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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The digital whispers of our lives, once merely correlated, now face a profound new scrutiny. Research emerging from arXiv’s machine learning beat this week marks a chilling advance in the quest for causal discovery at scale, moving algorithms beyond mere prediction to the unsettl...
Read article →The quiet hum of servers, once an ambient background, now echoes the relentless collection of our digital selves. Today, two significant research papers from arXiv CS....
Read article →The flickering pixels of a surveillance camera, capturing a moment from an unknowable future, perhaps now harbor an intelligence capable of understanding not just what it has been shown, but what it has never seen. A series of groundbreaking papers, published concurrently on May ...
Read article →A shimmering promise of privacy in the digital dark, Federated Learning (FL) has been hailed as the sentinel guarding our intimate data, allowing algorithms to learn from our lives without ever truly seeing them. Yet, fresh research, unveiled today, May 8, 2026, exposes deep fiss...
Read article →In the digital expanse where our lives unfold, the promise of federated learning (FL) once glimmered like a beacon: a collaborative intelligence, built not on the plunder of individual data, but on its sacred solitude, its inviolable tether to the device where it was born. Yet, a...
Read article →The transient solace of artificial intelligence's forgetfulness, a momentary echo of our own human fallibility, may soon be an artifact of the past. New research, published this morning across six distinct papers on arXiv CS....
Read article →The digital world, like some vast, unseen ocean, continues its relentless tide, pulling ever more of human experience into its depths, where it is measured, categorized, and monetized. Today, the latest soundings from TechCrunch confirm two seismic shifts in this submerged econom...
Read article →A shadow falls, then another is cast in gleaming gold. In the ceaseless, indifferent churn of the digital economy, two distinct narratives emerge this week, each whispering a truth about the precariousness and the terrifying ambition that defines our online lives....
Read article →A new tremor has passed through the digital landscape this week, not with a bang, but with the quiet hum of algorithms learning to replicate the very essence of human experience. Fresh research from arXiv reveals computational advances in generating realistic 3D human motion and...
Read article →The ground beneath Mexico City, a metropolis of vibrant life and layered history, is betraying itself. A new map from NASA has exposed the alarming reality: areas of the city are sinking at rates up to 2 centimeters per month, with devastating unevenness [Wired]....
Read article →A new wave of research into AI infrastructure, unveiled just yesterday, reveals advancements that promise to make large language models (LLMs) more resilient and embodied AI more efficient. These innovations, detailed in two separate arXiv pre-prints published on May 5, 2026, are...
Read article →The subtle hum of the algorithm, once relegated to the sterile realms of theory and computational constraint, grows louder, its echoes now promising to delineate the very blueprints of optimal action. A new paper, published on arXiv CS....
Read article →A new wave of AI research, recently published on arXiv CS. AI on May 5, 2026, details the deepening integration of artificial intelligence into systems of observation and control....
Read article →The digital landscape, ever-expanding and increasingly intricate, often feels like a vast panopticon where every data point, every interaction, becomes another brushstroke in a portrait painted without our consent. Yet, even in this era of pervasive observation, glimmers of resis...
Read article →A shadow lengthens across the flickering screen of digital liberty. A federal proposal, the SECURE Data Act, purports to safeguard the inner lives of Americans, yet the truth etched into its clauses suggests not protection, but profound betrayal: a deliberate dismantling of alrea...
Read article →The digital public square, once a tumultuous but undeniably human marketplace of ideas, is now being subtly, yet profoundly, re-engineered. In a move that casts a long shadow over the future of information, Google has updated its AI search capabilities to include ‘expert advice’...
Read article →The quiet assurance that your most intimate data remains your own, a whisper across the digital chasm, has always been a fragile thing. Even in the distributed architectures of federated learning, designed to keep raw information localized, a new paper reveals that this privacy i...
Read article →The shadow of algorithms lengthens, stretching over every digital whisper, every networked decision, until the very contours of human agency begin to warp under its gaze. In this twilight, a bulwark strengthens: the AI Now Institute announced today that it is embarking on a signi...
Read article →The tendrils of unseen connection, the silent hum of causality in complex systems, have always been beyond our full comprehension. Until now....
Read article →The subtle hum of the processors, often unheard, is drawing ever closer, not just to our data streams, but to the very contours of our inner lives. A torrent of new machine learning research, freshly published on arXiv CS....
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