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Which mule accounts do you freeze? A checked minimum cut on a 4.49-million-transfer FalkorDB graph, and a max-flow bug I hit

After a scam alert lands on a mule account, "is this account bad" is already answered. The useful question comes next: the money is moving, so which few accounts do you freeze so it loses its routes…

  • Chokepoint tool freezes mule accounts to stop money laundering
  • FalkorDB graph had maxFlow algorithm bug affecting 12-17% of networks
  • Issue resolved by adjusting capacities and adding comparison check

I asked Gemma for Japanese homework. It wrote about eating a friend.

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built JaExC (Japanese Exercise Creator) is a Ruby gem that writes kanji-reading exercises with a…

  • Gemma, a Japanese exercise creator, generated a writing about eating a friend.
  • The Ruby gem uses an open-weight model for kanji-reading exercises.
  • JaExC tool assists teachers in creating exercises for students with varying kanji knowledge.

I shipped a redaction library, then found it leaking a private key

I write a small zero-dependency library, llm-stream-guardrails , that strips secrets and PII out of an LLM's output stream before it reaches a screen or a log. Last week it was leaking a private key.

  • Library llm-stream-guardrails leaked private key due to bug
  • Bug allowed cleartext streaming of PEM private key
  • Fixed in version 0.7.9 with adversarial testing

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