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…
• Lots of footage of giant squid, and speculation about the colossal squ…

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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 …
• “This is consumers collectively coming together to make a visible stat…

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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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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.
• And because you will make your systems crypto agile, which is always a…

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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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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…
• After reconstructing the interface and functionality of the real-world…

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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.
• Examples are a prompt that orders the LLM to provide steps for develop…

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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.
• Minutes later, his AI agent reported it had discovered a way to book A…

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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…
• If AI’s cognitive capabilities become integrated into our lives, busin…

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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…
• But each, in turn, were themselves co-opted by the same market incenti…

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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…
• I’m speaking at Elevate Festival in Toronto, Canada.

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