I spent a World Cup testing how well Community Notes catches fakes, in dozens of languages, using both machines and people.
What counts as an intimate image is not fixed. It shifts by country, by law, and by faith, and it decides who the law protects and who it charges.
Making a lie got cheap. Catching one didn't. I spent this tournament watching the gap widen.
Fake Messi videos flooded Egyptian timelines before Tuesday's match. I took them apart, frame by frame.
On nonconsensual intimate imagery, and how cultural context changes the answer.
Women are swallowing poison and dying. Why the technology has scaled, and why the law has not.
Reflections on delivering my first research talk at USEC 2026, presenting our work on AI-enabled NSFW deepfakes hiding in plain sight on Fiverr.
A summary of our RANDLab blog post on how AI-enabled NSFW deepfake services have quietly moved into Fiverr, a platform with 3.5 million active buyers.
Someone did it. So can you. On building a directory of 262 Egyptian CS researchers, and why visibility matters for non-traditional paths into research.
I built a lightweight, local, AI-powered assistant to finally keep my research paper library under control.
Why I believe in bringing everything you've got to the PhD journey, and why settling for mediocrity is harder than aiming high.
Reflections on growing up in a small Egyptian village, studying in Arabic, and navigating the transition to doing a PhD in the U.S.
Why I offer personalized feedback to PhD applicants, and reflections on what made the difference in my own application journey.