Ask Jeeves, one of the first search engines, has shut down on Friday

https://www.ask.com/

Security firm Trellix has disclosed a security breach after hackers gained access to its source code

This highlighted section here is important since Trellix is one of Europol's closest industry partners

If this is TeamPCP, as I suspect, they might have screwed up

https://www.trellix.com/statement/

“GCC now supports Algol 68” https://algol68genie.nl/en/blog/gcc-algol-68-genie/

#BlackMetal album of the day by a friend of mine: Malevolic, Complete Integrity Corruption.

https://malevolic.bandcamp.com/album/complete-integrity-corruption
#Metal

My first ever open source release: lib0xc, the C standard library you wish you had.

https://aka.ms/lib0xc

Listening to cybersecurity people freak out over Mythos is so tiring. Like, bro, your local water treatment plant runs Windows XP, your mobile provider's hardware is older than you are, and the protocol that routes internet traffic is secured by everyone just agreeing that hijacking it would be uncool.

Dear Mastodon friends, Telegram has started to publish their transparency data for Q1 2026. As usual, I am trying to crowdsource this information as it is only accessible per country for Telegram accounts registered with a number for that country. Here is what I have so far, if you have a Telegram account with a number not in that list, please take a screenshot of the @transparency answer and answer here or open an issue here https://github.com/Te-k/telegram-transparency/issues
Thanks and please retoot!

STOP. SENDING. SURVEYS. FROM. THIRD. PARTY. SERVICES.

It looks sus as ducks having something from randomsurvey.co.uk come through on behalf of YourCompany with every domain/link in the email having no obvious link to it. Rarely is there a single link to the company domain, with everything pointing to the that of the commissioned survey provider.

To me it sets off every damn alarm bell for a phishing attempt. Expecting customers to use it encourages unsafe practices.

She confided it all to her therapist: her marriage, financial stress and her self-esteem. Every word ended up in court. Proof News investigates how a database of 140 million message exchanges on a telehealth platform is being used to build an AI therapy companion – and what that means for patients.
https://www.proofnews.org/womans-talkspace-therapy-app-sessions-exposed-in-court/

🚨 BREAKING: Wiz Research discovered Remote Code Execution on GitHub.com with a single git push.

Wiz Researchers uncovered a critical flaw in GitHub that could be exploited for RCE. The flaw allowed unauthorized access to millions of repositories belonging to other users and organizations 🤯

We responsibly disclosed the issue to GitHub, who deployed a fix on GitHub.com the same day (!) and released patches for all supported GHES versions.

GitHub Enterprise Server customers are strongly encouraged to update immediately.

Huge kudos to GitHub for addressing the issue 👏

Full technical breakdown here → https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854

Conway's Game of Life, in real life: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/conway

Some reading for the weekend:

Implementation details of Apple's lossy texture compression format.
https://www.ludicon.com/castano/blog/2026/04/metal-lossy-compression-format/

Enjoy!