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Have an Apple device from the last few years? We have a new side channel attack for you. Checkout our work at predictors.fail Joint work with Jason Kim, Jalen Chuang and Yuval Yarom (Yuval Yarom). Could not have asked for a better team!

Today, we are publishing the first-ever International AI Safety Report, backed by 30 countries and the OECD, UN, and EU. It summarises the state of the science on AI capabilities and risks, and how to mitigate those risks. 🧵 Link to full Report: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/679a0c48… 1/16

We’re honoured to be welcoming Prof Martin Hellman to deliver a distinguished lecture at Monash! This is a talk not to be missed!

Software engineering isn’t being replaced, the job is turning into something where you delete things generated by AI.

This is a policy choice. In the last 20 years Melbourne has built 30,000 new homes in the CBD- twice as many as the total number of homes in Sydney's CBD. Building more homes works. We should do it here.

Do you know that we Computing & Information Systems UniMelb have two opening positions for academics working in security & privacy? Come join us jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/919475/…. The working environment is just awesome — very supportive and collaborative. My DMs are open if you would like to know more :)

From Australia to Austria, from the desktop to your phone: Researchers at TU Graz and my ex-colleague Dragoș Rotaru have ported MP-SPDZ to WebAssembly, so it runs in any modern browser. eprint.iacr.org/2025/487

Peer review never sleeps: A student discovered that my code underlying a five-year-old paper uses the wrong curve. github.com/data61/MP-SPDZ…

It took a little while, but GitHub now uses the coveted "k" to display the number of stars on MP-SPDZ. github.com/data61/MP-SPDZ

#award The IACR Fellows for 2025 have just been announced. Congratulations to: Joan Daemen Thomas Johansson Anna Lysyanskaya Pascal Paillier J.R. RAO Alon Rosen Elaine Shi Bo-Yin Yang More info at: iacr.org/fellows/

Shout-out to my colleagues for the responsible disclosure of security issues in MP-SPDZ. They have been fixed in 2023. eprint.iacr.org/2025/789

Honoured to be invited as a keynote speaker at the workshop on Systems for MPC to share the latest progress on MP-SPDZ: bu.edu/riscs/events/s…

My latest paper investigates the relationship between semi-honest 3PC with replicated secret sharing and similar schemes with function-dependent preprocessing, and I conclude that the additional cost is unlikely to justify the benefits of the latter. eprint.iacr.org/2025/919

The undiscussed headline of last week: Victoria is the only state even close to achieving their housing target under the National Housing Accord. This is huge news for housing affordability in Melbourne and state-wide.

Number of national referendums in each European nation’s history

The latest version of MP-SPDZ adds two protocols with function-dependent protocols. Also in the bag is functionality that helps finding papers and code locations relevant to the computation at hand. github.com/data61/MP-SPDZ…

BUILD WOOLLAHRA STATION, PUT A TOD NEXT TO IT Did you know there's a ghost station on the eastern suburbs line? Woollahra station was orginally scheduled to open in 1979, but local NIMBYs went to the High Court to stop it. The State Govt gave up and never completed it. 1/3

The 7th workshop on Privacy Preserving Machine Learning will take place on August 17, 2025 (Sunday), as an affiliated event of the 45th CRYPTO 2025 conference.

Can LLMs predict the future? Who knows... We argue current evaluations of LLM forecasters suffer from too many pitfalls to reliably assess any performance claims.

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences implemented OT on FPGAs and made MASCOT up to 600 times faster: ojs.ub.rub.de/index.php/TCHE…