Something about this concept—two sets of synonyms (PUB and BAR, QUIZ and EXAM), which when paired together, form phrases that themselves are not synonyms (PUB QUIZ and BAR EXAM)—captured the minds of Crosscord.
If you’re a creative person, square theory is a useful framework to keep in mind. If you’re coming up with a title for a paper or a brand name, try to see if you can think of one that completes the square. If you’re writing puns for a popsicle stick or a Laffy Taffy wrapper, you can use squares to model your setups and punchlines. If you’re constructing a crossword, consider whether your theme or your question mark clues can form squares.
Proud of my colleagues in MSTIC and the amazing work they do every day.
On Thursday, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University unveiled LegoGPT, an AI model that creates physically stable Lego structures from text prompts. The new system not only designs Lego models that match text descriptions (prompts) but also ensures they can be built brick by brick in the real world, either by hand or with robotic assistance.
Oh, so that’s what AI is for…
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
For more than a decade, O’Brien kept a meticulous log of mixed metaphors and malaprops uttered in Ford meetings, from companywide gatherings to side conversations. It documents 2,229 linguistic breaches, including the exact quote, context, name of the perpetrator and color commentary.
Straightforward design suggestion that works around the complexities of syncing and portability of passkeys that’s just a mess today. Use magic links on new endpoints, passkeys on existing ones.
The Nulls of the world, it turns out, endure a lifetime of website bouncebacks, processing errors and declarations by customer-service representatives that their accounts don't exist.
I was curious to explore what China publishes about Five Eyes operations. This led me down a rabbit hole of research into TTPs that Chinese cybersecurity entities have attributed to the NSA – or, as they coin “APT-C-40”.
"Querying a Section 702 database in connection with a US person generally requires a warrant, even where the initial interception was lawfully conducted," DeArcy Hall ruled, partly because US persons maintain "a legitimate expectation of privacy."
"The government cannot circumvent application of the warrant requirement simply because queried information is already collected and held by the government."
Volexity believes this represents a new class of attack that has not previously been described, in which a threat actor compromises one organization and performs credential-stuffing attacks in order to compromise other organizations in close physical proximity via their Wi-Fi networks.