Well. That is quite the headline from Le Monde Diplomatique.

Take some time (very little) to weigh on this: "Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library" docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... (not that I want to influence anyone, but my own position is along the lines of "hell no.")

Now is the Time to Give LLMS Access to the ACM Digital Library Why ACM Believes the benefits outweigh the risks in opening up the ACM Digital Library to large lan...

ACM welcomes your feedback! All responses will be read and considered by ACM.

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Lance Fortnow@lance.fortnow.com · 3w ago

ACM is considering giving large language models access to the papers in their digital library. cacm.acm.org/opinion... You can give feedback here: docs.google.com/form...

The IACR board has put forward a proposal to revamp the publishing of the general conference proceedings for Eurocrypt, Crypto, and Asiacrypt. iacr.org/hybridpropos... I would encourage members to engage in discussion about this on iacr.org/discuss

The latest version of MP-SPDZ is a maintenance release, with the most important change being two severe protocol bug fixes. github.com/data61/MP-SP...

Release Maintenance · data61/MP-SPDZ

Fixed security bug: malicious parties not committed to MAC key across threads and executions Fixed security bug: insufficient checks in Rep4 Improved radix sort Optimized 32-bit computation Multith...

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🚨📣 Qiang Tang and @aravind16coiner.bsky.social are organising a one-day cryptography school on August 7, 2026. Open to UG, master's, and PhD students. Free attendance, but registration required! sydney-cryptography-group.github.io/activities-e...

Tim Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour Work Week and other self-help slop, is seeing his book sales crater because people are getting their advice from ChatGPT instead lmao

UNSW Sydney is #hiring systems faculty – talk to me if you’re interested. This is for mid-career researchers in the AU Lecturer–Senior Lecturer–Associate Professor–Professor progression. Tenure is orthogonal to position level – closes 31 July. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/54...

UNSW Sydney is hiring an associate professor and a lecturer in cryptography, and the description explicitly mentions *secure computation*. Didn't you want to live in the sunniest of the most livable cities in the world?

For 19 years, GPS satellites have secretly broadcast a “numbers station” in their signals. We decoded 12M messages: a 2011 flash where 31 satellites flipped in hours, “ghost” substrings repeating years apart, and a “TEXT” prefix spreading now. lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/...

Inside GNSS Media & Research • May/June 2026 • 62

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A new policy from IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications "An author may submit at most 36 new manuscripts to the IEEE TWC each year. Submissions exceeding this limit will be rejected without review. " 36!!! Somehow I don't think I'm likely to have a problem with this.

60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour

Nominate yourself to help review papers for USENIX Security 2027! sec-rms.com/submit-appli... (or rms.swag.cispa.de/submit-appli... ). Deadline: May 28, 2026. We're looking for both senior and junior people. See Andrei Sabelfeld's LinkedIn post for more info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Grattan Institute’s new report shows that letting Australian homebuyers choose the car-parking they need will: → make housing cheaper, → get more homes built faster, and → create more walkable cities.

Go MAYO!! Moving to the third round of the PQC NIST process!

Round 3 of the NIST additional signatures process announced! 🎉 And SQIsign is part of it!! ⛷️⛷️

south africa withdraws own government AI policy over hallucinated citations www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Two weeks ago, Google published a paper proving in zero-knowledge that they had an efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm. Today, Trail of Bits can prove that we have an even better implementation which beats Google's on all metrics! 🫢 blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/w...

This is a great (and horrifying?) piece about how Sam, in preparation for her marriage, was pulled into the bridal algorithm. Her experience of social media changed completely overnight www.404media.co/wedding-plan...

I Almost Lost My Mind in the Bridal Algorithm

As a #2026Bride, the constant, aggressive content started to make me feel like I was losing sight of what mattered. And I'm far from alone.

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A very nice explainer why "if you're so worried about quantum computers, why haven't they factored 21 yet?" isn't a very convincing argument. Look at the labels of the graph, and how extremely close the various lines are for factoring 21 and 2048 bit numbers. Polynomial scaling remains […]

🎉 Proud moment for COSIC! Prof. Nigel Smart has received the #RSAC 2026 Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics for his groundbreaking work in #MPC, Threshold #Cryptography & foundational crypto research. Congratulations, Nigel! 👏 www.rsaconference.com/library/pres...

RSAC Set to Honor Excellence in the Field of Mathematics Awards, Inaugural Test of Time Awards at RSAC 2026 Conference

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A very nice blogpost explaining our work - slices right through the marketing from the vendors: medium.com/reading-sh/y...

Your password manager’s ‘zero knowledge’ promise is broken

What ETH Zurich’s USENIX Security paper means for anyone who stores passwords in the cloud.

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Kenny Paterson@kennyog.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Do you use a cloud-based password manager? So what's your threat model? Vendors like Bitwarden, Dashlane, LastPass and 1Password offer you "Zero Knowledge Encryption", with statements like: "Not even the team at Bitwarden can read your data (even if we wanted to)." We decided to test this… 1/n

Call for submissions: #TPMPC2026 (Theory & Practice of MPC) Submit your latest and coolest results by March 2, 2026. Aarhus, Denmark, May 18–22, 2026. Monday: MPC security in practice. Friday: Symposium celebrating Ivan Damgård’s work. Links in comments.

The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl. More of my work for Trouw: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje... #ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI

The number of people arguing, following the #NeurIPS2025 case, that a bit of systematically bad scholarship and borderline academic misconduct is OK because doing things the right way is tedious and time-consuming is concerning. Yes, doing things well might be boring. But doing them badly is... bad

Advice for Jens Eisert. doi.org/10.1038/d415...

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too

If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

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Consider signing this petition regarding restoring free access to the ACM digital library: www.ipetitions.com/petition/res...

Petition Restore Fully Free and Open Access to the ACM Digital Library

Restore Fully Free and Open Access to the ACM Digital Library

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Deadline is January 7. Still a few days left to apply...

Sabine Oechsner@proofnerd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Interested in the security of MPC implementations? Peter Scholl (@schollster.bsky.social) and I are looking for research interns to study the theory/practice gap for MPC. We can host multiple interns in Aarhus for the summer 2026. More information: mpcinthewild.github.io Help us spread the word!

Privacy issues are unlikely to go away in 2026. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

‘All brakes are off’: Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires

Russian state has tolerated parallel probiv market for its convenience but now Ukrainian spies are exploiting it

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