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Deirdre Connolly¹ ²

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 7d

I covered this in almost 3 hours of yammering last night:

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 6h

yep!

Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 7h

let's read some legal agreements

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Is ML-KEM Patent-Encumbered?

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 9h

A group of American investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has agreed to acquire NSO Group in a deal valued at "several tens of millions of dollars" (Omer Kabir/CTech)

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 9h

SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

techcrunch.com

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 11h

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10h

Quantum computing company IonQ raises $2B by selling 21.5M shares and pre-funded warrants to Heights Capital at $93 each, a 20% premium over October 9's close (David Morris/Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12h

Apple announces a "major evolution" of its Security Bounty program, doubling the top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware attacks (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Fed Governor Christopher Waller: "Job growth has probably been negative the last few months. it doesn't look like it's doing much better. I don't hear anybody with big hiring plans."

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · Apr 4

Bleh.

Anyways.

Another sketchbook comic. 4 panels

P1: title panel. FORK + FROG. beside each word, a lil fork and a lil frog

P2: The fork and frog begin to magically combine into--

P3: FORG. The frog just has the fork strapped to their back

P4: Forg stands in front of a raging fire, backlit and facing us.

In all lower case the text "burn it all down"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 22h

i do like Rabi

Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 1d

beeeeg moon tonight

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a "backdoor" vulnerability in an LLM, regardless of model size or training data volume (Anthropic)

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 1d

extremely tempted

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 1d

The `hax` engine from @cryspen.com, originally written in OCaml, is gradually being rewritten in Rust :D

Oh also they have a Lean backend now :D

Oh also also you can use Lean to specify properties on your Rust code now : D

hax.cryspen.com/blog/

Blog - hax

hax.cryspen.com

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 1d

opening my inbox is like crossing the event horizon

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 1d

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%”

Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors

Soren Larsen (SEGL) @sorenlarsen.bsky.social · 1d

Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says."

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women

The panel voted to undo an action by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which removed the vaccine from the immunization schedule for pregnant women.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 30% YoY to ~$32.5B, beating estimates, driven by AI chip demand; TSMC's Taipei-listed shares have gained 34% so far this year (Reuters)

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

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ostonox @ostonox.com · 5d

incredible that taylor's team thought no one would notice AI generated music videos from the most popular artist in america

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 2d

dramatic moonlit were-corg

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 2d

whoa