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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In a chilling confirmation that should send shivers down the spine of every privacy-conscious Windows user, Microsoft has admitted it will hand over BitLocker encryption keys to the FBI if presente......
Read article →A novel approach to handling boundary conditions in port-Hamiltonian systems promises to streamline and enhance the accuracy of physics simulations, according to a new paper published on arXiv. The......
Read article →The relentless march of artificial intelligence into every corner of our lives continues, this time targeting the very building blocks of life itself. A new paper published on arXiv details AgentGC......
Read article →The future of electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure relies on data, and lots of it. But what happens when that data is incomplete?...
Read article →The open-source world, the bedrock of countless industries, often grapples with a silent crisis: governance. Many projects, despite their widespread use, are held together by fragile, informal stru......
Read article →Nvidia, the titan of GPUs and a driving force behind the current AI boom, stands accused of pursuing a deal with Anna's Archive, a notorious purveyor of pirated books. The allegation, if true, cast......
Read article →The relentless cat-and-mouse game between security researchers and silicon vendors has taken a fascinating turn. A newly published paper details 'SplittingSecrets,' a compiler-based defense mechani......
Read article →The burgeoning field of synthetic data is facing a critical juncture: How do we ensure that data meant to protect privacy doesn't, in fact, leak it? A new framework called SynQP, unveiled this week......
Read article →The relentless march of data centers, fueled by insatiable demand for AI and cloud services, is about to trigger a memory chip crisis that will ripple far beyond server farms. By 2026, data centers ar...
Read article →PJM Interconnection, the grid operator for a vast swathe of the Eastern United States, has laid down the gauntlet for Big Tech and their insatiable appetite for power. In a move that underscores the e...
Read article →A U.S. judge has ordered Anna's Archive, a shadow library providing access to millions of copyrighted books and academic papers, to delete its scraped data. The move, celebrated by rights holders, is ...
Read article →The news from Rome is troubling: Italian finance police have raided the headquarters of the nation's data protection agency. This action, reported by Reuters and circulating widely, has sent shockwave...
Read article →The ever-expanding digital realm, fueled by insatiable data demands, is facing a reckoning. State and federal lawmakers are increasingly turning their attention to the massive energy consumption of da...
Read article →For years, I've watched corporations and governments alike amass ever-greater troves of data, often with little regard for the privacy implications. Now, a local-first data processing solution called ...
Read article →The Garante, Italy's formidable privacy watchdog and a persistent thorn in the side of US Big Tech, is now facing a crisis of its own: a corruption probe. The news, arriving like a thunderclap in the ...
Read article →The promise of seamless, personalized experiences powered by browser agents is quickly turning into a privacy reckoning. Startups are racing to embed miniature data warehouses directly into your brows...
Read article →The relentless march of artificial intelligence is about to trigger a memory shortage of unprecedented scale. A new report from TrendForce projects that data centers, fueled by the voracious demands o...
Read article →The relentless march of artificial intelligence, fueled by insatiable data centers, may be hitting a speed bump. PJM, the largest grid operator in the United States, has trimmed its summer 2027 peak d...
Read article →The ground is shifting beneath the feet of the data giants. Databricks, a leading player in data and AI, has announced the open-sourcing of Dicer, its automatic sharding tool. While the company frames...
Read article →In an era where data is the new oil, the fitness tracking industry finds itself squarely in the crosshairs of privacy advocates. A new report has cast a harsh light on the data collection practices of...
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