JadePuffer ransomware used AI agent to automate entire attack

Researchers identified what they believe is the first documented case of a ransomware operation, JadePuffer, conducted ...
Tech Times

OpenAI Silently Rolled GPT-5.6 to Some Codex Users: A Hidden Prompt Exposes the Swap

GPT-5.6 was already running in Codex for some users before OpenAI’s government-approved preview opened to partners. A ...
GitHub

Function decoration for backoff and retry — modern, fast, zero dependencies.

backon is a modern evolution of backoff — a zero-dependency Python library for retry with exponential backoff. It provides decorator, functional, and context manager APIs for both sync and async code.
IEEE

Proof of Random Leader: A Fast and Manipulation-Resistant Proof-of-Authority Consensus Algorithm for Permissioned Blockchains Using Verifiable Random Function

Abstract: Proof of Authority (PoA) is a widely adopted consensus algorithm for permissioned blockchain networks, where a group of trusted entities governs the network. PoA is known for achieving rapid ...
GitHub

sync-admin-api-plan.md

Work required in this repo to support the td-watch admin module. td-watch is a SvelteKit web app (BFF + frontend) that proxies all data access through td-sync's HTTP API. td-watch never touches SQLite ...
IEEE

Penalty Function-Based Distributed Primal-Dual Algorithm for Nonconvex Optimization Problem

Abstract: This paper addresses the distributed nonconvex optimization problem, where both the global cost function and local inequality constraint function are nonconvex. To tackle this issue, the ...