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The French news service contexte.com has today published the latest Belgian Presidency's proposal for introducing indiscriminate chat control scanning of private messages for illegal content. The proposal covers the entire regulation and is therefore ready for endorsement. The proposal is to be disc
I recently decided to make an app for the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) during a two-week break between jobs. I wanted to explore its potential and learn some new skills. My day job primarily involves low-level firmware; I hadn’t built a user-facing app in a while–my last iOS app experience was back in high school in 2011!…
Lars Wirzenius Consulting Ltd has created a Git repository with the source code of Debian 12 (bookworm), the main component. It's one repository for all the source code, as one commit. It's a monorepo .
Andres Freund published the existence of the xz attack on 2024-03-29 to the public oss-security@openwall mailing list. The day before, he alerted Debian security and the (private) distros@openwall list. In his mail, he says that he dug into this after “observing a few odd symptoms around liblzma (part of the xz…
Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that "avoiding those things" is already a plan for success.
Breakneck is the ultimate SaaS Starter Kit for .net developers. Lettings you focus on your business instead of boilerplate code.
Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression library, eventually being granted commit access and maintainership. Using that access, they installed a very subtle, carefully hidden backdoor into liblzma, a part of xz that also…
I have a lovely, and reasonably priced, Mini Panda Rice Cooker. It does not have any SmartHome features. You put in water and rice, press a button, it cooks rice. Nice! The only problem is - I don't know how long the rice will take to cook. It uses "Fuzzy Logic" to work out exactly how much heat and time is needed for…
My comments on the NTIA AI Open Model Weights RFC
Taking a look at a16z’s blog posts.
I watched 15 hours of COVID origins arguments so you don't have to - but you should!
An exploration of numbers in JSON and various JSON implementations
When I announced my Black Ops 3 integrity bypass, someone commented that my research was not impressive and I should try analyzing Denuvo instead. That kinda stuck with me, so I did what everyone would do and spent the last 5 months of my free time reverse engineering and bypassing the Denuvo DRM in Hogwarts Legacy. I…
The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.
I was reading about vim the other day and found out why it used `hjkl` keys as arrow keys. When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A terminal, which had the arrows on hjkl keys. Naturally he reused the same keys and the rest is history. Here is how the `hjkl` keys looked. ADM-3A keyboard's hjkl…
Electrical baby toys are interesting to disassemble and look at how it’s made. Not up to the …
It’s April Cools! It’s like April Fools, except instead of cringe comedy you make genuine content that’s different what you usually do. For example, last year I talked about the strangest markets on the internet. This year I went down a different rabbit hole. Daniel has been a top 5 baby name twice since 2000. There…
QR codes reverse the usual order: decimal works better than base64 for encoding binary data, despite it requiring many more digits.
A somewhat compact implementation of the awk programming language
And a hateful ode to Object-Relational Mappers
A real explanation of discrete Fourier transform (DFT, FFT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), and their inverses.
Shopislot adalah situs game online yang menghadirkan berbagai pilihan permainan slot dengan tampilan 3D yang tajam dan detail. Nikmati pengalaman bermain yang lebih menarik dengan visual realistis, navigasi sederhana, serta koleksi game yang lengkap dalam satu platform.
When I start studying a vintage system, the first thing I like to do is understand how its components work together at the hardware level [1] .
Why the threat actor rushed deployment.
Ross Anderson unexpectedly passed away Thursday night in, I believe, his home in Cambridge. I can’t remember when I first met Ross. Of course it was before 2008, when we created the Security and Human Behavior workshop. It was well before 2001, when we created the Workshop on Economics and Information Security. (Okay…
Some timezone observations on the recently discovered backdoor hidden in an xz tarball.
