CIA 2010 covert communication websites / Split header images by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Many of the website banners are composed of several images cut up.
Often stock images were first assembled into the banner, and then the resulting image was cut.
Possibly this was done to make reverse image search to their stock image provider harder.
But it somewhat backfired and serves as a good marker that confirms authorship.
Maybe it is some kind of outdated web design thing, which they took much further in time than the average website, like the JAR.
Their websites do appear to follow common style guidelines form earlier eras, around the early 2000s notably, some legit sites that look a lot like hits:
Looking at the source code of: web.archive.org/web/20130828122833/http://euronewsonline.net/euro_bus.php we noticed an interesting comment:
<!-- ImageReady Slices (enewsweather.psd) -->
which presumably refers to Adobe ImageReady:
Adobe ImageReady was a bitmap graphics editor that was shipped with Adobe Photoshop for six years. It was available for Windows, Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X from 1998 to 2007. ImageReady was designed for web development and closely interacted with Photoshop
A sample tutorial: people.goshen.edu/~paulmr/physix/326/imageready/slicendice.php
Some of the websites use CSS background images to populate the images, e.g. ingenuitytrendz.com has HTML:
ingenuitytrendz.com/20110201170354/index.html:                  <li><a id="banner1">&nbsp;</a></li>
ingenuitytrendz.com/20110201170354/index.html:                  <li><a id="banner2">&nbsp;</a></li>
ingenuitytrendz.com/20110201170354/index.html:                  <li><a id="banner3">&nbsp;</a></li>
and then the CSS engineering.css does:
#banner1 { background: url(/web/20110201170405im_/http://ingenuitytrendz.com/images/banner_01.jpg) no-repeat center; }
#banner2 { background: url(/web/20110201170405im_/http://ingenuitytrendz.com/images/banner_02.jpg) no-repeat center; }
#banner3 { background: url(/web/20110201170405im_/http://ingenuitytrendz.com/images/banner_03.jpg) no-repeat center; }
Updates / Backing up CIA website archives for research and posterity by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
I've downloaded and uploaded copies of the archives of the CIA websites as follows:
The cqcounter dumps don't offer too much information, but having the wayback machine ones could actually reveal new fingerprints and other website information leaks.
We've had a very quick look, and while there was nothing mind blowing, there were some small finds.
Starting December 2004 the "Submit your favored carlson quote" was mind blowingly switched to point to https://washington.serversecured.net/~alljohnn/cgi-bin/memlog.cgi thus likely leaking the control site URL. Beauty. It previously pointed to web.archive.org/web/20040901162621/https://secure.alljohnny.com/cgi-bin/memlog.cgi
mynepalnews.com actually has several archives for a /stats path which contains HTML reports generated by Webalizer, an analytic tracker that tracks the source of incoming traffic!!! It is hard to believe that the CIA would have left that there. Particularly ridiculous is the presence of inurl:cgi server_software at web.archive.org/web/20110204095809/http://mynepalnews.com:80/stats/usage_200805.html which is almost certainly a Google dork search, which we know is something that the Iranians used to find the websites. That search hits under /cgi-bin/check.cgi. That page is itself os some interest containing SERVER_ADMIN = mmadev@mmadev.com. web.archive.org/web/20110204095815/http://mynepalnews.com:80/stats/usage_200806.html also reveals several request IPs. Even if this is not a CIA website, there's a chance we could find the IP of the Iranian counter-intelligence in these IP list, it's mind blowing. There's lots of referrer spam too as well. Further HTML inspection however seems to show close relationship to that HTML and other confirmed hits.
globaltourist.net, if is actually a hit, likely has a a 2003 archive, which would be our earliest hit archive so far.
A fun fact is that looking at the source code of: web.archive.org/web/20130828122833/http://euronewsonline.net/euro_bus.php we noticed an interesting comment:
<!-- ImageReady Slices (enewsweather.psd) -->
which clarifies that the CIA likely used Adobe ImageReady to cut up the images for Split header images:
Adobe ImageReady was a bitmap graphics editor that was shipped with Adobe Photoshop for six years. It was available for Windows, Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X from 1998 to 2007. ImageReady was designed for web development and closely interacted with Photoshop
We also understand that the tool likely outputs the layout to HTML directly, and leaks the adobe projects filenames (.pds files) in the process.
ollama-expect by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Usage:
./ollama-expect <model> <prompt>
e.g.:
./ollama-expect llama3.2 'What is quantum field theory?'
Benchmarks:
Humanity's Last Exam by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Contains highly specialized questions in various academic fields, including mathematics. The problems are answered either with a number, or multiple choice, or free text.
MMLU by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Antihydra in Magic: The Gathering by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
It is known that Magic: The Gathering is Turing complete, but it is cool to have a concrete specific example of an open problem in mathematics coded in it.
Figure 1.
Screenshot of the Antihydra in Magic: The Gathering construction
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List of LLM benchmarks by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
2x2 matrix multiplication by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Commutative matrix multiplication algorithm by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
A "commutative matrix multiplication algorithm" is a matrix multiplication algorithm that requires the ring to be commutative. Such algorithms are inferior because you cannot use them to create more efficient algorithms for general matrix matrix multiplication by decomposing the bigger matrix into smaller ones.
For example, the Strassen algorithm is based on reduction to non-commutative 2x2 matrix multiplication optimized to be done in 7 multiplications rather than 8 as in the native algorithm.
For 3x3 matrix multiplication, the best algorithms as of 2025 are:and beating the Strassen algorithm using 3x3 matrices would require a non-commutative algorithm with 21 multiplications.
Borg (cluster manager) by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Software developed by Google by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Strassen algorithm by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Polanyi's paradox by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
AlphaEvolve by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Basically they require users to hand-code a metric and provide a program skeleton with some parts of the code marked to be replaced, and then the system focuses on modifying the code regions in question to optimize the metric.
All the novel results they announced were in constraint satisfaction problems or optimization problem. Their results are still awesome, but it's not very different from AlphaGo style things.
Star Wars meme by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Figure 1.
That's not my lightsaber Star Wars meme
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Multiplication of matrices of specific size by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
DeepMind likes coming up with new improved algorithms for these more specific cases, e.g. it was announced in 2025 that AlphaEvolve found a novel 4x4 complex valued algorithm that uses 48 multiplications.
Bibliography:
Apple II by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created

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