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Au sortir de la Révolution, alors que la recherche scientifique s’institutionnalise en France, la mathématicienne Sophie Germain émerge presque miraculeusement. Derrière le mythe de l’enfant autodidac...

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[new blog post] Towards Designing an Execution Control System with Metastability Resilience muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/08/towa...

I wrote up a short blog post giving my thoughts on the new Anthropic cryptanalysis results against HAWK and AES. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/s...

Some notes about Anthropic’s new results

Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAW…

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Diane Martel was a pioneering hip hop director whose work captured what our lives looked liked and shaped NY’s visual identity. Her work impacted me so I wanted to write about it. open.substack.com/pub/senykama...

Diane Martel and the Martel Aesthetic

Last September I learned that Diane Martel had passed away.

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NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.

We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist

NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.

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"We're all worried," as what it means to do research (in my field, Theoretical CS) seems to be shifting, and shifting fast. What to do? Senior researchers must lead by example, knowing that not everything will pan out. What I'm suggesting below may not work everywhere, but here's my own advice: 1/

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LLMs won't break symmetric crypto

And Anthropic's cryptanalysis work is great

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I visited Sorelle at Haverford a few years ago to give a talk. Beautiful campus and great students.

sorelle@friedler.net · last wk.

My department is hiring tenure-track in computer science! Deadline: Oct 1, 2026. We care about and support both research and teaching. We're located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. It's a great place to work and live! I'm happy to answer any questions. www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

This is the second note in my series on power. It classifies power systems by what their participants can know and defines the power span, which is the set of systems an agent can generate by exercising its powers: www.senykamara.com/power/notes/...

Seny Kamara | Notes on Power #2: Observations and Power Spans

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Latex on Substack is just too painful, so I'm going to host my notes on power on my homepage. This is a more detailed version of #1: www.senykamara.com/power/notes/...

Seny Kamara | Notes on Power #1: Power Systems

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Seny Kamara@senykamara.com · 2w ago

This is the first of my formal posts on power, where I define what I mean by a power system and apply it to a couple of examples. I’ll keep the formal ones labeled as “Notes on Power” in case you want to skip them and just read the more philosophical ones.

new blog post] Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/07/auro...

Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP

The Aurora DSQL paper finally dropped . Reading it yesterday was an interesting experience, because I spent two years (2022-23) working with...

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I have been radicalized against my own work

This is the first of my formal posts on power, where I define what I mean by a power system and apply it to a couple of examples. I’ll keep the formal ones labeled as “Notes on Power” in case you want to skip them and just read the more philosophical ones.

Notes on Power #1: Power Systems

In my last post, I described a situation that highlighted the difference between acting inside a system and controlling it.

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I really enjoyed reading this essay from a cryptographer trying to make sense of their work and life experiences. Raises interesting questions, including whether doing crypto erodes your trust in people. open.substack.com/pub/vishady/...

Fully Human

Reflections on trust and power, and how that has played into my experience as a cryptographer.

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Today I redesigned my website + started a blog :) sophie.huiberts.me/blog/2026/ha...

We've opensourced a simulation-based distributed property testing framework for #rustlang (based on proptest) Use case : finding minimal counterexamples to "does it converge within T rounds?" WIP: checking traces of black-box tools like Jepsen . Open to feedback! github.com/unfoldml/pro...

GitHub - unfoldml/propsim: Property-based testing for distributed protocols

Property-based testing for distributed protocols . Contribute to unfoldml/propsim development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Cynthia Dwork & other privacy experts show why Trump Admin’s politically motivated decision to prevent the Census Bureau from using the best methods to protect confidentiality will end up with worse quality data, less publicly available data, and/or a privacy breach. scottaaronson.blog?p=9902

An American privacy emergency: Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al.

Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to…

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This is a deeply personal and touching essay from one of my colleagues at MongoDB

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis@emptysqua.re · last mo.

My dharma talk about my estranged, lying father has been featured in @tricyclemag.bsky.social tricycle.org/article/the-...

The discussion of what makes for 'real' work here really effectively shadows an academic debate going on in the Marxology world currently about Alfred Sohn-Rethel's (mid-century Marxist) diagnosis of capital as a "real abstraction".

This is a fantastic essay from @jessica.bsky.social about what it means to do real work/research open.substack.com/pub/letterst...

on doing Real work

a working theory

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Are you curious about the environmental impact of AI? Install the AI Impact Tracker to estimate the environmental footprint of your ChatGPT usage, including energy, water, and CO2. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-im... #FAccT2026

Genuine question for academic cryptographers: does it still make sense to work on non-PQ-secure primitives?

Cryptography rearranges power. So let's start from the basics: what is power? ⬇️

Seny Kamara@senykamara.com · last mo.

I've been thinking about power a lot, both because it underlies a lot of my work and because so many of the most consequential debates right now are fundamentally about it. This is the first post of a series where I try to make sense of it. open.substack.com/pub/senykama...

Note that @reniebird.bsky.social also runs the (already very) successful CNTR summer school on AI policy: don't miss out on the extensive expertise you're getting from this group!

Serena Booth@reniebird.bsky.social · last mo.

Policymakers by and large don't read academic papers! If you're looking for policy impact, you need to show up. First you need to learn _how_ to show up. Excited to cohost this #FAccT2026 craft session with @rone.bsky.social, @narijohnson.bsky.social, Cynthia Bailey, and Danaé Metaxa.

This is very concerning

Science Magazine@science.org · last mo.

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

I've been thinking about power a lot, both because it underlies a lot of my work and because so many of the most consequential debates right now are fundamentally about it. This is the first post of a series where I try to make sense of it. open.substack.com/pub/senykama...

What is Power?

And can we reason about it precisely?

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"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless, and a team somewhere else is a decade into a problem that may take another decade to crack... If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."

Tobin L. Smith@scipolguy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

On Juneteenth, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers whose struggle and determination brought us closer to justice. At Foley Square, Lorenzo Pace's sculpture stands as a powerful tribute to that legacy.

Triumph of the Human Spirit

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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In the centre of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, stands a statue of Patrice Lumumba. He was thirty-five when he became the first prime minister of an independent Congo, in June 1960.

Anthropic just shut access to Fable & Mythos, their most powerful models. I wrote up what happened + the policy and psychodrama behind it (with all the links & receipts) here — the thread below is the TL;DR 🧵 blog.geomblog.org/2026/06/the-...