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campuscodion Western men are going abroad to find traditional wives

This entire manosphere thing is so silly

campuscodion Type designers have created a free font that "poisons" AI

Doesn't look too bad either

campuscodion White House Unveils President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America

My thoughts exactly. Half of these items seem to directly contradict what this administration is doing behind the scenes, or publicly for that matter.

campuscodion US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters

I've read so many of these pledges before.... tl'dr: no, they won't

campuscodion Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data

DOGE staff are just behaving like a foreign cyber-espionage group at this point

campuscodion Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

Looks like a hardware supply chain attack: https://goachronicle.com/hezbollah-members-pagers-exploded-i...

>>GoaChronicle through its intelligence network has learned that Israeli intelligence successfully intercepted a shipment of pager batteries that had been ordered from B&H Photo. The order was placed from Lebanon. Acting on a confirmed tip, the intelligence agency seized the shipment and covertly modified the batteries. Small, undetectable explosives known as Kiska 3 were inserted into the battery casings and connected to the battery wires via a discreet chip. The pager model was Rugged Pager AR924 IP67. The operation code word was ‘Below the Belt’.

campuscodion NIST Draft Guidance Inherently Hostile to Open-Source AI Models

That's why their draft documents, so you can make public comments. If the drafts are getting hostile, means most feedback has pushed them that way.

campuscodion Iran hunts regime traitors with ads and fake recruiting sites

Editorialized title because the original one was too generic.

Also related to this 2022 article: https://www.thedailybeast.com/shady-network-of-fake-mossad-j...

Via: https://x.com/craiu/status/1829067371648061902

campuscodion Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the rise of the far right

Why are posts here about the far-right and nazis getting immediately reported, "flagged," and removed?

campuscodion Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator

It was an easy decision. You can't allow one single company to own all the major web dev tools. I'm surprised they actually decided this, since the EU has a history of turning a blind eye to some of these deals.

campuscodion Sony just spilled confidential Playstation information because of a Sharpie

Warzone was free to play and actually very good at that time. I can see why.

campuscodion Russia says U.S. accessed thousands of Apple phones in spy plot

Non-paywall: https://archive.ph/BrXyi

Or read the FSB press release: http://www.fsb.ru/fsb/press/message/single.htm%21id%3D104397...

campuscodion Australians scour desert for dangerous radioactive capsule smaller than a penny

A dingo will eat it, transform into Fenrir, and that's how Ragnarok starts

campuscodion Dutch forensic lab says it has decoded Tesla's driving data

lol... this is not a Reuters "exclusive"

We had this on The Record half a day before them: https://therecord.media/dutch-forensic-lab-decrypts-teslas-d...

modern-day journalism, smh

campuscodion Academics discover hidden layer in China’s Great Firewall

Not that much, surprisingly, especially if you control your IDX points like China.

campuscodion REvil ransomware executes supply chain attack via malicious Kaseya update

My article isn't meant to serve as an IR report. There are links in it for incident responders looking for IOCs, but they are not the intended audience.

campuscodion Google says Rowhammer attacks are gaining range as RAM is getting denser

Yes, Rowhammer can bypass ECC. Forgot to include this in the article, mainly because there's so much Rowhammer research.

See here: https://www.vusec.net/projects/eccploit/

campuscodion Google says Rowhammer attacks are gaining range as RAM is getting denser

I'm the author of the article.

With all due respect, but I will have to push back on your categorization as 'slightly misleading' here. Your explanation effectively explains the headline and is also what Google researchers said. How is the headline misleading?

campuscodion EU extends sanctions against Chinese, Russian, N.Korean hackers for another year

Not that much. Sanctions are used as a political tool and to signal that certain lines have been crossed.

campuscodion MobiKwik investigating data breach after 100M user records found online

Please tell me you don't believe that :))

campuscodion Hackers hide web skimmer inside a website's CSS

Fixed. Thanks.

campuscodion EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]

Just a draft for now. Answer expected next week.

campuscodion Twitter Could End the Office as We Know It

Will it now... cause I remember Automattic and GitHub doing this for years now

campuscodion Can QUIC match TCP’s computational efficiency?

Shouldn't we be waiting for QUIC to pass IETF before we go diving into performance benchmarks?

campuscodion RIP Syd Mead (Blade Runner, TRON Designer)

Confirmed here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/syd.mead/permalink/101580502...

campuscodion Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys

To search your own projects for the malicious libraries:

pip3 freeze | grep -i jeIlyfish

pip3 freeze | grep -i python3-dateutil

campuscodion Google has handed information related to my account to the DoJ

A PACER search didn't return anything for the case number referenced in the email.

Although, the user did post an update later on: https://twitter.com/SomersetBean/status/1201913860745236481

campuscodion Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time

I'm pretty sure they'll find a way to lose more money by next Saturday.

campuscodion Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%

No, it didn't. NetMarketShare has a very limited view into these things. Actual data from browser makers

Firefox - 80% https://letsencrypt.org/stats/

Google -- 88% on Android; 84% on Windows; 91% on Mac; 73% on Linux https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview?hl=en

campuscodion Vulnerabilities exploited in VPN products used worldwide

The APT referenced in the NCSC alert is APT5: https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-chinese-apt-is-now-going-aft...