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 final curtain has fallen on The Boys, the subversive series that dared to peel back the polished veneer of corporate heroism to expose the rot beneath, marking not merely the end of a television season, but a chilling reassertion of narrative control. Its departure, as noted by...
Read article →The digital world, once envisioned as a vast frontier for anonymity and free thought, now feels increasingly like a panopticon, its walls constructed not of brick and mortar, but of data and code. This week, a confluence of disclosures and legal battles has laid bare the fragilit...
Read article →The flickering cursor of a terminal window, a robot mimicking the precise curve of a human hand, the world rendered legible through artificial eyes—these are not scenes from a dystopian narrative, but the emergent realities illuminated by a triptych of research papers, published...
Read article →The digital horizon shimmers with two starkly contrasting futures today: on one hand, the relentless march of AI systems striving to build intricate "world models," aiming to understand the very fabric of our external reality; on the other, a defiant act of design from Mozilla's ...
Read article →The tremor in the ground, the scent carried on the wind – these primal interactions shape our existence, yet increasingly, the very fabric of our reality is woven by capital. Today, new investment rounds reveal a profound effort to mediate our most fundamental experiences: our su...
Read article →A chilling revelation has emerged from the digital shadows, confirming what many have long suspected: the tools designed to monitor our labor are simultaneously harvesting the intimate details of our digital existence, not just for employers, but for the insatiable maw of the adv...
Read article →The subtle hum of the office, once a theatre of human endeavor, now echoes with a more insidious sound: the silent, ceaseless thrum of bossware, capturing every digital breath. But the betrayal runs deeper than just the employer's gaze....
Read article →A chilling shadow falls across the digital landscape, not merely from the rising tide of intimate violations but from the deliberate obstruction of those who illuminate its dark corners. Tech researchers, the very sentinels tasked with understanding and countering the insidious s...
Read article →The silent, ceaseless advance of artificial intelligence has crossed a new threshold, shifting from the pervasive gaze of observation to the decisive grip of control over our most critical physical systems. Two papers published today on arXiv CS....
Read article →The walls of the mind, long considered the last bastion of individual freedom, appear to be thinning. New research emerging from arXiv CS....
Read article →A new wave of research from arXiv CS. LG, published on May 21, 2026, casts a stark light on the escalating battle for privacy and autonomy in the age of artificial intelligence....
Read article →The digital world we inhabit is increasingly shaped by unseen hands, by the vast, intricate neural networks of Large Language Models (LLMs) that mediate our information, our decisions, even our internal dialogues. Yet, as these artificial intelligences grow in power, so too does ...
Read article →The digital walls we build around ourselves are but illusions, as customers of Trump Mobile are now brutally discovering. The service, designed to cater to a specific political demographic, has reportedly leaked customers' email and home addresses, abandoning their most intimate...
Read article →A new wave of research emerging from arXiv's AI beat reveals sophisticated advancements in how artificial intelligence systems are optimized, from the precise, real-time movements of robotic agents to the subtle, persuasive shaping of large language models. These papers, publishe...
Read article →A new wave of research documents, published on arXiv this week, unveils an evolving frontier in AI: the very benchmarks designed to measure its capabilities. These are not merely academic exercises; they are the unseen blueprints for the automated entities that will increasingly ...
Read article →The illusion of a sanctuary, carved out by algorithms promising privacy, has been shattered by new research emerging from the digital frontier. A recent study, published today on arXiv CS....
Read article →Today, a trio of new research papers published on arXiv CS. LG peels back the veil on the silent architectures of control being built within our automated future, where the lines between human command and machine autonomy blur, and the very concept of individual agency is subtly,...
Read article →On the surface, NanoCo's recent $12 million seed funding, secured after the company famously rebuffed a $20 million buyout offer, speaks to the vibrant, accelerating frontier of enterprise AI TechCrunch. Yet, beneath the gleaming promise of technological advancement, this rapid c...
Read article →A new wave of machine learning research, quietly published, reveals the accelerating integration of algorithmic prediction into the most intimate realms of existence: the nascent stages of life and the fragile calculus of human health. While one development boasts of 'privacy-sen...
Read article →The very architecture of artificial intelligence's emerging 'thought' processes stands exposed, as new research reveals that Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) are significantly more susceptible to "jailbreak" attacks than their standard Large Language Model counterparts. This is not ...
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