Researchers from the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences have developed a new way to keep collaborative online documents end-to-end encrypted without compromising their usability. On August 12, 2026, the work was honored with the Internet Defense Prize at the USENIX Security Symposium.
Il y a un an, le streamer Jean Pormanove mourait en direct sur la plateforme Kick, après avoir subi pendant deux ans violences et humiliations filmées de la part de deux autres streamers, Naruto et Safine. Ces derniers viennent d’être condamnés à Nice — deux ans avec sursis pour l’un, 18 mois avec sursis pour l’autre — non pour sa mort, mais pour les sévices diffusés en direct. Le tribunal a également prononcé une peine de “bannissement numérique”, une première en France.
Sehr interessante Aussagen von Susanne Wille von der SRG, die die SRG klar als öffentlich-rechtliche Mediengesellschaft in einer von grossen Privatfirmen dominierten Landschaft positioniert. Die Bedeutung von Medienangeboten, deren Hauptziel eine ausgeglichene und unabhängige Berichterstattung ist, darf nicht unterschätzt werden. Dazu gehören auch entschlossene Massnahmen: kommerziellen KI-Anbietern den Zugang zu öffentlichen Inhalten zu versperren und (…)
Just as the EU AI Act’s enforcement provisions took effect, Brussels became the first jurisdiction in the world to formally engage OpenAI and Anthropic over their rogue AI agent hacks — no lawsuit needed, no brave plaintiff required. This stands in sharp contrast to the U.S., where accountability remains stuck in legal limbo. When it (…)
Des sites coréens proposent du shopping «pour de faux», sans achat réel. Une idée qui peut sembler amusante, mais qui cache un vrai problème : la dépendance au shopping en ligne.
Living in the world of LLMs often makes me wonder about the details of how they work and how they have developed over the years. This article is an extensive (600 pages) reference that includes LLM theory, training, benchmarking, all the way up to how to set up agentic systems. I like to open a (…)
It always stuns me how companies can invoke ‘consent’ when almost no one reads the pages-long terms and conditions, and even those who do probably won’t understand much of it anyway, and still it’s considered legally valid . What’s new here is that this so-called consent isn’t just meaningless to users; this article documents how (…)
Nach den vielen Worten zur digitalen Souveränität in der Schweiz kommen jetzt erste Taten zum Vorschein: Die Schweizer Armee hat angefangen, an der deutschen Open Source Software Open Desk mitzuarbeiten. Dies ist möglich dank einem Budget von 10 Millionen Franken, das das Parlament im Dezember 2025 zur Verfügung gestellt hat. Die Schweizer Armee hat jetzt (…)
AI summaries are now an almost expected feature of search engines. This article explains why this is problematic, using the example of the recent polarising vote on the ’10-Millionen-Initiative’ in Switzerland. I would only add that systems repeatedly shown to be susceptible to prompt injection are destined to become targets for the AI era’s version (…)
This article is interesting because Schneier, writing primarily about AI safety and the futility of model bans, incidentally reframes the entire AI sovereignty debate. Everyone is fighting over frontier models: the expensive, inaccessible layer. But the harness, the code that orchestrates and directs AI models, is where power actually lives. It is buildable today, and (…)
MeditronFO is the first fully open framework for building medical large language models, to make AI in healthcare more transparent and accountable. esearchers from EPFL’s Laboratory for Intelligent Global Health & Humanitarian Response Technologies (LiGHT) in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences have released MeditronFO (Fully Open), a framework they used to “medicalize” several fully open base models, including OLMo, EuroLLM and Apertus, Switzerland’s model developed by EPFL and ETH Zurich.
We use Matrix, too, so this issue hits close to home for us. The timing is infortunate. Europe is actively working to reduce its digital dependency, and this incident has landed right in the middle of those efforts, ready to be weaponized by skeptics. However, the details matter. From what is currently known, neither the (…)
As cyberattacks become an increasing reality of armed conflict, the ICRC is developing a digital emblem enabling medical and humanitarian organizations to signal their protected status under international humanitarian law in the digital environment. This event marks the transition to the operational phase of the project, bringing together state representatives, technology leaders, and technical experts to present the initiative, demonstrate how it works, and define concrete steps toward international adoption.
Schon das alte Nachrichtendienstgesetz wurde von der DigiGes und anderen Organisationen als zu eingreifend für die Privatsphäre bezeichnet. Hinzu kommt, dass die bisherigen Lauschangriffe auf die Netzkommunikation durch den Schweizer Nachrichtendienst vom Bundesgericht als grundrechtswidrig festgestellt wurden. Jetzt soll eine überarbeitete Version mit noch mehr Abhörrechten Eingang ins Schweizer Recht finden – das ist sicher (…)
The author resists both the hype that AI will replace software engineers and the reflex to dismiss it. Probably correct isn’t good enough for professional software: errors compound across modules until correctness and trust collapse. His answer is pairing AI code generation with AI-assisted formal specification, verified by proof tools at every step. Trustworthy software (…)
Il est intéressant de constater que l’union fait la force, y compris lorsqu’il s’agit de préserver des alternatives viables dans le monde des services numériques. Déposer une plainte contre une migration représente certes un effort considérable, mais dans ce cas précis, la démarche a porté ses fruits : la migration vers MS Office a dû (…)
A reality check for anyone assuming AI subscriptions will stay at today’s prices — or get cheaper. Repricing is only a matter of time. But beyond the economics lies a sovereignty trap: cheap access accelerates dependency, erodes internal capability, and eliminates negotiating leverage before the real cost arrives. By then, workflows and data are already (…)
The rise of powerful large language models (LLMs) such as Mythos and ChatGPT 5.5, alongside agentic AI systems like MDASH, has sparked concern in cybersecurity due to their ability to identify and exploit large numbers of zero-day vulnerabilities, prompting calls for significantly stronger IT defenses. This shift also presents an opportunity: by democratizing access to (…)
This full-day event brings together industry leaders, policymakers, researchers, and civil society actors to assess the concrete levers of AI sovereignty available to Switzerland and its European partners and to develop actionable recommendations toward a Swiss national AI sovereignty strategy.
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 (…)
Whether you are in favour or against age checks, it is in no one’s interest to undermine legitimate privacy and security tools. Instead of using the sledgehammer approach to enforce ill-conceived laws, governments should focus their efforts on providing privacy-friendly ways of passing age checks to boost the public’s acceptance.
Die neue Überwachungsverordnung VÜPF der Schweiz ist ein bisschen überarbeitet worden – aber offenbar nicht genug. Auch wenn ich das Bestehen von Geheimdiensten in manchen Situationen gutheisse, muss deren Arbeit und das Ausmass der Datenquellen verhältnismässig sein. In dieser neuen Verordnung ist das aber nicht gegeben, im Gegenteil: Ausländische Firmen werden gegenüber Schweizer Firmen bevorzugt, (…)
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
