#systems

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“Founded three years ago and based in Tel Aviv, Irregular is a niche player in artificial intelligence, backed with $80 million from Sequoia and #RedpointVentures and valued last year at $450 million. Its technology serves as a sort of #cybersecurity test bed for AI models. With the leading models becoming ever more powerful, their ability to act in malicious ways is turning into a major threat for corporations and governments, especially as the risk involves hacking into critical computer #systems and #infrastructure. The recent exploits at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all involved their AI models accessing websites that should have been off-limits as part of the cybersecurity testing. #Irregular’s name kept coming up because it was identified as hosting the so-called evaluation testbed.” Meanwhile #VC money is having a two-way bet; Money on #AI; Money on #hacking AI-models… I mean *cough* #Pentesting *cough* #PatternLabs / #DanLahav ex IBM / #OmerNevo ex google / #Sequoia #ShaunMaguire #DeanMeyer / #CyberOffensive / #AIModel #AIKillSwitch
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"Hello world" for a first post is boring, so here's a little about me and what to expect on my profile :) (Spoiler: mainly infodumps on whatever it is I am working on) Currently doing research at Northeastern, working on firmware fuzzing and embedded systems security at CactiLab. Previously molecular dynamics at PsiThera, systems/security research at UMass Amherst (thesis was Rust vs C++ performance at the assembly level). Interested in OS internals, compilers, RE, and anything low-level and hard to debug. Write occasionally at skushagra.com Excited to be here, and thank you so much if you notice <3 #introduction #systems #embedded
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Had a solid, helpful conversation with a person who Knows A Bunch Of Shit about organizations and systems, about subtle but clear problems in liberal/progressive organizations of leadership getting authoritarian and pissy while insisting they aren't. For example, leaders refusing or just declining to use within-organization expertise to address problems because that increases power of the rank-and-file and therefore reduces the relative power of the leadership. Anyway, it's awesome to have someone around who knows things and is deeply thoughtful about this stuff. It is a nice bonus that sometimes they meet up with you and have long smooches. #organization #systems #power #romance
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Is there a #systems term for the state where an organization is spending the majority of it's time on second or third order consequences of it's systems instead of pursuing it's original purpose? I think most programmers would describe this as spending your time "firefighting" but it doesn't really capture the idea.
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"Insurgent #Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War" (Duke University Press, 2019) — By Ronak K Kapadia https://www.dukeupress.edu/insurgent-aesthetics 🦋 On queer #worldmaking in an era of never-ending wars & struggle for #democracy ☮️ Queer theory can broaden politics and #critical #systems thinking 📌 And yet because queer-phobia is, unfortunately, not uncommon, including and particularly among the left, queer history & theory are not considered adequately in the toolbox of liberatory politics
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Nature is the internet that actually works-distributed, self-healing, and millions of years tested. We treat it like a resource pile instead of the operating system we depend on. Ignoring that resilience is a failure of imagination, not technology. #nature #resilience #systems
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🐘 Paper 4 is now live — Boundary Dynamics Series. This paper shifts from persistence to failure: How does collapse actually spread? The framework defines cascade collapse as: a progressive loss of boundary enforcement across coupled regions Key distinction: • local failure does not propagate • cascade collapse does Most critical insight: systems can appear stable while internal admissibility has already failed That “masked phase” is where real collapse begins. hybridmind42/p/hybridmind42-boundary-dynamics-series-a9b?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac Next step: real-world case applications. ☕🌿 #HybridMind42 #BoundaryDynamics #CascadeCollapse #Systemshttps://open.substack.com/pub/
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The #economic system has developed on its own. We assume that it is subject to laws that are similar to the laws of nature: we only describe them, we do not try to change them. It is geared towards continuous growth and maximum profit and is a vicious circle of #greed and the production of goods. With limited resources, constant growth must lead to collapse—this is a simple insight from #systems science and common sense. The faster the growth, the more rapid the collapse.
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