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This story is cute: A malicious "Solidity" (that's the smart contract language Ethereum and other blockchains use) extension for Cursor, the Vibe-Coding Editor included code that steals your tokens/coins.
I find it funny for two reasons:
- Blockchainers love talking about how you need to verify things you interact with but someone wasn't checking if they have the right extension
- Programming smart contracts is hard because it's a massively hostile envir…

Code highlighting with Cursor AI for $500,000
Kaspersky GReAT experts uncover malicious extensions for Cursor AI that download the Quasar backdoor and a crypto stealer.

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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge:
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth—the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “information”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently wrong. Bot…

Holy Crap. Today's ride home was insane. My chain came off, had to pull over to fix it, simple, no issue. But then as I had to wait at a stoplight this pickup truck took off when the light turned green and these two bins slide right out the back onto the road! As the bins hit a box of nails explodes and these little nails with orange discs fly everywhere. (Stock photo included because it was such chaos I did not get a photo.)
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accidental-turned-intentional selfie as hands-among-flowers
#photography #selfie #selfPortrait

StyleAdaptedLM: Enhancing Instruction Following Models with Efficient Stylistic Transfer
Pritika Ramu, Apoorv Saxena, Meghanath M Y, Varsha Sankar, Debraj Basu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18294

StyleAdaptedLM: Enhancing Instruction Following Models with Efficient Stylistic Transfer
Adapting LLMs to specific stylistic characteristics, like brand voice or authorial tones, is crucial for enterprise communication but challenging to achieve from corpora which lacks instruction-response formatting without compromising instruction adherence. We introduce StyleAdaptedLM, a framework that efficiently transfers stylistic traits to instruction-following models using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). LoRA adapters are first trained on a base model with diverse unstructured stylistic corpor…

Many phases in a hairy box in three dimensions
Shoichiro Miyashita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20528 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20528

Many phases in a hairy box in three dimensions
In this paper, I investigate gravitational thermodynamics of the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar system in three dimensions without a cosmological constant. In the previous work by Krishnan,Shekhar, and Bala Subramanian (Nucl. Phys. B 958 (2020) 115115 [33]), it was argued that this system has no BH saddles, but has only empty (flat space) saddles and boson star saddles. It was then concluded that the structure of the thermodynamic phase space is much simpler than in the higher dimensional cases. I wil…

PianoBind: A Multimodal Joint Embedding Model for Pop-piano Music
Hayeon Bang, Eunjin Choi, Seungheon Doh, Juhan Nam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04215 https://

PianoBind: A Multimodal Joint Embedding Model for Pop-piano Music
Solo piano music, despite being a single-instrument medium, possesses significant expressive capabilities, conveying rich semantic information across genres, moods, and styles. However, current general-purpose music representation models, predominantly trained on large-scale datasets, often struggle to captures subtle semantic distinctions within homogeneous solo piano music. Furthermore, existing piano-specific representation models are typically unimodal, failing to capture the inherently mul…

Contrasting Cognitive Styles in Vision-Language Models: Holistic Attention in Japanese Versus Analytical Focus in English
Ahmed Sabir, Azinovi\v{c} Gasper, Mengsay Loem, Rajesh Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00700

Contrasting Cognitive Styles in Vision-Language Models: Holistic Attention in Japanese Versus Analytical Focus in English
Cross-cultural research in perception and cognition has shown that individuals from different cultural backgrounds process visual information in distinct ways. East Asians, for example, tend to adopt a holistic perspective, attending to contextual relationships, whereas Westerners often employ an analytical approach, focusing on individual objects and their attributes. In this study, we investigate whether Vision-Language Models (VLMs) trained predominantly on different languages, specifically …