Researcher brutecat finds a vulnerability that revealed the phone number linked to any Google account via brute forcing phone numbers; Google fixed the issue (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/a-researcher-figur
I’ve been scanning through NUGET, and consulting firms have figured out they can get quality backlinks by publishing some bespoke “dev kit” that no one will use.
It’s exacerbated by the package sprawl and “separation of concerns” style solutions that plague .NET, so their DevKit sprawls over 100 packages.
Keep pushing new versions every few minutes to keep those “recently updated” pages showing your corporate logos.
My favourite way to trick myself into thinking that I'm doing work is to ask questions related to my task in Slack channels.
In my defense - there is currently very limited brain space because a certain funder decided to drop a figurative bomb on our institute and everything revolves around this now...
FedRAG: A Framework for Fine-Tuning Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
Val Andrei Fajardo, David B. Emerson, Amandeep Singh, Veronica Chatrath, Marcelo Lotif, Ravi Theja, Alex Cheung, Izuki Matsubi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09200
A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account https://www.404media.co/a-researcher-figured-out-how-to-reveal-any-phone-number-linked-to-a-google-account/
Years ago, I moved to a place where I didn't speak the language. My initial strategy for dealing with interactions I didn't understand was to simply say "no." I figured this was safe - at least I wouldn't agree to something I didn't want. One day, as I was leaving my apartment with a friend, the guy across the hall asked me a question. "No," I said. He looked like I'd spit in his face then retreated to his apartment. My friend, dumbfounded, asked "…
Efficient Uncertainty Propagation with Guarantees in Wasserstein Distance
Eduardo Figueiredo, Steven Adams, Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, Luca Laurenti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08689
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Fazerdaze:
🎵 Dancing Years
#Fazerdaze
https://fazerdaze.bandcamp.com/track/dancing-years
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SodlvQvYlTyvvJCYnskkr
The Dixmier problem for skew PBW extensions and rings
William Fajardo, Oswaldo Lezama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09285 https://arxiv.…
I figured out how to use a Windows Server 2022 machine as an endpoint for time machine backups. :)
(Don't worry. I'll document this at some point.)