The situation with Guantanamo Bay is also clearly unconstitutional. It's right there in the word "constitution": that document defines how the nation-state (or confederation, if you prefer the legal fiction that the individual states are nation-states) is made up, what it consists of. The essence of the nation-state is geographically invariant: what varies with geography is how much authority it has to impose its essence. The argument that the US constitution doesn't bind the actions of the US outside its formal borders is nonsense, and to apply that argument to a place which is undeniably de facto under US jurisdiction is enhanced nonsense.
https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2025/0...
And DARPA has a whole program for it:
History will remember my name if I EAT the Mona Lisa!
Which is what these greedy out-of-control AI fuckwits are doing in a more diffuse manner.
There's non-destructive ways to scan books, that probably are just as fast as what these negligent morons are doing. It's just plain greed above all else.
This kind of behavior tells you who these people are. And why they should be shunned. It's starting to look like good people need to take action to stop their destructive rampage.
That street is a public space, and there are myriad laws and court cases allowing that to be photographed or otherwise recorded.
New legislation supersedes old legislation and jurisprudence unless that old legislation (respectively, the legislation the old jurisprudence is based on) is more binding (e.g. the constitution). Maybe it's time to start pressuring for new legislation which explicitly recognises an expectation of a certain level of privacy even in public spaces. There are places where your business' security camera isn't allowed to see the street in front of it: I live in one, although it's not in the USA.
A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision,
Be interesting to see how many of these companies bite the dust if the bigger players with deeper pockets like Google keep access pricing down longer to drive adoption and build their market share.
Gemini's new discounted Flash pricing is still ~3x the price of GPT Luna, and that was released a week or two ago.
Everyone's hemorrhaging money here, but Google feeling they can't match or undercut isn't a great sign for them. And Gemini is flagging in intelligence too, which would be a strong reason to underprice if they could. Gemini Flash used to be your cheapest option. I'd say structural advantage still puts the odds in Google's favor in the long run, but has to be a worse situation than they ever expected to be in.
To be pedantic it's a semi-exclave.
In your haste to defend Morocco you've responded to a non-existent attack. GPP didn't say that migrants would be raped or killed in Morocco (although I suspect that your claims about the police's attitude to foreigners only really hold up for rich foreigners, not for South Sudanese with nothing but the clothes on their back and a phone because they gave everything else they had to the people smugglers). Migrants die in the Sahara, in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic every year trying to get to Europe or the Canary Islands.
Key word: "enclave". It's a small city separated from the rest of Spain by 200km (120 miles) of sea. I have a Spanish friend who thinks that Morocco is cozying up to the US with the goal of getting US support for it to invade Ceuta and Melilla: except for the Ceutans and Melillans, the main impact on Spaniards would be the propaganda it would unleash. It's not some kind of Maginot line which when breached leaves open a land route to the rest of the country. So what do you think would be a proportionate deployment of the Spanish army?
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.
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