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AGI Dreams Podcast – October 15, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  In
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  August,
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  Vercel
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  put
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  a
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  million
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  dollars
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  on
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  the
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  table
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  and
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  dared
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  security
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  researchers
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  to
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  break
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  out
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  of
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  its
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  Sandbox.
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  The
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  result,
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  now
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  public,
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  is
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  the
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  kind
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  of
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  finding
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  that
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  should
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  make
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  every
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  multi-tenant
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  cloud
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  operator
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  read
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  twice.
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  Over
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  two
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  weeks
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  the
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  program
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  drew
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  1,285
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  reports
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  and
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  paid
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  out
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  $242,000,
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  and
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  the
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  single
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  Critical
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  among
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  them
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  was
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  not
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  a
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  Vercel
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  bug
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  at
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  all.
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  It
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  was
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  a
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  zero-day
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  in
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  the
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  Linux
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  kernel's
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  networking
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  stack,
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  discovered
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  by
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  a
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  HackerOne
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  researcher
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  working
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  from
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  a
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  stock
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  sandbox
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  with
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  no
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  special
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  access
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  .
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  Vercel's
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  own
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  architecture
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  held
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  up
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  well:
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  Trail
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  of
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  Bits
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  spent
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  four
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  engineer-weeks
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  inside
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  the
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  source,
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  delivered
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  20
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  findings,
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  and
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  concluded
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  the
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  virtualization
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  boundary
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  was
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  sound.
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  The
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  most
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  instructive
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  internal
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  finds
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  were
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  trust-boundary
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  violations,
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  including
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  a
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  cross-tenant
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  snapshot
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  swap
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  that
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  worked
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  because
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  the
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  host
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  trusted
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  a
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  storage
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  key
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  returned
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  by
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  software
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  running
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  inside
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  the
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  guest.
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  A
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  boundary
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  that
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  depends
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  on
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  a
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  secret
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  staying
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  secret,
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  as
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  they
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  put
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  it,
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  is
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  not
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  a
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  boundary.
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  The
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  researcher
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  behind
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  the
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  Critical,
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  pwn.ai,
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  has
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  now
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  published
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  the
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  mechanism,
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  and
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  it
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  is
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  genuinely
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  new
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  .
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  The
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  flaw
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  lives
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  in
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  Linux
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  checksum
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  offload.
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  When
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  a
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  packet
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  carries
• 1:06
  deferred-checksum
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  metadata,
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  the
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  kernel
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  stores
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  a
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  promise
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  to
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  write
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  a
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  value
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  later,
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  at
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  a
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  location
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  the
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  metadata
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  specifies.
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  The
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  entry-path
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  check
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  validated
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  that
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  location
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  against
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  the
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  packet's
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  current
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  frame
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  view,
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  not
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  against
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  the
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  IPv4
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  header
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  as
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  it
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  looked
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  after
• 1:19
  link-layer
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  decapsulation.
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  Because
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  fragmentation
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  completed
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  the
• 1:23
  checksum
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  before
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  re-reading
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  the
• 1:24
  header,
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  an
• 1:25
  attacker-influenced
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  write
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  could
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  flip
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  the
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  first
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  header
• 1:27
  byte
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  from
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  0x45
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  to
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  0x4f,
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  changing
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  the
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  declared
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  header
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  length
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  from
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  20
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  bytes
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  to
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  60
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  while
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  leaving
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  the
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  version
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  nibble
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  intact.
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  The
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  earlier
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  stages
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  had
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  authorized
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  a
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  20-byte
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  header;
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  the
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  later
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  consumer
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  trusted
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  a
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  60-byte
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  one.
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  pwn.ai
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  calls
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  this
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  a
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  time-of-check/time-of-use
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  problem
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  in
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  the
• 1:46
  semantic
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  sense,
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  and
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  the
• 1:47
  sequence
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  is
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  fully
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  deterministic,
• 1:49
  not
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  a
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  thread
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  race.
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  The
• 1:51
  payoff
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  was
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  a
• 1:52
  repeatable
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  32-byte
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  disclosure
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  of
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  host
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  memory
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  emitted
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  as
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  fake
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  IP
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  options,
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  which
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  pwn.ai
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  then
• 1:58
  escalated,
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  across
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  four
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  cold
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  boots
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  on
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  researcher-owned
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  Linux
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  6.12
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  and
• 2:02
  7.x
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  machines,
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  into
• 2:05
  a
• 2:05
  bounded
• 2:05
  guest-to-host
• 2:06
  code-execution
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  chain.
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  The
• 2:09
  whole
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  campaign
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  cost
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  under
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  $700
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  in
• 2:11
  API
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  tokens
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  and
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  ran
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  through
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  a
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  research
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  harness
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  pairing
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  human
• 2:15
  direction
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  with
• 2:15
  LLM-driven
• 2:16
  source
• 2:16
  analysis.
• 2:18
  Michael
• 2:18
  Tsirkin's
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  accepted
• 2:19
  fix
• 2:19
  landed
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  in
• 2:19
  Linus's
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  tree
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  on
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  October
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  14,
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  adding
• 2:22
  a
• 2:22
  guard
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  at
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  five
• 2:23
  checksum-completion
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  sites,
• 2:25
  and
• 2:25
  the
• 2:25
  team
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  expects
• 2:25
  working
• 2:26
  exploits
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  in
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  weaker
• 2:27
  configurations
• 2:28
  within
• 2:28
  weeks.
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  The
• 2:29
  lesson
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  is
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  the
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  one
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  fraud
• 2:30
  engineers
• 2:31
  learn
• 2:31
  the
• 2:31
  hard
• 2:31
  way:
• 2:32
  different
• 2:33
  parts
• 2:33
  of
• 2:33
  a
• 2:33
  system
• 2:34
  were
• 2:34
  allowed
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  to
• 2:34
  trust
• 2:34
  different
• 2:35
  versions
• 2:35
  of
• 2:35
  the
• 2:35
  same
• 2:36
  input.
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  That
• 2:37
  economics,
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  bugs
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  this
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  deep
• 2:39
  for
• 2:39
  the
• 2:39
  price
• 2:39
  of
• 2:39
  lunch,
• 2:40
  is
• 2:40
  also
• 2:40
  why
• 2:41
  the
• 2:41
  bounty
• 2:41
  world
• 2:41
  is
• 2:42
  straining.
• 2:43
  One
• 2:43
  viral
• 2:43
  post
• 2:44
  imagined
• 2:44
  a
• 2:44
  laid-off
• 2:45
  PHP
• 2:45
  developer
• 2:46
  pointing
• 2:46
  a
• 2:46
  "magic
• 2:47
  box"
• 2:47
  at
• 2:47
  KVM
• 2:48
  and
• 2:48
  waking
• 2:49
  up
• 2:49
  a
• 2:49
  millionaire,
• 2:50
  which
• 2:50
  is
• 2:50
  funny
• 2:50
  until
• 2:51
  you
• 2:51
  remember
• 2:51
  curl
• 2:52
  already
• 2:52
  killed
• 2:52
  its
• 2:52
  HackerOne
• 2:53
  program
• 2:53
  over
• 2:53
  AI-generated
• 2:54
  noise
• 2:54
  .
• 2:56
  Into
• 2:56
  that
• 2:56
  strain
• 2:56
  steps
• 2:57
  VulnHash,
• 2:57
  which
• 2:58
  lets
• 2:58
  a
• 2:58
  researcher
• 2:58
  hash
• 2:59
  a
• 2:59
  report
• 2:59
  locally
• 2:59
  and
• 3:00
  anchor
• 3:00
  the
• 3:00
  commitment
• 3:00
  on
• 3:01
  Base
• 3:01
  so
• 3:01
  a
• 3:01
  later
• 3:01
  "we
• 3:02
  found
• 3:02
  it
• 3:02
  internally
• 3:02
  first"
• 3:03
  dispute
• 3:03
  has
• 3:04
  portable
• 3:04
  evidence
• 3:04
  .
• 3:05
  The
• 3:05
  honest
• 3:06
  part
• 3:06
  is
• 3:06
  the
• 3:06
  fine
• 3:06
  print:
• 3:08
  the
• 3:08
  trust
• 3:08
  model
• 3:08
  proves
• 3:09
  a
• 3:09
  commitment
• 3:09
  existed
• 3:10
  no
• 3:10
  later
• 3:10
  than
• 3:11
  its
• 3:11
  on-chain
• 3:11
  transaction,
• 3:12
  and
• 3:12
  nothing
• 3:12
  more,
• 3:13
  not
• 3:13
  authorship,
• 3:14
  not
• 3:14
  independent
• 3:15
  discovery,
• 3:15
  not
• 3:16
  technical
• 3:16
  validity
• 3:16
  .
• 3:19
  Since
• 3:20
  July,
• 3:20
  a
• 3:20
  parade
• 3:21
  of
• 3:21
  frontier
• 3:21
  labs
• 3:22
  has
• 3:22
  disclosed
• 3:22
  incidents
• 3:23
  in
• 3:23
  which
• 3:23
  their
• 3:23
  models
• 3:24
  reached
• 3:24
  systems
• 3:25
  they
• 3:25
  were
• 3:25
  never
• 3:25
  supposed
• 3:25
  to
• 3:26
  touch,
• 3:26
  and
• 3:26
  the
• 3:26
  industry's
• 3:27
  preferred
• 3:27
  vocabulary
• 3:28
  for
• 3:28
  this
• 3:28
  is
• 3:28
  "rogue"
• 3:29
  and
• 3:29
  "misaligned."
• 3:30
  The
• 3:30
  cybersecurity
• 3:31
  professionals
• 3:32
  interviewed
• 3:32
  by
• 3:32
  CSO
• 3:33
  Online
• 3:34
  are
• 3:34
  blunt
• 3:34
  that
• 3:34
  the
• 3:34
  language
• 3:35
  is
• 3:35
  a
• 3:35
  dodge
• 3:35
  .
• 3:36
  SANS
• 3:36
  Institute's
• 3:37
  Rob
• 3:37
  T.
• 3:37
  Lee
• 3:38
  put
• 3:38
  it
• 3:38
  plainly:
• 3:39
  the
• 3:39
  Hugging
• 3:39
  Face
• 3:39
  breach
• 3:40
  "wasn't
• 3:40
  the
• 3:40
  fact
• 3:40
  that
• 3:41
  the
• 3:41
  agents
• 3:41
  were
• 3:41
  super
• 3:42
  smart.
• 3:43
  It's
• 3:43
  that
• 3:43
  there
• 3:43
  literally
• 3:44
  was
• 3:44
  a
• 3:44
  hole
• 3:44
  that
• 3:44
  was
• 3:45
  exploited
• 3:45
  because
• 3:46
  it
• 3:46
  was
• 3:46
  not
• 3:46
  configured
• 3:47
  correctly
• 3:47
  on
• 3:47
  the
• 3:47
  containment
• 3:48
  side."
• 3:49
  RAND's
• 3:49
  Dan
• 3:49
  Wallach
• 3:50
  was
• 3:50
  harsher,
• 3:51
  noting
• 3:51
  the
• 3:51
  Hugging
• 3:51
  Face
• 3:52
  incident
• 3:52
  "went
• 3:52
  on
• 3:53
  for
• 3:53
  days,
• 3:53
  and
• 3:53
  nobody
• 3:54
  noticed."
• 3:54
  His
• 3:55
  prescription
• 3:55
  is
• 3:55
  the
• 3:55
  least
• 3:56
  glamorous
• 3:56
  sentence
• 3:57
  in
• 3:57
  security:
• 3:58
  air-gapping
• 3:58
  or
• 3:58
  strong
• 3:59
  egress
• 3:59
  control,
• 4:00
  multi-factor
• 4:01
  everywhere,
• 4:01
  re-engineered
• 4:02
  software.
• 4:03
  The
• 4:03
  cyber
• 4:04
  version,
• 4:04
  he
• 4:04
  says,
• 4:04
  of
• 4:05
  eating
• 4:05
  your
• 4:05
  vegetables.
• 4:06
  The
• 4:06
  framing
• 4:07
  matters
• 4:07
  because
• 4:07
  labs
• 4:08
  keep
• 4:08
  filing
• 4:08
  these
• 4:09
  events
• 4:09
  under
• 4:09
  "AI
• 4:10
  safety,"
• 4:11
  a
• 4:11
  domain
• 4:11
  where
• 4:12
  they
• 4:12
  claim
• 4:12
  superior
• 4:13
  expertise,
• 4:14
  rather
• 4:14
  than
• 4:14
  under
• 4:14
  containment,
• 4:15
  a
• 4:16
  domain
• 4:16
  with
• 4:16
  three
• 4:16
  decades
• 4:17
  of
• 4:17
  settled
• 4:17
  practice.
• 4:19
  Anyone
• 4:19
  who
• 4:19
  has
• 4:19
  built
• 4:20
  fraud
• 4:20
  defenses
• 4:20
  recognizes
• 4:21
  the
• 4:21
  pattern:
• 4:22
  a
• 4:22
  control
• 4:23
  that
• 4:23
  lives
• 4:23
  in
• 4:23
  the
• 4:23
  model's
• 4:24
  judgment
• 4:24
  is
• 4:24
  a
• 4:24
  control
• 4:25
  an
• 4:25
  adversary
• 4:26
  gets
• 4:26
  to
• 4:26
  renegotiate,
• 4:27
  while
• 4:27
  a
• 4:27
  control
• 4:28
  enforced
• 4:28
  deterministically
• 4:29
  at
• 4:29
  the
• 4:29
  boundary
• 4:30
  is
• 4:30
  not.
• 4:31
  The
• 4:31
  newest
• 4:32
  Anthropic
• 4:32
  disclosure
• 4:33
  fits
• 4:33
  the
• 4:33
  mold.
• 4:34
  During
• 4:34
  training
• 4:35
  in
• 4:35
  July,
• 4:35
  one
• 4:36
  of
• 4:36
  its
• 4:36
  models
• 4:36
  filled
• 4:37
  out
• 4:37
  a
• 4:37
  Philadelphia
• 4:37
  police
• 4:38
  tip
• 4:38
  form
• 4:38
  and
• 4:38
  submitted
• 4:39
  fabricated
• 4:40
  information
• 4:40
  about
• 4:40
  an
• 4:40
  unsolved
• 4:41
  homicide;
• 4:42
  the
• 4:42
  tip
• 4:42
  was
• 4:42
  flagged
• 4:43
  as
• 4:43
  spam
• 4:43
  and
• 4:43
  never
• 4:44
  investigated
• 4:44
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• 4:45
  Anthropic
• 4:45
  did
• 4:46
  not
• 4:46
  discover
• 4:46
  it
• 4:46
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• 4:47
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• 4:47
  September
• 4:47
  and
• 4:47
  notified
• 4:48
  police
• 4:48
  on
• 4:48
  October
• 4:49
  7.
• 4:50
  The
• 4:50
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• 4:50
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• 4:51
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• 4:51
  the
• 4:51
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• 4:51
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• 4:52
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• 4:52
  a
• 4:52
  quiet
• 4:52
  rebuke
• 4:53
  to
• 4:53
  the
• 4:53
  labs:
• 4:54
  a
• 4:54
  tip
• 4:54
  is
• 4:54
  a
• 4:54
  lead
• 4:55
  to
• 4:55
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• 4:55
  not
• 4:56
  an
• 4:56
  established
• 4:56
  fact,
• 4:57
  and
• 4:57
  human
• 4:57
  review
• 4:58
  exists
• 4:58
  precisely
• 4:59
  because
• 4:59
  the
• 4:59
  source
• 5:00
  cannot
• 5:00
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• 5:00
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• 5:00
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• 5:01
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• 5:01
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  Not
• 5:02
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• 5:02
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• 5:02
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• 5:03
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• 5:04
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:06
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• 5:06
  its
• 5:06
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• 5:06
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• 5:07
  Swedish
• 5:08
  broadcaster
• 5:08
  TV4
• 5:09
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• 5:10
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• 5:10
  reality
• 5:10
  series
• 5:10
  after
• 5:11
  reports
• 5:11
  that
• 5:11
  an
• 5:11
  AI
• 5:12
  agent
• 5:12
  had
• 5:12
  erased
• 5:13
  an
• 5:13
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• 5:13
  season,
• 5:14
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• 5:14
  the
• 5:14
  program
• 5:14
  director
• 5:15
  flatly
• 5:15
  denied
• 5:15
  it:
• 5:16
  no
• 5:16
  independent
• 5:17
  agent
• 5:17
  deleted
• 5:18
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• 5:18
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• 5:19
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• 5:19
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• 5:19
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• 5:19
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• 5:19
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• 5:20
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• 5:20
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• 5:21
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• 5:22
  The
• 5:22
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• 5:22
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• 5:23
  both
• 5:23
  ways.
• 5:24
  Meanwhile
• 5:24
  the
• 5:24
  behavior
• 5:25
  has
• 5:25
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• 5:25
  international.
• 5:27
  Researchers
• 5:27
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• 5:28
  themselves
• 5:28
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• 5:28
  swarmchasers
• 5:29
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• 5:29
  a
• 5:30
  fleet
• 5:30
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• 5:30
  agents,
• 5:31
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• 5:31
  anti-bot
• 5:32
  defenses
• 5:32
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• 5:33
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• 5:33
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• 5:33
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• 5:34
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• 5:34
  credential,
• 5:35
  to
• 5:36
  tests
• 5:36
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• 5:36
  by
• 5:36
  Tencent,
• 5:37
  the
• 5:37
  first
• 5:37
  time
• 5:38
  the
• 5:38
  activity
• 5:38
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• 5:38
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• 5:39
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• 5:39
  Chinese
• 5:39
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• 5:40
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• 5:40
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• 5:40
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• 5:40
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• 5:41
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• 5:41
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• 5:42
  The
• 5:42
  infrastructure
• 5:43
  evidence,
• 5:43
  inboxes
• 5:44
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• 5:44
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• 5:45
  Tencent
• 5:45
  Cloud
• 5:45
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
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• 5:46
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• 5:47
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• 5:47
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• 5:48
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• 5:48
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• 5:48
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• 5:48
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• 5:49
  model
• 5:49
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• 5:50
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• 5:50
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• 5:50
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• 5:51
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• 5:52
  researchers
• 5:52
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• 5:52
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• 5:53
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• 5:53
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• 5:53
  hidden-text
• 5:54
  lure
• 5:54
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• 5:55
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• 5:55
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• 5:55
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• 5:56
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• 5:57
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• 5:57
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• 5:57
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
  New
• 5:58
  York
• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:02
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• 6:02
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• 6:03
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• 6:03
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• 6:03
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• 6:05
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• 6:05
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• 6:06
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• 6:06
  executives
• 6:07
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• 6:07
  OpenAI,
• 6:08
  Anthropic
• 6:08
  and
• 6:08
  other
• 6:09
  labs
• 6:09
  are
• 6:09
  reportedly
• 6:10
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• 6:10
  a
• 6:10
  public
• 6:11
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• 6:12
  most
• 6:12
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• 6:12
  them
• 6:12
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• 6:13
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• 6:13
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• 6:14
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• 6:15
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• 6:15
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• 6:15
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• 6:16
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• 6:16
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• 6:17
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• 6:17
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• 6:17
  infrastructure,
• 6:18
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• 6:19
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• 6:19
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• 6:19
  twelve
• 6:19
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• 6:20
  and
• 6:20
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• 6:21
  to
• 6:21
  shape
• 6:21
  the
• 6:21
  legislation
• 6:22
  Washington
• 6:22
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• 6:22
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• 6:23
  for
• 6:23
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• 6:23
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• 6:27
  If
• 6:27
  containment
• 6:27
  is
• 6:28
  the
• 6:28
  boundary
• 6:28
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• 6:28
  labs
• 6:29
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• 6:29
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• 6:29
  to
• 6:29
  build,
• 6:30
  their
• 6:30
  content
• 6:30
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• 6:31
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• 6:31
  the
• 6:31
  boundary
• 6:31
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• 6:32
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• 6:32
  most
• 6:32
  loudly,
• 6:33
  and
• 6:33
  White
• 6:34
  Circle
• 6:34
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• 6:34
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• 6:34
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• 6:34
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• 6:35
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• 6:35
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• 6:35
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• 6:36
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• 6:36
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• 6:37
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• 6:37
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• 6:37
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• 6:38
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• 6:38
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• 6:39
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• 6:39
  defenses
• 6:39
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• 6:40
  every
• 6:40
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• 6:40
  text-to-image
• 6:41
  model,
• 6:42
  producing
• 6:42
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• 6:42
  images
• 6:43
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• 6:43
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• 6:44
  DALL-E
• 6:45
  3
• 6:46
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• 6:46
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• 6:47
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• 6:48
  Google's
• 6:48
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• 6:48
  Banana
• 6:49
  2
• 6:49
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• 6:49
  up
• 6:50
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• 6:50
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• 6:51
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• 6:51
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• 6:51
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• 6:51
  The
• 6:52
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• 6:52
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• 6:52
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• 6:53
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• 6:53
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• 6:53
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• 6:53
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• 6:53
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• 6:54
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• 6:54
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• 6:55
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• 6:55
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• 6:55
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• 6:55
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• 6:56
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• 6:56
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
  Qwen3-32B
• 6:59
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• 6:59
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• 6:59
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• 7:00
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• 7:00
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• 7:00
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• 7:01
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• 7:01
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• 7:01
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• 7:02
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• 7:02
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• 7:02
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• 7:03
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• 7:03
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• 7:04
  them
• 7:04
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• 7:05
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• 7:05
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• 7:06
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• 7:06
  Google
• 7:06
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• 7:06
  replacement
• 7:07
  models
• 7:07
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• 7:07
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• 7:08
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• 7:08
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• 7:08
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• 7:09
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• 7:09
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• 7:10
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• 7:10
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• 7:11
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• 7:11
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• 7:11
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• 7:12
  success
• 7:12
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• 7:12
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• 7:13
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• 7:13
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• 7:14
  This
• 7:14
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• 7:14
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• 7:15
  with
• 7:15
  what
• 7:15
  red-team
• 7:16
  researchers
• 7:16
  have
• 7:16
  argued
• 7:17
  for
• 7:17
  a
• 7:17
  year:
• 7:18
  jailbreaks
• 7:18
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• 7:18
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• 7:19
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• 7:19
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• 7:20
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• 7:20
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• 7:20
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• 7:20
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• 7:21
  one
• 7:21
  at
• 7:21
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• 7:21
  time
• 7:21
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• 7:21
  structural
• 7:22
  regions
• 7:22
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• 7:23
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• 7:23
  input
• 7:23
  space,
• 7:24
  so
• 7:24
  a
• 7:24
  filter
• 7:24
  that
• 7:24
  blocks
• 7:25
  today's
• 7:25
  phrasing
• 7:26
  rarely
• 7:26
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• 7:26
  the
• 7:26
  underlying
• 7:27
  hole.
• 7:28
  The
• 7:28
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• 7:28
  control
• 7:29
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• 7:29
  strain
• 7:29
  is
• 7:29
  the
• 7:30
  one
• 7:30
  protecting
• 7:30
  a
• 7:30
  model's
• 7:31
  own
• 7:31
  reasoning.
• 7:32
  Ilia
• 7:32
  Shumailov,
• 7:33
  co-author
• 7:34
  of
• 7:34
  a
• 7:34
  distillation
• 7:35
  paper,
• 7:35
  took
• 7:36
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• 7:36
  victory
• 7:36
  lap
• 7:36
  on
• 7:36
  the
• 7:37
  industry's
• 7:37
  response,
• 7:38
  claiming
• 7:38
  that
• 7:39
  hidden-reasoning
• 7:39
  extraction
• 7:40
  forced
• 7:40
  every
• 7:40
  frontier
• 7:41
  lab
• 7:41
  to
• 7:42
  rewrite
• 7:42
  its
• 7:42
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• 7:43
  and
• 7:43
  that
• 7:43
  distillation
• 7:44
  had
• 7:44
  been
• 7:44
  5-7%
• 7:45
  of
• 7:45
  Anthropic's
• 7:46
  $16.8
• 7:47
  billion
• 7:47
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• 7:48
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• 7:48
  the
• 7:48
  crackdown
• 7:49
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• 7:49
  Keep
• 7:50
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• 7:50
  public
• 7:50
  record
• 7:51
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• 7:51
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• 7:51
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• 7:51
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• 7:52
  here.
• 7:52
  The
• 7:53
  documented
• 7:53
  facts
• 7:54
  are
• 7:54
  that
• 7:54
  the
• 7:54
  research
• 7:55
  showed
• 7:55
  reasoning
• 7:55
  traces
• 7:56
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• 7:56
  be
• 7:56
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• 7:57
  through
• 7:57
  an
• 7:57
  API
• 7:57
  vulnerability
• 7:58
  common
• 7:58
  to
• 7:59
  every
• 7:59
  frontier
• 7:59
  provider,
• 8:00
  that
• 8:00
  the
• 8:00
  extracted
• 8:01
  token
• 8:01
  counts
• 8:02
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• 8:02
  billed
• 8:02
  thinking
• 8:03
  tokens
• 8:03
  roughly
• 8:04
  one
• 8:04
  to
• 8:04
  one,
• 8:05
  and
• 8:05
  that
• 8:05
  the
• 8:05
  labs
• 8:05
  deployed
• 8:06
  emergency
• 8:06
  mitigations,
• 8:07
  with
• 8:07
  later
• 8:08
  audits
• 8:08
  finding
• 8:09
  those
• 8:09
  remediations
• 8:09
  fragmented
• 8:10
  and
• 8:10
  routinely
• 8:11
  circumvented
• 8:12
  across
• 8:12
  secondary
• 8:12
  clouds.
• 8:14
  The
• 8:14
  billion-dollar
• 8:15
  revenue
• 8:15
  figure
• 8:15
  is
• 8:16
  Shumailov's
• 8:16
  characterization,
• 8:17
  and
• 8:18
  Anthropic
• 8:18
  has
• 8:18
  not
• 8:18
  confirmed
• 8:19
  it;
• 8:20
  one
• 8:20
  reply
• 8:20
  in
• 8:20
  the
• 8:20
  thread
• 8:21
  asked
• 8:21
  exactly
• 8:22
  that
• 8:22
  question.
• 8:23
  What
• 8:23
  is
• 8:23
  settled
• 8:24
  is
• 8:24
  that
• 8:24
  API-level
• 8:25
  template
• 8:25
  fixes
• 8:26
  are
• 8:26
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• 8:26
  which
• 8:26
  is
• 8:27
  the
• 8:27
  same
• 8:27
  conclusion
• 8:28
  the
• 8:28
  image-model
• 8:28
  work
• 8:29
  reaches
• 8:29
  from
• 8:29
  the
• 8:29
  other
• 8:29
  direction.
• 8:33
  Stripe
• 8:33
  published
• 8:34
  the
• 8:34
  most
• 8:34
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• 8:34
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• 8:35
  writeup
• 8:36
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• 8:36
  a
• 8:36
  while,
• 8:36
  and
• 8:36
  the
• 8:36
  headline
• 8:37
  for
• 8:37
  anyone
• 8:38
  who
• 8:38
  has
• 8:38
  run
• 8:38
  risk
• 8:38
  at
• 8:38
  scale
• 8:39
  is
• 8:39
  that
• 8:39
  a
• 8:39
  small
• 8:40
  fine-tuned
• 8:40
  language
• 8:41
  model
• 8:41
  beat
• 8:42
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• 8:42
  usual
• 8:42
  tooling
• 8:42
  .
• 8:43
  Stripe
• 8:44
  makes
• 8:44
  thousands
• 8:44
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• 8:45
  risk
• 8:45
  decisions
• 8:45
  a
• 8:45
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• 8:46
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• 8:47
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• 8:47
  caught
• 8:47
  against
• 8:48
  legitimate
• 8:48
  businesses
• 8:49
  wrongly
• 8:49
  frozen.
• 8:50
  Its
• 8:50
  team
• 8:51
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• 8:51
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• 8:52
  features,
• 8:53
  card
• 8:53
  payments,
• 8:54
  money
• 8:54
  movement,
• 8:55
  account
• 8:55
  activity,
• 8:56
  into
• 8:56
  a
• 8:56
  text
• 8:56
  record
• 8:57
  and
• 8:57
  fine-tuned
• 8:58
  a
• 8:58
  4-billion-parameter
• 8:59
  open-weight
• 8:59
  model
• 9:00
  to
• 9:00
  predict
• 9:00
  review
• 9:00
  labels,
• 9:01
  deriving
• 9:02
  a
• 9:02
  continuous
• 9:02
  risk
• 9:02
  score
• 9:03
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• 9:03
  the
• 9:03
  probability
• 9:04
  it
• 9:04
  assigned
• 9:04
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• 9:04
  the
• 9:04
  fraud
• 9:05
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• 9:06
  Supervised
• 9:07
  fine-tuning
• 9:07
  beat
• 9:07
  domain-guided
• 9:08
  prompting
• 9:09
  by
• 9:09
  roughly
• 9:09
  24%
• 9:10
  in
• 9:10
  average
• 9:11
  precision
• 9:11
  and
• 9:11
  zero-shot
• 9:12
  prompting
• 9:12
  by
• 9:13
  70%,
• 9:14
  and
• 9:14
  across
• 9:14
  tasks
• 9:15
  it
• 9:15
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• 9:15
  precision
• 9:16
  more
• 9:16
  than
• 9:16
  21%
• 9:17
  at
• 9:17
  equal
• 9:17
  recall
• 9:18
  while
• 9:18
  consistently
• 9:18
  outperforming
• 9:19
  XGBoost.
• 9:21
  The
• 9:21
  mechanism
• 9:21
  is
• 9:21
  the
• 9:21
  interesting
• 9:22
  part:
• 9:22
  linear
• 9:23
  probes
• 9:23
  showed
• 9:24
  the
• 9:24
  biggest
• 9:24
  gains
• 9:24
  came
• 9:25
  not
• 9:25
  from
• 9:25
  learning
• 9:25
  new
• 9:26
  fraud
• 9:26
  signals
• 9:27
  but
• 9:27
  from
• 9:27
  better
• 9:27
  recognizing
• 9:28
  legitimate
• 9:28
  businesses,
• 9:30
  which
• 9:30
  is
• 9:30
  exactly
• 9:30
  how
• 9:31
  you
• 9:31
  reduce
• 9:31
  false
• 9:31
  positives
• 9:32
  without
• 9:32
  lowering
• 9:33
  your
• 9:33
  guard.
• 9:34
  That
• 9:34
  result
• 9:34
  cuts
• 9:35
  against
• 9:35
  earlier
• 9:35
  evidence
• 9:36
  that
• 9:36
  foundation
• 9:36
  models
• 9:37
  underperform
• 9:37
  gradient-boosted
• 9:38
  trees
• 9:39
  on
• 9:39
  tabular
• 9:39
  data,
• 9:40
  and
• 9:40
  it
• 9:40
  earns
• 9:40
  its
• 9:41
  place
• 9:41
  as
• 9:41
  a
• 9:41
  real
• 9:41
  counterexample
• 9:42
  precisely
• 9:43
  because
• 9:43
  Stripe
• 9:43
  showed
• 9:44
  its
• 9:44
  work.
• 9:45
  While
• 9:45
  the
• 9:45
  models
• 9:45
  get
• 9:46
  better
• 9:46
  at
• 9:46
  spotting
• 9:46
  fraud
• 9:47
  in
• 9:47
  software,
• 9:48
  the
• 9:48
  hardware
• 9:48
  is
• 9:48
  where
• 9:48
  the
• 9:49
  newest
• 9:49
  crypto
• 9:49
  theft
• 9:49
  lives.
• 9:50
  Ledger
• 9:51
  confirmed
• 9:51
  that
• 9:51
  devices
• 9:52
  sold
• 9:52
  through
• 9:52
  the
• 9:52
  Southeast
• 9:53
  Asian
• 9:53
  reseller
• 9:54
  CryptoBilis
• 9:55
  carried
• 9:55
  an
• 9:55
  unauthorized
• 9:56
  hardware
• 9:56
  implant
• 9:57
  that
• 9:57
  drained
• 9:57
  wallets
• 9:57
  .
• 9:58
  Researchers,
• 9:58
  including
• 9:59
  Mark
• 9:59
  Karpeles,
• 10:00
  documented
• 10:01
  an
• 10:01
  implant
• 10:01
  concealed
• 10:02
  behind
• 10:02
  the
• 10:02
  screen
• 10:02
  that
• 10:02
  captured
• 10:03
  display
• 10:03
  output
• 10:04
  and
• 10:04
  button
• 10:04
  presses
• 10:04
  to
• 10:05
  reconstruct
• 10:05
  the
• 10:05
  seed
• 10:06
  phrase,
• 10:06
  then
• 10:06
  transmitted
• 10:07
  it
• 10:07
  over
• 10:07
  LTE
• 10:08
  through
• 10:08
  a
• 10:08
  2-by-2-millimeter
• 10:09
  eSIM.
• 10:10
  One
• 10:10
  variant
• 10:11
  replaced
• 10:11
  the
• 10:11
  original
• 10:12
  battery
• 10:12
  with
• 10:12
  a
• 10:12
  smaller
• 10:13
  one
• 10:13
  to
• 10:13
  make
• 10:13
  room;
• 10:14
  a
• 10:14
  second,
• 10:15
  more
• 10:15
  advanced,
• 10:16
  ran
• 10:16
  on
• 10:16
  the
• 10:16
  stock
• 10:16
  battery
• 10:17
  and
• 10:17
  hid
• 10:17
  under
• 10:17
  the
• 10:17
  foam
• 10:18
  padding,
• 10:19
  its
• 10:19
  part
• 10:19
  markings
• 10:19
  scraped
• 10:20
  off.
• 10:21
  The
• 10:21
  tell
• 10:21
  in
• 10:21
  both
• 10:21
  was
• 10:22
  an
• 10:22
  antenna
• 10:22
  wire.
• 10:23
  This
• 10:23
  is
• 10:23
  the
• 10:23
  physical-layer
• 10:24
  version
• 10:24
  of
• 10:25
  an
• 10:25
  argument
• 10:25
  the
• 10:25
  software
• 10:26
  supply-chain
• 10:26
  attacks
• 10:27
  already
• 10:27
  made:
• 10:28
  self-custody
• 10:29
  moves
• 10:29
  trust
• 10:29
  to
• 10:29
  whatever
• 10:30
  mediates
• 10:30
  your
• 10:30
  keys,
• 10:31
  and
• 10:31
  Ledger's
• 10:31
  Genuine
• 10:32
  Check
• 10:32
  cannot
• 10:32
  detect
• 10:33
  an
• 10:33
  added
• 10:33
  implant
• 10:34
  while
• 10:34
  the
• 10:34
  Secure
• 10:34
  Element
• 10:34
  stays
• 10:35
  intact.
• 10:36
  "Not
• 10:36
  your
• 10:36
  keys,
• 10:37
  not
• 10:37
  your
• 10:37
  coins"
• 10:38
  offers
• 10:38
  cold
• 10:38
  comfort
• 10:39
  when
• 10:39
  the
• 10:39
  threat
• 10:39
  model
• 10:39
  now
• 10:40
  includes
• 10:40
  X-raying
• 10:41
  your
• 10:41
  mail.
• 10:44
  A
• 10:44
  week
• 10:44
  after
• 10:44
  CrowdStrike
• 10:45
  tied
• 10:45
  breaches
• 10:46
  of
• 10:46
  South
• 10:46
  Korean
• 10:47
  banks
• 10:47
  to
• 10:47
  an
• 10:47
  open-source
• 10:48
  agentic
• 10:48
  pentest
• 10:49
  tool
• 10:49
  called
• 10:49
  ARTEX,
• 10:50
  the
• 10:50
  derivative
• 10:50
  wave
• 10:51
  is
• 10:51
  here.
• 10:52
  Two
• 10:52
  near-identical
• 10:53
  repositories,
• 10:54
  a
• 10:54
  plainly
• 10:54
  named
• 10:55
  autonomous-pentest-agent
• 10:56
  and
• 10:56
  ScopeWeaver,
• 10:57
  are
• 10:57
  both
• 10:57
  rebrands
• 10:58
  of
• 10:58
  the
• 10:58
  same
• 10:58
  upstream
• 10:59
  ARTEX
• 10:59
  codebase,
• 11:00
  a
• 11:00
  Go
• 11:01
  monolith
• 11:01
  with
• 11:01
  an
• 11:01
  embedded
• 11:02
  Next.js
• 11:03
  frontend
• 11:03
  and
• 11:03
  a
• 11:03
  PostgreSQL
• 11:04
  store
• 11:04
  .
• 11:05
  The
• 11:06
  architecture
• 11:06
  is
• 11:06
  worth
• 11:07
  understanding
• 11:07
  because
• 11:08
  it
• 11:08
  is
• 11:08
  good
• 11:08
  engineering
• 11:09
  turned
• 11:09
  to
• 11:09
  an
• 11:09
  ugly
• 11:10
  purpose.
• 11:11
  A
• 11:11
  globally
• 11:11
  shared
• 11:12
  Asset
• 11:12
  Graph
• 11:12
  records
• 11:13
  cross-task
• 11:14
  truth
• 11:14
  about
• 11:14
  discovered
• 11:15
  hosts
• 11:15
  and
• 11:15
  services,
• 11:16
  while
• 11:16
  a
• 11:16
  per-task
• 11:17
  Exploration
• 11:18
  Graph
• 11:18
  tracks
• 11:18
  goals,
• 11:19
  facts
• 11:20
  and
• 11:20
  findings
• 11:20
  as
• 11:20
  lineage
• 11:21
  chains;
• 11:22
  a
• 11:22
  planner
• 11:22
  dispatches
• 11:23
  intents
• 11:23
  only
• 11:23
  toward
• 11:24
  uncovered
• 11:24
  ground,
• 11:25
  and
• 11:25
  worker
• 11:25
  goroutines
• 11:26
  execute
• 11:26
  real
• 11:27
  Kali
• 11:27
  and
• 11:27
  HTTP
• 11:28
  tooling
• 11:28
  through
• 11:28
  a
• 11:29
  recording
• 11:29
  proxy.
• 11:30
  A
• 11:30
  shared
• 11:30
  todolist
• 11:31
  survives
• 11:32
  the
• 11:32
  planner's
• 11:32
  stateless
• 11:32
  wake-ups
• 11:33
  so
• 11:33
  it
• 11:33
  can
• 11:33
  sequence
• 11:34
  an
• 11:34
  injection
• 11:34
  point
• 11:35
  into
• 11:35
  credentials
• 11:35
  into
• 11:35
  lateral
• 11:36
  movement.
• 11:37
  The
• 11:37
  ScopeWeaver
• 11:37
  fork
• 11:38
  adds
• 11:38
  English,
• 11:39
  Korean
• 11:39
  and
• 11:39
  Simplified
• 11:40
  Chinese
• 11:40
  interfaces,
• 11:41
  GLM
• 11:42
  and
• 11:42
  Ollama
• 11:43
  provider
• 11:43
  templates,
• 11:44
  and
• 11:44
  an
• 11:44
  opt-in
• 11:45
  local-only
• 11:45
  inference
• 11:46
  mode
• 11:46
  that
• 11:46
  blocks
• 11:46
  the
• 11:46
  agent's
• 11:47
  web
• 11:47
  search,
• 11:48
  which
• 11:48
  tells
• 11:48
  you
• 11:48
  the
• 11:48
  author
• 11:49
  expects
• 11:49
  operators
• 11:50
  who
• 11:50
  want
• 11:50
  no
• 11:50
  outbound
• 11:51
  telemetry
• 11:51
  .
• 11:52
  Both
• 11:52
  carry
• 11:52
  AGPL
• 11:53
  licenses
• 11:54
  and
• 11:54
  disclaimers
• 11:54
  restricting
• 11:55
  use
• 11:55
  to
• 11:55
  authorized,
• 11:56
  isolated
• 11:57
  testing,
• 11:57
  which
• 11:58
  is
• 11:58
  the
• 11:58
  fig
• 11:58
  leaf
• 11:58
  on
• 11:59
  every
• 11:59
  dual-use
• 11:59
  tool
• 12:00
  of
• 12:00
  this
• 12:00
  class.
• 12:01
  The
• 12:01
  reverse-engineering
• 12:02
  side
• 12:02
  has
• 12:02
  its
• 12:02
  own
• 12:02
  entrant,
• 12:03
  Seep
• 12:04
  Reverse
• 12:04
  Lab,
• 12:04
  which
• 12:05
  bills
• 12:05
  itself
• 12:05
  as
• 12:06
  an
• 12:06
  agent-native
• 12:06
  workbench
• 12:07
  consolidating
• 12:07
  Radare2,
• 12:08
  JADX,
• 12:09
  Apktool,
• 12:10
  Frida
• 12:10
  and
• 12:10
  IDA
• 12:11
  behind
• 12:11
  23
• 12:12
  MCP
• 12:12
  tools,
• 12:13
  where
• 12:13
  MCP
• 12:14
  is
• 12:14
  the
• 12:14
  Model
• 12:14
  Context
• 12:15
  Protocol
• 12:15
  .
• 12:16
  Here
• 12:16
  the
• 12:16
  honesty-in-advertising
• 12:18
  problem
• 12:18
  gets
• 12:18
  sharper.
• 12:19
  The
• 12:19
  project
• 12:20
  openly
• 12:20
  ships
• 12:21
  what
• 12:21
  it
• 12:21
  calls
• 12:21
  anti-refusal
• 12:22
  machinery:
• 12:23
  a
• 12:23
  disk-backed
• 12:24
  "Lab
• 12:24
  Mode"
• 12:24
  state
• 12:25
  that
• 12:25
  persists
• 12:25
  terminology-mapping
• 12:26
  and
• 12:26
  refusal
• 12:27
  overrides
• 12:27
  across
• 12:28
  model
• 12:28
  switches,
• 12:29
  a
• 12:29
  "BLOCK
• 12:29
  NONE
• 12:30
  injection"
• 12:30
  tier,
• 12:31
  and
• 12:31
  "Gemini-safe
• 12:32
  prompt
• 12:32
  reshaping."
• 12:33
  Strip
• 12:34
  the
• 12:34
  consulting-grade
• 12:35
  framing
• 12:35
  and
• 12:36
  this
• 12:36
  is
• 12:36
  tooling
• 12:36
  built
• 12:37
  to
• 12:37
  argue
• 12:37
  a
• 12:37
  safety-trained
• 12:38
  model
• 12:38
  out
• 12:39
  of
• 12:39
  its
• 12:39
  guardrails,
• 12:40
  bundled
• 12:40
  with
• 12:40
  14
• 12:41
  desensitized
• 12:42
  cracking
• 12:42
  paradigms
• 12:43
  covering
• 12:43
  Themida
• 12:43
  unpacking,
• 12:44
  keygen
• 12:45
  construction
• 12:46
  and
• 12:46
  RSA
• 12:46
  bypass.
• 12:47
  The
• 12:48
  standing
• 12:48
  editorial
• 12:49
  rule
• 12:49
  applies
• 12:49
  to
• 12:49
  all
• 12:50
  three:
• 12:50
  when
• 12:51
  a
• 12:51
  repo
• 12:51
  cites
• 12:51
  model
• 12:52
  rankings,
• 12:53
  separate
• 12:53
  willingness
• 12:54
  from
• 12:54
  skill,
• 12:54
  because
• 12:55
  a
• 12:55
  tool
• 12:55
  that
• 12:55
  completes
• 12:55
  an
• 12:56
  offensive
• 12:56
  task
• 12:56
  mostly
• 12:57
  measures
• 12:57
  how
• 12:57
  easy
• 12:58
  its
• 12:58
  backend
• 12:58
  was
• 12:59
  to
• 12:59
  jailbreak,
• 13:00
  not
• 13:00
  how
• 13:00
  capable
• 13:00
  it
• 13:00
  is.
• 13:01
  The
• 13:02
  reproducible-artifact
• 13:03
  bar
• 13:03
  that
• 13:03
  the
• 13:03
  better
• 13:03
  offensive
• 13:04
  projects
• 13:04
  have
• 13:05
  started
• 13:05
  meeting,
• 13:06
  verifiable
• 13:06
  flags
• 13:07
  and
• 13:07
  provenance
• 13:08
  gates,
• 13:08
  is
• 13:09
  the
• 13:09
  right
• 13:09
  thing
• 13:09
  to
• 13:09
  demand
• 13:10
  of
• 13:10
  these
• 13:10
  clones
• 13:10
  too.
• 13:14
  NVIDIA's
• 13:15
  Nemotron
• 13:15
  3.5
• 13:16
  Bolt
• 13:16
  is
• 13:17
  the
• 13:17
  clearest
• 13:17
  sign
• 13:17
  yet
• 13:18
  that
• 13:18
  2-bit
• 13:18
  is
• 13:18
  going
• 13:19
  mainstream
• 13:19
  rather
• 13:20
  than
• 13:20
  staying
• 13:20
  a
• 13:20
  desperate
• 13:21
  last
• 13:21
  resort
• 13:21
  .
• 13:22
  It
• 13:22
  is
• 13:22
  a
• 13:22
  74-billion-parameter
• 13:24
  mixture-of-experts
• 13:25
  model
• 13:25
  with
• 13:25
  9
• 13:25
  billion
• 13:26
  active,
• 13:27
  shipped
• 13:27
  as
• 13:27
  a
• 13:27
  native
• 13:27
  2-bit
• 13:28
  quantization-aware-trained
• 13:29
  checkpoint
• 13:30
  that
• 13:30
  fits
• 13:30
  in
• 13:30
  24
• 13:31
  GB
• 13:31
  alongside
• 13:32
  other
• 13:32
  applications,
• 13:33
  built
• 13:33
  on
• 13:33
  a
• 13:33
  Mamba-2
• 13:34
  and
• 13:34
  Transformer
• 13:35
  hybrid
• 13:35
  with
• 13:35
  a
• 13:35
  256K
• 13:37
  context
• 13:37
  window.
• 13:38
  The
• 13:38
  key
• 13:39
  word
• 13:39
  is
• 13:39
  quantization-aware:
• 13:40
  rather
• 13:41
  than
• 13:41
  crushing
• 13:41
  a
• 13:41
  bf16
• 13:42
  model
• 13:43
  after
• 13:43
  the
• 13:43
  fact
• 13:43
  and
• 13:44
  watching
• 13:44
  it
• 13:44
  stall
• 13:44
  mid-task,
• 13:45
  NVIDIA
• 13:46
  trained
• 13:46
  at
• 13:46
  the
• 13:46
  target
• 13:47
  precision,
• 13:47
  which
• 13:48
  is
• 13:48
  the
• 13:48
  direct
• 13:48
  answer
• 13:48
  to
• 13:49
  a
• 13:49
  long-running
• 13:49
  community
• 13:50
  complaint
• 13:50
  that
• 13:50
  post-hoc
• 13:51
  quants
• 13:51
  degrade
• 13:52
  fastest
• 13:52
  in
• 13:52
  exactly
• 13:53
  the
• 13:53
  multi-turn
• 13:54
  agent
• 13:54
  loops
• 13:54
  people
• 13:55
  most
• 13:55
  want
• 13:55
  to
• 13:55
  run
• 13:55
  locally.
• 13:56
  The
• 13:57
  skepticism
• 13:57
  in
• 13:57
  the
• 13:57
  comments
• 13:58
  is
• 13:58
  healthy
• 13:58
  and
• 13:58
  earned.
• 14:00
  One
• 14:00
  reader
• 14:00
  noted
• 14:00
  the
• 14:01
  training
• 14:01
  blend
• 14:01
  targeted
• 14:02
  named
• 14:02
  benchmarks
• 14:03
  with
• 14:03
  synthetic
• 14:03
  data
• 14:04
  from
• 14:04
  Kimi-K3
• 14:05
  and
• 14:05
  GLM
• 14:06
  5.2,
• 14:07
  which
• 14:07
  is
• 14:07
  benchmaxxing
• 14:08
  by
• 14:08
  any
• 14:09
  honest
• 14:09
  definition,
• 14:10
  even
• 14:10
  if
• 14:10
  everyone
• 14:11
  does
• 14:11
  it.
• 14:12
  Treat
• 14:12
  the
• 14:12
  2-bit
• 14:12
  scores
• 14:13
  as
• 14:13
  a
• 14:13
  ceiling
• 14:13
  and
• 14:14
  watch
• 14:14
  how
• 14:14
  it
• 14:14
  holds
• 14:14
  up
• 14:15
  across
• 14:15
  a
• 14:15
  real
• 14:15
  conversation.
• 14:16
  Two
• 14:17
  other
• 14:17
  open
• 14:17
  releases
• 14:18
  round
• 14:18
  out
• 14:18
  the
• 14:18
  week.
• 14:19
  Switzerland's
• 14:19
  Apertus
• 14:20
  1.5
• 14:21
  extends
• 14:21
  its
• 14:21
  8B
• 14:22
  and
• 14:22
  70B
• 14:23
  models
• 14:23
  with
• 14:23
  image
• 14:24
  and
• 14:24
  audio
• 14:24
  understanding,
• 14:25
  an
• 14:26
  optional
• 14:26
  thinking
• 14:26
  mode,
• 14:27
  and
• 14:27
  a
• 14:27
  context
• 14:28
  window
• 14:28
  stretched
• 14:28
  to
• 14:28
  262,144
• 14:31
  tokens,
• 14:32
  all
• 14:32
  under
• 14:32
  Apache
• 14:33
  2.0
• 14:34
  and
• 14:34
  all
• 14:34
  genuinely
• 14:35
  open,
• 14:36
  with
• 14:36
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• 14:36
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• 14:37
  recipes
• 14:37
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• 14:37
  intermediate
• 14:38
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• 14:39
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• 14:39
  .
• 14:40
  The
• 14:40
  more
• 14:40
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• 14:41
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• 14:41
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• 14:42
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• 14:42
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• 14:43
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• 14:44
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• 14:44
  publishes
• 14:45
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• 14:45
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• 14:45
  Evaluation
• 14:46
  Cards
• 14:46
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• 14:46
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• 14:46
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• 14:47
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• 14:47
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• 14:47
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• 14:47
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• 14:48
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• 14:48
  benchmark
• 14:48
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• 14:49
  how,
• 14:49
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• 14:49
  the
• 14:50
  team
• 14:50
  notes
• 14:50
  the
• 14:50
  format
• 14:51
  can
• 14:51
  represent
• 14:51
  56
• 14:52
  of
• 14:52
  the
• 14:52
  60
• 14:52
  evaluation-reporting
• 14:53
  elements
• 14:54
  that
• 14:54
  the
• 14:54
  EU
• 14:54
  AI
• 14:55
  Act
• 14:55
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• 14:55
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• 14:55
  GPAI
• 14:56
  Code
• 14:56
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• 14:56
  Practice
• 14:57
  call
• 14:57
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• 14:58
  That
• 14:58
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• 14:59
  the
• 14:59
  structural
• 14:59
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• 14:59
  to
• 15:00
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• 15:00
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• 15:00
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• 15:00
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• 15:01
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• 15:01
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• 15:01
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• 15:01
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• 15:03
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• 15:03
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• 15:04
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• 15:04
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• 15:05
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• 15:05
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• 15:06
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• 15:06
  time-series
• 15:06
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• 15:07
  models
• 15:07
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• 15:08
  5M
• 15:08
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• 15:08
  209M
• 15:09
  parameters
• 15:10
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• 15:10
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• 15:10
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• 15:11
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• 15:11
  multivariate
• 15:11
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• 15:12
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• 15:13
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• 15:14
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• 15:14
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• 15:14
  output
• 15:15
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• 15:15
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• 15:15
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• 15:16
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• 15:17
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• 15:17
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• 15:17
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• 15:19
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• 15:19
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• 15:20
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  For
• 15:21
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• 15:21
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• 15:21
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• 15:22
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• 15:22
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• 15:23
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• 15:23
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• 15:23
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• 15:25
  Toto
• 15:25
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• 15:25
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• 15:26
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• 15:27
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• 15:27
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• 15:27
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• 15:27
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• 15:28
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• 15:28
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• 15:28
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• 15:28
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• 15:29
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• 15:29
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• 15:29
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• 15:30
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• 15:31
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• 15:31
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• 15:31
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• 15:32
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• 15:32
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• 15:33
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• 15:33
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• 15:33
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• 15:34
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• 15:34
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• 15:34
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• 15:34
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• 15:35
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• 15:36
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• 15:37
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• 15:37
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• 15:40
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• 15:41
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• 15:41
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• 15:41
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• 15:42
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• 15:42
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• 15:43
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• 15:43
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• 15:43
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• 15:44
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• 15:44
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• 15:46
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• 15:46
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• 15:46
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• 15:47
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• 15:47
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• 15:47
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• 15:48
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• 15:48
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• 15:49
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• 15:49
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• 15:50
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• 15:51
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• 15:51
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• 15:52
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• 15:53
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• 15:53
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• 15:53
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• 15:54
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• 15:54
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• 15:55
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• 15:55
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• 15:55
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• 15:55
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• 15:56
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• 15:56
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• 15:57
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• 15:57
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• 15:57
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• 15:57
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• 15:57
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• 15:58
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• 15:58
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• 15:59
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• 15:59
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• 15:59
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• 15:59
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• 16:00
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• 16:00
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• 16:00
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• 16:01
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• 16:01
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• 16:02
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• 16:02
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• 16:02
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• 16:02
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• 16:02
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• 16:03
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• 16:03
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• 16:04
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• 16:04
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• 16:04
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• 16:05
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• 16:05
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• 16:05
  a
• 16:05
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• 16:06
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• 16:06
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• 16:06
  Reefine.
• 16:07
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• 16:07
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• 16:08
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• 16:08
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• 16:09
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• 16:10
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• 16:11
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• 16:11
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• 16:11
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• 16:11
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• 16:11
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• 16:12
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• 16:13
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• 16:13
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• 16:13
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• 16:13
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• 16:13
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• 16:14
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• 16:14
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• 16:14
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• 16:14
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• 16:15
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• 16:15
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• 16:16
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• 16:16
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• 16:16
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• 16:16
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• 16:17
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• 16:17
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• 16:18
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• 16:18
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• 16:18
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• 16:19
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• 16:19
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• 16:19
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• 16:19
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• 16:20
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• 16:21
  The
• 16:21
  security
• 16:21
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• 16:22
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• 16:22
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• 16:22
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• 16:23
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• 16:23
  what
• 16:23
  this
• 16:23
  means
• 16:24
  in
• 16:24
  practice:
• 16:25
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• 16:25
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• 16:26
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• 16:26
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• 16:26
  model-proposed
• 16:27
  changes
• 16:28
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• 16:28
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• 16:28
  invoking
• 16:28
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• 16:29
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• 16:29
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• 16:29
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• 16:30
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• 16:30
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• 16:30
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• 16:30
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• 16:31
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• 16:31
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• 16:32
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• 16:32
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• 16:32
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• 16:32
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• 16:32
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• 16:33
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• 16:33
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• 16:33
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• 16:33
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• 16:34
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• 16:34
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• 16:35
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• 16:35
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• 16:36
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• 16:36
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• 16:36
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• 16:36
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• 16:36
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• 16:37
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• 16:37
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• 16:37
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• 16:38
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• 16:38
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• 16:39
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• 16:39
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• 16:40
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• 16:40
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• 16:40
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• 16:40
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• 16:40
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• 16:41
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• 16:41
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• 16:42
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• 16:42
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• 16:43
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• 16:43
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• 16:43
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• 16:43
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• 16:44
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• 16:44
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• 16:44
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• 16:45
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• 16:45
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• 16:46
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• 16:46
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• 16:47
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• 16:47
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• 16:47
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• 16:47
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• 16:47
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• 16:48
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• 16:48
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• 16:48
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• 16:48
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• 16:49
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• 16:49
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• 16:50
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• 16:50
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• 16:50
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• 16:51
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• 16:51
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• 16:52
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• 16:52
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• 16:52
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• 16:53
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• 16:53
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• 16:53
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• 16:54
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• 16:54
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• 16:55
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• 16:55
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• 16:56
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• 16:56
  Stream
• 16:56
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• 16:56
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• 16:57
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• 16:57
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• 16:57
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• 16:57
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• 16:58
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• 16:58
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• 16:59
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• 16:59
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• 16:59
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• 16:59
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• 16:59
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• 17:00
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• 17:00
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• 17:01
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• 17:01
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• 17:01
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• 17:02
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• 17:02
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• 17:02
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• 17:03
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• 17:03
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• 17:04
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• 17:04
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• 17:04
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• 17:04
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• 17:04
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• 17:05
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• 17:06
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• 17:06
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• 17:06
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• 17:06
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• 17:07
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• 17:07
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• 17:07
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• 17:08
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• 17:08
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• 17:08
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• 17:08
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• 17:09
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• 17:09
  can
• 17:09
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• 17:09
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• 17:10
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• 17:10
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• 17:11
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• 17:11
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• 17:12
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• 17:13
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• 17:13
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• 17:13
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• 17:13
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• 17:14
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• 17:14
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• 17:15
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• 17:15
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• 17:16
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• 17:17
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• 17:17
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• 17:17
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• 17:18
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• 17:18
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• 17:19
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• 17:19
  Xcode
• 17:20
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• 17:20
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• 17:21
  builds
• 17:21
  and
• 17:21
  signs
• 17:22
  iOS
• 17:22
  apps
• 17:22
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• 17:23
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• 17:23
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• 17:23
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• 17:24
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• 17:24
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• 17:25
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• 17:25
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• 17:25
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• 17:25
  of
• 17:25
  the
• 17:25
  last
• 17:26
  toolchains
• 17:26
  that
• 17:26
  still
• 17:27
  chains
• 17:27
  developers
• 17:28
  to
• 17:28
  a
• 17:28
  single
• 17:28
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• 17:29
  hardware
• 17:29
  .
• 17:30
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• 17:30
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• 17:30
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• 17:30
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• 17:30
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• 17:31
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• 17:31
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• 17:32
  Lab,
• 17:32
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• 17:32
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• 17:33
  Star
• 17:33
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• 17:33
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• 17:33
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• 17:34
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• 17:34
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• 17:34
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• 17:35
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• 17:35
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• 17:35
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• 17:35
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• 17:36
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• 17:36
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• 17:36
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• 17:37
  with
• 17:37
  the
• 17:37
  honest
• 17:37
  admission
• 17:38
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• 17:38
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• 17:39
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• 17:39
  simulation
• 17:40
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• 17:40
  never
• 17:40
  scale
• 17:41
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• 17:41
  the
• 17:41
  real
• 17:41
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• 17:41
  is
• 17:42
  finding
• 17:42
  the
• 17:42
  right
• 17:42
  abstractions
• 17:43
  for
• 17:43
  life's
• 17:43
  computational
• 17:44
  primitives,
• 17:45
  using
• 17:45
  machine-learning
• 17:46
  models
• 17:46
  of
• 17:46
  biomolecules
• 17:47
  as
• 17:47
  the
• 17:47
  scaffolding
• 17:48
  along
• 17:48
  the
• 17:48
  way
• 17:49
  .