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Faster practical modular inversion.
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/faster-practical-modular-inversion/
saved 2025-12-21

Faster practical modular inversion
Last year, Lemire wrote about an optimized variation of the Euclidean algorithm for computing the greatest common divisor of two numbers, called binary Euclidean algorithm or Stein’s algorithm. It’s a best-of-class implementation, though it’s currently only used by libc++. The post also briefly mentions the extended Euclidean algorithm, a related algorithm most often used to compute the modular multiplicative inverse (given a remainder a and a modulus m , find x such that a ⋅ x mod m = …

CrowdStrike catches insider feeding information to hackers
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crowdstrike-catches-insider-feeding-information-to-hackers/

CrowdStrike catches insider feeding information to hackers
American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has confirmed that an insider shared screenshots taken on internal systems with unnamed threat actors.

Payments using facial recognition are growing in South Korea as the tech improves; South Korean fintech app Toss has scaled its "Facepay" service to 1M users (Nami Matsuura/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Facial recognition payments grow in South Korea as tech improves
AI and 3D photography help increase accuracy, spot fakes

"Library Futures: Information Literacy in the Age of GenAi: my slides, notes, and an addendum"
https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/12/22/library-futures-information-literacy-in-the-age-of-genai…

The EU Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize, its top human rights award, to two imprisoned journalists: Belarus' Andrzej Poczobut and Georgia's Mzia Amaglobeli (Ferdinand Knapp/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/sakharov-p

Imprisoned journalists in Belarus and Georgia win top EU human rights award
Andrzej Poczobut and Mzia Amaglobeli named as Sakharov Prize winners.

Imperialismus. Eine politische Einordnung der neuen „nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie“ der USA. Von Francis Wurtz.
#USA

Imperialismus - Europa Blog
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OpenAI / ChatGPT is shit at UI #accessibility:
• https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/08/15/ai-effluential/
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The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/doge-employees-social-security-inform…

DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says
It's a stunning admission from the Trump administration, after it battled in court over DOGE's rights to access and use Social Security data .

New Books Network: "Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Using Perspective Transformation to Break Information Bubbles" https://newbooksnetwork.com/information-literacy-and-critical-thinking

At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure Amin Vahdat said Google must double AI compute capacity every six months to meet demand (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/google-says-it-must-dou…

Google must double AI compute every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees
At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure said the company has to race to build out compute capacity.