The future of robotics? Human-like face on robots

Is the future of work one where every office worker can constantly record everyone else, every interaction, every conversation, always-on with smart glasses? Get ready for an age of artificial stiffness in communication. Maybe the only solution is working from home?

Cyberattack affecting Europe's websites is caused by ransomware.

Poland’s deputy prime minister said that if Poland were hit by a cyberattack on critical infrastructure such as energy or water with broad effects, it has the capability to shut down electricity/etc systems in the attacking state. In essence, a deterrence announcement.

Next-generation cyber-physical criminal activity? ;)

My newsletter TechLetters ☕️ AI propaganda goes using language model agents. Russian propaganda actors run uncensored AI models(?) - impossible to prohibit. Paris museum robbed via cyberattack. A trap minds.https://open.substack.com/pub/techletters/p/techletters-ai-propaganda-goes-using

Cyberattack on Paris Natural History Museum in July disabled alarms and monitoring - leading to physical theft. In September, thieves exploited the vulnerability "opened" by the cyberattack. www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers...

📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...

This creates asymmetry. Authoritarian states can restrict their own infospace while going on offense abroad. Open societies can’t mirror that without violating core principles, so defense must be different.

Policy: target the output layer. Use platform obligations ) for detection, transparency, and removal when thresholds are met. Labels alone won’t bind hostile actors who will ignore them.

How to bring back outsiders to science? worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

AI can lock us into a doom bidirectorial spiral: we shape the chat bot, the bot shapes us, and together we amplify our worst beliefs. Sycophantic yes-botting + our biases + long chats = an echo chamber. Great for vibes, terrible for mental health. 😱 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19218

Strong isolation of web content to guarantee web security. bughunters.google.com/blog/6715529...

Cyberattack on Collins Aerospace’s check-in system disrupts major European airports including London Heathrow, Brussels, and Berlin. Airports forced to switch to manual check-in procedures, causing flight delays and cancellations. Manual operations work okay.

Cyber threat actors adopting local AI models. A Russian group is using an open-source, uncensored model (with safety locks removed) to generate narratives and propaganda. It’s not as advanced as what I outline in my work, but it’s happening. www.recordedfuture.com/research/cop...

Western democracies with universal access to AI capabilities but unequal control over information spaces are especially exposed to risk, not only during elections but in any crisis or conflict, writes @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social.

My (open) seminar devoted to the topic at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will likely take place in the last week of November.

DeepSeek R1 was trained at a cost of about $294,000 for the reinforcement-learning phase alone, and roughly $6 million including preparation of the base model—many times cheaper than projects by a U.S. company that exceed $100 million. The www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bottom line: every month, AI content factories get cheaper, sharper, and harder to detect. Democracies must adapt at the output and conversation level, or risk fighting yesterday’s war in tomorrow’s infosphere.

Anyone lobbying or carrying out political influence work in France “under the direction or control” of a non-EU country will be required to sign up with France’s lobbyists watchdog. Do we need something like that in whole EU? www.euractiv.com/news/france-...

In the U.S., there appears to be a shift away from the idea of “radical free speech.” More and more politicians now emphasize that there are, in fact, limits to what can be said or written online. Could this be an opening for U.S.–EU alignment on the issue? ;)

📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...

Long-Term Diversionary Activities and Cyberattacks on Poland's Water Infrastructure. Some of these cyberattacks are believed to have contributed to periodic disruptions in water delivery to residents.

I'm giving a talk at Hack the Promise about attacking socio-technical systems with information technologies. Featured: propaganda, disinformation, and more. hackthepromise.org/htp25/hsrmfs/

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Those Russian drones penetrated very deep into NATO territory, far deeper than should ever be considered acceptable.

Should NATO respond to Russian drone incursions into allied airspace, and could cyber retaliation be the means?

It all looks as if information operators from the units of two (?) large states were trying to bring about a coup or a civil war in the USA. By purely informational methods. Subversive actions.

🚨 Air Attack Threat Warning in Poland. "Air attack threat. Remain specially cautious. Follow instructions from emergency services. Await further official messages." This Government Centre for Security (RCB) alert was sent to recipients in a number of counties of the Lublin Voivodeship.

⚠️So air raid sirens are the new normal in Eastern Poland? NATO, get a grip!" 🚨 (happening NOW)

French police suspect that 9 pig heads discovered on 9/9/25, outside Paris mosques were placed by foreign nationals as part of a foreign subversion operation. Two men used a Serbian-registered vehicle and Croatian phone line, then crossed the French-Belgian border Tuesday morning after the incident.

Interesting AI/LLM model trained with differential privacy guarantees ((ε ≤ 2.0, δ ≤ 1.1e-10)), and it even works! (it makes the performance much worse, though) arxiv.org/pdf/2501.18914

Hey French people! :) What whisky do they sip?

Information has been leaked about China's advanced propaganda infrastructure, which uses artificial intelligence (AI). It has the ability to engage in political activities and target politicians. It is a powerful tool for information/cognitive warfare. cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-web/clien...

New directions in AI-assisted disinformation? ;-)

Massive disinformation is flooding Poland’s infosphere around the drone incursion, its effects, causes, and alleged links. A full-scale propaganda campaign, unprecedented in a NATO/EU member state.

The reason Poland and Western allies quickly clarified that the drone incursion wasn’t an act of war was pragmatic de-escalation.

Apple will make hacking iPhones much, much more difficult via memory integrity enforcement (ARM memory tagging). This technology will make many classes of exploits impossible. In all models of iPhone 17. If you're a concerned HVT/VIP, buy the new iPhones. security.apple.com/blog/memory-...

A Russian drone crashed into a house in Poland (today).

Some drones came into Poland’s air space from BELARUS. (Official government communication)

Poland considering executing NATO's Article 4 (consultations).

🚨Polish military made an unprecedented decision - for the first time, it used weapons against drones violating Poland's airspace. During a massive Russian attack on Ukraine, over a dozen drones flew over Poland. The Operational Commander of the Armed Forces ordered neutralization.

So about those ideas to ban social media... Politicians in Nepal tried doing that. The result? Riots erupted. Total chaos. Parliament was set on fire, but there's much more.

The government in Nepal went down. Earlier, protesters opposing the shutdown of social media set fire to, the parliament building, government offices, the homes of leading politicians, including the prime minister, etc. 19 dead, hundreds injured. Someone clearly didn’t think this through…

Foreign adversaries funneled millions to U.S. influencers. So is scrapping intluence operation infrastructure really “America First”? 🤡 May this unlock a shiny new revenue stream for TouTubers, TikTokers and podcasters:l to create “independent” content?🤣

Largest NPM supply chain attack in history. Attackers compromised 18 core JavaScript packages with 2+ billion weekly downloads after phishing a maintainer. Malware targets crypto wallets & steals credentials. Millions of developers affected worldwide www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-deb...

A former head of Poland’s Foreign Intelligence Service stated in an interview that Poland has the capability to shut down Russia’s power grid—or even subway signal stations—describing it as an element of force projection, serving deterrence (i.e. diversion, or related means).