Generative AI is evolving rapidly. Don't underestimate AI.

5分でつくるCGキャラ。画像生成→Marigoldデプス生成→3Dで押し出し。流石にキャラは無理があるけどレリーフとか装飾くらいならAIで色々作れそう

'Options market makers' delta hedging has a growing impact on underlying stock prices... We [use] real-time options information to calculate the spot elasticity of delta and expected hedging demand.' papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

jj (jj) and me made a web viewer for the chinese street cat app

you can watch, screenshot, favorite, and share any feeder from the page on any device, even without h265 support!

took us a month to put it together but the result is worth it: meow.camera

xAI release Grok-1

release the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, our large language model. Grok-1 is a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained from scratch by xAI.

SelfOcc: Self-Supervised Vision-Based 3D Occupancy Prediction（CVPR 2024）
github.com/huang-yh/SelfO…
> SelfOcc empowers 3D autonomous driving world models (e.g., OccWorld) with scalable 3D representations, paving the way for interpretable end-to-end large driving models.

Trained

youtu.be/ha3fDU-1wHk?si…

Ukrainian soldiers documenting evidence of Russian weeb activity in a captured trench.

Excellent writeup (2022) on fault injection attacks (Trezor hardware wallet as target example)
credit VoidStar Security LLC

voidstarsec.com/blog/replicant…

#hardware #cybersecurity

'We examine non-linear return-to-characteristic relationships for five equity market factors: Value, Momentum, Small Size, Low Beta, and Profitability': 'Allowance for non-linearity leads to increases in Information Ratios' papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

An HK-based employee of a multinational firm wired out $25M after attending a video call where all employees were deepfaked, including the CFO.

He first got an email which was suspicious but then was reassured on the video call with his “coworkers.”

Japanese students can soon earn their highschool diplomas as anime avatars in the Metaverse

Excellent writeup on reverse engineering #Rust binaries
Credits Ben Herzog (Check Point Research)

research.checkpoint.com/2023/rust-bina…

#reverseengineering #rustlang

Very interesting reading on dumping original XBox bootrom (Intel’s x86 CPU JTAG)
Excellent blog post by Markus Gaasedelen ()

blog.ret2.io/2023/08/09/jta…

#xbox #reverseengineering #infosec

not even horny anymore just sad

I got JTAG on the iPhone 15! 🥳

VirtualBox exploitation on Windows (CVE-2023-21987 and CVE-2023-21991)

qriousec.github.io/post/vbox-pwn2…

#virtualbox #infosec

Thread about working with arms traffickers and manufacturers in our favorite narco state, the Netherlands 🇳🇱 I guess. I haven’t been posting updates for years but maybe someone might learn something neat so here we are (1/idk man just scroll)