Tobias Pulls

Posted some technical details on DAITA v1 and v2 defenses together with @mullvadnet to celebrate the broad deployment of v2 🚀

Vinsterna är inte bara slöseri på skattemedel, de ger också elevens sämre inkomst under resten av livet. Hur kan M & Sd fortsätta försvara detta? efn.se/ny-forskning-e…

I wrote something: sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03/3…

European countries should not rush into social media bans for children, human rights adviser Michael O’Flaherty told POLITICO. politico.eu/article/michae…

European countries should not rush into social media bans for children, human rights adviser Michael O’Flaherty told POLITICO. “A child has a right to receive information,” he said. 🔗 politico.eu/article/michae…

As co-comms chair of ICML 2026 (w @kgorman), I'm super proud of how transparent we've been able to be on all of the (bold!) decisions made. Thanks to all the organizers (esp PC chairs) for being aligned on this. The community deserves to understand these important decisions

I want to continue a bit on this subject, which (so far) I see very little concern about. There are vast stores of private data that we’ve built up in various places, including messaging apps. A real “killer app” for Gen AI is to ingest them and turn that data into revenue.

The wonderful thing about AI is that you no longer need the data. You need something to read the data and extract what you need. That “something” doesn’t need to expose data — it can be a local model or a TEE. The valuable product is the summarized data it extracts.

@_helenqu @cosmo_shirley @rdMorel @albertobietti @mikemccabe210 @PolymathicAI JEPA finds abstractions that enable prediction. This is how intelligence and science work: find abstract representations of reality that allow to make predictions.

If AI scientists are writing millions of papers, many of which are slop, and some of which are incremental progress, how would we identify the one or two which come up with an extremely productive new idea? In 1948, Shannon was one of hundreds of engineers at Bell Labs working on how to cleanly send voice signals over noisy copper wires. His paper sat in the same technical journal as reports on reducing static and building better filters. How would you recognize that he has come up with this very general framework for thinking about information and communication channels, which over the coming decades would have enormous use from domains as far apart as cryptography to genetics to quantum mechanics? It seems like it can take fields multiple decades to recognize the significance of unifying new concepts. Because it is on that time scale that the fruits of such general concepts lead to new discoveries across many different fields. We’ve managed to solve this peer review problem for human scientists (at least somewhat). Now we’ll need to do it at a much greater scale for the mass of AI science that will be thrown at us.

Who would have thought that academic research could be abused in such a terrible way 😉

Reading Dune. Frank Herbert was cooking.

"The purpose of our technology is to make all of you obsolete. Also, 10 to 25% chance it may kill the human race. Please deregulate in order to let us build this even faster, and don't let the government have any control over it." IS ONE HELL OF A PITCH

Others have noted this to, but the problem of age verification and “keeping ad supported networks profitable in the age of AI bots” are very similar problems.

What do you do when you get banned on British TV?

🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪 €1.2 billion investment in Sweden’s digital infrastructure!

We’re about to add badly-designed age verification to the entire Internet: think how many extortion opportunities that will create.

The Signal developers are now hostile actors against the UK. As if they needed more of an ego boost.

@severinhacker the point of a PhD is not to get a PhD, it’s to do a PhD

The EU is quietly moving to revive blanket data retention, forcing nearly every digital service to log who you talk to, when, and from where, for up to a year. Officials say they won’t read your messages. They just want the metadata. But metadata is the map of your life, your friends, habits, movements, interests. This plan ignores court rulings that already declared such dragnet surveillance illegal. It expands the scope instead of narrowing it, sweeping in encrypted messengers, VPNs, hosting companies, and even payment platforms.

At #IETF124 in Montrèal last month I gave a talk about ECH deployments. ECH is becoming a frontline test for whether the Internet remains Open, private, and resilient. Data matters, and so does defending it. @OpenObservatory @ietf youtu.be/OmBNQKZtO3Q