It's been a really long time since I've done an install-from-nothing for Windows, probably it would have been Windows 7. I definitely don't remember it being this bad.

Quite shocked at the amount of crapware and number of subscriptions Windows 11 tries to subscribe you to during a clean install !??? Gamepass, advertising IDs, two separate prompts for office products (first a premium, then a basic; finally settling on "well you can also use the free option!").

The RAID 2025 portal is now accepting submissions! raid2025.github.io/call.html
RAID, or Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses, is a top venue for cybersecurity (Core A ranked), and this year will be hosted in the sunny Gold Coast of Australia. Submit now- I'll see you there! #AcademicSky 🧪

The 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses (RAID 2025) invites submissions for topics in computer security, including AI/SW/HW/IoT/networks etc!

Deadline: Apr 17th 2025 AoE

More details: raid2025.github.io/call.html

#RAID2025 #Cybersecurity #AcademicSky

The results of the study are outlined in the document titled "the immutable function" which unfortunately no longer exists

#academicsky

The bulk of the job is reading - I, at least, definitely appreciate it when things are written well!

Really excited to share that Yulei Sui and I were awarded an ARC Discovery Project at #UNSW #CSE! Our project will be exploring how code generation by #LLMs can be made more correct, secure, and robust. We'll propose new techniques to certify the outputs of these models to ensure safety / security.

CSE, UNSW Sydney is hiring multiple Associate Professors (Level D, tenured) on:
- Algorithms
- Computer Graphics
- Embedded Systems
- Formal Methods
- NLP
- Theoretical Machine Learning
- Robotics
Closing 27 Jan 2025. Those wanting to know about working in Sydney and Australia do reach out 🦘🎓
URL👇

Update: a 24 hour extension!

Bit embarrassing when the DAC'25 research🧪 conference portal crashes in the minutes leading up to the submission deadline with what I can only assume is a DDDDoS attack; Deadline Driven Distributed Denial of Service :) Looks like the entire softconf went down!

I hope there will be a grace period?

A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Better Programming Error Explanations | Proceedings of the 24th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

At Koli Calling in Finland presenting our very early work on fine-tuning Large Language Models to align them with pedagogical behaviour.

These models power our compiler error explanation system: dcc.cse.unsw.edu.au

Read the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

@cyberhammond.com, @litoria.bsky.social

Just returned my Phillips "smart" TV. Never have I had the misfortune to use such garbage. Adverts absolutely everywhere. Minutes of delay after power up before you could do anything. Frequent 30-45 second lag spikes when using the remote. If I was Phillips I'd be ashamed of releasing such junk.

An incoherent flow chart for “should I use AI”

This is the most accurate image AI has ever generated

A crippling cyber-attack shuts down Australia’s biggest ports | 7 News Australia Four major Australian ports have come to a standstill after a cyber security attack struck the nation's biggest ports operator. There's fears it could Christ...

Absolutely crazy and continues to show the importance of cyber resilience, especially for critical infrastructure!

youtu.be/IUmAorslXms?...

The new openAI capabilities are crazy, 128k context length and built in RAG features, copyright shield, and lower costs? Hoping the open source model systems can also release additional features to compete...

Happy SIGCSE notification day! Celebrating the acceptance of our paper "dcc --help: Transforming the Role of the Compiler by Generating Context-Aware Error Explanations with Large Language Models". @litoria.bsky.social @cyberhammond.com

Times like this I unashamedly wish for more Esterel-like languages

Godot 4 has coroutines, but simultaneously it has no way to elegantly abort a started coroutine. Start up the pot, it's spaghetti time

I'd be interested to see how this differs from the capa capabilities tool which can scan binaries in a similar way. Seems Capslock just focusses on source code?

Hi Dani, I'm a lecturer in Australia in hardware and cybersecurity, I'd also love to be able to contribute :)

Just watched a student with their nose in their phone walk into the wall of a bus stop. I shall now report this with my own nose in my own phone as I too walk

The attack on school and public libraries from the “parents’ rights movement” aims to eliminate the freedom to read, which is the one form of autonomy and civic respect that our public institutions grant to an otherwise completely powerless segment of our society: children. 📚

I absolutely loved this article. Absolutely fascinating to get some insights into the development cycle of non-western machines

So this board actually does support ladder logic! You can program the Pi using OpenPLC (openplcproject.gitlab.io) and I set up the various drivers and whatnot so that you can read/write to the relays (DOUT) and Opto-isolators (DIN).

Advertise your account with one PCB:

It's a daughter board for a Pi Zero and a CMOD FPGA. Useful for experimenting with real time embedded systems, and gives the Pi and CMOD a lot of dedicated and isolated I/O (Relays, ADCs/DACs, CAN, etc.)

Also very configurable (see the many red jumpers...)

Our newest addition to the research team!