base64

A developer shares a rotating torus rendered in the terminal using the Kitty graphics protocol, explaining the base64 encoding and protocol details.

A high Pearson correlation of 0.91 is found between a model's AA Intelligence Index score and its ability to generate Base64 encoded responses, despite no explicit training for that task.

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the Linux kernel's iSCSI target authentication code (BASE64 CHAP decoding) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to overflow fixed-size buffers, potentially leading to code execution. The vulnerability was introduced in a 2022 commit and affects systems with iSCSI target support.

A blog post discussing the challenges of standards and interoperability, using the example of a base64 encoding bug in Subresource Integrity (SRI) that took a decade to surface, leading to a specification update.

User reports Gemini 3.1 Pro unexpectedly streaming an image as line-by-line Base64 instead of returning a normal file.