Modeling CORS frameworks with CodeQL to find security vulnerabilities

There are many different types of vulnerabilities that can occur when setting up CORS for your web application, and insecure usage of CORS frameworks and logic errors in homemade CORS implementations can lead to serious security vulnerabilities that allow attackers to bypass authentication. What’s more, attackers can utilize CORS misconfigurations to escalate the severity of […]

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A new era of Stack Overflow

Every year for the last three years, we’ve shared major announcements from the mainstage of WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin at pivotal moments in our journey. In 2023, we launched OverflowAI, our flagship AI initiative for our users and enterprise customers, while last year, we revealed our vision for the Knowledge as a Service model […]

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Two Examples of Useful, Non-Robust Features

A Discussion of ‘Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features’: Two Examples of Useful, Non-Robust Features Ilyas et al. define a feature as a function fff that takes xxx from the data distribution (x,y)∼D(x,y) \sim \mathcal{D}(x,y)∼D into a real number, restricted to have mean zero and unit variance. A feature is said to be […]

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Ben ‘BitBoy’ Armstrong faces six charges for harassing phone calls, released after arrest

Key Takeaways Ben ‘BitBoy’ Armstrong has been booked on six counts of harassing phone calls in Cherokee County, Georgia. The arrest marks another legal incident for Armstrong, who was previously arrested in 2023. Share this article Ben Armstrong, the crypto influencer known as “BitBoy,” was taken into custody late last month in Cherokee County, Georgia, […]

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Ideas Without Love | Techdirt

from the elegant-nihilism dept I recently sat through this hour-long interview between New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat and Peter Thiel. It was honestly a somewhat hypnotic experience for me. And on reflection, deeply disturbing. Not because Thiel said anything overtly monstrous—quite the opposite. He was thoughtful, articulate, intellectually sophisticated. He demonstrated genuine insight into technological stagnation, political […]

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What can agents actually do?

There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior generations of companies. There are a lot of important and real opportunities at hand, but I find that many of these conversations occur at such an abstract altitude that […]

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Android Auto begins erasing Assistant as Gemini prepares for takeover

TL;DR With the newest version of Android Auto, references to “Google Assistant” are being replaced with generic terms like “Digital Assistant,” despite still referring to the existing Google Assistant settings. The changes indicate Google’s ongoing transition from Google Assistant to Gemini across supported platforms. Google has long begun phasing out Google Assistant in favor of […]

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