Thread: Differentiable Self-organizing Systems

Thread: Differentiable Self-organizing Systems How can we construct robust, general-purpose self-organising systems? Self-organisation is omnipresent on all scales of biological life. From complex interactions between molecules forming structures such as proteins, to cell colonies achieving global goals like exploration by means of the individual cells collaborating and communicating, to humans forming collectives in society such […]

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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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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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