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That one XKCD thing, now interactive.
This is so much fun... Craig S. Kaplan: In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4B
Can you feel it too?
Join us today for our analysis of Juniper's recent pre-auth RCE - CVE-2026-21902 - affecting a very specific set of devices. Curious?
so 3 courts + US Copyright Office say you cannot copyright nor patent anything made primarily with LLMs because automata aren't human.
#SCOTUS won't review these rules because copyright is meant to protect human creations, not software or automata.
this may mean #AWSlop #Microslop are “de-copyrighting” & “de-patenting” their own proprietary software as they let automata “code” 🧐
❝ AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright
There’s just about ~10 days left to make a submission to one of my favorite programming contests:
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest!
Highly encourage you to take a peek and enter, it really brings out some of the best programmers (and compiler wizards).
🇪🇺🎉🔥 BREAKING VICTORY!
LIBE just REJECTED the extension of warrantless #ChatControl 1.0 – no majority! 🛡️💪
Digital privacy of correspondence saved!
Million thanks to everyone who raised their voices! ❤️🙏
Final battle ahead: Plenary vote! 🚀
#StopScanningMe
When we first showed up at BlackHat as unknown S Africans, we were kinda shellshocked (& awestruck) by it all.
FX was one of the first people to pull us in & hung out with us. We kept in touch but not nearly as much as I should have.
He will be missed.
So, I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don't hate it. It requires operating systems to let you enter a date when you create a user account and requires a way for software to get a coarse-grained approximation of this that says either 'over 18' or one of three age ranges of under-18s. Importantly, it doesn't require:
In short, it's a tool for parents: it allows you to set the age of a child's account so that apps (including web browsers, which can then expose via JavaScript or whatever) can ask questions about what features they should expose.
In a UNIX-like system, this is easy to do, with a tiny amount of new userspace things:
/etc/user_birthdays file (or whatever name it is) that stores pairs of username (or uid) and birthdays.This doesn't require any kernel changes. Any process can query the set of groups that the user is in already.
If a parent wants to give their child root, they can update the file and bypass the check. And that's fine, that's a parent's choice. And that's what I want.
I like this approach far more than things that require users to provide scans of passports and other toxically personal information to be able to use services. If we had this feature, then the Online Safety Act could simply require that web browsers provide a JavaScript API to query the age bracket and didn't work unless it returned 'over 18'.
coping with interstellar medium looks like the better alternative these days
Three years ago I blogged about #nuget serving outdated #curl packages.
They then removed the packages I found.
I checked nuget again *today* and immediately found a nine year old curl package that is downloaded at the rate of 1,000 times/week from there... with **64** known vulnerabilities.
The blog post from back then: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/02/the-curl-nuget-story/
Samsung is an ad delivery network that, as a side effect, produces electronic devices and appliances.