spooky Deirdre Connolly¹ ² at a distance

Since we recorded and uploaded this the Closest Vector Problem has gotten to O(n^{1/2-ε}) and then Classic McEliece distinguisher and key recovery have significantly weakened prod parameter sets 😅

CISA has added the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: www.cisa.gov/news-events/... A big move given that two security firms that previously reported exploitation, Sophos and Palo Alto, have both retracted those claims.

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

i think i got fog juice in my eye

need at least one more laser and the wind to calm down

now i can go play with my lasers and fog machines

nathan fielder interviewed by isaac chotiner

We get a subexponential time algorithm for 3SAT and apparently the models couldn’t even find one little cryptanalysis result. I guess cryptographers have just been killing it!

just in time for more OpenAI Math 💀

NEW EPISODE! The gang talks about what AI getting Good At Math™ might mean for cryptography, & why public-key cryptography probably isn’t ending. David is on a mission to civilize and claims a crisis of empiricism. securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/10/27/e... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIzb...

me: i'm on vacation actual me: catching up on everything else

We get similar emails at Bellingcat, usually from peolle who have been scammed and have asked ChatGPT for help.

New secure group messaging use case just dropped

was it jezebel that used to have people post real life unexplained ghost or creepy encounters around halloween some of those made the hairs on my neck stand up and as a red panda that is a lot of hairs

This lives in my memes & reactions folder for a reason

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

someone do the jeopardy joke like slut gnomes of false berlin but for waluigi genders of the material plane

Oh! I forgot a thing I think is actually valuable about The Cheesecake Factory: Their menu is enormous. There is something for everyone. There's a gluten free option and a vegan option and a low salt option and a keto option and look, it's mostly high salt high fat but everyone can find SOMETHING.

walter goggins Scrooge >>>>>>>>> johnny depp Scrooge

oof

thank fuck

Check out how easy this is.

Whenever I feel bad about my ribcage, I remember: it could always be worse

This is symptomatic of a broader, potentially destabilizing trend in AI. It has become trivially easy for people to use AI to make functional clones of software that live in a copyright grey zone. www.404media.co/video-game-r...

Data center tenants now demand $5M+ a day in late-delivery fees, up from $1M this spring, spawning new "delay-in-delivery" coverage from brokers like Marsh (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

After many obstacles were placed in her way, including by the Trump administration, the leader of the Venezuelan democratic opposition is back in Venezuela

how long does it take me to realize that the contact i was trying to take out of my eye doesn't exist 🤏

Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.” www.404media.co/dhs-said-the...

i have to confess, i do not give a crap about the a340-600 retirement

TIL ML-DSA includes its own way to produce message digests, including as a separate step ("external mu") www.conor.computer/blog/ml-dsa-... very very neat

oh to be the carefree frog among her lily pads

Pumpkin tester.

not true for ecdsa signing keys

perhaps more exciting than being on tv was meeting debbie shields, the women who improv’d with conan on subway takes

Air to Ground Message: REALLY CHANNELED YOUR INNER BRAVEHART HAHA SO GLAD THATS OVER CHEEEERRSS Area: Valparaiso, IN, USA Type: Bombardier CRJ200 A: #afc31e5de36 F: #f96b197fe03

Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it could use data shared via Personal Intelligence from connected apps, including Gmail and Photos, to target ads (Shimul Sood/Android Authority) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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