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.

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...

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.

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.

I got a phishing message in the last week from a WhatsApp business account claiming to be the hotel company that I'm going to be staying with in a couple of days. They wanted me to do some kind of confirmation process and warned that if I didn't do it within 24 hours I might lose the reservation. There were a couple of things that were odd, but it's not the first time that a hotel company has made me jump through hoops to do a pre-check-in. It was only when I saw that the link they sent me (which I opened in a private browsing session, of course) was to a page which had a booking.com header but wasn't a booking.com URL that I got suspicious, and they had a UI for card details with no clear explanation of what they wanted them for. At that point I opened the actual booking.com and sent a message to the hotel to double-check, and after sending that message I remembered reading a few months ago that booking.com had a data leak, but I bet the phishers who wrote to me have had some successes.

I think it's three separate purchases of gold and one handover to the scammer.

5) Everyone decided 'derp tariffs bad' so (2) will be filled by China, and poorer client states

I think you missed the recent news stories about the EU removing the de minimis customs duty exemption, which was decided in November and comes into force on the 1st of July.

The Spanish Wikipedia article does say that some comms took three days to restore, because after the power came back the configurations of some devices, I presume routers, had been lost. Specifically it cites newspaper articles about remote assistance buttons, but the journalists either didn't understand the technical details or didn't want to explain in detail. So the misunderstanding is probably that it took a few days for everything to get back to normal, even though the actual blackout lasted 18 hours or less. (It was about 10 hours for me, but I'm in a major city).