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Analysis | Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds
The report raises safety questions about alternative social media sites.
Week Ending July 23, 2023
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Two new vulnerabilities found in popular baseboard software
Two new vulnerabilities have been found in a popular brand of baseboard software used in millions of devices worldwide.
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
Full Kubernetes tutorial on Docker, KinD, kubectl, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana
This end-to-end tutorial covers the following:* Setting up your first Kubernetes cluster with KinD* Installing Docker Desktop, KinD, kubectl, Helm* Installin...
Amazon is getting ready to launch a lot of broadband satellites
Amazon unveils satellite facility in Florida, may switch prototype launch to Atlas V.
Inkscape 1.3 Released As Latest Open-Source Software To Compete With Adobe Illustrator
Inkscape 1.3 is now available as the newest feature release ot this open-source software focused on being a vector graphics editor that can rival the likes of Adobe Illustrator.
Flipper Zero portable hacking multitool now has an app store for free and open source apps - Liliputing
Flipper Zero portable hacking multitool now has an app store for free and open source apps
Ethernet Consortium Shoots For 1 Million Node Clusters That Beat InfiniBand - The Next Platform
Here we go again. Some big hyperscalers and cloud builders and their ASIC and switch suppliers are unhappy about Ethernet, and rather than wait for the IEEE to address issues, they are taking matters in their own hands to create what will ultimately become an IEEE standard that moves Ethernet forward in a direction and
“Simple” Post-Quantum Encryption with Python
A demonstration of quantum-resistant encryption using the well-known “Learning with Errors” problem.
PromtEngineer/localGPT: Chat with your documents on your local device using GPT models. No data leaves your device and 100% private.
Chat with your documents on your local device using GPT models. No data leaves your device and 100% private. - GitHub - PromtEngineer/localGPT: Chat with your documents on your local device using ...
The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives
In this deep-dive explainer, we look at a big-business mainstay.
Twitter's New "X" Logo Is Reminding Plenty Of People Around X.Org
The most popular topic among the emails I received this weekend weren't of direct technical nature but the number of people pointing out Twitter's new 'X' logo and the similarities to the X.Org logo.
CVE-2023-38408: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent | Qualys Security Blog
The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in OpenSSH's forwarded ssh-agent. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to potentially execute…
JQ: Another Tool We Thought We Knew - SANS Internet Storm Center
JQ: Another Tool We Thought We Knew, Author: Rob VandenBrink
Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals
The technology giant says it could remove services such as FaceTime from the UK over potential changes
Microsoft disputes report that Chinese hackers could have accessed suite of programs
Microsoft is disputing a new report that claims hackers may have had access to more parts of victims’ systems than previously known in a campaign that targeted dozens of organizations, including government agencies.
Apology and Update on Recent Accidental Data Exposure
We are writing to share information about the recent customer data exposure incident on VirusTotal. We apologize for any concern or confusio...
RISC-V Is Now An Official Debian Architecture
Debian 13 'Trixie' has been aiming for official RISC-V support and indeed it will happen: RISC-V has now been promoted to an official Debian CPU architecture.
GM is still going to try to fix (and monetize) their infotainment, Ford says that battle has already been fought and lost to Android and Apple | People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars
Tesla continues to rank above average.
Reddit and Bluesky are contrasting examples on how not to moderate, one centralizing in the worst way possible and the other decentralizing catastrophically
Lately, Bluesky and Reddit are offering contrasting lessons in how not to moderate.
How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism
The privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy and skepticism of authority. As it tries to go mainstream, can it escape its roots?
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes isn't headed to jail tomorrow after all | TechCrunch
It's just the latest twist in a Silicon Valley story that has captivated the broader business world.
FTC withdraws its in-house challenge to Microsoft’s Activision-Blizzard deal
The FTC’s fight to block the deal is on hold.
Here's What 'Oppenheimer' Gets Right--and Wrong--about Nuclear History
Here's what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the hydrogen bomb.
Reddit takes over one of the biggest protesting subreddits
The rest of the mods have been removed.
Infrastructure Megaupdate | Gabriel's Blog
Over the past however long it's been since my last infrastructure blog post, I've been doing a ton of work across various organisations and my own personal setup to get things up to a more acceptable standard. Rather than do small posts for each infrastructure overhaul, I've decided to bundle it all into one, to hopefully demonstrate how each experience feeds into the other and vice versa. For ease of reading, I'll break each infrastructure into its own section and let you jump between them at your leisure.
Roblox data leak sees 4,000 developer profiles including identifying information made public
This may cost the company a few Robux.
Rethinking infrastructure as code from scratch
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about infrastructure complexity, and the current state of infrastructure as code. This is problem space that many talented people are tackling.