I'm pleased to announce a new release of the Rust bindings for @HexRaysSA IDA SDK! This release includes v9.3 compatibility.
Code: https://git.idalib.rs
Docs: https://docs.idalib.rs
Thank you to @yegor who contributed to this release, and to @HexRaysSA for their support.

I KNOW somebody in this community can win this money.

“Fulu’s latest bounty is for Ring’s video doorbell cameras, meant to encourage hackers and tinkerers to disable software features that require the devices to send data to Amazon. The reward is a potential payout of $10,000 or more.” https://www.wired.com/story/a-10k-bounty-awaits-anyone-who-can-hack-ring-cameras-to-stop-sharing-data-with-amazon/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Weld/116100770024505311

One of my best memories was staying up all night drinking and exchanging stories with Par at a DEF CON decades ago. Stores about him inspired me in my earlier days, and to finally get to "meet your hero" left a lasting impression.

"Parmasterisgod" is legend in the old school circles, a story I heard second hand many years and many times before I got to meet him to hear it first hand.

I'll definitely have a drink this evening and talk to some friends and share Par stories.

After decades of research, a seemingly unremarkable find retrieved from a Roman shipwreck proved to be a sensational scientific discovery, proving that the ancient Greeks were capable of making mechanical models of the cosmos. The Antikythera Mechanism is the world‘s first known analog computer.

https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2023/11/an-ancient-greek-computer/

My virtual replica:

https://www.thomasweibel.ch/anticythera2/

#history #sciencehistory #antiquity #archaeology #astronomy #digitalhumanities #mathematics #physics #astrophysics

The most monstrous lie that I regularly tell myself is "I'll get that work done while I'm on the plane."

Paged Out zine #8

https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdf

the watchers: how #openai, the US government, and #persona built an identity #surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds

https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona/

The West Virginia Attorney General has sued Apple for failing to detect child sexual abuse material on iCloud

https://ago.wv.gov/article/west-virginia-attorney-general-sues-apple-role-distribution-child-sexual-abuse-material

Just posted a little follow-up on the #Messenger asset format #Microsoft uses!

https://vito.io/articles/2026-02-19-the-specification

Includes a PDF with the whole spec for nerds tagging along! <3

#retrocomputing #reverseengineering #windowslivemessenger #writing #blog #smallweb

Connect with us on Friday 2/20 @ 3pm for some advanced exploitation! Brandon (teaching Firmware RE at RE//verse) has a spicy meshtastic bug from class for us to preview, then we'll continue with more advanced C++ reversing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0s7W3Wuipg

So the apparent concurrency bug I've been chasing for the last couple of days turned out to be:

- a thread panic!ing
- because it couldn't allocate a trivial amount of memory
- probably related to the fact that when I passed a struct to a library, the library apparently decided that the passed fields are not important and made up new ones

The best part was that I saw no indication of the panic until I carefully yanked out half of the code (using a different library), some of which apparently swallowed all panics.

Yes, I work with weird shit.

#Rust

LLMs can generate 'secure' passwords that are actually just predictable garbage. Because, you know, predicting is what LLMs do best.

https://www.irregular.com/publications/vibe-password-generation

Why does nobody ever mention that the company providing ID verification in the UK is ultimately owned by Thiel and, therefore, Palantir?

This is dragnet making XKEYSCORE an amateur system.

https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116087059413472819

Pwndbg 2026.02.18 is out! Enhance your GDB or LLDB experience!

We visualize branches in nearpc, synchronize your decompiler (IDA/Binja/Ghidra) via decomp2dbg, annotate stack variabless from debug info or decompiler, support new Linux kernel debugging commands - for tracing SLUB allocs/frees or dumping tasks information.

See what's changed in: https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg/releases/tag/2026.02.18

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#gdb #lldb #pwndbg #pwn #ctf #reverseengineering

Open source has an open slop problem.

And I think the solution is one that would've been perfectly obvious to a thirteenth-century Florentine weaver...

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-gatekeeping-or-why-medieval-guilds-had-it-figured-out/

Mistodon: when you wanna go oldschool, you can't beat the green glow of a P1 phosphor terminal. This embryonic #ANSIart screen, 'Born Digital', was drawn by @mavenmob and included in the MIST0223 artpack collection released three years ago this month.

Microsoft loves to play word games stating that *they* did not evict the chief International Criminal Court prosecutor from the cloud. But this is exactly what they did, and now they are trying to correct the UK parliamentary record, where they had tried to spin this (incorrectly): https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/microsoft_asks_uk_parliament_to_correct_record/

[RSS] Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/02/18/carelessness-versus-craftsmanship-in-cryptography/

New vulnerability report from Talos:

OpenCFD OpenFOAM Code Stream directive arbitrary code execution vulnerability

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2292

CVE-2025-61982

So I spent way too much time debugging today and this beer made me sentimental so here's a software success story:

I use motibro.com to sign up for trainings and I think they became SW Buddha (or whatever):

- The webapp just works
- AFAIK there is no mobile app, but mobile view just works
- The copyright info stuck in 2022, no one cares ofc
- They send notification with the right info, at the right time, no spam
- I can't recall any feature or design updates, I can basically manage my classes blind
- I hear no complaints about the software from any of its users

We need more software like Motibro!