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Various mini series exploring food focused moments and interactions. An ongoing project.
Tijdens de Rwandese genocide, in 1994, speelde een radiozender een grote rol in het oproepen tot moorden. Dat station werd gefinancierd door Kabuga. Voor zijn rol in de massaslachting stond hij terecht in het VN-tribunaal in Den Haag.
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"The vulnerability is simple in practice," writes Tom's Hardware: "run a command as a standard user and gain root (administrator) access to the machine."
And it was Mythos Preview that helped the security researchers at Palo Alto-based Calif bypass a five-year Apple security effort in just five days. The blog 9to5Mac reports:
Last year, Apple introduced Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), a hardware-assisted memory safety system designed to make memory corruption exploits much harder to execute... [The researchers note it's built into Apple all models of the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air, and some MacBooks] They explain they have a 55-page technical report on the hack, but they won't release it until Apple ships a fix for the exploit. But they do note in broad terms that Anthropic's Mythos Preview model helped them identify the bugs and assisted them throughout the entire collaborative exploit development process.
"Mythos Preview is powerful: once it has learned how to attack a class of problems, it generalizes to nearly any problem in that class. Mythos discovered the bugs quickly because they belong to known bug classes. But MIE is a new best-in-class mitigation, so autonomously bypassing it can be tricky. This is where human expertise comes in. Part of our motivation was to test what's possible when the best models are paired with experts. Landing a kernel memory corruption exploit against the best protections in a week is noteworthy, and says something strong about this pairing...."
[I]n a time when even small teams, with the help of AI, can make discoveries such as this one, "we're about to learn how the best mitigation technology on Earth holds up during the first AI bugmageddon."
And it was Mythos Preview that helped the security researchers at Palo Alto-based Calif bypass a five-year Apple security effort in just five days. The blog 9to5Mac reports:
Last year, Apple introduced Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), a hardware-assisted memory safety system designed to make memory corruption exploits much harder to execute... [The researchers note it's built into Apple all models of the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air, and some MacBooks] They explain they have a 55-page technical report on the hack, but they won't release it until Apple ships a fix for the exploit. But they do note in broad terms that Anthropic's Mythos Preview model helped them identify the bugs and assisted them throughout the entire collaborative exploit development process.
"Mythos Preview is powerful: once it has learned how to attack a class of problems, it generalizes to nearly any problem in that class. Mythos discovered the bugs quickly because they belong to known bug classes. But MIE is a new best-in-class mitigation, so autonomously bypassing it can be tricky. This is where human expertise comes in. Part of our motivation was to test what's possible when the best models are paired with experts. Landing a kernel memory corruption exploit against the best protections in a week is noteworthy, and says something strong about this pairing...."
[I]n a time when even small teams, with the help of AI, can make discoveries such as this one, "we're about to learn how the best mitigation technology on Earth holds up during the first AI bugmageddon."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
I find the usual conversations about AI and creativity to be pretty boring - we've been talking about cameras and sampling for years now, and I'm not particularly interested in getting mired down in the muck of the morality and economics of it all. I'm really only interested in one question: What's possible now that was impossible before? ... So here's the idea: I'm going to make a giant isometric pixel-art map of New York City. And I'm going to use it as an excuse to push hard on the limits of the latest and greatest generative models and coding agents.
Any time one of my blog posts escapes containment on Mastodon, I am again reminded that "click links" is an ability that a shockingly large part of that community simply does not possess.
I weep for the future.
on the water photography has added a photo to the pool:
Kitaoka Shrine is located at the foot of Mount Hanaoka near JR Kumamoto Station. The shrine was originally built in 934 in Nihongi, Nishi Ward, Kumamoto City to worship the spirit of Yasaka Shrine in Yamashiro Province (present-day southern Kyoto Prefecture), but was later moved to the top of Mt Hanaoka, and relocated to its present site in 1647. During the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877, the Satsuma Army located its headquarters here, owing to its elevation overlooking Kumamoto Castle.
The current shrine pavilion was rebuilt in 1933, but a large 1,000-year-old camphor tree towers over the approach, testifying to its long history. It is called MEOTO-KUSU, meaning ""married couple camphor tree"". Legend has it that if you pass through this tree, you will receive blessings, especially to ward off evil and bring good luck, matchmaking and marital bliss.
Source: Kumamoto City
on the water photography has added a photo to the pool:
Kitaoka Shrine is located at the foot of Mount Hanaoka near JR Kumamoto Station. The shrine was originally built in 934 in Nihongi, Nishi Ward, Kumamoto City to worship the spirit of Yasaka Shrine in Yamashiro Province (present-day southern Kyoto Prefecture), but was later moved to the top of Mt Hanaoka, and relocated to its present site in 1647. During the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877, the Satsuma Army located its headquarters here, owing to its elevation overlooking Kumamoto Castle.
The current shrine pavilion was rebuilt in 1933, but a large 1,000-year-old camphor tree towers over the approach, testifying to its long history. It is called MEOTO-KUSU, meaning ""married couple camphor tree"". Legend has it that if you pass through this tree, you will receive blessings, especially to ward off evil and bring good luck, matchmaking and marital bliss.
Source: Kumamoto City