The Pixel 10 smartphones released last year are the first phones to use Rust for its modem firmware in an attempt to narrow the phone's baseband attack surface
https://security.googleblog.com/2026/04/bringing-rust-to-pixel-baseband.html
AI That Bankrupted a Vending Machine is Now Running a Store in San Francisco https://slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/0447236/ai-that-bankrupted-a-vending-machine-is-now-running-a-store-in-san-francisco?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
The next imaging run has finished at midnight, and here is the result. The corners were obliterated. :-) It seems after two top layers, the remaining 5 are spaced rather closely.
Full-res map: http://infosecdj.net:8086/map/atmel/atsama5d26c-cu/infosecdj_mx_nikpa60x_d2/
Last call. REcon 2026 CFP deadline is April 11. Deep technical content, reverse engineering, exploitation research. https://recon.cx/2026/en/cfp.html #reverseengineering
This is the funniest thing that happened in tech in a long time
https://bird.makeup/users/osrdrivers/statuses/2042286973461709183
"If you're doing nothing wrong, what is there to fear ?
- I'm fearing your definition of wrong. "
Firefox-maker Mozilla … arguing the rollback shows the company pushed AI too far without enough regard for user choice.
So little self awareness.
Wrote about the attacker-defender asymmetry and why AI made it worse -- "AI for defense" is stuck polishing the top five turtles while adversaries live in the bottom ten. https://cje.io/2026/04/08/offense-scales-with-compute-defense-scales-with-committees/