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USENIX Security ’23 – Controlled Data Races In Enclaves: Attacks And Detection

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Marc Handelman

Authors/Presenters:Sanchuan Chen, Zhiqiang Lin, Yinqian Zhang

Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.
Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott; and via the organizations YouTube channel.

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Flash floods due to unusually heavy seasonal rains kill at least 68 people in Afghanistan

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ISLAMABAD — Flash floods from heavy seasonal rains have killed at least 68 people in Afghanistan, Taliban officials said Saturday, adding the death toll was based on preliminary reports.

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Damaged houses in Ghor province in western Afghanistan on Saturday.

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Afghan men stand beside their belongings in Firozkoh, Ghor province on Saturday.

Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable

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Podcast (2:42:24) with transcript. Christopher Brown is a professor at Columbia specializing in the slave trade and abolition. He argues that abolition, though obvious in retrospect, was not inevitable and relied on a particular set of circumstances that could have been disrupted at many points. He has also written about Arming Slaves and has an interesting review of Capitalism and Slavery at LRB.

What happened to OpenAI’s long-term AI risk team?

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WIRED
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In July last year, OpenAI announced the formation of a new research team that would prepare for the advent of supersmart artificial intelligence capable of outwitting and overpowering its creators. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist and one of the company’s co-founders, was named as the co-lead of this new team. OpenAI said the team would receive 20 percent of its computing power.

Now OpenAI’s “superalignment team” is no more, the company confirms. That comes after the departures of several researchers involved, Tuesday’s news that Sutskever was leaving the company, and the resignation of the team’s other co-lead. The group’s work will be absorbed into OpenAI’s other research efforts.

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The "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" is dead.

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NPR reporting that actor Dabney Coleman is dead at 92. Dabney Coleman was practically ubiquitous in the early to mid 80's by appearing in films like 9 to 5, Tootsie, Cloak and Dagger, On Golden Pond, and War Games.

The 1982 film Tootsie has what is arguably one of the funniest scenes in cinema history at its end. Most of the action is focused on Dustin Hoffman, but it is Mr. Coleman who bookends everything with two lines that me belly laugh out loud. "Uh oh." "I KNEW there was a reason she didn't like me!"

Time Is Shaped Like a Labyrinth

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Mr. Samuel's Teatime Stories for Good Kids & Confused Adults is a short film in 4 parts by Yara Asmar, a musician, puppeteer, and filmmaker from Beirut. The creator describes it so: "In a wonky universe set within the fake walls of an old abandoned children's TV show, Mr Samuel and his friends -peculiar, ugly puppets navigating the strange thing that is time- attempt to make sense of it all through stories, songs and arduous loops of nonsensical chores."

Asmar continues: Zizek's book 'The Parallax View' begins with a description of the first use of modern art as a method of psychotechnic torture: French anarchist Laurencic's 'colored cells'. "The cells were as inspired by ideas of geometric abstraction and surrealism as they were by avant-garde art theories on the psychological properties of colors... the walls, which were curved and covered with mind-altering patterns of cubes, squares, straight lines, and spirals which utilized tricks of color, perspective, and scale to cause mental confusion and distress." Yes, it's a film in 4 parts, but the total running time is a hair under 30 minutes. This is focusing on a particular project of Asmar's, but look around her website; there's a lot of other things there. Here's an interview on her music. A short video analyzing the project by YouTuber Night Mind.
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