The Crypto Valley is now connecting Zug with Romandie. The Valley is Switzerland in its integrality, and beyond. To celebrate this major step, the Crypto Valley Association is officially launching its Western Switzerland Chapter on December 02 at EPFL, Lausanne. Join them in order to meet the dynamic local blockchain and crypto community. During the event, a specific focus will be kept on crypto finance, digital assets and blockchain education.
December 2nd, 2019 @ 17:00-19:00, Polydôme EPFL
By Prof. Wei Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Click is the prominent way that users interact with web applications. Attackers aim to intercept genuine user clicks to either send malicious commands to another application on behalf of the user or fabricate realistic ad click traffic. In this talk, Prof. Wei Meng investigates the click interception practices on the Web.
Tuesday July 23rd, 2019 @10:00, room BC 420
Citizens have a right to an explanation of the decisions affecting them. However, if AIs are to be used in decision procedures, how can we explain complex AI systems to the general public, while so many computer scientists find them inscrutably opaque? In this presentation, an optimistic approach to this seemingly hopeless question will be presented.
In case you want to start a small project, but want to avoid the US or Chinese hyperscalers, here are some EU-owned solutions for you. I like this list, not because I want to promote these services, but rather because it shows that the EU is gaining traction on providing credible and competitive basic services. (…)
Now even the pope chimes in on giving his ideas how to use LLMs in a responsible way. His name predecessor, Leo the XIII, had many things to say about responsible capitalism. Now is the time to set the agenda straight with regards to LLMs: the pope puts the human in the center again, asks (…)
It’s encouraging to see digital sovereignty discussions beginning to bear fruit, though much of that fruit is still unripe. The more closely the non-US community examines the issue, the more complex it becomes: ‘sovereign’ cloud computing means little if the underlying hardware is produced in the US or China. A server is not just one (…)
Entitled ‘AI at the Frontlines: Securing the Future of Cyber Defence’, the conference will focus on the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence in cyber defence. National and international experts from research, industry and administration will discuss current developments, security issues and strategic perspectives in order to shape the future of cyber defence.
What makes Stanford HAI’s AI Index valuable is its data-driven, long-term perspective, which provides a welcome antidote to sensationalist headlines. Key signals: AI capabilities are not plateauing, the US-China gap has closed, and responsible AI is not keeping pace with AI capability. As for Switzerland, it ranks #1 globally in AI talent per capita, yet (…)
This is a very thorough description of a bug detected in a Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) library used by a blockchain. If you are interested in how modern ZKPs work, this article gives a condensed overview of what is happening in a ZKP, and what the security guarantees are. As always, the devil is in (…)
Talkspace has been using patients’ therapy session data to train an AI chatbot, and undoubtedly, many of them have no idea. It is well documented that most users do not read terms of service closely enough to understand what they’re actually consenting to. Even if they did, Talkspace’s assurances that the data is “anonymized” are (…)
I think this take on the state of AI adoption is spot on. Since ChatGPT made its public debut, we’ve been promised large-scale transformation of the workplace and society at large. But a little over three years in, apart from very specific tasks, we’re still unclear what this supposed revolution will actually look like, and (…)
With AI, the voice has acquired a new significance. Behind the words lies data that can be used both to diagnose a health problem and to steal someone’s identity. An update with Andrea Cavallaro, professor and head of the Multimedia and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory, affiliated with C4DT, at EPFL
What I appreciated about this article was the unfiltered opinion of a cybersecurity expert that unpacks how even smart, capable people can become emotionally and cognitively captured by AI systems that flatter, mirror, and intensify their own narratives. It’s admittedly subjective, but sharp and uncomfortably thought-provoking.
This article touches on several deeply interconnected problems that go beyond just “bad behavior online”. It’s about the normalization of violence against women in digital spaces, enabled by Telegram’s deliberate hands-off approach to moderation, the anonymity the platform offers, and a regulatory framework that hasn’t kept pace with how these technologies are being weaponized. What (…)
Geneva Cyber Week 2026 will bring together experts from a variety of sectors across multiple events to discuss the latest developments, challenges, and opportunities in cybersecurity.
Since Anthropic announced that it’ll not publicly release its newest Claude Mythos model because of concerns around its capabilities in exploiting software vulnerabilities, I have been searching for a good analysis of this non-release. I wondered whether this was truly responsible disclosure or nothing but a marketing stunt. Bruce Schneier’s take on it finally answered (…)
I took part in this ‘fibre rush’, and I always emphasise that digitalisation fundamentally requires substantial physical infrastructure. Learning from history can help us to identify patterns that we should take into account during today’s AI boom. However, there are also crucial differences: data centres incur significantly higher maintenance costs, and GPUs depreciate much faster (…)
We’re used to the terms “echo chambers” and “filter bubbles” when discussing the dangers of social networks, search engines, and personalized ads. Now, with AI chatbots, a new term joins the ranks: “sycophancy”, or telling people what they want to hear. Could sycophantic chatbots be more harmful than social media echo chambers? My gut says (…)
I strongly believe AI tools that engage citizens directly in shaping policy will be the main engine of future political campaigns. We’re familiar by now with stories about AI influencing voters’ opinions. What’s new here is the use of AI to shape a political party’s principles and policies and making such tools open and usable (…)
Identité digitale, intelligence artificielle, interopérabilité : les fondations de la santé numérique se transforment en profondeur. Un symposium pour en saisir les enjeux et rencontrer les acteurs qui les façonnent, organisé par Trust Valley à Martigny.
The Swiss IGF 2026 will take place on Tuesday, June 16 at Welle 7 in Bern. Participation in the conference is still open to all individuals and organisations, but it is worth becoming a member of the association, as the previous participation rights of the steering group are now open to all members. More info soon!
In “On Privacy and Technology”, Prof. Solove distils years of rigorous academic research into an accessible analysis that cuts through the noise surrounding privacy debates with surgical precision. What makes this work particularly compelling is Solove’s unflinching exposure of uncomfortable truths: the consent model is fundamentally flawed, self-regulation has failed and cannot succeed, and current (…)
From Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), to Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) – also sometimes called Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO), it’s interesting to notice how much we rely on specific tools to “see the world”. With search engines, we had to scroll down the results and decide ourselves which links were relevant (and still feared how much (…)
