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Systematically reviewing Python C extensions (575+ bugs found so far) and offering to analyze yours!

I’ve recently analyzed 44 C extensions for correctness and free-threading readiness. I'd love to run the analysis on your extension too.

If you want the deep dive into the methodology, the false positive rates, and what I've learned, I wrote a full post here: https://discuss.python.org/t/systematically-finding-bugs-in-python-c-extensions-575-confirmed-so-far/106875

But if you just want your C extension checked, reply below or DM me!

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@meowski again, if that is concerning to you, you are free to limit your posts visibility and vet your followers. otherwise, limiting search will not protect you.
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@meowski Nobody forces anyone to post embarrassing things on the public Internet. On the other hand many ppl post their thoughts on the public Internet so others can discover and interact with them.
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@lain @i @feld It's not only about journalists, I personally spend significant resources to preserve/dig up stuff as needed, all of which should be trivial if scraping wasn't a (really stupid) taboo. This also hurts the discoverability of posts&accounts.

I guess some would prefer hiding in their little bunkers with their chosen friends (and that's fine), but if we want to have an open social network it's probably the wrong strategy to design things around that concept.
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@i Yes, this is exactly the problem. I have accounts at multiple instances (pretty sure some have elastic), search is shit everywhere. We'd also need federated search which would require scraping, leading back to your comment...
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You know what would make Fedi an attractive place for journalists (and lots of others)?

Working search!
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Talos Vulnerability Reports

New vulnerability report from Talos:

LibRaw HuffTable::initval heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2026-2330

CVE-2026-20911
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New vulnerability report from Talos:

LibRaw lossless_jpeg_load_raw heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2026-2331

CVE-2026-21413
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New vulnerability report from Talos:

LibRaw x3f_thumb_loader heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2026-2358

CVE-2026-20889
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A few weeks ago, someone reported an obsrvation on the iocaine bug tracker: ClaudeBot appeared to have figured out how to remove the poison ID from poisoned URLs.

That was a worrying development, so I set out to do some experiments in The Lab. I wasn't unprepared for this development, and had a few tricks lined up to address it. I wanted to test which one works.

After two and half weeks of experiments, I'm happy to report that Claude has not started to remove iocaine's poison IDs from URLs. The bot merely fails at the basic task of resolving relative URLs.

Both the built-in script and Nam-Shub of Enki generate relative URLs, and only include the poison ID if the entry URL didn't have one. Thus, whenever ClaudeBot hit a poisoned URL, it failed to resolve the poison-ID less relative URL, and constructed an URL that did not have one.

The straightforward fix for this is to not trust the crawlers to be able to resolve relative URLs.

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There's a new Windows 0day LPE that has been disclosed called BlueHammer. The reporter suggests that it's being disclosed due to how MSRC operates these days.

MSRC used to be quite excellent to work with.
But to save money Microsoft fired the skilled people, leaving flowchart followers.
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft closed the case after the reporter refused to submit a video of the exploit, since that's apparently an MSRC requirement now. 😂

Anyway, yeah, it works. Maybe not 100% reliably, but well enough...

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Thousands of CEOs said AI had no impact on productivity. We use AI to catch 200 bugs/week where we used to find 15, and generate $8M per sales rep.

95% of the company pushed back when we started. At unprompted, Dan Guido explains how our 140-person team went AI-native.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgwvAyF7qsA

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Are We Idiocracy Yet?

https://idiocracy.wtf/
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Before its launch, we audited WhatsApp's Private Processing TEEs and found 8 high-severity issues (patched). The enclaves yielded to injected config files, unmeasured ACPI tables, spoofed firmware levels, and stale attestation reports.

TEE security is only as good as the implementation details. Four lessons and the full report: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/07/what-we-learned-about-tee-security-from-auditing-whatsapps-private-inference/

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@buherator I think your configuration might be borked. We do not force a restart. You should only get this error if the binary file on disk changed while browsing. In that case, Firefox is unable to create a new process due to API incompatibility. Do you use multiple Firefoxes in parallel?

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@freddy I simply use the Debian package (so I guess a lot of users have the same experience), and your explanation clears up why this is happening, thanks!

I guess the solution is to use a FF distribution that doesn't rely on the system updater then.
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