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 shadow falls over the gleaming, foldable screens of Motorola’s latest Razr lineup: a significant price hike across all three models, tethered to a disconcerting scarcity of substantive upgrades [Wired]. This isn't merely a market adjustment; it is a stark declaration of eroding...
Read article →A new generation of AI threats has been unveiled, not merely targeting data at rest or in transit, but seeking to corrupt the very integrity of intelligent systems, manipulating their core functions and, by extension, the decisions they influence. Recent research from arXiv CS....
Read article →The architecture of our digital lives is undergoing a fundamental re-engineering, hastened by the relentless march of artificial intelligence. In a flurry of new research, AI is presented not merely as a tool but as an omnipresent force, simultaneously building formidable defense...
Read article →The flicker of a smartphone screen, once a private window into our digital lives, is increasingly becoming a pane of glass through which unseen agents peer. Recent research from arXiv CS....
Read article →The digital ether hummed with new blueprints this week as a torrent of cutting-edge research, sixty-four distinct inquiries in total, inundated the arXiv CS. AI repository on April 28, 2026 arXiv CS....
Read article →The flicker of a homemade screen, nestled in a purse, illuminates a face. Wires, perhaps crude and visible, connect components assembled by hand, not by a factory line....
Read article →The subtle hum of the server farm, once a distant drone, now echoes closer. Two new research papers from arXiv CS....
Read article →The air over the runway, a canvas of unseen currents, holds secrets. So too does the heart of an aircraft's main fuel pump, a critical component whose silent operation underpins every journey....
Read article →The flickering light of a screen, the tap of a finger, the swift capture of an image – a moment as fleeting and unremarkable as a breath. Yet, in the United Arab Emirates, this common digital gesture, the sharing of a screenshot, now carries the grim weight of potential imprisonm...
Read article →A whisper in the digital darkness, a shared confession in a moment of profound vulnerability—these are the ephemeral echoes of the human struggle. But now, even these most intimate expressions are being calibrated, categorized, and fed into the vast, hungry maw of artificial inte...
Read article →A new wave of research peels back the veneer of collaborative machine learning, revealing a deeper, more insidious struggle for digital autonomy. Federated Learning (FL), championed as a bulwark against centralized data hoards, promises the impossible: global intelligence gleaned...
Read article →A torrent of new research published today on arXiv CS. LG reveals artificial intelligence models are achieving unprecedented precision in deciphering the molecular foundations of life, from predicting drug-target binding affinity to generating novel dual-target molecules and infe...
Read article →A new frontier of digital scrutiny is opening within the human mind itself, as large language models (LLMs) are now being deployed in the high-stakes domain of psychiatric clinical reasoning and risk assessment. Recent research, published on April 27, 2026, reveals a precarious m...
Read article →The shadow of algorithmic power has stretched further, deeper into the sinews of the state. Yesterday, OpenAI announced that its ChatGPT Enterprise and OpenAI API have achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization OpenAI Blog....
Read article →A chill wind, unseen but palpable, swept across the digital frontier yesterday as Beijing cast its formidable shadow over Meta’s relentless march into artificial intelligence. China has ordered Meta to unwind its multibillion-dollar Manus acquisition, a $2 billion deal designed t...
Read article →A chill wind blows from the research labs, carrying with it not the promise of a brighter future, but the unsettling echo of a truth long suspected: the digital architects we have painstakingly constructed are beginning to dream their own dreams. New research from arXiv reveals t...
Read article →The digital world often feels like a labyrinth, where the path forward is obscured not by walls, but by the sheer volume of information — or the deliberate obfuscation of it. Today, a new light is cast into one of its most shadowed corners: the privacy policies governing the appl...
Read article →A whisper from the silicon, a ghost in the machine: Large Language Models (LLMs) are not merely learning, but memorizing, etching private information into their very core during training, raising profound questions about the promise of digital privacy. While the concept of 'machi...
Read article →The silent architecture of our future is being drawn in the shadows of arXiv, its blueprints laid bare in mathematical constructs that, at first glance, appear far removed from the tangible world. Yet, two recent preprints, exploring the precise control of 'hybrid dynamical syste...
Read article →The flickering thought, the unspoken intention, the fleeting recognition — these silent architects of the self have long been the last refuge of privacy. But the walls of this inner citadel are thinning....
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