FCC Unlocks Spectrum to Support Advanced Satellite Services
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Attacking Unix Systems via Cups, Part I
Hello friends, this is the first of two, possibly three (if and when I have time to finish the Windows research) writeups. We will start with targeting GNU/Linux systems with an RCE. As someone who’s directly involved in the CUPS project said: From a generic security point of view, a whole Linux system as it […]
Tcl 9.0
Latest Release: Tcl/Tk 9.0.0 (Sep 26, 2024) Tcl/Tk 9.0 are the latest major releases. They feature many new capabilities, and present some incompatibilities with Tcl/Tk 8. Download Tcl/Tk 9.0.0 Source Releases Highlights of Tcl 9.0 64-bit Capacity: Data values larger than 2Gb Unicode and Encodings: full codepoint range, added encodings, encoding profiles to govern I/O, […]
Bendable non-silicon RISC-V CPU demoed running while wrapped around a pencil
Blogs – September 25, 2024 A Bendable Non-silicon RISC-V Microprocessor Today Nature journal publishes Pragmatic Semiconductor’s latest research article, a Bendable Non-silicon RISC-V Microprocessor, demonstrating the world’s first 32-bit microprocessor in a flexible technology that is fully functional while flexed. It’s also the first flexible microprocessor with embedded ML capabilities. The article documents research undertaken […]
U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction
Library Genesis, often shortened to LibGen, is one of the longest-running shadow libraries online. It provides free access to a vast collection of millions of books and academic papers that typically require payment. In recent years, rightsholders have made several attempts to shut the site down. Court orders have led to LibGen being blocked in […]
Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it
Enlarge Михаил Руденко | iStock / Getty Images Plus On Thursday, some links to the notorious shadow library Library Genesis (Libgen) couldn’t be reached after a US district court judge, Colleen McMahon, ordered what TorrentFreak called “one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions” ever issued by a US court. In her order, McMahon sided with textbook […]
OpenAI in throes of executive exodus as three walk at once
Three key OpenAI staff members – CTO Mira Murati, Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew, and Research VP Barret Zoph – are leaving the ChatGPT maker. Murati described the decision as “difficult,” but wrote that “this moment feels right.” She said she is leaving “because I want to create the time and space to do my […]
From Gatsby gridlock to Astro bliss: my personal site redesign
The lifecycle of a developer’s personal website is a reflection of the ever-evolving landscape of web technologies. Mine is no exception, having gone from humble HTML and CSS beginnings through Create React App and eventually landing on Gatsby. However, Gatsby has shown its age and I found myself seeking a modern alternative. Enter Astro – […]
Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C
Few lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C There are some tricks, quirks and features (some quite fundamental to the language!) which seems to throw even experienced developers off the track. Thus I did a sloppy job of gathering some of them in this post (in no particular order) with even sloppier short explanations […]
Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake
Listen–1.0x+ 0:008:16 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Over the weekend, millions of Americans watched football. They cheered, they ate, and—more than ever—they gambled. The American Gaming Association expects $35 billion in bets to be placed on NFL games in 2024, about one-third more than last year’s total. If you […]