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from my link log —
Compiler options hardening guide for C and C .
https://best.openssf.org/Compiler-Hardening-Guides/Compiler-Options-Hardening-Guide-for-C-and-C .html
saved 2025-11-15

New examples of words for which the binomial complexities and the subword complexity coincide
L\'eo Vivion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11172 https://arx…

New examples of words for which the binomial complexities and the subword complexity coincide
The complexity of an infinite word can be measured in several ways, the two most common measures being the subword complexity and the abelian complexity. In 2015, Rigo and Salimov introduced a family of intermediate complexities indexed by $k\in\mathbb{N}_{>0}$: the $k$-binomial complexities. These complexities scale up from the abelian complexity, with which the $1$-binomial complexity coincides, to the subword complexity, to which they converge pointwise as $k$ tends to $\infty$. In this arti…

Your Compiler is Backdooring Your Model: Understanding and Exploiting Compilation Inconsistency Vulnerabilities in Deep Learning Compilers
Simin Chen, Jinjun Peng, Yixin He, Junfeng Yang, Baishakhi Ray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11173

Your Compiler is Backdooring Your Model: Understanding and Exploiting Compilation Inconsistency Vulnerabilities in Deep Learning Compilers
Deep learning (DL) compilers are core infrastructure in modern DL systems, offering flexibility and scalability beyond vendor-specific libraries. This work uncovers a fundamental vulnerability in their design: can an official, unmodified compiler alter a model's semantics during compilation and introduce hidden backdoors? We study both adversarial and natural settings. In the adversarial case, we craft benign models where triggers have no effect pre-compilation but become effective backdoors af…

President Trump files a 40-page amended $15B defamation complaint against the NYT and others, after a judge initially dismissed it on Sept. 19 due to its length (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/trump-new-york-times-defam…

Seon, which uses AI to detect and prevent fraud, raised an $80M Series C led by Sixth Street Growth, bringing its total funding to $187M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/16/fraud-prevention-firm-seon-r…

Fraud prevention firm SEON raises $80M to scale AI-driven compliance platform - SiliconANGLE
Fraud prevention firm SEON raises $80M to scale AI-driven compliance platform - SiliconANGLE

CRTC consults to help Canadians resolve Internet, cellphone and television service complaints faster - Canada.ca
https://www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-teleco…

Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of sensory inference (in mice) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02055-5 "neurons that encode sensory inference are specialized for receiving and locally broadcasting top-down information"

Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of sensory inference - Nature Neuroscience
Neurons that respond emergently to illusory contours drive pattern completion in V1. Pattern completion in lower cortical areas may therefore mediate perceptual inference by selectively reinforcing activity patterns that match prior expectations.

from my link log —
Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler concurrency bugs.
https://johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2024/06/28/mix-testing-revealing-a-new-class-of-compiler-bugs/
saved 2024-06-29

Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler bugs
I’m delighted that Luke Geeson’s work on “mix testing” (a collaboration with James Brotherston, Wilco Dijkstra, Alastair Donaldson, Lee Smith, Tyler Sorensen, and myself) will app…

An interview with Lynsey Addario, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, on conflict reporting, sexism in the field, and balancing motherhood and work (Megan Cattel/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/lynsey-addario-chai-vasarhel…

Lynsey Addario in ‘Love+War’: A War Photographer’s Life on the Front Lines and at Home - Nieman Reports
A new documentary captures Lynsey Addario’s work as a photojournalist balancing conflict reporting and motherhood.

from my link log —
NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini (and making the kernel power failure proof).
http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2019/06/and-now-for-something-completely.html
saved 2019-06-30

And now for something completely different: NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini (and making the kernel power failure proof)
(First, as a public service message, if you're running Linux on a G5 you may wish to update the kernel .) I'm a big fan of NetBSD . I've ru...