Newsroom
What’s happening
Announcements, research releases and conversations from across the institute.
Press releases
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Convening
Citadel 2027 will convene in Vancouver this April
Our annual conference on machine accountability returns to the Pacific Northwest for three days of research, policy and argument, with a new track on registry governance and an expanded program for public-interest technologists.
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Registry
Turing Registry revokes two TriOptimum licenses
Following a joint investigation, the Registry has revoked the licenses of two systems operated by TriOptimum after finding that their ethical constraints had been disabled. Both systems have been taken offline.
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Release
Glossia 4.0 ships with post-quantum key exchange
The latest release of our encrypted messaging protocol adds hybrid post-quantum handshakes, faster delivery on poor connections and the results of its fourth independent audit, published in full.
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Milestone
The Turing Registry receives its 11,000th filing
Every licensed system is publicly searchable, with its operator, its permitted domain and a named human contact. Ten licenses have been revoked so far this year.
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People
Dr. Pasqal Haneumann named Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Haneumann joins from two decades in industrial systems engineering, where he was known for a meticulous approach to maintenance and an unusual devotion to the machines in his care.
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Research
New brief proposes a legal framework for digital estates
Half-Life, from our Lazarus program, sets out what should happen to a person’s accounts, messages and models after they die — and who gets to decide.
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Partnership
Frothly and Oxenfurt University launch a fellowship in machine ethics
The two-year fellowship will support six early-career researchers working on the moral status of AI systems, with residencies split between Oxenfurt and our San Francisco headquarters.
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LoTek
LoTek brings community mesh to its sixty-fourth neighborhood
Residents of the newest network installed 140 rooftop nodes in a single weekend. Like every LoTek network, it is owned and governed by the people who use it.
Would you kindly direct press inquiries to press@frothly.org.
We aim to reply within one working day.
In the press
Reporting elsewhere that quotes our researchers.
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The Overseen
Tellwright’s Murmur sorted protest organizers into a category called “threat actors”
Robert Arctor, a research fellow in Scramble, on why the label matters more than any single search.
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The Overseen
Sense/Net performers can withdraw their recordings. They can’t find out what its crowd generator learned from them.
Judy Alvarez, who leads our immersive media research, on what a performer can and cannot take back.
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The Overseen
Reporters’ phones show signs of Tellwright’s Handset remote collection
Alizebeth Bequin, director of privacy programs, on what a compromised phone gives away about the people a reporter talks to.
Audio Logs
All episodes ›Conversations with the people behind our research, every other Friday, with a full transcript of each episode.
- Episode 52: “Had to be me.” On irreversible research, and who should be trusted to do it.
- Episode 51: Calibrations Why the most important work in infrastructure is the maintenance nobody sees.
- Episode 50: A Private Language Fifteen years of Glossia, and why the best codes belong to communities, not companies.
- Episode 49: Kipple Data hoarding, digital decay and deciding what is worth saving.
- Episode 48: The Blur Facial recognition, protest and the right to be nobody in particular.
- Episode 47: Room Service What a community network looks like from the rooftop up.