Carolin Kemper

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Last week, I defended my doctoral thesis on cybersecurity and the question of state intervention to protect private IT systems from cyberattacks 🎓

#PhDone

Today has been a vibe-coding intense day:

First, my The Lawfare Institute article on vibe coding was released, read here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/when-the-vibe-are-off--the-security-risks-of-ai-generated-code

Second, I gave a quick talk on vibe coding at the Gikii conference in Amsterdam.

Vibe coding poses serious security risks, read about it here 👇

Die neuen Praxisleitfäden für KI-Modelle mit allgemeinem Verwendungszweck (GPAI-Modelle) habe ich für Digitalrechte.de im Newsletter „prompt“ analysiert.

www.irights-lab.de/storage/uplo...

Wow. Wenn Hintertüren in der Hardware eingebaut sind (gar auf Chipebene), dann bringt auch verschlüsseln und fancy Passwort nicht mehr viel.

Pro-Ukrainian Hackers Claim Cyberattack as Aeroflot Grounds Flights

Russian airline Aeroflot attacked by Ukrainian and Belarusian hacktivists

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...

#cybersecurity #cyberwar

Bad vibes for vipe coding? - The risks of insecure AI-generated code in software products - RAILS - Blog “Vibe coding” – when AI generates entire software systems from natural language prompt – is the latest trend in tech. But as the EU’s new Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) rolls…

Bad vibes for vibe coding?

AI-generated code (aka vibe code) harbours many security risks.

The new EU Cyber Resilience Act aims to fix this, compliance can be feigned, leading to "vibe compliance".

Read here blog.ai-laws.org/bad-vibes-fo...

#cybersecurity #vibecoding

Just came across this poem by Ursula le Guin in „The Wild Girls Plus…“:

The Next War

It will take place,
it will take time,
it will take life,
and waste them.

Currently on vacation in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 , today at the Fairy Glen

#travel #scotland

We Bought a ‘Peeing’ Robot Attack Dog From Temu. It Was Even Weirder Than Expected For less than the cost of a round of drinks, a plasticized Boston Dynamics fever dream could be yours too.

If you've always wanted to get your own Boston Dynamics Spot robot, but with the ability to fire pellets and "pee", look no further: Temu has just the thing!

Robot dogs lifting legs to mimic peeing surely is an interesting approach for social robots 😅

www.wired.com/story/we-bou...

Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks Current and former Meta employees fear the new automation push comes at the cost of allowing AI to make tricky determinations about how Meta's apps could lead to real world harm.

Meta plans to replace humans with AI for risk assessments

AI-generated risk assessments are the next logical step after vibe coding - is this vibe compliance?

www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...

"And when they fail, these workers become "moral crumple zones," absorbing the blame for the defective products their bosses pushed out in order to goose profits.

As ever, what a technology does pales in comparison to who it does it for and who it does it to."

pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/d...

AI coding agents may create reverse-centaurs, conscripting software developers to assist AI, instead of AI assisting them.

pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/d...

This development seems to have already started at Amazon: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b...

Hot Wallets – Darknet Diaries In this episode we hear from journalist Geoff White who talks about some of the recent crypto currency heists that have been happening. Geoff has been tracking a group of thieves for some time and sha...

And of course the episode "Hot Wallet" (darknetdiaries.com/episode/119/) on North Korean Cybercrime operations.

I'm the Real Connor – Darknet Diaries One day Connor got an email saying his identity has been stolen. And this was one of the strangest days he's ever had.

I also strongly recommend this Darknet Diaries episode on identity theft to apply for tech jobs:

"I'm the Real Connor" darknetdiaries.com/episode/133/ by @jackrhysider.bsky.social

Your Favorite New Coworker Is an AI-Enhanced Operative From North Korea For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.

North Korea has been infiltrating tech companies with fake workers, backed by laptop farms - to earn money
www.wired.com/story/north-...

Wuhan’s AI Development | Center for Security and Emerging Technology Wuhan, China’s inland metropolis, is paving the way for a nationwide rollout of “embodied” artificial intelligence meant to fast-track scientific discovery, optimize production, streamline commerce, a...

China is striving for AGI

A project in Wuhan plans to build a “perception-cognition-decision whole chain ecology” as a basis for “autonomously controllable AGI”.

See the report of @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social here cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...

I highly recommend this paper: It moves beyond narratives of superintelligence (whether dystopian or utopian).

Instead, it offers a framework for understanding and regulating AI as a "normal" general-purpose technology.

Gastbeitrag mit @konstantinnotz.bsky.social bei ZEIT ONLINE „Reallabore können den Weg zu einer grundrechtskonformen, technologisch souveränen und nachhaltigen IT-Infrastruktur für die innere Sicherheit ebnen.“
@joernpl.bsky.social
@zeit.de

This is such a Ferengi thing to do

#TrekSky

"What kind of world are we leaving to AI?"

a drawn elevator with a person and a computer that becomes increasingly abstract with each level/floor, turning into geometric forms on the third floor

I even made this gif 🙃

YouTube video by CrashCourse Crash Course Computer Science Preview

7 years ago, when I started taking an interest in computer science 💻 AI and robotics🤖, I worked through Carrie Anne Philbins Crash Course Computer Science @pbs.org

To this day, I have the "level of abstraction" meme stuck in my head 🥰

Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIc...

Pravda in numbers - Content and Network analysis Interactive dashboard visualizing patterns, language distribution, domain connections and more across the Pravda Russian network.

Check out this dashboard monitoring Russian propaganda emanating from the so-called 'Pravda Network': portal-kombat.com

New paper out 🚨🤖🚓 with @mkolain.bsky.social

Quadruped robots like Boston Dynamics’ “Spot” are reshaping policing. Our paper analyzes their use for surveillance and interactions with citizens.

⚠️ Deploy with caution - citizen rights matter!

🔗 Read more uclajolt.com/k9-police-ro...

#academiasky

Divergence From the Interests of Capital Trump will ultimately make rich people poorer. Why?

"And here we are. The whole thing is most notable for its absurdity. If it’s any consolation, all the capitalists who led us down this road are going to lose a shitload of money. Ha ha"

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/divergence...

"... a political system that so profoundly failed to protect its democracy from the influence of capital that it allowed itself to be totally captured by extreme lunatics backed by extreme wealth."

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/divergence...

Great commentary by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: hamiltonnolan.com/p/divergence...
found via @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

"That, my friends, is the unfortunate outcome of an economic system that has so profoundly failed to enforce economic equality, ...