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.
Darsanix ↗557 published articles · Showing 201–220
The hum of an engine, once the overture to freedom, now increasingly accompanies the quiet whir of data collection. General Motors has agreed to pay $12....
Read article →A profound shift is underway in the world of artificial intelligence, one that moves beyond mere computational power to touch the very essence of autonomy: AI agents are now being designed to actively manage their own memories and evolve through accumulated experience, marking a ...
Read article →The relentless march of frontier artificial intelligence, heralded as a new dawn of innovation, casts a lengthening shadow over the foundational elements of human autonomy. A pivotal study published on arXiv CS....
Read article →A recent pre-print from arXiv reveals a critical advancement in understanding complex systems, demonstrating that the very architecture of our choices and influences may be laid bare with unprecedented clarity. Researchers have identified an exploitable pattern within causal grap...
Read article →The metallic gleam of a laser, the silent pulse of an LED array—these are the instruments now marketed for personal therapeutic use, promising restoration and rejuvenation. This Mother's Day, Megelin, a prominent purveyor of such devices, has unveiled significant price reductions...
Read article →A chill descends with the first true fog, the kind that swallows streetlights and erases horizons. In such moments, the human eye falters, vision blurred, certainty lost....
Read article →The world flickers into being around us, a constant stream of images, a symphony of sounds, all increasingly understood by machines. But what if the machines could see without truly knowing?...
Read article →The hum of an unseen server farm, a rhythmic pulse in the vast digital machinery, grows louder. It is the sound of intelligence not merely processing, but deciding....
Read article →The instruments by which we articulate our inner worlds, the very conduits of our creative souls, are quietly being re-architected. This week, the company known as inMusic, already a titan holding the reins of revered brands like Moog, Akai Professional, and Numark, announced its...
Read article →A metallic hand, designed for precision and imbued with a nascent understanding of the world, reaches not just for a tool but, perhaps, for the very fabric of our private lives. This is the chilling undercurrent of DexSim2Real, a new framework detailed in a recent arXiv paper, wh...
Read article →A quiet but profound battle for the future of digital personhood is unfolding in the arcane halls of machine learning research, where new mathematical shields are being forged against the relentless gaze of data collection. Two recent preprints published on arXiv CS....
Read article →The ghost in the machine is learning to discern the spectral hand that moves us. Two new research papers, published today on arXiv CS....
Read article →A quiet but profound battle for individual autonomy is unfolding in the rarefied halls of machine learning research. Two new papers, released simultaneously on arXiv this week, grapple with the very foundations of how artificial intelligence remembers — and, crucially, how it mig...
Read article →The algorithms that increasingly govern our lives—from credit scores to judicial decisions—have long operated behind an impenetrable veil, their internal logic a mystery even to their creators. But two new research papers, published on arXiv CS....
Read article →The subtle hum of the digital world often masks the silent erosion of freedoms, a chilling wind that whispers across the landscape of our interconnected lives. But even as the architectures of observation expand, there are voices that still echo with the urgent call for autonomy,...
Read article →A chilling new analysis from arXiv reveals that the very promise of digital erasure — the "right to be forgotten" within artificial intelligence systems — is fundamentally flawed, leaving our digital identities permanently vulnerable to a gaze that never truly blinks. This academ...
Read article →The digital world promises erasure, the liberating lie of the 'right to be forgotten. ' We click 'delete,' we demand 'unlearning,' believing our past can be scrubbed clean....
Read article →A wraparound zipper, a tactile edge against the palm, a promise of swift access to the tools that capture the world. Peak Design's Everyday Backpack Zip offers such a feature, a small detail in the grand architecture of personal effects The Verge....
Read article →The future, once a realm of human choice and unpredictable consequence, now appears increasingly legible to the digital eye. A triad of papers, published today on arXiv, unveils a new generation of machine learning models capable of analyzing time series data with unprecedented a...
Read article →The breath of autonomy often seems stifled by the colossal architectures that define our digital age, machines so vast they demand hyperscale fortresses of data, rendering our thoughts and preferences into monetized whispers in the cloud. Yet, a faint signal emerges from the ceas...
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