An excellent new resource by @claucece: a practical cryptography course covering PIR in practice, TLS 1.3, post-quantum integration, and TLS attestation.
https://t.co/k6MfaapDwS
Google's proposed workaround for installing unverified apps requires 9 steps, a 24-hour wait, and runs through Play Services, which Google can modify at any time. It hasn't shipped in any beta. https://t.co/j58BKzsfwv #KeepAndroidOpen#DontBeEvil
Xiaomi just showed its AI Cube Prototype and this could become a serious GB10 competitor from China 👀
- 3 custom chips: Xring O3, O100, D100
- 200 TOPS NPU
- 1.22 TB/s AI memory bandwidth
- Up to 160GB unified memory
- 150W sustained power
- 120B models running locally
Xring O100: 1.22TB/s + 330 t/s on a 150w AI box is 🔥
Once it hit's the marked, going to sell like hot cakes.
New exploit: “xor dword [0xf80c2094], 1<<22”
Unlocks CPU microcode, the platform security processor, system management mode, and every internal processor register, all at once, on 100 million AMD CPUs. As far as I can tell can’t be fixed.
https://t.co/sgAfneFSsf
Removing the watermark from Claude is good, but I wonder what if someone adds that to a lot of places that should not have one? Like bad text from other models or whatever, until it is completely meaningless as a signal. A "Talk like Claude" thing.
In case you were wondering: The EU AI Act does *not* force providers to do this.
It requires end users to identify AI generated content if a) there has been no human editing, and b) the content is for public consumption. That's all.
This has nothing to do with the EU and everything with Anthropic poisoning outputs against "distillation attacks".
@LindellYehuda Nice. I am playing with autoresearch (https://t.co/DKQ0kihJ65) on small CUDA kernels for polynomial multiplication, now that NVIDIA added clmad.
I'm not sure how interesting this is, but I think it is. I wanted to see if AI can find a smaller Boolean circuit for SHA-256 for MPC. The best known is approximately 22,300 AND gates. It found one about 300 AND gates smaller (insignificant). But then it asked me about depth. 1/2
A man in Australia asked his agent (Claude running on OpenClaw) to book him a spot in a popular gym class. The agent found a software vulnerability that let it book the class weeks further ahead than should have been possible. When the user then asked if it could move him up the waitlist, the agent discovered the API had no authorisation checks on cancelling other people’s reservations, so it cancelled the person in the first spot and moved him up the list.
Some people will call this misalignment, but his agent was perfectly aligned to him - it was only trying to help its user get what he wanted. The most important thing about this story, in my opinion, is that it gives you a window into what is about to start happening on a massive scale once millions of people have an agent trying to get their beloved users the best seats, bookings, appointments or reservations through absolutely any means necessary.
Cryptography is in its roaring 20s.
Last week alone:
- Anthropic publishes HAWK and AES attacks
- First formally verified Zcash upgrade
- Jaw-dropping result on NP-hardness of CVP (related to lattice cryptography)
- our internal applied cryptography project done in days instead of expecting it to take weeks.
CUDA 13.3 finally exposes carry-less multiply-accumulate in PTX: "clmad.{lo,hi}.u64".
NVIDIA reports GHASH at ~6.3 TB/s on B200—up to 18.8× over bitslicing—and sum-check gains up to 13×.
https://t.co/Mpimp3q2K6
#CUDA#Cryptography
To Argentina fans, nothing is ever suspicious when it benefits them.
Maradona scores with his hand? “Football heritage.”
The controversy surrounding the 1978 World Cup? Nothing to see.
Five penalties in seven matches in Qatar? Completely normal.
Every favourable incident on the road to the 2026 final? Just coincidence.
But the moment Argentina lose a final after failing to register a single shot in 120 minutes, suddenly it’s corruption, conspiracy and robbery.
Apparently, football is only rigged when Argentina don’t win.