Autoregressive Vision-LLMs: A Simplified Mathematical Formulation

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work 2.1 Vision-LLMs 2.2 Transferable Adversarial Attacks Preliminaries 3.1 Revisiting Auto-Regressive Vision-LLMs 3.2 Typographic Attacks in Vision-LLMs-based AD Systems Methodology 4.1 Auto-Generation of Typographic Attack 4.2 Augmentations of Typographic Attack 4.3 Realizations of Typographic Attacks Experiments Conclusion and References 3 Preliminaries 3.1 Revisiting Auto-Regressive Vision-LLMs :::info Authors: … Read more

The Vulnerability of Autonomous Driving to Typographic Attacks: Transferability and Realizability

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work 2.1 Vision-LLMs 2.2 Transferable Adversarial Attacks Preliminaries 3.1 Revisiting Auto-Regressive Vision-LLMs 3.2 Typographic Attacks in Vision-LLMs-based AD Systems Methodology 4.1 Auto-Generation of Typographic Attack 4.2 Augmentations of Typographic Attack 4.3 Realizations of Typographic Attacks Experiments Conclusion and References 2.2 Transferable Adversarial Attacks Adversarial attacks are most … Read more

LLMs + Vector Databases: Building Memory Architectures for AI Agents

The Memory Challenge: Why Agents Need More Than Raw Compute Machine learning models that handle inputs and outputs in separate formats and files are familiar to data scientists and experts. As in most situations, AI agents are needed to maintain context, learn from interactions, and access massive knowledge stores that no model can handle, requiring … Read more

History Could Teach Us a Lot About Today’s Algorithms

Ancient priests had incense. Sophists had rhetoric. Today, we have algorithms—faster, subtler, and everywhere. The war on human attention can be traced back many millennia. In the 5th Century BC, the Greek Sophists were masters of persuasion who battled for citizens’ attention in public squares, teaching techniques to sway opinion regardless of truth. Plato often … Read more

Everything You Need to Know About PostgreSQL 18: The AIO Revolution, UUIDv7, and More

PostgreSQL 18, released on September 25, 2025, includes major features focused on performance, manageability, and developer experience. This is a landmark release. It’s not just an incremental update; it’s a fundamental shift that directly addresses some of the long-standing performance, operational, and development pain points in high-scale Postgres environments. This release delivers on two major … Read more

YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5 million settlement

YouTube has settled a lawsuit President Donald Trump filed against the company in 2021, according to The Wall Street Journal. Trump filed sweeping lawsuits against Google-owned YouTube, Meta (then Facebook), and X (then Twitter) after he was suspended from the platforms, and now all three companies have settled with the president. YouTube will pay $24.5 … Read more

SB 53, the landmark AI transparency bill, is now law in California

Senate Bill 53, the landmark AI transparency bill that has divided AI companies and made headlines for months, is now officially law in California.  On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the “Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act,” which was authored by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA). It’s the second draft of such a bill, as … Read more

The Rise of Self-Healing Web Apps

For decades, the web has been fragile. A single JavaScript error could freeze a page, a missing API could break a feature, or a slow network could ruin the experience. Users refresh, developers debug, and everyone loses time. But in 2025, we’re entering a new era: self-healing web applications. These are apps designed to recover from errors … Read more

Custom Email Notifications for Databricks Pipeline Failures

When working with Databricks pipelines and workflows, failures are inevitable. While Databricks provides built-in notifications for job failures, these alerts are often not customizable and may not fit specific reporting or formatting needs. A more flexible and cost-effective approach is to set up custom email notifications that include pipeline details and error messages in a … Read more

Microsoft is bringing its Windows engineering teams back together again

Windows is coming back together. Microsoft is bringing its key Windows engineering teams under a single organization again, as part of a reorg being announced today. Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, who was just promoted to president of Windows and devices earlier this month, shared the changes to Microsoft’s Windows teams in an internal memo. “This … Read more

Tile’s lack of encryption could make tracker owners vulnerable to stalking

Security researchers are shining the spotlight on a serious security vulnerability that could enable stalkers to track victims using their own Tile tags, as well as other unwanted violations of security and privacy. Research outlined by Wired shows that Tile’s anti-theft mode, which makes its trackers “invisible” on the Tile network, counteracts measures to prevent … Read more

Landing Page Analytics: Why Traditional Tools Fail

I’ve been optimizing landing pages for the better part of a decade, and there’s something that’s always bothered me about how we approach analytics for them. Most of us default to Google Analytics, Mixpanel, or similar tools because they’re familiar and comprehensive. But here’s the thing: landing pages aren’t websites. They’re fundamentally different beasts with … Read more