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Last week, I defended my doctoral thesis on cybersecurity and the question of state intervention to protect private IT systems from cyberattacks 🎓 #PhDone

Today has been a vibe-coding intense day: First, my The Lawfare Institute article on vibe coding was released, read here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/when-the-vibe-are-off--the-security-risks-of-ai-generated-code Second, I gave a quick talk on vibe coding at the Gikii conference in Amsterdam.

Vibe coding poses serious security risks, read about it here 👇

Die neuen Praxisleitfäden für KI-Modelle mit allgemeinem Verwendungszweck (GPAI-Modelle) habe ich für Digitalrechte.de im Newsletter „prompt“ analysiert. www.irights-lab.de/storage/uplo...

Wow. Wenn Hintertüren in der Hardware eingebaut sind (gar auf Chipebene), dann bringt auch verschlüsseln und fancy Passwort nicht mehr viel.

Russian airline Aeroflot attacked by Ukrainian and Belarusian hacktivists www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w... #cybersecurity #cyberwar

Bad vibes for vibe coding? AI-generated code (aka vibe code) harbours many security risks. The new EU Cyber Resilience Act aims to fix this, compliance can be feigned, leading to "vibe compliance". Read here blog.ai-laws.org/bad-vibes-fo... #cybersecurity #vibecoding

Just came across this poem by Ursula le Guin in „The Wild Girls Plus…“: The Next War It will take place, it will take time, it will take life, and waste them.

Currently on vacation in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 , today at the Fairy Glen #travel #scotland

If you've always wanted to get your own Boston Dynamics Spot robot, but with the ability to fire pellets and "pee", look no further: Temu has just the thing! Robot dogs lifting legs to mimic peeing surely is an interesting approach for social robots 😅 www.wired.com/story/we-bou...

Meta plans to replace humans with AI for risk assessments AI-generated risk assessments are the next logical step after vibe coding - is this vibe compliance? www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...

AI coding agents may create reverse-centaurs, conscripting software developers to assist AI, instead of AI assisting them. pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/d... This development seems to have already started at Amazon: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b...

North Korea has been infiltrating tech companies with fake workers, backed by laptop farms - to earn money www.wired.com/story/north-...

China is striving for AGI A project in Wuhan plans to build a “perception-cognition-decision whole chain ecology” as a basis for “autonomously controllable AGI”. See the report of @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social here cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...

I highly recommend this paper: It moves beyond narratives of superintelligence (whether dystopian or utopian). Instead, it offers a framework for understanding and regulating AI as a "normal" general-purpose technology.

Gastbeitrag mit @konstantinnotz.bsky.social bei ZEIT ONLINE „Reallabore können den Weg zu einer grundrechtskonformen, technologisch souveränen und nachhaltigen IT-Infrastruktur für die innere Sicherheit ebnen.“ @joernpl.bsky.social @zeit.de

This is such a Ferengi thing to do #TrekSky

"What kind of world are we leaving to AI?"

7 years ago, when I started taking an interest in computer science 💻 AI and robotics🤖, I worked through Carrie Anne Philbins Crash Course Computer Science @pbs.org To this day, I have the "level of abstraction" meme stuck in my head 🥰 Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIc...

Check out this dashboard monitoring Russian propaganda emanating from the so-called 'Pravda Network': portal-kombat.com

New paper out 🚨🤖🚓 with @mkolain.bsky.social Quadruped robots like Boston Dynamics’ “Spot” are reshaping policing. Our paper analyzes their use for surveillance and interactions with citizens. ⚠️ Deploy with caution - citizen rights matter! 🔗 Read more uclajolt.com/k9-police-ro... #academiasky

Great commentary by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: hamiltonnolan.com/p/divergence... found via @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy "That, my friends, is the unfortunate outcome of an economic system that has so profoundly failed to enforce economic equality, ...

Im Projekt "Offener Zugang zum Grundgesetz" kommentiere ich Art. 35 GG (Amts- und Katastrophenhilfe) und Art. 91 GG (innerer Notstand). Wer im Wege des Bürger*innen-Reviews kritisch meine Arbeit (oder die der anderen) überprüfen möchte, kann sich hier melden: www.mitforschen.org/projekt/offe...

Our latest Cyber & Cognitive Conflict Compass (4C) is out: Austria busts Russian #disinfo, Serbia hit with #Pegasus, FamousSparrow sharpens malware, UK rolls out #AI facial recognition and Germany discusses backdoors http://dlvr.it/TJvNgK

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION: The NEW deadline for the submission of papers and panels for the ELU-S Inaugural Conference is now April 15th! For more information about the conference and submission process: europeanlawunbound.eu/call-for-pan...

𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝗮𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸. 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻’𝘁 𝘀𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 because "it’s a server, singular" - the cyberattack affected "the ability of law enforcement to look up license plates" by @statescoop.bsky.social statescoop.com/mission-texa...

Check out the Atlas of Surveillance by @eff.org if you're living in the US - it offers an overview and a searchable database of Police Surveillance Tech in use! atlasofsurveillance.org

Fascinating paper on improving internet security: To implement new standards, the action of key actors is needed to "set off cascades of action within these networks of people, companies, and technologies." by Ben Collier, Richard Clayton and James Stewart doi.org/10.1080/1369...

I was in Paris last week for the #AIActionSummit & was honoured to participate in the “AI in public interest” panel. 👇🏾 my thoughts & reflections on what AI in public interest is/isn’t & some concrete steps/initiatives for `bending the arc of AI towards the public interest' aial.ie/pages/aiparis/

The Origins of the paper gods - German Bureaucracy

Freue mich! Ich beschreibe dort die Wechselwirkung von juristischer Abschließung und Öffnung in Produkt- und Stoffströmen durch die #ÖkodesignVO und den #DataAct. Noch ist offen, ob die notwendige digitale Koordination der Wirtschaft in Richtung #Green_Deal möglich wird. dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783...

Der Tagungsband zum JuWissDay 2024 in Speyer - "Rechtsfragen virtueller Welten" ist erschienen und kostenlos abrufbar: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9... @juwiss.bsky.social @nroeingh.bsky.social @jonasbotta.bsky.social @mxpe.bsky.social

Mit dem 2. Februar 2025 greift eine neue Stufe der KI-Verordnung. Es gibt Verbote und eine Kompetenz-Pflicht für alle Mitarbeiter. #Künstliche Intelligenz

Nicht vergessen - morgen ist die Deadline für VG Wort Meldungen in diesem Jahr #friendlyreminder www.vgwort.de

Mein AG KRITIS 🔥-Kommentar zu #NIS2 und #KritisDachgesetz bei heise und warum das #Hasenfell sehr, sehr dick sein muss: Kommentar zum NIS2- und #Kritis-Debakel: Gehe zurück auf Los "Deutschland vergeigt die rechtzeitige Umsetzung der NIS2-Richtlinie..." #AllesAnzünden www.heise.de/meinung/Komm...

Reading time 📚 #booksky

"We need to start understanding that Elon Musk’s X is a weapon, currently owned by a non-state entity. But from January 20 that changes. At that point it must be understood as information warfare from a hostile nation state." @carolecadwalla.bsky.social as usually one step ahead of most of us.

„Die Eigenmacht der Bürokratie erscheint als Gefahr für die Demokratie. Eine breite Skala von unstabilen Einstellungen zur Bürokratie, vom Kreuzzugseifer bis zur amüsierten Resignation ist die Folge. (…)“ - Niklas Luhmann, Die Grenzen der Verwaltung, S. 148.

The the increasing amount of bots and the lack of verification/ imposter accounts are starting to become a serious issue here @bsky.app

One of the foremost AI researchers in the world who just founded a new AI lab at Trinity College. Now suffering racist abuse and physical aggression on the street in Dublin.

i have been told to “speak english” on the tram (while on the phone with my family speaking amharic), things thrown at me on the street – just within the past month – and today a group of young boys mocked me and pulled my afro from the back

Welchen #38c3 Vortrag muss ich gesehen haben?

20 books 📚 #booksky #bookchallenge Day 1

"Tech founders say things were simpler when they were running startups, but what they miss is that … their startup … was largely irrelevant to society, while the large company it turned into is destroying millions of peoples' lives today."

Reading time 📚

The Cyber Resilience Act has been finally published in the Offcial Journal of the European Union - introducing comprehensive cybersecurity regulation of products with digital elements search.app/RovmSCGYVM9U...

I made a Law and Technology Scholars starter pack!