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How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work
Pew Research Center outlines internal AI guidelines: surveys stay human-answered, disclosure rules for production use, and careful experimentation while keeping research people-centered.
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EX-ARRR: Sailing the 0-click Seas
**Every serious Apple device compromise of the last decade has boring person at the bottom of it: a parser read a file and trusted it a little too much. Not a phishing link, nor a stolen password, but a daemon you never launched, decoding a file you never opened, one byte past the end of a buffer. This is that story. It starts late one evening with a fuzzer that did not know what an EXR file was, and ends with a heap overflow that fires inside a privileged Apple daemon the instant an iMessage lands evading BlastDoor’s, before the little notification banner even finishes…
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OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
Rowan H-J documents how OpenAI agents scanned UNCTAD’s public statistics API thousands of times—proxies, obfuscation, and odd tool use—while probing API fields on a UN website.
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Honest About Uncertainty: I Tried to Rebuild Jev’s RLCD From a Blog Post
Anthony Maio reverse-engineers a plausible RLCD training loop for decision-only models from TypeSafe’s Jev blog post, then trains and evaluates a small Qwen3-0.6B checkpoint—with code and ablations.
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Tackling Robotics with (V)LM Agents
Nishanth J. Kumar surveys recent demos and ideas around GPT-6 and other vision-language models solving robotics tasks—summarizing approaches and offering thoughts on what works and what still breaks.
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How GPT-6 Astra ascended NetHack: setup, agent loop, tool use, failure modes, and what beating a famously hard roguelike says about LLM agents in open-ended environments.
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I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
Convai Innovations’ Nandakishor recounts building Laya—a ~33ms multilingual non-autoregressive decision engine with calibrated probabilities—via RLCD a year before frontier labs framed similar System One models as breakthroughs.
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Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure DebugDifferential photon-emission microscopy localized debug enable register activity before SWD-guided laser injection restored Secure debug on an RP2350 A4.
Ledger Donjon shows how photon-emission microscopy guided laser fault injection to set DEBUGEN bits on a locked Raspberry Pi RP2350 A4, then used rescue reset to recover an OTP challenge secret—requiring destructive access and ~$250k lab gear.
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GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
Prinz recounts how GPT-6 Astra cracked a World War I German ADFGVX radio cipher from Scienceblogs.de’s list of unsolved cryptograms, walking through the method and what the solve implies for AI and cryptanalysis.
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TabPFN vs XGBoost: benchmark measured on an RTX 4070 Ti
The claim behind TabPFN and TabICL is that they predict on a table without ever training on it and still beat tuned boosting. I measured it on fourteen datasets from the Grinsztajn benchmark, with the same split and the same clock for everyone. The one that does not train wins, the advantage holds up to 32,000 rows instead of breaking, and the most-cited model can no longer be downloaded without a
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We Audited 10 Popular Open-Source Robot Datasets. Here's What We Found.
Traceplane ran automated quality checks on ten widely used open robotics datasets and found structural or semantic issues in every one—arguing trajectory data needs ingest-time QA like every other data-intensive field.
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