Hasnain says:

It’s a sad day when the most honest “official” reporting I can find is from the daily mail, of all people. Will drop a link in the comments to the sky news report that they have since deleted which said similar things. A courageous 13 year old Dutch kid also did great reporting here.

To be clear - I abhor all violence. People should not be attacked for their religion. But it’s unclear to me if football hooligans going on a drunk rampage and picking a fight (and then the people they are hurting fighting back) is anti semitic, or just another Tuesday when it comes to, well, drunk football fans doing stupid things.

The quote below doesn’t even capture the worst of the videos/behavior seen.

“Videos show dozens of hooded figures dressed fully in black cheering and chanting 'f*** you Palestine' and 'ole' as one climbed halfway up the front of a building and removed a flag on the Rokin, a major street. “

Hasnain says:

“In dozens of emails, Théo said his wager was essentially a bet against the accuracy of polling data. Describing himself as a wealthy Frenchman who had previously worked as a trader for several banks, he told the Journal that he began applying his mathematical know-how to analyze U.S. polls over the summer.

He concluded the polls were overstating support for Vice President Kamala Harris. Unlike most armchair political commentators, he put his money where his mouth was, betting more than $30 million that Trump would win.”

Hasnain says:

This got buried in yesterday’s news. This is outright ethnic cleaning that they are admitting to.

“In a media briefing on Tuesday night, the IDF Brig Gen Itzik Cohen told Israeli reporters that since troops had been forced to enter some areas twice, such as Jabaliya camp, “there is no intention of allowing the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes”.

He added that humanitarian aid would be allowed to “regularly” enter the south of the territory but not the north, since there are “no more civilians left”.

International humanitarian law experts have said that such actions would amount to the war crimes of forcible transfer and the use of food as a weapon.”

Hasnain says:

“Their nearly contemporaneous accounts are detailed, corroborated by other witnesses, and consistent with testimony by an Israeli soldier who fought in Gaza, and with interviews collected by Breaking the Silence, an organization that works with troops who have served in the occupied Palestinian territories. They described a practice in which Palestinians are detained, interrogated and ultimately released, indicating the Israeli army did not believe them to be militants. They described events that took place between January and August.

“This wasn’t something that happened just here and there but rather on a large scale throughout a number of different units, at different times, throughout the war and in different places,” said Joel Carmel, advocacy director of Breaking the Silence, an organization that collects and verifies testimonies from troops who have served in the occupied Palestinian territories.”

Hasnain says:

Not even keeping up the pretense anymore.

“The Israeli military has never made any claims of a Hamas presence at al-Awda. When asked what intelligence led troops to besiege and raid the hospital last year, the military spokesman’s office did not reply.”

Hasnain says:

“The development of new product lines for use in service of critical infrastructure or NCFs in a memory-unsafe language (e.g., C or C++) where there are readily available alternative memory-safe languages that could be used is dangerous and significantly elevates risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety.”

Hasnain says:

Yikes

“A precondition for this vulnerability is that the username must be or exceed 52 characters any time a cache key is generated for the user.”

Hasnain says:

“For the team this is a moment of validation and success - finding a vulnerability in a widely-used and well fuzzed open source project is an exciting result! When provided with the right tools, current LLMs can perform vulnerability research.

However, we want to reiterate that these are highly experimental results. The position of the Big Sleep team is that at present, it's likely that a target-specific fuzzer would be at least as effective (at finding vulnerabilities).
We hope that in the future this effort will lead to a significant advantage to defenders - with the potential not only to find crashing testcases, but also to provide high-quality root-cause analysis, triaging and fixing issues could be much cheaper and more effective in the future. We aim to continue sharing our research in this space, keeping the gap between the public state-of-the-art and private state-of-the-art as small as possible.”

Hasnain says:

“The letter also calls on the broadcaster to implement a series of editorial commitments including “reiterating that Israel does not give external journalists access to Gaza; making it clear when there is insufficient evidence to back up Israeli claims; making clear where Israel is the perpetrator in article headlines; including regular historical context predating October 2023; and robustly challenging Israeli government and military representatives in all interviews”.”

Hasnain says:

This is going unquoted because I cannot find a single non horrifying thing to quote.