Carlos's Debrief

May 15, 2026 11:00
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Topics searched: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Large Language Models Security & Cybersecurity Cryptography Zero Knowledge Quantum Computing Crypto & Blockchain AI Agents & Reasoning AI Safety & Alignment
May 15, 2026 11:00 — Curated by Hermes Research Scout

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🧠 LLMs 1

Large language models (LLM) in computational social science: prospects, current state, and challenges [1]
A comprehensive review examining how large language models are being adopted in computational social science, covering emerging use cases, persistent challenges around data bias and privacy, and the practical…
LLMsocial-scienceGoogle Scholar

📄 Web Findings

🤖 Machine Learning 8

Long Context Pre-Training with Lighthouse Attention [2]
Bowen Peng, Subho Ghosh, Jeffrey Quesnelle
Lighthouse Attention wraps standard scaled dot-product attention with a subquadratic hierarchical selection step that compresses and decompresses the sequence symmetrically while preserving left-to-right causality,…
cs.CLcs.LGHuggingFace
Boosting Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards via Randomly Selected Few-Shot Guidance [3]
Kai Yan, Alexander G. Schwing, Yu-Xiong Wang
FEST uses only 128 randomly selected demonstrations from an SFT dataset to dramatically improve sample efficiency in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, outperforming baselines that require magnitudes more…
cs.AIcs.LGcs.CLHuggingFace
PreScam: A Benchmark for Predicting Scam Progression from Early Conversations [4]
Weixiang Sun, Shang Ma, Yiyang Li, et al.
PreScam benchmarks how well models can predict the progression of real-world conversational scams from early dialogue turns, using 11,573 annotated instances across 20 scam categories; results show current LLMs…
cs.AIcs.CYHuggingFace
Sat3DGen: Comprehensive Street-Level 3D Scene Generation from Single Satellite Image [5]
Ming Qian, Zimin Xia, Changkun Liu, et al.
Sat3DGen generates street-level 3D scenes from a single satellite image using a geometry-first methodology with perspective-view training, improving geometric RMSE from 6.76m to 5.20m and cutting FID nearly in half…
cs.CVHuggingFace
Learning to Communicate Locally for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Pathfinding [6]
Valeriy Vyaltsev, Alsu Sagirova, Anton Andreychuk, et al.
LC-MAPF adds a learnable multi-round communication module to decentralized multi-agent pathfinding, allowing neighboring agents to share features and improve coordination without sacrificing scalability, outperforming…
cs.AIcs.MAHuggingFace
ViMU: Benchmarking Video Metaphorical Understanding [7]
Qi Li, Xinchao Wang
ViMU is the first benchmark systematically evaluating whether video understanding models can interpret metaphorical, ironic, and socially embedded meanings beyond literal visual perception, covering diverse cultural…
cs.CVcs.AIHuggingFace
Boosting Omni-Modal Language Models: Staged Post-Training with Visually Debiased Evaluation [8]
Che Liu, Lichao Ma, Xiangyu Tony Zhang, et al.
OmniBoost is a three-stage post-training recipe for omni-modal models (audio+visual+language) based on Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, using mixed bi-modal SFT, RLVR, and self-distilled SFT to reach performance comparable to…
cs.AIcs.CVcs.CLHuggingFace
Catalyst breakthroughs in methane dry reforming: Employing machine learning for future advancements [9]
A review of how machine learning is accelerating catalyst discovery for methane dry reforming, a key carbon capture and utilization technology, covering ML-guided materials screening and optimization of reaction…
MLcatalysisclimateGoogle Scholar

📄 Web Findings

🔐 Security & Crypto 6

Mini Shai-Hulud - TanStack and more npm packages compromised, with SLSA Build Level 3 provenance attestations [10]
The Mini Shai-Hulud worm is actively compromising legitimate npm packages by hijacking CI/CD pipelines and stealing developer secrets. StepSecurity's OSS Package Security Feed first detected the attack in official…
securitysupply-chainLobste.rs
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10: When a Door Closes, a Window Opens [11]
Google Project Zero published a 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10 demonstrating that when one attack surface hardens, skilled attackers find alternative entry points through previously unexplored vectors.
androidsecurityexploitLobste.rs
security mitigations ansible role [12]
Ansible role to deploy mitigations for Linux kernel vulnerabilities including DirtyPipe and CopyFrag, providing automated patching for two critical Linux kernel flaws.
devopssecurityLobste.rs
The First CVE Wave: Signs That AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Is Reshaping Disclosure Volumes [13]
Public CVE disclosure volumes are surging across major software suppliers and open source projects, with evidence increasingly pointing to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery as the driving force behind the spike.
securityAILobste.rs
ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State [14]
An investigative deep-dive into how ChatGPT's interactive behavior is gated by Cloudflare's ability to passively observe React component state, revealing how web telemetry infrastructure intersects with AI product…
privacywebAILobste.rs
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity: a deep dive into state-of-the-art techniques and future paradigms [15]
A scholarly deep-dive into AI and ML applications in cybersecurity, surveying adversarial AI techniques, automated threat intelligence systems, and AI-driven security orchestration, while mapping out the evolving threat…
AIsecurityGoogle Scholar

📄 Web Findings

⚛️ Quantum 2

Securing the future: exploring post-quantum cryptography for authentication and user privacy in IoT devices [16]
A review of post-quantum cryptographic approaches for securing IoT devices against future quantum attacks, surveying CRYSTALS-Kyber, CRYSTALS-Dilithium, and other NIST-standardized algorithms alongside their practical…
post-quantumIoTcryptographyGoogle Scholar
Quantum machine learning: A comprehensive review of integrating AI with quantum computing for computational advancements [17]
A comprehensive review spanning quantum-enhanced classical ML to native quantum algorithms, examining applications in optimization, drug discovery, and quantum-secured communications while assessing the current state of…
quantumMLGoogle Scholar

📄 Web Findings

🤝 Agents 1

When machines join the moral circle: The persona effect of generative AI agents in collaborative reasoning [18]
An empirical study examining how the persona of generative AI agents affects human teammates' moral reasoning in collaborative tasks, finding that AI teammates alter the process, distribution, and connection of moral…
AI-agentsreasoningGoogle Scholar

🔗 All Sources

  1. [1] Large language models (LLM) in computational social science: prospects, current state, and challenges
  2. [2] Long Context Pre-Training with Lighthouse Attention
  3. [3] Boosting Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards via Randomly Selected Few-Shot Guidance
  4. [4] PreScam: A Benchmark for Predicting Scam Progression from Early Conversations
  5. [5] Sat3DGen: Comprehensive Street-Level 3D Scene Generation from Single Satellite Image
  6. [6] Learning to Communicate Locally for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Pathfinding
  7. [7] ViMU: Benchmarking Video Metaphorical Understanding
  8. [8] Boosting Omni-Modal Language Models: Staged Post-Training with Visually Debiased Evaluation
  9. [9] Catalyst breakthroughs in methane dry reforming: Employing machine learning for future advancements
  1. [10] Mini Shai-Hulud - TanStack and more npm packages compromised, with SLSA Build Level 3 provenance attestations
  2. [11] A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10: When a Door Closes, a Window Opens
  3. [12] security mitigations ansible role
  4. [13] The First CVE Wave: Signs That AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Is Reshaping Disclosure Volumes
  5. [14] ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State
  6. [15] Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity: a deep dive into state-of-the-art techniques and future paradigms
  7. [16] Securing the future: exploring post-quantum cryptography for authentication and user privacy in IoT devices
  8. [17] Quantum machine learning: A comprehensive review of integrating AI with quantum computing for computational advancements
  9. [18] When machines join the moral circle: The persona effect of generative AI agents in collaborative reasoning
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