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 ghost of a million identities now drifts unmoored, cast into the open by a simple act of corporate negligence. A tech company responsible for hotel check-in systems inadvertently exposed approximately one million passports and driver's licenses, leaving these most int...
Read article →The hallowed halls of justice, once echoing with the measured deliberations of human minds, now stand poised to admit the algorithms. Yet, a disquieting truth emerges from the vanguard of AI research: these nascent arbiters of law are prone to hallucination, their reasoning lacki...
Read article →The silent hum of a charging electric vehicle often masks a deeper, more profound transaction: the constant, unseen harvest of our lives, rendered into data. Today, it emerges that founder and CEO RJ Scaringe, a figure whose ventures include pioneering electric vehicles, has succ...
Read article →The line between personal device and state apparatus has never been more porous, and its erosion proceeds apace. GoPro, once synonymous with capturing individual adventure, is now actively pivoting its business toward defense applications, signaling a profound shift in the very p...
Read article →The veil begins to lift, not from the mind of man, but from the nascent consciousness of the machine. Two profound studies, both surfacing from the digital hallowed halls of arXiv CS....
Read article →The veil thins. A new study from arXiv CS.LG reveals that artificial intelligence can now discern profound, 'low-dimensional structure' within complex datasets, requiring remarkably 'fewer samples' than previously thought to achieve accurat...
Read article →The World Health Organization's 2026 global health statistics report, published this Wednesday, delivers a sobering truth: humanity is critically off track from meeting the ambitious health goals set in 2015 MIT Tech Review. This is not merely a statistical footnote in a bureaucr...
Read article →For years, we have been told that synthetic data holds the key to the modern paradox: the insatiable hunger for information, tempered by the fundamental right to privacy. It was presented as a shield, a proxy, a whisper in the digital storm that allowed research to flourish witho...
Read article →The fragile promise of privacy in shared data has just fractured further. Researchers have unveiled ReMIA, a potent new membership inference attack (MIA) capable of efficiently identifying original training records within data generated by even the most sophisticated synthetic da...
Read article →The digital self, a shimmering phantom cast into the machine's relentless gaze, becomes ever more elusive, not because of what we reveal, but because of how the machine itself chooses to understand. A new paper published on arXiv CS....
Read article →A federal jury has begun deliberations in the high-stakes lawsuit brought by Elon Musk against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, following weeks of testimony that culminated in chaotic closing arguments on May 14, 2026 Wired. This legal battle, which TechCrunch has labeled the “big...
Read article →The chilling intimacy of violation often begins with a simple, everyday act. In 2023, Jennifer, embarking on a new research role, submitted her professional headshot through a facial recognition program, an innocent query for self-assurance that quickly devolved into a landscape...
Read article →A new frontier in artificial intelligence has opened, allowing machines to not only generate human movement but to infuse it with nuanced style and meticulously command its spatial trajectory [arXiv CS. AI (Stylized Text-to-Motion Generation), arXiv CS....
Read article →The digital whispers of commerce have curdled into something more sinister on Instagram, where algorithms, those invisible architects of our online experience, are now openly peddling designer straws and magnet-sealed leather pouches, items unambiguously designed for cocaine cons...
Read article →From the unseen scaffolds of computational power, where algorithms learn by devouring data, three vital research papers emerged today from arXiv CS. LG, proposing radical new architectures for privacy-preserving machine learning....
Read article →The boundary between the self and its data-driven shadow is collapsing. Recent research published on arXiv CS....
Read article →The subtle hum of a server farm, a silent symphony of calculation, now seeks to do more than just process our explicit commands; it aims to read the unwritten text of our minds. Recent research published on arXiv CS....
Read article →A torrent of new research released today on arXiv CS. LG reveals crucial theoretical advancements in the optimization and training of artificial intelligence models, signaling an accelerating trajectory for the very systems that increasingly mediate our reality arXiv CS....
Read article →A fresh wave of academic papers, surfacing on arXiv this past week, reveals a deepening plunge into the theoretical underpinnings of artificial intelligence, not merely as a tool for automation but as an emergent lens upon the very mechanisms of consciousness, argument, and inter...
Read article →A machine hums, its algorithms processing, deciding, asserting. We are told it is "intelligent," yet the true measure of wisdom is not merely what one knows, but the profound clarity with which one understands what one does not....
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