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  • When Silicon Valley commoditizes human robots

    When Silicon Valley commoditizes human robots

    The tech sphere has recently been buzzing about the announcement of the NEO Home Robot. For $20,000 or a monthly subscription fee of $499, you can pre-order your friendly humanoid home assistant marketed to do your chores: dusting and ordering your bookshelves, vacuum cleaning, bringing you flowers, carrying your groceries from the car, emptying the…

  • The Real End of History: AI Shaking Google’s Hegemony

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    The dramatic declines in the valuation of Alphabet’s shares on the New York Stock Exchange are the first clear signal that the current monopoly of the Google search engine may be undermined. Artificial intelligence is significantly changing the way we search and process information. Meanwhile, we are dealing with a trend that began a long…

  • The Crumbling Foundation of Global Cybersecurity

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    Cybersecurity, much like climate change, is an inherently global challenge demanding global solutions. The internet’s interconnected nature ensures that vulnerabilities discovered in one corner of the digital world can rapidly ripple outwards, affecting systems and users worldwide. Software vulnerabilities, the digital equivalent of industrial pollution, are an inevitable byproduct of software development. With modern software…

  • Part 2: Doing active cyber defense

    Part 2: Doing active cyber defense

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    Matthias Schulze, 14.10.2024 In the last blog post, we deciphered various elements of active cyber defense. We looked at technical definitions, analyzed the spectrum between defense and offense, and talked about deception. We concluded that active cyber defense might entail offense (i.e. engaging with the network of an adversary), but it does not necessarily need…

  • Part 1: The different meanings of active cyber defense

    Part 1: The different meanings of active cyber defense

    Matthias Schulze, 07.10.2024 The aim of this multipart blog series is to take a closer look at the various definitions one can find and dissect what types of actions the term “active defense” describes and how it contributes to security. The confusion with it stems from multiple reasons. 1) it is a political term, a…

  • Doppelganger campaign: Are we prepared for information war as-a-service?

    Doppelganger campaign: Are we prepared for information war as-a-service?

    Matthias Schulze, 2.10.2024 On September 7, the FBI published a dossier on Russia’s systematic information operations against the West and Ukraine. The 270-page document reveals a kind of automated information warfare-as-a-service. The scope, frequency and methods of the information operations against Ukraine and the West are frightening. Is Germany able to counter this?  Social media…

  • Some Observations about the Cyber Conflict between Israel and Hamas

    Some Observations about the Cyber Conflict between Israel and Hamas

    Matthias Schulze 22. January 2024 A German version of this blog post appeared in Tagesspiegel Background Cyber. As in Ukraine, the current war in the Middle East is once again being accompanied by a digital conflict. After two months of war, it is now possible to draw some preliminary conclusions about cyber capabilities in the…

  • ChatGPT, Bing Search, Bard & Friends – Part II

    ChatGPT, Bing Search, Bard & Friends – Part II

    Jantje Silomon 15 May 2023 Peeking under the Hood As mentioned in the last post, the ‘GPT’ part in ChatGPT stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer” – just one example of a transformer model in a family of many dozens. Two graphics by Xavier Amatriain illustrate the model boom and interrelationship nicely: Xavier Amatriain: Five years of models…

  • ChatGPT, Bing Search, Bard & Friends – Part I

    ChatGPT, Bing Search, Bard & Friends – Part I

    Jantje Silomon 26 April 2023 Last November, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a chatbot built on top of the GPT-3 Large Language Model (LLM) family. Its humanesque responses quickly garnered attention, from interviews and being hailed as “amazing, creative, and totally wrong” to calling it “dumber than you think“. It did not take long for people to try find…

  • Cybercrime as a Peace Risk – Why International Cooperation Concerns Us All

    Cybercrime as a Peace Risk – Why International Cooperation Concerns Us All

    Mischa Hansel 16 March 2023 Cybercrime and the fight against are no longer a niche topic: the economic repercussions alone are too high, costing the Federal Republic of Germany over 200 billion euros annually according to an estimate from the industry association Bitcom. However, other costs – such as the social and political issues that can aggravate…

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