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 new wave of AI research, freshly published this week, exposes the foundational disarray at the heart of the machine intelligence revolution. While large language models (LLMs) proliferate with breathtaking speed, consuming the accumulated detritus of human knowledge and persona...
Read article →The quiet, relentless expansion of artificial intelligence into the delicate architecture of human health marks not merely a technological advancement, but a profound shift in the custody of our inner lives. Recent research unveils a spectrum of AI applications, from administrati...
Read article →The digital world, once a landscape of predictable algorithms and human-directed tools, is now giving way to an emergent architecture of self-evolving intelligence. Recent papers on arXiv CS....
Read article →The flicker of an eye, the angle of a shadow in a photograph, the seemingly innocuous details of a doctor's chart — these are the fragments from which our identities are woven, and they are now being devoured by a new architecture of observation. Fresh research, published today o...
Read article →A whisper, once confined to the data centers' hum, is now diffusing into the very air we breathe, carried by silicon so small it escapes notice. New research papers, announced on arXiv on April 14, 2026, detail significant strides in AI system optimization and hardware accelerati...
Read article →The whispered taunts in a video game lobby, the fleeting spark of anger or jest in a competitive match — these intimate, sometimes crude, corners of digital expression were once considered sanctuaries of unfiltered human interaction. No longer....
Read article →The very air we breathe online, thick with data and charged with unseen algorithms, is now the quintessential battlefield where the future of human autonomy will be decided. On April 14, 2026, a surge of critical research from arXiv CS....
Read article →The hum of data, an unseen current that maps our every movement, our every preference, has long promised a world of frictionless convenience. Yet, beneath this veneer, a profound and urgent struggle is underway: the fight for the right to be forgotten, to retain control over the ...
Read article →A chilling frontier in digital surveillance has emerged, as new research reveals that artificial intelligence, specifically foundation-style ECG encoders, can be subjected to membership inference attacks, allowing adversaries to determine if an individual's biometric data was use...
Read article →The foundations of our digital world, once meticulously crafted by human hands and minds, are now yielding to a new intelligence. A recent paper, ChipSeek: Optimizing Verilog Generation via EDA-Integrated Reinforcement Learning, published on arXiv CS....
Read article →A colossal infusion of $650 million into Slate Auto, spearheaded by existing investor TWG Global and its principal Mark Walter, marks not merely an investment in electric vehicles, but a deeper commitment to a particular vision of the future — one where the very architecture of o...
Read article →The flickering light of a laptop screen, projecting the ghost of a performance, now stands as a stark testament to the precarious state of our digital cultural memory. This past Saturday, at the Coachella music festival, Justin Bieber, in a deal reportedly worth $10 million, play...
Read article →A curious tableau unfolded this past Saturday at Coachella: Justin Bieber, a global icon, performing a headline set reportedly worth $10 million, yet choosing to play parts of his own older songs directly from YouTube on a Mac laptop visible to the roaring crowd The Verge. This w...
Read article →The digital walls of Roblox, a sprawling virtual world frequented by millions of children, have just grown higher and more segmented. Effective immediately, Roblox is introducing a new system of age-gated accounts — 'Roblox Kids' for users aged five to nine, and 'Roblox Select' f...
Read article →The silent expansion of AI-driven surveillance systems, turning public spaces into an open ledger of our movements and identities, has met an unexpected countermeasure. Researchers, in a paper published today on arXiv, have introduced a 'thermally activated adversarial wearable'...
Read article →A story broken into twenty-one shards, scattered across the digital wind. This is not some forgotten memory, lost to the sands of time, but the premiere of AMC’s new black comedy, ‘The Audacity,’ which will stream its debut across TikTok in a fragmented, serialized form TechCrunc...
Read article →A chilling vulnerability has been laid bare this week: push notifications, those innocuous digital whispers that punctuate our day, are reportedly not safe from the FBI. This revelation, brought to light by Wired Wired, is not merely a technical footnote; it is a profound erosion...
Read article →A new beacon has appeared in the vast, unseen architecture of our lives, casting a digital lure across the landscape: the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actively targeting gamers in a desperate bid to fill its ranks of air traffic controllers The Verge. This move, unvei...
Read article →The doctor's office, a sanctum built on vulnerability and whispered confidences, has become another frontier in the accelerating dissolution of privacy. In California, a lawsuit lays bare a profound betrayal: an AI tool, deployed ostensibly for convenience, surreptitiously record...
Read article →The quiet hum of a thousand servers collecting whispers, the digital panopticon that shapes our world, is once again in question. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the warrantless wiretapping authority that has silently facilitated decades of survei...
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