The result, up front Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer is the most accurate on-device speech engine we tested. It beat every Whisper model we ship, including Whisper Small, on both the clean and the noisy half of LibriSpeech,...
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is reportedly ending its deal with Flock Safety, a surveillance company that helps law enforcement track vehicles using thousands of its license plate cameras placed across the...
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of...
I harass the sea with my tiny boat and am called a pirate, you do it with a great fleet and are called a king. Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering. They need you to believe they can do that...
✑ 2026-07-12 penmanship The crime The redemption I love writing in cursive, shaping each word in one long stroke. If you grew up learning the Latin alphabet, you likely don’t realize how much joy it sucks out of cursive...
I’m an intergalactic space warrior and leader of the Recyclons from planet Sigma IX. I came to Earth in 2017 and stood against Prime Minister Theresa May (as ‘Lord Buckethead’), going went viral (in a non-Covid way)...
SIGGRAPH 2026 Abstract For decades, procedural worlds have been built on procedural noise functions such as Perlin noise, which are fast and infinite, yet fundamentally limited in realism and large-scale coherence...
I’m currently on a quest to find at least one Remote Code Execution vulnerability per router vendor. This is the story of how I found an unauthenticated RCE in Motorola’s MR2600 router. The first problem I had to solve...
Introduction In our last blog post, we delved into the inner workings of Lucee and took a look at the source code of Masa/Mura CMS, and the vastness of the potential attack surface struck us. It became evident that...
Low Quality Image Placeholders (LQIPs) are very small (both in terms of file size and pixel dimensions) images that load very quickly, providing immediate visual feedback while full-resolution images load slowly in the...
dailyprog (the daily coding puzzle site, previously ) started with JavaScript. Then Python, then C. Each new language was a different kind of project. Python needed Pyodide. C needed a PicoC WASM binary and a custom...
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If you like this blog post, do subscribe to my RSS feed First Published: 05/07/26 Dr. Eve:..... Every Main Street is an aurora. Woman: Wait, you don't mean neon signs? Dr. Eve: Exactly. Woman: Oh, you're joking! Dr...
Hi everyone! I've spent the last 2 years building out Jiki, starting with an idea, running a bootcamp to test my thinking, and then building out a (what I hope is kickass) product with Aron and Nicole. I wanted to tell...
TrueBiz (YC S22) is an API that tells financial institutions whether a business is real, what it actually does, and whether it’s risky — in seconds. Today, this process is still manual: underwriters spend 20–30 minutes...
I am perhaps susceptible to nerd-sniping and it often leads me down interesting rabbit holes. Today was one of those days. I bumped into a fun article about some obfuscated bash code on a T-shirt for sale: The...
Note: This bug was disclosed to apple and someone had beat me to it. However, You might find the way I exploited it insightful. Exploit is VM only, due to SPTM/TXM locking page tables on physical Apple Silicon. PoC:
Research IonStack part II: GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a Linux kernel vulnerability found by VEGA that exists in every major distribution...
"If we improve the code and we can all benefit from it, it's good for everyone," says Fenris's Ben Hunter, as he addresses security concerns, LLM coding, and help from Godot Image credit: Fenris Creations In 2024,...
TL;DR: Noma Labs discovered a critical prompt injection vulnerability within GitHub’s new Agentic Workflows, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to silently pull data from private repositories by posting a crafted...
This is the technical companion to our update on Distilled, “Keeping the web open and private in the bot era.” Here we take a deeper look at the problem space, the design we’re proposing, and the problems still left to...
The 90's was a decade of considerable improvement in the world of video-game consoles [1]. Each new model brought advanced processing power and better graphics without compromise. The mid-90s emergence of CD-ROM drives...