Friday, March 21st, 2025

Time	Event
1:04p	NCSC Releases Post-Quantum Cryptography Timeline The UK’s National Computer Security Center (part of GCHQ) released a timeline—also see their blog post—for migration to quantum-computer-resistant cryptography. It even made The Guardian. (Comment on this)
7:32p	My Writings Are in the LibGen AI Training Corpus The Atlantic has a search tool that allows you to search for specific works in the “LibGen” database of copyrighted works that Meta used to train its AI models. (The rest of the article is behind a paywall, but not the search tool.) It’s impossible to know exactly which parts of LibGen Meta used to train its AI, and which parts it might have decided to exclude; this snapshot was taken in January 2025, after Meta is known to have accessed the database, so some titles here would not have been available to download. Still…interesting. Searching my name yields 199 results: all of my books in different versions, plus a bunch of shorter items. (Comment on this)
10:16p	Friday Squid Blogging: A New Explanation of Squid Camouflage New research: An associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University, Deravi’s recently published paper in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C sheds new light on how squid use organs that essentially function as organic solar cells to help power their camouflage abilities. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. (Comment on this)

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