ICYMI (from the not-all-cyber-news-is-horrible dept), a cyberattack on a U.S. vehicle breathalyzer company has left drivers across the United States stranded and unable to start their vehicles. This story positively cries out for a headline-writing contest. TechCrunch reports:

"The company, Intoxalock, says on its website that it is “currently experiencing downtime” after a cyberattack on March 14. Intoxalock sells breathalyzer devices that fit into vehicle ignition switches, and is used by people who are required to provide a negative alcohol breath sample to start their car."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/cyberattack-on-vehicle-breathalyzer-company-leaves-drivers-stranded-across-the-us/

@jpmens Arch is the OpenBSD of Linux for documentation.

[Gecko] Competition, Innovation, and the Future of the Web - Why Independent Browser Engines Matter

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/03/23/competition-innovation-and-the-future-of-the-web/

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A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?

Micropatches released for Desktop Windows Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2025-55681)
https://blog.0patch.com/2026/03/micropatches-released-for-desktop.html

Can anyone point me to a good layman's tutorial to Yubikeys?

that sound you hear is every Windows platform engineer pasting the "Our commitment to Windows quality" post into their AGENTS.md

When I become dictator I'll establish an authority that will check every EDM track for "is one of my many chat programs blimping?" sounds.

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RE: https://mastodon.art/@lurnoise/114993216415771245

Hi! You should hire me for stuff, not only do I draw pretty neatly but I'm also very kind and easy to work with and always hit the deadlines <3

What You Need to Know: Windows Admin Center Remote Privilege Escalation (CVE-2026-26119) https://www.semperis.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-windows-admin-center-remote-privilege-escalation-cve-2026-26119/

@pancake How about X11 socket sharing? :)
https://github.com/v-p-b/binaryninja-docker

@pancake Thanks for the clarification!

@pancake I think we are talking about different things (please provide a link or stg if I misunderstand). When I just launch claude it can and will write at random FS paths for example, because the process has the privileges to do so. Can it do the same if I launch it in a regular old container where the project directory is mounted (it will have access to everything inside the mount ofc but not my whole ~)?

@pancake I get that this is a stronger isolation layer, but why is that necessary? Do agents randomly perform container escapes?

Simplicity is definitely a plus, but that wouldn't require VMs either.

@pancake How is this different from simply bind mounting your project dir?

[RSS] Windows stack limit checking retrospective: Alpha AXP

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260318-00/?p=112146

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I refer to this as the Oracle problem. In the early ‘90s, if you were using a database to manage things like payroll and inventory, you needed a big server. Paying for an expensive database was a good idea because you really needed to get the last bit of efficiency out of the system.

By the early 2000s, your company’s database might have doubled in size (7% annual growth), but computers were 64x faster for the same price. Now you could (and a lot of companies did, but shouldn’t) handle the same workload in Access on a moderately good desktop. Another decade later and they could buy three cheap Arm SBCs for under $100 and set up Postgres with replication and handle the same workload without noticeably spiking the CPU usage. Not only did the hardware cost drop to almost nothing, the cost of an expensive database went from a rounding error in the accounting to the vast majority of the cost.