Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 1h"A thousand AI safety companies crying out in terror..." apnews.com/article/nvid...apnews.com 000
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ah so Dyson truly made the toothbrush for the OnlyFans age; a device that vibrates and squirts fluid on camera... 011
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Thoughts and prayers to CFD folks today... Source: r/CFD 27919
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Alt take on Navier-Stokes result: sentence solver finishes sentences started by Córdoba and Martínez-Zoro. 040
Reposted by Mark CReuters @reuters.com · 27/08/2026Focus: As AI agents go rogue, cyber insurers are adapting their policies reut.rs/4qFg9vzreut.rsFocus: As AI agents go rogue, cyber insurers are adapting their policiesCyber insurers have spent years defining what constitutes a hack and when coverage should pay out. 1149
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Hip hop in triple time? Wouldn't that make it hippity hoppity?? share.google/R64Y4bTv9Twt...share.google‘Why isn’t there hip-hop in 3/4 time?’: the groups reinventing a Polish folk dance for the modern ageThe oberek is a traditional dance beloved of state folk ensembles – but a new generation of musicians is reconfiguring its music into wild new forms, merging folk steps with electronics and the sound ... 000
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Usain Volt www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...theguardian.comChinese robot runs 100m sprint quicker than Usain Bolt’s world recordChinese smartphone maker Honor’s self-developed humanoid robot Lightning ran the 100m in 9.32 seconds, beating the human world record of 9.58sec 020
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Oh I get it, it's only corporate espionage if you _don't_ post about B2B sales on LinkedIn afterwards... www.wiz.io/blog/red-age...wiz.ioRed Agent Exploits Snowflake Vuln Missed by Github Copilot | Wiz BlogWiz Red Agent finds its way into Snowflake's internal Jira through a flaw in a GitHub Copilot–Assisted PR. 010
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Current status of Simon's dihedral coset algorithm for LWE... 0111
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026E.V. PHONE HOME... defence-blog.com/royal-navy-n...defence-blog.comRoyal Navy naval drone cameras secretly sent data to ChinaCameras mounted on Royal Navy surveillance drones bound for special forces missions in the Gulf were secretly transmitting signals to an IP address inside China, The Telegraph reported, citing an inve... 000
Reposted by Mark CQuantum Village @quantumvillage.bsky.social · 10/08/2026🥁Drumroll for our incredible Superposition Sponsors, Quside! Our first ever official quantum electronic badge sponsors for Quantum Village @ DEF CON 34! With their support we were able to inspire over 30,000+ hackers and cybersecurity experts at the LVCC #DiffusionUnphased #QRNG #quside #defcon34 141
Reposted by Mark CQuantum Village @quantumvillage.bsky.social · 07/08/2026What would you ask a Nobel Laureate in Physics about quantum computing if you had the chance? Well, at Quantum Village @ DEF CON 34 this year, THAT CHANCE IS YOURS! We have the inimitable John Martinis, CTO of Qolab and Nobel Prizewinner in Physics 2025, coming to do the honours! 143
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Got a question about quantum computing for a Nobel Laureate? Be there, @quantumvillage.bsky.social at @defcon.bsky.social - 1130, Saturday! 033
Reposted by Mark CQuantum Village @quantumvillage.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Here’s a google form to put your burning questions into: forms.gle/2rqM3cpUJdcQ... See you there!forms.gleQ&A w/ John Martinis, Nobel Prize Winner 2025Quantum Village is very proud to bring you a stellar session with Prof. John Martinis, CTO of Qolab and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025. Where: Quantum Village @ DEF CON 34 When: Sat, 1130... 011
Reposted by Mark CQuantum Village @quantumvillage.bsky.social · 07/08/2026give a talk on quantum computing and security at the village, Hall 2, 1130 on Saturday, but this will be followed by an extended Q&A session and we’d love to get your questions to put to the Prof! Where: Quantum Village, Hall 2, LVCC When: Talk @ 1130, Q&A @ 1200+ 121
Reposted by Mark CDulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Microsoft is too busy with delivering a useful topological quantum computer by 2029 to worry whether their Majorana qubits actually work. "This notion of having peer reviews and publications doesn't work in this fast-moving world right now. This paper thing is kind of boring now." archive.ph/xGlb7 1252
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026We're quite excited to have Prof. Martinis coming this Sat at DEF CON... Be there, and get your questions in! 011
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026In the spirit of writing more notes now that I'm attending more public meetings on subjects such as this, here's a nifty note about converting hidden shifts into hidden subgroup problems for quantum cryptanalysis: presheaf.blogspot.com/2026/07/note...presheaf.blogspot.comNote on Hidden Shifts as Hidden SubgroupsOn of the key insights I acquired in the talks at QCPQA this last week was that a hidden shift over some finite abelian $A$ (usually $\mat... 000
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Answer in response to "why do quantum computing companies keep releasing simulators?" 031
Reposted by Mark Cfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 14/07/2026For eighteen months I thought my neighbour was called Teddy. His name was Simon. Teddy was his dog. 222162
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Ever had a PDF staring at you but no download button and don't want a frustrating dig through network requests to yank the file? Here's the slightly timesaving Chrome extensions I needed: github.com/unprovable/P...github.comGitHub - unprovable/PDFRecover: Chrome Extention to Recover streamed PDFs from web tabsChrome Extention to Recover streamed PDFs from web tabs - unprovable/PDFRecover 030
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Can those higher up the supply chain take our security a bit more seriously, please? KTHXBAI 000
Reposted by Mark CAmy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 18/06/2026~25 years ago I crashed on a friend's couch before an interview. his dad, a former pastor, asked me what I was interviewing for, so I said, "Unix Administrator". he got a confused look for a moment, then started laughing, then asked me how I found enough eunuchs to need an administrator 😆 514515
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Tired: Facebook grief support group Wired: MournHub 041
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Teenagers doing online check bypasses and distributing them to each other? "County Lines: Cyber" wasn't a dystopia I was expecting just yet. 010
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026This is wild... Malware has LLM prompts to trip safety mechanisms in LLMs to evade detection. 👨🍳💋👌 socket.dev/blog/mini-sh...socket.devMini Shai-Hulud, Miasma, and Hades Worms Target Bioinformati...Newer packages in this compromise use native extensions and .pth loaders to execute JavaScript stealers in developer environments. 010
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Watching people in a safe university bubble talk about technologies in the 'real world'... 010
Reposted by Mark CQuantum Village @quantumvillage.bsky.social · 04/06/2026We're looking for passionate volunteers to make QV an unforgettable and valuable experience to over 30k hackers and technologists. 👉 Sign up here: forms.gle/eAi5jBQoYmAC... 📍August 7th-9th at LVCC, Las Vegas, USAforms.gleCall for Volunteers/Scientists/CreatorsThis year's theme is: Agency Dates: August 7th-9th Location: Las Vegas Convention Centre, Las Vegas, NV, USA Quantum Village is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and is primarily volunteer driven, in order to ... 111
Reposted by Mark CQuantum Village @quantumvillage.bsky.social · 04/06/2026🔬⚛️ Calling all quantum experts and n00bs alike! Quantum Village is returning to DEF CON 34 for its fifth year and we need YOU. Link 🔗⤵️ 111
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I'd love to see the survivorship stats on this... How many one shot maths conjecture runs came up with utter tosh vs. this one big win? 120
Reposted by Mark CAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The "Life in Britain" citizenship test is a glorified pub quiz designed around English, not British, history. 8822
Reposted by Mark CMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026i cannot. I CANNOT.nytimes.comBook on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. 611975332
Reposted by Mark CZack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 15/05/2026I wrote back in November about how easy it was to find leaked passport photos and driver's licenses online. The spills have only gotten worse in the months that age verification laws rolled out. We're reaching a point (if not already) where our government IDs aren't worth shit in the digital world.this.weekinsecurity.comIt's far too easy to find leaked passports and driver's licenses onlinePassports and driver's licenses are easy to find online, thanks to a dizzying array of websites and apps that require a copy but aren't keeping the data safe. 16642
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 07/05/2026This was quite fun. Fun fact - the substitutions for x*y, -x, and x^{-1} are minimal (by exhaustive search). Enjoy! 010
Reposted by Mark CJordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I should be working, and yet... 8556441400
Reposted by Mark Crand0h @akacki.net · 07/05/2026I’m not over on the other platform anymore but this deserves sharing. Veneer finally starting to crack at some of these places. 103911
Reposted by Mark CThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Wrote entire books about how people who believe fairies live in gardens are idiots only to fall in love with a calculator that calls him smart 333130617
Reposted by Mark CThe Onion @theonion.com · 02/05/2026JD Vance Still Waiting For Secret Service To Retrieve Him From Secure Hiding Area theonion.comJD Vance Still Waiting For Secret Service To Retrieve Him From Secure Hiding Area 392678297
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Tired; use poetry to hack your AI... Wired; bad bard. www.forbes.com/sites/lancee...forbes.comHow Poetry Is Diabolically Being Used In Everyday Prompts To Get AI To Do Things It Isn’t Supposed To DoHackers and evildoers are using adversarial poetry to jailbreak AI. The trick involves writing poems as prompts. AI safeguards can be averted. An AI Insider scoop. 010
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026This just in - your adversary is PQC!! arstechnica.com/security/202...arstechnica.comIn a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safeTechnically speaking, there's no practical benefit to use PQC. So why is it being used? 130
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Joooooooooookes blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/w...blog.trailofbits.comWe beat Google’s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysisTrail of Bits discovered and exploited memory safety and logic vulnerabilities in Google’s Rust zero-knowledge proof code to forge a proof claiming better quantum circuit performance metrics than Goog... 011
Reposted by Mark CQuantum Village @quantumvillage.bsky.social · 18/04/2026#Quantum + #AI starts here!! We added an MCP server to make the world's first AI native Agent Ready QRNG! Take a look: github.com/QuantumVilla... This endpoint exposes the QRNG status, the health of the generated bits, and if course gives access to the whitened entropy!github.comEntropyLoop/mcp at main · QuantumVillage/EntropyLoopA Fully Open Source, Low Cost Phase-Diffusion Quantum Random Number Generator Using Off the Shelf Parts, Brought to you by Quantum Village - QuantumVillage/EntropyLoop 031
Reposted by Mark CMark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Update; this is now the first AI Agent native QRNG! MCP server ready to go. 🦞🔗⤵️ 174
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Update; this is now the first AI Agent native QRNG! MCP server ready to go. 🦞🔗⤵️ 174
Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Opening a lecture on Intro to Graph Theory: "Euler was the first to connect the dots..." 041