Anthropic Faces Backlash As Claude 4 Opus Can Autonomously Alert Authorities When Detecting Behavior Deemed Seriously Immoral

Published in WCCF Tech on 24 May 2025

If there were ever a reason for human-in-the-loop, detecting immoral behavior would be it. We don’t yet have the infrastructure to truly oversee “autonomous” AI activity — though hints of it are starting to show themselves in various “on-behalf-of” delegation efforts. (Human-in-the-loop == PEBKAC is a whole ‘nother risk.)

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Massive data breach exposes 184 million passwords for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and more

Published in ZDNET on 23 May 2025

These very large online platforms (to coin a phrase…) have long been innovators in large-scale contextual authentication and fraud detection. But they’re still honeypots of very large online repositories of valuable info, and I don’t see that changing, even if passkeys or verifiable credentials become ubiquitous. Not without deep changes in their business models, anyway.

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Deepfakes Now Outsmarting Detection By Mimicking Heartbeats

Published in Study Finds on 2 May 2025

The liveness detection arms race continues! Also: “inadvertently”?

Linky issue no. 2 is in the bag! Let me know what you think — and send me your tips. :) Thanks to everyone who sent me linky post series title ideas. Still mulling those. For now I’m keeping it simple.

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