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July 15, 2024

July 15, 2024

July 15, 2024

Here is a solid data driven analysis of LLM's ability to identify software vulnerabilities introduced in a new benchmark that is dynamically built and sourced from recent vulnerability disclosures. This is a useful benchmark because it uses new real world vulnerability data.

By… https://t.co/yyRuBEZGYf

— chrisrohlf (@chrisrohlf) July 14, 2024


My favorite memory of Richard Simmons was the time he went on Whose Line Is It Anyway and created possibly the 6 funniest minutes of TV in history pic.twitter.com/dKfx5XBVR5

— Brian Kosh (@BrianKosh) July 13, 2024


⁦@NoemaMag⁩ article👏🏼 “The danger here is a conflation of action and intention, such as presuming that small, marginal populations are deliberately conserving resources, when in fact they simply lack the means to substantially exploit them.” https://t.co/9dKv4MromN

— Flav (@FlavNYC) July 13, 2024


Having spent a lot of time recently with LLMs to improve written product, this is my take:
- bad and mediocre work gets much better
- excellent, unique work gets much more generic and worse

Therefore: the average should improve, but the best should remain in the human realm for…

— Patty Wexler (@patriciawexler) July 14, 2024

I completely agree with this. The level of prose that comes out of an LLM is this very bland generic American marketing blog post voice. If the original text was worse than a marketing blog post, it’ll be improved. But if it was better then it’ll get dragged down.


Haven't played CTF and V8 for a while, but recently solved the V8 SBX challenge in the HITCON CTF. This is my write-up: https://t.co/OwDR3gMF5S

— 2019 (@r3tr0spect2019) July 15, 2024


i'm excited to share Collateral Damage, a kernel exploit for SystemOS on Xbox One/Series consoles! this initial release is mostly intended for developers, but i hope people will enjoy playing around with it! writeup and more updates in the near future :) https://t.co/D1VW0u79pr

— emma (@carrot_c4k3) July 15, 2024


There are technical issues , in particular wind speed and battery life, which make very small drones difficult https://t.co/AQfCBSPk9V

— David Hambling (@David_Hambling) July 15, 2024


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