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People don't realize the influence of Big Hygge.

Subvocal interfaces have been a staple of SF since probably the 1960s, but what this really reminds me of is the "ensemble coding" used by kids in the book Rainbows End.

Fun. Vaguely reminiscent of the Amiga HAM video mode.

The article is riddled with AI errors (for example, the company's name is Viosys, not Biosys).

Looks like the innovation here is the multi-wavelength LED, some kind of multiple-quantum-well thing maybe?

A web search for "exploit chain uaf" found me a few real-world and a few tutorial examples, though I don't know which are good.

At a high level, though: once you've gotten a new object allocated where the old one was, you now have two different views of the same bit of memory. You use valid operations on one view to put the other one into a corrupted state. For example: in a unixlike kernel, maybe one view has a field containing a function pointer (for method dispatch, essentially). You read that field using the other view, use it to deduce something about the target's memory layout, write a new value to the pointer, then use the field via the first view to cause execution to jump to a location you control.

Why even learn to speak? Why not give up sentience entirely? (There's an SF novel from the last few decades which had this as part of the setting: that intelligence is only useful at some stages of evolution, and most spacefaring species eventually lose it?)

That matches my experience as well. Some of the most disastrous bugs that got shipped were from 2-line "obviously correct and safe" changes.

Looks like Gitlab ships its own forked copy of the Ruby Onigmo regex engine.

It's not just obvious, it's evident.

Last summer. The CVEs are from 2025.

Its manufacturer's competitor isn't, though, and they're probably really interested in that marketing info.

Does Slate actually make any statements about the level of telematics/surveillance in their vehicles?

The ones that the website hosting this article is named after?

I'd assumed that the VK test in the movie relied on knowing about the specific implanted memories that replicants had.

> On Thursday, Meta suspended the Instagram account of Satine’s deceased cat, Clark Gable.

Was the cat also wearing a bikini and/or promoting illegal adoptions?

That's the same distinction, made in the same way, isn't it?

You really only need authentication for that, not encryption. MACs and such are okay on ham bands as I understand it. You just can't obscure the message. If you want a private channel to the exclusion of other people, license a frequency and pay for it. Spectrum is a scarce resource.

Sure. It could also be the first sign of the invasion of the Mole-Men.

Sure, but the basic value proposition of AI is that you don't have to care. These issues could be overcome, but they aren't, because the whole way the technology is promoted and sold guides the user away from caring.

"It's all up in yo' grill, would you say?"

I think "cascading failure" is the term you're looking for. Electrical power, networked servers, physical structures, etc

Every technician or craftsman develops some strong opinions about which tools are good tools and which tools are bad tools.

It was a failure of the justice system back then, too.

And reading my own comment it has the same kinds of problems (lookit all those 3-example lists!). I wouldn't hire me for an editing job.

This is a complaint I hear others voice and one I have myself. I think it comes down to the text being poorly written. Sure, LLMs are good at a lot of the surface indicators of good writing: they have a wide vocabulary, they use grammatical sentences, they break up the text into paragraphs, sections, and lists. But they're terrible at organizing the text and marshalling a concept to get it across to a specific audience. The section and paragraph breaks are meaningless, the metaphors are unenlightening, the rhythm is exhaustingly uniform. Pre-LLM, you'd find this kind of text in marketing materials, corporate PR, and heavily padded sophomore essays.

What binary did you start from?

The TV's license agreement attempts to shift the burden onto the TV's owner. Taken at face value, it's the owner who is guilty of recording people without their consent.

From TFA:

> Ken Thompson's trusting-trust attack [...] is widely regarded as a threat specific to compilers. We show that it is not

And yet, from Reflections On Trusting Trust:

> In demonstrating the possibility of this kind of attack, I picked on the C compiler. I could have picked on any program-handling program such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode.

The paper is certainly a nice worked-out example of the attack, which is worthwhile, but it's not novel.

I think when I hear the terms, a "dashpot" is a specific mechanism and a "snubber" is its purpose. You can use dashpots for other purposes, and you can build snubbers out of things other than dashpots.

Nothing requires the wormhole "surface" to be a sphere, just like nothing requires the wormhole in the 2D analogy to be a circular hole. If you make it a sphere with one flat side, travelers won't have to traverse curved space (with the attendant weird tidal/gravitational effects).