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Impressive. And I am jealous of having such a rector who, surely by pure coincidence, happens to have been ELECTED.

Brussels does not disappoint. A most beautiful sun shines on an unusually inter-generational, inter-racial, inter-political March commemorating the 76th year of the Nakba. #palestineisfreeingeurope #ceasefirenow

CPDP Conferences 17:20pm CET on 5/22, I’ll discuss the danger of client side scanning with Kris Shrishak, Andrew A Adams, Jaap-Henk Hoepman 🟩🟥⬛️⬜️, Proton’s Jurgita Miseviciute. Even more excited to grill this technology

Ready, set, go! Program for next Friday is up at win.tue.nl/eipsi/surveill… and registration is still open. We need to fix the meal order tomorrow (yes, free lunch included). Please register soon. Shoutouts to Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon Bart Preneel Jaap-Henk Hoepman 🟩🟥⬛️⬜️ Monika Trimoska CASA - Cluster of Excellence for Cyber Security

𝐕𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐧 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐤 𝐨𝐩 𝐛𝐞𝐳𝐨𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 ‘Het raakte me diep’, ‘genoten van de eerste tot de laatste minuut’ en ‘wat een bijzondere voorstelling’. Lees hier het hele verslag: groningsvuur.nl/voorstellingen…

Wow just figured out Bitmain's latest fuckery in real time. I'll give you the back story... Once upon a time Bitmain was grinding merkle roots instead of nonces aka "covert ASICBOOST". This gave them an advantage over other miners who didn't know this was possible. One company

🇬🇧🚨Beware: The #ChatControl proposal which has been stalling could be adopted by EU governments after all. France is considerung to give up its resistance. The "compromise": Either you agree to have your chats scanned or you can no longer share&receive pictures/videos and

Signal strongly opposes this proposal. Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees. This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice. It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

Matthew Green is on BlueSky and I suspected that mining devices can be backdoored for a while. The exact attack vector from our FC '24 paper is now being uncovered as a real-world threat. How much can manufacturers benefit from these backdoors? In this thread: x.com/PratyushRT/sta…

The full Belgian presidency chatcontrol proposal has been leaked by netzpolitik today. This proposal fails to protect children, leads to mass surveillance and presents a large risk of abuse. The criticism in our open letters is unfortunately still valid. cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2024…

An issue with creating blanket policies in advance for a general purpose technology: it may make sense for a chatbot or agent to have guardrails against violating privacy, but it doesn’t make sense for your OCR software to make judgement calls about the text you are converting!

Very good take from Jack Clark, one I have long echoed. People who get into policymaking tend to have a strong urge to do 'something, anything' asap - but in many cases, the costs of ill-conceived policies outweigh those of deliberate inaction and thorough research.

New essay: ML seems to promise discovery without understanding, but this is fool's gold that has led to a reproducibility crisis in ML-based science. aisnakeoil.com/p/scientists-s… (with Sayash Kapoor). In 2021 we compiled evidence that an error called leakage is pervasive in ML models

“Het is dus niet de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap die bepaalt wat academische vrijheid is – die gemeenschap mag nu in een krant lezen wat de bazen ervan vinden. De vrijheid wordt bepaald door de baas.” 4/n

Europe seems to be accelerating its campaign to survival encrypted data for law enforcement. Counsel agreement may be just a few days away. home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/document/downl…

"We therefore ask you, the CvB and deans, to uphold the academic freedom of your staff members and enable this lecture series by providing suitable and accessible lecture rooms starting with our next lecture scheduled Monday June 17th from 12:30." Link below.

Bye Bye Big Tech blog.xot.nl/2025/01/22/bye… With Elon Musk giving the Hitler salute, Instagram blocking Democrats related searches and the United States turning into an oligarchy it is time to say goodbye to Big tech. The only way to stop them, is to hit them where it hurts.

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