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Le secrétaire américain à la Défense Pete Hegseth a ordonné une pause dans toutes les cyberopérations du pays contre la Russie. Deux experts - dont Olivier Crochat, directeur exécutif du C4DT - analysent cette décision, dont les impacts pourraient rapidement se faire sentir en Suisse et en Europe.

L’EPFL, en collaboration avec le MIT et Yale, a mis au point, SF-GWAS, un outil pour entraîner des intelligences artificielles sur le génome humain, sans partager les données. SF-GWAS est déjà utilisé dans les cinq hôpitaux universitaires suisses. Les explications de Jean-Pierre Hubaux, directeur académique du Center for Digital Trust…

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.

Quelques jours après les 500 milliards de dollars d’investissements annoncés par les Etats-Unis, la France promet de mobiliser 109 milliards d’euros pour l’IA. Deux experts analysent ces déclarations et les chances de se diriger vers une forme de souveraineté européenne.

DeepSeek n’aurait-elle eu besoin que de 5,6 millions pour entraîner son modèle d’IA? De plus en plus de questions se posent, alors que de nouveaux modèles, développés à Stanford, n’auraient coûté que… 50 dollars. Le point avec Rachid Guerraoui.

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!

Créée par une start-up chinoise, DeepSeek se targue de faire jeu égal avec ChatGPT. Cette prouesse, avec des moyens techniques limités, montre que la Chine peut rivaliser avec les Etats-Unis dans cette course planétaire à l’IA.

Des chercheurs de l’EPFL ont perverti les principaux agents conversationnels dont ChatGPT. Est-ce grave? Une anthropologue, un sociologue et Antoine Bosselut, professeur d’informatique affilié au C4DT répondent.

Le piratage qui a touché le groupe médical Vidy Med révèle la fragilité des entreprises face à la montée en puissance des criminels de l'informatique. Avec l'éclairage de Jean-Pierre Hubaux, directeur académique du C4DT.

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.

Artificial intelligence (AI) may be a weapon of mass disinformation, but a recent report has demonstrated that its impact thus far has been limited

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…

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…

Canton Vaud's [seal] Program funds projects in digital trust and cybersecurity with up to CHF 100K or 90% of cost !

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…

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…

Join us in the further explorations of the Swiss E-ID journey. This time we're diving into the technical details of the current Public Sandbox Trust Infrastructure of the Swiss government. You'll learn how the different parts work together, and why self-sovereign IDs are useful to preserve your privacy. This article…

A new EPFL study has demonstrated the persuasive power of Large Language Models, finding that participants debating GPT-4 with access to their personal information were far more likely to change their opinion compared to those who debated humans.

Our new C4DT Digital Governance Book Review is out! This time: Anu Bradford (2023) “Digital Empires. The Global Battle to Regulate Technology.” In her new book, Bradford offers an in-depth, objective analysis of the three dominant regulatory models for digitalization—market-driven by the US, state-driven by China, and citizen-driven by the…

The C4DT launches 3 different initiatives to promote and enable trustworthy and sovereign cloud computing. They build on C4DT’s Conference on Trustworthy and Sovereign Cloud Computing, which was held in September 2023 at the Starling Hotel in St.-Sulpice, and discussions with our partners and conference participants.

A noteworthy development in the field of innovation sees EPFL, HEIG-VD and UNIL joining forces at the highest level, with the support of the Canton of Vaud, to unveil the outline of the [seal] Program. This initiative aims to stimulate collaboration between the three universities and accelerate the transfer of…

We are delighted to announce that two additional partners have joined the C4DT community!

[nzz.ch][Lang : En] "Universities also have to develop AI - this is the only way to guarantee that the technology remains transparent" -- Marcel Salathé, professor of digital epidemiology and co-director of the EPFL AI Center.

[rts.ch][Lang : Fr] Dans le 19h30, le professeur à l'EPFL Rachid Guerraoui tire le bilan d'une technologie qui s'insère petit à petit dans notre quotidien.