Rishav Chourasia
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Rishav Chourasia
@rishav84ia.bsky.social
PhD from NUS; All things privacy

Lead Privacy Engineer

https://comp.nus.edu.sg/~rishav1
I’ve developed an obscene interest in computation, and I’ll be returning to the United States a better and impurer man.

- John von Neumann after visiting UK to study mine warfare on behalf of US Navy
September 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Reposted by Rishav Chourasia
Neon buys your phone calls to train AI — then it leaks them all

It’ll be fine. Don’t worry.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_LK... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250926-neo... - podcast

time: 4 min 52 sec
September 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The rise in electricity costs in the US coincides with the AI boom that started with ChatGPT
More people should be talking about this.
September 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Reposted by Rishav Chourasia
September 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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California’s Governor should sign the “No Robo Bosses Act,” a common-sense bill to end some of the harshest consequences of automated abuse at work. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Yes to California’s “No Robo Bosses Act”
California’s Governor should sign S.B. 7, a common-sense bill to end some of the harshest consequences of automated abuse at work. EFF is proud to join dozens of labor, digital rights, and other
www.eff.org
September 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Reposted by Rishav Chourasia
Nice! OpenDP's new release comes with a new version of their DP Wizard, a Python-based user interface that "makes it easier to get started with differential #privacy."

New feature: it includes "the new synthetic data generation functionality of OpenDP v0.14"
opendp.org/2025/09/23/a...
Announcing DP Wizard v0.5
Complementing the v0.14 release of the OpenDP Library, we'd also like to announce v0.5 of DP Wizard, a user interface that makes it easier to get started with differential privacy....
opendp.org
September 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🤣
September 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The Alan Turing Institute seems to be in a major funding crisis!

@theturing.bsky.social has only one open position right now - applicant must have a PhD in Math / CS, experience working with GenAI, and have high quality publications.

Annual Salary? £45.5k
Permanent? No, 12-month contract
September 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Switzerland is so pretty! I wish I was where my fiancée is right now 🇨🇭🇨🇭
September 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Reposted by Rishav Chourasia
Albania’s AI minister speaks! And turns out to be an actor

with bonus Mira Murati from Thinking Machines and OpenAI!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKBv... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250920-alb... - podcast

time: 4 min 04 sec
September 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
What the fuck is this bullshit?
September 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Pivot to AI is doing a great job spreading awareness about scary uses of AI
Business Insider will publish AI stories — undisclosed

‘It was the most perfect document I’ve ever sent’

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDll... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250919-bus... - podcast

time: 4 min 46 sec
September 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Morning: SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN TODAY

Evening: THIS IS ALL A DISASTER
September 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Why is Bluesky filled with NSFW furry content? Searching anything here is like playing Russian roulette 🙈
September 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A hug a day keeps the bourgeoisie away.
September 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Time to buy a pitchfork and torch
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Reposted by Rishav Chourasia
Today marks five years since the v1.0 launch of HADES!! With HADES II v1.0 out next week, we wanted to express our deepest gratitude for all your support of the original. THANK YOU!!💘🔥

HADES is now 75% off for the occasion, & we're streaming now on Steam, YouTube, & Twitch.
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Working from Changi Business park. It’s so serene ✨🌟
September 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM
And now, I need one. For […] research purposes […]
TIL you can just buy a fuckin EMP generator, it's a category on Ali

www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-...

a gadget with no legal* use cases but you can buy one

* the moral use case is of course when someone advocates you the *wrong* linux
www.aliexpress.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
She’s now joining Meta (without her advisor’s help of course) as a postdoctoral researcher! I’m so happy for her 🎉
So infuriating! My friend, who bravely stayed and defended her thesis with our toxic ex-advisor (while I left his lab in year 3), just had her postdoc sabotaged by his negative recommendation. And now he's moving to the same city for a Google job?! The unfairness is staggering. #PhDLife #BadAdvisor
September 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Fingerprinting users without permission is so wrong. Meta needs to be punished for this. Apple should (temporarily) kick Meta’s Apps from its store.
Meta bypassed Apple privacy protections, claims former employee
A former Meta product manager has claimed that the social network circumvented Apple’s privacy protections, as well as cheating advertisers,...
9to5mac.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The Pitt is incredibly hard to watch 🫣, yet I can’t stop watching. Deserves all the praise it got 👏
August 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“AI psychosis”? A massive missed opportunity. They should have called it “Ghost in the Shell”.
August 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
3200 EMNLP papers. Just this year. Staying current in AI research is no longer a human-scale problem.
✨We are thrilled to announce that over 3200 papers have been accepted to #EMNLP2025

This includes over 1800 main conference papers and over 1400 papers in findings!

Congratulations to all authors!! 🎉🎉🎉
August 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Reposted by Rishav Chourasia
So many things are impossible only because someone told you they were impossible and you believed them
August 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM