Privacy
5 published articles
local ai
The uncensored model paradox: one knob removes both the annoying refusals and the safety guardrail
Benchmarking five locally run uncensored LLMs shows abliteration cuts over-refusal from 44% to near zero with no hit to reasoning, but the same edit collapses safety refusals from 41.5% to 9.5%, because both ride on the same internal direction. The real reason to run uncensored may not be what you think.
2026-07-19
Identity & Privacy
The life the AI chooses to tell about you will not be yours
An AI-generated 17-slide summary of your life sounds like a neat productivity trick. The uncomfortable question is what we stop asking ourselves when a machine tells us who we are.
2026-07-07
Cryptographic Privacy
Vega brings zero-knowledge proofs to identity verification in under 100 ms
Vega enables users to prove facts from government IDs without revealing the credential itself, using ZKPs generated in under 100 ms on commodity hardware. It targets real-world formats like mobile driver's licenses and the EU Digital Identity Wallet, with a fold-and-reuse scheme that reduces proof cost for repeated presentations.
2026-07-04
Messaging & Privacy
WhatsApp username reservations raise impersonation fears as India regulators push back
WhatsApp username reservations let users interact by handle rather than phone number, but early testing found handles resembling prominent figures still available. India's IT ministry warned the feature could increase fraud and impersonation, while digital rights groups criticized the regulatory intervention.
2026-07-02
Open-source framework
Stanford just made local AI agents work, and made the cloud look optional
OpenJarvis 1.0 from Stanford's Hazy Research and Scaling Intelligence labs runs personal AI agents locally via Ollama, with cloud access as an optional add-on. It ships with presets for morning briefings, cross-document research, and local code assistants, all while tracking energy cost and latency beside accuracy.
2026-05-28