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I wrote about how structured decoding is done with LLMs and why structure can be guaranteed. nishtahir.com/how-llm-stru...

Saw a bunch of National Guard roaming inside Farragut North this morning

Notes on Apple's new paper - 'The Illusion of Thinking:
Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity' 🧵

ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...

Jonathan Haidt’s Claims On Kids & Tech Crumble Under Scrutiny From Top Expert, Candice Odgers Jonathan Haidt’s incredibly well-timed decision to surf on the wave of a moral panic about kids and social media has made him a false hero for many parents and educators. In my review, I noted that…

@mmasnick.bsky.social has written some well-sourced summaries of the various critiques that have emerged

www.techdirt.com/2024/10/11/j...

Jules - An Asynchronous Coding Agent Jules is an asynchronous agent that gets out of your way. It lets you focus on the coding you want to do, meawnwhile picking up all the other random tasks that you rather not do.

Trying out Google's Jules for the first time 🧵

jules.google

I read this internally in the voice of Troy McClure

Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” Meta’s Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musk’s Grok.

If you are relying on these for domains like science and medicine this is a much bigger deal than you might think. You can't know if the models because of context you give it or because it's short cutting based on its training.

www.404media.co/facebook-pus...

Two-panel image: 1st panel: Someone asks Lain who is working on their disassembled computer - "What are you doing Lain?" 2nd panel: Close up on Lain. Lain answers - "Serial experiments"

a man sits at a desk in front of a computer screen Alt: a man sits at a desk in front of a computer screen. He’s Colin, the energy vampire from What We Do In the Shadows, a vampire who doesn’t drink blood, but just sucks the will to live from people.

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the problems with modern computers lately. The hardware is better than ever but the problem is the software.

Our devices have become time vampires, designed to capture our attention, often at the expense of our mental health.

A screenshot with the following text: LaunchServices Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 13-inch, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 7th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later Impact: An app may be able to fingerprint the user Description: This issue was addressed with improved redaction of sensitive information. CVE-2025-24117: Michael (Biscuit) Thomas (@biscuit@social.lol)

new year, new CVE 🎉! I will try to do a quick write up this week and maybe use this as an excuse to finally start a real blog #iOS #AppSec

....Hades (video game) /s

Somewhat recently it became 'Turing Complete' so.... techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...

I have a dedicated wall hook where mine lives and it never leaves it unless I'm actively using it.

If you've seen talk of ghost engineers, I break down some concerns I had after reading the paper nishtahir.com/on-ghost-eng... #programming #softwareengineering

A screenshot of the YouTube app showing the Objective by the Sea v7.0 livestream. On the video, you can see my CVE (CVE-2022-46718) being displayed. The text says the following: TCC Available for: iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 5th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. CVE-2022-46718: Michael (Biscuit) Thomas Entry added May 1, 2023

tired: give a talk at a security conference
wired: have someone talk about your CVE in a talk at a security conference
#iosdev

had to complete a minigame to finish upgrading chromium in electron today

GitHub - mhdhejazi/Dynamic: Call hidden/private API in style! The Swift way. Call hidden/private API in style! The Swift way. . Contribute to mhdhejazi/Dynamic development by creating an account on GitHub.

In my current personal project I'm using github.com/mhdhejazi/Dy... to help pen-test exposed XPC services on iOS - tl;dr if you can get the right protocol you can pass that to NSXPCInterface and execute methods against accessible services (which can sometimes make you money, which is a nice touch)

Welcome! Looking forward to reading what you have to say here!

Thanks for all the hard work. Would be cool to have an indicator of if a particular post is publicly viewable or restricted.

I’m always saying this @jay.bsky.team

do you ever think companies that use email -> fax services send faxes to companies that use fax -> email services?

Political Pattie's *shudders*

Test post

With Aussies, it could have been used with affection lol

A photo of me holding the Rabbit R1 in my hand. The Rabbit is an orange and square device. On the screen, you can seen a Windows 95 start menu.

A photo of me holding the Rabbit R1 in my hand. The Rabbit is an orange and square device. On the screen, you can see the scene from Pacific Rim where Gypsy Danger is booting up.

finally found a good use for the Rabbit R1 #weirdhacks

Acquaintance Cards Definition from the Encyclopedia of Ephemera (Routledge, 2000), p 4: "A novelty variant of the American calling card of the 1870s and 1880s, the acquaintance card was used by the less formal male in ...

It was interesting to see that replacing letters for words (i.e., "I C U") was a thing that existed back then in the 1870s/1880s. There's a huge gallery of these cards on Flickr that are amusing to read through. www.flickr.com/photos/aemay...

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