Dhilung Kirat

Research Scientist @IBMResearch.
Security researcher and photography enthusiast.

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@kapravel Good old technique of evasive malware exploiting CPU semantics. CPU happens to be the LLM this time :p

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My 4yo girl watching World Cup for the first time:
“Why only boys on the ground, Baba?”

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

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“Dad, how’s the Earth flying? It doesn’t have wings.”

- 5 yo seeing this pic

[Pop Base @PopBase]

People in Nepal, including children, have been killed by police and security forces in Gen Z-led protests against government corruption.

Despite the purpose of the demonstrations, international media headlines have reduced them to merely protests over the country’s ongoing social media ban.

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Happy New Year ∑⁹ₖ₌₁ 𝚔³ ✨

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@BNONews Looks like it was not a wall but the ILS localizer.

https://t.co/VMbx4ljPOv

Should they be designed as an “emergency crumple zone”?

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@ThisIsATweeter @Adobe @Lightroom Nope, just typical 64GB physical. Probably it’s been swapping crazy on the SSD.

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Latest @Adobe @Lightroom at its best.
Consuming 150GB RAM on my M1 Ultra.

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Aurora over the Tappan Zee Bridge from last night #NewYork

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@devonzuegel Still rocking the old Twitter app.
No link conversion and blue checkmark shenanigans.

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“AI Podcast” explores Kirat History using #NotebookLM

https://t.co/oqtfwDMgda

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A massive cyber outage happening at global scale.

What is causing it? Malware? Ransomeware? or …

[Troy Hunt @troyhunt]

Something super weird happening right now: just been called by several totally different media outlets in the last few minutes, all with Windows machines suddenly BSoD’ing (Blue Screen of Death). Anyone else seen this? Seems to be entering recovery mode:

[Adam Doupé @adamdoupe]

Hey folks, I could use a favor.

My grandma passed on Tuesday and the service is today.

Someone created a fake Facebook scam about her service:

hxxps://www.facebook.com/faye.loe.funeral.service.live

If you know someone at Meta can you ask them to take it down?

Many thanks.

[Dhilung Kirat @Dhilung]

@MixedRealiTea Hi @MixedRealiTea, so glad to hear! Sorry for the late response... only noticed this today. It was in the August of 2009.

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Extending my Barun Valley photograph from 2009 with generative AI.

Original: https://t.co/8f8RggS0mC

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AI singing a Nepali song by #1974AD

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Midnight, kids asleep
Weekend’s perfect beginning
RC debugging

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Experienced totality for the first time. #SolarEclipse2024

[Kim Zetter @KimZetter]

Newly discovered vuln in Apple M-series chips lets attackers extract secret keys from Macs. "The flaw—a side channel allowing end-to-end key extractions when Apple chips run...widely used cryptographic protocols—can’t be patched" https://t.co/yjQTogcIzk

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@krvarshney Congratulations Kush!