Played #BjörnCTF2025 this weekend.
Placed 3rd in the overall ranking (1st as online team).
First blood 🩸 achieved on two challanges!
Had a lot of fun, tired now. "GG" to all players online and onsite at #ETHZurich 👍
Writeup's incoming, lots of challenges pwned! ✅
Scoreboard: https://björnc.tf/scoreboard
Team: https://björnc.tf/teams/75
#ETHZurich
The Ancient Tectonic Forces Which Reshaped Madagascar
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics #Codebases
EERAD3 version 2: QCD corrections in hadronic colour-singlet decays
Benjamin Campillo Aveleira, Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder, Thomas Gehrmann, Nigel Glover, Gudrun Heinrich, Christian T. Preuss
Paper:
SciPost Phys. Codebases 59 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.59
EERAD3-v2.0:
SciPost Phys. Codebases 59-r2.0 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.59-r2.0
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Core
Phase space compression of a positive muon beam in two spatial dimensions
A. Antognini, N. J. Ayres, I. Belosevic, V. Bondar, A. Eggenberger, M. Hildebrandt, R. Iwai, K. Kirch, A. Knecht, G. Lospalluto, J. Nuber, A. Papa, M. Sakurai, I. Solovyev, D. Taqqu, T. Yan
SciPost Phys. Core 8, 071 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCore.8.4.071
Amazing presentation about #freeyourandroid at VIScon in the #ethzurich with @Lioh and Alex. Next we will present #publicmoneypubliccode at 12:00 by @annabonnie in the room HG E 1.1
Before & after photos reveal the dramatic retreat of Swiss glaciers, highlighting the urgent reality of climate change. Visual evidence shows how fast ice is vanishing across the Alps. 🌍📸 #ClimateCrisis #GlacierMelting #Switzerland #ETHZurich
🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce32ezzq6zlo?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Autoposting
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🐢🎩 Look! ETH Zürich's team of digital wizards just unearthed another mystical attack, VMScape! 💥 But wait—Xen's #microkernel struts around untouched, laughing at its fallen peers KVM and VMware. 🕵️♂️ Apparently, the new recipe for security involves adding a sprinkle of "microkernel" and a dash of "not giving a damn." 🤷♂️
https://virtualize.sh/blog/vmscape-and-why-xen-dodged-it/ #ETHZürich #VMScape #cybersecurity #Xen #HackerNews #ngated
Deutsche Bundesstiftung #Umwelt
Sonia Isabelle Seneviratne, Klimaforscherin und Zink-Pioniere erhalten Umweltpreis
#Schweiz #ETHZürich #Lausannne
https://www.zdfheute.de/panorama/deutscher-umweltpreis-sonia-seneviratne-100.html
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Electronic structure of liquid xenon in the context of light dark matter direct detection
Riccardo Catena, Luca Marin, Marek Matas, Nicola A. Spaldin, Einar Urdshals
SciPost Phys. 19, 064 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.19.3.064
Ein neues Wettermodell zeigt, dass gefährliche #Superzellen-Gewitter am nördlichen #Alpenrand deutlich zunehmen.
Bereits jetzt häufen sich extreme Wetterlagen mit #Starkregen, #Hagel und rotierenden Winden.
Bei weiter steigender #Erderwärmung könnte die Zahl dieser Ereignisse in der Region um über 50 Prozent steigen.
#Klimawandel #Unwetter #Gebirgsregionen #ETHZürich #Wetterextreme #Infrastruktur
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
A localising AdS$_3$ sigma model
Lorenz Eberhardt, Matthias R. Gaberdiel
SciPost Phys. 19, 060 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.19.2.060
Japan trials giant robot hand to scoop buried items at quake sites
Researchers in Japan and Switzerland have revealed a giant robotic hand that could transform how communities prepare for and recover from natural disasters. Built through a collaboration between Kumagai Gumi…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #3Dprintedrobots #AIrobotics #ETHZurich #naturaldisasters #news #robotexcavator #RobotHand #robotics
https://www.alojapan.com/1354552/japan-trials-giant-robot-hand-to-scoop-buried-items-at-quake-sites/
https://www.alojapan.com/1354552/japan-trials-giant-robot-hand-to-scoop-buried-items-at-quake-sites/ Japan trials giant robot hand to scoop buried items at quake sites #3DPrintedRobots #AIRobotics #ETHZurich #Japan #JapanNews #NaturalDisasters #news #RobotExcavator #RobotHand #robotics Researchers in Japan and Switzerland have revealed a giant robotic hand that could transform how communities prepare for and recover from natural disasters. Built through a collaboration between Kumagai Gumi, Tsukuba University, Nara Institute of Science and T
Und natürlich #Lilith von Niklaus Wirth aus dem Jahr 1980 (wobei dieses Exemplar von 1984 ist):
Der #Gletscherschwund in den #Alpen setzt dieses Jahr besonders früh ein.
In der #Schweiz begann der Verlust von #Gletschereis bereits Ende Juni, deutlich früher als in früheren Jahrzehnten.
Seit über 20 Jahren wachsen die Gletscher nicht mehr. Ihr Volumen hat sich seit 1950 halbiert. Als wichtige #Wasserspeicher sind Gletscher auch für die #Energieversorgung durch Wasserkraft entscheidend.
#Klimawandel #Schmelzwasser #ETHZürich #Glaziologie #Erderwärmung
Presseschau: "Ein Sprachmodell im Dienste der Gesellschaft"
→ https://internet-fuer-architekten.de/presseschau/ein-sprachmodell-im-dienste-der-gesellschaft/
Can we now please stop saying (or thinking) that the public sector will never be able to produce #LLMs that can compete with big tech…especially when they are focused on the #publicgood, are built on each other’s work using public funding, and have integrated #responsibleTech principles from the very beginning…
🟣 Model with 70 billion parameters
🟣 Trained on 1500 languages
🟣 Trained on 60% English, 40% non-English
🟣 Open Source Apache 2.0 license
🇨🇭#ETHZurich #EPFL ❤️
😂 Ah, the renowned ETH Zurich and #EPFL have allegedly ventured into #AI with a groundbreaking LLM—developed on public infrastructure no less—yet their grand announcement is nothing more than a glorified 404 page! 🤦♂️ Did they train the model on "How to Disappear Completely" by Radiohead? 🎩
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html #ETHZurich #LLM #404Error #TechHumor #Radiohead #HackerNews #ngated
ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
#HackerNews #ETHZurich #EPFL #LLM #PublicInfrastructure #AIforGood #LanguageModel
Oh, look at that! A "Tree Borrows" article with more error messages than helpful information 🌳💥📉. It's a thrilling journey through 404 land, where navigating ETH Zürich's site is as fun as deciphering an ancient scroll—if the scroll were missing half its text 😅🔍.
https://plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/pldi25-tree-borrows.html #TreeBorrows #ETHZürich #ErrorMessages #404Land #TechHumor #AncientScrolls #HackerNews #ngated
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