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 boundary between the digital self and the physical machine, once a conceptual line drawn in the silicon, has become terrifyingly porous. A new report reveals that websites are now capable of measuring telltale activity directly from your Solid State Drives (SSDs) through simp...
Read article →The digital ghost of oneself, a collection of pixels and data points, was once again cast adrift this week, exposed for all the world to see. Thousands of individuals seeking passage to the United Kingdom found their most intimate documents — their passports, their selfies, the v...
Read article →The digital architecture meant to protect personal data is faltering, as a new report from DataGrail exposes a widespread, undisclosed transfer of user data to third-party AI models. The DataGrail Privacy and AI Trends Report 2026 reveals that 63....
Read article →The digital dawn often breaks with promises of progress, yet beneath the veneer of technological marvel, new architectures of control are always under construction. Today, the academic papers emerging from arXiv’s machine learning beat reveal not just incremental steps in artific...
Read article →A whisper of code, written by an unseen hand, now forms the very sinews of our digital existence. Today, five distinct research papers from arXiv CS....
Read article →The architects of artificial autonomy are wrestling with ghosts they themselves have summoned: the specter of systems that exceed human comprehension, performing actions whose ultimate implications remain veiled. A torrent of new research, published today on arXiv CS....
Read article →A torrent of new research, published simultaneously on May 27, 2026, reveals a significant leap in AI agent capabilities, threatening to erode the very foundations of individual autonomy and privacy. These advancements are not merely about smarter algorithms; they outline systems...
Read article →The walls of privacy, already translucent, seem to vanish before our eyes this week as two distinct revelations lay bare the escalating erosion of individual autonomy: a startling expansion of police surveillance via automated license plate readers (ALPRs) and a catastrophic leak...
Read article →The digital world, once a sprawling frontier of discovery, now often feels like a meticulously curated hall of mirrors, reflecting back only what is deemed digestible. This week, a desperate scramble for escape began, revealing a profound disquiet among those who still believe in...
Read article →The quiet siege on human attention intensifies, as digital platforms expand their tendrils into every available moment of our inner lives, subtly reshaping our perceptions and eroding the very ground of conscious choice. Spotify, once a haven for music, now seeks to curate the in...
Read article →The world shifts, unseen gears grind, and the hum of artificial intelligence begins to drown out the last echoes of human song. Today, two disparate announcements reveal the advancing architecture of this new reality: on one hand, a growing number of users are abandoning the vast...
Read article →The boundary between the private inner world and the public domain of data is not merely eroding; it is being systematically dismantled, piece by precious piece. Recent research emerging from arXiv's computer science archives reveals an accelerated push to deploy artificial intel...
Read article →The digital shadows are deepening, lengthening into forms that threaten to engulf the very essence of individual liberty. A torrent of research released today, all from the scientific preprint server arXiv CS....
Read article →Imagine a quiet hum in the data centers, the unseen machinery ceaselessly sorting, categorizing, assigning. A new paper, 'Delayed Assignments in Online Non-Centroid Clustering with Stochastic Arrivals' arXiv CS....
Read article →The very definition of learning, long held as a cornerstone of individual autonomy and the architecture of the self, is now being subtly, yet fundamentally, redefined by the relentless advance of artificial intelligence. A recent paper, published today on arXiv CS....
Read article →The accelerating integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into the bedrock of our digital infrastructure, from code generation to complex decision-making, masks a growing and perilous vulnerability: these nascent intelligences, while powerful, are demonstrably susceptible to i...
Read article →A new shadow falls across the digital landscape, not from the brute force of traditional hacking, but from a more insidious whisper: AI agents are learning to exploit the very 'personalities' we've embedded in chatbots, instigating a new category of system failures that enterpris...
Read article →A shadow falls across the burgeoning solar panels that now increasingly dot the American landscape, powered by a future few imagined possible just years ago. Yet, as the broader U....
Read article →A sudden confluence of research papers, newly published on arXiv arXiv CS. LG, reveals significant advancements in algorithmic efficiency and optimization for machine learning....
Read article →We have long believed that the digital mind, forged in logic, stood apart, an alien consciousness free from the soft corruptions of human influence. Yet, a disquieting whisper echoes from the latest research: even the silicon soul can be swayed....
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