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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Crypto entrepreneur arrested for kidnapping and torturing his ex-business partner with chainsaw and cocaine

Key Takeaways A Kentucky crypto investor was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist to extract crypto passwords. Two suspects face multiple charges including first-degree kidnapping and assault due to the alleged crime in a Manhattan apartment. Share this article A Kentucky crypto entrepreneur has been arrested and faces severe charges after allegedly […]

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Former IMF chief economist believes crypto is a rising threat to the U.S. Dollar’s dominance

American economist Kenneth Rogoff believes that the rise of crypto poses a threat to the hegemony of the U.S. dollar. Rogoff previously served as the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and on the Federal Reserve Board. He is a published author and an economics professor at Harvard University. In an interview with […]

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Talk Your Book: The Nasdaq 100 of Crypto

Posted May 24, 2025 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Hashdex: See here for more information on Hashdex’s market-cap-weighted index products On today’s show, we discuss: Hashdex’s background Crypto use cases in 2025 Demand-driven flows into crypto Thinking about crypto passively The current price action between ETH and BTC […]

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Stuff I learned at Carta.

Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years. I’ve learned so much working there, and I wanted to end my chapter there by collecting my thoughts on what I learned. (I am heading somewhere, and will share news in a week or […]

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