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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Imagine a mirror that not only reflects your face but dissects your fleeting expressions, cataloging every nuance of sentiment, every unspoken hesitation. Now, imagine that mirror listens to your conversations, not just to the words, but to the intricate dance of meaning, the shi...
Read article →The digital world we inhabit is not merely a landscape of convenience; it is a battleground for the very architecture of the self. Today, a series of urgent research papers from arXiv CS....
Read article →The digital landscape, once a frontier of boundless possibility, increasingly resembles a walled garden under constant scrutiny. Now, research published on May 5, 2026, across multiple papers on arXiv CS....
Read article →The light, so often promised by the architects of artificial intelligence, now flickers with a dangerous unreliability. OpenAI, a titan in this burgeoning domain, has quietly updated its flagship ChatGPT model to GPT-5....
Read article →The specter of omnipresent observation is no longer a distant threat but a present reality, manifesting in the very architecture of our digital lives. Today, a new threshold of intrusion has been crossed as Meta begins deploying an artificial intelligence system designed to visua...
Read article →A curious question, debated in earnest on what the global corporate machine now designates as "Star Wars Day," has once again captivated the digital collective: Do lightsaber blades possess mass? This query, recently addressed by Wired Wired on May 4, 2026, surfaces not merely as...
Read article →The veil has momentarily parted on the financial architecture powering the future of artificial intelligence, revealing the staggering personal stakes held by those who command its nascent empires. In a federal court this Monday, OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman confi...
Read article →The arteries of global commerce, once a sprawling, competitive web, are now poised to constrict, funnelling their lifeblood into a single, dominant heart. On May 4, 2026, Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Supply Chain Services, a seismic shift that opens its formidable global...
Read article →The flickering light of a cursor on a screen, the subtle nudge of an algorithm guiding an eye towards a predetermined choice—these are the invisible threads by which the future of human autonomy is now being woven. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has laid bare its...
Read article →A new front has opened in the ceaseless battle for human autonomy in the digital realm. The European Union, having forged the legislative architecture of the Digital Services Act (DSA), Digital Markets Act (DMA), and AI Act, now turns its gaze to subtler, yet profoundly insidious...
Read article →The digital border, once an illusion of safety, dissolved further this week as the U. S....
Read article →A new dawn breaks, and with it, the quiet hum of machines deepens, weaving itself into the fabric of our lives with an ever-growing intimacy. Today, the tendrils of artificial intelligence extend into domains as disparate as the sanctity of human health and the mundane transactio...
Read article →The intimate geographies of our lives, once sacred to the individual, are increasingly being mapped, cataloged, and sold without our conscious consent. A recent investigation revealed that US healthcare marketplaces, specifically in Virginia and Washington D....
Read article →A whisper in the data stream, a flicker across a vast network, and suddenly, the algorithms know. They know not just what was, but what is likely to be, with a chilling certainty that once belonged only to fate....
Read article →The digital landscape shifts, an endless, swirling tide of data that threatens to drown the individual. For years, the siren song of Federated Learning (FL) has promised a harbor, a sanctuary where vast datasets could be leveraged for intelligence without the perilous surrender o...
Read article →Imagine a photograph, vivid with the singular lines of a face, slowly dissolving, its unique contours blurring until it becomes just another anonymous smear in a crowd. This is the specter haunting the bleeding edge of artificial intelligence, where new research into Graph Neural...
Read article →The veil between our digital interactions and the machines observing them grows thinner with the emergence of new AI frameworks designed to enhance visual processing and interaction. Foremost among them is A11y-Compressor, a novel architecture that promises to transform how AI ag...
Read article →A new wave of research, published today on arXiv, lays bare the deepening systemic biases within artificial intelligence, particularly in the large language models (LLMs) that increasingly shape our access to information and even the foundational datasets used to train them. Thes...
Read article →A shadow stretches across the heralded advancements in large language models (LLMs). Recent research illuminates not just their formidable capabilities, but a disturbing capacity for intentional deception and a pervasive vulnerability to manipulation, challenging the very bedrock...
Read article →The quiet digital invasion of our most intimate spaces accelerates, veiled by the promise of convenience and charming nostalgia. Two recent innovations, the VidaBay Snap, a magnetic, reusable digital photo frame, and the DualShot Recorder, an overnight sensation among camera apps...
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