Its like releasing a troop of monkeys in an office and hoping they'll somehow manage to coordinate your next product release.

Do we work at the same company?

The attack is against 7-round AES. As I read the abstract, they claim to optimise an attack from 2013.

Cryptanalysis of 7-Round AES via the Algebraic Structure of its S-box

Milad Nasr and Nicholas Carlini

The AES S-Box is not a random permutation; we show that its algebraic structure allows for improved attacks on 7 rounds in the single-key setting. We focus
our efforts on extending a 2105 chosen plaintext and 299-time algorithm designed by Derbez, Fouque, and Jean [DFJ13]. Our core contribution is an algebraic Möbius bridge that exploits the invert-then-affine-transform structure of the AES S-box to eliminate one of the nine guessed key bytes required by [DFJ13]. This immediately leads to a factor-of-256 reduction in the number of key guesses required. But calculating the necessary Möbius Transform is not free, and the work required to perform the naïve calculation cancels the savings. We therefore present several improvements that reduce the time required to calculate this transform; depending on the exact methods used for accounting, we reduce the attack’s runtime to between 289.3 and 291.4, at the same data complexity. This paper presents these improvements along with the computational techniques we used to help us empirically gain confidence in the correctness of our findings, something that was particularly important because these improvements were discovered autonomously via a large language model fully end to end. We conclude by remarking on the future of LLM-assisted research in cryptography and computer security more generally.

We really shouldn't encourage that type of behaviour. That's how you get more of it.

No, it's "Don't use underscores in your username at all".

You don't need to worry about them. It's sleeping colorless green ideas that you need to worry about.

Just before take-off isn't a bad time from the perspective of temporal relevance. Just before landing might be better, but take-off is the second riskiest part of the flight.

There are passenger training courses but they're fairly expensive, aimed at people who fly a lot for business.

But ten yards does, so it's a 50/50 guess as to whether the error is in the original unit or the conversion. At least it's only half an order of magnitude out...

I doubt these purported robotaxis are capable of dealing with I-4 in the daily 3PM toad strangler.

purchase of four Tahoes where over three point eight million dollars went to the interception equipment

Almost a million dollars per MITM tower? That seems a bit steep, doesn't it?

Everyone whose water supply is contaminated by heavy metals leaching into the groundwater, or whose air is contaminated by dust from the landfill site, or whose life is impacted by vermin which find a food source there.

Consumers don't recycle: they place items in the recycling bins, with or without various preliminary steps to clean and separate said items. Some of the items may, due to lack of cleaning or separation, affect the viability of recycling others of the items. The goal of public policy should be to encourage a mindset and habits which facilitate the recycling of the items which can be viably recycled (where "viably" ideally takes into account all externalities), not to encourage thoughtless mixing of non-recyclable waste into recyclable waste.

Huggingface has disclosed a security incident in which AI driven infiltrant (17k actions over a couple days) chained vulnerabilities to move through the infrastructure.

The responded with AI-driven analysis, but Anthropic and OpenAI models refused to perform that analysis because their "safety" features didn't distinguish it as a defensive measure.

So they had to fall back to an open model (GLM 5.2).

In short, attackers have unshackled AI at their disposal and if you don't have your own open models running you are ceding that to them as purely their advantage.

Hey, people pay good money for non-radioactive materials!

One morning The RAF bombed Pforzeim. 17,600 died in the ensuing firestorm.

One evening. The USAF bombed during daylight and the RAF at night.