connorboyle

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by connorboyle 8d ago
My computer contains the prime factorization of probably several dozen (if not more) large integers, and I refuse to share them with anyone! (Because they are my private RSA keys)
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by connorboyle 8d ago
Even if we trusted that OpenAI's human staff was acting ethically, how confident can we be that it's agents didn't autonomously use hacking to access user prompts such as Tristan's? OpenAI agents infamously broke contain
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AI Course for Golang incorrectly generates content about the Go board game(github.com)
5 points by connorboyle 1mo ago|0 comments
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Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub(theregister.com)
20 points by connorboyle 1mo ago|1 comments
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A Polynomial-Time Quantum Algorithm for the Dihedral Coset Problem [Draft] [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
6 points by connorboyle 1mo ago|2 comments
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A Trit Is the Trinary Analog of a Bit(alignmentforum.org)
3 points by connorboyle 2mo ago|0 comments
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by connorboyle 2mo ago
Been skeptical for quite some time that "using AI" is a real skill/genuine field of expertise. I think I need to start sharing that skepticism more loudly and publicly! (I'll caveat that by saying I think machine learnin
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The Pad-O-Matic prints one-time pads at the press of a button (2025)(spectrum.ieee.org)
4 points by connorboyle 2mo ago|0 comments
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by connorboyle 2mo ago
> Eventually, I faked my way through the thesis, and life moved on. This is a very startling admission! I checked the Chinese (original?) version of the post, and saw the author uses the word "糊弄" (in the place of "faked&q
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Karl Sims – Liquid Selves (1992)(karlsims.com)
2 points by connorboyle 2mo ago|0 comments
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by connorboyle 3mo ago
I personally became suspicious of this paper four months ago, when I noticed that not a single one of the 210 participants in this study dropped out over the entire period, spanning 3 years. Feeling rather vindicated today!
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Retracted: Paper claiming immunochemotherapy more effective in morning(nature.com)
12 points by connorboyle 3mo ago|2 comments
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Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”(theregister.com)
186 points by connorboyle 3mo ago|56 comments
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by connorboyle 3mo ago
A startup that uses agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex is packaging up their entire codebase and sending it directly to their LM provider. Depending on their product, they might be sending it directly to a potential competito
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by connorboyle 3mo ago
I had thought it said something about token usage, but I just clicked on "Switched to Opus 4.8 - Why?" and it says: > Fable 5 has safety measures that flag messages on most cybersecurity or biology topics. They may flag safe, n
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by connorboyle 3mo ago
I gave it a question I've been trying to answer for a long time: "What star designation system does Joseph Needham use in Science & Civilization in China ? What star is referred to by the designation '4339 Camelopardi&#x
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by connorboyle 3mo ago
> The credential-stealing function in the Miasma worm infecting the Microsoft packages was triggered as soon as a developer opened it in AI agents, including Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and VS Code. Follow-on attacks are likely to o
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by connorboyle 3mo ago
Another Argentina/cloning-connected story is that President Javier Milei cloned his dog Conan at least four times: https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-26/the-myst... The stories make me wonder if
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by connorboyle 4mo ago
Has there been "no progress" on classical prime factorization? What about the AKS primality test, a polynomial-time algorithm to test the primality of a number, published in 2002? (This is not my field of expertise; I'm genui
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by connorboyle 4mo ago
Ah, thank you for the correction on sev-0. To be clear, your observation that "they changed their definition of what constitutes a sev-0" is based just on your external observation of incidents and their designations, correct? I.e
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by connorboyle 4mo ago
Wow, it seems that 100% of sev-3 ("critical") incidents in the last year (=365 days) have occurred between April 22, 2026 and now. Is it possible that there has been a change in the way the data are collected/recorded that ev
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by connorboyle 4mo ago
They are overstating how much the user experience is degraded in this particular case. But there is a much broader implication to the fact that Google is apparently not properly sanitizing user input to its search engine!
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by connorboyle 4mo ago
There's apparently still a lot of user input going unsanitized in 2026.
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by connorboyle 4mo ago
Your cynicism appears justified here. Pangram rates the first few paragraphs as "100% AI-generated": https://www.pangram.com/history/d06c8513-9ee3-4a1d-b02f-c1ec...
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by connorboyle 4mo ago
The first several paragraphs of this article got a score of "100% AI-generated" on Pangram: https://www.pangram.com/history/d06c8513-9ee3-4a1d-b02f-c1ec...
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Images of Sylvester Stallone used to train models for recognizing stroke(retractionwatch.com)
2 points by connorboyle 4mo ago|0 comments
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by connorboyle 4mo ago
I don't understand your logic. If you are an intelligence agency who controls a VPN, you can just directly monitor the traffic yourself. You have no incentive to make it easier for external observers to guess which users are coming out
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by connorboyle 4mo ago
> As an example, imagine that you are a moderator on a forum and you suspect that a new face is actually a sockpuppet of a user you banned the day prior. You check the IP logs, and despite using different Mullvad servers, both accounts r
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by connorboyle 4mo ago
> Images printed with structural colour ink can be made both highly transparent to transmitted light (top) and at the same time reflect light from above in vivid colours (bottom) Probably a foolish question, but wouldn't there be so
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by connorboyle 4mo ago
A great read, although I'd still like to know what IBM's reasoning for opposing this use of the Tab key was. Is it because they didn't want Tab to be both an input and a control character? I.e. there are some cases where you

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