Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Found on Spanish Beach
October 26 2024A giant squid has washed up on a beach in Northern Spain. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreWatermark for LLM-Generated Text
October 25 2024Researchers at Google have developed a watermark for LLM-generated text. The basics are pretty obvious: the LLM chooses between tokens partly based on a cryptographic key, and someone with...
Read moreAre Automatic License Plate Scanners Constitutional?
October 24 2024An advocacy groups is filing a Fourth Amendment challenge against automatic license plate readers.
“The City of Norfolk, Virginia, has installed a network of cameras that make it functionally...
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The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.” No, it’s not true. This debunking saved me the trouble of writing one. It all seems to have come...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Scarf
October 19 2024Cute squid scarf. Blog moderation policy.
Read moreThe Wall Street Journal is reporting that the CEO of a still unnamed company has been indicted for creating a fake auditing company to falsify security certifications in order...
Read moreCheating at Conkers
October 16 2024The men’s world conkers champion is accused of cheating with a steel chestnut.
Read morePerfectl Malware
October 14 2024Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware:
The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that...
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