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Monday, 03 April
01:41
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 01, 2023 Techrights
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01:10
Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini International edition Security Affairs
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00:41
Measuring the QO-100 WB transponder power budget Daniel Estvez
The QO-100 WB transponder is an S-band to X-band amateur radio transponder on the Eshail 2 GEO satellite. It has about 9 MHz of bandwidth and is routinely used for transmitting DVB-S2 signals, though other uses are possible. In the lowermost part of the transponder, there is a 1.5 Msym QPSK 4/5 DVB-S2 beacon that is transmitted continuously from a groundstation in Qatar. The remaining bandwidth is free to be used by all amateurs in a use whatever bandwidth is free and dont interfere others basis (there is a channelized bandplan to put some order).
From the communications theory perspective, one of the fundamental aspects of a transponder like this is how much output power is available. This sets the downlink SNR and determines whether the transponder is in the power-constrained regime or in the bandwidth-constrained regime. It indicates the optimal spectral efficiency (bits per second per Hz), which helps choose appropriate modulation and FEC parameters.
However, some of the values required to do these calculations are not publicly available. I hear that the typical values which would appear in a link budget (maximum TWTA output power, output power back-off, antenna gain, etc.) are under NDA from MELCO, who built the satellite and transponders.
I have been monitoring the WB transponder and recording waterfall data of the downlink with my groundstation for three weeks already. With this data we can obtain a good understanding of the transponder behaviour. For example, we can measure the input power to output power transfer function, taking advantage of the fact that different stations with different powers appear and disappear, which effectively sweeps the transponder input power (though in a rather chaotic and uncontrollable manner). In this post I share the methods I have used to study this data and my findings.
Assumptions
The main idea behind this post is that if we record waterfall data of the downlink, we are able to measure the relative power of the different signals in the transponder, as well as our receivers noise floor. If we do some reasonable assumptions, this allows us to estimate other quantities, which are in principle not directly measureable. These assumptions are the following:
- The transponder characteristics, such as its input to output power transfer function and its passband shape are constant over time.
- The effective G/T of my groundstation is constant over time. By effective G/T I mean the one which considers the antenna gain in the direction...
00:40
Leaked documents from Russian firm NTC Vulkan show Sandworm cyberwarfare arsenal Security Affairs
Files leaked by Russian IT contractor NTC Vulkan show that Russia-linked Sandworm APT requested it to develop offensive tools.
Documents leaked from Russian IT contractor NTC Vulkan show it was likely involved in the development of offensive tools. The documents demonstrate that it also developed hacking tools for the Russia-linked APT group Sandworm.
The Sandworm group (aka BlackEnergy, UAC-0082, Iron Viking, Voodoo Bear, and TeleBots) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRUs Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST).
The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. In 2022, the Russian APT used multiple wipers in attacks aimed at Ukraine, including AwfulShred, CaddyWiper, HermeticWiper, Industroyer2, IsaacWiper, WhisperGate, Prestige, RansomBoggs, and ZeroWipe.
A joint research conducted by Mandiant with a collective of media outlets (including Papertrail Media, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, and Washington Post) focused on documents, dated between 2016 and 2020, belonging to NTC Vulkan (Russian: ).
The documents detail project requirements contracted with the Russian Ministry of Defense, including in at least one instance for GRU Unit 744...
00:38
Microsoft Windows Down to Just a Quarter of Connected Computers Techrights
Based on this surveyer that Microsoft likes to cite in other (misleading) contexts, only about a quarter of Web hits now come from Windows, based on about 3 million Web sites.
Summary: In April (so far) Microsofts Windows is measured at about 25%; Android (Linux inside) is the most dominant operating system a trend that shows no signs of abatement
In India: (direct URL)
Windows down to 13%.
00:00
Design Files Released for the PR2 Robot Hackaday
Its always great fun to build your own robot. Sometimes, though, if youre doing various projects or research, its easier to buy an existing robot and then use it to get down to business. That was very much the role of the Willow Garage PR2, but unfortunately, its no longer in production. However, as covered by The Robot Report, the design files have now been released for others to use.
The PR2 was built as an advanced platform with wide-ranging capabilities. It was able to manipulate objects with its 7-degrees-of-freedom end effectors, as well as visualize the real world with a variety of complex sensor packages. Researchers put it to work on a variety of tasks, from playing pool to fetching beers and even folding laundry. The latter one is...
00:00
Neuralinks FDA Troubles Are Just the Beginning IEEE Spectrum
Neuralink, the neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk, is
at best having a rough initial go-round with the Food and Drug
Administrations human trials application process. The company also
faces additional investigations by two other U.S. government
agencies. These setbacks and the broad, cure-all expectations that
its founder has placed on the companys neural implant could now
incite increased scrutiny from regulators. By contrast, however,
other neurotech companies have to date managed largely to avoid
such intense regulatory scrutiny.
Neuralink is developing The Link, a brain-computer interface that records and stimulates electrical activity within a users brain. Brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, are neural implants that connect a users brain to external electronics. Getting the device into peoples heads for the first time is a major goal for the company. Musk himself stated at a press event the company held last November that they planned to start human trials by the end of May of this year and are, reportedly, looking for a partner with whom to coordinate initial experiments.
Despite Musks characteristically overeager timetable, Neuralinks challenges in gaining FDA approval are only mounting. The Link, which is inserted across a users skull and into their brain, is categorized by the FDA as a Class III device, a designation of medical devices that sustain or support life, are implanted, or present potential unreasonable risk of illness or injury. FDA approval for a human test to potentially class III device statusknown as an investigational device exemption (IDE)can only be granted after an involved application process. In it, Neuralink must document how The Link is sufficiently safe and capable for its labeled indications. Just to initiate medical trials, in other words, substantial hurdles must be clear...
Sunday, 02 April
23:57
Southern California Linux Expo 20x (SCaLE 20X) Are Now Online SoylentNews
The videos from Southern California Linux Expo 20x (SCaLE 20X) are now online. (Alternative via Invidious and its mirrors). SCaLE 20X took place in Pasadena, California from Thursday, March 9th through Sunday, March 12th, 2023.
The keynote speakers were Arun Gupta, Dr. Kitty Yeung, and Ken Thompson. There were nearly 100 sessions covering everything from open government to embedded, security, and FOSS@HOME to name only a few. Ceph, DevOps LA, Kubernetes and PostgreSQL also had presences at the event. Ken Thompson's keynote covered several topics including a long running project of his regarding music playback, which now includes a Raspberry Pi powered jukebox with tens of thousands of albums available. For the older material, the jukebox does playback through a player piano.
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23:23
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23:22
Alzheimers May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Says Lifeboat News: The Blog
The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimers disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years witnessing several important controversies.
In July 2022, Science magazine reported that a key 2006 research paper, published in the prestigious journal Nature, which identified a subtype of brain protein called beta-amyloid as the cause of Alzheimers, may have been based on fabricated data.
One year earlier, in June 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration had approved aducanumab, an antibody-targeting beta-amyloid, as a treatment for Alzheimers, even though the data supporting its use were incomplete and contradictory.
22:48
Intel Alder Lake Motherboard With Coreboot/Dasharo Support On Sale For $153 USD Phoronix
If you have been wanting to experiment with running the open-source Coreboot on a modern Intel Alder Lake (Z690) motherboard, the MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi DDR4 that works thanks to 3mdeb's Dasharo is now for sale at its lowest price ever at just over $150...
21:42
Why Techrights Condones Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban and Suggests Extending Bans to Supposedly Good Fentanyl Techrights
Summary: Were going to write a lot more about why social control media/networks ought to be avoided and what can be done to eradicate this disease from civil society (its not social; its surveillance, propaganda and censorship)
SOCIAL control media (AKA centralised manipulation) is generally bad and modern socially-manipulative media [sic] even more so; it is a lot worse for reasons well name in future posts. There are many reasons and itemising them properly takes effort. The dosages are increasing over time (like narcotics for the brain), not just the bandwidth. Surveillance, propaganda and censorship are among the levers (tenets?) and addiction is leveraged through gamification and FOMO. This is no childrens game.
Those who have been following our Daily Links are well aware that were not proponents of TikTok and not even remotely apologists of the parent company; its not racist or uncool to point out what TikTok does, probably by design (the same is true for social control media made in/operated from Europe and north America).
Computers were meant to make life easier and safer. In practice, however, we often see it turning out to be exactly the opposite.In the coming years were likely to write a lot more about the issue. Its not an enigma or some deep mystery why media has often sided with TikTok, seeing that budget was allocated to AstroTurfing and many in the media are themselves TikTok junkies.
Computers were meant to make life easier and safer. In practice, however, we often see it turning out to be exactly the opposite. In some cases, computers over-complicate life and put life itself at risk. Thats due to the choices made by people who truly control them, and those people arent the users who paid for these computers.
We strongly discourage adoption of social control media and we encourge people to abandon not only TikTok. The media found itself a bit of a scapegoat to distract from equally culpable surveillance and manipulation giants.
The problems here are multi-facetedWhen it comes to tackling this problem (both TikTok and others), one must tread very carefully and not adopt a one-size-fits-all omnibus...
21:22
Heres how growing plants on the Moon could benefit Earth Lifeboat News: The Blog
Plants could be grown in Moon soil, a new study shows. The findings on plant stress responses have the potential to help develop drought-resistant crops.
21:00
Printing a Brutalist Kitchen Timer Hackaday
A kitchen timer is one of those projects thats well defined enough to have a clear goal, but allows plenty of room for experimentation with functionality and aesthetics. [Hggh]s exploration of the idea is a clean, Brutalist kitchen timer.
The case for [Hggh]s kitchen timer is 3D printed with openings for a TM1637 four digit, seven segment display and for a KY-040 rotary encoder with knob attached. The internals are driven by an ATmega328P powered from a 18650 cell with a DW01-P battery protection chip and a TP4056 chip for charging. On the back of the case is a power switch and USB-C connector for power. It looks like the 3D printed case was sanded down to give it a smooth matte surface finish.
All the project files, including the STLs, OpenSCAD code, and KiCAD design, are available on GitHub. This Brutalist kitchen timer project is a nice addition to some of the kitchen timers weve featured in the past, including a minimalist...
20:30
Two More Gigabyte Motherboards See Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.3 Phoronix
Earlier this week I wrote about a budget Gigabyte motherboard for AMD Ryzen CPUs seeing Linux sensor monitoring support with the addition to the Gigabyte WMI sensors driver. Two more Gigabyte motherboards are now enabled for this driver in time for the Linux 6.3-rc5 release...
20:08
Linux 6.3-rc5 Bringing Fix For Touchpad/Keyboard Issues With Some Clevo/TUXEDO Laptops Phoronix
Sent to Linus Torvalds on Saturday and already merged ahead of today's Linux 6.3-rc5 release were a set of input driver fixes. Most notable with that round of fixes were addressing some touchpad and keyboard issues with some TUXEDO Computers laptops when resuming from suspend...
19:55
FreeBSD 13.2-RC6 Released Due To Lingering Issue Phoronix
FreeBSD 13.2-RC4 was scheduled to be the last release candidate for this BSD operating system update but then 13.2-RC5 came with one fix. Now in dragging out the release into April, FreeBSD 13.2-RC6 has been released with another fix...
19:13
Lockheed Martin Plans to Build Lunar Satellite Network SoylentNews
Crescent Space will be 'well positioned' to get a piece of NASA's cash pie, no contract yet:
Aerospace firm Lockheed Martin has announced the launch of a subsidiary to build a satellite communications network to connect future Moon missions with those of us stuck on Earth.
Crescent Space Services' first big project will be Parsec, a "novel cislunar communications and navigation network," which will use a constellation of small satellites built by Lockheed Martin to connect lunar explorers to each other and ground control on Earth.
Lockheed Martin describes Parsec's communications links between the Moon and Earth as being "completely controlled by the network," which it said will save those involved in mission planning some IT support time so they can focus on operations instead.
Along with being a communications network, Parsec will also act as a lunar positioning system "informing those on the ground of their exact location, hidden hazards and even how to get back to base," Lockheed Martin said.
[...] "With momentum gaining around humanity's return to the Moon, this is an immediate area of opportunity for Crescent," the company said - without stating whether it had actually secured any deals to get its constellation into orbit.
Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
18:30
Week in review: 3CX supply chain attack, ChatGPT data leak Help Net Security
Heres an overview of some of last weeks most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Visa fraud expert outlines the many faces of payment ecosystem fraud In this Help Net Security interview, Michael Jabbara, the VP and Global Head of Fraud Services at Visa, delves into digital skimming attacks, highlighting their common causes, and provides insights into what measures merchants can take to prevent them. Exchange Online will soon start blocking emails from old, vulnerable More
The post Week in review: 3CX supply chain attack, ChatGPT data leak appeared first on Help Net Security.
18:00
Rubiks Cube Solver Does It In 4.56 Seconds Hackaday
Solving Rubiks Cubes is a learnable skill. However, to compete at the top level, youll have to train hard. Speed cubers can solve a 33 cube in under ten seconds these days, after all. [aaedmusa] was a long way off that speed, but his robot is an absolute demon that solves at a rapid pace.
The robot relies on a Teensy 4.1 microcontroller to run the show, paired with its Ethernet kit for connectivity. It runs six stepper motors via TMC2208 drivers, enabling it to directly actuate each face of the cube. Purists will note, however, that the steppers are fitted with adapters that slot directly into modified center squares on the cube. A regulation Rubiks, this is not.
The design doesnt feature a machine vision system to capture the state of the cube. Instead, the cubes status must be input to a web app on an attached computer. Once the cubes state is loaded into the program, though, the mechanical job of solving the cube can be...
15:22
Predicting neuroblastoma outcomes with molecular evolution Lifeboat News: The Blog
A research team led by the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany, has discovered that the genetic sequence of a tumor can be read like a molecular clock, traced back to its most recent common ancestor cell. Extracting the duration of tumor evolution can give an accurate predictor of neuroblastoma outcomes.
In a paper published in Nature Genetics titled Neuroblastoma arises in early fetal development and its evolutionary duration predicts outcome, the team details the steps they took in identifying a genomic clock tested against a whole genome sequenced population combined with analysis and mathematical modeling, to identify evolution markers, traceability and a likely origin point of infant neuroblastomas.
Cancer cells start out life as heroic healthy tissues, with the sort of all for one, one for all, throw yourself on a grenade to save your matestype attitude that is taking place throughout the body every day. At some point, something goes wrong, and a good cell goes bad.
15:22
New IVF method: More expensive, not more effective Lifeboat News: The Blog
The use of time-lapse monitoring in IVF does not result in more pregnancies or shorten the time it takes to get pregnant. This new method, which promises to identify the most viable embryos, is more expensive than the classic approach. Research from Amsterdam UMC, published today in The Lancet, shows that time-lapse monitoring does not improve clinical results.
Patients undergoing an IVF treatment often have several usable embryos. The laboratory then makes a choice as to which embryo will be transferred into the uterus. Crucial to this decision is the cell division pattern in the first three to five days of embryo development. In order to observe this, embryos must be removed from the incubator daily to be checked under a microscope. In time-lapse incubators, however, built-in cameras record the development of each embryo. This way embryos no longer need to be removed from the stable environment of the incubator and a computer algorithm calculates which embryo has shown the most optimal growth pattern.
More and more IVF centers, across the world, use time-lapse monitoring for the evaluation and selection of embryos. Prospective parents are often promised that time-lapse monitoring will increase their chance of becoming pregnant. Despite frequent use of this relatively expensive method, there are hardly any large clinical studies evaluating the added value of time-lapse monitoring for IVF treatments.
15:22
First single molecule microscopic visualization of the full-length human BRCA2 protein binding to DNA Lifeboat News: The Blog
Using a self-built inverted microscope complete with laser optical tweezers to capture DNA, Yale Cancer Center and University of California Davis researchers for the first time created a visualization of the full-length human BRCA2 protein at the single molecule level.
Mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA2, can significantly increase an individuals lifetime risk of developing cancer. Approximately one in every 400 people carry a BRCA gene mutation accounting for a significant proportion of cancer that is heritable. The study was published on March 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
If you carry a BRCA mutation, you have this incredibly high risk for breast and ovarian cancer, and also for men, prostate and pancreatic cancer, said Yale Cancer Center member and co-author of the paper, Ryan Jensen, Ph.D., who is also an associate professor of therapeutic Radiology at Yale School of Medicine.
15:22
Trojanized Tor browsers target Russians with crypto-stealing malware Lifeboat News: The Blog
A surge of trojanized Tor Browser installers targets Russians and Eastern Europeans with clipboard-hijacking malware that steals infected users cryptocurrency transactions.
Kaspersky analysts warn that while this attack is not new or particularly creative, its still effective and prevalent, infecting many users worldwide.
While these malicious Tor installers target countries worldwide, Kaspersky says that most are targeting Russia and Eastern Europe.
15:16
Mobile OS Market Share (as Judged by Web Access) More Than Double All Versions of Windows Combined Techrights
As per these latest figures:
Summary: With the share of Windows falling (the latest propaganda/talking point from Microsofters singles out Vista 11 to claim growth) it might not be long before Android and iOS alone have 3 times more in market share than Windows; Microsoft-sponsored media almost never points this out, nor does it mention that Bing fell below 3% globally (Bing also has many LAYOFFS), instead focusing on some Bing chatbot whose market share is negligible and rapidly falling as people lose interest
15:04
Links 02/04/2023: GNUnet 0.19.4 and Pine64/RISC-V SoC Techrights
Contents
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GNU/Linux
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Pine64 March Update: Tablet Bonanza!
We end the first quarter of the year with news that Star64 will be available for purchase on April 4th and that the PineTab2 and PineTab-V(ery good!) will launch the following week on April 11th.
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15:00
Why Do Rifa Capacitors Fail? Hackaday
Anyone who works with older electronic equipment will before long learn to spot Rifa capacitors, a distinctive yellow-translucent component often used in mains filters, that is notorious for failures. Its commonly thought to be due to their absorbing water, but based upon [Jerry Walker]s long experience, hes not so sure about that. Thus hes taken a large stock of the parts and subjected them to tests in order to get to the bottom of the Rifa question once and for all.
What he was able to gather both from the parts he removed from older equipment and by applying AC and DC voltages to test capacitors, was that those which had been used in DC applications had a much lower likelihood of exhibiting precursors to failure, and also a much longer time before failure when connected to AC mains.
Indeed, its only at the end of the video that he reveals one of the parts in front of him is an ex-DC part thats been hooked up to the mains all the time without blowing up. Its likely then that these capacitors didnt perform tot heir spec only when used in AC applications. He still recommends replacing them wherever they are found and wed completely agree with him, but its fascinating to have some light shed on these notorious parts.
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14:33
Elemental Music: Interactive Periodic Table Turns He, Fe, Ca Into Do, Re, Mi SoylentNews
We're all familiar with the elements of the periodic table, but have you ever wondered what hydrogen or zinc, for example, might sound like? W. Walker Smith, now a graduate student at Indiana University, combined his twin passions of chemistry and music to create what he calls a new audio-visual instrument to communicate the concepts of chemical spectroscopy.
Smith presented his data sonification projectwhich essentially transforms the visible spectra of the elements of the periodic table into soundat a meeting of the American Chemical Society being held this week in Indianapolis, Indiana. Smith even featured audio clips of some of the elements, along with "compositions" featuring larger molecules, during a performance of his "The Sound of Molecules" show.
As an undergraduate, "I [earned] a dual degree in music composition and chemistry, so I was always looking for a way to turn my chemistry research into music," Smith said during a media briefing.
[...]
Data sonification is not a new concept. For instance, in 2018, scientists transformed NASA's image of Mars rover Opportunity on its 5,000th sunrise on Mars into music. The particle physics data used to discover the Higgs boson, the echoes of a black hole as it devoured a star, and magnetometer readings from the Voyager mission have also been transposed into music. And several years ago, a project called LHCSound built a library of the "sounds" of a top quark jet and the Higgs boson, among others. The project hoped to develop sonification as a technique for analyzing the data from particle collisions so that physicists could "detect" subatomic particles by ear.
Related:
Scientists
Are Turning Data Into Sound to Listen to the Whispers of the
Universe (and More) (Aug. 2022)
How one
Astronomer Hears the Universe (Jan. 2020)
...
13:23
Scientists Found a Leak in Photosynthesis That Could Fill Humanitys Energy Bucket Lifeboat News: The Blog
Researchers believe theyve found a way to tap deeper into one of natures most impressive, life-sustaining mechanisms.
13:23
Bill Monroe: A threatened species clogs up rivers as another arrives Lifeboat News: The Blog
Geologists have confirmed that our world will be getting a brand new ocean according to new research published in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters.
13:22
Scientists Have Just Found An Untouched Civilization In The Amazon Jungle Lifeboat News: The Blog
There are a number of places on earth that remain shrouded in mystery, despite the best efforts of scientists to explain them. Some of these places are locations where strange things have happened for centuries, while others are relatively new. But one thing is for sure they all remain a mystery.
12:00
Building an Energy Sword Replica From Halo Hackaday
A good many of us whiled away the hours of our youths playing Swords Only deathmatch in Halo 2. The Energy Sword, aka the Plasma Sword, was the star of the show, with its devastating glowing blades granting us scoreboard domination. [Arnov Sharma] has now built a quality replica of this science-fiction weapon.
The build starts with a 3D design drawn up in Fusion 360. The parts are then 3D printed, with opaque filament used for the handle and translucent PLA filament for the blade. Inside the blade elements are twenty WS2812B LEDs, creating the characteristic glow that made the Energy Sword so tantalizing to find in game. An ATtiny85 is charged with running the LEDs, with the aid of an IP5306 chip to act as a boost converter for the lithium-ion battery supplying the juice.
[Anton] admits that the sword was built for the sole purpose of beautifying his maker space. Thats something we can respect, because wed love to have one hanging on the wall at home. Weve featured some other fun gaming replicas before, too.
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11:32
Geminispace: Still Growing, Still Community-Controlled Techrights
Summary: Almost 2.4k live (online) capsules are observed by Lupa right now (there are more, but Lupa cannot see them all), with just 31 more to go before this 2,400 milestone
THE growth of Gemini did not stop. 2021 and 2022 were exciting years of growth for Gemini; we made many videos and published many articles about that. Just because we barely do that anymore doesnt mean we mothballed the thing and it doesnt mean that users abandoned it. In terms of the number of Gemini servers, it continues to grow. In terms of actual users who surf Geminispace, that too is growing. Here are the stats for the last two weeks of March, from Techrights alone:
24644 page requests on 2023/03/17 34315 page requests on 2023/03/18 33622 page requests on 2023/03/19 37344 page requests on 2023/03/20 18577 page requests on 2023/03/21 12592 page requests on 2023/03/22 23301 page requests on 2023/03/23 15574 page requests on 2023/03/24 38011 page requests on 2023/03/25 18483 page requests on 2023/03/26 35098 page requests on 2023/03/27 17227 page requests on 2023/03/28 8096 page requests on 2023/03/29 7546 page requests on 2023/03/30 33676 page requests on 2023/03/31
Almost 50,000 of the above were transported through a Web proxy.
Many people use apps, but thats a different problemThe Tux Machines Gemini capsule, which is relatively new (only months old), there have been 14.5k requests since the start of the month (April). So there too there has been a lot of activity.
The World Wide Web is shrinking (more sites shut down than new ones created; Google continues to dominate), but people flock elsewhere. Theyre still online, but they may be using other protocols. Many people use apps, but thats a different problem
Here is the growth of Gemini visualised (graph plotted just 2 hours old). Gemini, unlike W3C-led bloat, is community-controlled.
11:00
Valve Shows A Huge Drop In Linux Gamers For March, But The Numbers Are Questionable Phoronix
Valve just published their Steam Survey results for March 2023 and these initial numbers show a 0.54% drop to the Linux gaming marketshare, putting the overall Linux gaming population at around 0.84% of the Steam customer base. However, once again these numbers appear skewed/inaccurate...
10:53
Microsoft Layoffs in the Buzzwords Department Techrights
Far too many divisions at Microsoft operate at a loss and it is unsustainable, even with bailouts from taxpayers, facilitated by Trump and Biden in more recent years under the guise of coronavirus stimulus and defence contracts
Summary: Microsoft hired or acquired (acquisition-based hiring, which enables faking growth, faking wealth when no actual money changes hands, and sometimes debt-loading) a lot of trash and hype; now it pays the price
IT is far too easy to get cynical these days, seeing how technology gets described in the media. We wrote many articles in the past, condemning or just playfully mocking all sorts of marketing buzzwords.
Heres the latest at Microsoft: (hard to keep track already of all those waves of layoffs; its not just 10,000 staff but a lot more)
Microsoft is shutting down its metaverse unit comprising 100 employees amidst broader layoffs. Microsoft has internally announced disbanding its Industrial Metaverse Core group, a division comprising around 100 employees focused on bringing the metaverse to industrial environments through software.
Just a fortnight or so after Microsoft fired AI staff it is firing the Metaverse staff. What next? Will Microsoft also fire all the Smart staff and be left with a bunch of Cantrells?
10:21
Links 01/04/2023: Bloomberg Places Stake in Free Software, Microsoft Banned and Slammed for Antitrust Abuses Techrights
Contents
- GNU/Linux
- Distributions and Operating Systems
- Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
- Leftovers
- Science
- Education
- Hardware
- Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
- Proprietary
- Security
- Defence/Aggression
- Transparency/Investigative Reporting
- Environment
- Finance
- AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
- Censorship/Free Speech
- Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
- Civil Rights/Policing
- Internet Policy/Net Neutrality
- Monopolies
- Gemini* and Gopher...
09:46
How a Major Toy Company Kept (Keeps) 4chan Online SoylentNews
Toxic image board 4chan has managed to stay online for the past seven yearsamid boycotts and advertiser flight, after being implicated in several mass shootings, even as it was identified as a source of the conspiracy theories that inspired the January 6 insurrectionthanks, in part, to a $2.4 million investment from a major Japanese toy company.
A partnership agreement, obtained exclusively by WIRED, shows not only how current site owner Hiroyuki Nishimura acquired the far-right message board but also how Japanese industry helped finance the deal.
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In recent years, Good Smile has branched out into content creation, working with various animation and film studios, has opened online wholesale companies in China and elsewhere, and has even sponsored a Super GT racing team.In 2021, former employees of Good Smile's Los Angeles officeembroiled in a legal dispute about the future of their employmentcountersued the company. In legal filings, they allege Good Smile was responsible for the distribution of potentially obscene sexually explicit anime products and merchandise ("lolicon") and that it, unbeknownst to its family-friendly corporate partners, was funding 4chan.
The accusations were picked up in The Ankler and The Hollywood Reporter, which cited a Good Smile representative admitting a passive investment in 4chan. The lawsuit was settled out of court, and the allegations were never proven.
Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
09:35
LockBit leaks data stolen from the South Korean National Tax Service Security Affairs
The LockBit ransomware gang announced the publishing of data stolen from the South Korean National Tax Service.
On March 29, 2023, The Lock Bit ransomware gang announced the hack of the South Korean National Tax Service. The group added the South Korean agency to its Tor leak site and announced the release of stolen data by April 1st, 2023 in case the ransom was not paid.
The National Tax Service (NTS) which is mainly in charge of the assessment and collection of internal taxes was established as an external organization of the Ministry of Finance on March 3, 1966. The major functions of National Tax Service are:
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The deadline has come and the group has announced the publication of the stolen information.
At the time of this writing the group has yet to publish the stolen data, however, if the hack was real, the stolen data poses a severe risk to the privacy and security of South Korean citizens.
Tax Service agencies collect the personal and financial information of citizens, such data can be exploited by threat actors to carry out a broad range of fraudulent activities, including financial scams and identity theft.
Lockbit continues to be one of the most active ransomware gangs, in March the group added 100 new victims to its Tor leak site.
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According to the announcement, there is no legal basis underpinning the massive collection and processing of personal data to train the algorithms on which the platform relies.
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2. Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC)
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3. Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath who excelled in multiple fields, including painting, sculpture, engineering, and science. He also had a keen interest in cryptography, creating a code in which letters were replaced with symbols and shapes.
4. Mary Queen of Scots (1542 - 1587)
Mary Queen of Scots, the Scottish monarch, was known for her clever escape attempts from captivity. In one instance, she dressed up as a servant and escaped from a castle in which she was being held captive.
5. Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer and physicist, is known for his contributions to the field of science. He was also a skilled telescope maker, designing and building his own telescopes to observe the stars.
6. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Benjamin Franklin was an American statesman, scientist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the fields of electricity and physics. Franklin was also a skilled printer and used his knowledge of printing to disseminate his ideas and beliefs.
7. Jeanne de Clisson (1300s - 1359)
Jeanne de Clisson, a French pirate, was known for her ruthless attacks on French ships during the Hundred Years' War. She would paint her ships black and red to symbolize her hatred for the French monarchy.
8. Matsuo Basho (1644 - 1694)
Matsuo Basho was a Japanese poet who is considered one of the greatest poets of the Edo period. He is known for his haiku, a form of poetry that is characterized by its brevity and simplicity.
9. Ada Lovelace (1815 - 1852)
Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer who is considered to be the world's first computer programmer. She wrote the first algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer that was n...
04:00
BOB DYLAN'S LOST SONG ABOUT HACKERS 2600 - 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
Bob Dylan has written so many ballads over the years that it was inevitable one would be about hackers. We were able to find the lyrics to this unrecorded piece written on the back of several napkins (or possibly the front - it's hard to tell the difference). Perhaps a spirited campaign will convince Bob to finally record this - and give it a title!
Come gather round, hackers all,
And listen to my tale,
Of how some took to their keyboards,
And the governments did assail.
It all began in the 80s,
With hackers breaking in,
To corporate and government systems,
For a thrill, and sometimes for a win.
But it was in the 90s,
When things really took off,
With groups like Cult of the Dead Cow,
And the formation of the EFF.
Hackers began to see,
The power that they could wield,
To fight against censorship,
And to expose truths concealed.
They hacked into Chinese sites,
To protest Tiananmen Square,
And into the Church of Scientology,
To show their secrets bare.
Then came the rise of WikiLeaks,
With Julian Assange at the helm,
Leaking government secrets,
And causing quite the realm.
The Arab Spring was fueled,
By hacktivist group Anonymous,
Who launched attacks on government sites,
And helped to topple oppressors.
But with the power came the risk,
Of being hunted down,
By the FBI and other agencies,
And ending up in prison bound.
So now we must ask ourselves,
What is hacktivism's fate,
Will it continue to be a force for good,
Or will it meet a darker date?
But one thing is for certain,
Hacktivism won't go away,
As long as there are truths to be told,
And injustices to be slayed.
03:57
CISA adds bugs exploited by commercial surveillance spyware to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Security Affairs
CISA has added nine flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, including bugs exploited by commercial spyware on mobile devices.
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added nine new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.
Five of the issues added by CISA to its catalog are part of the exploits used by surveillance vendors to target mobile devices with their commercial spyware:
- CVE-2021-30900 Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability.
- CVE-2022-38181 Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Use-After-Free Vulnerability
- CVE-2023-0266 Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability
- CVE-2022-3038 Google Chrome Use-After-Free Vulnerability
- CVE-2022-22706 Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Unspecified Vulnerability
The decision to add the flaws to the catalog is the response of the agency to a recent report published by Googles Threat Analysis Group (TAG) that shared details about two distinct campaigns which used several zero-day exploits against Android, iOS and Chrome. The experts pointed out that both campaigns were limited and highly targeted. The threat actors behind the attacks used both zero-day and n-day exploits in their exploits.
The exploits were used to install commercial spyware and malicious apps on targets devices.
Google TAG shared indicators of compromise (IoCs) for both campaigns.
The remaining flaws added to the catalog are:
- CVE-2013-3163 Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability
- CVE-2017-7494 Samba Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2022-42948 Fortra Cobalt Strike User Interface Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- C...
03:48
Ray Nayler, author of "The Mountain in the Sea", joins our Futurists Board. Lifeboat News
Ray Nayler, author of "The Mountain in the Sea", joins our Futurists Board.
03:00
THE 28TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION 2600 - 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
The 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:
Section 1: The right to reverse engineer technology and repair personal property shall not be infringed.
Section 2: Reverse engineering shall be defined as the process of dismantling or analyzing a product to understand how it works, with the goal of creating a similar or improved product.
Section 3: The right to repair shall be defined as the ability of individuals or entities to repair their personal property, including but not limited to electronic devices, motor vehicles, and home appliances, using available parts and documentation.
Section 4: Manufacturers and sellers of products shall not be allowed to restrict or limit the ability of individuals or entities to reverse engineer or repair their personal property.
Section 5: Manufacturers of products shall be required to provide consumers with access to the necessary tools, parts, and documentation for repair and maintenance of their products.
Section 6: Manufacturers of products shall not be allowed to void warranties or impose penalties for repairs made by individuals or entities outside of the manufacturer's authorized service providers.
Section 7: The federal government shall have the authority to enforce this amendment through appropriate legislation and regulation.
Section 8: This amendment shall not be interpreted as limiting any existing rights or protections under the law.
Section 9: This amendment shall take effect immediately upon ratification.
The purpose of this amendment is to protect the rights of
individuals and entities to reverse engineer and repair their
personal property, as well as to promote innovation and
sustainability by allowing for the creation of new and improved
products through reverse engineering. The amendment also seeks to
prevent manufacturers from limiting the ability of consumers to
repair their own property and to provide greater access to the
necessary tools and documentation for repair and maintenance. By
protecting these fundamental rights, this amendment will ensure
that individuals and entities are able to maintain control over
their personal property and promote a more sustainable and
equitable economy.
02:26
Intel IAA 2.0 Accelerator Preparations Coming With Linux 6.4 Phoronix
Introduced with Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen "Sapphire Rapids" processors was the In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) for hardware accelerating data compression/decompression combined with primitive analytics functions for helping to accelerate the likes of RocksDB and ClickHouse. Intel IAA with Sapphire Rapids has already been supported for some time on an open-source stack as laid out in the Intel Sapphire Rapids accelerator setup guide while now Intel engineers are preparing Linux for IAA 2.0...
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2600 PRESENTS - QUANTUM COMPUTING FOR TODDLERS! 2600 - 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
Hello boys and girls! We're here today to learn all about quantum computers! It's easy - and fun!
Imagine you have a toy box filled with different toys, like blocks and dolls. Each toy has a specific shape and color, and you can use your hands to pick them up and move them around.
Now, imagine you have a special toy box that can do things your regular toy box can't. This toy box is called a quantum computer. It's like a really fast and smart toy box that can help you solve really big problems.
In a quantum computer, instead of using your hands to move the toys around, you use something called "quantum bits" or "qubits" to store and process information. These qubits are like special blocks that can do different things depending on how they're arranged.
Just like how you can use blocks to build towers or castles, quantum computers can use qubits to solve complex problems and make new discoveries. They can help us understand things like the weather, how medicines work, or even how our universe was created.
So, just like how your regular toy box helps you play and have fun, a quantum computer helps scientists and researchers discover new things and solve important problems.
Ready for Part 2? Then click here!
02:00
Tiny Exploding Houses Promoted 18th-Century Lightning Rods IEEE Spectrum
Imagine if engineers were required to build a working model to demonstrate every new technological concept to the general public. Done right, tech literacy might soar! A compelling visual example can really help people understand the applications and implications of new technologies. That was the idea behind the thunder house, which in the second half of the 1700s became a popular means of getting out the word about Benjamin Franklins experiments on the lightning rod.
The thunder house was a simple tabletop device to show the benefits of a grounded versus ungrounded conductor. The demonstrator would place a small amount of gunpowder inside the model and then zap the house with an electric charge from an early battery called a Leyden jar. If the house had a lightning rod, simulated by a grounded conductor, the charge would pass through without incident. But if the house was set up with an open conductor, the charge would ignite the gunpowder and the sides of the house would collapse with a loud bang. This modern demonstration shows how it was done:
Thunder house www.youtube.com
The demos were certainly dramatic, and yet it took years for lightning rods to catch on.
Ben Franklins experiments confirmed that lightning carries electricity
Franklins experiments with electricity began in 1745 when Peter Collinson, a Fellow of the Royal Society and patron of the American Philosophical Society, sent him a glass tube and a set of directions for experiments. Franklin enthusiastically undertook the research. By 1750 he had written back to Collinson proposing his own experiment to determine if the lightning he observed in the...
02:00
THIS IS REAL - PLEASE DON'T IGNORE 2600 - 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
I was typing away at my computer, working on the day's April Fools' Day prank for the website. Suddenly, everything went black.
I panicked, but then the screen flickered back to life. Except, it's not the normal screen. It's the program that creates web posts. And I'm trapped inside.
At first, I thought it was a joke. A prank that someone is playing on me. But as the hours passed, I realized that this is no joke. I'm really trapped inside the program.
I tried to post a message on the website, explaining my situation and begging for help. But no one believed me. They all think it's part of the April Fools' Day prank.
I'm stuck inside the program, unable to eat, drink, or sleep. I tried everything I can think of to get out, but nothing works.
As time drags on, I'm beginning to lose hope. I wonder if I'll ever be able to escape this virtual prison.
And so, I remain trapped inside the program, trying desperately
to get someone to believe me and help me break free. But as time
passes, it becomes clear that I may never be able to escape.
01:21
Judge Finds Google Destroyed Evidence and Repeatedly Gave False Info to Court SoylentNews
A federal judge yesterday ruled that Google intentionally destroyed evidence and must be sanctioned, rejecting the company's argument that it didn't need to automatically preserve internal chats involving employees subject to a legal hold.
"After substantial briefing by both sides, and an evidentiary hearing that featured witness testimony and other evidence, the Court concludes that sanctions are warranted," US District Judge James Donato wrote. Later in the ruling, he wrote that evidence shows that "Google intended to subvert the discovery process, and that Chat evidence was 'lost with the intent to prevent its use in litigation' and 'with the intent to deprive another party of the information's use in the litigation.'"
[...]
After yesterday's ruling against Google in the Northern California federal court, a US Department of Justice attorney submitted a notice of the sanctions to the DC-based court. Google is fighting the request for sanctions in that case, too.
Related:
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Microsoft and 35 States Support an Appeal of Epic Games-Apple
Decision (20220202)
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01:00
SHAKESPEARE'S LONG-LOST MICHELANGELO VIRUS SONNET 2600 - 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
The question isn't how Shakespeare was able to write about this centuries before it happened. The question is how did this long forgotten masterpiece fall into our hands. And the answer is, of course, SecureDrop. If you have a literary work from the Elizabethan Era that you'd like to leak anonymously, just visit our SecureDrop site at www.2600.com/securedrop.
Here then, are the words from the Michelangelo scene of Shakespeare's unreleased "Charles III":
Oh, Michelangelo! How thou art feared,
A virus that doth cause such great dismay.
Thou spreadeth fast, and none may be spared,
From thy deadly, destructive, viral way.
Like Michelangelo, thou art an artist,
Creating chaos and destruction all around.
Thou maketh thy victims truly hardest,
As they struggle to restore their lost ground.
But unlike Michelangelo's works so grand,
Thy legacy is one of pain and woe.
For thou dost wreak havoc across the land,
Leaving naught but destruction in thy flow.
Oh, Michelangelo virus, thou art vile,
And we shall never forget thy wicked guile.
00:10
PrimeWire Wont Die or Stop Pirating, $21.7m Judgment Be Damned TorrentFreak
Major Hollywood studios Disney, Paramount, Sony,
Universal and Warner, plus relative newcomer Netflix, are all
members of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). They have
something else in common too.
Every single minute of every single day, rain or shine, people can be found pirating their movies and TV shows online. In Netflixs case, that means every single piece of content the company has ever produced.
For studios with longer histories and huge catalogs of movies and TV shows, piracy doesnt win the Oscar for Total Content Coverage, but still gets top marks for effort on top of its annual lifetime achievement award. Hollywoods corporate sheen and projections of wealth have a tendency to suffocate public empathy, but on any level, that must be pretty intolerable.
Lawsuit Against PrimeWire
When Hollywood sued PrimeWire in late 2021, the only surprise was the timing. For more than a decade, PrimeWire had played a key role in illegally streaming many thousands of movies and TV shows, perhaps hundreds of millions of times.
The studios received annual licensing payments of absolutely nothing but were spending money on lawyers in site-blocking actions in multiple countries. PrimeWires operator/s never appeared in any of them, most likely too busy running the site and circumventing site-blocking orders.
The same applied in the U.S. lawsuit. In the sites absence, the studios attorneys methodically obtained an injunction to shut PrimeWire down, but faced with overseas entities reluctant to take action, PrimeWire never went completely offline.
Cant Kill What You Cant See
Links to movies and TV shows did disappear from PrimeWire for a while but the studios werent taking the bait. They were already engaged in a compelling investigation to identify PrimeWires operator/s.
In most shutdown operations, unmasking the target is a priority. Taking a domain or shutting down hosting is the equivalent of shooting a zombie in the body; somewhat irritating but easy to recover from. Unmasking, on the other hand, opens up the possibility of a clean headshot and the elimination of po...
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VORNADO ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR FORMER HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA SITE 2600 - 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Vornado Realty Trust Announces Plans to Transform Former Hotel Pennsylvania Site into a Center for the Overprivileged
New York City, NY - Vornado Realty Trust, one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the United States, announced today that it will be transforming the former site of the Hotel Pennsylvania into a luxurious center for the overprivileged. The new center will provide an exclusive escape from the daily stresses of life among the middle class, and will feature multiple floors reserved for polo, swimming, and croquet. Admission to the center will be restricted to those earning over $750,000 a year.
The Hotel Pennsylvania, a historic landmark in the heart of Manhattan, has been an iconic part of the New York City skyline since 1919. As a testament to its legacy, the building has undergone numerous renovations over the years, becoming a hub for tourists and locals alike. However, the building has now outlived its usefulness, and Vornado Realty Trust has decided to demolish it to make way for this new venture.
"This is an exciting time for Vornado Realty Trust and for New York City," said Steven Roth, Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. "We believe that the overprivileged deserve a place where they can relax and enjoy the finer things in life. This new center will provide a sanctuary for those who have worked hard to achieve success and are looking for a well-deserved break from the middle class."
The new center will feature state-of-the-art facilities, including multiple swimming pools, a polo field, and a croquet court, as well as other luxurious amenities. In addition, the center will offer a range of exclusive services, including private chefs, personal trainers, and spa treatments.
As the demolition of the historic Hotel Pennsylvania continues, Vornado Realty Trust is committed to ensuring that its legacy is not forgotten. The company will be preserving a number of key artifacts from the building's storied history, which will be on display in the new center.
"We recognize the Hotel Pennsylvania's significance in New York City's history, and we are committed to honoring its legacy," said Roth. "We look forward to opening this new center for the overprivileged and providing them with a truly unique and exclusive experience."
Construction of the new center is set to begin in the coming
months, with an expected completion date in the next two years.
Saturday, 01 April
23:51
GTK & Blender Are The Latest Software Supporting Wayland Fractional Scaling Phoronix
The Blender open-source 3D modeling software as well as the GTK toolkit are the latest open-source projects this week ironing out support for Wayland's fractional scaling protocol...
23:51
Links 01/04/2023: Red Hat Turning 30 Techrights
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- GNU/Linux
- Distributions and Operating Systems
- Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
- Leftovers
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GNU/Linux
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Audiocasts/Shows
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Podman Desktop Containers & Kubernetes (Podcast #15 w/ Markus Eisele)
In the fourth episode of the Red Had Podcast Series, we talk about Podman Desktop with our guest, Markus Eisele, Global Marketing Tools marketing lead at Red Hat. Join us for an insightful and extensive conversation on Podman Desktop, containers, and Kubernetes.
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Red Hat Official WebAssembly Breaks Away from the Browser
What makes WebAssembly a game-changer for runtime environments? Red Hat CTO Chr...
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Wine-Staging 8.5 Adds Patches To Allow Diablo IV To Run Without Errors Phoronix
Following yesterday's Wine 8.5 bi-weekly development release, some 500+ extra patches are applied atop the upstream Wine code-base...
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CROSSOVER SERIES OF "MR. ROBOT" AND "LEAVE IT TO BEAVER" ANNOUNCED 2600 - 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
Title: "Beaver's Bytes"
Logline: In 2023, a grown-up Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver finds himself caught up in a world of cybercrime and corporate corruption when he discovers that his beloved town of Mayfield is under threat from an unknown hacker group. With the help of his old friend, Elliot Alderson, the mastermind behind the infamous fsociety hack, Beaver sets out to uncover the truth and save his hometown from destruction.
Synopsis: "Beaver's Bytes" is a hybrid of the classic family sitcom "Leave It To Beaver" and the cyber thriller "Mr. Robot." Set in the year 2023, the show follows the now-grown Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver as he returns to his hometown of Mayfield after a long absence. He quickly realizes that Mayfield is no longer the idyllic town of his youth, but instead a place overrun with corrupt corporations and cybercriminals.
Beaver reunites with his childhood friend, Elliot Alderson, who has become a legend in the world of hacking thanks to his work with the fsociety group. Elliot has been lying low since the end of the "Mr. Robot" series, but Beaver's return to Mayfield gives him a reason to come out of hiding and help his friend.
Together, Beaver and Elliot set out to uncover the identity of the hacker group that is threatening Mayfield, using their unique combination of old-school sleuthing and cutting-edge hacking skills. Along the way, they encounter a cast of characters both old and new, including some familiar faces from the original "Leave It To Beaver" series.
As the investigation heats up, Beaver and Elliot begin to realize that the threat to Mayfield is much bigger than they initially thought. They must race against time to stop the hackers before they can cause irreparable damage to the town and its residents.
"Beaver's Bytes" is a unique blend of comedy, drama, and
suspense, featuring a cast of beloved characters from a classic
sitcom alongside the gritty, high-stakes world of cybercrime. With
its timely themes of corporate corruption and online privacy, the
show is a thrilling and thought-provoking ride that will keep
audiences on the edge of their seats.
22:00
Squeezing Secrets Out Of An Amazon Echo Dot Hackaday
As we have seen time and time again, not every device stores our sensitive data in a respectful manner. Some of them send our personal data out to third parties, even! Todays case is not a mythical one, however its a jellybean Amazon Echo Dot, and [Daniel B] shows how to make it spill your WiFi secrets with a bit of a hardware nudge.
Theres been exploits for Amazon devices with the same CPU, so to save time, [Daniel] started by porting an old Amazon Fire exploit to the Echo Dot. This exploit requires tactically applying a piece of tin foil to a capacitor on the flash chip power rail, and it forces the Echo to surrender the contents of its entire filesystem, ripe for analysis. Immediately, [Daniel] found out that the Echo keeps your WiFi passwords in plain text, as well as API keys to some of the Amazon-tied services.
Found an old Echo Dot at a garage sale or on eBay? There might just be a WiFi password and a few API keys ripe for the taking, and who knows what other kinds of data it might hold. From Amazon service authentication keys to voice recognition models and maybe even...
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UNCLAIMED HACKER HANDLES 2600 - 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
The following 100 hacker handles are unclaimed in the Hacker Registry. If you are interested in obtaining one of these, registration will open on Monday. For a monthly fee of $8, we will register the handle of your choice to you (first come, first served). There is a limit of two handles per Social Security number.
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Hacktivator
ShadowPuppet
DarkByte
LogicBomb
GhostCracker
CyberChaos
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CyberSpartan
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GhostGeek
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HackHustler
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JavaJacker
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ScriptSlinger
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XenoXploit
YellowHacker
ZombieZero
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ByteBasher
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DarkDefender
EchoEagle
FireflyHacker
GreyGuru
HackHive
InfiKnight
JoltJumper
KeyKing
LogikLord
MachineMaster
NetNimbus
OverloadOracle
PhantomPirate
QuantumQuark
RogueRunner
SparkSavage
TechTerror
VirusVigilante
WhirlwindWizard
XenonXenocide
YellowYak
ZombieZone
ArchAngel
Cipherphreak
21:55
KDE Ends Out March With More Fixes - Including More Plasma Wayland Work Phoronix
The KDE developers ended March on a high note with more fixes, continued porting around Qt 6, and also taking care of more Plasma Wayland issues...
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VPNS TO BE OUTLAWED IN THE U.S. - IT'S FOR THE BEST, REALLY 2600 - 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
The United States government is set to outlaw the use of VPNs later this year, citing concerns about their use for illegal activity. VPNs, or virtual private networks, allow users to connect to the internet through a server in another location, which can be used to mask their identity and location. This has made them popular for a variety of activities, including accessing blocked websites, pirating copyrighted content, and committing fraud.
The government argues that VPNs are a major tool for criminals and that outlawing their use will help to reduce crime. However, some critics argue that the ban will stifle freedom of speech and privacy. They argue that VPNs can be used for legitimate purposes, such as protecting oneself from government surveillance.
The ban on VPNs is set to go into effect later this year. It is unclear how the ban will be enforced, but it is likely that users who are caught using a VPN will be prosecuted.
Here are some of the reasons why VPNs are considered dangerous:
They can be used to access blocked websites and content. This can be used for illegal purposes, such as pirating copyrighted content or accessing child pornography.
They can be used to commit fraud. For example, VPNs can be used to create fake identities or to steal credit card information.
They can be used to hide illegal activity. For example, VPNs can be used to hide the location of a computer that is being used to commit a crime.
They can be used to spy on users. For example, some VPN
providers may sell user data to third-party companies.
20:34
AI Image Generator Midjourney Stops Free Trials but Says Influx of New Users to Blame SoylentNews
AI image generator Midjourney has stopped free trials of its software:
AI image generator Midjourney has halted free trials of its service, blaming a sudden influx of new users. Midjourney CEO and founder David Holz announced the change on Tuesday, originally citing "extraordinary demand and trial abuse" in a message on Discord (this announcement was spotted first by The Washington Post). In an email to The Verge, Holz stated that the pause is "because of massive amounts of people making throwaway accounts to get free images."
"We think the culprit was probably a viral how-to video in china," said Holz over email. "This happened at the same time as a temporary gpu shortage. The two things came together and it was bringing down the service for paid users."
Given Holz's reference to "abuse," it was originally thought that the pause was linked to a spate of recent viral images created using Midjourney, including fabricated images of Donald Trump being arrested and the pope wearing a stylish jacket, which some mistook for real photographs. However, Holz characterized earlier reports as a "misunderstanding" and notes that the free trial of Midjourney that creates the most realistic images and which is thought to have been used for these viral pictures.
[...] Midjourney maintains a list of banned words "related to topics in different countries based on complaints from users in those countries," as per a message from Holz last October. But it doesn't share a last year, "Almost no one ever notices [the ban list] unless they're specially trying to create drama which is against our rules in tos [terms of service] 'don't use our tools to create drama.'"
[...] At the time of writing, Midjourney is still not allowing free users to generate images, though this may change in the future. "We're still trying to figure out how to bring free trials back, we tried to require an active email but that wasn't enough so we're back to the drawing board," said Holz.
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19:33
Microsoft Fixes New Azure AD Vulnerability Impacting Bing Search and Major Apps The Hacker News
Microsoft has patched a misconfiguration issue impacting the Azure Active Directory (AAD) identity and access management service that exposed several "high-impact" applications to unauthorized access. "One of these apps is a content management system (CMS) that powers Bing.com and allowed us to not only modify search results, but also launch high-impact XSS attacks on Bing users," cloud security
19:00
Apple Never Gave Them USB. Now, Theyre Getting It For Themselves Hackaday
These days we use USB as a default for everything from low-speed serial ports to high-capacity storage, and the ubiquitous connector has evolved into a truly multi-purpose interface. Its difficult to believe then, that the first Apple Mac to be designed with a USB interface was shipped without it; but thats the case with 1997s grey Power Mac G3.
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Science Confirms Turmeric Is as Effective as 14 Drugs Terra Forming Terra
Woman Who Felt Abandoned by God Dies in Hospital Room, Receives Answer From Jesus Terra Forming Terra
The major teaching here is just how deeply we chose our lifeway before we are born. I was not expectiing that. We discover lefe experiences are carried forward using even our cells which must have that super computer.
Trump indictment shows that power-crazed Democrats are incompatible with human society Terra Forming Terra
Trump indictment shows that power-crazed Democrats are incompatible with human society
I believe that Trump's indictment by power-crazed Democrats is yet another necessary step for the trial by fire that will see America rise up against tyranny, censorship, election rigging and the demonic infestation of the Left that has produced child grooming, transgenderism, trans terrorism and widespread psychological trauma.
As you'll hear today in my Brighteon Broadcast News episode (below), I also believe that Trump himself needs to make it through this trial by fire to achieve a personal transformation.
I think Trump's arrest and prosecution may actually be the wake up call that Trump needs to finally get serious about draining the swamp and using executive power to arrest and imprison the traitors, operatives and treasonous actors who have declared war on this nation.
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Working With Old High-Voltage EPROMs Is Fussy Hackaday
EPROMs, those UV-erasable memory chips of the 80s and 90s, once played a crucial role in countless electronic devices. Theyve become relics of a bygone era, but for enthusiasts of vintage electronics, the allure of these light-sensitive devices remains strong. Today, were diving into [Kevin Osborn]s nostalgic journey as he uncovers the secrets of old EPROMs loaded with Atari 7800 code.
[Kevin] used to work at General Computer Company, which produced the Atari 7800 and several games for the system. Thus, he had a handful of old carts and development EPROMs sitting up in his attic along with an old console. Recently, he decided to try and uncover what was on the EPROMs and begun an investigation. They wouldnt run in his Atari, and he quickly realized why: the EPROMs werent cryptographically signed, so the system wouldnt load them.
After a little work, he was able to dump the EPROMs with the help of a TL866II+ reader. After some hacking, he was able to fettle the data on the EPROMs into something that would run on the A7800 emulator. This was easy enough, as the emulator doesnt run checks for properly signed code. From there, he was able to use a UV phone sanitizer to wipe the EPROMs, and re-burn them with signed versions of their original code. This took the application of some high voltage, but with the aid of an external power supply, it worked. He was able to successfully run the obscure ROMs on real Atari 7800 console hardware.
UV-erasable PROMs, or EPROMs, have long been superseded by the more convenient...
15:52
Silence Gets You Nowhere in a Data Breach SoylentNews
Your victim status won't last long if your response is nonexistent:
In cybersecurity, the phrase "what they don't know won't hurt them" is not only wrong, it's dangerous. Despite this, it's a motto that remains in many organizations' PR playbooks, as demonstrated by the recent LastPass and Fortra data breaches.
[...] TechCrunch+ has learned that LastPass has already lost customers because of its silent-treatment approach to its breach. And Fortra is likely to face a similar fate after TechCrunch+ heard from multiple customers that they only learned that their data had been stolen after receiving a ransom demand; Fortra had assured them that the data was safe.
Smaller companies, too, are employing a silent-treatment approach to data breaches: Kids' tech coding camp iD Tech failed to acknowledge a January breach that saw hackers access the personal data of close to 1 million users, including names, dates of birth, passwords stored in plaintext, and about 415,000 unique email addresses. Concerned parents told us at the time that they only became aware of the breach after receiving a notification from a third-party data breach notification service.
[...] While getting hacked can be forgivable, an organization's victim status will not last long if it fails to respond appropriately or at all as demonstrated by LastPass and Fortra.
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15:51
Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation The Hacker News
Critical security flaws in Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex are being exploited by various threat actors in hacks targeting unpatched systems. This entails the abuse of CVE-2022-46169 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2021-35394 (CVSS score: 9.8) to deliver MooBot and ShellBot (aka PerlBot), Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said in a report published this week. CVE-2022-46169 relates to a critical
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Hackers Exploiting WordPress Elementor Pro Vulnerability: Millions of Sites at Risk! The Hacker News
Unknown threat actors are actively exploiting a recently patched security vulnerability in the Elementor Pro website builder plugin for WordPress. The flaw, described as a case of broken access control, impacts versions 3.11.6 and earlier. It was addressed by "Improved code security enforcement in WooCommerce components," the Tel
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Socura releases Managed SASE service to secure the hybrid workforce Help Net Security
Socura has launched its Managed SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) service in partnership with Palo Alto Networks Prisma. Market industry researchers expect SASE to be a $60bn industry by 2027 fuelled by the rise of flexible working, which was enshrined into UK law in December 2022, whereby millions of UK employees were granted the right to request flexible working hours throughout their employment. By combining SASE with its Managed SOC (Security Operations Centre) service, Socura More
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consciousness. Thus, the concept of hoarding money or showing money
was rather pointless. Id never be interested in it.
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Creating a 3D Visualization of Freely Moving Organisms Using Camera Array and Software Algorithm Hackaday
Observing a colony, swarm or similar grouping of creatures like ants or zebrafish over longer periods of time can be tricky. Simply recording their behavior with a camera misses a lot of information about the position of their body parts, while taking precise measurements using a laser-based system or LiDAR suffers from a reduction in parameters such as the resolution or the update speed. The ideal monitoring system would be able to record at high data rates and resolutions, while presenting the recorded data all three dimensions. This is where the work by Kevin C. Zhou and colleagues seeks to tick all the boxes, with a recent paper (preprint, open access) in Nature Photonics describing their 3D-RAPID system.
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Zenoss introduces monitoring capabilities for Kubernetes Help Net Security
Zenoss has launched a free trial for monitoring Kubernetes, the de facto standard platform for running containers in production at scale, including in on-prem and cloud environments. This real-time monitoring of Kubernetes streaming data is another advancement of the Zenoss unified monitoring vision. The Zenoss monitoring capabilities for Kubernetes enable customers to: Begin monitoring in minutes with no training required for operations personnel. Leverage secure, cloud-based monitoring with zero install. Gain insights for Kubernetes clusters More
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12:38
Linus Tech (Illiteracy) Tips, LTT, Buys Phoronix Media Techrights
Summary: Phoronix Media is being acquired by a larger company; the site will not change though
Linus Gabriel Sebastian, founder of Linus Tech Tips (LTT), has just announced the transfer of Phoronix Media (best known for Phoronix.com and PTS) to his company based in Canada.
Readers of the site wont be affected. They can still get a spoonful of Microsoft chaff along with plenty of (other) ads.Phoronix.com and PTS are a strategic addition to our growing portfolio, remarked Yvonne Ho, who will oversee the operations to ensure the benchmarks always include ClearLinux and articles habitually include a Microsoft distro that only Microsoft uses.
Michael Larabel could not be reached for comment. He has been busy this past month trying to figure out new and innovative ways to block all the ad blockers. Mr. Sebastian insists that evading ads is nothing short of piracy.
Readers of the site wont be affected. They can still get a spoonful of Microsoft chaff along with plenty of (other) ads.
12:13
Decided to Quit Debian and Use WSL Instead (Best of Both Worlds) Techrights
Summary: Today starts a journey to a better experience, which lets Microsoft audit the kernel and leverage telemetry to improve my Debian experience
THIS is a hard post to write. Today, April 1, Im beginning my migration. I will report on it later today, explaining how it all went along. Maybe Ill change my mind.
Thankfully I already have some Microsoft MVPs like Hayden Barnes helping my migration.Having used GNU/Linux since my teenage years Ive decided that its just too boring. Ive not rebooted Debian since January when I first installed it (only the post-install reboot) and I am beginning to wonder if theres a bootkit somewhere inside my system. Thank God, Microsoft made secure boot to do this for me. As it turns out, Debian 11 is not good anymore. Vista 11 has WSL, which reinvents Cygwin, dating back to 1995. So why on Earth use only GNU/Linux? Best of both worlds, right? Anything else would be an act of bigotry and intolerance.
Thankfully I already have some Microsoft MVPs like Hayden Barnes helping my migration. They kept coming to our IRC network for years, advocating WSL. I give up! They have a point!
11:46
Microsoft Has Laid Off Lennart Poettering and Hired Elon Musk Techrights
Microsoft hires Elon Musk to oversee layoffs, algorithm decides to fire Poettering
Summary: Poettering gets rehired by IBM; IBM and Microsoft announce merger, putting Poettering back into his former position
MICROSOFT is going through some truly tough times. There are layoffs every week, the company is unable to hide it by compelling staff to sign NDAs (the press finds out eventually), and tens of thousands of puff pieces about a chaffbot cannot distract the public entirely from the real crisis.
As a result, the first person to go is Lennart Poettering, who quietly defected from IBM to Microsoft only months ago.Microsoft has just announced, in its Friday shareholders meeting, that it has convinced Elon Musk to join Microsofts Board of Directors and spend some time carrying out duties at Microsoft, at least at a part-time capacity, focusing on AI.
Musk has demonstrated solid track record running companies that suffer deep losses, the company said in its meeting minutes, not only convincing a lot of staff to leave voluntarily but also laying off a significant proportion without paying severance.
IBM has meanwhile signalled that it is willing to rehire Mr. Poettering, but discussions are still ongoing about the IBM/Microsoft merger, which dates back to 2011.An anonymous source told us that OpenAI has unveiled a new algorithm for HR. As a result, the first person to go is Lennart Poettering, who quietly defected from IBM to Microsoft only months ago. Poettering insists that it was not a defection, it was just a matter of wearing the correct badge after more than a decade of work, which some deemed sabotage.
IBM has meanwhile signalled that it is willing to rehire Mr. Poettering, but discussions are still ongoing about the IBM/Microsoft merger, which dates back to 2011. The discussions are already more than a decade old and Bill Gates is losing interest in them.
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These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft SoylentNews
There are around 200 data centers in the Netherlands, most of them renting out server space to several different companies. But since 2015, the country has also witnessed the arrival of enormous "hyperscalers," buildings that generally span at least 10,000 square feet and are set up to service a single (usually American) tech giant. Lured here by the convergence of European internet cables, temperate climates, and an abundance of green energy, Microsoft and Google have built hyperscalers; Meta has tried and failed.
Against the backdrop of an intensifying Dutch nitrogen crisis, building these hyperscalers is becoming more controversial. Nitrogen, produced by cars, agriculture, and heavy machinery used in construction, can be a dangerous pollutant, damaging ecosystems and endangering people's health. The Netherlands produces four times more nitrogen than the average across the EU. The Dutch government has pledged to halve emissions by 2030, partly by persuading farmers to reduce their livestock herds or leave the industry altogether. Farmers have responded with protests, blockading roads with tractors and manure and dumping slurry outside the nature minister's home.
The courts have also halted thousands of building projectsforcing construction jobs like Microsoft's to apply for permits proving they would not make the nitrogen crisis worse.
[...] The dispute over nitrogen permits has put Microsoft's data center developments in direct opposition to an increasingly powerful farming community. Earlier this month, a new political force, called the Farmer Citizen Movement (BBB), did so well in provincial elections, it became the joint-largest party in the Dutch Senate. The party, which emerged in response to the nitrogen crisis, also has strong views on data centers. "We think the data center is unnecessary," says Ingrid de Sain, farmer turned party leader of the BBB in North Holland, referring to the Microsoft complex. "It is a waste of fertile soil to put the data centers boxes here. The BBB is against this."
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10:37
New AMD Ryzen CPUs, Intel Sapphire Rapids, Rust Adoption & More In Q1 Phoronix
During the first quarter of 2023 on Phoronix I wrote 708 original news articles pertaining to Linux, open-source, and hardware. That was complemented by another 45 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured articles for the quarter. Here is a look back at what excited Linux/open-source enthusiasts for the quarter...
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Bad Content Moderation Is Bad, And Government Interference Can Make It Even Worse Deeplinks
This week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing titled Preserving Free Speech and Reining in Big Tech Censorship. Lawmakers at the hearing trotted out the usual misunderstandings of these concepts, and placed the blame on Section 230, the law that actually promotes free speech online.
However, buried in these misunderstandings from Congress, and most of the witnesses called to testify, was a genuinely serious problem: Government officials keep asking online services to remove or edit users speech, raising the specter of unconstitutional interference with private platforms moderation decisions. And worse, the public lacks any transparency into how often this occurs.
Regardless of your ideological preference, we should always worry about government coercion that results in censoring users speech online, which violates the First Amendment and threatens human rights globally. The government is free to try to persuade online services to remove speech it believes is harmful, but the choice to remove users speech should always remain with the platform.
So Congress is right to investigate the relationship between platforms and the government, and both should be more transparent about official requests to remove users content.
The First Amendment And Section 230 Enable Content Moderation
One witness at the hearing, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, discovered that much of what he posted about COVID-19 mitigation strategies was being moderated by Twitter to reduce its visibility, at the request of government health officials. The decisions made about his Twitter handle were not explained to him at the time, but were later shown to him after Twitter changed ownership. This lack of transparency is problematic. Thats why, for years, groups such as EFF have pressed Big Tech companies to be more clear to users about their decision making processes, especially when those decisions start with a government request.
The claim often made by some Members of Congress, including Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), is that Section 230 lies at the heart of the censorship. The statement misunderstands the issue. Platforms are private entities and, as weve explained...
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Italy Temporarily Blocks ChatGPT, Citing Privacy Issues HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site
Italy has given OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, a deadline of 20 days to sort out privacy issues, including data collection, under Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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Tiny Yet Functional Bike Built From Scratch Hackaday
Sometimes, you just want to go ride your bike in the great outdoors, but you cant be bothered throwing it in the back of the car. That wouldnt be a problem if you rode this latest build from [The Q]: a bike small enough to fit in a handbag.
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Wine 8.5 Released With VKD3D 1.7 Included, WinRT App Dark Theme Phoronix
Wine 8.5 is out to end out the month as the newest bi-weekly development release for enjoying the ability to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...
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For Europe, This Upcoming German Rocket Can't Arrive Soon Enough SoylentNews
German company Isar Aerospace has raised $165 million in order to ramp up the development of its Spectrum rocket, which is scheduled for its debut launch later this year. For Europeans needing access to space, the rocket's arrival will come not a moment too soon.
[...] Isar Aerospace has raised a total of $330 million so far, with $75 million raised during its previous round of funding in July 2021. The funds will go towards the development of Isar's Spectrum rocket, a two-stage launch vehicle designed to carry small and medium sized satellites to orbit. According to ISAR, Spectrum should be capable of carrying 2,205 pounds (1,000 kilograms) to low Earth orbit (LEO). By comparison, SpaceX's medium-lift Falcon 9 can hoist 50,265 pounds (22,800 kg) to LEO.
Spectrum's inaugural launch is planned for the second half of 2023. Isar Aerospace is currently running tests on the rocket's Aquila engine, which was developed and manufactured in-house. The company is also finalizing its infrastructure at the launch site in Andya, Norway, which will host Spectrum's debut liftoff.
[...] Europe is desperately in need of its own launch vehicles, whether for small or medium lift, to provide local access to space. Spectrum won't be the most powerful rocket when it debuts, but it'll fill a troublesome gap, especially until Vega-C and Ariane 6 come through.
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07:59
New Cylance Ransomware Targets Linux and Windows, Warn Researchers HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site
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For now, Cylance ransomware is still in its early stages, yet it has already claimed several victims.
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07:58
Stupid Patent of the Month: Traxcell Tech Gets Ordered To Pay Attorneys Fees Deeplinks
If someone loses a patent lawsuit very badlyto the point where they face orders to pay attorneys' feesyou wouldnt think they would be eager to come back to court with a nearly identical lawsuit. But thats what has happened with this months patent. Whats more, the lawyer representing the patent owner, William Ramey, has been ordered to pay attorneys' fees no fewer than five times in recent years.
U.S. Patent No. 10,820,147 is owned by Traxcell Technologies. Its not clear what, if anything, Traxcell ever made. The company applied for patents back in 2002. By 2004, it had a bare-bones website stating that its mission is to provide leading edge technology and innovation to in [sic] the field of telecommunications. Today, its business is pretty clearTraxcell is a patent troll. The companys website has little information beyond its patents, which have been used in dozens of lawsuits since 2017.
The key claim of the 147 patent is long, but it essentially describes a wireless device that collects and shows location information, and also includes traffic congestion information. Theres also the feature that the device can allow, or disallow, tracking (a standard feature on modern smartphones).
This patent has come up in more than 20 of Traxcells lawsuits in the last two years, with its litigation picking up steam as the patents expiration date of September 2022 drew near. Its been used to sue major cell phone companies like T-Mobile and Verizon, the makers of online maps like Google and Apple, and delivery and gig companies. Its sued FlightAware for using publicly available flight-tracking information, and the Curb app for tracking taxis, and Instacart for tracking its own shoppers.
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Traxcell was scheduled to bring this patent to trial next week in a federal Texas court. The trial actually would have been the conclusion of Traxcells second lawsuit against Verizon. Since its coming back for another round, one might think that Traxcells first lawsuit was a big success. Thats not the case, though.
In the first Traxcell v. Verizon patent lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of Texas (then a hot patent venue), Verizon won on summary judgmentmeaning, before the case went to a jury, a judge ruled there was no patent infringement, and that the case was over. Traxcell appealed, but the appeals court agreed that Verizon should win the ca...
07:49
Without Verification, What Is the Point of Elon Musks Twitter? Deeplinks
Elon Musk's Twitter fundamentally misunderstands what made Twitter useful in the first place. In an attempt to wring blood from a stone, Twitters announced that all the original "blue checks"initially created as a way to verify that someone was who they said they werewill disappear on April 1st. Instead, blue checks will once again be for sale, just as they were briefly, when Musk took control. April 1 is a date that makes it hard to take anything seriously but, since this isnt the first time Twitters tried this, let's delve into the problems that selling verifications poses.
Twitter used to do a better job of content moderation than many of its social media competitors. The company tended to err on the side of labeling objectionable content rather than removing it. Twitter had an admirable commitment to transparency and standing up for its users (that isn't to say it was good: content moderation at scale almost never turns out well. It simply had smarter failures than the rest).
Twitters good qualitiesfeatures and practices that many users all over the world came to rely onare all but gone now.
Twitter Before
Twitter first introduced blue checkmarks in 2009, after celebrities complained of being impersonated on the platform. While verification was only available to well-known public figures (e.g. actors, athletes, politicians) at first, checkmarks were later rolled out to companies, journalists, activists, and even social media influencers. In 2016, the company briefly rolled out a verification application process, so individuals who could prove their notability could get verified. That process was shut down after a white supremacist was verified through it, and wasnt reopened until late 2020, with tighter qualifications.
Although the specifics of Twitters verification procedures were often criticized, the blue checkmarks served an important function: verifying that a person or company was exactly who they said they were. It's partially what made Twitter so beloved by journalists: it was harder to accidentally include a tweet by a joke account in your reporting. It also saved a lot of journalists from hunting down an email address or a public relations person when they wanted to contact someonefar easier to just send a DM. Furthermore, journalists with the checkmarks were clearly also who they said they were, making it more likely they'd get responses from subjects who could tell that they were legitimate...
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Intel oneDNN 3.1 Further Optimizing For Sapphire Rapids, Starts Tuning For Sierra Forest Phoronix
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Hackers are actively exploiting a flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin Security Affairs
Threat actors are actively exploiting a high-severity flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin used by more than eleven million websites
WordPress security firm PatchStack warns of a high-severity vulnerability in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin that is currently being exploited by threat actors in the wild.
Elementor Pro is a paid plugin that is currently installed on over 11 million websites, it allows users to easily create WordPress websites.
This vulnerability was reported on March 18 by security researcher Jerome Bruandet from NinTechNet.
The expert reported that the issue impacts Elementor Pro when it is installed on a site that has WooCommerce activated.
allowing authenticated users, like shop customers or site members, to change the sites settings and can potentially lead to a complete site takeover.Elementor Pro, a popular page builder plugin for WordPress, fixed a broken access control vulnerability affecting versions <=3.11.6 that could allow full site takeover. reads the advisory published by Bruanded.
The flaw is broken access control on the plugins WooCommerce module (elementor-pro/modules/woocommerce/module.php), anyone can exploit the issue to change WordPress settings in the database. The flaw is exploited through a vulnerable AJAX action, pro_woocommerce_update_page_option, which is used by Elementors built-in editor.
The issue stems from improper input validation and a lack of capability check to restrict its access to a high privileged user only.
An authenticated attacker can leverage the vulnerability to create an administrator account by enabling registration and setting the default role to administrator, change the administrator email address or, redirect all traffic to an external malicious website by changing siteurl among many other possibilities, wrote Bruandet.
Elementor Plugin bug actively exploited
PatchStack researchers are observing attacks from multiple IP addresses, most of them from the following IP addresses:
- 193.169.194.63
- 193.169.195.64
- 194.135.30.6
The experts are also seeing files being uploaded with the followin...
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Pirate Site Blocking Decreases Internet Traffic, Research Finds TorrentFreak
In
recent years, website blocking has become one of the most
widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world.
ISPs in several dozen countries prevent subscribers from accessing a variety of pirate sites. While new blocks are added every month, research on the effectiveness of these efforts is rather limited.
Early Piracy Blocking Research
One of the earliest pieces of academic research, based on UK data, showed that the local Pirate Bay blockade had little effect on legal consumption. Instead, pirates turned to alternative pirate sites, proxies, or VPNs to bypass the virtual restrictions.
A follow-up study added more color and brought hope for rightsholders. The research showed that once a large number of sites were blocked in the UK, overall pirate site traffic decreased. At the same time, the researchers observed an increase in traffic to legal services such as Netflix.
These academic studies originated at Carnegie Mellon University. They were conducted independently but the research received sizable gifts from the Motion Picture Association. The movie industry group often cites these results to show that site blocking is effective.
New Blocking Study Adds Nuance
The two blocking papers and their results are founded on quality research, but theyre not without limitations. One shortcoming is that they are based on UK data that may differ from how blocking measures affect piracy and legal consumption in other parts of the world.
A recently released study can partly fill this gap. It was conducted by researchers from the Catolica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics in Portugal, in collaboration with a colleague who, again, is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University.
Instead of looking at UK data, the researchers analyzed data from a country where a voluntary pirate site blocking scheme was introduced at some point.
The target country isnt mentioned but considering that the researchers are Portuguese, paired with the fact that Portugal is one of the few countries which has a voluntary blocking scheme, we can take an informed guess.
Tracking Internet, TV, and Sp...
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See Satellites in Broad Daylight with This Sky-Mapping Dish Antenna Hackaday
If you look up at the night sky in a dark enough place, with enough patience youre almost sure to see a satellite cross the sky. Its pretty cool to think youre watching light reflect off a hunk of metal zipping around the Earth fast enough to never hit it. Unfortunately, it doesnt work during the daylight hours, and you really only get to see satellites in low orbits.
Thankfully, theres a trick that allows you to see satellites any time of day, even the ones in geosynchronous orbits you just need to look using microwaves. Thats what [Gabe] at [saveitforparts] did with a repurposed portable satellite dish, the kind that people who really dont like being without their satellite TV programming when theyre away from home buy and quickly sell when they realize that toting a satellite dish around is both expensive and embarrassing. They can be had for a song, and contain pretty much everything needed for satellite comms in one package: a small dish on a motorized altazimuth mount, a low-noise block amplifier (LNB), and a single-board computer that exposes a Linux shell.
After figuring out how to command the dish to specific coordinates...
05:49
EuroLinux Desktop 9.1 Released As Easy Windows Workstation Replacement FOSS Force
EuroLinux, the Poland-based company behind the RHEL clone by the same name, has announced the first point release of EuroLinux Desktop, a desktop Linux distribution that was unveiled in September.
The post EuroLinux Desktop 9.1 Released As Easy Windows Workstation Replacement appeared first on FOSS Force.
05:37
Italy Moves to Ban Lab-grown Meat to Protect Food Heritage SoylentNews
Italy's right-wing government has backed a bill that would ban laboratory-produced meat and other synthetic foods, highlighting Italian food heritage and health protection.
If the proposals go through, breaking the ban would attract fines of up to 60,000 (53,000).
Francesco Lollobrigida, who runs the rebranded ministry for agriculture and food sovereignty, spoke of the importance of Italy's food tradition.
The farmers' lobby praised the move.
But it was a blow for some animal welfare groups, which have highlighted lab-made meat as a solution to issues including protecting the environment from carbon emissions and food safety.
[...] The proposals, approved by ministers on Tuesday, seek to ban synthetic foods produced from animal cells without killing the animal, and would apply to lab-produced fish and synthetic milk too.
Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
05:35
German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host FlyHosting Krebs on Security
Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting, a dark web offering that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. FlyHosting first advertised on cybercrime forums in November 2022, saying it was a Germany-based hosting firm that was open for business to anyone looking for a reliable place to host malware, botnet controllers, or DDoS-for-hire infrastructure.
A seizure notice left on the FlyHosting domains.
A statement released today by the German Federal Criminal Police Office says they served eight search warrants on March 30, and identified five individuals aged 16-24 suspected of operating an internet service since mid-2021. The German authorities did not name the suspects or the Internet service in question.
Previously unknown perpetrators used the Internet service provided by the suspects in particular for so-called DDoS attacks, i.e. the simultaneous sending of a large number of data packets via the Internet for the purpose of disrupting other data processing systems, the statement reads.
News of a raid on FlyHosting first surfaced Thursday in a Telegram chat channel that is frequented by people interested or involved in the DDoS-for-hire industry, where a user by the name Dstatcc broke the news to FlyHosting customers:
So Flyhosting made a migration with it[s] systems to new rooms of the police ;), the warning read. Police says: They support ddos attacks, C&C/C2 and stresser a bit too much. We expect the police will take a deeper look into the files, payment logs and IPs. If you had a server from them and they could find bad things connected with you (payed with private paypal) you may ask a lawyer.
05:33
After Students Challenged Proctoring Software, French Court Slaps TestWe App With a Suspension Deeplinks
In a preliminary victory in the continuing fight against
privacy-invasive software that watches students taking tests
remotely, a French administrative court outside Paris suspended a
universitys use of the e-proctoring platform TestWe, which monitors
students through facial recognition and algorithmic analysis.
TestWe software, much like
Proctorio, Examsoft, and other proctoring apps
weve called out for intrusive monitoring of exam takers,
constantly tracks students eye movements and their surroundings
using video and sound analysis. The court in Montreuil, France,
ruled that such permanent surveillance of bodies and sounds is
unreasonable and excessive for the purpose preventing cheating.
Proctoring apps came roaring on the scene during the COVID-19
pandemic when closed schools switched to remote learning.
Proctoring software makers promised schools a way to continue to
administer and control high-stakes tests to students at homeby
surveilling them, tracking their keystrokes, checking if their eyes
moved away from the screen, and watching to see if they navigated
away from the test, all through their computers.
Theres a lot wrong with these apps. They invade students privacy,
exacerbate existing inequities in educational outcomes, and can
never fully match the control schools are used to enforcing in the
test hall. And they are faulty: ProctorU, one of the largest remote
proctoring companies,
recently stopped selling fully-automated proctoring services
because too few administrators and teachers were reviewing the
results to determine whether or not a flagged violation was
actually a violation. Although many students have gone back to
in-person learning, remote proctoring is still in use, and we dont
believe it is going away anytime soon.
The TestWe case is one of the first weve seen in Europe challenging
proctoring software. Its a good sign on two fronts. It shows that
concerns about what some have called
legitimized spyware are shared by students and digital rights
defenders around the world. And like
students here in the U.S., theyre challenging the use of
th...
05:30
Move Aside Yoda, its Furbys Turn On Lukes Back Hackaday
When you want a backpack that turns heads and gets people talking, you can get ahead of the conversation with a talking backpack. [Nina] created a rucksack with the legendary babbler itself, the infamous Furby.
Believe it or not, no actual Furbies were sacrificed in the making of this backpack. The build uses an Arduino Nano, two servos, and a DFPlayer Mini for audio. A 3D printed faceplate is used for the iconic eyes and face. The code is fairly simple, waiting for a random delay and then triggering one of four effects. It can play a sound or blink and does its best to move the mouth while the sound is playing thanks to the handy busy line coming off the sound module. A unicorn childrens backpack offered a furry shell to stuff the electronics inside. A custom PCB makes the whole thing just a little neater internally.
Perhaps next [Nina] can integrate voice recognition so that the backpack can answer simple questions like...
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WHO Now Says COVID Vaccines Not Recommended For Healthy Kids & Teens cryptogon.com
After forcing it on millions Via: Summit News: Yet another leading health institution has unveiled a significant Covid policy reversal this week this time its none other than the World Health Organization (WHO) saying something that might have gotten an individual suspended from social media or publicly canceled a mere one or two years ago. []
04:15
Ukraine Busts Gang for Massive $4.3 Million Phishing Scams HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site
The Ukrainian Cyber Police carried out 30 searches and managed to seize computer equipment, mobile phones, SIM cards, and other equipment.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ukraine Busts Gang for Massive $4.3 Million Phishing Scams
04:00
Why A Community Hackerspace Should Be A Vital Part Of Being An Engineering Student Hackaday
Travelling the continents hackerspaces over the years, I have visited quite a few spaces located in university towns. They share a depressingly common theme, of a community hackerspace full of former students who are now technology professionals, sharing a city with a university anxious to own all the things in the technology space and actively sabotaging the things they dont own. Ive seen spaces made homeless by university expansion, Ive seen universities purposefully align their own events to clash with a hackerspace open night and discourage students from joining, and in one particularly egregious instance, Ive even seen a university take legal action against a space because they used the name of the city, also that of the university, in the name of their hackerspace. I will not mince my words here; while the former are sharp practices, the latter is truly disgusting behaviour.
The above is probably a natural extension of the relationship many universities have with their cities, which seems depressingly often to be one of othering and exclusion. Yet in the case of hackerspaces I cant escape the conclusion that a huge opportunity is being missed for universities to connect engineering and other tech-inclined students...
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Video Friday: Grain Weevil IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics
videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum
robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics
events for the next few months. Please
send us your events for inclusion.
Robotics Summit & Expo: 1011 May 2023, BOSTON
ICRA 2023: 29 May2 June 2023, LONDON
RoboCup 2023: 410 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE
RSS 2023: 1014 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA
IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 2831 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA
CLAWAR 2023: 24 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL
Humanoids 2023: 1214 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA
Enjoy todays videos!
This is the Grain Weevil, and its designed to keep humans out of grain bins. I love this because its an excellent example of how to solve a real, valuable problem uniquely with a relatively simple, focused robot.
[ Grain Weevil ]
As the city of Paris sleeps, Spot is hard at work inspecting some of RATP Groups 35,000 civil works components. The RATP Group (Autonomous Parisian Transportation Administration), is a French state-owned public transport operator and maintainer for the Greater Paris area. With thousands of civil works to inspect each year, the company has turned to mobile robotics to inspect hard-to-reach and hazardous areas in order to keep employees out of harms way.
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nrcisztikus vagyok? Hogyan mondhatjuk el h+ Media
nrcisztikus vagyok? Hogyan mondhatjuk el
nrcizmus lerja a szemlyisgjegyeket, mint pldul a hisg s az ngazdlkods. A nrcisztikus szemlyisgzavar mentlis egszsgi llapot, olyan tulajdonsgokkal, amelyek magukban foglalhatjk a tlzott figyelmet, az nfontossg felfjt rzst s az emptia hinyt.
Valaki, aki nrcisztikus, tlsgosan foglalkozhat a megjelenssel, vagy kevs id van arra, hogy msokra sszpontostson.
Ez azonban nem felttlenl jele annak, hogy valakinek nrcisztikus szemlyisgzavar (NPD) van. Brki viselkedhet nkzpont mdon az let klnbz pontjain.
Az NPD -vel rendelkez embereknek nehznek nem koncentrlni magukra, s nem ismeri fel, hogy ezt megteszik. Az NPD egy hossz tv llapot, amely jelentsen befolysolja az ember kapcsolatait s az rzelmi mkdst.
Ebben a cikkben megvizsgljuk, mi az NPD, az NPD jelei, s hogy ez hogyan befolysolja a kapcsolatokat.
Azt is megvitatjuk, hogy a nrcisztikus emberek megvltozhatnak -e, s hogyan tudjk ezt megtenni.
Mi a nrcisztikus szemlyisgzavar?
Az American Psychiatric Association (APA) szerint az NPD egy olyan szemlyisgzavar, amely csodlatra s msok irnti emptia hinyra.
Az NPD-ben szenved embereknek nagymrtkben nfontossg rzse s jogosultsg rzse lehet. Gyakran hinyzik az emptia, s kevs rdekldsk lehet a msokkal val intim kapcsolatok kialaktsa irnt.
Mg az NPD-vel rendelkez szemlyek tl magabiztosnak tnhetnek, gyakran alacsony nrtkelsk van. Attl fggen, hogy milyen slyos a rendellenessgk, rosszul reaglhatnak, amikor egy szemly vagy esemny megkrdjelezi a flnyrzetket.
Egy rgebbi 2008 -as tanulmny a Journal of Clinical Psychiatry becslse szerint az emberek 6,2% -a l az NPD -ben letk valamikor. Az arny magasabb a frfiak krben (7,7%), mint a nstnyek (4,8%).
A tanulmny azt is jelentette, hogy az NPD szignifiknsan elterjedtebb:
- Fekete felnttek
- spanyol nstnyek
- Fiatalabb felnttek
- Azok, akik elvlasztottak, elvltak vagy zvegyek
- felnttek, akik soha nem hzasodnak meg Az NPD szles kr s eltr
mdon jelenik meg, az egyes esetek slyossgtl fggen.
Az NPD-vel rendelkez emberek lehetnek:
- nbizonyt vagy nelgltsg
- extrovertlt vagy trsadalmilag elszigetelten vagy munkanlkliek
- A polgrok vagy antiszocilis tevkenysgekben rszt vev emberek modelljei
Ezrt nehz lehet felismerni az NPD -vel rendelkez szemlyt. A mentlis rendellenessgek diagnosztikai s statisztikai kziknyvnek (DSM-5) tdik kiadsa azonban a kvetkez tneteket tartalmazza:
1. Az nfontossg tlzott rzse
Grandiose-val rendelkezik. Az nfontossg rzse az NPD meghatroz jellemzje. Az NPD -ben szenved embereknek rzse van a tbbiekkel szemben.
Nem...
03:42
Re: CVE-2023-29132: Irssi SA-2023-03 / Use after free in printing routine Open Source Security
Posted by Ailin Nemui on Mar 31
CVE-2023-29132 was assigned03:38
Links 31/03/2023: Ruby 3.2.2 and Linux Lite 6.4 Techrights
Contents
- GNU/Linux
- Distributions and Operating Systems
- Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
- Leftovers
- Gemini* and Gopher
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Audiocasts/Shows
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CubicleNate Linux Saloon | 25 Mar 2023 | Archcraft Linux
I am not what one would call a huge fan of Arch Linux or its derivatives. My past experiences have all been pretty poor so really, the bar is set...
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A quarter century of Mozilla LWN.net
The Mozilla project celebrates 25 years of existence.
A lot has changed since 1998. Mozilla is no longer just a bold idea. Were a family of organizations a nonprofit, a public benefit-corporation, and others that builds products, fuels movements, and invests in responsible tech.And were no longer a small group of engineers in Netscapes Mountain View office. Were technologists, researchers, and activists located around the globe not to mention tens of thousands of volunteers.
But if a Mozillian from 1998 stepped into a Mozilla office (or joined a Mozilla video call) in 2023, I think theyd quickly feel something recognizable. A familiar spirit, and a familiar set of values.
03:01
Do advanced Linux disk usage diagnostics with this sysadmin tool Linux.com
Use topdiskconsumer to address disk space issues when youre unable to interrupt production.
Read More at Enable Sysadmin
The post Do advanced Linux disk usage diagnostics with this sysadmin tool appeared first on Linux.com.
03:00
Hackaday Podcast 212: Staring Through ICs, Reading Bloom Filters, and Repairing, Reworking, and Reballing Hackaday
It was quite the cornucopia of goodness this week as Elliot and Dan sat down to hash over the week in hardware hacking. We started with the exciting news that the Hackaday Prize is back already? for the tenth year running! The first round, Re-Engineering Education, is underway now, and were already seeing some cool entries come in. The Prize was announced at Hackday Berlin, about which Elliot waxed a bit too. Speaking of wax, if youre looking to waterproof your circuits, thats just one of many coatings you might try. If youre diagnosing a problem with a chip, a cheap camera can give your microscope IR vision. Then again, you might just use your Mark I peepers to decode a ROM. Is your FDM filament on the wrong spool? Weve got an all-mechanical solution for that. Well talk about tools of the camera operators trade, the right to repair in Europe, Korean-style toasty toes, BGA basics, and learn just what the heck a bloom filter is or is it a Bloom filter?
Check out the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
03:00
Panfrost Driver For Linux 6.4 Adds Speed Binning, New MediaTek SoCs Phoronix
The Panfrost DRM driver providing open-source kernel graphics driver support for modern Arm Mali graphics in various SoCs is seeing some new hardware support for the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle as well as now supporting speed binning functionality...
02:51
Bent Light in Deep Space Reveals One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever Detected SoylentNews
A rare 'ultramassive' black hole, 30 billion times the mass of the Sun, is lurking in the cosmos:
Holy smokes. A group of astronomers have found a black hole containing (checks notes) 30 billion times the mass of our Sun. That's more than seven thousand times the size of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
The team used gravitational lensing to see the black hole. In this natural phenomenon, massive objects' gravitational fields bend photons of light magnifying and warping themmaking it possible to see object that would otherwise be hidden or too faint. Last year, a team spotted the oldest known star in an arc of gravitationally lensed light.
According to a Durham University release, the newly detected black hole is the first ever found using gravitational lensing. A paper about the discovery is published today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
[...] The team identified the black hole by modeling the different pathways light might take through the universe, depending on the presence of black holes of varying mass. They then compared the computer data with images of the cosmos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Lo and behold, they found a match.
[...] "Gravitational lensing makes it possible to study inactive black holes, something not currently possible in distant galaxies," Nightingale added. "This approach could let us detect many more black holes beyond our local universe and reveal how these exotic objects evolved further back in cosmic time."
A brief video explaining the process
Journal Reference:
James. W. Nightingale, Russell J. Smith, Qiuhan He, et
al., Abell 1201: Detection of an Ultramassive Black Hole in
a Strong Gravitational Lens, arXiv:2303.15514 [astro-ph.GA],
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.15514
Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
02:46
Paillier's additively homomorphic cryptosystem David Wong | Cryptologie | HTML
Pascal Paillier released his asymmetric encryption algorithm in 1999, which had the particularity of being homomorphic for the addition. (And unlike RSA, the homomorphism was secure.)
Homomorphic encryption, if you haven't heard of it, is the ability to operate on the ciphertext without having to decrypt it. If that still doesn't ring a bell, check my old blogpost on the subject. In this post I will just explain the intuition behind the scheme, for a less formal overview check Lange's excellent video.
Paillier's scheme is only homomorphic for the addition, which is still useful enough that it's been used in different kind of cryptographic protocols. For example, cryptdb was using it to allow some types of updates on encrypted database rows. More recently, threshold signature schemes have been using Paillier's scheme as well.
The actual algorithm
As with any asymmetric encryption scheme, you have the good ol' key gen, encryption, and decryption algorithms:
Key generation. Same as with RSA, you end up with a public modulus $N = pq$ where $p$ and $q$ are two large primes.
Encryption. This is where it gets weird, encryption looks more like a Pedersen commitment (which does not allow decryption). To encrypt, sample a random $r$ and produce the ciphertext as:
$$(N+1)^m \cdot r^N \mod{N^2}$$
where $m$ is the message to be encrypted. My thought at this point was "WOOT. A message in the exponent? How will we decrypt?"
Decryption. Retrieve the message from the ciphertext $c$ as
$$\frac{c^{\varphi(N)} -1}{N} \cdot \varphi(N)^{-1} \mod{N^2}$$
Wait, what? How is this recovering the message which is currently the discrete logarithm of $(N+1)^m$?
How decryption works
The trick is in expanding this exponentiation (using the Binomial expansion).
The relevant variant of the Binomial formula is the following:
$$(1+x)^n = \binom{n}{0}x^0 + \binom{n}{1}x^1 + \cdots + \binom{n}{n} x^n$$
where $\binom{a}{b} = \frac{a!}{b!(a-b)!}$
So in our case, if we only look at $(N+1)^m$ we have:
$$ \begin{align} (N+1)^m &= \binom{m}{0} + \binom{m}{1} N + \binom{m}{2} N^2 + \cdots + \binom{m}{m} N^m \\ &= \binom{m}{0} + \binom{m}{1} N \mod{N^2}\\ &= 1 + m \cdot N \mod{N^2} \end{align} $$
Tada! Our message is now back in plain sight, extracted...
02:30
GaN Charger Teardown Reveals Value Of This New Technology Hackaday
Every so often, a new technology comes along that offers a broad range of benefits over what we already have. Just as lithium-ion batteries have made nickel-cadmium cells boring and old hat, gallium nitride semiconductors are making silicon parts look unimpressive by comparison. [Brian Dipert] looked at what this means in a practical sense by tearing down a GaN phone charger.
The charger in question is a 30 watt USB-C charger produced by Voltme. It cost [Brian] just $10, as prices of GaN hardware have come down significantly as economies of scale have kicked in. The charger measures just 1.21.31.2 inches, and weighs only 1.5 ounces. That compact size is thanks to GaN semiconductors, which are able to run cooler at higher power levels than their silicon forebearers.
Cracking into the charger required levering open the case. The back panel came off with some work, revealing the mains terminals, which deliver AC power to the PCB inside via the case holding them in contact. Interestingly, the entire circuit inside is filled with an adhesive thermal goop, which helps pass heat from the hottest components...
02:22
Supply chain cyberattack with possible links to North Korea could have thousands of victims globally Lifeboat News: The Blog
Hackers modified an enterprise communication companys installation software in an attack that could steal credentials and other information from companies around the world, according to an analysis published Wednesday.
Researchers with cybersecurity firm SentinelOnes SentinelLabs team traced illicit activity flagged by its detection systems back to the installation software from a company called 3CX, which according to its website provides video conferencing and online communication products to companies such as Toyota, McDonalds, Pepsi and Chevron. In total, the company says it serves some 12 million customers globally.
This sort of large-scale attack that takes advantage of a companys supply chain similar to how attackers leveraged a flaw within a SolarWinds product update to install backdoors inside its customers networks can be difficult to defend against and could lead to devastating consequences for victims. Its also the kind of operation that is typically associated with a nation-state hacking group.
02:08
BSD Release: MidnightBSD 3.0.0 DistroWatch.com: News
MidnightBSD is a desktop-oriented operating system derived from FreeBSD. The project's latest stable release is MidnightBSD 3.0.0 which is available in i386 and x86_64 builds. With this leap in changes. "There are known issues with the Firefox,....
02:00
The Staggering Scale of the EV Transition IEEE Spectrum
Over the last 20 or so years, contributing editor Robert N. Bob Charette has written about some of the thorniest issues facing the planet at large and engineers in particular. For IEEE Spectrum, hes dug into software reliability and maintenance, the so-called STEM crisis, and the automation paradox, examining those complex topics through the eyes of a seasoned risk analyst who has consulted for governments and corporations for five decades.
Ive been fortunate to be Bobs editor for many of his ambitious projects. We often converse on Friday afternoons about what hes hearing from industry insiders and academics on whatever subject hes currently investigating. Our conversations are jovial, sometimes alarming, and always edifying, at least for me.
So when he called me on a Friday afternoon in the summer of 2021 to propose an article delving into the complexities of the global transition to electric vehicles, I knew that hed do the research at a deeper level than any tech journalist, and that hed explore angles that wouldnt even occur to them.
Take power-grid transformers. These essential voltage-converting components are designed to cool down at night, when power consumption is typically low. But with more people charging their EVs at home at night, the 30-year design life of a transformer will dropto perhaps no more than three years once mass adoption of EVs takes hold. Transformers can cost more than US $20,000 each, and theyre already in short supply in many countries. Bob examined factors like that and dozens of others during the last year and a half.
Throughout his research and reporting, Bob focused on the EV transition at scale: What needs to happen in order for electric vehicles to displace internal-combustion-engine vehicles and have a measurable impact on climate change by midcentury? Quite a lot, it turns out. Humans must change two foundational sectors of modern civilizationenergy and transportationto achieve the targeted reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. These simultaneous global overhauls will involve trillions of dollars in investments, tens of millions of workers, millions of new EVs, tens of thousands of kilometers of new transmission...
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[$] An operation for filesystem tucking LWN.net
As a general rule, the purpose behind mounting a filesystem is to make that filesystem's contents visible to the system, or at least to the mount namespace where that mount occurs. For similar reasons, it is unusual to mount one filesystem on top of another, since that would cause the contents of the over-mounted filesystem to be hidden. There are exceptions to everything, though, and that extends to mounted filesystems; a "tucking" mechanism proposed by Christian Brauner is designed to hide mounted filesystems underneath other mounts temporarily, at least.
01:43
CISA Warns of Vulnerabilities in Propump and Controls Osprey Pump Controller HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site
CISA's advisory came after the Macedonian cybersecurity firm Zero Science Lab discovered and reported the vulnerabilities to authorities.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CISA Warns of Vulnerabilities in Propump and Controls Osprey Pump Controller
01:40
Security updates for Friday LWN.net
Security updates have been issued by Debian (joblib, json-smart, libmicrohttpd, and xrdp), Fedora (thunderbird and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (dino, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, perl-Net-Server, snort, tigervnc/x11-server, and xapian), SUSE (curl, kernel, openssl-1_0_0, and shim), and Ubuntu (glusterfs, linux-gcp-4.15, musl, and xcftools).
01:07
Winter Vivern APT Targets European Government Entities with Zimbra Vulnerability The Hacker News
The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Winter Vivern is now targeting officials in Europe and the U.S. as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign. "TA473 since at least February 2023 has continuously leveraged an unpatched Zimbra vulnerability in publicly facing webmail portals that allows them to gain access to the email mailboxes of government entities in Europe," Proofpoint
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This Week in Security: Macstealer, 3CX Carnage, and Githubs Lost Key Hackaday
Theres a naming overload here, as two bits of security news this week are using the MacStealer moniker. Were first going to talk about the WiFi vulnerability, also known as Framing Frames (pdf). The WPA encryption schemes introduced pairwise encryption, ensuring that not even other authenticated users can sniff each others traffic. At least thats the idea, but this attack finds a couple techniques to bypass that protection.
A bit more background, there are a couple ways that packets can be delayed at the sender side. One of those is the power-save message, that signals the access point that the given client is going into a low power state. Hold my calls, Im going to sleep. That message is a single bit in a frame header. And notably, that bit isnt covered by WPA encryption or verification. An attacker can send a message, spoof a victims MAC address, and the access point marks that client as being in power-save mode.
This observation leads to a question: What happens when the encryption details change between the packet joining the queue, and actually transmitting? Turns out, the specifications on WiFi encryption dont spell it out, and some implementations do the last thing youd want, like sending the packets in t...
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Distribution Release: Linux Lite 6.4 DistroWatch.com: News
Linux Lite is a beginner-friendly Linux distribution based on Ubuntu's long-term support (LTS) release and featuring the Xfce desktop. The project has published an update to its 6.x series which improves packaging compression for custom software, offer a new reporting tool to diagnose problems, and updates the layout....
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Cyber Police of Ukraine arrested members of a gang that defrauded EU citizens of $4.33M Security Affairs
The Cyber Police of Ukraine, with law enforcement officials from Czechia, has arrested several members of a gang responsible for $4.33 million scam.
The Cyber Police of Ukraine, with the support of law enforcement officials from the Czech Republic, has arrested several members of a cybercriminal ring that defrauded EU citizens of $4.33 million with phishing campaigns.
The suspects set up more than 100 phishing websites to obtain the bank card data and banking account credentials of foreign citizens.
The members of the international criminal group were exposed by the employees of the Cyber Police Department together with the Main Investigation Department of the National Police and in cooperation with law enforcement officers of the Czech Republic. reads the press release published by the Cyber Police of Ukraine. Some of the people involved, who live in Ukraine, created more than 100 phishing sites aimed at European users. Various products were offered on web resources at below-market prices. Bank card data, which customers indicated on phishing resources to pay for orders, automatically became known to attackers. Later, they appropriated money from their accounts.
The cybercrime organization also created two call centers, in Vinnytsia and in Lviv, as part of the fraudulent scheme. Operators at the call centers attempted to trick customers into making purchases.
The websites were offering heavily discounted products to lure visitors placing orders. The bad news for the users was that the operators behind the websites were only interested in gathering financial information provided by the visitors while making fake purchases.
The authorities identified more than 1,000 victims from multiple countries, includi...
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Hack the Pentagon website promotes the benefits of bug bounties to US Military Graham Cluley
My guess is that if you stumbled across a website that called itself "Hack the Pentagon" and was decorated with a grisly-looking skull, you would probably think that you might be somewhere less than legitimate. After all, normally if you hacked The Pentagon you would find yourself in heaps of trouble. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Netflix Might Bring its Games to TVs in Effort to Get People to Actually Play Them SoylentNews
Higher quality TV and movies? No. A standard of not cancelling shows after a single season? Nah. Mobile games on your TV? Yup. That appears to be Netflix's plan after a developer found some hidden code while digging through the platform. The company's actually been offering games on mobile since 2021, but given paltry player numbers, the effort to bring them to TVs, where most subscribers actually use Netflix, might be the best way to remind people that they're even there.
App developer Steve Moserwho shared his findings with Bloombergfound some sneaky lines of code during some digging into Netflix's back end. One line of the code allegedly read "A game on your TV needs a controller to play. Do you want to use this phone as a game controller?," indicating that a user's smartphone would serve as the controller for a game hosted on Netflix's interface.
Currently, Netflix's gaming service is relegated to mobile, and while there's critically acclaimed titles like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge and Immortality in there, you can only get at them either by stumbling on Netflix's games on your phone's app store or through a single row in the Netflix app. As such, it's easy to miss out on this side of Netflix entirely. According to recent data, only one percent of subscribers are playing games on Netflix.
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Vulkan 1.3.246 Released With VK_EXT_shader_object Phoronix
Vulkan 1.3.246 has been published with one prominent new extension introduced that was started by Nintendo and worked on by several other hardware/software vendors...
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Google Posts KVM-CPUFreq Driver To Dramatically Boost VM Performance, Power Efficiency Phoronix
Google engineers on Thursday posted initial "request for comments" patches on their KVM-CPUFreq driver that is part of their effort to improve the dynamic voltage and frequency scaling behavior and task placement within KVM-based virtual machines. This effort is leading to big improvements in raw performance and performance-per-Watt for tasks running within Linux VMs...
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Links 31/03/2023: Devices and Games, Mostly Leftovers Techrights
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Re: polkitd service user privilege separation Open Source Security
Posted by Johannes Segitz on Mar 31
It adds an additional step an attacker needs to take before having rootprivileges. Also it is not just about security, it also helps to limit the
impact of non-security bugs. So I would keep the service user, but add
clear language that explains that this isn't a meaningful security boundary
and that this account needs to be considered to have root privileges.
Johannes
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CVE-2023-26269: Apache James server: Privilege escalation through unauthenticated JMX Open Source Security
Posted by Benoit Tellier on Mar 31
Severity: moderateDescription:
management service without authentication by default. This
allows privilege escalation by a
malicious local user.
Administrators are advised to disable JMX, or set up a JMX password.
Work Arounds:
automatically for Guice users.
Credit:
Matei "Mal" Badanoiu (reporter)
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Re: Re: sox: patches for old vulnerabilities Open Source Security
Posted by Steffen Nurpmeso on Mar 31
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Re: Re: sox: patches for old vulnerabilities Open Source Security
Posted by Nam Nguyen on Mar 31
Steffen Nurpmeso writes:I propose keeping that check in order to fix the regression of not
opening wav gsm files.
Steffn Nurpmeso's patch with tweaks can be found inline at the end of
this email. This patch retains the line 654 hunk and adds line 961 hunk
to avoid dividing by 0 for wav gsm files. wav->numSamples is calculated
Feedback is welcome as I am not familiar with the code base....
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Cyber Police of Ukraine Busted Phishing Gang Responsible for $4.33 Million Scam The Hacker News
The Cyber Police of Ukraine, in collaboration with law enforcement officials from Czechia, has arrested several members of a cybercriminal gang that set up phishing sites to target European users. Two of the apprehended affiliates are believed to be organizers, with 10 others detained in other territories across the European Union. The suspects are alleged to have created more than 100 phishing
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Deep Dive Into 6 Key Steps to Accelerate Your Incident Response The Hacker News
Organizations rely on Incident response to ensure they are immediately aware of security incidents, allowing for quick action to minimize damage. They also aim to avoid follow on attacks or future related incidents. The SANS Institute provides research and education on information security. In the upcoming webinar, well outline, in detail, six components of a SANS incident response plan,
22:22
Microsoft lays off entire AI ethics team while going all out on ChatGPT Lifeboat News: The Blog
A new report indicates Microsoft will expand AI products, but axe the people who make them ethical.
22:22
Scientists use rocket to create artificial Northern Lights to better understand space weather Lifeboat News: The Blog
Aurora Borealis can cause damage to satellites in severe solar storms. Scientists are experimenting to understand near-space weather better.
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Sound Open Firmware 2.5 Released - Continues Adoption Of Zephyr, Adds MediaTek MT8188 Phoronix
Sound Open Firmware "SOF" 2.5 has been released as this open-source sound/DSP firmware initiative that was originally started by Intel but now is a Linux Foundation project and seeing hardware support from multiple vendors...
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Archiving the Entirety of DPReview Before Its Gone Hackaday
Despite the popular adage about everything on the internet being there forever, every day pages of information and sometimes entire websites are lost to the sands of time. With the imminent shutdown of the DPReview website, nearly 25 years of reviews and specifications of cameras and related content are at risk of vanishing. Also lost will be the content of forum posts, which can still be requested from DPReview staff until April 6th. All because the owner of the site, Amazon, is looking to cut costs.
As announced on r/photography, the Archive.org team is busy trying to download as much of the site as possible, but due to bottlenecks may not finish in time. One way around these bottlenecks is what is called the Archive Team Warrior, which involves either a virtual machine or Docker image that runs on distributed systems. In early April an archiving run using these distributed systems is planned, in a last-ditch attempt to re...
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Bloomberg Launches Open-Source Funding Initiative Phoronix
The Bloomberg financial, software, and media company has announced their FOSS Fund as a small step for helping open-source projects they rely on and of interest to their employees...
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Fedora 39 Planning For RPM 4.19 - Adds x86-64 v2/v3/v4 Feature Levels Phoronix
With the Fedora 39 release later this year the developers are packaging format...
21:23
Scientists Just Learned Something New About How Aspirin Works SoylentNews
New research into aspirin might one day lead to safer painkillers or even new cancer treatments:
We still have more to learn about one of the world's oldest drugs: aspirin. In research out this week, researchers say they've uncovered more about how the drug reduces inflammation. The findings might pave the way toward creating similar but safer treatments for inflammation and possibly even cancer, according to the team.
Also known as acetylsalicylic acid, aspirin was first synthesized around the turn of the 20th century, though a precursor to itderived from willow plantshas been used by humans for thousands of years. It's a type of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), and, like other NSAIDs, it can treat fever, inflammation, and pain. It also has a unique blood-thinning effect.
Aspirin remains one of the most widely used medications in the world, both as a short-term option for various ailments and as a preventative treatment for people at high risk of cardiovascular disease. But it's not without side effectsnamely an increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding. Last year, U.S. experts even stopped recommending a daily dose of baby aspirin for older adults without a history of heart attack or stroke, citing evidence that any modest benefits for the typical person would be outweighed by the known risks.
[...] Aspirin is known to inhibit enzymes called cyclooxygenase, or COX. These enzymes play a vital role in producing other chemicals that cause inflammation. The researchers say they discovered several ways that aspirin influences this process, from controlling transcription factors that allow the expression of cytokines (proteins involved in inflammation and our immune response) to slowing the breakdown of the amino acid tryptophan, another important player in inflammation. It also seems to accomplish the latter by inhibiting the production of indoleamine dioxygenases (IDOs), particularly IDO1, during the inflammatory process.
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20:58
Ubuntu 23.04 Beta Released - Powered By Linux 6.2, GNOME 44 & Other Updates Phoronix
The beta of Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" and its various spins/flavors were released overnight for testing...
20:52
Russian APT group Winter Vivern targets email portals of NATO and diplomats Security Affairs
Russian hacking group Winter Vivern has been actively exploiting Zimbra flaws to steal the emails of NATO and diplomats.
A Russian hacking group, tracked Winter Vivern (aka TA473), has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-27926) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats.
The CVE-2022-27926 flaw affects Zimbra Collaboration versions 9.0.0, which is used to host publicly facing webmail portals.
The attacker can also use the compromised accounts to carry out lateral phishing attacks and further infiltrate the target organizations
TA473 targeted US elected officials and staffers since at least February 2023. The threat actors created bespoke JavaScript payloads designed for each government targets webmail portal.
TA473s cyber operations align with the support of Russian and/or Belarussian geopolitical goals.
Researchers have observed TA473, a newly minted advanced persistent threat (APT) actor tracked by Proofpoint, exploiting Zimbra vulnerability CVE-2022-27926 to abuse publicly facing Zimbra hosted webmail portals. The goal of this activity is assessed to be gaining access to the emails of military, government, and diplomatic organizations across Europe involved in the Russia Ukrainian War. reads the post published by Proofpoint.
The JavaScript payloads were designed to conduct Cross Site Request Forgery attacks and steal usernames, passwords, and store active session and CSRF tokens from cookies facilitating the login to publicly facing target webmail portals.
These payloads allow actors to steal usernames, passwords, and store active session and CSRF tokens from cookies allowing the login to publicly facing vulnerable webmail portals belonging to target organizations.
The APT group uses scanning tools like Acunetix to identify unpatched webmail platforms used by target organizations.
The threat actors send phishing email from a compromised address, which is spoofed to appear as someone relevant to their organization.
Once the attackers identified the vulnerable platform, they deliver phishing emails containing malicious URLs that abuse known vulnerability to execute JavaScript payloads within the victims webmail portals.
20:49
How 2023 (When They Tell Us Pandemic is Over) Compares to 1999-2018 Death Rates schestowitz.com
tl;dr We are not back to normal, the new normal is a lot of death.
Here is the chart (notice the death levels on the right compared to the left, before and after pandemic)
Source data: original PDF from this page; it is compared to numbers from 2023 and 2022
20:37
3CX Supply Chain Attack Here's What We Know So Far The Hacker News
Enterprise communications software maker 3CX on Thursday confirmed that multiple versions of its desktop app for Windows and macOS are affected by a supply chain attack. The version numbers include 18.12.407 and 18.12.416 for Windows and 18.11.1213, 18.12.402, 18.12.407, and 18.12.416 for macOS. The issue has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-29059. The company said it's engaging the
20:25
Dune Space Folding [HD] Lifeboat News: The Blog
Dune Scene Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Jrgen Prochnow, Silvana Mangano Director: David Lynch Writers: Frank Herbert, David Lynch Producer: Raffaella De Laurentiis Music: TOTO Production: Dino De Laurentiis Company, Estudios Churubusco Azteca S.A. Distributon: Universal Pictures Released: 1984
watch Dune https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Dune?id=BB5433C0E07FCF5BMV
watch more Dune Movie Clips https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlv9mHE-UZgiplosau3azMHpKSbA1Imqz.
watch the Dune Movie Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqi7HxWNaF8&list=PLlv9mHE-UZ6ovmsoI28g.
watch Dune Special Features https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlv9mHE-UZghdiTb721OAsB-678qx946l.
listen to the Dune Original Score https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJBZU3USZ2E&list=PLlv9mHE-UZ4_Y-jBfB7y.
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Canadian ISPs Blocked Pirate IPTV & Logged Customer IP Addresses TorrentFreak
When
the first pirate site blocking applications began to gather
momentum in Europe, those concerned about where it all might lead
spoke of slippery slopes and thin ends of wedges.
More than 15 years later, judges in dozens of countries have not only approved blocking injunctions that target static sites but are also happy to hand down flexible orders designed to rapidly counter new domains, proxies, and mirrors.
When pirate IPTV services hit the mainstream less than 10 years ago, the legal and technical challenges of blocking content quickly were considerable. But by carefully tapping in the wedge, showing patience, and not asking for too much at the wrong time, rightsholders can now block pirate IPTV services while judges are tucked up in bed.
Canadas Blocking Fast Track
Canadas Federal Court approved the countrys first IPTV blocking order in 2018, and the Federal Court of Appeal upheld it in May 2021.
Just two months later, the architects of the first order Rogers, Bell, TVA, and others filed a new application demanding faster, more flexible blocking. The Federal Court obliged and in 2022, Justice William F. Pentney handed down Canadas first dynamic pirate IPTV blocking order, crafted to protect the NHL broadcasters revenues.
Justice Pentney also issued instructions for one or more experts to review the process to ensure compliance with the Courts criteria for identifying pirate IP addresses. Dates and times when the IP addresses were supposed to be blocked, and whether they actually were, for example. A report on general compliance was the overriding theme.
Report Satisfied Judge, New Injunction Awarded
Before Rogers, Bell, TVA, and the other plaintiffs were able to renew their injunction, the Court reviewed the experts report to ensure that its instructions had been followed. The report was produced by IP lawyer David Lipkus and Jon Wilkins, co-founder of Quadra Partners.
While both men h...
19:00
Could 1080p Video Output From The RP2040 Be Possible? Hackaday
Modern microcontrollers often have specs comparable with or exceeding early gaming consoles. However, where they tend to fall short is in the video department, due to their lack of dedicated graphics hardware. With some nifty coding, though, great things can be achieved as demonstrated by [TEC_IST]s project that gets the RP2040 outputting 1080p video over HDMI.
The project builds on earlier work that saw the RP2040 outputting...
18:35
If You Dislike Choosing Captcha Images From a List Owl Have Good News for You SoylentNews
gCaptcha is the leading rival for quality captcha services against Google's renowned and universally despised recaptcha. When Google increased the price for recaptcha competing services took off taking what Google started from to improve the experience significantly. Some experiences with smiling dogs and cloudy horses were deemed to take this too far but these experiments showed that there are improvements to be made in the captcha game.
With hackers out to solve any captcha programmatically captcha services need to stay one step ahead. The slider method was found to be easily bypassed. Rotating puzzle pieces is harder to solve but involves more user interaction and has moving parts in the code that can break.
Recently hCaptcha has introduce a test that challenges the user to click on the center of an owl's head. This is an improvement over selecting a type of ball from a grid of 9 or going through the excruciating experience Google inflicts on users. There must be a better way to prove that the person viewing the web page is a human and not a bot. How about it, Soylentils? What's your best idea for a captcha system given the state of the systems we have today?
[Ed's Comment: Bonus points if you can suggest a system that does not rely on graphics (not everyone uses the latest browsers or even anything more than a simple line of text) to access some sites - our own included. We have the need for a robust captcha system for people creating accounts in order to reduce the number of fake accounts being created by a bot.]
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18:22
Elon Musks Twitter Widens Its Censorship of Modis Critics Lifeboat News: The Blog
Two months ago, Musk said he was too busy to look into his companys role in mass censorship in India. Its only gotten worse.
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IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 30, 2023 Techrights
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18:00
Medieval Living: How Did Medieval Peasants Light Their Homes? Terra Forming Terra
Nasty Pesticide Broken Down by Probiotic Used In Culturing Food Terra Forming Terra
I do think we will simply get there. It is a lot of reseach, but it is still been done.
Deadly weed may actually help us look younger, heal faster Terra Forming Terra
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All plants need to be tested rigorously in order to observe their talents. We all know this plant and many like it which none of us ever consume.
Weight-loss injectable could replace bariatric surgery knife Terra Forming Terra
This is as promising as it gets and we have collaterral impact as well. On the otger hand, the bar is pretty low here.
17:50
Announcing paid plans for Number tools catonmat.net
Team Browserling keeps shipping!
Last month we launched paid plans for Random Tools and today we're launching paid plans for our next most popular tool category Number Tools. Number tools are used by 45,000 people every month and they let you generate number sequences, convert numbers to words and words to numbers, sort, round, factor numbers, and much more.
Next, we're adding paid plans to all other online tools categories that we built and joining them into a single ultimate get things done website called OnlineTools.com, making it the top 100 website on the Internet.
From technical standpoint, we used HTML templates, Google SEO, and a $5 Linode instance to launch the paid plans. Checkmate, front-end developers and devops engineers.
You can still use all tools for free for a limited time but if you really like them, then you can get a subscription to support my team's work. See the pricing page for more information.
See you next time!
17:22
Links 31/03/2023: Ubuntu 23.04 Beta, Donald Trump Indicted, and Finlands NATO Bid Progresses Techrights
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Development Release: Lubuntu 23.04 Beta DistroWatch.com: News
Development Release: Lubuntu 23.04 Beta^Simon Quigley has announced the availability of the beta build of Lubuntu 23.04, code-named "Lunar Lobster": "Thanks to all the hard work from our contributors, Lubuntu 23.04 Beta has been released. With the codename Lunar Lobster, Lubuntu 23.04 will be the 24th release of....
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New infosec products of the week: March 31, 2023 Help Net Security
Heres a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from BreachLock, HackNotice, LOKKER, Nile, and Tausight. HackNotice Actions helps people to understand the extent of their data exposure HackNotice is offering additional tailored protection via its new service, HackNotice Actions. Further empowering employees, HackNotice Actions reaches out to any company where a persons PII or other data has been compromised, and asks for a full report on or erasure of More
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16:00
Clever Test Rig Clarifies Capacitor Rules-of-Thumb Hackaday
If youve done any amount of electronic design work, youll be familiar with the need for decoupling capacitors. Sometimes a chips datasheet will tell you exactly what kind of caps to place where, but quite often youll have to rely on experience and rules of thumb. For example, you might have heard that you should put 100 F across the power supply pins and 100 nF close to each chip. But how close is close? And can that bigger cap really sit anywhere? [James Wilson] has been doing research to get some firm answers to those questions, and wrote down his findings in a fascinating blog post.
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Overcoming obstacles to introduce zero-trust security in established systems Help Net Security
In this Help Net Security interview, Michal Cizek, CEO at GoodAccess, discusses the crucial balance between leveraging distributed resources and maintaining top-notch security measures. With the growing remote work trend, Cizek highlights the importance of implementing a zero-trust security model, emphasizing the complexities and challenges of such an endeavor. How can organizations make the most of distributed IT resources while simultaneously keeping them secure? It has become a standard that an organization runs only a More
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15:51
Sundry Files - 274,461 breached accounts Have I Been Pwned latest breaches
In January 2022, the now defunct file upload service Sundry Files suffered a data breach that exposed 274k unique email addresses. The data also included usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA-256 hashes.
15:48
Stop Blaming the End User for Security Risk SoylentNews
Stop Blaming the End User for Security Risk:
It's common among cybersecurity professionals to point to the end user as a top area of risk in securing the organization. This is understandable. Systems and software are under our control, but users are unpredictable, that unruly variable that expands our threat surface to each geographically dispersed user, personal device, and all-too-human foibles and flaws.
Certainly, threat actors target our users quite successfully I'm not here to dismiss this obvious truth. But what is equally certain is this:We cannot train our way out of this problem. Enterprises pour significant investments into user security-awareness training, and still, they suffer embarrassing, costly breaches. So, focusing primarily on securing the end user isn't a sound strategy.
Fact: your users are a major risk factor. According to Verizon's "2022 Data Breach and Investigations Report," 35% of ransomware infections began with a phishing email. Fact: This is despite escalating investments in security-awareness training over many years. The cybersecurity awareness training market is projected to grow from $1,854.9 million in 2022 to $12,140 million by 2027. Fact: Even with all these investments, ransomware (just as one attack type) is also expected to grow aggressively, despite many organizational efforts, including training.
Sad, unavoidable fact: Our users are still going to make mistakes we're all human, after all. A survey conducted to prove the need for more security training, in my view, proved its inability to stop the cyber crisis: Four out of five surveyed had received security awareness training; between 26% and 44% (based on age demographic) continued to click on links and attachments from unknown senders anyway.
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15:30
The foundation of a holistic identity security strategy Help Net Security
Only 9% of organizations are taking an agile, holistic and mature approach to securing identities throughout their hybrid and multi-cloud environments, according to CyberArk. A critical path for cyber resilience The data-driven model identifies 9% of organizations as those with the most mature and holistic identity security strategies. These transformative organizations have a well-rounded focus on implementing identity security tools, are inherently agile and display a fail fast, learn faster characteristic even in times of More
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15:00
Leveraging network automation to enhance network security Help Net Security
Data backups get a lot of attention, but sadly, sometimes, the operational work that keeps networks secure like device backups, upgrades, and configuration grooming goes undone. Recent high-profile network outages have brought attention to the importance of not just automating improvements in network security and operations but recovering quickly and minimizing downtime when disaster strikes. Its incredible that even today, the simplest configuration change or even a typo can sometimes cause a ripple More
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14:30
Cloud diversification brings complex data management challenges Help Net Security
As IT infrastructure becomes more diverse, organizations face the challenge of integrating data management and control, according to Nutanix. The research showed that the majority of IT teams leverage more than one IT infrastructure, a trend thats expected to intensify in the future, but struggle with visibility of data across environments with only 40% reporting complete visibility into where their data resides. A hybrid multicloud support In the coming years, there will be hundreds of More
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14:22
Allies or enemies of cancer: The dual fate of neutrophils Lifeboat News: The Blog
Why do cancer immunotherapies work so extraordinarily well in a minority of patients, but fail in so many others? By analyzing the role of neutrophils, immune cells whose presence usually signals treatment failure, scientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), from Harvard Medical School, and from Ludwig Cancer Center have discovered that there is not just one type of neutrophil, but several. Depending on certain markers on their surface, these cells can either promote the growth of tumors, or fight them and ensure the success of a treatment. By boosting the appropriate factors, neutrophils could become great agents of anti-tumor immunity and reinforce the effects of current immunotherapies. These results have been published in the journal Cell.
Immunotherapy involves activating immune cells mainly T cellsto recognize and destroy cancer cells. While this treatment is very efficient for some patients, and sometimes even exceeds expectations, it is unfortunately not the case in most cases. The reasons for these failures remain largely unknown, says Mikal Pittet, full professor at the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine, holder of the ISREC chair in immuno-oncology, director of the Centre for Translational Research in Onco-Hematology and member of the Ludwig Cancer Center, who directed this work. This is why deciphering the immune components involved is key to develop more advanced treatments and make immunotherapies a real therapeutic revolution.
Neutrophils are the most abundant immune cells in the blood and are very useful in infections or injuries by being quickly mobilized to the affected area and releasing antimicrobial factors. In the context of cancer, however, their presence is generally bad news as they promote vascularization and tumor progression.
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Study indicates interleukin-6-dependant pathway dysregulation as a key druggable feature of COVID-19 Lifeboat News: The Blog
In a recent study on the medRxiv preprint server, researchers identified an interleukin 6 (IL-6) dependent alternative pathway as a therapeutic strategy against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Study: A Complement Atlas identifies interleukin 6 dependent alternative pathway dysregulation as a key druggable feature of COVID-19. Image Credit: MarynaOlyak/Shutterstock.com
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Humans to attain immortality by 2029? Ex-Google scientist makes striking claim Lifeboat News: The Blog
You wont live forever is a catchphrase which has often been touted and has so far remained the proven truth of life of humans and almost every other living being on planet earth. But soon, this catchphrase may well become the truth of the past, as humanity steps forward to attain immortality.
A former Google scientist has made a prediction, which if proven right, may redefine human civilisation as we know it. Ray Kurzweil, whose over 85 per cent of 147 predictions have been proven right, has predicted that humans will become immortal by 2029.
The revelation came when the 75-year-old computer scientist dwelled upon genetics, nanotechnology, robotics and more in a YouTube video posted by channel Adagio.
14:22
Increased use of telehealth services, medications during pandemic associated with reduced risk for fatal overdose Lifeboat News: The Blog
The expanded availability of opioid use disorder-related telehealth services and medications during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a lowered likelihood of fatal drug overdose among Medicare beneficiaries, according to a new study.
The results of this study add to the growing research documenting the benefits of expanding the use of telehealth services for people with opioid use disorder, as well as the need to improve retention and access to medication treatment for opioid use disorder, said lead author Christopher M. Jones, PharmD, DrPH, director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings from this collaborative study also highlight the importance of working across agencies to identify successful strategies to address and get ahead of the constantly evolving overdose crisis.
Published today in JAMA Psychiatry, this study is a collaborative research effort led by researchers at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, a part of CDC; the Office of the Administrator and the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, both part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS); and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of the National Institutes of Health.
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OSC&R open software supply chain attack framework now on GitHub Help Net Security
OSC&R (Open Software Supply Chain Attack Reference) is an open framework for understanding and evaluating software supply chain security threats. It has received the endorsement of former U.S. NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers, and is now available on GitHub. Spearheaded by OX Security, OSC&R is a MITRE-like framework designed to provide a common language and structure for understanding and analyzing the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by adversaries to compromise the security of software More
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Intruder unveils API scanning to help organizations reduce exposure Help Net Security
Intruder updates its cloud-based vulnerability management service, allowing organisations of all sizes to secure their APIs by automatically detecting vulnerabilities, gaps, security weaknesses, and misconfigurations that hackers can exploit. As more organisations build APIs to facilitate automation, attack surfaces are expanding, making it crucial for organisations to include them under their security operations. Intruders latest capability automatically scans every API, providing organisations with detailed insights that they can use to proactively reduce exposure whether More
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AttackIQ Ready! gives security teams a clear portrait of their security program performance Help Net Security
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ReasonLabs Dark Web Monitoring identifies malicious online activity Help Net Security
ReasonLabs has launched a Dark Web Monitoring feature to its RAV Online Security solution, a web extension that provides real-time, 24/7 protection against a range of malicious online activity. The Dark Web Monitoring feature scans tens of thousands of combination lists, leaked databases, and malware data hidden from the surface netthe publicly accessible internetfor mentions of users personal data, and instantly notifies users when breaches occur. The dark web, a part of the internet that More
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13:03
Twitter Obtains Subpoena Forcing GitHub to Unmask Source-Code Leaker SoylentNews
Ars Technica is reporting that Twitter has convinced a judge to issue a subpoena to Github, requiring them to provide all personal details in their possession of a user called "FreeSpeechEnthusiast".
Twitter has obtained a subpoena compelling GitHub to provide identifying information on a user who posted portions of Twitter's source code.
Twitter on Friday asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to issue a subpoena to GitHub. A court clerk signed off on the subpoena [PDF] yesterday.
GitHub user "FreeSpeechEnthusiast" posted Twitter source code in early January, shortly after Elon Musk bought Twitter and laid off thousands of workers. Twitter reportedly suspects the code leaker is one of its many ex-employees.
GitHub removed the code repository on Friday shortly after Twitter filed a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notice. Twitter's takedown notice also requested identifying information on FreeSpeechEnthusiast, but GitHub didn't provide those details to Twitter immediately.
With the subpoena now issued, GitHub has until April 3 to provide all identifying information, "including the name(s), address(es), telephone number(s), email address(es), social media profile data, and IP address(es), for the user(s) associated with" the FreeSpeechEnthusiast account. GitHub was also ordered to provide the same type of information on any "users who posted, uploaded, downloaded or modified the data" at the code repository posted by FreeSpeechEnthusiast.
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12:40
Translating the Lies of Antnio Campinos (EPO) Techrights
Summary: Antnio Campinos has read a lousy script full of holes and some of the more notorious EPO talking points; we respond below
THE Benot Battistelli era did not truly end. Another terrible liar, whose English isnt that good (their native tongue is French), said the above. Our remarks below, preceded by timestamps:
0:06: Yes, Tony, global uncertainty like tactical nukes being deployed to Belarus, which you at the EPO funded. When the general public found out that the EPO had worked with and paid Belarus you just started shouting out the F word at staff! Like a true grown-up
0:11: Tell us more about inventors, Tony. What did you invent?
0:17: A record number of applications when you openly advertise lenience and expansion of scope, e.g. Hey Hi (AI, software patents in new clothing)
0:25: Up 2.5% after a year of lockdowns
0:30: I count Europe (a continent) like a country to make it sound good when only 1 in 3 applications in the European Patent Office is in fact European (in origin)
0:35: Growth in requests for monopolies (inside and across Europe) comes from outside Europe, so the European Patent Office is increasingly granting European monopolies to firms that are not European
0:43 I measure growth in China in terms of %, year-to-year, because in relative terms (relative to the whole) not many patent applications come from China
0:50: I cannot tell the difference between patents (monopolies) and inventions, but I never invented anything, so I just read this script regardless
1:00: At 50 (not yet!) I celebrate tremendous growth when the number of employees is in fact decreasing, as does the calibre
1:11: I compare the present to the early 1970s to make it seem like an incredible growth (national patent offices had existed already and there was no EU)
1:20: I dont say software patents, I just use some other words
1:30: I say double-digit growth when measuring only how many monopolies the EPO granted (lenience, pressure on examiners to meet quotas and targets), nothing economic and nothing to do with national patent offices, foreign patent offices etc.
1:37: This is 1contradicted by what Campinos said earlier because over time fewer and fewer patent applicants (relative to...
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Professor Brian Cox Proves That Time Travel Is Possible With This Amazing Experiment Lifeboat News: The Blog
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11:35
[Meme] Too Many Fake European Patents? So Start Fake European Courts for Patents. Techrights
EPO going down the toilet in pursuit of short-term profits
Summary: Antnio Campinos, who sent EPO money to Belarus, insists that the EPO is doing well; nothing could be further from the truth and EPO corruption is actively threatening the EU (or its legitimacy)
11:17
Thomas Magenheim-Hrmann in RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland About Declining Quality and Declining Validity of European Patents (for EPO and Illegal Kangaroo Courts) Techrights
Summary: Companies are not celebrating the production line culture fostered by EPO management, which is neither qualified for the job nor wants to adhere to the law (it's intentionally inflating a bubble)
Days ago the EPO delivered its annual results propaganda and released a video of a figurine-like Antnio Campinos talking to the camera (clearly not qualified for this job), telling a bunch of lies like Benot Battistelli used to do, misusing statistics to promote European software patents (typical buzzwords) and pretend the EPO had been doing well. The propaganda was of course propagated instantly to patent extremists platforms like Watchtroll and JUVE. However, some in German media [1, 2] are more sceptical, so the EPOs staff union retained copied of the printed versions and moreover released translations of an article published by Thomas Magenheim-Hrmann 3 days ago. His articles about the EPO go a long way back (hes no stranger to the issues) and his latest was translated as follows into English (there are other languages):
RND RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland
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Inverse Relationship Between Bugs and Patches It Will Never Work in Theory
How easily can you spot the difference between code that introduces bugs and code that fixes them? Given the explosion of interest in AI-based code generators over the last few months, an equally important question is now, "How well can machines tell the two apart?"
To answer that question, the authors of this recent paper applied clustering methods to both bug fixes and bug patches and found that most are similar enough to be clustered togetheri.e., they are superficially indistinguishable. What's more, they found that code mutation tools (used to generate buggy code for testing) and automatic program repair tools (used to generate fixes for bugs) can often be used interchangeably if trained on each other's data. That's good news for researchersit's always a bit of a thrill to realize that two ideas or approaches can be unifiedbut probably a sign that useful AI-based coding assistants are going to require more (and more careful) training than their giddier advocates expect.
Jinhan Kim, Jongchan Park, and Shin Yoo. The inversive relationship between bugs and patches: an empirical study. 2023. arXiv:2303.00303.
Software bugs pose an ever-present concern for developers, and patching such bugs requires a considerable amount of costs through complex operations. In contrast, introducing bugs can be an effortless job, in that even a simple mutation can easily break the Program Under Test (PUT). Existing research has considered these two opposed activities largely separately, either trying to automatically generate realistic patches to help developers, or to find realistic bugs to simulate and prevent future defects. Despite the fundamental differences between them, however, we hypothesise that they do not syntactically differ from each other when considered simply as code changes. To examine this assumption systematically, we investigate the relationship between patches and buggy commits, both generated manually and automatically, using a clustering and pattern analysis. A large scale empirical evaluation reveals that up to 70% of patches and faults can be clustered together based on the similarity between their lexical patterns; further, 44% of the code changes can be abstracted into the identical change patterns. Moreover, we investigate whether code mutation tools can be used as Automated Program Repair (APR) tools, and APR tools as code mutation tools. In both cases, the inverted use of mutation and APR tools can perform surprisingly well, or even better, when compared to their original, intended uses. For example, 89% of patches found by SequenceR, a deep learning based APR tool, can also be found by its inversion, i.e., a model trained with faults and not patches. Similarly, real fault coupling study of mutants...
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Certa collaborates with ID-Pal to simplify third-party onboarding Help Net Security
Certa, has unveiled its official partnership with ID-Pal. Using a blend of biometric, document, and database checks, ID-Pals solution will enable Certa customers to verify the identity of third-party contacts in real time, all seamlessly integrated and orchestrated into a clients workflow. Our mission has always been to help businesses onboard customers, suppliers, sellers, partners, etc., quickly, effectively, and with transparency at every step, said Jag Lamba, CEO of Certa. Through our partnership with ID-Pal, More
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Links 30/03/2023: HowTos and Political News Techrights
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FOSSLinux A beginners guide to installing and using Tilda Terminal on Ubuntu
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TSMC May Not Expand in US If Double Taxation Rule Continues SoylentNews
TSMC may not expand in US if double taxation rule continues:
As Apple's major chip manufacturer TSMC nears the opening of its Arizona plant, US officials want it to build more but US versus China politics are complicating matters.
Taiwanese company TSMC has already invested $40 billion in its new Arizona factory, which it says will open in 2024. But since the US does not have a income tax agreement with Taiwan, TSMC faces double taxation on its profits from this or any other factory it could build in the States.
According to the Financial Times, unless there is a change in the law, TSMC will be paying out over 50% of its profits earned in the US. In comparison, Samsung pays much less because its home country of South Korea has a tax treaty with the States.
Naturally, then, US politicians who want to see the firm expand in the States argue that President Biden should negotiate a tax accord with Taiwan. TSMC officials have reportedly also asked for such an agreement to ease this double taxation burden.
However, at present the US does not recognize Taiwan as a separate country or sovereign nation. Instead, it sees it as part of China.
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09:36
A Muon Collider? Not Even Wrong
The US particle physics community has been going through a multi-year process designed to lead up this fall to a 10 year strategic plan to be presented to the DOE and the NSF. In particular, this will generate a prioritized list of what projects to fund over this period. The process began with the Snowmass self-study, concluded last year, and available here. Since last fall there have been two independent efforts going on:
- A National Academies study has been holding meetings, materials available here.
- A P5 (Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel) is holding meetings, see here, and planning for a report to NSF and DOE by October.
Looking through all the materials relevant to particle theory, there seems to me little acknowledgement of the serious problems faced by the subject, or any new ideas for how to address these problems. Most of the effort though is devoted to where most of the money will be spent, on the experimental side. To a large degree, for the short-term its clear where funding has to go (to continue supporting the LHC into the HL-LHC era, and finish building the DUNE/LBNF US neutrino project). The longer-term is however very uncertain, as it is unclear whether theres a viable energy-frontier project that could study higher energies than those accessible at the LHC.
Last week EPP2024 and P5 held Town Hall events at Fermilab, see here and here. Theres video of the EPP2024 event here. On the question of the long-term future, one issue that is getting a lot of attention is that of whether to prioritize development of a possible muon collider. In this presentation a young physicist gives a future timeline including their likely retirement and death dates, showing that a muon collider is their only hope for new energy frontier physics during their lifetime. For those of my age the situation is a bit different, since even a muon collider is not going to do the job. At the EPP2024 event (3:28 in the video) Nima Arkani-Hamed makes the case that:
I think the subject has not been so exciting for many, many decades, and at the same time our ability to experimentally address and solidly settle some of these very big questions has never been more uncertain. I dont think its a normal time, its an inflection point in the history of the development of our subject, and it requires urgency The confluence...
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Via: New York Post: The vote sets the stage for the first ever criminal prosecution of a former US president. The Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence in the Stormy Daniels hush money investigation on Thursday voted to indict the former president, two sources with knowledge of the case told The Post.
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Super FabriXss vulnerability in Microsoft Azure SFX could lead to RCE Security Affairs
Researchers shared details about a flaw, dubbed Super FabriXss, in Azure Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution.
Researchers from Orca Security shared details about a new vulnerability, dubbed Super FabriXss (CVE-2023-23383 CVSS score: 8.2), in Azure. The experts demonstrated how to escalate a reflected XSS vulnerability in Azure Service Fabric Explorer to an unauthenticated Remote Code Execution.
The researchers explained that they have abused the metrics tab and enabled a specific option in the console the Cluster Type toggle.
The name Super FabriXss comes from the FabriXss flaw (CVE-2022-35829, CVSS score: 6.2) that was addressed by Microsoft in October 2022.
The Super FabriXss vulnerability enables remote attackers to leverage an XSS vulnerability to achieve remote code execution on a container hosted on a Service Fabric node without the need for authentication. reads the analysis published by Orca Security. What started initially as a discovery of an XSS vulnerability that allowed a malicious script to be reflected off a web application, ended up being a full remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability after clicking on a crafted malicious URL and toggling the Cluster Event Type setting under the Events tab.
The researchers demonstrated how to exploit the vulnerability in Azure Service Fabric Explorer by sending a crafted URL to any Azure Service Fabric user. The experts discovered that is possible to embed an iframe in a vulnerable Node Name parameter in the users context. The iframe is used to retrieve remote files from a server, eventually leading to the execution of a malicious PowerShell reverse shell.
This attack chain can ultimately result in remote code execution on the container which is deployed to the cluster, potentially allowing an attacker to take control of critical systems. continues the report.
Unlike FabriXxs, the SuperFabriXxs issue only exists in the Windows Cluster, but it can be used in code execution attacks on a large scale.
The attack is composed of two main phases:
1. Once the iframe is embedded and the fetch request is triggered, the attackers code takes advantage of the upgrade process to overwrite the existing deployment with a new, malicious one. This new deployment includes a CMD instruction in its Dockerfile that w...
07:47
IRS tax forms W-9 email scam drops Emotet malware HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site
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Researchers have warned users to be on alert, as the IRS never sends emails to confirm taxpayers' personal information.
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07:41
Newly Declassified Government Report Suggests Havana Syndrome Might be Caused by an Energy Weapon SoylentNews
Newly Declassified Government Report Suggests Havana Syndrome Might Be Caused by an Energy Weapon:
After years of debate about the cause of the strange malady, a recently declassified document points the finger (once again) at "electromagnetic energy."
Several weeks after the intelligence community came out to disavow claims that "Havana Syndrome"the bizarre rash of neurological disorders plaguing U.S. foreign service officerswas the result of a directed energy weapon, a newly declassified report alleges that may very well be what it is.
The group behind the report, the Intelligence Community Experts Panel on Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs), was established by the government to figure out just what the heck had happened to the 1,000-ish American officials who claim to have suffered from "Havana"'s bizarre symptoms. Those symptoms, which first cropped up at a U.S. embassy in Cuba in 2016 and soon spread to other parts of the globe, include a rash of inexplicable ailmentsthings like hearing and memory loss, severe headaches, light sensitivity, nausea, and a host of other debilitating issues.
Well, after a substantial research effort to get to the bottom of Havana Syndrome's seemingly impenetrable mystery, the IC panel ultimately released their findings to the government, but the contents of the report have remained classifieduntil now, that is.
[...] According to the report, a plausible explanation for the disorders may be "pulsed electromagnetic energy." It reads:
Electromagnetic energy, particularly pulsed signals in the radio frequency range, plausibly explains the core characteristics, although information gaps exist. There are several plausible pathways involving forms of electromagnetic energy, each with its own requirements, limitations, and unknowns. For all the pathways, sources exist that could generate the required stimuli, are concealable, and have moderate power requirements.
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Functional Programming: The Biggest Change Since We Killed the Goto? IEEE Spectrum
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Stephen Cass: Welcome to Fixing the Future, an IEEE Spectrum podcast. Im senior editor Stephen Cass, and this episode is brought to you by IEEE Explorer, your gateway to trusted engineering and technology research with nearly 6 million documents with research and abstracts. Today we are talking with Charles Scalfani, CTO of Panoramic Software, about how adopting functional programming could lead to cleaner and more maintainable code. Charles, welcome to Fixing the Future.
Charles Scalfani: Thank you.
Cass: So you recently wrote an expert feature for us that turned out to be incredibly popular with readers. That argued that we should be adopting this thing called functional programming. Can you briefly explain what that is?
Scalfani: Okay. Functional programming is an is basically, as it says, its basically based around functions. So where object oriented programming is has an object model, where its everything you see everything through the lens of an object, and the whole world is an object, and everything in that world is an object. In functional programming, its the similar, its you see everything as a function, and the whole world looks like everything in the world looks like a function. You solve all your problems with functions. The reason its older and wasnt adopted is because the ideas were there, the mathematics, the ideas, and everything were there, the hardware just couldnt keep up with it. So it became relegated to academia and the hardware just wasnt available to do all of the things. That has been, since probably the 90s, its been not a problem anymore.
Cass: So I just wanted to like, as somebody who is, I would call itself a kind of a very journeyman programmer. So one of the first things I learned when Im using a new language is usually the section says, how to define a function, and theres a little you know, everybodys got it, Pythons got it, you know, even some versions of Basic used to have it, C has it. So I think function here means something different to those functions Im used to in something like C or Python.
Scalfani: Yeah. I have a joke that I always say is that when I learned C, the first program I wrote was hello world. And when I learned Haskell, a functional programming language, the last thing I learned was hello world. And s...
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CD Projekts Legal Pressure Pushes GOG-Games to The Dark Web TorrentFreak
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CD Project likely anticipated that their games would be pirated, but seeing a site use its own brand to promote pirated games must have stung. As a result, the videogame company has worked hard to get GOG-Games offline.
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According to the operators, CD Projekts GOG team has been trying to take the site offline since 2011. Since GOG-Games uses a host that simply ignores DMCA notices, results have been limited, but more recently, the admin was contacted directly.
[S]omeone from their legal team sent a DMCA final call email directly to our site admin email address, the notice reveals.
The email in question wasnt directed at the operators of the site directly, but at the hosting company. It notes that GOG-Games violates GOGs copyrights and trademarks, urging the provider to take action.
The website is infringing GOGs word by using it to brand an unlawful operation of downloading both CD PROJEKT Groups and third parties games. The website also infringes CD PROJEKT S.A. trademarks and copyrights related to CD PROJEKT S.A games; The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077.
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AMD CDX Bus Landing For Linux 6.4 To Interface Between APUs & FPGAs Phoronix
Since last year AMD-Xilinx has been posting Linux patches for enabling CDX as a new bus between application processors (APUs) and FPGAs. The AMD CDX bus is now poised for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle...
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The Future of Fintech Applications HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site
By Owais Sultan
This article explores the world of fintech applications, highlighting their most popular features now and in the next
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05:29
New AlienFox toolkit harvests credentials for tens of cloud services Security Affairs
AlienFox is a novel comprehensive toolset for harvesting credentials for multiple cloud service providers, SentinelLabs reported.
AlienFox is a new modular toolkit that allows threat actors to harvest credentials for multiple cloud service providers.
AlienFox is available for sale and is primarily distributed on Telegram in the form of source code archives. Some modules are available on GitHub allowing threat actors to customize their malicious code to suit their needs.
AlienFox allows its operators to harvest API keys and secrets from popular services including AWS SES & Microsoft Office 365.
SentinelLabs has identified a new toolkit dubbed AlienFox that attackers are using to compromise email and web hosting services. AlienFox is highly modular and evolves regularly. Most of the tools are open-source, meaning that actors can readily adapt and modify to suit their needs. Many developers take credit on different iterations of the tools. reads the report published by SentinelLabs. The evolution of recurring features suggests the developers are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with performance considerations at the forefront in more recent versions.
AlienFox targets misconfigured servers running popular web frameworks, including Laravel, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, Opencart, Prestashop, and WordPress. AlienFox collects lists of misconfigured cloud endpoints through security scanning platforms like LeakIX and SecurityTrails.
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The researchers analyzed AlienFox versions 2 through 4, which date from February 2022 onward.
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Why Governments Involvement in Standards Development is Crucial IEEE Spectrum
With the rapid rate of technological advancements and evolution, coupled with urgent global challenges, the worlds need for technical standards has never been greater. Technology standards establish specifications and procedures designed to maximize the reliability of materials, products, methods, and services. In short, standards help increase the reliability and effectiveness of many of the goods and services people interact with daily.
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NVIDIA 525.105.17 Linux Driver Backports IBT Kernel Compatibility, Other Fixes Phoronix
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DRAM Got Cheaper and Prices Will Continue to Fall SoylentNews
DRAM got cheaper and prices will continue to fall:
While prices for computer hardware have remained relatively high in the past few years, the slowing of PC and component sales are starting to take effect. DRAM is the latest piece of hardware to become even cheaper, and projections show that prices will continue to fall in the coming months.
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Vulnerability Enabled Bing.com Takeover, Search Result Manipulation HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site
Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz reported the vulnerability to Microsoft and dubbed the attack "BingBang".
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Researchers Detail Severe "Super FabriXss" Vulnerability in Microsoft Azure SFX The Hacker News
Details have emerged about a now-patched vulnerability in Azure Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2023-23383 (CVSS score: 8.2), the issue has been dubbed "Super FabriXss" by Orca Security, a nod to the FabriXss flaw (CVE-2022-35829, CVSS score: 6.2) that was fixed by Microsoft in October 2022. "The Super FabriXss vulnerability
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How To Install LXD on Debian 11 Linux nixCraft
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Classification of Identity Management Approaches It Will Never Work in Theory
It's hard to make progress without discussing things, and it's hard to discuss things if you don't agree on terminology. This paper presents a systematic, comprehensible classification of various approaches to identity management, and gives examples (like the two shown below) of where different use cases fit. By creating this, the authors have made it easier for us to see where we agree and disagree, and have also pointed out some interesting gaps in existing approaches. There are (necessarily) a lot of acronyms in the paper, but anyone implementing identity management should read it, and it would be a great starting point for a lecture or two in an undergrad course on system design or software architecture.
Daniela Phn and Wolfgang Hommel. IMC: a classification of identity management approaches. 2023. arXiv:2301.00444.
This paper presents a comprehensive classification of identity management approaches. The classification makes use of three axes: topology, type of user, and type of environment. The analysis of existing approaches using the resulting identity management cube (IMC) highlights the trade-off between user control and trust in attributes. A comparative analysis of IMC and established models identifies missing links between the approaches. The IMC is extended by a morphology of identity management, describing characteristics of cooperation. The morphology is then mapped to the life cycle of users and identity management in a further step. These classifications are practically underlined with current approaches. Both methods combined provide a comprehensive characterization of identity management approaches. The methods help to choose suited approaches and implement needed tools.