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LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2604.15597: LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

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Mythical Man Month

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AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

A week ago the Copy Fail vulnerability came out, and Hyunwoo Kim immediately realized that the fixes were insufficient, sharing a patch the same day. In doing this he followed standard procedure for Linux, especially within networking: share the security impact with a closed list of Linux security engineers, while fixing the bug quietly and efficiently in the open. His goal was that with only the

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How LEDs are made (2014)

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Read Programming as Theory Building

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Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

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Removing fsync from our local storage engine

How we used pre-allocation, O_DIRECT, and an SSD-aware journal to keep our local storage engine's writes crash-consistent without fsync.

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OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

Media over QUIC: There are ways to do voice AI without being traumatized by WebRTC.

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Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023)

Technical and mathematical considerations of the IBM Selectric Composer typography by Jens Kutílek.

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Cartoon Network Flash Games

Explore a collection of Cartoon Network browser games inspired by The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and other fan-favorite series.

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America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy

The Georgia carpet industry’s long use of PFAS, known as forever chemicals, polluted drinking water and the environment across swaths of the South.

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What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting

Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena.

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A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to which I am fortunate to have been given access, producing a piece of PhD-level research in an hour or so, with…

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David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

The royal couple shared photographs of Sir David and wished him a very happy birthday.

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Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)

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Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

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Internet Archive Switzerland

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Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

The company that decides whether you're a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.

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The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number

The FCC just proposed fixing your robocall problem by building the kind of phone-user registry that privacy advocates have spent decades trying to prevent.

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Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

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