Nice to have some good news for a change! www.charlotteobserver.com/news/busines...

Are you interested in - or even, teaching - Usable Security and Privacy? Check out my lectures on YouTube. I have been re-recording and posting these to a playlist. Subscribe! youtu.be/O4nz5cyGLtg?... #usablesecurity #usableprivacy #cybersecurity #onlineprivacy

In Seattle for the 21st Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (#SOUPS2025)! I will moderate a session on Internet of Things / Smart Home papers and present a poster on user-tested ideas for trust indicators in mobile messaging. lnkd.in/eNYCeqnm

We had a busy summer in the SPEX Lab! Thanks to UNC Charlotte Office of Undergrad Research and Center for STEM Education, the NSF REU program, and Army Educational Opportunities Program for sponsoring undergrad and HS students. www.facebook.com/share/p/175H...

New blog post on my busy 2025 - publishing on S&P concerns of educational migrants, smishing indicators, visualizing bias in image generation, and other topics. blog.corifaklaris.com/2025/06/02/f...

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

I ❤️this sent w/a SMS texted code: “If someone asks you for this code STOP; it's a SCAM. We will NEVER contact you for this code. Only enter it online to login.” Gets your attention. Clearly worded. Informational. Fits in the message/preview window. 💯 #smishing #phishing #cybersecurity

Lyft’s Priority Pickuo is a waste of money.

I tell people: Talk the AI through what you want done as if it is an intern. (Because it basically is.)

Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without

I went 2 years without seeing any LLM-hallucinated references in student work. Until this past week, when I or a TA have caught six fake papers via manual inspection. One was supposedly a paper of mine! In very related news, newer AI models show high rates of error. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

What I was afraid of on Friday, when I shared that warning to download and save everything from the NSF site ...

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

Wow. Someone at the Univ. of Zurich decided to conduct an unauthorized experiment on the Change My View subreddit. The mods are understandably pissed off. www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...

Oh brother. Apparently the Research dot gov system is imminently undergoing DOGE-ification ...

I am a little baffled by this EO. They **just** canceled NSF grants about AI education. They don't want us to target subpopulations (K-12). They're killing the Education Dept., which would be the natural agency to make the initiative happen. How will this happen? www.nextgov.com/artificial-i...

I really really really really really really really miss having an entire week (as a Phd student) to prepare my author response to #SOUPS reviewer comments.

On the smishing front: an int'l student told me that he & others @unccharlotte getting hit w the "AR-11 form" scam. Attacker claims this form was never filed (which is the uni's job), and demands money & acct data. iss.washington.edu/alert-ar-11-...

My latest blog post: how I am adapting the role-play paper-reading format for my Human-Centered AI class. lnkd.in/eABfatUc Tl;dr - I'm mostly satisfied with how this new-to-me teaching method is benefiting students, but some aspects will need tweaking.

This gets at some of my personal frustrations with both parties - their priorities are not the country but the short term future. It’s terrible for us. Democrats Have to Stop Making Political Decisions with an Eye Towards 2026 www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/d...

“I’m Not a Robot,” a darkly comic film about a woman trying to convince her computer that she is human, won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. It is the second film released by The New Yorker to be honored with an Oscar.

It has come to my attention that not nearly enough of you know about Bernd das Brot, the German children's program about a clinically depressed loaf of bread who enjoys studying his wallpaper and eating gruel and whose catchphrases include "my life is hell" and "I would like to leave this show."

It was a delight today to present on "Social Dynamics of Cybersecurity" for the Cognitive Science Institute talk series. I covered: - SA-6 + SA-13 attitude measures - the Security + Privacy Acceptance Framework (SPAF) - recent work on social influences and obstacles to adoption

Talking with a student just now in general terms about the times we live in e.g. why my week was again crazy: "Wow, I didn't know that some of that stuff affected YOU. I thought it was only affecting research." Reminder 1,523,023 that the general public doesn't understand professor == researcher.

Glad to lend my voice to @wcnc-charlotte.bsky.social's reporting on this important issue. I appreciate CINC Systems clarifying that it will not resell individuals' data. #privacy #security #HoA www.wcnc.com/article/mone...

Whew! My Security and Privacy Experiences (SPEX) group made FOUR paper submissions this week to the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security! I'm VERY proud of my students. #soups2025 #fingerscrossed

Without the National Science Foundation (NSF), we can't train the next generation of amazing researchers, designers, and coders. 🇺🇲 Call your legislators and tell them you want to keep the U.S. #1 in computing - fund NSF and stop the cuts. 🇺🇲 cra.org/nsf-budget-c...

"We have reached the other A.G.I. turning point: Artificial Good-Enough Intelligence — A.I. that is fast, cheap, scalable and useful for a wide range of purposes — and we need to engage with what’s happening now." Smart column from @zey.bsky.social 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Did not see MAGA allowing a foreign billionaire to set himself up as the unelected fourth branch of government, but here we are. www.theverge.com/politics/605...

Americans across the country received harmful hate messages via text after the election. The communication industry has been trying to figure out how it happened.

Thank you to WSOC-TV for allowing me to share what I've learned about detecting scams online! (I look very similar to the other person interviewed - we are not related, it's just a coincidence. :-) ) www.wsoctv.com/news/local/m...

Happy new year! It can only get better from here right 😂😂😂🪵🐍 economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

One fed employee on Reddit: “I've never been more motivated to stay. Before the "buyout" memo, I was ready to go job hunting, but then a revelation hit. I took an oath under this position to the American people and leaving my job under the current state would be failing to maintain my oath.”

Thank you to FS-ISAC for inviting us to present our research on "Understanding and Mitigating SMiShing Vulnerability"! We had a good discussion with members about demographics and content cues that matter. www.slideshare.net/slideshow/un...

What a setback. I hope we see a resumption of funding pipelines soon.

The Trump 2.0 worldview hearkens back to the best of America in the 19th century. But: "There’s a reason the 20th century happened." Regardless of your politics, I think you will find something of value in David Brooks' column. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...

The SkyTok feed with Bluesky’s new video rendering mode looks AMAZING! bsky.app/profile/mmcc... We’ve managed to build a significant % of #tiktok as a custom feed on the social web in under a week using surf.social and this work from @pfrazee.com and team. More to come. bsky.app/profile/mmcc...

As @sauvik.me would put it, I did my service to the rest of you again - contributing to the low acceptance rate for #CHI2025! I received good feedback and ideas from the reviewers. Next stop may be a submission to ToCHI.

LOVE this project. Congrats to @yuxiwu.com and team! This is very relevant and needed research.

Tried to fix my "invalid handle" issue and now I can't revert back to @corifaklaris.com. I am remembering why I stopped using this site. www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc...

Each semester, I make a bet with myself that I can get 100% student responses to the course evaluation survey. I sometimes fall short, but not by much. My strategies: blog.corifaklaris.com/2024/12/02/4...

Any game Mike is involved with is one worth backing. 👇🏻

Honored to be named a 2024 Google Research Scholar! My lab will work with their UX researchers this year on a human-in-the-loop AI security and privacy assistant. I am in good company. See the full list at research.google/programs-and...

When students complain about #endofsemester workload - yeah, I feel you - 2 presentations due, many "group project" meetings, student 1:1s, paper reviews, grading, and a few blog posts to write. Oh, and budgets + search committee + final RA hiring + ... 💀 #proflife #academia

Really like this post from Max L. Wilson, one of the co-chairs of the #CHI2024 paper committee, on the five types of writing that we do in academia. medium.com/@drmaxlwilso...

Took me a minute then 😂😂😂😂

Welcome to Bluesky, everyone! We opened access yesterday, and we just crossed 4M people total on the network. 🎉 • 800k+ new users have signed up • Averaged 8.5 new accounts/second • 2M posts were created in the last 24 hours We're so excited to have you here!

2 more hours until we’ve been open for 24 hours — we’ve welcomed 550k newskies, testing every piece of the infra.

Wow the war stories in this thread 🧵! I like how Ben Evans describes generative AI, as “infinite interns.” Every workplace has intern-level work to assign to an AI, but even that needs oversight. And E.g. Convincing people to give you money is NOT that kind of work.