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 torrent of new research, published today across arXiv CS. AI, signals a profound leap in the ability of artificial intelligence to dissect and understand complex human networks, eroding the last vestiges of obscurity within our digital lives....
Read article →The veil between our inner lives and the digital realm grows thinner with each scientific stride. A new wave of machine learning research, documented today across multiple arXiv preprints, details advancements in precisely mapping the intricacies of human biology — from the geome...
Read article →A new wave of research emerging from arXiv CS. LG today reveals a stark truth: the last, most intimate frontier of human privacy — the very landscape of our neural activity and the implicit behaviors it foretells — is now under the relentless scrutiny of advanced artificial intel...
Read article →The digital walls we build around our lives are crumbling, not with a roar, but with a whisper. A fresh wave of research, primarily from arXiv CS....
Read article →A new generation of artificial intelligence agents is quietly learning to see through our digital lives, transforming every screenshot into a potential breach of the innermost self. Research published today in arXiv CS....
Read article →The subtle hum of a server farm, a digital breath exhaled into the silent night, might soon be the only private space left to us. This week, a cascade of research published on arXiv CS....
Read article →The digital walls around our most intimate thoughts are crumbling. Last week, Instagram, under the stewardship of Meta, extinguished its opt-in end-to-end encryption feature for direct messages, a quiet, insidious erosion of a fundamental right to private communication EFF Deepli...
Read article →The illusion of infinite capital, much like the illusion of infinite space, is beginning to fracture. Blue Origin, the aerospace endeavor helmed by Jeff Bezos, now faces the very terrestrial prospect of needing external funding to propel its ambitious launch schedule into reality...
Read article →The digital curtain, behind which our data is promised protection and our AI models are assured safety, has been pulled back with disquieting ease. Recent research reveals not only accelerated pathways to dismantle the protective guardrails of Large Language Models (LLMs) but als...
Read article →A whisper in the digital wind, a promise of forgetting. WhatsApp has announced the integration of Meta AI, featuring an 'Incognito Chat' mode designed to erase the very memory of your digital conversations with artificial intelligence....
Read article →The subtle, algorithmic hand that guides our digital reflections just gained new tools of precision, refining the very mechanisms by which artificial intelligences learn to 'align' with human preferences. This week, two pivotal research papers from arXiv CS....
Read article →A chill wind whispers through the data centers, carrying the faint hum of algorithms learning to see, to interpret, to judge. For decades, the specter of total surveillance has loomed, a flickering shadow at the edge of our digital lives....
Read article →The flickering image on the screen, a simulacrum of the world, speaks with unwavering confidence of objects that simply do not exist. This is the specter of AI hallucination, a phenomenon where language models conjure facts divorced from reality, and new research from arXiv CS....
Read article →A new generation of artificial intelligence, detailed in recent research, is poised to deepen its penetration into the very fabric of our lives, not merely assisting but defining individuals through sophisticated classification systems. From determining financial health to diagno...
Read article →The hum of the server farm, unseen and unheard, casts a long shadow over the future of human autonomy. Today, three new research papers published on arXiv CS....
Read article →The flicker of recognition in a robot’s optical sensor, the silent cataloging of a human's momentary hesitation, a subtle shift in posture—these are the nascent data points of a new kind of surveillance, not just of our digital footprints, but of our very selves in the physical w...
Read article →The subtle architecture of our digital selves—the fleeting choices, the evolving preferences, the very fragments of identity we project online—is being relentlessly cataloged. Today, new research from arXiv CS....
Read article →A recent cascade of research papers on arXiv CS. AI, all published on May 13, 2026, reveals a significant leap in the development of multi-agent artificial intelligence systems (MAS), poised to integrate sophisticated surveillance and decision-making capabilities into the very fa...
Read article →The subtle tremors of our inner lives, the whispers of our distress, and the very electrical storms within our brains are becoming legible data streams for a new generation of artificial intelligence. Recent research from arXiv reveals the accelerating ambition to deploy AI acros...
Read article →A whisper, a flicker, a fleeting image—these are the fragments from which our understanding of reality is forged. Yet, increasingly, these fragments are not merely observed; they are sculpted by unseen algorithms, filtered through computational gates that decide what is deemed re...
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