More than 60 countries held elections this year. Many researchers and journalists claimed AI misinformation would destabilize democracies. What impact did AI really have? We analyzed every instance of political AI use this year collected by WIRED. New essay w/Arvind Narayanan: 🧵

New post from PSE's Trusted Setup team: a retrospective on development of trusted setup tools including Perpetual Powers of Tau, KZG ceremony and p0tion. mirror.xyz/privacy-scalin…

Cross-posting from the zkmopro blog: Ya-wen Jeng on performance comparisons of various circom provers for mobile proving mirror.xyz/privacy-scalin…

The Accidental Computer with guille on prover acceleration via DA encodings In short, proofs-of-encoding (such as ZODA) perform much of the work of a code-based PCS, making it cheap to “embed” verifiable computations over data posted to a DA layer

We are proud to open-source a high-performance MSM for BN254 curve in WebGPU. It runs on Windows, macOS, AMD chips, many mobile devices, and in the browser. Optimized for speed, portability, and massive parallelism. Check it out: github.com/ICME-Lab/msm-w… __ The implementation

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