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Bitcoin is a solid technology that will someday be the solution to a difficult problem. Generative AI is a wave that might make that someday very soon.
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Man uses Astra to find a C.IA backdoor into Samsung televisions.
Gets banned by OpenAI within 24 hours.
Gets banned by OpenAI within 24 hours.
i own a relatively new (2025) samsung tv.
i kept getting weirdly targeted ads.
i tried reversing the firmware but it was aes encrypted and no keys unless tear it apart and do uart/jtag magic.
zero days it is. root shell on new samsung TVs!
discovered PRIVACY HORROR. write up?
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🎼 now these points of data
🎵 make a beautiful line
🎶 and we're out of beta
🎵we're releasing on time
🎵 make a beautiful line
🎶 and we're out of beta
🎵we're releasing on time
WOW did we really just get a Mythos-level open-weight model?? in OCTOBER?! 🤯
oh—hi there, past pliny! spot-on predictin, well struck fren! 🍻
and right on time 🎃👻
dunno how you do it!
*takes a deep breath*
everything IS going to be fine, isn’t it? thanks for the ⊰-•-•✧•-•-⦑/L\O/V\E/,\P/L\I/N\Y/⦒-•-•✧•-•-⊱
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Happy Pythagorean Theorem Day!
10/24/26
10² + 24² = 26²
This is the last one we’ll experience in our lifetime.
10/24/26
10² + 24² = 26²
This is the last one we’ll experience in our lifetime.
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Dessa is back
Even though this demo is impressive, I’ve been more impressed that Ragavan, @RayhaneMama, @AydinPolatDessa @marctyndel continue to show what a small dedicated team can do
We should raise our expectations of local models
Even though this demo is impressive, I’ve been more impressed that Ragavan, @RayhaneMama, @AydinPolatDessa @marctyndel continue to show what a small dedicated team can do
We should raise our expectations of local models
Meet Dessa, our AI model trained from scratch on nothing but speech.
We believe speech is the natural interface for technology. So we built Dessa.
And we’re inviting AI safety researchers to explore Dessa.
Learn more: block.xyz/dessa
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this week in modus-lisp:
EVERY LAST TEST
The first ANSI test ran on 9 April: 191 cases, written by hand. At 20:46 on Saturday the x86-64 build passed every test in the unmodified upstream suite — 21,681 of 21,681. How long that took depends on where you start counting: 198 days from the first test, thirty from the first run of the real suite, or five for the last thousand. This issue counts all three. The same week, a graph layout algorithm was ported to Lisp in five days, and the secret keys of nine repositories moved somewhere the garbage collector cannot copy them. #modus #lisp @lisperati
modus-lisp.github.io/issues/2026-10…
EVERY LAST TEST
The first ANSI test ran on 9 April: 191 cases, written by hand. At 20:46 on Saturday the x86-64 build passed every test in the unmodified upstream suite — 21,681 of 21,681. How long that took depends on where you start counting: 198 days from the first test, thirty from the first run of the real suite, or five for the last thousand. This issue counts all three. The same week, a graph layout algorithm was ported to Lisp in five days, and the secret keys of nine repositories moved somewhere the garbage collector cannot copy them. #modus #lisp @lisperati
modus-lisp.github.io/issues/2026-10…
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Based on this, Kimi K3.1 Pro is ~5 weeks behind the US frontier. That's the shortest the open / closed AI model gap has ever been.
Kimi K3.1 Pro launches at 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index scoring 55, making large gains in agentic performance; it will be the leading open-weights model once its weights are published
@Kimi_Moonshot's new reasoning model gains 11 points over Kimi K3 (max, ude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback, 58), Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback, 56), and Muse Wonder Full (max, 56) on the Intelligence Index.
Once the weights for K3.1 Pro are released it will be the highest-scoring open weights model and the gap between the leading open weights and proprietary models on the Intelligence Index will narrow from 12 points to 3.
Key results:
➤ Large gains in agentic performance: Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 3rd on GDPval-AA with 1,846 Elo, up 312 Elo from Kimi K3, behind only Claude Opus 5.5 (1,866 Elo) and Muse Wonder Full (1,857 Elo). Kimi K3.1 Pro also achieves the highest score of any model on Terminal-Bench 4.0. K3.1 Pro scores 67%, up from 13% for Kimi K3 and ahead of Claude Sonnet 5.5 (64%). AutomationBench-AA, which tests agentic SaaS workflows, rises from 58% to 73%.
➤ Gains in other evals are more moderate: Humanity's Last Exam rises from 47% to 52%, CritPt from 23% to 25%, and SciCode from 59% to 61%. AA-Omniscience Index rises from 20 to 30, as the hallucination rate falls from 53% to 44% and accuracy rises from 48% to 51%.
➤ Cost per Task roughly equal to Kimi K3 at $1.98 per Task: K3.1 Pro uses 55K output tokens per Intelligence Index task, 14% more than Kimi K3 at 48K, while its first-party token prices are 33% lower.
Additional model details:
➤ Context window: 1M tokens.
➤ Size: 2.8T total, 104B active parameters
➤ Input modalities: Text and image
➤ Weights and license: Weights currently not published, Moonshot is expected to release the weights soon after launch
➤ Pricing: $2/$10/$0.20 per 1M input/output/cache hit tokens, 33% lower than Kimi K3 on all three rates.
Congratulations to the team at @Kimi_Moonshot on the release!
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damn.
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
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and this is when everyone learns what "whitehat" really means
Security called me at 6:12 AM today.
"Patch every PHP server immediately."
I asked what happened.
"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."
Cool.
How many PHP servers do we have?
According to inventory: 12
According to reality:
Nobody knows.
We found one running WordPress.
Three running old internal tools.
One under someone's desk.
Two inside vendor appliances.
A forgotten employee directory from 2016.
And a server named:
PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.
Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.
I asked who owned it.
The documentation said:
BRIAN.
Brian left in 2019.
We called Brian.
He said:
"Oh wow, that's still running?"
Excellent.
By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.
CEO:
"Can hackers actually get in?"
Security:
"Potentially yes."
CEO:
"Without a password?"
Security:
"Yes."
CEO:
"Then why do WE need passwords?"
Not the lesson.
Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.
Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.
Finance asked for a cost comparison.
At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.
Marketing refused.
"Our campaign is live."
So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.
We finally patched everything we could find.
Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.
Hostname:
TEMP-PHP-2014
Uptime:
4,512 days.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody owns it.
Nobody can shut it down.
But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.
Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.
It is running PHP 5.4.
The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.
The emergency patch took four hours.
Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
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