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fj, 15 hours ago to random

🇨🇭🕵️ Fibertapping in Switzerland

On certain international fibers, signals are intercepted & decoded into data then filtered. Irrelevant data is excluded as well as communications where both the sender and receiver are in Switzerland.
From the remaining data, it is searched against specific patterns/keywords.

They call out encryption being a challenge but fibertapping is still useful according evidence shown to the federal administrative tribunal.
https://www.parlament.ch/FR/ratsbetrieb/suche-curia-vista/geschaeft?AffairId=20241008

fj, 22 hours ago to random

Musk just spouting misinformation because he can't stand anyone defending digital commons (like Signal, Wikipedia ... ), and actually do good.

It's really laughable to make any claims like that given the despicable security of X “encrypted" DMs.

fj, 1 day ago to quantumcomputing

Interesting development to follow: Researchers from the University of Basel and the NCCR SPIN have achieved the first controllable interaction between two hole spin qubits in a conventional silicon transistor.

These qubits can be manufactured with FinFETs transistors using "classical" silicon fabrication methods, opening up the path to faster scaling than competing architectures.

https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/Experiment-opens-door-for-millions-of-qubits-on-one-chip.html

#QuantumComputing

fj, 2 days ago to random

Pretty excited about LLMs being applied for incident response.

« Gemini 1.5 Pro was able to process the entire decompiled code of the malware file for WannaCry in a single pass, taking 34 seconds to deliver its analysis and identify the killswitch »

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-threat-intelligence-actionable-threat-intelligence-at-google-scale-at-rsa

fj, 3 days ago to random

Caught up on the #MaastrichtDebate ahead of the #euelections2024.
von der Leyen and Eickhout were undeniably the best debaters. Vistisen from the ID Group as delusional as always.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lXgbp48gHI

nixCraft, 7 days ago to random

In a deliciously ironic twist, OpenAI's website forbids scraping... lol.

fj, 7 days ago to random

In the wake of the Supercharging team being dismantled and the shitshow that's causing in the US when all car markers were moving to NACS to take advantage of the network, I'm grateful for the very redundant and diverse charging ecosystem in Europe with IONITY, Fastned, Allego ...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145621/tesla-layoff-supercharger-ev-charging-nacs-elon-musk

fj, 8 days ago to random

A vote for AfD or the Rassemblement National is a vote for Putin at the European Elections this summer.

"The officer, with ties to the far-right AfD party, said he provided information to a Russian intelligence service out of fear of a nuclear escalation in Moscow's war in Ukraine.”
https://agora.echelon.pl/objects/a5d234b8-90ff-4a70-9dcd-6ae58fbf383b

fj, 9 days ago to random

It's sad to read that Germany, and probably other European states, are a pain to operate non-profits around open source software.

I hope @PrototypeFund or other organizations can help lobby to change these practices that are unnecessarily causing organizations to create a 501(c)(3) in the US. https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/112343541328038890

fj, 10 days ago to random

IBM is suing LzLabs, which helps its clients migrate away from IBM computer mainframe technology onto open source alternatives, claiming it wouldn't be able to do so without "reverse engineering mainframe technology”.
https://sifted.eu/articles/ibm-lawsuit-zurich-startup-lzlabs

bert_hubert, 11 days ago to random

Fun thing I learned today. To normal people "ethernet" sounds like some kind of wireless network. And they will tell you that the wifi isn't working after selecting ethernet in the Windows 11 installer (since they don't know ethernet needs a cable). I can't even blame them, "ethernet" does sound like some kind of radio thing ("in the ether").

plailect, 12 days ago to random

new bio 👀

Core OS @ Apple -> SEAR @ Apple

fj, 13 days ago to random

Welcome back on the side of net neutrality America! 👏

Hope it lasts and you don’t name another Ajit Pai next 🙏
https://mastodon.social/

fj, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to random French

🇪🇺🧑‍🚀 Europe has a new class astronauts

👏 Congrats to 🇫🇷 Sophie Adenot, 🇪🇸Pablo Álvarez Fernández, 🇬🇧Rosemary Coogan, 🇧🇪 Raphaël Liégeois and🇨🇭Marco Sieber

Also graduating is 🇦🇺 Katherine Bennell-Pegg, Australia's first female astronaut and trained with ESA astronauts.

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Watch_live_ESA_astronaut_class_of_2022_graduation_ceremony

#Space #AstronautsNotSpaceTourists

fj, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to random French

"Remarkably, these near-hypercubic lattices cover Falcon and most concrete instances of the NTRU cryptosystem:
this is the first provable result showing that breaking NTRU lattices can be reduced to finding shortest lattice vectors in halved dimension, thereby providing a positive response to a conjecture of Gama, Howgrave-Graham and Nguyen at Eurocrypt 2006.”

#PQC

https://ioc.exchange/@eprint/112312459697738509

fj, 18 days ago to random French

“Six months into the current military offensive, more housing and civilian infrastructure has now been destroyed in Gaza as a percentage, compared to any conflict in memory

More than 15,000 deaths, almost half of all civilian deaths so far, occurred during the first six weeks after October 7, when AI systems seem to have been largely relied upon for target selection.”

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/04/gaza-un-experts-deplore-use-purported-ai-commit-domicide-gaza-call

fj, 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago) to random

“Over promise and under deliver” was already Tesla’s motto in terms of vehicle’s range, acceleration, quality, autonomous driving, and now for their truck’s resistance …

“It's not exactly confidence-inducing to see a car that's meant to serve as a rugged off-the-grid base — and even a way to get around Mars, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk — turn into a giant "Tesla Paperweight" after a routine car wash.”
https://axbom.me/objects/358323ac-9dc9-4a60-8afc-7cdced25efe4

fj, 19 days ago to random French

⚛️ Major update on the Quantum Algorithm for LWE

Hongxun Wu & Thomas Vidick have found an issue in Step 9, related to how the quantum vector state is composed.

🔐 LWE remains quantum-secure, for now.
”The claim of showing a polynomial time quantum algorithm for solving LWE with polynomial modulus-noise ratios does not hold.”

👉 Quantum algorithms are hard to validate, unlike classical algorithms, you can't just run a proof of concept and extrapolate asymptotics.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/555

leah, 20 days ago to random German

After getting alerted tonight because #claudebot from Anthropic was scanning a host so aggressively that all 20 cores where saturated I generated a list of IPs (all/mostly AWS) they used for you to block them too.

https://gist.github.com/leahoswald/935f90ba09b3484d15ea6d20d0f2f99a

The bot is used to fuel their AI model so nobody really needs that and after some research they also seem to ignore robots.txt. By by 👋 🤷‍♀️ #MastoOps

fj, 21 days ago to random

Is this advice even actionable?
Are there any HSM vendors (not enclaves) providing inference solutions with HSM-private weights?

https://media.defense.gov/2024/Apr/15/2003439257/-1/-1/0/CSI-DEPLOYING-AI-SYSTEMS-SECURELY.PDF#page11

#AISecurity

fj, 22 days ago to random

The proliferation of AI crawlers is really making the blocklisting in robots.txt no longer practical since there is no robots.txt rule that can exclude all AI crawlers, each having a separate agent string.

On the other hand, only allowing large search engines is strengthening their dominant position.

I would prefer being able to qualify the usage rather than the agent.

Usage: “SearchEngine”
Disallow:

Usage: “TrainingData”
Disallow:/

fj, 23 days ago to random French

.@nigel_paul_smart has a great note on the proposed Quantum Attack on LWE and its implications for various constructions that rely on LWE hardness.

Parameters for Kyber, Dilithium and TFHE are not affected by this quantum attack, but BGV might.
And even then, the algorithm make it complicated to be implemented on a quantum computer.

https://nigelsmart.github.io/LWE.html

samir, 23 days ago to random

People in Switzerland: where do companies sell their old hardware?

I’d happily take a couple of old servers rather than buying a new one, but I have no idea where to look.