The Ethical Tech Giving Guide replaces DRM-laden software and devices that trample user freedom and privacy with products and programs that you can trust.
“Paper Trail” Podcast: Microsoft’s “Digital Escorts” Left DOD Vulnerable to Chinese Hackers — ProPublica
A little-known Microsoft program allowed China-based engineers to service the U.S. government’s sensitive computer systems — until reporter Renee Dudley found out about it.
the power of software compels you! - n8
most people do not care about the atproto moral claim
2.0 The Ethical Resolution Method (ERM)- A Procedural Framework
# The Ethical Resolution Method (ERM): A Procedural Framework for Evaluating and Stabilizing Moral Norms in Sociotechnical and AI Systems ## Abstract Contemporary artificial intelligence systems increasingly operate within domains governed by moral norms that are inherited, asserted, or enforce...
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
A few days ago, I came across a blog post titled On FLOSS and training LLMs that articulates a growing frustration within the free and open source software…
The Medium is the Message: How Non-Clinical Information Shapes Clinical Decisions in LLMs | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
There has been a growing interest in the HCI community to study Health, with particular focus in understanding healthcare practices and designing technologies to support and to enhance these practices. A majority of current health studies in HCI have ...
DIDComm
DIDComm lets people and software use DIDs to communicate securely and privately over many channels: the web, email, mobile push notifications, QR codes, Bluetooth, message queues, sneakernet, and more.
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
Compare CIRIS: Verifiable Ethical AI vs the Alternatives, With Receipts
How CIRIS's signed, on-device, checkable ethical AI stacks up against the alternatives — the safety case, with receipts.
VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM
Amer Sinha, Software Engineer, and Ryan McKenna, Research Scientist, Google Research
Ten FOSS Development Fallacies For User Facing Software
This is a list, inspired by the Five Geek Social Fallacies, of common patterns or behaviours that developers of free/open source software (FOSS) fall into when they try to develop software for users who are not technical, or for whom non-technical users would be the most obvious userbase. Hopefully writing these down (which frankly is cathartic more than anything) is helpful to some in recognising these thought patterns and avoiding them when developing software - I’ve got some of my own thoughts on this at the bottom.
Joanna Rutkowska (@rootkovska) on X
Distrusts computers. Keeps embracing them anyway. Previously: Golem Foundation/Wildland, Qubes OS, hardware/virtualization/OS security research.
Thoughtful, capable, and ethical computing ⋅ elementary OS
Thoughtful, capable, and ethical computing
2.0 The Ethical Resolution Method (ERM): Executive Summary
The Ethical Resolution Method (ERM): Executive Summary ## The Problem Contemporary society lacks a shared procedural method for resolving ethical disagreements. When moral conflicts arise—in governance, AI alignment, healthcare, international relations, or everyday life—we typically default to ...
The Myth of Deterministic Software
How I've come to terms with LLM non-determinism in software and abandoned the comforting lies we've been telling ourselves about traditional software.
Sensitive data + tool use + LLMs + app-centric security model = danger. LLMs turn any text into potentially executable instructions, exploding the attack surface of traditional security models.
Simon Willison
Just blogged my hunch that the Apple intelligence Siri delay is because of security concerns around prompt injection here simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/delaying-personali…
