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I've found myself increasingly translating the statements of a certain American politician into Russian, and then looking for matches...

I've found myself increasingly translating the statements of a certain American politician into Russian, and then looking for matches for the statements in USSR newspapers and literature archive.

It's quite eye-opening.

For instance "agitators" is not a word that is common in the US or UK English - nor in the Western Europe.

However, for anyone who spent any time in the Warsaw pact countries, this word is instantly recognizable as one of the main concepts in the daily deluge of propaganda.

If you are wondering how far along the Project 2025 in the US is, here is a life tracker, with really nice filters for agencies, subject and...

If you are wondering how far along the Project 2025 in the US is, here is a life tracker, with really nice filters for agencies, subject and advancement status:

https://www.project2025.observer

Y’all EPFL - one of the top European engineering schools - just dropped on Mastodon, which I believe is a first! Welcome to Mastodon,...

Y’all EPFL - one of the top European engineering schools - just dropped on Mastodon, which I believe is a first!

Welcome to Mastodon, @epfl!

If you are backing up the scientific data or other archives being taken down in the US right now, for the love of got sign their hashes....

If you are backing up the scientific data or other archives being taken down in the US right now, for the love of got sign their hashes.

Like this: https://blog.sciencebyfacts.org/index.php/2017/02/09/publicly-backing-up-scientific-datasets-that-can-be-adversely-altered/ *

If it is valuable enough to be taken down, it will be valuable enough to falsify and then claim the original has been falsified instead.

If you don't have anything to back up - seed and re-sign the trusted hashes yourself.

* Just sub Mastodon for IRC and forget about time-stamping - the guide is still from early 2017

Looks like the Americans are about to discover first-hand how the USSR fell, why the emerging states had so many oligarchs and why the rest...

Looks like the Americans are about to discover first-hand how the USSR fell, why the emerging states had so many oligarchs and why the rest of the population struggled to survive.

And if you hope that they (the ones that gave power to Trump and Co by voting) will learn anything, you are about to discover just how effective the blame shift to the external enemies will be (most likely cartels and China).

Really Apple?

Really Apple?

If I am to believe what is presented, Google was figuring GenAI safety policies in real time in early 2023, meaning they wasted their ~3...

If I am to believe what is presented, Google was figuring GenAI safety policies in real time in early 2023, meaning they wasted their ~3 years of advance they already had in 2020.

Listening to a talk by Vanessa Wu - ex-Trust and safety on YouTube saying disinformation using GenAI came as a surprise to Google in...

Listening to a talk by Vanessa Wu - ex-Trust and safety on YouTube saying disinformation using GenAI came as a surprise to Google in November 2022.

Which is incredibly bold, given the 2020-21 firing of @timnitGebru and @emilymbender over their paper stating this was a risk requiring attention.

Closing keynote of #SwissCyberStorm: WAFs and Log4Shell by John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare.Apparently 9 min from public disclosure to...

Closing keynote of #SwissCyberStorm: WAFs and Log4Shell by John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare.
Apparently 9 min from public disclosure to first exploitation attempt. An amazing example of real-world detector evasion on an actual incident.

Nice to see @LukaszOlejnik echo the concerns as to LLMs and GenAI usage in information operations for countries with isolated langauage and...

Nice to see @LukaszOlejnik echo the concerns as to LLMs and GenAI usage in information operations for countries with isolated langauage and cultural background, especially for locally usable GenAI, that we voiced in our report for the CYD campus in early 2023 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12132)

A super interesting talk from Ruben Santamarta, at the #SwissCyberStorm on the cybersecurity of nuclear reactors. The full report is really...

A super interesting talk from Ruben Santamarta, at the #SwissCyberStorm on the cybersecurity of nuclear reactors.

The full report is really cool, and the blend of the physics and cyber in energy-intense applications is really cool and reminds me a lot of work @ianapeix did on renewables, power IOT, and energy grid stability at @cydcampus

Full 130 pages of report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qe_nBH1ACDX2ydmzcIhJnbdRGnoDvVfP/view

Since the only CISO I am relatively well familiar with is @jerry, I made sure to add at least one orchid to the slides, although not sure...

Since the only CISO I am relatively well familiar with is @jerry, I made sure to add at least one orchid to the slides, although not sure how well it will generalize.

Giving a talk today at the Swiss #CISOSummit in the margin of the #SwissCyberStorm about the LLMs in cybersecurity, current hype, and the...

Giving a talk today at the Swiss #CISOSummit in the margin of the #SwissCyberStorm about the LLMs in cybersecurity, current hype, and the lessons from the last few decades to provide them with tools to make informed decisions.

#LLMSecurity #cybersecurity #LLMs

https://www.ciso-summit.ch/next-summit/

Conversation about mastodon following a question: @kkomaitis suggests that Mastodon is not sufficiently user-friendly & lacking network...

Conversation about mastodon following a question: @kkomaitis suggests that Mastodon is not sufficiently user-friendly & lacking network effect. I disagree - Twitter in 2008 was **WILD** and not all connections on social media are equally valuable.

@podehaye maked a good point that Mastodon solved the problem of content federation, but not moderation (hugops to mastodon moderators).

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@sisiwei mentions the tracking research of @themarkup - notably the “black light” tool to see how people are being tracked, eg. on their...

@sisiwei mentions the tracking research of @themarkup - notably the “black light” tool to see how people are being tracked, eg. on their obgyn website. Wonder if it still works with chromium manifest v3.

Also wonder if the citizen science mentioned by Sisi and Paul-Olivier is creating a vulnerability to be exploited by the next Cambridge Analytica (thinking to myself back in 2015-2016).

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Also the point of @kkomaitis about centralization of AI is something that could be potentially countered by the distributed, Byzantine...

Also the point of @kkomaitis about centralization of AI is something that could be potentially countered by the distributed, Byzantine resilient, privacy preserving, well-generalizing learning. Which is for now an open question if not a holy graal.

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Happy to hear Emma’s Hoes’ point that overcommunicating about disinformation leads people to distrust as well the reliable information....

Happy to hear Emma’s Hoes’ point that overcommunicating about disinformation leads people to distrust as well the reliable information.

Similarly, @podehaye might not be fully aware of it, but Cambridge Analytica killed Facebook’s engineering recruitment pipeline and indirectly led to HuggingFace’s success.

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A really good opening point from @podehaye that we need to take in account the development of the technology itself and the business models....

A really good opening point from @podehaye that we need to take in account the development of the technology itself and the business models.

A question from the moderation - Katherine Loh of C4DT: what @themarkup did to combat disinformation. @sisiwei mentions the study of culturally Vietnamese households. They traced the disinfo down to a single person who was translating Breitbart and Co. into Vitnamese, targeting people who wanted news about US, but in Vietnamese. Countered by 90+y grandma.

Final panel on the building Resilience - role of Media, Academia, and Civil Society in Fighting Disinformation. Panelists: @podehaye,...

Final panel on the building Resilience - role of Media, Academia, and Civil Society in Fighting Disinformation.

Panelists: @podehaye, @sisiwei, @kkomaitis, and Emma Hoes of the University of Zurich.

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I also like the point about the discussion about the fact that the solution to disinformation is certainly sociotechnical, not just...

I also like the point about the discussion about the fact that the solution to disinformation is certainly sociotechnical, not just technical.

Prof. Ebrahimi, on the international collaboration standard bodies that he is part of: they are needed to address global issues, that cannot be addressed locally. Eg. climate change, or, most recently, Gen ML. Hence the World Standards Collaboration entity, to identify solutions and gaps, raise awareness, ...

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