I may revisit this story again soon, but just a reminder that allowing websites to send you notifications is a risky proposition. There seems to be a metric truckload of bad stuff being distributed this way (much of it ad fraud).
Anything that intentionally confuses that push notification approval request w/ some type of CAPTCHA is downright malicious.
This had me in three words: "network-connected wrenches". I mean, WHY? Okay, I get that if you're Boeing you might want to ensure your fitters are torquing the bolts on your emergency exit covers correctly. But surely the wrench should be pretty much transmit-only while it's in use on an assembly line? It shouldn't be able to execute code at all.
The pope is concerned about the dignity of women and children but, instead getting his employees to stop fucking little kids he has decided that surrogacy is the main problem.
The New York Times has launched a Flash player for their archived content. Figuring out how to make old flash content usable in archived sites is a big problem for web archives. Hope the approach here could also be used elsewhere. https://eagereyes.org/blog/2024/nytimes-web-flash-player
Security researcher Daniel J. Bernstein has published details on KyberSlash, a flaw in libraries that support Kyber, a quantum-resistant key encapsulation mechanism.
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FAA is asking for the public's help in finding the "door plug" (that panel that blew open was a "sealed" plug, not actually a usable door as configured) to help with their investigation of the recent 737 MAX 9 event. So if you find it, please let them know and don't sell it on eBay.
I just saw a post that referred to ChatGPT as "Mansplaining as a service", and it is so wonderfully correct - instant generation of superficially plausible yet totally fabricated nonsense presented with unflagging confidence regardless of topic without concern, regard or even awareness of the expertise of its audience :D #chatgpt#mansplaining
"According to our sensor network, SonicWall is seeing a large number of exploitation attempts of CVE-2023-51467. We highly recommend upgrading to Apache OFBiz version 18.12.11 or newer."
My old e-reader had some problems and needed to be replaced. I ended up exploring the hell that is DRM (copy protection) on e-books and tried to break the restraints so I can read my own legally acquired books with FOSS software. I wrote a blog post on it that describes my frustrations (another ideological rant) but hopefully also helps others in a similar position with some practical guidance: https://proycon.anaproy.nl/posts/do-not-restrict-me/
Big telecom is working with Google on one of the creepiest-yet facial-recognition programs -- paying parents to film their kids and upload it to massive, unaccountable databases -- and the kids have zero say in the matter.
"I like to compare the difficulty of training an LLM to that of building a suspension bridge—not trivial, but hundreds of countries around the world have figured out how to do it."