How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.

-- Matt Haig

The long-awaited "Leiden Declaration" on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics is now live and seeking signatories: https://leidendeclaration.ai/

This declaration stemmed from a workshop in Leiden University last September on "Mechanization and Mathematical Research", where it became clear how important it was in the age of AI to make explicit the goals and values of the mathematical community. Many of these goals have long been left implicit, being disseminated informally from advisor to student, or through mechanisms such as the peer review process. So long as the community was largely driven by internal decisions, this implicit system sufficed, and we only needed to share a few explicit goals with the broader public, such as working on unsolved problems, discovering new mathematical phenomena, or applying mathematics to the sciences or other real-world situations.

But in an era where increasingly powerful AI can be set to optimize (or over-optimize) many of the goals that are explicitly presented to them, such an informal state of affairs becomes inadequate, and so the Leiden working group gathered extensive input from the mathematical community to find consensus on what we truly value in mathematics, and how we recommend individual mathematicians, mathematical institutions and external organizations to act. I myself contributed some feedback to an early version of the declaration, but was not part of the working group. (1/2)

New, by me: A number of high-profile and/or valuable Instagram accounts, including those of the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant for the U.S. Space Force, got hacked and defaced with pro-Iran messaging in the past 24h after people figured out that Meta's AI support assistant could be tricked into resetting account passwords.

From the story:

"A video released on Telegram by pro-Iran hackers claimed to document a remarkably simple exploit that appears to have involved using a VPN connection with an IP address that is in or near the target's usual hometown, requesting a password reset for the account, and then choosing to chat with Meta's AI support assistant. From there, the video shows the attacker told the bot to link the account in question to a new email address, after which the bot dutifully sent that address a one-time code that allowed a password reset."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/

#meta #instagram #hack #ai #security

After doing a couple of private workshops on how to use #Mastodon, I've decided I could just record a series of tutorials and have everyone benefit from it. Mastodon has a lot of features, and sometimes even long time users aren't aware of all of them! The first episode is about making posts on Mastodon--going over every aspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNBKHTa3Irk

Дубайбад – ремонти и блокирани улици

Преди две седмици писах за "Дубайбад" и няколко проекта, които са на идейна фаза, но почти сигурно ще се случат под някаква форма и затова ги поместих в картата на (пре)застрояването. Там коментирах как улицата, където е един от проектите - Тинтява, вече е претоварена и ще става по-зле. В дните след статията ми видяхме нагледно как би изглеждало това.

https://yurukov.net/blog/2026/dubaibad-ulici/

#Microsoft says:

Uncoordinated disclosures that put proof-of-concept code for unpatched vulnerabilities into the hands of bad actors are never justifiable and have real-world consequences

Lucky for us, those vulns just occur spontaneously in nature. It would be awful if a company brought the unpatched vulnerabilities to market and sold them at a profit with no liability for doing so.

More to the point, it is a very debatable position that companies like Microsoft should have no accountability (warranty, liability, whatever) no matter how bad their released software is. Microsoft omits how the law treats them so specially.

Microsoft wants the exploit maker held accountable. Microsoft is very interested in seeing the law applied to HIM. Laws holding THEM accountable for vulns? Suddenly they’re not as interested.

Heisenberg’s importance. Windows occupies two simultaneous states: so important that we must’t recklessly disclose vulns, but not important enough to regulate for the good of society.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/28/microsoft-0-day-feud-escalates-as-researcher-threatens-another-windows-exploit-dump/5248085