This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces.

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

"In a time of misinformation, in a time of suppression, having this place where people can come and bring knowledge and share knowledge, that is a statement."

#Wikipedia

@gsuberland if this isn't the science result of the week I don't know what is!

yesterday's weird discovery is that every regular sized carrot I have tested is almost exactly 100kΩ end to end with sharp probes stuck in it. a couple of them come out at 100.0k on the dot.

inb4 NIST carrot-based electrical resistance metrology reference

when I saw the @weirdunits post yesterday about carrots per ohm I spent about 30 seconds trying to decide whether or not to actually go measure a carrot for a laugh, and I'm glad I did because the results were actually way more interesting than I expected. so there's a lesson. always go do the silly thing.

https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/115149719242982295

@FritzAdalis @Sempf ok we'll just need 4 more quantum computers

@IngloGamesDev I just had a non-programner friend telling me how he vibe coded a neat tool for himself and I wondered how ppl like him fit this picture.

Then I remembered an old saying about the difference between programming vs software dev is that the latter involves people and time (I'd appreciaye if someone could point me to the original). So I guess there are many hidden, personal projects from ppl who don't even know GitHub exists.

Do I think this worth the cost? No. But it's still a pretty remarkable thing!

I just realized that I have an order of magnetude more bookmarks tagged with "llm" than "llmnr".

(Not having to deal with LLMNR is a good thing!)

This is a fascinating article about AI-based productivity claims, with a ton of data to back up his claims. Definitely worth a read regardless of your stance on AI.

https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding

It's time to take a sneak peak at the new Dynamic Xref Graph and Xref Tree. With these, you can now see function relationships and data flows more clearly, simplifying the task of mapping code paths in complex binaries.

https://hex-rays.com/blog/mapping-relationships-in-ida-9.2-dynamic-xref-graph-and-xref-tree

When the only tool you have is an LLM …
everything looks like a linguistic pattern problem…

Seems like people are jumping to LLMs to solve any task now, when simple ML models or linear regression just do the job at a fraction of the power cost and better precision.

PHRACK Ambassador @dugsong hand delivered a signed hardcopy and PHRACK-COIN to umich.edu Prof Peter Honeyman for his awesome article 🤟

https://phrack.org/issues/72/14_md#article

In 1983, Peter (+2 others) wrote a significant revision of UUCP (Unix2Unix Copy), part of System V Unix.

And now you can develop NES/Famicom games using exclusively your web browser, and online CVBasic 0.9.0. Thanks to Haroldoop #retro #retrogaming #colecovision #msx #famicom #nes https://haroldo-ok.itch.io/cvbasic-online-compiler

[RSS] The case of the crash on a null pointer even though we checked it for null

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250905-00/?p=111560

Preview of PHRACK #72 🐊 BSides Canberra/Australia 🦘edition.

👉Release: 25th of September. GET READY👈

How many logos of famous Australian/New-Zealand cons can you spot on the back cover?

@lcamtuf This one by @eevee is still among my favorites for similar reasons: https://eev.ee/blog/2016/09/15/music-theory-for-nerds/

Also, @3blue1brown ...

retoot to scare a cryptographer

[Cloudflare] Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1

https://blog.cloudflare.com/unauthorized-issuance-of-certificates-for-1-1-1-1/

[RSS] Investigating a Mysteriously Malformed Authenticode Signature -- Elastic Security Labs

https://www.elastic.co/security-labs/malformed-authenticode-signature

[RSS] Reverse engineering of Apple's iOS 0-click CVE-2025-43300: 2 bytes that make size matter

http://blog.quarkslab.com/patch-analysis-of-Apple-iOS-CVE-2025-43300.html

[RSS] exploits.club Weekly Newsletter 85 -Fuzzing KSMBD, Kernel-Hack-Drill, Vibe-Crashing, And More

https://blog.exploits.club/exploits-club-weekly-newsletter-85-fuzzing-ksmbd-kernel-hack-drill-vibe-crashing-and-more/