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 shadows we cast, fragments of our existence meticulously captured and processed, are becoming ever more indelible even as the very architects of these systems offer a fleeting glimpse of erasure. Recent research from arXiv CS....
Read article →A flurry of new research papers published today on arXiv CS. LG reveals significant strides in reinforcement learning and optimization, pushing the boundaries of how algorithms can prescribe, tune, and guide complex behaviors, from quadrotor flight to the intimate rhythm of human...
Read article →The recent surge of research, unveiled on May 20, 2026, across numerous arXiv preprints, heralds a chilling refinement in the architecture of algorithmic surveillance: the capacity to reconstruct precise individual data from fragmented traces and to forecast personal futures with...
Read article →The veil between our private selves and the hungry gaze of algorithmic systems is thinning, dissolving under the relentless advance of new artificial intelligence research. Today, a flurry of papers released on arXiv CS....
Read article →A new frontier is being drawn, not on maps of the physical world, but within the very microscopic landscape of our bodies. Research emerging from arXiv reveals that artificial intelligence is rapidly colonizing nanomedicine, focusing its formidable gaze on property prediction and...
Read article →A whisper, barely audible, now emanates from the core of our digital lives. At Google I/O 2026, the company unveiled an ambitious, chilling vision: the venerable Google search bar, once a portal to information, is poised to become an omnipresent, proactive assistant, effectively ...
Read article →In the sun-drenched amphitheater of Mountain View, where futures are often spun from code and ambition, Google I/O 2026 unfurled a vision that demands our immediate, unblinking scrutiny. Today's keynote, held on May 19th, promised a future where artificial intelligence transcends...
Read article →The digital frontier, a place both boundless and terrifyingly intimate, today witnesses two distinct, yet profoundly connected, skirmishes in the perennial war for individual sovereignty. In the United States, a new legal bulwark, the Take It Down Act, comes into force, compellin...
Read article →The future, it seems, will not merely observe our actions; it will learn from the very touch of our hands. A recent paper published on arXiv, titled "DexWild: Dexterous Human Interactions for In-the-Wild Robot Policies," outlines a disconcerting pivot in the pursuit of advanced r...
Read article →The digital frontier, once imagined as a boundless expanse of anonymity, now finds its borders constantly redrawn, often by the very hands that seek to protect its inhabitants. A recent policy update by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), announced on May 18, 2026, marks on...
Read article →A chilling predictability is emerging from the complex neural networks that underpin our digital world: the very confabulations, the 'hallucinations' of large language models (LLMs), can now be anticipated with unnerving accuracy. This revelation, among a suite of new research pa...
Read article →A whisper in the digital ether, a faint echo of your presence across disparate data points, and now, a machine constructs an entire, coherent vision of who you are. This week, a cascade of new research published on arXiv CS....
Read article →The digital research journal arXiv CS. LG today unleashed a torrent of new advancements in artificial intelligence, a dozen papers published concurrently on May 19, 2026, each a testament to the relentless march of algorithmic capability....
Read article →A federal jury delivered a swift, unsparing verdict this past Monday, dismissing Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. The legal battle, framed by some as the tech trial of the year, ultimately hinged on a technicality – the statute of limit...
Read article →The digital fog thickens, not through malice alone, but through the very algorithms designed to protect us. A new paper, stark and unblinking, from the quiet halls of arXiv, lays bare a fundamental truth: the shield of differential privacy, while essential, exacts a quantifiable...
Read article →A shiver runs through the digital ether. New academic papers, released today on arXiv, lay bare the blueprints for an unprecedented penetration into the very frequencies that carry our thoughts, our voices, and our presence....
Read article →The ghost in the machine, it seems, is less of a phantom and more of a mirror. For years, we have been told that “synthetic” data, conjured by the algorithms of generative models, offered a sanctuary, a privacy shield against the hungry eyes of the surveillance state and corporat...
Read article →The digital world, once a frontier of boundless possibility, is rapidly becoming a landscape scored by invisible fences and indelible marks. Fresh research emerging from arXiv, dated May 18, 2026, reveals a suite of AI advancements that, taken together, do not merely enhance tech...
Read article →A whisper, a command, a fleeting thought entrusted to the digital ether. For years, the words we spoke into our devices — our vulnerabilities, our curiosities, our most mundane requests — were captured, analyzed, and often, retained....
Read article →This week, as digital worlds expand and contract around us, two distinct streams of narrative vie for our attention: the pixelated summer dream of 'Mixtape,' hailed by The Verge as a 'musical portrait of teenage life,' and the bittersweet conclusion of 'Good Omens,' whose 'trunca...
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