Collaborate Disseminate
The population needs better conservation.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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Continue reading Friday Squid Blogging: Jumbo Flying Squid in the South Pacific
404 Media has a story about Proton Mail giving subscriber data to the Swiss government, who passed the information to the FBI.
It’s metadata—payment information related to a particular account—but still important knowledge. This sort … Continue reading Proton Mail Shared User Information with the Police
Someone tries to remote control his own DJI Romo vacuum, and ends up controlling 7,000 of them from all around the world.
The IoT is horribly insecure, but we already knew that.
Continue reading Hacking a Robot Vacuum
Surprising no one, Meta’s new AI glasses are a privacy disaster.
I’m not sure what can be done here. This is a technology that will exist, whether we like it or not.
Meanwhile, there is a new Android app that detects when there are smart gl… Continue reading Meta’s AI Glasses and Privacy
An expensive mistake:
Someone jumped at the opportunity to steal $4.4 million in crypto assets after South Korea’s National Tax Service exposed publicly the mnemonic recovery phrase of a seized cryptocurrency wallet.
The funds were stored in a Ledger cold wallet seized in law enforcement raids at 124 high-value tax evaders that resulted in confiscating digital assets worth 8.1 billion won (currently approximately $5.6 million).
When announcing the success of the operation, the agency released photos of a Ledger device, a popular hardware wallet for crypto storage and management…
Continue reading South Korean Police Accidentally Post Cryptocurrency Wallet Password
I’m skeptical about—and not qualified to review—this new result in factorization with a quantum computer, but if it’s true it’s a theoretical improvement in the speed of factoring large numbers with a quantum computer.
Continue reading Possible New Result in Quantum Factorization
Some good news: squid stocks seem to be recovering in the waters off the Falkland Islands.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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Continue reading Friday Squid Blogging: Increased Squid Population in the Falklands
In 2025, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta collectively spent US$380 billion on building artificial-intelligence tools. That number is expected to surge still higher this year, to $650 billion, to fund the building of physical infrastructure, such as data centers (see go.nature.com/3lzf79q). Moreover, these firms are spending lavishly on one particular segment: top technical talent.
Meta reportedly offered a single AI researcher, who had cofounded a start-up firm focused on training AI agents to use computers, a compensation package of $250 million over four years (see …
Apple announcement:
…iPhone and iPad are the first and only consumer devices in compliance with the information assurance requirements of NATO nations. This enables iPhone and iPad to be used with classified information up to the NATO restricted … Continue reading iPhones and iPads Approved for NATO Classified Data
Canada has a choice to make about its artificial intelligence future. The Carney administration is investing $2-billion over five years in its Sovereign AI Compute Strategy. Will any value generated by “sovereign AI” be captured in Canada, making a difference in the lives of Canadians, or is this just a passthrough to investment in American Big Tech?
Forcing the question is OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has been pushing an “OpenAI for Countries” initiative. It is not the only one eyeing its share of the $2-billion, but it appears to be the most aggressive. OpenAI’s top lobbyist in the region has met with Ottawa officials, including Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon…