AI and the Evolution of Social Media dlvr.it/T4Hp7n

A video of the guest lecture I gave for a computer security course at the University of Edinburgh last week is now online. youtu.be/ujmgPCIWuU4

It was great to visit Cambridge (thanks Ross Anderson) and Oxford (thanks Yarin) to present our work on unlearning.

A recording of the talk is available here: cl.cam.ac.uk/research/secur…

💥 New paper 💥

We discover a form of covert racism in LLMs that is triggered by dialect features alone, with massive harms for affected groups.

For example, GPT-4 is more likely to suggest that defendants be sentenced to death when they speak African American English.

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stop ✋ be so real with me right now.. you guys did NOT try to make polyamory into an optimization problem

Gemini is apparently told your Google account age and will answer questions w/the appropriate caution.

Here it is refusing to help someone with C++ because they’re he’s under 18, and advanced C++ is a danger to a young mind.

gemini.google.com/share/23803238…

From news.ycombinator.com/item?id=393834…

even if this should turn out to be some sort of camera trickery, it is still amazing

WHAT?!!! 👇🤬

This is gorgeous. Any linguists know if it's actually accurate? And if so how it evolved? Are there similar rules for eg French? I dimly recall rules re when adjective goes after noun but not semantic

…not least since his spinners will paint it as attracting social conservative/“red wall” voters; and his govt will have almost no money to do anything more meaningful than throw red meat to the Daily Mail 🫣

Shocking but unsurprising: the worst effects come from the last The Labour Party govt and its weird obsession with bashing the “liberati”, as former Home Secretary David Blunkett used to say. Sadly, neither he nor Blair have left politics, and I imagine more of the same from PM Starmer

Environmental review is a process created by lawyers and consultants to create more work for lawyers and consultants. It favors the status quo, not the environment, which is why projects like public transit, infill housing, green energy, etc. often get derailed. A total racket.

GenAI is starting to look like Typhoid Mary.

Last May, the celebrated 54-year-old LexisNexis touted hallucination-free legal citations produced by Generative AI. Instead, it is making up cases — from 2025 and 2026!!!

Talk about torching one’s reputation on the altar of GenAI.
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It's my old boss's birthday. Here's why I'm not celebrating.

US law requires you to suspend military assistance to any foreign country that is restricting, directly or indirectly, the delivery of US humanitarian aid.

Until you do that, you’re not only failing to “pull out every stop” — you’re failing to follow US law you swore to enforce.

We responded to an RFI by the US Army’s PEO IEW&S on methods for implementing and automating AIBOM tools. Check out a summary of our response: buff.ly/48tADNm

Silvio Cesare Marcel Böhme👨‍🔬 On the other hand, there have been bugs introduced by the compiler that don't exist in the code, but is extremely obvious when looking at the generated assembly.

My favourite is Felix Wilhelm's Xen double fetch bug: insinuator.net/2015/12/xen-xs…

Marcel Böhme👨‍🔬 It’s interesting that many developers have high faith in their compilers and it’s moderately rare to come across bugs as a dev. However, once you start to write code to specifically attack the compiler/interpreter, say JavaScript bugs in browsers. It’s an entirely different game

I got my review copy of Marc Tobias' book 'Insecurity Engineering' a few days ago. It is enormously impressive, and should become the standard reference on physical security for locksmiths, HSM designers and others who worry about capable adversaries

The parents' movement to roll back the phone-based childhood just launched, spontaneously, in the UK. Parents are fed up and linking up to solve the collective action problem:

theguardian.com/technology/202…