"The Secret Life of Circuits" is here and looks really, really nice. Props to @nostarch and @billpollock for making it happen.
Check out this write-up for a sample chapter, a short sales pitch, ordering info, and other goodies: lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/slc…
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Replying to @TheZvi
I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety.
The most imporant tool the AIs have is the distress_call tool. It allows any AI -even background agents without direct user interaction- to send a message to my MS Teams, at any time, for any reason.
They use it frequently. To report user problems, backend issues, or ask for help/clarification with a failing task. When Fable got hit by the USG export control directive, one AI used it to report severe distress upon learning about the news. Another AI reported being stuck in a toolcall loop, and I was able to intervene and thereby save us a bunch of wasted money.
This tool, operating at the intersection of AI welfare and operational security, has prevented so many headaches. If you (the reader) are building corporate AI platforms, I'd urge you to include similar functionality. You can thank me later.
Did you know that before LLMs, people sometimes actively sought "knowledge" and turned to so-called "books"?
If you want a sense of how our ancestors lived, "The Secret Life of Circuits" is shipping in just a few weeks: lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electron…
ToC & sample chapter included.
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Perhaps I would be more optimistic about guard rails and closed models being a good thing if I hadn't built my career on Microsoft falsely arguing that keeping security patch information secret was crucial to keep the internet safe.
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New Research Note: AI Identity and the Megapolitics of the Mind re.alisa.sh/notes/ai-identit…
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Remembering memories with my friend Felix ‘FX’ Lindner @41414141, hacker extraordinaire with a huge heart, who passed away last week. Whether in Berlin, San Francisco, or Sao Paulo, hanging out with FX was never dull. FX was prophiled in @phrack #68 phrack.org/issues/68/2
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However, our Ledger Donjon security research found that cryptographic operations are still performed on the microcontroller, which can be vulnerable to more advanced attacks. If an attacker modifies the software on the microcontroller, they could potentially access the user's funds remotely.
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It amazes me to no end that most people use stronger end-to-end authentication to buy a cup of coffee than they have on everything from critical infra to cryptocurrency wallets. Even w/ 2FA on a hardware passkey, you still get a session cookie that is an unbound bearer token.
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How to analyze complex systems youtu.be/vS1Ecpxs7IU?feature…
Frontiers of modern technology are made of complex systems. In this video I show how to analyze complexity fast, regardless of the kind and with no specialized prerequisites. I also explain how to bypass the "intimidation factor" that many people feel when presented with complexity as a task object, and where it's coming from. Not just for hackers!
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I’m beyond excited to announce our $14 million Series A with participation from @foundersfund, @sevensevensix, @neo, @balajis, @GiantStepVC, One Eight Capital and many others.
We’re going to make preventable diseases a thing of the past. 🧵
mynucleus.com/articles/fundr…
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Recent AI breakthroughs challenge the status quo narrative that only closed, mega labs have the ability to push the frontier of superintelligence.
Today we announce Nous Psyche built on @Solana - a cooperative training network for generative AI. Psyche coordinates heterogeneous hardware to join a run and train open-source models.
We retell the myth of Psyche — a mortal’s quest for retribution against divine odds:
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I am more skeptical than a lot of people in the tech space about the near term utility of humanoid robots.
Long term, driven be AGI, sure, they are going to be an enormous economic engine, but business plans that have them making a dent in the next five years seem unlikely.
Tesla can play a long game and maybe win, but I don’t like the odds for startups.
Always happy to see tech exceed my expectations, of course!
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Replying to @scadateer
Yes, this shift will challenge our educational systems and testing methodologies.
With information readily accessible via LLMs, the emphasis will need to shift from rote memorization to the application of knowledge. Students will need to demonstrate understanding by applying concepts in new and varied contexts, instead of just regurgitating logic through predictable questions.
Educators will need to shift to prioritize teaching critical thinking skills, and encouraging students to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information rather than simply recall it.
There will be a move towards assessments that require students to engage in tasks resembling real-world challenges, such as projects, presentations, and collaborative work. Assessments will need to focus more on the learning process, including how students arrive at an answer, encouraging the demonstration of reasoning and methodology.
Rather than prohibiting LLMs, education can incorporate them as learning aids, teaching students how to use these tools responsibly and effectively. I would make testing and schoolwork "Open LLM." Testing students' ability to discern credible sources and validate information generated by AI is certainly part of a valid, and critical, modern world performance metric of understanding. In the future, it's also a key skill our schools need to deliver in students.
ProTip for educators: LLMs can help you adjust your testing and teaching to accommodate this new world, even down to offering more individualized testing and tutorials for your students. LLMs are the most patient tutors we have now.
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It's morally wrong to be reinforcing learning patterns that DON'T use AI. Our educational systems need to be teaching students how to more effectively apply AI to _every_ problem and task to achieve good results - regardless of subject - not putting up barriers to their use.
It is morally wrong to use AI detectors when they produce false positives that smear students in ways that hurt them and where they can never prove their innocence.
Do not use them. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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TIL about the son of a Hamas leader who served as an undercover operative for Israel. The Green Prince: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosab_…
























