Publications

In October 2001, two years into his presidency, Hugo Chávez made a trip to London to meet with then UK prime minister Tony Blair and other high-level officials. Official records detail how the Venezuelan president’s proposed Hydrocarbons Law, a major...

Downloading audio and video from YouTube is generally not allowed, which the video streaming service clearly states in its terms of service. Despite this explicit restriction, there are numerous ‘stream-ripping’ and “YouTube downloader” tools availab...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. The violence is shocking. So are the intrusions on digital rights and civil liberties. For example, i...

In the first of our three-part blog series on the dodgy_ digital security practices underlying advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools, we unpack how large-language models (LLMs) can _jeopardize the confidentiality of people’s data. Whatever you...

One August night, Riyaadh Kadhim Alateya and his family’s lives changed forever. The 54-year-old lived in the southern Iraqi city of Basra with his wife, Sabeeha Rasheed Mashi and his teenage son, Ali. He ran a livestock trading business, and when...

Under the unified Logos technology stack, we will be providing monthly developer updates on the state of Logos development. These updates will encompass all elements of the Logos technology stack, including Storage, Messaging, and Blockchain, as well...

Last month, we reported on an expanded class-action lawsuit in which several authors accused NVIDIA of using millions of pirated books to train its AI models. The complaint cited internal emails showing that NVIDIA contacted Anna’s Archive seeking “h...

The phrase "artificial intelligence" has been around for a long time, covering everything from computers with "brains"—think Data from Star Trek or Hal 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey—to the autocomplete function that too often has you sending emails...

Federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. The violence is shocking. So are the intrusions on digital rights. For example,...

The Ministry of Defence is reportedly set to award a £2 billion contract to a consortium led by Raytheon UK despite major corruption and fraud violations recently levelled against its American parent company RTX. The contract, which aims to modernis...