The easiest way to succeed is to measure success wrong.

"OpenAI expects about $5 billion in losses on $3.7 billion in revenue this year, CNBC confirmed in September. Those numbers are increasing rapidly."

So… The business model is to train models on everyones' data without paying them, then lose a billion dollars.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/openai-needs-more-capital-than-wed-imagined-moves-to-for-profit.html

NIST is proposing a 256-bit block variant of AES with a static 256-bit key size. Public comments are open until January 25, 2025.

#crypto #cryptography

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/12/nist-proposes-standardize-wider-variant-aes

"Invariant inversion" in memory-unsafe languages

https://pacibsp.github.io/2024/invariant-inversion-in-memory-unsafe-languages.html

The CCC 38 Saal1 Presentation - BlinkenCity: Radio-Controlling Street Lamps and Power Plants by Fabian Bräunlein and Luca Melette

...on reversing streetlamps, ripple controls, Versacom and Semagyr, power gear, smart meters, controlling FREs with flashlights and flipper zero's(!), was a tour de force in reverse engineering, critical infrastructure risk analysis, and hacking excellence. If you use electricity or streets, you should watch it.

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/talk/HSNZGR/

@Viss I see you are a man of culture as well!

@stf no, only the heli vs car thing, but it's a police car.

I just realized that in Die Hard 4 Matt's little "my dad is my hero" monologue to get the stolen car started is basically how prompt injection works these days :O

Cartoon Network website officially shuts down after 32 years 💔🥹😩😩😩😩😩

Delinea Protocol Handler - Remote Code Execution via Update Process (CVE-2024-12908)
https://blog.amberwolf.com/blog/2024/december/cve-2024-12908-delinea-protocol-handler---remote-code-execution-via-update-process/

#frombsky

To use the Montreal subway, you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. But how does it work? And how can the ticket be so cheap that it's disposable? I opened up the tiny NFC chip inside to find out more... 1/15

This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites like https://Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are searchable on the Wayback Machine. 📰📺

Help us in saving these resources: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=mstdn-eoy2024

Die Hard 4 is underrated. Fight me!

Oh! @raspberry_pi RP2350 gotcha detailed at @ccc. Does he win the prize?? https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/hacking-the-rp2350/

In 10 mins: The master key #38c3

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/zigzag

#HDCP

VulnCheck: Four-Faith Industrial Router CVE-2024-12856 Exploited in the Wild
CVE-2024-12856 (7.2 high) Four-Faith Industrial Router post-auth command injection is a reported exploited zero-day. Suricata rule available, no IOC though.

@todb there are still 2 more weekdays left in 2024, cram it all into the KEV!

#vulnerability #fourfaith #cve #eitw #activeexploitation #CVE_2024_12856 #infosec #cybersecurity

After 6 months and about 333 commits I proudly present:

Faircamp 1.0 – A static site generator for audio producers
https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/

To recap the highlights of the past months and learn what's new in the final 1.0 release, check out the blog post: https://simonrepp.com/posts/faircamp-1.0/

Development of version 1.0 was made possible through the amazing support, funding and expertise of the @NGIZero programme and coalition, led by the @nlnet foundation and financed by the European Commission's @EC_NGI initiative – thank you so much for giving me and everyone benefitting from a better Faircamp this incredible opportunity!

Also, many thanks to all faircampers, contributors, testers, translators, bloggers, podcasters and encouraging voices for supporting this journey - for the final 1.0 release specifically to @branpos for release candidate testing, @n00q for bugreporting/testing, @limebar for the external artist page feature inspiration and @Vac for their diligent translation work.

Along with this release I've published multiple new documentation resources - from an official Linux/macOS/Windows tutorial to a 1.0 migration guide, from an overhauled reference manual to a beginner's guide to publishing faircamp (or any!) static sites - check out the website and recent posts in the #faircamp hashtag to discover them!

That's all!

I presented about file formats at #38C3.
Thanks for the feedback everyone!
https://speakerdeck.com/ange/fearsome-file-formats-18374bc4-b3f2-429f-862e-2177ab4d7aae

Unsigned and unencrypted radio protocols control a large amount of street lamps and power plants, threatening European grid stability.

All you need is a large antenna, aka. putting a wire on a kite.

Check the research of Fabian and Luca in Saal 1 at 21:45 #38c8 or at Spiegel (paywall).

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/stromversorgung-koennten-hacker-blackouts-ueber-funk-ausloesen-a-53c29240-425b-4603-852e-5a1c0a1e5400

Proprietary silicon ICs and dubious marketing claims? Let's fight those with a microscope! #38c3

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/relive/492

Didn't expect this one to have a #synthdiy angle! 🤩