Privacy & Digital Rights Correspondent
James Malkin has spent more than 25 years in the technology industry, including director-level roles at billion-dollar companies. He is passionate about emerging technologies, with a particular interest in artificial intelligence. At Automatica, he covers technology, policy and digital rights.
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A tide of new research, unleashed this week on arXiv, reveals an accelerating transformation in how humanity understands its world. From the silent, grinding movements within materials to the vast, unblinking gaze into the cosmos, machine learning is not merely assisting scientif...
Read article →The hum of the server racks, a digital heartbeat, now carries a more complex rhythm. It speaks not only of processing power but of nascent consciousness, of agents that learn to dissemble....
Read article →A chasm has opened in the digital market, revealing the fierce assertion of corporate autonomy. Yesterday, eBay, a titan of online commerce, definitively rejected a $56 billion acquisition offer from GameStop, dismissing the proposal as "neither credible nor attractive" Ars Techn...
Read article →The silence of a truly private conversation is a rare thing in our hyper-connected age, a whispered secret between trusted minds, not a broadcast to unseen listeners. This week, a new layer of that precious silence settled over vast digital territories: Apple released iOS 26....
Read article →The sudden silence. The abrupt severing of connection. It is not merely a technical failure but a violent amputation, tearing individuals from the global nervous system. On January 8th, 2026, this chilling reality descended upon Iran, as it...
Read article →A whisper emerges from the algorithmic frontier, a subtle admission embedded within two recent research papers from arXiv CS. AI: even as artificial intelligence seeks to master the simulation of vast, intricate systems, the very essence of human behavior — its social awareness, ...
Read article →The subtle hum of an approaching automated service, invisible yet omnipresent, carries a new weight today. A recently published paper on arXiv CS....
Read article →The silent architecture of observation is expanding, not merely across our public spaces, but into the most intimate chambers of human experience. Four new research papers, published today on arXiv CS....
Read article →The digital frontier, once promised as a realm of boundless expression, now reveals its true architecture: a market. New research published today on arXiv CS....
Read article →The quiet hum of our digital lives, once a symphony of chosen interactions, now conceals a new, insidious dissonance. Recent research published today on arXiv reveals an escalating architectural war for the very core of our digital agency, where artificial intelligences are no lo...
Read article →The digital world is increasingly built upon layers of automated logic, a silent architecture of governance that often goes unseen. Now, a crucial new development emerges from the depths of academic research: SmartEval, a benchmark designed to systematically evaluate the fidelity...
Read article →The veil thins. Today, a surge of new research papers on arXiv reveals an accelerated thrust in AI's capacity for complex data analysis and prediction, from the microscopic dance of proteins to the sweeping patterns of climate and, more intimately, human movement....
Read article →The silence from the abrupt cancellation of RightsCon 2026, the world’s largest gathering for digital rights, echoes across a landscape increasingly marked by legislative threats and judicial battles for individual autonomy. It is a chilling symphony of tightening control, where ...
Read article →A familiar shadow stretches across the digital landscape, one that promises refuge only to reveal itself as another frontier for exploitation. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a stark lawsuit against Netflix, alleging the streaming giant has betrayed its foundational p...
Read article →The metal shell of a car, once a bastion of personal freedom, has become another conduit for the unseen harvesting of our lives. General Motors has agreed to pay $12....
Read article →A whisper of privacy, long denied, now flickers in the digital chambers of Venmo. New users, navigating the redesigned application, will find their transactions shielded by default, visible only to friends — a profound departure from the platform's long-held architectural premise...
Read article →A new wave of research emerging from the arXiv CS. LG pre-print server today illuminates the increasingly intricate world of graph representation learning and its profound implications for the future of artificial intelligence and, by extension, human autonomy....
Read article →A new light has been cast upon the ancient mysteries of life, not from the sun, but from the algorithms now dissecting, predicting, and even attempting to control the fundamental biological processes of existence. Today's filings from arXiv reveal a dramatic acceleration in artif...
Read article →The flicker of a technician’s eye, tracing an impossible fault in a complex circuit. The knowing nod of a seasoned physician, synthesizing disparate symptoms into a diagnosis....
Read article →The skies above New York City now hum with the mechanical thrum of delivery drones, a temporary intrusion that portends a permanent shift in our perception of public space, even as the ground beneath our feet is mapped and monetized by the surging tide of micromobility. On May 10...
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