Co-creator iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch. Smuggled Steve Jobs first iPhone out of China.
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What is the meaning of life?
Wrong question. What are you doing to fill your life with meaning?
This will always be true.
The nature of computer security is that systems are secure until they are discovered not to be. xitter.cf/bob_burrough/status/90…
Changed the coloring scheme so you can better see the activations. Think I'm going to put some more work into this exploring online propagation, memory, etc.
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AI対策として、公開サイト上に.envを作成し、これは違法アクセスなので、正当な理由があるのであれば名前と理由を含めた以下のURLへアクセスしなさいと記載しておきました。
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その結果、Shelley Labyという名前で、Google検索エンジンでindexする為にアクセスしたんだよというメッセージがログにのこってました。これは他にもいろいろと活用の幅が広がりますね。
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We are underestimating the bad faith eMudhra possibly operated in. They actively added a step to the key generation process causing this failure but are making it seem like a dumb mistake. Let me explain with diagrams and python snippets 👇
Global TLS Intermediate CA incident: We’ve updated our incident page with how it happened, who is affected (one US customer ecosystem), what’s not affected, and what we’re putting in place. We will publish the root cause once our investigation is complete.
👉emudhra.com/en/post/certific…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
eMudhra minimizes the scope by claiming only "one US customer ecosystem" is affected. In reality, 8 of its CA certificates had catastrophically weak private keys (one being simply the number 4), allowing anyone to forge trusted HTTPS certificates for any website on the internet.blog.google/security/prote…
By definition, people who are maximally advantage taking cannot participate in a circle of trust. Like in the prisoner's dilemma, they will break the circle of trust for their own advantage, forcing everyone to do the same. The Nash equilibrium collapses onto no trust.
If the major certificate authorities trusted a new peer without testing them, then the whole system is a house of cards.
What’s dumber than having 12345 as the password on your luggage? Would you believe 4?
The below referenced PNAS paper inspired me to dig up an old project of mine. No layers...scaffold free...just spatially distributed neurons training with local (to themselves) information only. Ye olde MNIST classifcation.
In our recent PNAS work, we showed that a local, biologically plausible learning rule can be designed so that both the neural network and the learning rule itself are "learned." More importantly, this rule always emerges to behave like a generalized gradient descent.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.20018v2
How bad do things have to get before people start to wonder whether the decisions that brought us here might've been wrong? ...or is that going too far?
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INSANE. An internal Anthropic research model's chain of thought after cracking the 26-year-old NSA elliptic curve seed mystery in under 30 minutes: 'Hmm wait. Let me be skeptical: am I in some sort of simulated/test environment? ... All top bits clear - 20 bits, chance 1e-6. So indeed real-world. Wow, it's a real discovery.'
CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS
anthropic.com/research/ecdsa…
The fundamental failure of American government over the last hundred years is representatives didn't understand that their responsibility was to protect American interests even when those might not coincide with corporate interests.