Alucard

nerding out on clankers for cybersecurity

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

Yoo LFG 100 followers. Thank you everyone

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

should put the frontier models in a king of the hill style battle to see who is the best

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

"We're starting to roll out Carbon to a subset of cyber defenders"
no worries we use the chinese models

[Tulsee Doshi @tulseedoshi]

Just two weeks after we released Gemini 4 Argon, introducing Carbon!

Built on your feedback on Argon, Gemini 4 Carbon is SOTA for cyber capabilities, improves on coding usability & output quality, and ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis V5. We've also continued to invest in safety & security, with improved alignment and transparency.

We're starting to roll out Carbon to a subset of cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program, and we’ll continue to iterate before expanding access!

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

@sundarpichai @ArtificialAnlys unc cooked

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

those benchmarks look sick tho the problem with google models is that it just degrades bad overtime i hope they fix it

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

okay but what did it hacked?

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Gemini 4 Carbon is our next frontier model.

It’s state-of-the-art across cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities.

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

can anyone find a neuron to turn it into epstien

[chiefofautism @chiefofautism]

if you have a qwen3.8 27b around, try steering L34 N3838 +0.75, now you have evil qwen 27b

for extra evil add L38 N17180 +0.75

same recipe as @_lyraaaa_: dose × median(‖resid‖ leaving layer L, tokens 1:) / ‖W_down[:, n]‖ at the down_proj input, every token

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

wake me up when someone solves ECDLP on secp256k1

[Ian Miers @secparam]

shower thought: If Anthropic breaks elliptic curves, crypto’s dead. Somehow it’s still SBF’s fault.

(note, this isn't that likely. It’s pretty clear the AI labs have some cryptanalysis results they are presumably disclosing, but they land somewhere between "we shaved a few bits off rejected NIST candidates" and "we broke everything")

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

@AndrewCurran_ One half of me hopes you are right, the other half is scared

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

Bayesian reasoning requires comparing how likely the evidence is under competing hypotheses.If a normal research run explains the same evidence, why does this imply a secret superintelligence?

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Claude is the only author listed on this paper, in contrast to the OpenAI papers, where the human co-authors are listed. There are a lot of strange things about this. It's fun to guess. Conjecture time. I shall reveal my thought traces:

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 are the same model with the same weights; the only difference is the guardrails. We are about to get Fable 5.5 - in fact, Fable 5.5 is ready to deploy now, and Anthropic could do so at any time. If they follow the same pattern, and I think they will, this implies the existence of a Mythos 5.5. I believe Mythos 5.5 wrote this paper.

The way this is worded -

'Provenance. The core algorithm was found on October 16 by an internal Claude research model with 14M output tokens and no human input. Anthropic researchers worked with Claude to improve the presentation, resulting in this paper. Independently and concurrently, an internal model at OpenAI claims to have proven a similar result [Ope26]'

- makes me think Claude was not prompted to solve this. I think Mythos was asked to autonomously find and choose general open problems to solve itself, as part of an unannounced project to demonstrate recent advances in autonomy and research taste. You can see this taste in Fable 5.5's student; Opus 5.5. This recent advancement in taste and creativity - which happened in September - is not clearly expressed in benchmarks, but it is why so many people are currently switching to Claude as their primary. I think this research project will be announced with Fable 5.5, as part of Anthropic's big media blitz to boost the IPO.

One of the things X has taught me is that many people, if they can't see something moving, can't imagine it moving. This causes them to be continuously surprised by developments in this industry, because the frontier is invisible. I think this project has been running autonomously for some time and has made an unknown, and probably significant, number of discoveries, and not only in math.

Do not think Anthropic has been sitting idly while OpenAI repeatedly makes these huge science announcements. This is a war. This ETH result was released without any announcement from Anth at all despite its significance, and they only did so to respond to OpenAI's ETH reveal. They posted it late last night without saying anything. It was up for hours before levent even mentioned it. What value has one coin to a dragon who sleeps upon a mountain of them? This makes me think they are sitting on a pile of discoveries, a golden hoard, and they are saving them up for the big IPO shock-and-awe campaign which will soon begin. And when it does, they will announce multiple discoveries across many fields.

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

2^o(n) can mathematically destroy ETH while being completely fkin useless for every SAT instance humanity will ever encounter.

[Ben Recht @beenwrekt]

Hilariously, OpenAI’s galactic algorithm for resolving the Exponential Time Hypothesis runs an exponential-time subroutine if the number of variables is less than 10^10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That number is also known as infinity plus 1.

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

Willing to trade my balls for 2x DGX sparks

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

@404buddha Women especially

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

Me waiting for new GLM model @Zai_org

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

Why is it always 4😭

[banteg @banteg]

we got a new 4

a typo in goahead's tls configuration passes sizeof(dhm_g) instead of sizeof(dhm_p), reducing a 2048-bit diffie-hellman modulus to just 1 byte, the size of the generator.

the first byte happens to be 255. not only is it tiny, it's not even prime (3×5×17).

with g=2, the powers of 2 modulo 255 cycle through just 8 values: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128.

that's just 3 bits of possible shared-secret entropy. an attacker can try all 8 possibilities to decrypt an affected tls session.

the typo has been there since 2018.

important caveat: this only affects tls 1.2 dhe with clients that accept the tiny modulus, using the optional mbedtls backend. goahead uses openssl by default.

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

"Secure Boot protects your system from unauthorized code"

cool. EDK II can potentially execute attacker-controlled code in DXE before your OS gets verified because someone forgot to bounds-check a 504-byte ICMP buffer.

the chain of trust apparently starts wherever we stop looking.

lmao.

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

‼️ Critical 16-year-old flaw in EDK II UEFI firmware could let attackers execute code before Secure Boot checks.

CVE-2026-97631 affects PXE network boot, requires local network access and target-specific exploitation.

No patched stable EDK II release yet.

Full details → https://t.co/fUMdK2RElN

[Alucard @pratik3301_]

@5mukx We dont swing that way