A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS
What it is _for-sale is a reserved DNS leaf node name, defined by RFC 10023 (Informational, July 2026) and registered with IANA. A TXT record published at _for-sale.example.com signals that example.com, although registered and resolving normally, is available for purchase. _for-sale IN TXT ”v=FORSALE1;furi=https://example.com/for-sale” The record carries a mandatory version tag followed by at most […]
Gateway 2000’s hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)
PC Computing Jul ‘93 via Archive.org Party hats and sunglasses on animals are the fart jokes of advertising. Somehow lazy and effective, shallow yet infectious, and definitely not too tasteless for Gateway 2000 or its wunderkind president. ”I’ve used soap dishes as ashtrays in the best hotels in the world,” Ted Waitt bragged during one […]
Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face 7th August 2026 OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information dense and well worth watching, in particular because it […]
Europe’s free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
Users could previously add this script manually to Copernicus Browser sessions by copying and pasting it using the custom visualization option under the default layers. But Simon Proud, mission scientist for Sentinel-2 at the European Space Agency, pushed to get the script integrated into Copernicus Browser as a default option. He announced that the integration […]
DeepMind’s WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
Our model uses Functional Generative Networks (FGNs) to efficiently produce ensembles of different predictions, which captures the inherent uncertainty of the weather. We can now generate a single 15-day forecast in less than a minute on a TPU, empowering forecasters to quickly evaluate the probability distribution of potentially devastating tail-risks. Last year, our system produced […]
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
project:rosenbridge : hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge // domas // @xoreaxeaxeax project:rosenbridge reveals a hardware backdoor in some desktop, laptop, and embedded x86 processors. The backdoor allows ring 3 (userland) code to circumvent processor protections to freely read and write ring 0 (kernel) data. While the backdoor is typically disabled (requiring ring 0 execution […]
NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year
NASA just made an interstellar tweak to the Voyager 2 spacecraft, known as the ”Big Bang”, to keep its remaining 50-year-old science instruments running a little longer. Voyager 2 and its twin launched in 1977, called Voyager 1, rely on a form of nuclear battery known as a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that uses the heat […]
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
The Nixpkgs core team has unfortunately decided to disband. We’re proud to have had the opportunity to lead by example in bottom‐up, consensus‐focused governance for Nixpkgs, and of our achievements over the past 10 months, including reforming the committer delegation process and onboarding 19 new committers, empowering maintainers by extending the merge bot, re‐establishing contact […]
Water system controllers don’t belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief
Security Calling all defenders With at least 12 US states’ water systems having been hacked – most likely by Iran – we have to get better at cyber defense, according to retired General and Ex-NSA chief Paul Nakasone, who was speaking to reporters at DEF CON. “We have to have higher standards,” Nakasone said. “These […]
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
Terry Godier, “Browsers Have Standards, the App Store Has Judgment”: A while ago I tried to submit an iOS app for Dark Hours, my astronomy website for normal people. It was rejected on the grounds that it was astrology. It has no tarot function, no horoscopes, and nothing that I, or anyone else I’ve asked, […]