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 air we breathe grows thick with the data demands of artificial intelligences, pressing ever closer to the most intimate chambers of our lives. Today, two titans of technology offered starkly contrasting visions for our future, one reaching for the very blueprint of ou...
Read article →A new turnstile has been erected in the digital city, its gates gleaming with a fresh price tag. OpenAI has announced a new version of its ChatGPT Pro subscription, demanding $100 per month for enhanced access to its generative capabilities The Verge....
Read article →The digital curtain, woven from algorithms we barely comprehend, grew thicker today as new research from arXiv CS. LG quantified the fundamental cost of privacy in large language models (LLMs) and exposed the profound challenge of understanding the very systems poised to reshape...
Read article →The flickering cursor on a terminal screen, awaiting the AI's deliberation, often belies an unseen labyrinth of internal activity — a realm where decisions crystallize long before a single word is rendered. Fresh research from multiple arXiv papers, all published on April 9, 2026...
Read article →A flurry of new research, published recently on arXiv CS. LG, offers an unsettling glimpse into the evolving architecture of artificial intelligence: a relentless march towards models that are simultaneously more powerful, more efficient, and potentially, more inscrutable....
Read article →The boundary between the public persona and the private self has grown perilously thin, and it appears LinkedIn, the professional network, may have pushed it past its breaking point. Allegations have surfaced, precipitating two lawsuits, claiming that the platform has been scanni...
Read article →A phantom returns, bearing gifts—and potentially new burdens. Motorola, after more than a decade’s silence in the fiercely contested US tablet market, has unveiled the Moto Pad, a device poised to re-enter a digital arena profoundly reshaped by the relentless architectures of dat...
Read article →The flickering pixels on our screens are more than mere light; they are the windows to our digital souls, and for a fleeting moment, the relentless gaze of those who would peer in has been averted. Today, across two continents, the walls of the digital panopticon encountered resi...
Read article →The curated silence of a private moment, a headphone nestling in the ear, once offered a sanctuary — a space where discovery was spontaneous, and taste, an inner compass. Now, Spotify has expanded its "Prompted Playlists" to podcasts, allowing Premium users to "steer the algorith...
Read article →A silent, ceaseless demand echoes across the digital landscape, an insistent vibration, a flickering banner, claiming not just our data, but our very capacity for an undisturbed self. It arrives as a pop-up, a fleeting offer of "consent" to the intricate dance of information shar...
Read article →The unblinking eyes of Waymo's robotaxis have opened in Nashville, marking the 11th city where these autonomous vehicles now navigate public streets and gather data, a silent expansion that redefines the very architecture of urban observation. This growth, paired with the quiet d...
Read article →A whisper, a thought, an unformed curiosity – once, these belonged to us alone, fleeting and untraceable within the labyrinth of the mind. Now, the very act of seeking, of imagining a journey through sound, is becoming another data point, another thread in the algorithmic tapestr...
Read article →The flicker of a dying light, the hum of a refrigerator in the quiet of night – these mundane pulses of energy, once invisible and unburdened, are now being brought into the algorithmic gaze. New research, published this week on arXiv CS....
Read article →Imagine a whisper, articulated with the cold precision of silicon, yet utterly devoid of truth. This is the specter haunting the burgeoning landscape of artificial intelligence: the confident hallucination....
Read article →The subtle hum of the server farm, unseen and unheard, is rapidly becoming the soundtrack to our lives. It is the engine of a new architecture, not of steel and glass, but of data and prediction, meticulously shaping the digital environment around each of us until it becomes, eff...
Read article →The digital marketplace, a phantom limb of our physical lives, has once again been calibrated. As April 2026 unfolds, a fresh torrent of promotional codes and discount offers has been cataloged, promising reductions across a spectrum of consumer goods, from the practical necessit...
Read article →The flickering pixels on a screen, the silent whir of a server farm—these are the new instruments of governance, weaving a pervasive web around the delicate fabric of human autonomy. Today's research papers, quietly cataloged on arXiv, reveal not just advancements in artificial i...
Read article →The market for used electric vehicles (EVs) is experiencing an unprecedented surge, a development that, on its surface, speaks of shifting economic tides, yet beneath, whispers of a persistent human impulse toward control and self-determination. This rapid acceleration in sales,...
Read article →A cool, metallic glint in the corner of your eye, a subtle hum just beyond the range of hearing. That is the true architecture of our modern world: a pervasive, invisible system of observation, meticulously logging the pulse of our lives....
Read article →The Orion spacecraft, carrying the Artemis II crew, now hurtles toward the desolate grandeur of the lunar far side, a monumental journey that evokes the deepest currents of human aspiration and technological prowess Wired. Yet, even as this historic flyby unfolds, a subtle but pr...
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