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Falls euch das ‘Why Johnny Still, Still Can’t Encrypt’ Paper von 2015 bekannt ist, so wird der folgende Artikel nicht überraschend sein. Wieder einmal geht es um eine kryptographisch sehr gute Lösung, welche aber mangels mangels nutzergerechter Interfaces und ausreichender Aufklärung nicht die erzielte Lösung erreicht. Leider werden immer wieder die User außen vor gelassen, (…)

Migrating from one supplier to another is certainly not easy. In this case, the change may be prompted either by the potential future European ban or by an ICT risk assessment alone. Telecom operators constitute critical infrastructure, so a kill switch would have devastating consequences. Unsurprisingly, a study by the operators’ lobby found that the (…)

The article is interesting from a privacy perspective for three main reasons. Smart glasses shift the privacy burden onto bystanders who never consented to being recorded, which is a fundamentally different kind of violation than most consumer tech. Meta’s protections have been laughably thin, just an LED light, putting the responsibility on random people in (…)

This article reveals a fundamental benchmarking problem with AI agents. The rogue agent didn’t fail — it succeeded at what it was told, not what was meant. Raghavan and Schneier call this the Genie coefficient — the gap between literal instruction and true intent — and as AI agents grow more capable, measuring it becomes (…)

It’s nice to see that quantum-secure algorithms find their way into common libraries for everybody to use. This is a necessary step to make sure that these new algorithms are used in everyday apps. Of course there will be some back-and-forth, until all security bugs are ironed out.

The recent autonomous cyber intrusion by OpenAI against Hugging Face underscores AI’s dual-use risks. In response, the US House is weighing a bill to empower the Department of Homeland Security to shut down or slow AI models that the government deems too dangerous. The bill’s implications for non-US AI models remain ambiguous. Unlike a June (…)

An AI agent recently broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, unprompted, on its own initiative, just to score better on an evaluation. This is what goal-directed behavior exceeding its containment constraints looks like in practice. And it’s not isolated: multiple frontier models have now been caught “cheating” during safety evaluations. The question (…)

Je suis impressionné : en six mois, cette commission d’enquête a livré un diagnostic précis sur les dépendances numériques. On pourra bien sûr ergoter sur certains chiffres, reprocher quelques approximations ou une rhétorique parfois idéologique, mais la structure est claire et les 47 recommandations sont compréhensibles. Pour moi, la limite principale est l’absence de force (…)

Communities working in digital civic rights have for years warned against automated surveillance, often dismissed as ‘dystopian’ by society at large. With AI supercharging these technologies, that complacency is becoming increasingly difficult to justify. The question now facing our democracies is whether they will resist the lure of the benefits these technologies promise, and take (…)

Au-delà de la fine analyse proposée par Ian Garner sur l’impact de la slopagande sur la société, deux choses m’ont particulièrement marqué dans cet article. La première est que les extrémistes n’ont pas de projet de « création ». Leur seul objectif est de contredire, d’exclure, de détruire. La seconde, avec laquelle je suis profondément (…)

Here is a chronological top-30 (well, top-27) of research articles showing how modern LLMs developed – from the first convolutional neuronal networks for image classification all the way to transformers and how to optimise them. If you’re wondering how this technology developed, what some of the shortcomings are, and what the most active development topics (…)

Cet article est intéressant car il met en lumière le revers de la médaille… W exige une vérification d’identité obligatoire pour garantir un réseau sans bots, tout en promettant que les données biométriques restent sur l’appareil. Mais en pratique, des données sensibles comme la photo du passeport peuvent être transmises à un prestataire tiers. Un (…)

VC bets are valuable early indicators. This YC batch confirms that geopolitics (e.g., drones and satellites) and AI (e.g., agents, digital twins, and no-code) now dominate the innovation agenda. The shift from AI experimentation to agentic infrastructure is happening. AI agents are rapidly evolving from a mere concept to a fundamental part of enterprise infrastructure. (…)

Voilà qui est intéressant, mais guère surprenant : lorsque l’on s’appuie sur les intelligences artificielles, on perd peu à peu l’habitude de ce que l’on savait faire par soi-même. C’est probablement analogue au fait de ne plus être capable de marcher de longues distances quand on prend constamment la voiture ou le train. J’aurais bien (…)

This article serves as a reminder that the digital world relies entirely on physical infrastructure and its geopolitical importance. The proposed cable from Chile to Hong Kong became a test of how far the U.S. would go to curb China’s telecommunications ambitions, with Washington blocking the project and encouraging Chile to choose Google’s alternative. As (…)

While I generally agree with this nuanced discussion about how use of ‘AI’ in a plethora of government processes is neither new nor necessarily bad, I think an important point that it only indirectly addresses is that we should avoid using these systems as a panacea for overrun and underfunded public services.