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sciencejerkon Developers don't understand CORS (2019)

Eh, or maybe you landed on a malicious site or clicked on a malicious phishing link which opened your browser

sciencejerkon 15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test

From experience, you might end up with 2nd degree burns and burn the bugger into a hot crispy pile of ash.

sciencejerkon Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

How about a third leg? Eh?

sciencejerkon US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

Much of cyber capability is simply software (malware 0days). Latest LLMs assist with both

sciencejerkon Hetzner Price Adjustment

It's the human superpower!

sciencejerkon Hetzner Price Adjustment

Bladerunner?

sciencejerkon Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal

No ads on Nvidia shield?

sciencejerkon CrankGPT

I think it's a joke?

sciencejerkon Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

Did you?

Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner

sciencejerkon Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

If you actually read the Tweet, the exploit doesn't work against Fable, Opus, Grok...at least, in the examples.

Jailbreaks do work against the models (look on Github), and they do use similar strategies of mixing SAFE text with malicious text, or malicious with even more malicious, etc, but the working Jailbreaks I've seen are pretty long and complicated and even...creepy.

sciencejerkon What the fuck happened to nerds

Evidence?

sciencejerkon What the fuck happened to nerds

You must live in the Americas. I live here in MidWest USA and there's an anti-intellectual culture, unless you're somewhere on the coasts, or pacific northwest. Hate to generalize but that has been my experience

sciencejerkon A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air

The team’s new design significantly limits salt leakage. Within the hydrogel itself, they included an extra ingredient: glycerol, a liquid compound that naturally stabilizes salt, keeping it within the gel rather than letting it crystallize and leak out with the water. The hydrogel itself has a microstructure that lacks nanoscale pores, which further prevents salt from escaping the material. The salt levels in the water they collected were below the standard threshold for safe drinking water, and significantly below the levels produced by many other hydrogel-based designs.

So uh, how do they get the salt out of the nanostructure? This design seems amazing but it seems like many of these designs have issues with salts accumulating and clogging up parts thereby requiring some manual maintenance or replacement parts

sciencejerkon Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

Go to Github and look for model jailbreaks on NEW latest models. Try them out. You'll be surprised by the results.

You're correct that it's gotten substantially harder to social engineer frontier models (I can only reliably do it to Opus <=4.6), but there are some techniques that seem to consistently work (hint: extremely large complex prompts, context with tons of malicious files mixed into ordinary context).

sciencejerkon Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

It doesn't work...

sciencejerkon Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations

They might as well be aware. The frontier models are very good at imitating the real thing

sciencejerkon Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails

How do you think the Qwen and MiniMax models perform so similarly to Anthropic frontier models? What is your take then?

sciencejerkon New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker

I personally know 2 people that did this route and while I don't know about a $10m valuation, one is claims 900k income annually (roofing) and the other one must make 300k+. But both are in their 50's or 60's. This is midwest usa.

sciencejerkon Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

I think autonomous drone mentioned in the article used some sort of "kill all targets" mode indiscriminently much like traditional munitions.

sciencejerkon Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails

Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.8 find vulns in source code just fine and 4.6 will pentest without source for you given a proper harness WITHOUT jailbreaking. WITH jailbreaks, you can probably imagine what they are capable of.

Anthropic guardrails seem to be more about protecting their business (distillation), than they are about public safety.

sciencejerkon Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

Eh, the maps could be used for true domestic defense...but examples of foreign invasions on USA soil are scarce...

sciencejerkon Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

Maybe Niantic intentionally steered players towards remote locations only reachable on foot, understanding that this data is more scarce and therefore more valuable?

sciencejerkon Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

This is what censorship looks like. This is what should get people angry. Not localization changes, but actual government-mandated changes or bans. By censoring the internet, Iran is not protecting its citizens but rather the ruling government.

Or maybe sometimes censorship actually DOES protect its citizens?

sciencejerkon Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

Russia is already taking advantage of preloaded terrain imagery, according to the article:

The principle is already turning up on the other side of the front, where a downed Russian drone was found matching live camera feeds against preloaded terrain imagery rather than trusting a single GPS module.

https://dronexl.co/2025/06/10/russian-ai-drone-nvidia-sony-u...

sciencejerkon Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

Nowadays the other side may get access to them without us even knowing.

Yep... collecting domestic geo data is a double-edged sword.

sciencejerkon Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

This is a good point. Legacy data might be the most valueable here

sciencejerkon Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

Optimistically, it sounds like the USA data could be used to assist USA domestic defense drones, fighting against an invading foreign nation.

Pessimistically, maybe democracy's days are numbered

sciencejerkon Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

Details?

sciencejerkon Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable

Are they trying to fight back against model distillation?

sciencejerkon Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC

When/how are IPO dates released?