“Going to the cloud” can mean renting services/servers that you could get from anywhere. There’s little lock-in. The same four words “going to the cloud” might also mean locking your operations to a specific cloud provider, forever. This difference is vital, yet often ignored: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/beware-cloud-is-part-of-the-software/
"Intel admits what we all knew: no one is buying AI PCs"
People would rather buy older processors that aren't that much less powerful but way cheaper. The "AI" benefits obviously aren't worth paying for.
https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-admits-what-we-all-knew-no-one-is-buying-ai-pcs/
Today we broke 12k stars on #GitHub remaining #1 on Reverse Engineering there and #1 for, “Reverse Engineering Tutorial” on Google. Thanks again for all of your continued support to help get new folks free training on #ReverseEngineering for everyone! https://github.com/mytechnotalent/Reverse-Engineering
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"How many calories in one gram of Uranium?" from CalorieHealthy.com
In fact the answer varies from Uranium 235 fissile isotope at 34 billion calories/gram all the way down to Natural Uranium in a light water reactor at a diet friendly 100,000,000 calories/gram
If you're dieting, try to switch out the Uranium for Plutonium 238, or Hafnium 178m2 isomer
And definitely no bread!
I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service.
If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them.
If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege forever.
This also goes, by the way, for researchers who are starting to be convinced they don't need to learn how to be scientists anymore, because "the AI" can just do the science for them. Nope.
We are excited to announce that the 1st Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering (SURE) will be co-located at ACM CCS 2025 in Taiwan! We invite the community to submit their awesome research https://sure-workshop.org/.
So, what is SURE? More in the 🧵
The biggest thing that I wish people knew before starting their 1st tech job (probably most jobs) is that asking someone more experienced for the “answer” is what you should do as soon as you get stuck. It’s drilled into students that this is “cheating”, so this is a big change for new hires. The faster a new hire can unlearn that you’re not expected to do your own work without getting advice from others, the happier and more productive they will be in a team environment.
Microsoft Outlook is pants at usability and running a fat GUI isn’t great for security. About a year ago I went on a mission to make mutt (the CLI mail client) work in a sandbox so I could read my work Microsoft365 mail nicely and more securely. Here’s how https://github.com/singe/muttpack
Update: I just added some further hardening ideas to this. My favourite is to run the containers under esoteric architectures with QEMU.
When IT tells you they invested in a new security product.
Ok, all y'all that did all the research into Recall, you can tell me how to detect and disable, right? Cause it is in violation of every NDA I have ever signed.
The EU is introducing an energy label for phones, together with mandatory requirements for phones sold in the EU;
- 5 years of software updates (AFTER they stop selling the device in the EU)
- providing important hardware parts (during sale and for 7 years after), including free software (if needed), to every repair shop, within 5-10 business days
- batteries have to make 800 charging cycles and still be above 80% original capacity
And on top of that, phones and tablets need this energy label (which also includes a fall damage durability and repairability score), and abide by the above requirements, from 20 June 2025.
(https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en)
[Project] I built a tool that tracks AWS documentation changes and analyzes security implications https://awssecuritychanges.com/
Threads is starting to rollout ads, another feature that we will never have in here