“Computer security 80% solved if we deprecate technology shown in this graphic”(twitter.com)

259 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 318 comments

John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta(twitter.com)

506 points by OlympicMarmoto 1 year ago | 591 comments

An X post by John Carmack responding to Jonathan Blow's question about writing new operating systems, explaining why he argued against a custom XR OS at Meta.

Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip(twitter.com)

222 points by nsoonhui 1 year ago | 145 comments

Neural networks in the 1990s(twitter.com)

122 points by jrott 3 years ago | 75 comments

Stallman Was Right(twitter.com)

13 points by runningmike 2 years ago | 6 comments

GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz(twitter.com)

27 points by laxmena 4 months ago | 8 comments

What happened to the Snowden archive(libroot.org)

649 points by EXHades 1 month ago | 464 comments

Blog post tracing how news outlets stopped publishing Snowden archive documents, with the last release in May 2019 after The Intercept closed its archive.

Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations(ietf.org)

486 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 293 comments

IETF Internet-Draft by Farrell, Badii, Schneier, and Bellovin reflecting on ten years since the Snowden NSA revelations and the resulting security and privacy challenges.

Geedge and MESA leak: Analyzing the great firewall’s largest document leak(gfw.report)

408 points by yourapostasy 1 year ago | 124 comments

GFW Report blog post by Mingshi Wu analyzing the leak of internal documents from Geedge Networks and MESA Lab, linked to China's Great Firewall.

The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS(waxy.org)

768 points by waxpancake 3 years ago | 357 comments

Andy Baio's Waxy.org post reporting that a PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper ships with every copy of macOS since Catalina.

Senator Wyden Letter Confirms NSA Is Buying US Persons' Data from Data Brokers(techdirt.com)

366 points by rntn 2 years ago | 167 comments

Techdirt article on Senator Ron Wyden's letter revealing that the NSA buys Americans' data, including location data, from commercial data brokers.

AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities(arxiv.org)

252 points by sbulaev 13 days ago | 118 comments

An arXiv paper showing AI models can embed encrypted neural network backdoors that provably hide arbitrary capabilities from elicitation-based safety evaluations.