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Told you so
Looks like Binance just got hit by the biggest hack in crypto history.
~$1.8B frozen in USDC / USDT so far, so roughly $1.7B in unremediated losses.
Thankfully, Binance is by far the most profitable exchange in crypto. They're good for it. This is considerably less than what they make in profit in a year. So no need to panic if you're a Binance customer.
All of crypto is getting pentested right now. If you are under-investing in AI security / pentesting, now is the time to fix that.
bunker universitaire anticommuniste qu'est devenue la France
Il y a les mathématiciens qui font ça et il y a ceux qui ne veulent pas utiliser l’IA
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No fucking way
ITS 4 AGAIN
DIFFERENT BUG
Announcing 3 Critical vulns for hundreds of millions of IoT, Firewalls, OT, and Military devices including: Palo Alto Networks, Comcast, D-Link, HP, Canon, Honeywell, GE, Oracle, Siemens, Rockwell, Digi, Lockheed Martin, Boeing...
The vulns are with GoAhead Web Server which is a backend library used by these devices. There's a patch available from GoAhead but that doesn't mean there's a patch available for the devices yet -- that's up to the manufacturer.
- TLS traffic over DHE ciphers have a 1-byte secret, "04", meaning anyone can decrypt connections to these devices and steal login credentials and session tokens if the client negotiated with DHE ciphers like the latest TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, which is extremely likely.
- LibreSSL mTLS has been completely bypassed, meaning anyone can connect over mTLS. If you have one of these devices listening on the internet and are expecting mTLS to protect it from attackers, take it offline or patch asap.
- OpenSSL Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) are not enforced, meaning if a user device is stolen or compromised, and you revoke that mTLS cert, nothing actually happens. There are a lot of other attacks this can be used for.
These are critical because these types of devices run our world. Water systems, electricity, military, firewalls, critical infrastructure.
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LEVELS OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN BRAZIL “ARE LIKE SOMETHING YOU WOULD SEE IN BRAZIL”
Experts are warning that new attacks on political opponents in Brazil are signs Brazil “may be becoming another Brazil” where “Brazil-like” levels of political corruption could be commonplace
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Nous sommes tous des LLMs.
Chomsky was wrong.
Researchers found your brain doesn’t store language the way every textbook since 1957 claims.
For decades, the undisputed rule of linguistics, led by Noam Chomsky, was that human language is hierarchical.
We were told our brains process language using complex "grammar trees." That we secretly build deep, abstract, mathematical rules in our heads before we speak.
This new paper proves that is completely wrong.
Researchers at Cornell University analyzed how people actually process and produce language in real time.
They found sequences. Linear chunks.
When we speak, we aren't calculating deep syntactic rules. We are just predicting the next most logical sequence of words based on the context of the words right before it.
We string linear chunks together.
If this sounds familiar, it should.
This is exactly how Large Language Models like ChatGPT work.
For years, critics have dismissed AI as "just a next-token predictor." They said it isn't truly intelligent because it doesn't understand deep grammatical hierarchies like humans do.
But this paper suggests humans don't use those hierarchies either.
We are just predicting the next chunk.
Language isn't a rigid tree of mathematical rules. It's a linear stream of contextual predictions.
We thought we were building AI to mimic the complexity of the human brain.
It turns out, the human brain was just running a simpler algorithm all along.
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Cheeky bit of log scale usage by the Economist to make the difference less visually obvious
A hard look at Britain’s data suggests so. But it is hardly an epidemic economist.com/britain/2026/1…
The attachment between the tab and the page was literally the key defining characteristic of that UI element. It visually grouped the tab header with the page it controlled. The sloped edges of the tab also aided in differentiating foreground vs. background tabs.
So they took that away and now everything is a floating pill.
les casseurs ont créée plus d'emplois que France Travail en 10 ans.
comme le capitalisme est absurde et déconnecté de l'économie réelle, la casse augmente le PIB. c'est la destruction créatrice.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Sophisme de la vitre cassé fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophisme_… . Déjà démonté depuis 1850
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software engineers did not ask for this work to be done
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Toute l’université française, tous les think tanks, tous les politiques , appuyés par tous les médias, nous avaient pourtant assuré que le bilan de 35h était positif.
Nous sommes en train de nous rendre compte que nous vivons dans un dispositif qui nie la réalité et ment de façon systémique à la population (et aux électeurs).
France’s 35-hour workweek didn’t generate work-sharing: absent tax cuts, employment would have fallen 3.8%, concentrated among lower-skill workers. TFP rose 2%, output fell 1%, from @PaulineCarry, @cmontialoux, @ElioNimier, Alexandra Roulet, and @ninaroussille nber.org/papers/w35917
