GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094
Why you should stop blaming xz-utils for CVE-2024-3094. Also check out my ETSA Talk! CVE-2024-3094, more commonly known as ”The xz-utils backdoor”, was a near miss for global cybersecurity. Had this attack not been discovered in the nick of time by Andres Freund, most of our planet’s SSH servers would have begun granting root access […]
Researchers discover advanced language processing in the unconscious human brain
Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia. The findings, published in the latest edition of Nature, challenge what we know about the role of consciousness and cognition, and could open new ways of understanding memory, language and […]
Maybe you shouldn’t install new software for a bit
Published on 2026-05-07, 82 words, 1 minutes to read Oh boy yet more linux kernel vulns In the wake of copy.fail, there are more vulnerabilities that have been announced: Right now would be one of the best times for a supply chain attack via NPM to hit hard. Outside of Linux kernel patches from your […]
OpenClaw Had a Rough Week
TL;DR: OpenClaw had a rough week. 2026.4.29 made it obvious. Sorry. We are making core smaller, moving optional stuff to ClawHub, and announcing LTS separately later in May. The trouble started around 2026.4.24. By 2026.4.29 it was obvious enough that nobody could pretend this was just a few weird installs. Gateways got slower. Some installs […]
Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack
A massive outage of the learning platform started with a ransom message claiming to be from the ShinyHunters hacking group. A massive outage of the learning platform started with a ransom message claiming to be from the ShinyHunters hacking group. by Emma Roth May 7, 2026, 9:29 PM UTC Emma Roth is a news writer […]
Building for the Future
This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it’s important that you hear this directly from us because it’s a major moment at Cloudflare. Team: We are writing to let you know directly that we’ve made the decision to reduce […]
Draw Marc Andreessen on an Egg
Marc Andreessen Egg Game is a game about doodling on eggs to make them look like Marc Andreessen. Loading… I’ve gotten really good at drawing on these eggs The thesis of Marc Andreessen Egg Game is that the world has dramatically underestimated demand for images of eggs that look like Marc Andreessen. To help, please […]
Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
oss-security – Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE [ ] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list] Message-ID: Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 03:56:11 +0900 From: Hyunwoo Kim To: oss-security@…ts.openwall.com Cc: imv4bel@…il.com Subject: Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE Hi, This is a report on ”Dirty Frag”, a universal LPE that allows obtaining root privileges on all major distributions. […]
Colored Shadow Penumbra
May 2nd, 2026 • 4 min read UE5 Shaders Lighting Some time ago I saw this effect implemented by Romain Durand on a social media post where the penumbra regions of a light’s shadows would get additional color, known as Colored Penumbra or Colored Shadow Terminator. I really liked the effect and took a stab […]
AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities
The standards of common decency and taste, that’s who. Let’s take a step back. Sharing content online is wonderful. It’s pretty much what made the internet what it is today. The knack is to understand what you’re sharing, to whom, and why. If you were born before around 1980 you’ll know that there was the […]