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Quelle est notre consommation énergétique quand on utilise l’IA ?
Images façon "studio Ghibli", tendance Starter Pack. derrière leur aspect ludique, ces images générées par l'intelligence artificielle générative posent des questions environnementales très concrètes. Réponses avec Babak Falsafi, professeur ordinaire à la faculté d'Informatique et de Communications de l'EPFL, président et fondateur de l'Association suisse pour l'efficacité énergétique dans les…
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CYD Fellowships
To promote research and education in cyber-defence, the EPFL and the Cyber-Defence (CYD) Campus have jointly launched the “CYD Fellowships – A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research.” The 12th call for applications is now open, with a rolling call for Master Thesis Fellowship applications and Proof of Concept Fellowship applications,…
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Das neue Policy Paper C4DT Insight #2 mit dem Titel “Datenstrategie,-Policy und -Regulierung für die Schweiz” ist erschienen!
Melanie Kolbe-Guyot und Matthias Finger diskutieren die Notwendigkeit einer umfassenden Datenpolitik für die Schweiz, um das Potenzial von Daten durch klare Regeln und Anreize zu nutzen und die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit langfristig zu sichern. Es formuliert 6 Handlungsempfehlungen für die Politik.
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CLTC Celebrating 10 Years of Securing the Future
Find out about the impact that the UC Berkeley Center for Long-term Cybersecurity (CLTC) has made since it launched ten years ago.
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Glion Activities

MIT’s OTrace Protocol for Trusted, Traceable Uses of Personal Data
MIT’s Future of Data Initiative is supporting the development of better traceability schemes that will help consumers track how their data is being used and shared. Check it out!
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Registrations Opening Soon for Cyber Week 2025
The Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center (ICRC) at Tel Aviv University is hosting its 15th annual Cyber Week Conference from June 23-26, 2025. Find out more here.
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IITB Trust Center’s latest Trust Matters newsletter is out!
The latest edition of Trust Matters, IITB’s newsletter on all things digital trust, is out. Check it out here.
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CERIAS Weekly Security Seminar
The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University hosts a weekly cyber security, privacy, resiliency or autonomy speaker, highlighting technical discovery or case studies or exploring cyber operational approaches. Check out their extensive repository of talks here!
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Launch of CMU-Africa’s Digital Experience Centre
Carnegie Mellon University Africa, through its Upanzi Network initiative, has launched the Digital Experience Centre (DEC). The DEC serves as a hub for exploring and testing digital public infrastructure, digital public goods, cybersecurity, public health, agriculture and more. It demonstrates how key digital solutions—such as digital identity, digital payments and…
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CyLab researchers win Test of Time Award at USEC 2025
A team featuring CyLab researchers was honored with the Test of Time Award at the 2025 Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC 2025). The research team, featuring Patrick Gage Kelley (Ph.D.’12), CyLab alumnus; CyLab director Lorrie Cranor; and Norman Sadeh, co-director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Privacy Engineering Program.
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How to detect criminal activities on Signal or WhatsApp?
Encryption is a way to ensure that data sent from one device to another can’t be read if intercepted. But what if the data pertains to criminal activity? Ana-Maria Cretu from EPFL’s Security and Privacy Engineering Lab shares her expertise on safety versus privacy concerns.
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New C4DT Observer #15 , entitled “The Impact of AI on the Software Development Life Cycle”, is out !
This document discusses the main ideas, insights and conclusions extracted from the roundtable on "the impact of AI on the software development life cycle”, an event organized by C4DT in collaboration with ELCA on Feb 7th 2025 at the EPFL.
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Harvard Berkman-Klein Center’s 2024-2025 Update is Out!
Check out BKC’s recap of 2024 and roadmap for 2025 here.
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Democratizing large-scale AI for the benefit of society: Open calls for disruptive ideas
In addition to its core research activities as outlined below, the Swiss AI Initiative is distributing 10-20 million GPU hours in 2025 for disruptive research projects through open calls. We look for research projects that aim to contribute to advances in AI fundamentals or impactful applications of AI. Researchers outside…
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A new cryptography framework for secure genomic studies
Developed from EPFL research, in collaboration with MIT and Yale, the combination of secure computation and distributed algorithms opens a new era for data collaborations in medical research.
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The EPFL community gets a Mastodon server
EPFL has set up a Mastodon server for the School community, allowing members to post and share content in a way that’s aligned with the values of open science. We opted for Mastodon because independence and effective communication tools are critical.
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Anticipating the Third Annual Summit of Centers
We’re eagerly gearing up for the third annual Summit of Centers this August 2025! This year’s spotlight is on collaborations with industry and private foundations. Stay tuned for announcements of our external guests!
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Making E-Voting Safer from Coercion and Vote Buying
As we come to the end of a year in which half the world’s population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter coercion and vote buying.
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Can AI influence election outcomes?
Artificial intelligence (AI) may be a weapon of mass disinformation, but a recent report has demonstrated that its impact thus far has been limited
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[seal] call for projects
Canton Vaud’s [seal] Program funds projects in digital trust and cybersecurity with up to CHF 100K or 90% of cost ! The aim of this latest call for projects is to stimulate collaborative innovation in order to propose solutions that help meet the challenges of multimedia content security, from data…
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Celebrating a Successful Second Summit of Centers for Digital Trust
C4DT held the second edition of the summit on August 28-30, 2024. Sixteen globally renowned centers for digital trust gathered in Glion (above Montreux), Switzerland to mutually discuss their respective missions, operations, and challenges. The Glion Summit continued in its aim of establishing a space in which academic centers for…
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[seal] call for projects
Canton Vaud's [seal] Program funds projects in digital trust and cybersecurity with up to CHF 100K or 90% of cost !
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Empowering Digital Identities: The SSI Protocol Landscape
In this fourth part of the blog series “Swiss e-ID journey”, we give an overview of the Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) [10] landscape in CH, EU, and beyond. This allows the reader to put the current effort of the e-ID in context with international efforts in references and implementations regarding e-ID…
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The Swiss Confederation E-ID Public Sandbox Trust Infrastructure – Part 3
C4DT Demonstrator using the Swiss Public Sandbox Trust Infrastructure This is our third article about the Swiss e-ID Journey. An overview of the system can be found in our first article, Switzerland’s e-ID journey so far [1a], and an introduction to the first steps of using the sandbox [8] in…
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