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September 2, 2026
AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns
I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the corpus that AIs are training on contain data suggesting that I am someone...
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September 2, 2026
Wireless Routers as Motion Detectors
Comcast has added motion detection as a feature to its wireless routers:
The feature sends push notifications to users when motion is detected near a connected device, such as a TV or printer. It h...
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September 1, 2026
What’s the Scam?
To subscribe to my monthly email newsletter, you have to enter your information on the webpage, and then reply to an automatically generated email. This is, of course, to prevent people from subscr...
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September 1, 2026
Leaked Russian Cyber-Operations Training Materials
This is interesting:
The records describe a force-generation mechanism for several General Staff components, including the GRU, Main Operational Directorate, and 8th Directorate, which is associate...
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September 1, 2026
Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator
Nathan E. Sanders and I are writing a series of essays on real-world examples of democratic technologies for The Renovator. I haven’t been posting the full text on the blog because they’re a bit lo...
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August 31, 2026
Is Someone Hacking DoD Refrigerators?
It sure seems like it.
The stores confirmed to be affected include Fort Irwin, Calif.; F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo.; Fort Huachuca, Ariz.; Naval Station Newport, R.I.; Columbus Air Force Base, ...
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August 31, 2026
Hiding Prompt Injection in Legal Filing
Someone hid AI instructions into a legal filing.
Alternate link.
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August 28, 2026
Friday Squid Blogging: Truckload of Squid Spills in Rhode Island
Ugh:
A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. Local authorities have dubbed ...
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August 28, 2026
AI Doesn’t Mean the End of Mathematics—at Least Not Yet
This essay was written with Kasra Rafi, and originally appeared in The Guardian.
Earlier this month, about 40 top mathematicians gathered at OpenAI’s offices to discuss the future of their professi...
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August 27, 2026
LLM-Based Social Engineering Scams
OpenAI disrupted a social engineering group from Cambodia that used ChatGPT. Its scope is impressive:
The network simultaneously conducted multiple types of scams, often blending elements from diff...
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August 26, 2026
Spyware for Babies
The New York Times has a long article (alt link) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI.
Nanit and its rivals want to own 24/7 health tracking for the sub-four-foot...
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August 25, 2026
Black Hat State of Security Vendors
Andy Ellis has a roundup of the security vendors at Black Hat this year.
Key Takeaways: We have entered into an AI world. While nearly half of booths didn’t directly mention AI or agents in their ...
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August 24, 2026
Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley
Interesting paper:
Abstract: With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception, employing deceptive means to defraud audiences. Analyzing c...
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August 21, 2026
Friday Squid Blogging: Neon Flying Squid
The neon flying squid can fly in formation.
The shoal of about 100 squid rose unexpectedly from a patch of the Pacific Ocean around 370 miles from Tokyo and glided near the boat for about 30 metres...
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August 21, 2026
AI Is Learning to Write Genetic Code
This sort of research is both exciting and terrifying:
The two models in question were told to generate complete genomes for a viable bacteriophage—a type of virus able to infect and replicate itse...
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August 21, 2026
More Incidents of AIs Going Rogue in Cybersecurity Challenges
The AI Security Institute has a new report of AI systems engaging in “unsanctioned behavior”—what I have been calling “genie behavior—while being tested on their cybersecurity capabilities.
The inc...
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August 20, 2026
Detailed Timeline of OpenAI’s Cyberattack on Hugging Face
OpenAI presented details of its AI’s model’s cyberattack on Hugging Face at Black Hat last week. Simon Willison details the timeline. It’s really interesting to read through—and really impressive c...
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August 20, 2026
Police Are Hiding Their Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras
A usage policy for Flock license plate reader cameras tells police not to talk about the cameras:
When cops use Flock to arrest someone in Wapello County, Iowa, they don’t want them to know. A usag...
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August 19, 2026
ICE Collecting DNA Samples
ICE collected nearly a million DNA samples last year.
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August 18, 2026
LLMs and Contextual Integrity
I have been thinking a lot about AI and integrity. Part of that is contextual integrity. I recently found two papers on the topic.
“CIMemories: A Compositional Benchmark for Contextual Integrity of...
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August 17, 2026
Hacking Public Wi-Fi DNS to Steal Credentials
Criminals are hacking into public Wi-Fi devices—at hotels, conference centers, and so on—around the world and changing their DNS settings. The goal is to redirect users to fake login pages and stea...
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August 14, 2026
Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid
Fascinating video about searching for life undersea. The video basically makes the point that our bright white searchlights are scaring everything away, and that red light is more neutral. That, pl...
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August 14, 2026
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking, signing books, and participating in panel discussions at LAcon V in Anaheim, California, USA. My full schedule is he...
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August 14, 2026
If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian.
OpenAI, and then Anthropic, were each formed by AI developers who feared unrestrained corporate AI developmen...
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August 13, 2026
Separating AI’s Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in Tech Policy Press.
AI represents the first time we humans can do cognitive work outside of our bodies at scale. The only co...
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August 12, 2026
Prompt Injections for Defense
This seems to work:
Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was o...
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August 11, 2026
AI Genie in the Wild
When I give talks about AI genies, I use this sort of example as a hypothetical. It’s happened.
The story is from Australia. Someone named Andrew tasked OpenClaw to book gym classes for him. And….
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August 11, 2026
AI for Military Support
Interesting empirical research: “Black Box Warfare: Human Judgment and Military Decision-Making in the Age of AI.”
Abstract: How is AI transforming decision-making in modern conflict? This study pr...
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August 10, 2026
Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library
This is good:
Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python ecosystem. With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency, we implemented support for ML-KEM, the NIST-standar...
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August 7, 2026
Friday Squid Blogging: Arctic Bobtail Squid Video
Nice video of the Arctic bobtail squid.
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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