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nom··on WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE
The access log of public http servers is truly interesting to watch.

You know that the scripts doing it are optimized for success rate, so the types of requests they send give you an impression of what's actually out there.

It's clear to me that once we finally achieve rogue AGI, it is going to propagate through unpatched WordPress WooCommerce instances.

nom··on Chinese paint cuts wall temperature by 25 degrees Celsius in summer test: report
radiative cooling can make it cooler than air temperature, it removes the heat through infrared radiation
nom··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
it also stops being unpleasant once your brain has associated it deeply with the dopamine

if anything, the strong smell and taste sensations makes it even more addictive

nom··on Wax motor
Both are linear motors.
nom··on FCC ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities
It will jam itself once enough people try to use it.
nom··on Steve Wozniak launches merch store
wow that's lame merch
nom··on Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp
Using this will get your WhatsApp account banned sooner or later.
nom··on The Story of FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
cool story bro
nom··on Anthropic details how Claude was misused for surveillance and weapons
no
nom··on Operation Smart Kettle – Börzels Blog
high chance you can just flash a suitable base firmware directly through pins on the board
nom··on Hear Me Out: If We Find Life Out There Maybe We Should Kill It
because we know that our neighbors are not very likely to kill us
nom··on Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America
Do you not know how it works?
nom··on Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade of parody games
i miss satire
nom··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
wtf is a build minute and why is it metered
nom··on A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it
6eah you can make the chip tiny but not the coil, it needs to capture enough energy from the field.

There are 3x3mm NFC chips but their read range is 2mm..

nom··on Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones
jamming on 2.4ghz will in no way impact the core function of a pacemaker

yes, the new ones come with BT LE so you can monitor it via your smartphone (yeah really..) but I would not call that 'severely affected'

nom··on A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards
yeah they do it to make it look more appetizing in the photos

Quite the opposite of what is happening here.. they are going the cheap route and use AI instead of a human who knows how to make an appetizing menu.

nom··on A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
wtf are you talking about
nom··on Apple Is Suddenly an AI Infra Stock as OpenAI Buys 10k+ Macs
10000 realistic encironments
nom··on I built a hardware-bound local password vault hidden in a photo
i bet they stuff the data into a PNG chunk next to the image data, so they aren't even doing steganography
nom··on “I just chose words carefully”
click?
nom··on Are we SIXEL yet?
displaying images in PuTTY is of vital importance to the survival of humanity, obviously
nom··on Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable
Yeah it died out because the hardware advanced and could just switch automatically.

With 1gig Ethernet it became a requirement, the definite end of existence for crossover cables.

nom··on I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
it's not AI generated so it must be true
nom··on The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
This worked so well because we had suitable replacement gases and the industry had little financial incentives to push against it.

It's a very different situation with fossil fuels.

nom··on Racter (1984)
fun fact, there was a shareware clone of Racter released in 1991, called Claude

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas...

nom··on ICE eyes spending up to $2M on Boston Dynamics robot dogs to up 'officer safety'
if they could pay extra for a version that bites, they would order them with extra sharp teeth
nom··on ICE officers with electric-shock gloves
It's worse. So many people have died that Taser invented a medical diagnosis to explain them away: Excited Delirium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excited_delirium

As we all know, people get so excited when they interact with the police that sometimes it's just too much and they die. It just happens. Very normal.

nom··on Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record
it is of humanoid shape
nom··on Olo (Color)
color is two-dimensional

it's easy to see: RGB somehow contains brightness information but that's not part of color, so one dimension less

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