ICMY: this December, the School of Computer Science at #USyd will host an absolutely incredible line-up of speakers, jointly with the SMRI (@sydmathinst.bsky.social) and the Faculty of Engineering! 🗓️ Mon 1: Bob Tarjan 🗓️ Tue 2: Moti Yung 🗓️ Wed 10: Shafi Goldwasser Details and how to attend below! ↴

My petition to the 🇦🇺 Australian government: make part-time PhD students' stipends tax exempt! 📋 Read and sign here: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... ⏰ Deadline: October 1

I’ve always wondered: do blockchain sanctions actually work? You know the drill 🥱 someone adds an address to the OFAC list, wallets and frontends start blocking it, some headlines pop up… and then what? Do the funds actually stop moving?

Arthur Gervais, professor in information security at UCL, and Liyi Zhou, a lecturer in computer science at USYD, have developed an AI agent system called A1 that uses various AI models from … to develop exploits for Solidity smart contracts. www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/a...