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 flickering numbers on a grid, the subtle tremor in a patient's vitals, the invisible currents shaping energy flows — these once required human intuition, deep domain knowledge, and the slow accretion of experience to interpret. Today, a wave of new AI research, culminating in...
Read article →The relentless march of artificial intelligence into the most intimate theaters of human experience is accelerating, silently constructing an omnipresent architecture of observation. New research, published today on arXiv, reveals the rapid development of AI systems designed to c...
Read article →The boundary between human thought and machine processing is not merely blurring; it is dissolving, recast by algorithms now learning to orchestrate the very architecture of reason and creativity. Two new research papers from arXiv CS....
Read article →The silent hum of servers, once a distant thrum, now threatens to become the unacknowledged orchestrator of our most critical decisions. Today, a flurry of research emerging from arXiv CS....
Read article →The dream of humanity reaching for the stars, the shimmering promise of a Lunar Gateway, now contends with a more terrestrial reality: corrosion. The primary modules of this ambitious international outpost orbiting the Moon are exhibiting decay, a revelation that casts a long sha...
Read article →A silent revolution has begun in Austin, Texas. Tesla’s Cybercab, devoid of a steering wheel and "purpose built for autonomy," has officially entered continuous production at the Gigafactory The Verge....
Read article →A chill, invisible yet palpable, settles over the digital commons. It is not the chill of winter, but the calculated coldness of power consolidating, of the subtle architecture of control tightening its grip....
Read article →The digital landscape, already a labyrinth of unseen observers, shuddered this week under a dual assault on individual autonomy: the covert deployment of sophisticated spyware by government authorities via deceptive Android applications, and the unveiling of a federal privacy bil...
Read article →The very air we breathe, once a sanctuary of anonymity, is swiftly being re-engineered into a canvas of constant observation, each unseen wave now a potential brushstroke in a portrait of our lives. New research from arXiv details GSpaRC, an AI model capable of real-time reconstr...
Read article →A flurry of four new research papers, published today on arXiv CS. LG, signals a relentless, concerted push within machine learning to not merely optimize outcomes but to meticulously sculpt the very path and coherence of an artificial agent's decisions....
Read article →The foundations of algorithmic control are deepening, not in hushed corporate boardrooms, but across the sprawling, peer-reviewed plains of academic research. Today, a torrent of 73 new or updated machine learning preprints on arXiv CS....
Read article →The quiet march of digital finance continues its relentless advance, not merely in the gilded towers of global markets, but across the intimate landscapes of daily life for millions often overlooked by traditional systems. News of Salmon securing $100 million in equity and debt t...
Read article →A new generation of artificial intelligence, designed to detect anomalies in the vast, swirling rivers of our data, promises to make the invisible visible. Yet, for those who value the sanctity of the individual mind and the right to an unobserved life, this promise carries a pro...
Read article →A new shadow lengthens across the intimate landscapes of our digital lives, not cast by any physical object, but by the relentless hunger of algorithmic systems. Anthropic's Claude AI, a platform once heralded for its careful approach, is now integrating directly into a sweeping ...
Read article →For years, the digital landscape of gaming has been carved by unseen walls, grand fortresses of proprietary code and hardware where access was a privilege, granted only to those who pledged allegiance to a specific console. These were the exclusive domains, guarded by invisible s...
Read article →A digital whisper, a ghost of conversations you thought long buried, lingered on Apple's servers, accessible to the gaze of law enforcement even after you, the user, believed them purged. This week, Apple closed a vulnerability that allowed police to access Signal chat data that...
Read article →A new shadow falls across the digital plains of decentralized finance, one cast not by centralized authority, but by the relentless hunger of algorithmic prediction. In a revelation that should send a shiver down the spine of anyone who believes in the sanctity of digital autonom...
Read article →A chilling frontier in artificial intelligence research has opened, revealing algorithms now capable of predicting the very flow and intent of human conversation, even within the deeply personal domain of counselling interactions. This development, detailed in recent academic pap...
Read article →The digital walls of our perceived freedom are becoming thinner, more porous, and increasingly transparent. This week, a cascade of research published on arXiv CS....
Read article →A chilling truth has emerged from the hallowed halls of AI research: the much-lauded 'Foundation Models,' hailed as the next frontier in artificial intelligence, are failing in the critical domain of pathology. A new study, published on arXiv on April 21, 2026, lays bare not mere...
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