IDA 9.4 Beta 1 has been published (with some features of my own on it):

https://docs.hex-rays.com/release-notes/9_4beta

#hexrays

we're hiring one iOS human on my team https://nowsecure.applytojob.com/apply/BXcVGTgFyb/Research-Engineer?source=Our%20Career%20Page%20Widget

Won 80k via kCTF, unpriv userns-reachable vuln: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026050859-CVE-2026-43456-ae60@gregkh/ We fixed in March, upstream 6.6 still unfixed 4 months later.

I heard a very encouraging insight from @j00ru many years ago: either everyone has looked at it because there are always bugs, so there will be more, or no one has looked at it, so there will be bugs. In both cases, there are bugs. I welcome the machines to the playing field.

Cortex is a long-term, multi-tenant scalable open source storage for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
Earlier this year we conducted a security audit sponsored by @ostifofficial

Check our report here:
https://blog.quarkslab.com/cortex-security-audit.html

So, if I understand correctly, a bunch of elected politicians said ‘okay, we identified that the things Facebook and friends are doing is actively harmful to their users. So what we’re going to do to mitigate this is ensure that, legally speaking, the only people who can experience these negative effects are people of voting age.’

I was hoping to catch a small #metal concert in #Oslo next week or in #Bergen the week after. But it seems like all the venues I checked are on a summer break. Any recommendations?

wow, discord acknowledged on the Bad Place that it was true that an overfitted CSAM detection AI started flagging grids (spreadsheets, game inventory screenshots, etc) as illegal and instabanning people.

8200 people got banned this way over several weeks before someone managed to get their attention on reddit. But the good news is they have in fact manually rolled back all the bans.

On the one hand, this is the one problem where you absolutely want as little hands-on human moderation as possible. On the other, this is a very clear-cut overfitting failure mode on a small dataset (of the images that governments provide to major websites for automated detection) with disastrous consequences for random innocent people. And they presumably had to go back and manually check all bans in this category for the last few weeks, thus maximizing the moderators' exposure too. 🤦‍♀️

Just one more show option bro. One more show option will fix it.

for whoever needs to hear this: you're not alone. i'm not vibecoding any of the software i write. i'm writing it by hand, but i've leveled up my emacs with eglot/lsp. i'm modernizing my stacks and use languages with excellent compilers. i think about how to do more with less. i'm trying to combine the best human-written libraries and modules and assemble them with minimal boilerplate. i enjoy reading your manuals and references. i believe in robust, secure, human-written software.