Research showing how LLMs can deanonymise online users is making a comeback. Professor Florian Tramèr, head of ETH Zurich’s SPY Lab, and group members Daniel Paleka, Joshua Swanson and Michael Aerni, together with Simon Lermen (MATS) and Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic), showed that LLMs could identify 226 of 338 Hacker News users, at around 90% precision and for as little as $1–4 per profile.
IBM has joined the SCION Association as a global service integrator, strengthening the ecosystem around the secure internet architecture. Developed at ETH Zurich under the leadership of Professor Adrian Perrig and his Network Security Group, SCION enables more secure and resilient data communication by giving organisations greater control over network paths. Read more in German.
USA correspondent Marie-Astrid Langer from NZZ tests Meta’s latest smart glasses. And NZZ Science Editor Anna Weber discusses their capabilities and prospects in Europe with Professor Marc Pollefeys, head of the Computer Vision and Geometry Group at ETH Zurich and co-developer of Microsoft’s virtual reality glasses. Podcast in German.