Tyler Schroder

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The SSRN page for "Extended Reality as a Fundamentally Mediated Reality: XR Infrastructure and the Ethics of Experience"

🚨 Interested in infrastructure ethics? (Wait, don’t go!)
New preprint “Extended Reality as a Fundamentally Mediated Reality” argues that XR isn’t just a cool tech, but infrastructures that shape our realities ➡️ urgent questions about equity, governance, and ethics.
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Which cyber security companies have layoffs planned that they're delaying announcing until after Black Hat? It's definitely going to happen.

Congrats!!

Study offers security measures for safeguarding brain implants Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) promise to improve the lives of people with neurological conditions. A new Yale study explains how to protect brain implants from cybersecurity threats.

Some coverage of our latest study from @yaledec.bsky.social ! news.yale.edu/2025/07/23/s...

The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...

Or option 4: all of the above? That was the vibe I got off @edzitron.com 's latest www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g... (although if just one, closer to 2 with SoftBank's other commitments)

Congrats to @floridi.bsky.social at @yaledec.bsky.social on his reappointment! news.yale.edu/2025/07/21/f...

Law school isn’t hard enough.

Read the full paper by Grant Shanklin, @emmiehine, @claudionovelli.bsky.social, @rts2.us, & @floridi.bsky.social from the @yaledec.bsky.social:

📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

The Case for Contextual Copyleft: Licensing Open Source Training Data and Generative AI 19 Pages Posted: Grant Shanklin Yale University - Digital Ethics Center; Yale University - Department of Computer Science Emmie Hine Yale University - Digital Ethics Center; University of Bologna- Department of Legal Studies; KU Leuven - Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) Claudio Novelli Yale University - Digital Ethics Center Tyler Schroder The MITRE Corporation; Yale University - Digital Ethics Center Luciano Floridi Yale University - Digital Ethics Center; University of Bologna- Department of Legal Studies Date Written: July 16, 2025

🚨 How can #OpenSource principles keep pace with the rise of generative #AI?
A new #preprint from the @yaledec.bsky.social proposes the Contextual Copyleft AI (CCAI) license — a new way to extend copyleft protections from open source code to the models trained on it. 🧵⬇️
#sts #philtech #OSAI

After nearly 19 months it’s finally live! Thanks to everyone at the DEC for their help on this.

🚨Blue Team Con 2025 Talk Alert🚨

Talk Title: Securing Sideways: Thwarting Lateral Movement, with no extra software!

Presented by: R. Tyler Schroder

See abstract: blueteamcon.com/directory/se...

See you at #BTC2025 ! I’ll be presenting a portion of my BS/MS Thesis, “Securing Sideways” blueteamcon.com/directory/se...

If one of my students were to include this in a college term paper I would simply write WTF?! in the margin and give them a D.

Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

CompTIA credly.com badges, CASP+, CySA+ and PenTest+ earned by Tyler Schroder

Some exciting personal news - I've passed both my #CompTIA #CASP #SecurityX and #PenTest beta exams! Both were a good challenge. CompTIA occasionally runs beta exams for a much lower price ($50 !) if you're willing to wait a few months for results to be scored - would recommend!

I'm delighted to share some amazing news 😃
Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of Tarek Sherif (Yale alumnus ’84) the Digital Ethics Center will soon launch the de Vries-Sherif Program on the Future of Humanity and Technology.
More details here:
forhumanity.yale.edu...

Whenever people post "what job would you have in Star Wars" my answer is "I'd be writing memos to the Grand Moff explaining why we need more Microsoft Office licenses" and well here we are.

Scoreboard 31-23 Yale

Harvard Football Field

Well Done, Yale! #Yale #GoYale #BeatHarvard

Excited to start the Yale University Bluesky Starter pack: go.bsky.app/QkV7vJV

Thrilled to be awarded the Slavin Family Foundation fellowship, which provides mentorship and a grant of $5,000 to students pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors. A huge thank you to @floridi.bsky.social and @yaledec.bsky.social for their support.

A matrix categorizing 19 countries into different models: centralization, state-based, rights-based, and market-oriented

📝🚨 New #publication alert! How do different countries enact their digital sovereignty agendas? Our new article analyzes nearly 20 countries and categorizes their approaches into four different models. Read the full article here: link.springer.com/ar...