@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2026-07-17 16:39:28
Preparem-se para novas crises financeiras parecidas com a do subprime, que estes idiotas não aprenderam rigorosamente nada.
https://expresso.pt/economia/sistema-bancario/2026-07-17-maria-luis-albuquerque-prep…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-01 16:51:00
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-10 19:32:43
Trump Has a Bogus Excuse for Why He Won’t Just Give Out $5,000 Now
-- And that’s why he has to bribe people ahead of the midterms.
Donald Trump is blaming Democrats for why he’ll never give those $5,000 handouts.
Speaking to Fox News’s Laura Ingraham Thursday, Trump offered a baffling excuse for why he couldn’t distribute the $5,000 dividends he’d promised the night before.
“Why not just give the money now? If you have the money, why not give it now?” Ingraham asked.…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-08-31 01:10:11
lmao the reporter asked, "how do you DEFEND something like this?", and the guy went on to explain the sniper posts on top or whatever. But I initially thought the reporter meant how does he MORALLY DEFEND building something like this for the shittiest humans on earth?
https://bsky.ap…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-30 06:04:07
The convicted fraudster George Cottrell transferred a total of more than $2m to his mother, Fiona Cottrell,
in the days before her 2024 donations to Reform UK, the Guardian understands.
Financial industry sources told the Guardian that Fiona received one deposit of $1.4m and two tranches of more than $300,000 each
– money she attributed to having come from her son, George, when bankers asked about the deposits.
On each occasion, the Guardian understands transfers were…
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-07-23 03:02:31
This never gets old
(Stolen on Reddit)
#TheOffice
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-03 22:56:27
This November, California voters will weigh what could become America’s first-ever tax on net worth.
The Billionaire Tax Act,
a ballot initiative put forth by health workers after Donald Trump blew holes in the state Medicaid budget,
would impose a one-time tax of 5 percent on personal wealth exceeding $1 billion.
With polls indicating majority support,
tech oligarchs have threatened an exodus
and crafted competing measures,
bankrolling them to the…
@hacksilon@infosec.exchange2026-07-30 07:02:36
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/117000612920568052
I'm not a big fan of takes like "the research by Anthropic is just marketing because they only attacked a reduced round AES implementation." (Quoted toot is just one example, I've seen it in several other places).
Attacking reduced round implementations is standard fare in cryptographic research, and valuable on its own, as it can teach us things about which approaches might be valuable in attacking AES with more rounds. Saying "this result doesn't matter / is just marketing because it doesn't break full-round AES" also says that 20 years of academic research into reduced round AES does not matter, which is obviously bonkers.
I am not saying that the Anthropic results are groundbreaking (Matthew Green has a much more detailed take and a lot more background in this than I have). But I *am* saying that I dislike the pracice of dismissing any research done by AI labs just because it was done by an AI lab. The other attack actually led to an algorithm being removed from consideration in the PQ crypto competition, and even though some people say "well, it's just applying a known weakness", this apparently wasn't enough to disqualify it until now.
Or, to quote Matthew Greens article:
> If you’re under the impression that these models are “glorified autocomplete” or that progress is slowing down, I need to urge you: stop thinking that. The models are very intelligent and capable, they are getting better at a fast clip. I can cite measurable and impressive progress over just the past five months on specific types of problem I’ve asked them to look at. If there’s a ceiling out there, I don’t yet see evidence of it. The people who think models are dumb are mostly using Google’s free AI search results, and not interacting with the high-end stuff (which only costs $20, so it’s not out of reach.) And they’re mostly not working in new areas.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/