In 1967, IBM introduced the System/4 Pi line of aerospace computers, packing mainframe performance into a compact box. 4 Pi computers powered everything from military aircraft to the Space Shuttle to sonar systems on submarines. Thread...

I got 99 problems and they're all red balloons.

@troed I did not, thanks for the info! I saw the report but never got around to read and understand it - it looks quite a piece!

To celebrate the failure of Hungarian Railways (MÁV) to properly switch to DST, here's the famous list of

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time

https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca

Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AXv49dDQJw

Alpha Phoenix blows my mind again!

[RSS] Soviet CDs And CD Players Existed, And They Were Strange

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/soviet-cds-and-cd-players-existed-and-they-were-strange/

"Predictably, they decided to implement a super-complex XML parser [...] It will also accept the same parameter via query string in a GET request, except in that case the base64-encoded XML document is additionally compressed."

#Citrix should do CTF challenges instead of security appliances, really.

https://labs.watchtowr.com/the-sequels-are-never-as-good-but-were-still-in-pain-citrix-netscaler-cve-2026-3055-memory-overread/

The Sequels Are Never As Good, But We're Still In Pain (Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-3055 Memory Overread) - watchTowr Labs https://labs.watchtowr.com/the-sequels-are-never-as-good-but-were-still-in-pain-citrix-netscaler-cve-2026-3055-memory-overread/

while we’re eating our best writing crayons and using finger paint to finish our latest research, we’ve decided to take this opportunity to share research from the archives with new followers 🙂

happy Friday… for now 🥹

https://labs.watchtowr.com/we-spent-20-to-achieve-rce-and-accidentally-became-the-admins-of-mobi/

(Yes this is not new don’t @ us)

[RSS] CVE-2025-14325: SpiderMonkey Type Confusion in Baseline JIT Inline Cache

https://qriousec.github.io/post/cve-2025-14325/

@sassdawe

@sassdawe I think the progress bar can't really handle this fulfillment ratio lol

@sassdawe @catsalad Recommended movie: Enemy of the State, esp. the meeting after Shaffer finds out that NSA equipment was used without authorization :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)

@sassdawe Btw the video has >1.5M views (not that many people, but a ballpark). This sum is from 25k atm so there's probably much more in the "reserves". I wouldn't be surprised if this one fundraiser would account for 1% of the overall raised *by the whole platform* (that'd require ~4M).

@sassdawe I'm imagining the utter confusion of some people seeing those numbers and I'm pretty happy actually :)

@buherator much wow, but from the good kind this time 🥹

https://4fund.com/62pmv8

Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.

[RSS] TP-Link, Canva, HikVision vulnerabilities

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/tp-link-canva-hikvision-vulnerabilities/