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“There are three groundbreaking concepts – secure multiparty computation, zero-knowledge proofs and fully homomorphic encryption – are different ways that data can be shared but not revealed. In the 1980s, […] there were no obvious real-world problems to which they were a solution. Times have changed. The world is awash with data, and data privacy has become a hugely contentious political, ethical and legal issue.
They answer a defining challenge of the digital world: how to keep sensitive data private while also being able to extract value from that data.” source
Longer reads: Art of Maintenance. OpenSource format for road traffic. Nighttime EV charging impacts. Drones & corporate spies. Maslin.
Business: Paywall restaurants. Amazon invisible asymptotes. Tiktok more accessed than Google. Toyota leaking private secret keys. Surveillance luxury. Semiconductor skills shortage. Microsoft enabling productivity paranoia? Deere and autonomous farming. UK becoming poorer.
Digital: Adversarial attacks on NLP models, practical. Weaponizing summarizers. AI replacing middle management. Depression diagnosed from voice samples. OSINT tools to identify people by usernames. The CCC hackers collective helping the German health system. AI art might put more focus on the artist as a person (AaaP).
Progress on privacy, datasharing and data processing.
Cyber human trafficking.Consumed: The Dragon Never Sleeps (Cook). The rings of power. More than human, by Sturgeon. Love death robots anthologies. Mad God - mesmerizing.
Random: Katamari Hack. Nighttime voice calls by sleeping assistants. Flowers language. Darwin and plants movement. Rebirth of the horror genre since ‘20. Digital gardening.
