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Bias in Qwen3-Coder Model

Interesting research: TL;DR: Chinese AI models now sit inside Western products, and some carry geopolitical triggers: tell the model who the code is for, and the security of what it writes changes. For the first time, we showed that this…

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Friday Squid Blogging: Increasing Squid Populations

This article in Nature argues that it’s due to an overfishing of predators and warming sea temperatures. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation po…

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Security

Cybersecurity briefings on breaches, exploited vulnerabilities, ransomware, incident response, and systemic security failures.

52 entries

Privacy

Privacy briefings on data misuse, tracking changes, surveillance harms, regulator action, and data rights enforcement.

178 entries

AI Risk

AI risk briefings on model misuse, deployment failures, safety regressions, governance gaps, and synthetic-media harms.

22 entries

Governance

Governance briefings on enforcement, standards, court action, regulator opinions, institutional accountability, and policy shifts.

7 entries

Infrastructure

Infrastructure briefings on cloud, telecoms, public systems, network edge, and critical infrastructure risk developments.

3 entries

Surveillance

Surveillance briefings on biometrics, monitoring systems, identity correlation, tracking technology, and public or private observation systems.