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CVE-2024-28956: Xen Security Advisory 469 v2: x86: Indirect Target Selection https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/5
A bug in the hardware support for prediction-domain isolation. An attacker might be able to infer the contents of arbitrary host memory, including memory assigned to other guests.
What happens if a cosmic ray hits a voting machine?
In Belgium’s 2003 elections, a relatively unknown Communist Party candidate received 4096 extra votes…from a spontaneous bit inversion.
It was more votes than was mathematically possible at that polling station.
Good lord. Talk of the ruination of the web on here today I decided to see what it was like just straight up raw dogging my browsing habits for a little while. No ad blockers, no blocking cookie popups etc.
People actually USE this?!
I think the most tragic aspect of deploying "AI" in teaching and learning situations is how much it pushes people into a situation of learned helplessness. This constant feeling of not knowing how to do a thing of being incapable of actually doing work on one's tasks is mentally so harmful. How do people under those conditions gain confidence in their abilities? Like ever?
kASLR Internals and Evolution by @r0keb
https://r0keb.github.io/posts/kASLR-Internals-and-Evolution/
Great news! The Pwnie awards nominations are now open!
https://pwnies.com/nominations/
"If all these big companies are shouting from the rooftops that AI is up to production code the money relies on, then zero open source contributions of substance is a glaring absence."
(Original title: If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?)