Over 70 Malicious npm and VS Code Packages Found Stealing Data and Crypto

As many as 60 malicious npm packages have been discovered in the package registry with malicious functionality to harvest hostnames, IP addresses, DNS servers, and user directories to a Discord-controlled endpoint. The packages, published under three different accounts, come with an install‑time script that’s triggered during npm install, Socket security researcher Kirill Boychenko said in […]

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Talk Your Book: Investing in Goldminers

Advertisement Build Your RIA Your Way with Betterment Advisor Solutions Betterment Advisor Solutions is the all-in-one custodial platform purpose-built for independent RIAs. Get the technology and support to serve more clients, more efficiently, across investing, retirement, and cash. Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by VanEck: See here for more information on VanEck’s […]

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AI Thoughts in 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term describing the overall goal of creating machines that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. The term was first coined in 1955 by John McCarthy, a Dartmouth College computer scientist. Today, our everyday lives are drenched in AI, from large language models like ChatGPT to visual recognition […]

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Bypassing MTE with CVE-2025-0072 – The GitHub Blog

Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) is an advanced memory safety feature that is intended to make memory corruption vulnerabilities almost impossible to exploit. But no mitigation is ever completely airtight—especially in kernel code that manipulates memory at a low level. Last year, I wrote about CVE-2023-6241, a vulnerability in ARM’s Mali GPU driver, which enabled an […]

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Self-classifying MNIST Digits

Contents This article is part of the Differentiable Self-organizing Systems Thread, an experimental format collecting invited short articles delving into differentiable self-organizing systems, interspersed with critical commentary from several experts in adjacent fields. Growing Neural Cellular Automata Self-Organising Textures Growing Neural Cellular Automata demonstrated how simple cellular automata (CAs) can learn to self-organise into complex […]

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