This is an explanation of the Cryptography challenge 'New Caesar' from CyLab Security Academy (formerly picoCTF). You are provided with a short ciphertext and the single Python script that created it.

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We finish off our short series on SLM optimization with the third entry, focused on batching by length instead of looping ...

Claude connectors are MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that extend Claude with real-time access to external tools, data sources, and services. They work across Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Claude ...

For the past few days, I’ve been testing the (currently) top-of-the-line M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB of RAM. I’ll cut to the chase: the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is a dream machine for local AI agents.

The ChatGPT moment in 2022 taught AI to talk to people. One of its builders now bets the next moment is AI that talks to software, not people. TypeSafe AI released Jev. Jev is transformer-based, but ...