Congratulations to Andreas Tsamados who presented a compelling thesis!

Oxford Internet Institute@oii.ox.ac.uk · 2mo ago

🎓✨New doctor alert! Congratulations to @oii.ox.ac.uk DPhil student Andreas Tsamados for successfully passing his Viva! His thesis is titled 'Rethinking human control of AI systems: Toward collaboration with foundation AI systems in cybersecurity workflows'. 1/2

We are launching The Context Summer edition in the next couple of weeks and we’ve got some big names in it. Vince Cable, @profejzrobinson.bsky.social, @andrewdwyer.bsky.social, Adel Darwish, Nishiha Jasper David, Pelle Neroth Taylor and many more. We are also looking for ads for the next issue!

London-based folks: I am running a night on the contemporary relevance of archives of tech resistance to celebrate the launch of my book, Techno-Negative 🔨🔥 it will take place at Mayday Rooms on 13th May. Free, but please register. Books for sale too! maydayrooms.org/event/an-eve...

Some comments from me from an in-depth interview on Iranian cyber operations in Aperio Intelligence 🔽 www.portal.aperio-intelligence.com/fcd/article?...

📣 Call for UK participants - Whole of Society for Cyber Power workshop next Thursday! Are you a cyber policy practitioner - from government, industry, or elsewhere - who would be happy to come to a workshop in central London next Thursday (7th May)? Lunch and refreshments provided!

📢 @royalholloway.bsky.social has been recognised as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE) - Gold Award by the @ncsc.gov.uk and DSIT! www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

Royal Holloway recognised with prestigious Gold Award in Cyber Security Education

Royal Holloway has been recognised as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE) – Gold Award by the UK Government.

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Trump's administration has ordered US diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate US tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen ...

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This is one of the better pieces I've seen on Venezuela and the UK approach by Patrick Wintour in the Guardian. In an era of rapidly emerging Trumpian realism, the UK is very much hampered in its pursuit of a liberal rules-based order... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Why won’t Yvette Cooper criticise Trump over Venezuela? Look no further than Ukraine

The foreign secretary faces a tight balancing act between keeping the US involved in peace talks, and trying to maintain international order

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Marking in an age of generative AI is absolutely painstaking - not because I am *against* AI, but having to delve into a whole host of references to check engagement is a much more demanding task (and perhaps always should have been). A 2000 word essay takes me at least 30 minutes to mark now.

New article from the Algorithmic Societies group at Durham where theorize prompting as "a mutation in the exercise of political power, beyond the direct command and even the more indirect ‘action at a distance’ characteristic of liberal governmentality...." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI

This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

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On 12 November, we are delighted to welcome Siân John MBE to deliver the second Fred Piper Annual Information Security Lecture at @royalholloway.bsky.social. Registration is free but mandatory - follow the link below for more information and to sign-up. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...

AI in practice: skills, security, and shifting realities

This lecture explores the real-world implications of AI—beyond the hype and into the grounded realities of how it's reshaping our work, education, and societal expectations.

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Phew! #CHI2026 paper submitted just in time 🎉💤

📰 Check out this new report funded by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on 'Securing Converged Technologies: Insights from Subject Matter Experts' Written by our own Dr @andrewdwyer.bsky.social and @mikaelabrough.bsky.social (CDT in Cyber Security) www.gov.uk/government/p...

Securing converged technologies: insights from subject matter experts

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📢 New blog piece from me - Prefiguring Responsibility: The Pall Mall Process and Cyber Intrusion Capabilities - for the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security! riscs.org.uk/2025/08/12/p...

Funding bid submitted exploring some of the political economy of cyber power... fingers crossed as it's a potentially fantastic collaboration :D

Is anyone I know planning on attending the #AAG next year in San Fran? I'm mulling over what to do as I've been out of the geography conference circuit for a few years...

I'm delighted that with colleagues - Co-Is Lizzie Coles-Kemp and Danilo Francati - that we have been successful in the first SALIENT funding call with our project, "Fake in the Community"

SALIENT-Hub@salient-hub.bsky.social · last yr.

Fake in the Community - @royalholloway.bsky.social 📱 ‘Cheap fakes’ are eroding trust in local digital spaces. This community-led project co-designs tools to counter misinformation and support digital resilience. @andrewdwyer.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social @isg-rhul.bsky.social

A quote from me in @thetimes.com yesterday I was perhaps being somewhat provocative, but can a self-proclaimed technical authority (the UK NCSC) be also driving market and political change? www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

In the increasing discussion of 'agentic' AI, I thought about this back a few years ago with relation to computation, war and conflict... www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

The unknowable conflict | 3 | Tracing AI, recognition, and the death o

In our contemporary moment, computation has unsettled international conflict through an inherent, and growing, incommensurability expedited by ‘artificial

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After a very eventful and reflective #CHI2025, just found out that we have been successful in more funding to continue this work! What a great sweetener to end on!

Andrew Dwyer@andrewdwyer.bsky.social · last yr.

In Japan to present our paper, Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers’ Alley" at #CHI2025. This is my first time here, so if you wish to discuss 'critical' approaches to (cyber) security and privacy, please get in touch! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

In Japan to present our paper, Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers’ Alley" at #CHI2025. This is my first time here, so if you wish to discuss 'critical' approaches to (cyber) security and privacy, please get in touch! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

Planning a conference as a lecturer is so different to a PhD... Oh the wilds of the PhD I miss you!

A little door refresh with some recent work!

Putting this back here because yes the deep border is everywhere, it certainly doesn’t respect “compartmentalized data” (are people really surprised that DOGE links data sources arbitrarily & violently?) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The deep border

Deep neural network algorithms are becoming intimately involved in the politics of the border, and are themselves bordering devices in that they class…

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Sometimes academia can be a wild one - just been on @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social's LBC show to discuss the extraordinary leak of information on Signal on the Yemen strikes. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

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Our #CHI2025 paper is now on arXiv! For those of you who wish to consider HCI and security from community-based perspective, where all actors in the 'digital by default' economy can be 'snipers' and ways of moving beyond threat models, this is for you! arxiv.org/abs/2503.16992

arXiv cs.HC Human-Computer Interaction@cshc-bot.bsky.social · 2y ago

Andrew C Dwyer, Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Clara Crivellaro, Claude P R Heath: Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers' Alley" https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16992 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.16992 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.16992

The Heathrow incident shows how important information - over cyber - security is for operational resilience. It’s about the whole ‘stack.’ I also think we need to reevaluate the UK flavour of ‘risk based’ governance that is consistently used to do the minimum investment possible. on.ft.com/4bMPRAl

Heathrow’s shutdown fuels questions about UK’s infrastructure resilience

Within hours of a fire at a power substation, one of the world’s busiest airports was closed to all flights

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📢 Our own @andrewdwyer.bsky.social gave evidence to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) on offensive cyber - demonstrating the ISG's key work in providing expertise to policy in information and cyber security www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

ISG Academic provides expertise on ‘offensive cyber’ to UK Parliamentary committee

Dr Andrew Dwyer, Lecturer in Information Security, gave expert evidence to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy during a session on ‘offensive cyber’.

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we are recruiting a physical geography full professor - do contact @geodiverse.bsky.social if you need a bit of background to Oxford-University-ness (the role of the colleges here is, err, unique...). #geosky @oxfordgeography.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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