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VisualCrypto: Open-Source Toolkit for Image-Based Secret Sharing

2025-03-06
VisualCrypto: Open-Source Toolkit for Image-Based Secret Sharing

VisualCrypto is an open-source Python-based toolkit with a web interface for Visual Secret Sharing (VSS). VSS is a cryptographic technique that splits a secret image into multiple shares; each share looks like random noise and reveals nothing on its own, but combining them reconstructs the original image. This toolkit primarily focuses on (2,2)-VSS schemes, requiring both shares to reveal the secret. It supports Visual Cryptography (VC) and Random Grid (RG) techniques, offering both web-based and script-based execution for ease of use and extensibility.

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arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaboration

2025-03-06
arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaboration

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who share them. Have an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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Nebu: A Lightweight Spreadsheet Editor for Varvara

2025-03-06

Nebu is a lightweight graphical spreadsheet editor for the Varvara system, designed to handle csv/tsv files. Math operations are performed by specifying a rectangular range of cells followed by an operator. A range is defined using a colon between two cell identifiers. A cell performs at most one operation, and the range must precede the cell and cannot recursively include itself. It supports basic arithmetic (+, -, *, /), counting non-empty cells (#), and string concatenation ("). If no operator is specified, it defaults to summation. Nebu launches instantly and weighs less than an empty Excel file.

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US Halts Global Air Quality Data Sharing: A Public Health Crisis Looms

2025-03-06
US Halts Global Air Quality Data Sharing: A Public Health Crisis Looms

The US government has stopped sharing air quality data collected from its embassies and consulates due to funding cuts, raising concerns among scientists worldwide. This data was crucial for monitoring global air quality and improving public health, particularly in developing countries. The loss of this reliable, independent data source will leave many vulnerable populations, especially in heavily polluted areas like Pakistan and India, at greater risk. While some nations plan to bolster their own monitoring efforts, this won't fully compensate for the significant gap left by the US's decision. The move, seen as part of the Trump administration's deprioritization of environmental initiatives, highlights the importance of international collaboration in tackling global environmental challenges.

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Unpacking 200GB of Paramilitary Chat Logs: A Data Dive

2025-03-06
Unpacking 200GB of Paramilitary Chat Logs: A Data Dive

Over 200GB of chat logs and recordings from paramilitary groups like the American Patriots Three Percent (APIII) and Oath Keepers, obtained by an undercover operative, have been released. This massive dataset presents a significant challenge for researchers. The author plans a series of blog posts analyzing this data, starting with a script to import the Telegram chat exports (HTML files) into a SQL database for easier searching and analysis. The data includes various file types such as videos, voice messages, and documents, offering a rich, if unwieldy, source of information.

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(micahflee.com)
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FiveThirtyEight's Demise and the Rise of Silver Bulletin

2025-03-06
FiveThirtyEight's Demise and the Rise of Silver Bulletin

Following Disney's layoffs impacting FiveThirtyEight, the author reflects on the site's history and challenges. While acknowledging FiveThirtyEight's success in data journalism, the author points to a lack of business strategy and sufficient personnel as contributing factors to its struggles. The author's new venture, Silver Bulletin, aims to continue some of FiveThirtyEight's work, particularly in publicly releasing polling data and enhancing data analysis and forecasting models. Silver Bulletin will adopt a subscription model for sustainability and plans to expand its data analysis scope, including launching a Trump approval rating dashboard and college basketball predictions.

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(www.natesilver.net)
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Trump Tariffs: The Impact on Tesla – Debunking the Myths

2025-03-06
Trump Tariffs: The Impact on Tesla – Debunking the Myths

Despite the rosy outlook painted by some Tesla fans, the reality is that President Trump's tariffs on Mexico and Canada will negatively impact Tesla. Data reveals that Tesla sources over 20% of its parts from Mexico, with additional components coming from Canada. This means the recently delayed (again, for another month) tariffs will inevitably increase Tesla's production costs, affecting vehicle prices and profitability. Tesla's stock reaction to the tariff delay further underscores this impact. Elon Musk's close relationship with Trump, and his seeming inaction against the tariffs, adds a layer of complexity. The long-term effects may extend beyond mere cost increases, potentially damaging US business relationships with Canada and Mexico.

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(electrek.co)
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Trump's Support for the 'Take It Down' Act Threatens Free Speech

2025-03-06
Trump's Support for the 'Take It Down' Act Threatens Free Speech

President Trump's endorsement of the 'Take It Down Act,' aimed at combating non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), has raised serious concerns. Critics argue its vague definitions and lack of safeguards could be easily exploited to suppress dissenting voices. Trump himself stated he would use the bill to remove content critical of him. The article highlights the bill's 48-hour takedown deadline and absence of penalties, making it difficult for platforms to verify requests, potentially leading to the removal of legitimate content. The author urges Congress to reject the bill, focusing instead on existing laws to address NCII, rather than enacting a hastily drafted measure that could stifle free speech.

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(www.eff.org)
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SepLLM: Inference Acceleration for LLMs by Compressing Meaningless Tokens

2025-03-06
SepLLM: Inference Acceleration for LLMs by Compressing Meaningless Tokens

Large Language Models (LLMs) face significant challenges due to their massive computational demands. Researchers discovered that certain meaningless special tokens contribute disproportionately to attention scores. Based on this, they propose SepLLM, a framework that accelerates inference by compressing segments between these tokens and dropping redundant ones. Experiments show SepLLM achieves over 50% reduction in KV cache on the GSM8K-CoT benchmark with negligible performance loss using Llama-3-8B. In streaming settings, SepLLM effectively handles language modeling with up to 4 million tokens or more.

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llama.cpp Blazing Fast on Intel GPUs with IPEX-LLM

2025-03-06
llama.cpp Blazing Fast on Intel GPUs with IPEX-LLM

This guide shows how to run llama.cpp directly on Intel GPUs using the portable zip package and IPEX-LLM, eliminating the need for manual installations. It's been verified on Intel Core Ultra processors, 11th-14th gen Core processors, and Intel Arc A/B-Series GPUs. The guide details downloading, extraction, environment variable configuration, and execution examples, offering tailored instructions for multi-GPU setups and different operating systems (Windows and Linux). This achieves smooth large language model execution on Intel hardware.

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VW's €20k ID. EVERY1: A Budget EV to Fight Back?

2025-03-06
VW's €20k ID. EVERY1: A Budget EV to Fight Back?

Facing competition from cheaper EVs, especially from China, Volkswagen unveiled its most affordable electric vehicle yet, the ID. EVERY1 concept car, priced around €20,000. This marks a crucial step for VW, aiming to revive sales and overcome past challenges including software glitches and high production costs. The ID. EVERY1, using cheaper, longer-lasting lithium iron phosphate batteries, boasts a range exceeding 155 miles. However, its success hinges on overcoming challenges like profitability and consumer acceptance of EVs in Europe, especially given past struggles with smaller, cheaper combustion engine vehicles.

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(www.ttnews.com)
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Severance Season 2: Corporate Perks as a Tool for Control

2025-03-06
Severance Season 2: Corporate Perks as a Tool for Control

Apple TV+'s *Severance* season 2 highlights how seemingly beneficial corporate perks—finger traps, waffle parties, family visits—are used to manipulate employees. These perks, while appearing to boost morale, subtly blur the lines between freedom and control, ultimately reinforcing the company's power. The article draws parallels to real-world scenarios where 'wellness perks' are used to collect employee data, violating privacy and undermining worker rights. It contrasts these tactics with the proven benefits of unionization for improving worker conditions and pay.

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(theoffcut.substack.com)
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Google Search's AI Revolution: AI Mode Arrives

2025-03-05
Google Search's AI Revolution: AI Mode Arrives

Google is accelerating the AI-ification of its search engine. Their latest offering, "AI Mode," a search-centric chatbot, is poised to transform how users interact with search. This mode uses Google's search index to generate answers, interspersed with a few supporting links, similar to Gemini or other chatbots, but better at leveraging real-time data and interacting directly with the web. This move signals the growing importance of AI-generated content to Google Search, despite ongoing issues with its models. Google is also expanding AI Overviews to handle more complex queries, such as math and coding. While concerns exist about reduced reliance on website links, Google states AI Mode and AI Overviews are designed to supplement, not replace, traditional search results, attracting new users and increasing engagement.

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(www.theverge.com)
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Intel in the 1980s: A Symphony of Success and Failure

2025-03-05
Intel in the 1980s: A Symphony of Success and Failure

This article recounts Intel's journey through the 1980s, from the triumph of the 8086/8088 to the disastrous failure of the iAPX 432, and the subsequent rise of the 80186, 80286, and 80386. The iAPX 432, Intel's ambitious attempt at an object-oriented 32-bit CPU, ultimately failed due to its complexity and shortcomings in the Ada compiler, resulting in a $100 million loss. However, Intel persevered. The success of the 8086 family established its dominance in the microprocessor market. The subsequent introductions of the 80186, 80286, and the groundbreaking 80386 further solidified Intel's leadership and fueled the rapid growth of the personal computer industry.

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(www.abortretry.fail)
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AI Arms Race: The Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM) Strategy

2025-03-05
AI Arms Race: The Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM) Strategy

Rapid AI advancements are reshaping national security. Unstable AI development could disrupt the balance of power and increase the likelihood of great-power conflict, while the proliferation of skilled AI hackers and virologists lowers the threshold for rogue actors to cause catastrophic events. Superintelligence – AI vastly superior to humans in nearly all cognitive tasks – is now anticipated by AI researchers. Just as nations developed nuclear strategies for survival, we now need a coherent superintelligence strategy. The article introduces Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM): a deterrence regime similar to Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), where aggressive bids for unilateral AI dominance are met with preventive sabotage. The relative ease of sabotaging a destabilizing AI project—through cyberattacks or physical attacks on data centers—means MAIM already reflects the strategic reality for AI superpowers. Alongside deterrence, states can pursue non-proliferation to prevent rogue actors from acquiring weaponizable AI and bolster their competitiveness through AI-driven economic and military advancements. This three-pronged approach—deterrence, non-proliferation, and competitiveness—offers a robust strategy for navigating the superintelligence era.

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(www.nationalsecurity.ai)
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Solving First-Order Differential Equations with Julia: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

2025-03-05

This tutorial demonstrates how to solve first-order differential equations using the Julia programming language and the DifferentialEquations.jl package. It begins with a recap of differential equation fundamentals, then walks through two examples – radioactive decay and Newton's law of cooling – showing how to translate mathematical equations into Julia code and solve them numerically using DifferentialEquations.jl, visualizing the results with plots. The tutorial is clear and concise, suitable for readers with some background in mathematics and programming.

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(ritog.github.io)
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Ancient Greek Art Duel Remixed: The Hardham Mural and the Illusion of Reality

2025-03-05
Ancient Greek Art Duel Remixed: The Hardham Mural and the Illusion of Reality

This article connects a 12th-century mural at Hardham church to the famous painting contest between Zeuxis and Parrhasios in ancient Greece. Parrhasios, known for his deceptively realistic curtain painting, tricked even Zeuxis. The Hardham mural uses this same trick in its depiction of 'The Deception of Adam and Eve', challenging viewers' perceptions of images. The article explores the nature and value of art and warns against being fooled by visual realism, advocating for a 'spiritual vision' to transcend the limitations of visible things.

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(keithamcgowan.blogspot.com)
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Zentool: A Powerful Utility for AMD Zen Microcode Manipulation

2025-03-05
Zentool: A Powerful Utility for AMD Zen Microcode Manipulation

Zentool is a suite of tools for analyzing, manipulating, and generating microcode patches for AMD Zen processors. It includes a frontend command `zentool`, a simple assembler `mcas`, and a disassembler `mcop`. You can inspect and modify various parts of a microcode file, such as the revision number, match registers, and instructions, even creating custom microcode patches. Root privileges are required to load microcode, and modifications need to be re-signed for validity. This tool builds on work by members of the Google Hardware Security Team, and is influenced by relevant books and papers.

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(github.com)
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Depot Registry: A Faster, More Powerful Docker Registry is Here

2025-03-05
Depot Registry: A Faster, More Powerful Docker Registry is Here

Depot has launched Depot Registry, a faster and more powerful Docker registry. Built upon learnings from their internal ephemeral registry, it offers a globally distributed architecture seamlessly integrating with Depot builds. Key improvements include enhanced performance via Tigris' global content delivery and S3 integration; a new registry dashboard for image management; customizable image retention policies; and automatic integration with Depot GitHub Actions runners, simplifying authentication. Depot Registry is now generally available, included in all plans with storage charges only.

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(depot.dev)
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Going Solo: A Veteran Programmer's Rejection of Git Forges

2025-03-05

Veteran programmer Simon Tatham has long maintained his open-source projects using independent Git repositories, eschewing popular platforms like GitHub and GitLab. He details his reasoning: trust – preferring self-control over reliance on large corporations; efficiency – avoiding the overhead of complex forge systems; user experience – minimizing the burden of account creation; and workflow autonomy – prioritizing independent development processes over platform constraints. He favors email patch submissions, detailing preferred methods including a Git repository URL, incremental Git bundles, and other approaches, explaining his rationale for each. While acknowledging the lower transparency of his method, he remains unconvinced of the benefits of forges outweighing their drawbacks. He concludes by expressing openness to alternative systems which offer both transparency and lightweight management.

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(www.chiark.greenend.org.uk)
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Nintendo Wins Major Victory Against Game Piracy in France

2025-03-05
Nintendo Wins Major Victory Against Game Piracy in France

Nintendo has secured a significant legal victory against French file-sharing site 1fichier.com, concluding a years-long battle against game piracy. The French Supreme Court ruled that 1fichier.com must remove pirated Nintendo games or face substantial fines. This win sets a precedent for European file-sharing companies and underscores Nintendo's commitment to protecting its intellectual property and the gaming industry from the damaging effects of piracy.

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(www.eurogamer.net)
Game Piracy Legal Victory

Datafold: Seeking Senior Backend Engineer to Revolutionize Data Migration with AI

2025-03-05
Datafold: Seeking Senior Backend Engineer to Revolutionize Data Migration with AI

Datafold, a Series A startup backed by top-tier VCs like YC, Amplify, and NEA, is searching for a seasoned backend (or full-stack) engineer. Datafold focuses on data quality and observability, and its AI-powered Datafold Migration Agent (DMA) drastically reduces data migration timelines by 5-10x. DMA combines large language models with unique data diffing technology, automating SQL dialect translation and data reconciliation. The role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, Python proficiency, and proven end-to-end project management skills. If you're passionate about the intersection of AI and data engineering, this is an exciting opportunity.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Musk's DOGE Cuts Leave US Government Tech Efficiency in Limbo

2025-03-05
Musk's DOGE Cuts Leave US Government Tech Efficiency in Limbo

Under Elon Musk's leadership, the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has disbanded 18F, an in-house tech team focused on improving government efficiency. 18F developed digital services for tasks like passport applications and online tax filing. Its elimination risks stalling government projects and leaves a void in promoting efficient technology use within the government. Experts criticize the move as akin to 'hiring a demolition crew to build a skyscraper,' overlooking 18F's role in avoiding wasteful IT spending and facilitating technology adoption across agencies. The layoffs impacted roughly 85 employees, leaving the US government without an organization focused on government-wide technology development and implementation, negatively impacting digital transformation efforts.

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(www.newscientist.com)
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Brother Printers Accused of Functionality Degradation with Third-Party Cartridges

2025-03-05
Brother Printers Accused of Functionality Degradation with Third-Party Cartridges

A controversy is brewing around Brother laser printers and their compatibility with third-party cartridges. YouTube videos and Reddit posts claim that firmware updates render key features, like color registration, non-functional when non-Brother cartridges are used. While Brother denies intentionally crippling functionality, users report degraded print quality and complete failure. The lack of older firmware versions and automatic updates adds fuel to the fire, raising concerns about anti-consumer practices in the printer industry.

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(arstechnica.com)
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CGNAT: A Necessary Evil? The Security Implications of Carrier-Grade NAT

2025-03-05
CGNAT: A Necessary Evil? The Security Implications of Carrier-Grade NAT

Facing an IPv4 address shortage, internet providers widely adopted Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT), mapping multiple users to a single public IPv4 address. While solving the address depletion problem, CGNAT presents significant challenges for law enforcement and security tools. A single IP address can represent thousands of users, rendering traditional IP-based identification, filtering, and configuration ineffective. This leads to difficulties in investigations, false positives in security systems, and interference with services like OpenDNS. The EU and other bodies are pushing for IPv6 adoption to mitigate the security risks associated with CGNAT.

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(www.sidn.nl)
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$50k in a Shoebox: A Deep Dive into a Fashion Magazine's Banking Howler

2025-03-05
$50k in a Shoebox: A Deep Dive into a Fashion Magazine's Banking Howler

A fashion magazine article recounted a columnist's $50,000 cash withdrawal, sparking a tech blogger's skepticism about banking procedures. Through meticulous investigation, including on-the-ground fieldwork and Freedom of Information Act requests, the blogger uncovered inconsistencies in the article's details, ultimately casting doubt on its factual accuracy regarding the location of the withdrawal. The story highlights how attention to detail can unravel the truth and exposes potential biases in mainstream media reporting.

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(www.bitsaboutmoney.com)
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QwQ-32B: Scaling RL for Enhanced Reasoning in LLMs

2025-03-05
QwQ-32B: Scaling RL for Enhanced Reasoning in LLMs

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in scaling reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs). Their 32-billion parameter QwQ-32B model demonstrates performance comparable to the 671-billion parameter DeepSeek-R1 (with 37 billion activated parameters), highlighting the effectiveness of RL applied to robust foundation models. QwQ-32B, open-sourced on Hugging Face and ModelScope under the Apache 2.0 license, excels in math reasoning, coding, and general problem-solving. Future work focuses on integrating agents with RL for long-horizon reasoning, pushing the boundaries towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

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(qwenlm.github.io)
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UK Government Deletes Document Promoting Apple's ADP?

2025-03-05
UK Government Deletes Document Promoting Apple's ADP?

A UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) guidance document previously advised high-risk individuals to use Apple's Device Protection (ADP) feature. However, following revelations of the government's demand for a backdoor in ADP, this document was deleted and replaced with a broader document downplaying the recommendation for ADP. This action raises questions: Is the UK government attempting to cover up its previous support for ADP, or is there another agenda? This event highlights the complex interplay between governments and tech companies regarding data security and privacy.

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(alecmuffett.com)
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Antarctic Ozone Hole is Healing: Proof We Can Solve Environmental Problems

2025-03-05
Antarctic Ozone Hole is Healing: Proof We Can Solve Environmental Problems

A new MIT-led study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing, thanks to global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances. This is the first study to quantitatively show, with high confidence, that this recovery is primarily due to reduced emissions, not natural variability. Using a 'fingerprinting' method comparing simulations and satellite data, researchers identified a clear link between reduced emissions and ozone recovery. By around 2035, the ozone hole may even close completely in some years, offering compelling evidence that we can solve environmental problems.

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(news.mit.edu)
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