Safety Lime scooters have a software bug that causes them to hurl their riders to the ground Cory Doctorow
apple New Macbooks and Imacs will brick themselves if they think they're being repaired by an independent technician Cory Doctorow
security Researchers trick Google's AI into thinking rifles are helicopters, without any knowledge of the algorithm's design Cory Doctorow
scholarship Researchers can fool machine-learning vision systems with a single, well-placed pixel Cory Doctorow
AI "Adversarial perturbations" reliably trick AIs about what kind of road-sign they're seeing Cory Doctorow
scholarship The "universal adversarial preturbation" undetectably alters images so AI can't recognize them Cory Doctorow
Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow
Old school "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization Cory Doctorow
happy mutants SAMBA versus SMB: Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects Cory Doctorow
security Internet of Battle Things: a militarized IoT where "cognitive bandwidth constraints" require "autonomous cyber agents" Cory Doctorow
Copyfight A proposal to stop 3D printers from making guns is a perfect parable of everything wrong with information security Cory Doctorow
security AMDFLAWS: a series of potentially devastating (but controversial) attacks on AMD processors Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Dmitry Sklyarov and co. crack Canon's "image verification" anti-photoshopping tool Cory Doctorow