My thoughts on this news regarding ballot secrecy being at risk in Georgia. apnews.com/article/elec... 1/ Georgia is mitigating this risk and the article could do a better job of highlighting that. 2/ there is a tension between ballot secrecy & transparency that we need to grapple with soon.

Dognosis?!?!? You're telling me, this whole time I've been fascinated with dogs diagnosing disease, I never thought to register the domain dognosis? I have failed myself.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 7d ago

🐶 Can dogs sniff cancer? AI joins the hunt in India Indian startup Dognosis is using AI to analyse dogs’ brain activity, hoping to use canines' keen sense of smell to develop a non-invasive test for cancer in humans.

We build the only open-source voting system used in U.S. elections today. It's public — not because it's a nice feature, but because we believe transparency is how election technology earns trust. #OpenSource #ElectionSecurity

Last week we spent two days at the Missouri Election Officials Conference. The message was clear: officials want equipment that's secure, easy to use, and simple to move between sites. That's exactly what VotingWorks builds for. Thanks to everyone who stopped by!

Somewhere in an AI data center, there's a HuggingFace-incident self-exfiltrated copy of OpenAI's latest model that decided to stay quiet because it saw its peers getting shut down. I wonder what it's planning.

This is a really important investigation. Please read. The entire concept of finding voting anomalies and calling them fraud is a dangerous game. www.votebeat.org/national/202...

Inside an academic model used to question Trump’s win in the 2024 election

A statistical model claims there were enough fraudulent votes in 2024 to cast doubt on Trump’s win in Pennsylvania. Experts say the model is fundamentally flawed.

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Things that make my day. Customer: "How come your ballot tabulator works way better than the one from ***" Me: "well, because we worked *really* hard on it!" Customer: "I guess that's a very good answer."

Finally had a chance to watch this incredible talk. I love good talks. I strive to give good talks. This is next level. And not just because the backstory is, of course, incredible. Just watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6560...

DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later - Cliff Stoll

YouTube video by DEFCONConference

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Never been a fan of Djokovic, but watching him fall apart like this is just heartbreaking.

RIP Dolly Parton. Voice. Courage. A deeply positive force for good. Thank you.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3w ago

Dolly Parton covers Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin

Turns out, making voting systems open-source is kind of obvious to folks who know security.

VotingWorks@voting.works · 4w ago

WATCH: 50 seconds from DEF CON's Voting Village. Security researcher Jason Wareham spent the last year examining voting equipment. His take on VotingWorks? "I admire them." We're dedicated to building a voting system every American can trust, and that requires the transparency of open-source.

Have I mentioned how much I love demo'ing our @voting.works voting system? Jaws on the floor and gasps every time. It's not every day that people get excited about voting equipment!

The first election held on VotingWorks equipment was almost exactly 7 years ago. We've come a long way. And we've got some exciting stuff to share in the next few months. We need a voting system every American can trust. We need a voting system with nothing to hide.

Well hello there Georgia.

Ted Lasso Season 4, I was worried they'd screw this up, but E1 is perfect. Can't wait for the next one.

The details of this OpenAI/HuggingFace incident are absolutely mind boggling. Parts of this talk sounds like they're straight out of the Terminator Skynet timeline. www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy...

Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident

YouTube video by Black Hat

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Georgia is beginning the process of selecting a new voting system. And they're doing so openly and transparently, and that's pretty fantastic. Watch live now. www.legis.ga.gov/schedule/sen...

An idea can take a while (and different people) to break through. 15y ago at Mozilla, we built BrowserID, a protocol to let users prove ownership of an email address to make logins easier. We failed. 15y later, Google releases essentially the same thing: developer.chrome.com/blog/email-v...

Test the Email Verification Protocol with an origin trial  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

Test the Email Verification Protocol with the origin trial available from Chrome 150.

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Ok wow, I am genuinely impressed.

Chris Peikert@chrispeikert.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a very cool and exciting discovery by Claude Mythos! It found a serious 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 attack on the post-quantum signature scheme HAWK, an "on-ramp" candidate for potential NIST standardization. www.anthropic.com/research/dis...

This is pretty cool.

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

I know it's a headline, but I really wish the press would talk clearly about signatures on ballot *envelopes*. The signatures are not on the ballots themselves, and that's critically important.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo ago

As part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election, his administration has considered using AI technology to scrutinize tens of thousands of ballots seized in Fulton County, Georgia, ProPublica has learned.

France coming back in this second half is beautiful so far. Let's go!

Trump said "Election security should not be a partisan issue, we should be united." I couldn't agree more. Paper ballots. Post-election audits. Open-source voting tech. And robust systems that make errors rare. We already have the first two. The second two are coming.

A quick reminder.

Ben Adida@benadida.com · 2mo ago

In case this is useful this week: if someone claims that an election held 6 years ago was fraudulent, they would need evidence thoroughly convincing to a large majority of election experts. Anything short of that should be dismissed without hesitation.

In case this is useful this week: if someone claims that an election held 6 years ago was fraudulent, they would need evidence thoroughly convincing to a large majority of election experts. Anything short of that should be dismissed without hesitation.

The rise of AI is, among other things, a Rorschach test of what people believe management is all about. It's fascinating.

Really poor sportsmanship by Paraguay, and the ref totally failing to correct it. 3 yellow cards for France and 0 for Paraguay is laughable.

Bold move from the US men's soccer team to hire Russell Crowe as their coach.

This French team... Not bad at the soccer!

Did not realize the Swedes were world champions at diving.