Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody says Jinping Xi or Zedong Mao.
Is Elton John or Jhon Elton?
Is Elton John east Asian? He isn't
Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
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Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#52First of all congrats to the winners.
Second, fitting that codex enters the picture.
The last time the fields medals were announced llms were still very nascent :)
And I am convinced this is the last time pure human fields medalists will be announced.
The next batch’s winners are all going to have llms as coauthors.
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#53I've been working on a site. It's new, domain is only a few weeks old. It's got SSL, so all the bots know it exists. It's never had any sub-pages exposed, just the placeholder lander, no links. Somehow in Google search one of the unguessable pages is indexed. We have used Claude and Gemini to assist with some design aspects. I'm thinking some aggressive data ingestion/indexing is happening by all the bots in the ques…
They log all DNS requests made to their public resolver in a searchable internal database, at least when I worked there a decade or so ago. I wonder if they seed their crawler with it?
DNS servers never see subpaths you request, only the domain itself, so that wouldn’t help with a hidden path. But there are lots of other ways to get it: caches/CDNs can leak paths, Chrome presumably sends Google a bunch of request details, and so on.
It’s a different story if it’s a subdomain though, OP wasn’t clear.
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody says Jinping Xi or Zedong Mao.
Can we not just agree that transliteration is tricky business with no single canon? Some Indian restaurants near me sell Aloo Saag, others sell Alu Sag.
No, there is a single canon. Proper media is able to use proper names. This was not on.
Esp. in this case with Wang having a special meaning in China.
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is Elton John or Jhon Elton?
Is Elton John east Asian? He isn't
I think GP might be referencing to Rowan Atkinson interviewing Elton John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl0HqlbX7dc
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
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There's no reason to think it isn't true. It matches every pattern of behavior observed from every tech company.
Why don’t they also read your gmail and get your bank passwords? And maybe have access to EVERY site actually, with “forgot password” type stuff in addition to providing oauth tokens…
" Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware"
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/micro...
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no reason to think it isn't true. It matches every pattern of behavior observed from every tech company.
Why don’t they also read your gmail and get your bank passwords? And maybe have access to EVERY site actually, with “forgot password” type stuff in addition to providing oauth tokens…
The tools in gmail in some sense "read" all your mail in order to classify spam and do things like calendar integration. The extent to which they do other things with the information is .. unclear.
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
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I’d be more surprised if they weren’t capturing this information. Especially if you have autocomplete-while-searching type of features on.
Why don’t they also capture information you enter into forms on Chrome? They control the entire browser surface, technically they can know everything, even TLS and E2E encrypted data, that they silently phone home… If you think this is silly, consider that Microsoft Recall had been observing everything on people’s entire SCREENS and phoning home much of it. That is how a guy was caught recently: https://x.com/t3chfal…
>Why don’t they also capture information you enter into forms on Chrome?
For some reason people are downvoting you, but yea, one day we'll likely see a lawsuit where they do exactly that.
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no reason to think it isn't true. It matches every pattern of behavior observed from every tech company.
Why don’t they also read your gmail and get your bank passwords? And maybe have access to EVERY site actually, with “forgot password” type stuff in addition to providing oauth tokens…
Because your bank doesn't send your password to your Gmail because if they did they know Google would read it.
Re: Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, the angle is kind of important here. The company gets their name in the news, they have a reasonable explanation why they were scraping around, and we end up with a story about innovative tech company whiz-kids who made a funny discovery, while it was the webdevs on the other side that goofed up. Imagine a private individual just scraped the website (or simply clicked 'view source') for no reason in particular…
The fact that an egregious case happened once, decades ago, is probably not sufficient grounding to act like every bit of equally trivial “hacking” always results in massively disproportionate law enforcement response. Sucks it happened. But we all know that is not the typical scenario.
>But we all know that is not the typical scenario.
Eh, it's typical enough that most cyber security researchers are cautious. The laws around 'hacking' can be rather stupidly written while judges and juries aren't the smartest bunch.