Research news and analysis on Web Pulse: 583 curated articles tracking the latest Research developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
The article describes a reproduction of a Windows 95 login bypass hack, which uses the printer settings dialog to circumvent the network login screen. It explains that Windows 95 lacks file-level permissions due to its F…
Complex sociotechnical challenge of counting fish passing through hydroelectric dams, a task the author encountered as a consultant in environmental science. It explains that dam operators must comply with FERC regulatio…
The article provides a curated collection of notes, tools, and techniques for reverse engineering macOS binaries, covering topics such as C++ reversing, fat binaries, and VST plugins. It prominently features Binary Ninja…
According to Nicholas Carlini's 2023 article, while computers have surpassed humans in chess for decades using specialized game-playing models, OpenAI's GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct—a language model designed only to generate E…
The article discusses Kipekee, a spotless reticulated giraffe born at Brights Zoo in Tennessee, who is only the fourth brown spotless giraffe in recorded history. The author draws a parallel between the AI image recognit…
Apple's Virtualization framework in macOS 12 (Monterey) supports macOS guest VMs but imposes significant limitations, including the inability to install third-party kernel extensions in guests. The author has developed a…
A command injection vulnerability in GPT-4 discovered by Nicholas Carlini, where the model's use of the `<|endoftext|>` token can cause it to abruptly end a response and begin generating unrelated content. This occurs be…
The article provides a curated list of cybersecurity search engines and tools for researchers, including platforms like Dehashed for viewing leaked credentials, Shodan for discovering internet-connected devices, and Expl…
This is a Python script called `stablediffusionwalk.py` that creates hypnotic moving videos by smoothly walking randomly through Stable Diffusion's sample space. The script uses the Diffusers library and requires access …
This article provides a curated list of resources for learning assembly language, reverse engineering, malware analysis, and game hacking. It includes links to YouTube playlists, tutorials, documentation, and GitHub repo…
This article from Distill explains graph neural networks (GNNs), a family of neural networks designed to operate on graph-structured data like social networks and molecules. It highlights the challenges of computing over…
Introductory overview of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), explaining how neural networks can be adapted to process data structured as graphs. It covers the fundamental components of GNNs, explores why graphs are a powerful …
Professor Stephane Angers has been appointed as the new director of the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research for a five-year term starting September 1, 2021. Angers, who holds appointments at the Leslie…
The University of Toronto hosted a vaccine clinic at Varsity Stadium, designed as a culturally safe space for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people, featuring drumming and dancing by volunteers. Nearly 200 people receiv…
The Toronto Academic Health Science Network (TAHSN) has added Humber River Hospital and Scarborough Health Network as new members, recognizing their leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both hospitals have committed …
Nadine Narain, an occupational therapist and adjunct lecturer at the University of Toronto, works in the emergency department (ED) at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre to reduce hospital admissions and facilitate safe di…
The article investigates the robustness of Neural Cellular Automata (CA) by training adversarial models to hijack the system's behavior. It explores two types of attacks: injecting adversarial cells into a grid and pertu…
"weight banding," a structural phenomenon in neural networks where the weights in the final convolutional layer of vision models using global average pooling display a uniform spatial pattern, particularly horizontal str…
"branch specialization" as a large-scale structural phenomenon in neural networks, where layers split into branches and neurons self-organize into functional units similar to biological brain regions. This phenomenon occ…
Researchers discovered that artificial neural networks like CLIP contain "multimodal neurons" that respond to abstract concepts (such as "Spider-Man") across different input modalities like images and text. The team deve…