2025-07-14
A $8.2M Hack and the Blind Spot in Ethereum Smart Contract Verification
A critical flaw in Visor Finance’s smart contract led to an $8.2M loss due to poor address verification. This article breaks down how the exploit worked, why it passed sanity...
Inside Ethereum’s Smart Contract Ecosystem: Security, Tokens, and Whitelist Verification
This article breaks down how Ethereum smart contracts function, with a focus on external accounts, the EVM, ERC-20 tokens, and DApps. It explores DeFi’s explosive growth and the importance of...
A New Tool Uncovers Over $11.2 Billion at Risk in Ethereum Smart Contracts
Address verification flaws in Ethereum smart contracts pose serious risks. AVVERIFIER, a new static analysis tool, detects these vulnerabilities with 94.3% precision and 100% recall. It flagged over 800 contracts...
Application development without programmers
Application development without programmers This book by James Martin published in 1982, includes the following in the preface: Applications development did not change much for 20 years, but now a...
The Role of Respect: Why we inevitably appeal to authority
Published on July 14, 2025 9:28 PM GMTThere is a large class of true statements which are indistinguishable from nonsense, and this is a problem for rationality. There's also a...
The AI Framework Trap
The current landscape for choosing open-source AI frameworks is nothing short of chaotic. Teams often jump on whatever’s trending: the newest GitHub star, flashy demos, or buzzwords they hope will...
Restaurant Uses AI for Menu, Accidentally Describes Appetizer in Way So Disgusting That We May Never Recover
Artificial intelligence has invariably infiltrated the restaurant world, leading to some outrageous — and at times disgusting — fails. As flagged on Bluesky, a random restaurant in Sikar, the capital...
All Mr Faber Work bonus objectives in GTA Online
How to complete all six missions for Faber in the Money Fronts update.
Making Sense of Consciousness Part 3: The Pulvinar Nucleus
Published on July 14, 2025 9:20 PM GMTGray’s Anatomy, “Hind- and mid-brains; postero-lateral view.” Pulvinar circled in orange.Back in Part 1, I found an interesting candidate for a cross-sensory region...
“Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets...
“Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets to support.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
LLM-induced craziness and base rates
Published on July 14, 2025 9:16 PM GMTOne billion people use chatbots on a weekly basis. That’s 1 in every 8 people on Earth.How many people have mental health issues...
Elmore Leonard’s Perfect Pitch
Anthony Lane, in a crackerjack piece for The New Yorker on the writing and work of Elmore Leonard: So, when does Leonard become himself? Is it possible to specify the...
'A future has been stolen from many of us and our community will never experience an amazing game': Microsoft MMO devs respond to cancelation of project Phil Spencer reportedly loved
The cancellation of ZeniMax Online Studios' new game happened earlier this month as part of Microsoft's latest round of mass layoffs.
GTA 4's most famous lighting mod gets its first major update in 11 years, brightening up Liberty City from cloud to ground
If Windows 11 broke your favorite GTA 4 mod, I've got good news.
Narrow Misalignment is Hard, Emergent Misalignment is Easy
Published on July 14, 2025 9:05 PM GMTAnna and Ed are co-first authors for this work. We’re presenting these results as a research update for a continuing body of work,...
Experts Said This Was a Damn Clever Post by Jason Kottke
Jason Kottke: Large media companies, and the NY Times in particular these days, like to use the phrase “experts said” instead of simply stating facts. The thing is, many other...
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The Three Ideological Stances
Published on July 14, 2025 8:14 PM GMTShort Post: I want to get the idea out.I have written in the past about a type of intellectual distraction I call "Attention...
How to complete Safeguard Deliveries in GTA Online
A quick step-by-step for maximizing your time and profits from easy Safeguard Deliveries in GTA Online's Money Fronts update.
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