If you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring them inside

🚨 Interested in infrastructure ethics? (Wait, don’t go!)
New preprint “Extended Reality as a Fundamentally Mediated Reality” argues that XR isn’t just a cool tech, but infrastructures that shape our realities ➡️ urgent questions about equity, governance, and ethics.
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Which cyber security companies have layoffs planned that they're delaying announcing until after Black Hat? It's definitely going to happen.

Congrats!!

Some coverage of our latest study from @yaledec.bsky.social ! news.yale.edu/2025/07/23/s...

Or option 4: all of the above? That was the vibe I got off @edzitron.com 's latest www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g... (although if just one, closer to 2 with SoftBank's other commitments)

Congrats to @floridi.bsky.social at @yaledec.bsky.social on his reappointment! news.yale.edu/2025/07/21/f...

Law school isn’t hard enough.

Read the full paper by Grant Shanklin, @emmiehine, @claudionovelli.bsky.social, @rts2.us, & @floridi.bsky.social from the @yaledec.bsky.social:

📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

🚨 How can #OpenSource principles keep pace with the rise of generative #AI?
A new #preprint from the @yaledec.bsky.social proposes the Contextual Copyleft AI (CCAI) license — a new way to extend copyleft protections from open source code to the models trained on it. 🧵⬇️
#sts #philtech #OSAI

After nearly 19 months it’s finally live! Thanks to everyone at the DEC for their help on this.

🚨Blue Team Con 2025 Talk Alert🚨

Talk Title: Securing Sideways: Thwarting Lateral Movement, with no extra software!

Presented by: R. Tyler Schroder

See abstract: blueteamcon.com/directory/se...

See you at #BTC2025 ! I’ll be presenting a portion of my BS/MS Thesis, “Securing Sideways” blueteamcon.com/directory/se...

If one of my students were to include this in a college term paper I would simply write WTF?! in the margin and give them a D.

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

Some exciting personal news - I've passed both my #CompTIA #CASP #SecurityX and #PenTest beta exams! Both were a good challenge. CompTIA occasionally runs beta exams for a much lower price ($50 !) if you're willing to wait a few months for results to be scored - would recommend!

I'm delighted to share some amazing news 😃
Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of Tarek Sherif (Yale alumnus ’84) the Digital Ethics Center will soon launch the de Vries-Sherif Program on the Future of Humanity and Technology.
More details here:
forhumanity.yale.edu...

Whenever people post "what job would you have in Star Wars" my answer is "I'd be writing memos to the Grand Moff explaining why we need more Microsoft Office licenses" and well here we are.

Well Done, Yale! #Yale #GoYale #BeatHarvard

Excited to start the Yale University Bluesky Starter pack: go.bsky.app/QkV7vJV

Thrilled to be awarded the Slavin Family Foundation fellowship, which provides mentorship and a grant of $5,000 to students pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors. A huge thank you to @floridi.bsky.social and @yaledec.bsky.social for their support.

📝🚨 New #publication alert! How do different countries enact their digital sovereignty agendas? Our new article analyzes nearly 20 countries and categorizes their approaches into four different models. Read the full article here: link.springer.com/ar...