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Confidential Computing or Cryptographic Computing?

Trade-offs between secure computation via cryptography and hardware enclaves.

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An AI Learning Hierarchy

A hierarchy of AI machines organized by their learning power shows their limits and the possibility that humans are at risk of machine subjugation well before AI utopia can come.

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Prompting Considered Harmful

As systems graduate from labs to the open world, moving beyond prompting is central to ensuring that AI is useful, usable, and safe for end users as well as experts such as AI developers and researchers.

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Who Owns AI’s Output?

Copyright and patent protections around generative AI are chaotic and changing rapidly.

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OpenVPN is Open to VPN Fingerprinting

VPN adoption has seen steady growth over the past decade due to increased public awareness of privacy and surveillance threats. In response, certain governments are attempting to restrict VPN access by identifying connections using “dual use” DPI ...

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