Collaborate Disseminate
The University of Colorado Boulder’s magazine recently wrote:
What happened during the “Snowball Earth” period is perplexing: Just as the planet endured about 100 million years of deep freeze, with a thick layer of ice covering most of Earth and with l… Continue reading ‘Snowball Earth’ Evolution Hypothesis Gains New Momentum
SC Media reports on a new jailbreak method for large language models (LLMs) that “takes advantage of models’ ability to identify and score harmful content in order to trick the models into generating content related to malware, illegal activity, harass… Continue reading New LLM Jailbreak Uses Models’ Evaluation Skills Against Them
“This year, superconductivity — the flow of electric current with zero resistance — was discovered in three distinct materials,” reports Quanta magazine. “Two instances stretch the textbook understanding of the phenomenon. The third shreds … Continue reading Three New Superconductive Materials Were Discovered in 2024
On March 25, DataBreaches entered Teton Orthopaedics’ name on a monthly worksheet this site uses for tracking breaches in the healthcare sector. The entry wasn’t based on any report by Teton Orthopaedics or media, and DataBreaches had been … Continue reading Nine months after discovering a ransomware attack, Teton Orthopaedics notifies patients
When I use the latest OpenSSH with default settings (which afaik uses mlkem768x25519-sha256 or at least sntrup761x25519-sha512) and an attacker records all the traffic (key-exchange and the payload during the ssh-session) for a record-now-… Continue reading Is OpenSSH currently secure against quantum computer attacks in future?
As an ecological disaster devastated two coastal California cities, more than 7,500 firefighters pushed back against the wildfires. 900 of them are inmates, reports NPR. That’s about 12%:
California is one of more than a dozen states that operates con… Continue reading California’s Wildfires Still Burn. Prison Inmates Join the Fight
Slashdot reader rzack writes:
Since 1999, I’ve written a huge amount of PHP code, for dozens of applications and websites. Most of it has been continually updated, and remains active and in-production, in one form or another.
Here’s the thing. It’s a… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: What’s the Best Way to Transfer Legacy PHP Code to a Modern Framework?
Looking over the to-do list for .NETpad in 2025, I decided to start small and make one of the easier changes to the app first. That change? Settings auto-flow.
What to do, what to do
I realized after posting .NETpad 2025: What Comes Next (Premium) that… Continue reading .NETpad 2025: Settings Auto Flow (Premium)
An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times:
Russia fined TikTok for not removing prohibited content. The results of a presidential election in Romania were thrown out over concerns the app had been used to spread foreign influence…. Continue reading TikTok, Facing a US Ban, Is Also Waging Legal Battles Around the World
[Cody Lammer] built a sweet CNC router. But as always, when you build a “thing”, you inevitably figure out how to build a better “thing” in the process, so here …read more Continue reading Second CNC Machine is Twice as Nice