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"humans can read"

lol. Barely.

reminded me of the PowerPoint Turing Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8

I was fascinated to learn while visiting they consider themselves ‘at war’

fun fact, Japan and Russia are technically in a state of war too. The World War II hasn't ended. They have never signed a treaty over the Kuril Islands, and they both claim them.

Yes. I'm an avid Dota 2 player. I used to play the remastered CoD MWs too, and had a Counter-Strike phase as well.

Cheaters using external tools in Dota are rare. Smurfs are a much bigger problem than scripters/maphackers.

In my experience, MW and CS aren't that bad. I see a cheater only about once in 20 games.

I also play online chess. No kernel level anticheat is going to help you there.

I’m actually surprised how a lot of commenters here are defending kernel-level anticheat.

the 747 is the only commercial jet that deserves to be called beautiful

Concorde?

Someone did a Minecraft server in pure bash.

https://sdomi.pl/weblog/15-witchcraft-minecraft-server-in-ba...

Evidently, at some point money just stops being real. Also, it's not even $60b. It's a 100% stock deal.

The markets have quite literally given Elon a carte blanche. Can it last forever? I doubt it.

Then I imagined the real-but-unknowable chance it was all set up by some kid just getting into computers, just seeing what’s possible

if this is the case, then I'd say that the best-case scenario happened. They had an expensive learning exercise. They won't forget these $2k.

For me a number station needs sends a message to be a number station, not a key.

We don't know that it's a key that's being sent. For all we know, it could be just random data. Obviously it's most likely not random data, but ciphertext. Either way, we have no idea what the message is.

GPS was always a dual use system

It wasn't. It was going to be a military-only system, until KAL007 presented the obvious life-saving civilian case.

But yes, the title of this article might as well read "Satellite system developed for military use is being used for a military purpose."

Sequential throughput: ~1.3 GB/s

sounds VERY low, also, wouldn't random read/write speed be MUCH more relevant here?

Rosetta 2's retirement announcement was when I realized I won't buy another Mac, I'm not interested in a computer that is preoccupied with stopping me from running software.

This is the 3rd time this has happened in roughly 2 decades by the way.

ppc/ppc64 -> x86_64 x86_64 -> x64 only x64 -> arm64

I much prefer Apple just forcing the developers to update their apps. Perhaps it’s just me though.

Microsoft hasn’t particuarly cared about consumers pirating Windows for more than a decade. I’m pretty sure they make close to 0 money off Windows licensing to consumers.

If this researcher actually had a vendetta, I'd expect them to just sell the remaining zero-days to the highest bidder.

selling to the highest bidder doesn’t generate headlines though.

you need to communicate your bank account number

in Latvia we need to do this for domestic payments anyway. We use IBAN even for domestic payments..

and likely your legal name.

not mandatory. If provided, the bank tells you whether the recipient name matches the account, but if not, you can proceed with the payment anyway.

then explicitly authorize the receiver. Oh, and explicitly authorise the country

I've never had to do any of this, and I quire frequently send SEPA payments from Latvia.

> A Frenchman using Wero will be able to transfer money to a Spanish friend on Bizum, with the same simplicity as a domestic payment.

SEPA Instant Payments also solves that.

Which just reinforces my point. The patch was available, therefore, where the exploit lies was also available.

Linux kernel is one of the most audited open-source projects ever. I guarantee you that someone did reverse the patch.

but forgot to tell the distros

Probably an oversight, but irrelevant. The bug was in the linux kernel. It's insane to suggest that they should have notified everyone shipping the linux kernel.

Not true, if there’s any evidence of the exploit being used in the wild, it’s much more responsible to release immediately.

Considering that the patches have been available for a while, someone surely reversed what they were for and was actually exploiting this in the wild.

In the age of AI, I’d argue that “responsible disclosure” is dead. Arguably even in closed source projects. Just ask Claude to do a diff between the previous version and to see whether anything fixed in there could have had security implications.

We’re not there yet, but very soon the only way to responsibly disclose a vulnerability will be immediately.

I think USB 4 is finally going to the right direction.

USB 4 is actually going into an even worse direction. USB 4 = Thunderbolt 4, except everything is optional. e.g. USB 4 might not even support DP Alt mode. Thunderbolt 4 always will.

and power of up to 240 watt

Except active optical cables. None exist yet that I'm aware of though.

It was just unjustifiably popular.

https://bgp.tools/as/6939#prefixes

They are everywhere. It's a global carrier. Carriers also know no geographic boundaries.

It's not the first Mac that has an iPhone/iPad chip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Transition_Kit

And yes, absolutely. All you need is a bootchain exploit. However unlike in the old jailbreaking days when people found and publicized them for fun, these days they are worth millions. Apple will pay you $500k for sandbox escape into the kernel. If you nail the bootchain, it'll be in the millions. From Apple. And god knows how much such a thing would go for in the black market.

I think the M2 was the last one they made with 8 gigs of memory.

With records updated. If not, any consequences from wrong information fall on the lessor and lessee.

Not always + there are no consequences whatsoever.

Plenty of leasing services will just provide you with IRR & RPKI, without ever touching the actual records.

Ping time from different locations on their upstream AS gives a good guess.

Upstream AS is meaningless if it's a T1 carrier. Ping AS6939. They are everywhere.

Of course it’s an iPhone chip, which is why it’s got just 8 gigs of RAM. I think it’s the same exact SoC that went into the 16 Pro Max.

The Apple on the lid isn’t shiny

That’s been the case for 5+ years :)

It’s not how any of it works.

How do you determine to whom an IP is even registered to? They get sub-leased all the time.

The best you can do is check who has administrative control over the prefixes RIR info, but that doesn’t mean that anyone with control is the factual user of the IPs.

You could check the IRR for the ASN and base it on that, but still.

There's also no way to actually know _where_ an IP actually originates from. Only its AS path.

The DFZ contains all prefixes announced everywhere, for the internet is completely decentralized.