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ASCII

4 articles accelerating

ASCII has appeared in 4 articles since 2009-01. Coverage peaked in 2026Q3 with 2 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Claude.

Articles
4
mentions
Velocity
+100.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.000
velocity change
Sources
5
publications

Coverage Timeline

2026-09-06
Ars Technica 9 related

Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters

A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …

2026-09-05
Ars Technica 9 related

Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters

A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …

2025-10-21
The Decoder 12 related

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-OCR, a vision language model designed for efficient vision-text compression, enabling longer contexts with less compute

the new frontier of OCR from @deepseek_ai , exploring optical context compression for LLMs, is running blazingly fast on vLLM ⚡ (~2500 tokens/s on A100-40G) — powered by vllm==0.8.5 for day-0 model su...

2024-11-29
BleepingComputer 12 related

ESET researchers find the first UEFI bootkit designed specifically to target Linux systems, marking a shift in bootkits that previously focused on Windows

Article then proceeds to describe a toy GRUB wrapper bootkit that has nothing to do with UEFI firmware (other than running on UEFI systems like any other UEFI bootloader), does not persist in UEFI fir...

2024-03-17
Ars Technica 5 related

Researchers detail ArtPrompt, a jailbreak that uses ASCII art to elicit harmful responses from aligned LLMs such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2

Gist is, the models … Kit Eaton / Inc.com : Low-Tech Computer Art Foils Cutting-Edge AI Safety Systems Mastodon: Matthew Lyon / @mattly@hachyderm.io : contemporary cyberpunk is jailbreaking LLM chatbo...

2024-03-16
Ars Technica 5 related

Researchers detail ArtPrompt, a jailbreak that uses ASCII art to elicit harmful responses from aligned LLMs such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2

LLMs are trained to block harmful responses.  Old-school images can override those rules.  —  Researchers have discovered …

2010-01-28
The Official Google Blog

Unicode nearing 50% of the web

About 18 months ago, we published a graph showing that Unicode on the web had just exceeded all other encodings of text on the web.  The growth since then has been even more dramatic.  —  Web pages ca...

2009-01-07
Search Engine Land

Google Trends Features ASCII Art Of 9/11

A reader tipped us off to how ASCII art of an airplane is showing up in the number two position at Google Trends.  When we first looked ourselves, we thought the image was that of an airplane approach...

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

TEXXR tracks 5 tech news articles mentioning ASCII, dating back to January 2009. The biggest stories include Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic... and Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic.... Coverage has shifted toward developer themes and away from safety, research.

Key Moments

2026Q3safety -100pts; developer +100pts; research -100pts

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