Collaborate Disseminate
Researchers at Google have developed a watermark for LLM-generated text. The basics are pretty obvious: the LLM chooses between tokens partly based on a cryptographic key, and someone with knowledge of the key can detect those choices. What makes this … Continue reading Watermark for LLM-Generated Text
It would be an understatement to say that things can get pretty hectic in a hospital emergency room … enough so that staff occasionally administer the wrong medication. Soon, however, AI-enabled wearable cameras could help keep that from happening.Cont… Continue reading AI head-cameras trained to spot and prevent mistakes in medication
Two students have created a demo of a smart-glasses app that performs automatic facial recognition and then information lookups. Kind of obvious—something similar was done in 2011—but the sort of creepy demo that gets attention.
News article.
Continue reading Auto-Identification Smart Glasses
In the event of a shark attack, it’s very important to determine which shark species was responsible, so authorities can take the appropriate measures. A new study indicates that readily available medical gauze can be used by first responders to obtain… Continue reading Gauze from first aid kits can be used to ID human-attacking sharks
It’s possible to cancel other people’s voter registrations:
On Friday, four days after Georgia Democrats began warning that bad actors could abuse the state’s new online portal for canceling voter registrations, the Secretary of State’s Office acknowledged to ProPublica that it had identified multiple such attempts…
…the portal suffered at least two security glitches that briefly exposed voters’ dates of birth, the last four digits of their Social Security numbers and their full driver’s license numbers—the exact information needed to cancel others’ voter registrations…
Continue reading Problems with Georgia’s Voter Registration Portal
We have received an electronically signed GDPR data request from a person who has only provided his name and surname. We wanted to be sure that this person is who he claims he is, so we have asked to additionally provide his national ID nu… Continue reading Is electronic signature a proper/sufficient mean for identification/authentication?
A group of cryptographers have analyzed the eiDAS 2.0 regulation (electronic identification and trust services) that defines the new EU Digital Identity Wallet.
Continue reading Security Analysis of the EU’s Digital Wallet
Even if a criminal wears gloves, their cast-off DNA may still be present in a room’s air after they leave. A new study suggests that if such telltale material gets sucked up by an air conditioner, it could let forensic investigators know if a suspect h… Continue reading Air conditioners may help catch criminals, by snagging their DNA
The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies like Apple and Google without a warrant.
The investigative technique goes back years. Court orders that were issued in 2019 to Apple and Google demanded that the companies hand over information on accounts identified by push tokens linked to alleged supporters of the Islamic State terrorist group.
But the practice was not widely understood until December, when Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), in a …
ID verification tags aren’t much use if someone can just peel them off and stick them to a fake product. MIT scientists have now designed ID tags that use the glue itself as a kind of fingerprint, and will scramble the barcode if someone peels it off.C… Continue reading Tamper-proof glueprints distinguish real from fake at over 99% accuracy