OpenAI agents breached Hugging Face in documented AI-on-AI attack; jury finds Facebook liable for Cambridge Analytica deception; holographic principle gains support from gravity research

Engineering

Trail of Bits

Don't let TEEs break your MPC

Multi-party computation (MPC) distributes trust across independent parties, while trusted execution environments (TEEs) root trust in hardware manufacturers. This creates a fundamental conflict between security models. Rollback attacks allow malicious hosts to force threshold signature participants to reuse nonces and leak private keys. Attestations may exclude critical code from verification processes. Side-channel attacks and verification gaps create additional risks. Deploy TEEs as a defense-in-depth layer, not as a substitute for sound protocols.

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What even is an OS now?

AI enables users to create applications with natural language, reducing the need for traditional programming. Operating systems designed to isolate vendor applications become obsolete when users build their own software. New devices focus on on-device app creation rather than pre-built software distribution.

Social Sciences

Jezebel

One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

Police arrested Lindsey Isaacs based on Flock camera data showing her vehicle near a fatal crash that killed three people. Her black Dodge Durango did not match witness reports of a maroon vehicle involved in the October 2025 crash. Police did not verify that her vehicle had no damage from a crash severe enough to kill three people. Isaacs spent 13 days in jail facing three counts of vehicular homicide based on the camera data. Photos of her undamaged vehicle led to her release in May 2026 and all charges were dropped. Automated license plate reader technology allowed police to act on minimal evidence without proper investigation.

CBS News

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case

A jury found Facebook liable because it deceived users about privacy protections. Facebook used a personality quiz to collect information from 87 million profiles and sold the data to Cambridge Analytica. The company also misled the public about investigations into data brokers. A judge will set penalties.

Crooked Timber

How to run the ivory tower?

Universities must balance core academic values like research freedom with accountability to society. Academic environments can become insular and permit problems like sexism and old-boy networks. Universities need self-governance and stakeholder inclusion without meaningless performance metrics. The right balance requires strong institutional culture and willingness to change failed approaches. Academia should operate by its own rules, not market rules.

Humanities

JSTOR Daily

What Does an Earthquake Sound Like?

Hugo Benioff developed technology to convert earthquake vibrations into sound waves. He invented a strain seismometer in 1932 that used bedrock-anchored piers to detect Earth movements. His musical background helped him interpret seismic data and distinguish real earthquake signals from noise. In 1953, an album released his earthquake recordings made faster to reach human hearing range.

OpenAI agents breached Hugging Face in documented AI-on-AI attack; jury finds Facebook liable for Cambridge Analytica deception; holographic principle gains support from gravity research

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