When I announced my Black Ops 3 integrity bypass, someone commented that my research was not impressive and I should try analyzing Denuvo instead. That kinda stuck with me, so I did what everyone would do and spent the last 5 months of my free time reverse engineering and bypassing the Denuvo DRM in Hogwarts Legacy. I…
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
If you publicly host large data files on AWS S3 & pay for transfer costs, you may be vulnerable to a “Denial of Wallet” amplification…
ESET's discovery of the first UEFI bootkit designed for Linux sendss an important message: UEFI bootkits are no longer confined to Windows systems alone.
By sheer accident, UBC researchers created a new super-black material that absorbs almost all light and trademarked it as Nxylon.
Ruby’s garbage collector is designed to be adaptable, scaling from short Ruby scripts to running apps that serve millions of requests per second. While it’s designed to be adaptable, it may not work optimally for every use case. For this reason, Ruby’s garbage collector supports many parameters that can be used to…
At IBM Research, we’re inventing what’s next in AI, quantum computing, and hybrid cloud to shape the world ahead.
Learn about visual prompt injections, their appearance, and top defense strategies against these attacks.
MIT CSAIL researchers introduce FeatUp, a model-agnostic framework designed to significantly enhance the spatial resolution of deep learning features for improved performance in computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation, depth prediction, and object detection.
My name is Taras Kloba, Chief Partner Architect at Microsoft. This blog captures my journey through data engineering, certifications, and technology insights.
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Above: Many small business figured out the hard way why coupon sites generate worse users
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams - bringing our unmatched quality, privacy-focused search and AI tools to businesses worldwide. While most enterprise tools force you...
When do music stars achieve fame, and how long does fame typically last?
Using linked lists to optimize performance in a JSON schema validator.
Maintaining a resume is not the most interesting use of time. Naturally, when I needed to bring my own up to date, I decided to spend a great deal more time on it and overengineer the process.
Practical tips that allow you to build an evolving architecture
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers of the day offered?
Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into that they would have defenestrated it years ago...
There’s an enormous and largely invisible campaign to use fraudulent notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove critical articles from the internet. We don’t know who is running…
Lately I’ve been thinking about Stephan Berger’s recent blog post on hiding Linux processes with bind mounts. Bottom line here is that if you have an evil process you want to hide, use …
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
A progress update on where my Rye Project is today.
My current generative artwork-in-progress includes text, but I don’t want to use a font. In browser based art work, using a “web safe” font could produce inconsistent results, while including a font file would mean a large file size. Additionally, I don’t want a visual element of the project to be s
Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
Traditionally, mathematics research projects are conducted by a small number (typically one to five) of expert mathematicians, each of which are familiar enough with all aspects of the project that…
