Quiet Triggers, Loud Footprints: A Tri-Space Measurement Study of Backdoor Stealthiness
A study finds image-classifier backdoors that look stealthy in one space often leave clear footprints in another.
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From Public Posts to AI-Search Citations: Measuring the Fragility of AI Search
Measurement shows eight of ten AI-search platforms cited a fabricated concept within seven days via easy posts.
Building advertising for the way people use AI
OpenAI is testing visual ChatGPT ads during image generation and expanding advertiser measurement tools.
Analyzing Solana's Blocks and Transactions
A study of one million Solana blocks measures transaction mix, fees, programs, and intra-block conflicts.
Where the Numbers Come From: Auditing Evaluation in Provenance-Based Intrusion Detection
Audit finds provenance IDS scores overstate alarm precision; ThreaTrace labeled only 7 of 994 alarms as attacks.
No Place to Hide: An Analysis on Protected Order Flow Sandwich Attacks
Study finds millions of sandwich attacks against supposedly protected order flow across six blockchains.
Decoding the Legalese: A Scalable and Quantitative Framework for Analyzing Corporate Privacy Policies
An LLM pipeline structures 10,000 privacy policies and scores transparency, protection, and business data use.
Embedding Models Measure in Peculiar Ways
Researchers find embedding models only weakly represent physical measurements like mass, distance, time, and volume, dominated by superficial string similarity.
Can We Stop The Ads? Taxonomy and Characterization of Smartphone Splash Ads and Existing Countermeasures
Study of 108 ad-defense implementations finds only one tool blocked splash-ad navigation across ten popular apps, and it required Accessibility permission.
Evaluating Practical Enumeration and Blocking Attacks on the Snowflake Circumvention System
Ethical measurements enumerated 21,000+ Snowflake proxy IPs across ~1,000 ASes; blocking top 1% of ASes disrupts 30% of Snowflakes.
Generative Marketing Mix Modeling: A Causal Inference Framework Linking GEO and GEM to Business Impact
Paper proposes Generative Marketing Mix Modeling to causally estimate Generative Engine Optimization and Marketing effects on business outcomes.
Measuring the Security of the Evolving Software Supply Chain: a Research Agenda
Researchers propose a unified cross-ecosystem measurement agenda for software supply chain security, targeting dependency modeling and AI-generated dependency patterns.
Benchmark Scores Are Pipeline-Dependent: A Reliability Audit of Cybersecurity LLM Benchmarks
Audit of eight cybersecurity LLM benchmarks shows evaluation pipeline choices can swing scores by over 80 points and reshuffle most model rankings.
BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234
Cloudflare measured RFC 9234 adoption, finding BGP Role deployment growing but two Tier 1 networks unexpectedly stripping the Only to Customer attribute.