What scientists thought were squid fossils were actually arrow worms.
Read moreAirportr is a service that allows passengers to have their luggage picked up, checked, and delivered to their destinations. As you might expect, it’s used by wealthy or...
Read moreCheating on Quantum Computing Benchmarks
July 31 2025Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus have a new paper—I think it’s new, even though it has a March 2025 date—that makes the argument that we shouldn’t trust any...
Read moreMeasuring the Attack/Defense Balance
July 30 2025“Who’s winning on the internet, the attackers or the defenders?”
I’m asked this all the time, and I can only ever give a qualitative hand-wavy answer. But Jason Healey...
Read moreThat Time Tom Lehrer Pranked the NSA
July 29 2025Bluesky thread. Here’s the paper, from 1957. Note reference 3.
Read moreMicrosoft SharePoint Zero-Day
July 28 2025Chinese hackers are exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to steal data worldwide:
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-53770, carries a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible...
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Yet another SQUID acronym: “Stable Quasi-Isodynamic Design.” It’s a stellarator for a fusion nuclear power plant.
Read moreSubliminal Learning in AIs
July 25 2025Today’s freaky LLM behavior:
We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits. For example, a...
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