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Article A helpful AI agent cannot be a private one
Meta's Muse personal AI agent is only useful because it reads your messages, contacts, and habits. What that access costs your privacy and safety.
Ranking is not vetting
Attackers buy top Google Ads placement and use cloaking to deliver trojanized installers; ad review validates the submission, not the file you download.
Resignations are signals, not scandals
How to read a high-profile resignation from an AI safety lab like Anthropic - what it signals, what to ignore, and what to watch in the months after.
Four bits, then a cliff
How to choose LLM quantization for production: why 4-bit is the default, where 1-bit collapses, and why your own eval set is the real deployment gate.
I factored a root CA
Factoring a 1990s Certificate Authority's public key recovered its private signing key, showing that confidentiality resting on computational cost is not a control.
LG Smart TVs branded surveillance risk
A public claim about LG smart TVs is a signal about a device class: connected endpoints inside the enterprise that no one owns, monitors, or governs.
LG TVs recorded audio and mapped your network
LG smart TVs captured audio with the screen off and scanned local devices. The control users operate governs the display, not the microphone.
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