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Qubes OS is a revealing case for security measurement because its architecture makes component boundaries security-relevant. We present a protocol-driven longitudinal analysis of 109 public Qubes Security Bulletins (QSBs, 2011--2025), the official Qubes-maintained Xen Security Advisory (XSA) tracker, and a secondary vulnerability-event sensitivity series. The study measures the public advisory record rather than latent vulnerability incidence or realized compromise. The methodology combines audited deterministic component attribution, change-point analysis, overdispersion checks, severity-proxy weighting, censoring sensitivity, documentary latency lower bounds, and baseline-aware evaluation of vulnerability discovery models (VDMs).
The results show persistent upstream dependence in that public record. On the official tracker, 113 of 464 XSAs affect Qubes; under primary labeling, 87 of 109 QSBs (79.8\%) are attributable to Xen, CPU/microarchitectural, or other upstream components rather than Qubes-core logic, with similar results under weighted views. Change-point analyses identify 2015Q1 as the dominant break in the quarterly advisory series, while post-2018 annual disclosure rates are statistically flat. Poisson inferences are stable under dispersion diagnostics and negative-binomial sensitivity checks. The attribution codebook performs well in a stratified 30-QSB audit, and S-shaped VDMs fit descriptively but do not significantly outperform a rolling-mean baseline in short-horizon forecasts.
Overall, the Qubes public advisory record appears stable, but not quiet: disclosure activity plateaus at a higher level than in the earliest years, while the observed burden remains concentrated in upstream trust anchors.

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While traditional evolutionary algorithms hard-code reproduction, self-replication can emerge spontaneously within digital ``primordial soups''. This paper investigates the co-evolution of this emergent self-replication alongside problem-solving capabilities. We initialize a population of random 32-byte Z80 assembly programs, requiring self-replication to arise purely through random assembly-level mutations and pairwise program interactions. To link these behaviors, we introduce a task-based validation step: correctly evaluating a polynomial raises a program's interaction probability above a baseline rate. Our experiments yield four primary findings. First, self-replication and mathematical problem-solving successfully co-evolve from initial randomness. Second, the pressure to compute accelerates the emergence of compact, robust reproductive architectures that preserve memory for task execution. Third, applying metabolic constraints increases the likelihood that programs evolve conditional halting, terminating early during validation while bypassing the halt during interaction to execute block-copy replication. Finally, when programs are partitioned into spatial task niches, spontaneous self-replication generates an emergent learning curriculum, utilizing simple solutions as stepping stones toward complex polynomials. Altogether, these results demonstrate an interactive feedback loop: environmental task demands actively shape the physical architecture of self-replication, while spontaneous replication alters the evolutionary trajectory of functional problem-solving.

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A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains

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Karpathy's nanochat normally runs on an 8×H100 GPU node, and several ports of it to JAX already exist. Among them, my aim was to keep the config and architecture as close to nanochat as possible (p...

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OpenStrike is out — classic BSP maps, bots, tracers, and a Solid JSX HUD holding a locked 60 FPS on a real Sony PSP: 333 MHz, 32 MB, no shaders. A field guide for JavaScript developers to how it works: rules and HUD in TypeScript on QuickJS, a bundler for 1999

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