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Love this thread between the Julia and C++ languages! Pinning it for at least a year or more!
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Happy four seasons total landscaping day for those who celebrate!!
Also- I think it would be AMAZING if @ZohranKMamdani and or @AOC did a press conference there on purpose. PLEASE
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🕵 For your eyes only: a side‑channel could tip off what you asked a chatbot, no message reading required. Mitigations deployed. Your mission? Get the details: msft.it/6018tJ0Gy
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i recently integrated 4 ocr models into fiftyone as remote zoo models these handle text extraction and document parsing.
all available as remote zoo sources, you can get started with a few lines of code
different approaches for different needs:
1. mineru-2.5
1.2b params, two-stage strategy: global layout on downsampled image, then fine-grained recognition on native-resolution crops.
handles headers, footers, lists, code blocks. strong on complex math formulas (mixed chinese-english) and tables (rotated, borderless, partial-border).
good for: documents with complex layouts and mathematical content
github.com/harpreetsahota204…
deepseek-ocr
dual-encoder (sam + clip) for "contextual optical compression."
outputs structured markdown with bounding boxes. has five resolution modes (tiny/small/base/large/gundam). gundam mode is the default - uses multi-view processing (1024×1024 global + 640×640 patches for details).
supports custom prompts for specific extraction tasks.
good for: complex pdfs and multi-column layouts where you need structured output
github.com/harpreetsahota204…
olmocr-2
built on qwen2.5-vl, 7b params. outputs markdown with yaml front matter containing metadata (language, rotation, table/diagram detection).
converts equations to latex, tables to html. labels figures with markdown syntax. reads documents like a human would.
good for: academic papers and technical documents with equations and structured data
github.com/harpreetsahota204…
kosmos-2.5
microsoft's 1.37b param multimodal model. two modes: ocr (text with bounding boxes) or markdown generation. automatically optimizes hardware usage (bfloat16 for ampere+, float16 for older gpus, float32 for cpu). handles diverse document types including handwritten text.
good for: general-purpose ocr when you need either coordinates or clean markdown
github.com/harpreetsahota204…
two modes typical across these models: detection (bounding boxes) and extraction (text output)
i also built/revamped the caption viewer plugin for better text visualization in the app:
github.com/harpreetsahota204…
i've also got two events poppin off for document visual ai:
- nov 6 (tomorrow) with a stellar line up of speakers (@mervenoyann @barrowjoseph @dineshredy)
voxel51.com/events/visual-do…
- a deep dive into document visual ai with just me:
voxel51.com/events/document-…
After cryptocurrency comes cryptoidentity.
So, we'll need to understand government passports as well as we understand government paper. A key concept here is that modern passports are actually embedded devices. So you can scan them, and compute on them.
blog.trailofbits.com/2025/10…
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Over the years, we’ve seen AD attacks that leverage machine accounts (e.g. CVE-2022-26923), whether it’s for privilege escalation or persistence. I put together a blog post about hunting down these machine accounts of interest medium.com/@Debugger/machine…
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Trump bungled China policy so badly he had to run to Xi to beg forgiveness and surrender. Everyone knows it. In the "deal", America gets nothing, not even a return to status quo.
Trump has now totally abandoned his promise to "get tough" on China.
nytimes.com/2025/10/30/world…
💯siding with mRr3b00t, Thomas.
Also VPN just hides Internet address so it isn’t the be all end all for protection.
Sorry Thomas, I believe this is frankly nonsense....
Someone could break into most houses in the world, they don't. Threat actors have risks and constraints as well as defenders, they also have motives and risk appetites.
Coffee shops are full of customers, CCTV and staff.... so you are more likely to be robbed in the street. Coffee shops account for probably like 1% of all robberies (most are done on the street! or from premises e.g. a break in)
The chances of this are probably like being struck by lightning! anyway...
Pubic Wi-Fi is NOT the 'hackers playground' - we (the cyber community) have spent so much time working on this subject; so much so that James Clarke and I have taken to 'the streets' and are showing people cyber WIFI reality at conferences) (I died of cringe with this sentence)
There might even be an announcement about a certain hacker event in London in December coming up! So if you want to come 'HACK THE WIFI (or not)' you will find us covered in YAGIs, PINEAPPLES and FLIPPERS!
(copied from Linkedin coz I'm being lazy and my tea has run out!)
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ICYMI: Microsoft Authenticator for iOS + Android will detect, prevent, then wipe Entra creds on rooted devices (MC1179154).
• Phase 1 (warn mode) begins February '26
• followed by Phase 2 (block mode)
• then Phase 3 (wipes Entra creds)
• expected to be completed ~April '26
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Windows RPC lateral movement quick reference for defenders.
#ThreatHunting #DFIR
Interesting read if you’re into the meta! x.com/lcamtuf/status/1981859…
Q era here we go!
New breakthrough quantum algorithm published in @Nature today: Our Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage.
Willow ran the algorithm - which we’ve named Quantum Echoes - 13,000x faster than the best classical algorithm on one of the world's fastest supercomputers. This new algorithm can explain interactions between atoms in a molecule using nuclear magnetic resonance, paving a path towards potential future uses in drug discovery and materials science.
And the result is verifiable, meaning its outcome can be repeated by other quantum computers or confirmed by experiments.
This breakthrough is a significant step toward the first real-world application of quantum computing, and we're excited to see where it leads.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Rainbow Operator Ace reportedly put both of his fingers inside a Chinese finger trap and has been stuck for the past five hours.
Putting on my reading list 🤗🎃
Hacking modern ARM processors: Practical side-channel attacks on Cortex-A72 to recover AES. 👨🏻💻🧲👂📟🔗
More details on:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/posts/dlaskov_h…
Substack: it4sec.substack.com/p/hackin…
Peter Evans retweeted
Wow. The Reagan Foundation is lying for Trump. Reagan must be rolling in his grave over how they are trying to cover-up his legacy and true beliefs. Here’s the clip. Judge for yourself:
