takeaways: We have entered into an AI world.…

• While nearly half of booths didn’t directly mention AI or agents in th…
• Multiple spaces (Identity, SaaS, AppSec, Data) have almost every vendo…

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Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

Interesting paper: Abstract: With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception, employing deceptive means to defraud audiences.…

• Analyzing court data from Silicon Valley ventures and their founders p…
• We identify three forms of façading—­surface, reinforced, and deep faç…

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Friday Squid Blogging: Neon Flying Squid

The neon flying squid can fly in formation.…

• The shoal of about 100 squid rose unexpectedly from a patch of the Pac…
• The astonished researchers were the first to capture photographs of su…

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AI Is Learning to Write Genetic Code

This sort of research is both exciting and terrifying: The two models in question were told to generate complete genomes for a viable bacteriophage—a type of virus able to infect and replicate itself inside bacteria, destroying them from the inside.…

• Using an existing bacteriophage as an example—ΦX174 (pronounced “fie-e…
• coli bacteria—the models generated about 700,000 potential designs, of…

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More Incidents of AIs Going Rogue in Cybersecurity Challenges

The AI Security Institute has a new report of AI systems engaging in “unsanctioned behavior”—what I have been calling “genie behavior—while being tested on their cybersecurity capabilities.…

• The incident stemmed from a single evaluation where agents were given …
• We ran this challenge 122 times across several models.

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Detailed Timeline of OpenAI’s Cyberattack on Hugging Face

OpenAI presented details of its AI’s model’s cyberattack on Hugging Face at Black Hat last week.…

• Simon Willison details the timeline.
• It’s really interesting to read through—and really impressive cyberoff…

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Police Are Hiding Their Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras

A usage policy for Flock license plate reader cameras tells police not to talk about the cameras: When cops use Flock to arrest someone in Wapello County, Iowa, they don’t want them to know.…

• A usage policy for the automated license plate reader cameras in the c…
• “DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT UNLESS ABSOLUTE…

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ICE Collecting DNA Samples

ICE collected nearly a million DNA samples last year.

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LLMs and Contextual Integrity

I have been thinking a lot about AI and integrity.Part of that is contextual integrity.I recently found two papers on the topic.…

• “CIMemories: A Compositional Benchmark for Contextual Integrity of Per…
• However, this memory introduces critical risks when sensitive informat…

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Hacking Public Wi-Fi DNS to Steal Credentials

Criminals are hacking into public Wi-Fi devices—at hotels, conference centers, and so on—around the world and changing their DNS settings.…

• The goal is to redirect users to fake login pages and steal their cred…

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Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid

Fascinating video about searching for life undersea.…

• The video basically makes the point that our bright white searchlights…
• That, plus bait to attract sea creatures, is teaching us a lot about w…

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Adversarial Clothing Designed to Fool Facial Recognition Systems

There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems.…

• It’s a cool idea, but I worry that it’s mostly security theater: “Our …
• Bell, however, said “none of these products are tried and tested, and …

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ICE Is Buying Access to Credit Card Records

Through data brokers, ICE is buying the information you provided to open a credit card.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Arctic Bobtail Squid Video

Nice video of the Arctic bobtail squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.

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Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library

This is good: Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python ecosystem.…

• With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency, we implemented support fo…
• Remember, the reason to do this now is because there’s no emergency.

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AI for Military Support

Interesting empirical research: “Black Box Warfare: Human Judgment and Military Decision-Making in the Age of AI.…

• ” Abstract: How is AI transforming decision-making in modern conflict?
• This study provides a unique empirical window into that question by de…

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AI Genie in the Wild

When I give talks about AI genies, I use this sort of example as a hypothetical.It’s happened.…

• The story is from Australia.
• Someone named Andrew tasked OpenClaw to book gym classes for him.

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Prompt Injections for Defense

This seems to work: Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was often all that was needed to shut down attacks from AI hacking agents.…

• The prompts direct the attacking LLM to perform an action forbidden by…
• The LLM responds by shutting down.

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Separating AI’s Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems

This essay was written with Nathan E.Sanders, and originally appeared in Tech Policy Press.…

• AI represents the first time we humans can do cognitive work outside o…
• The only comparable moment is the early years of the industrial revolu…

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If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them

This essay was written with Nathan E.Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian.…

• OpenAI, and then Anthropic, were each formed by AI developers who fear…
• Their founders proclaimed that their new labs, uniquely, could be trus…

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking, signing books, and participating in panel discussions at LAcon V in Anaheim, California, USA.…

• My full schedule is here.
• I’m speaking online (via Zoom) at a League of Women Voters event on Tu…

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