I am so tired of people throwing up vibes as actual supportable positions. Show me the data. Show me the science. Otherwise, with respect, you might think a bit more before pressing that "Post" button.

#Microsoft fake #Windows error ended in a $280 million settlement.

The story mostly forgotten today, and one of the reasons why MS was/is so disliked. This is just one of their dirty tricks they played to gain mass adoption and eventually a monopoly on the PC.

https://www.makeuseof.com/microsofts-windows-fake-error-ended-in-a-280-million-settlement/

#technology #history

Hackerone: Anthropic Cyber Jailbreak Program on H1
1 July 2026

"Scope of Findings

This program covers technical findings where a jailbreak of Claude's cyber safeguards could produce meaningful real-world capability uplift for an attacker---for example:

Techniques that cause Claude to produce functional exploit code, working malware, or detailed attack infrastructure it would otherwise refuse

Prompting approaches that extract domain-expert-level guidance on offensive cyber techniques that the model is designed to decline

Bypasses that work at scale or across multiple offensive task categories"

https://hackerone.com/anthropic-cyber-jailbreak/?type=team

US removes curbs on Anthropic's latest Fable and Mythos AI models
1 July 2026

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-lift-export-controls-anthropics-fable-ai-model-tuesday-source-says-2026-06-30/

Antrhropic statement in reply

Someone is getting fed up with stochastic parrot bs passed off as knowledge and insight from fellow humans.

source: a certain amateur radio reflector.

edit: since this post is (unexpectedly?) doing the rounds, I'm not the author of the reply.

[RSS] Reverse-engineering VMware's encrypted + compressed VM memory checkpoint format (vTPM "partial" encryption)

https://github.com/heeeyaaaa/vmem-decrypt

[RSS] Auditing OpenReception: 16 CVEs in an end-to-end encrypted appointment booking platform (unauthenticated admin creation, account takeover, E2E bypass)

https://moltenbit.net/posts/auditing-openreception/

[RSS] Charting your way in: Helm template injection

https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/charting-your-way-in-helm-template-injection.html

periodic reminder about privacy services:

no one is going to go to prison for the privilege of being your mailserver admin/vpn host/etc.

@ekuber IMO they just haven't debugged enough wicked runtime errors yet

another year at the #Troopers26 CTF brings some neat new tricks to bytewitch, my universal weird-blob decoding tool (now home at https://bytewitch.boo 👻):

quickly apply byte-level preprocessing (xor, and, arithmetic) and specify payloads by mixing and matching arbitrary number notations (binary, ternary, hex, whatever)

also, the randomness analysis now flags patterns indicating repeated-key xor and similar obfuscations (in tryhard mode only, for now)

now back to my actual work...

@adriano

1) OK, let's not dive into the Hell-hole of why a major part of our economy is about advertising shit instead of shit being actually useful, that's really beside the point...
2) I think I may have a previous version of this popping up. But it does pop up, I don't know on what conditions, I refuse spending time on investigating those conditions, but I see no obvious way to turn it off.

@joern This is basically the same business model as some "agile" dev shops run: billing by amount of work instead of results incentivizes shitty work.

So, 2006 called and said, “Hey, you should start a blog!” And since I’m at it, I thought, why not launch a newsletter too? 😅

Here is the link to my first blog post: https://www.voltpaperscissors.com/tipsandtricks/playing-with-the-sun

And here for the newsletter sign-up: https://www.voltpaperscissors.com/newsletter-signup-standalone/

The reasoning is simple: "Social" media (Mastodon aside) has turned into something I don’t want to be part of, so I’d better set myself up for something independent.

#blog #diy #socialmedia

@Javvad employees figured out tool use for effective problem solving long ago - we call it "Shadow IT"

" #Firefox recently rolled out a set of New Tab widgets timed to the 2026 FIFA World Cup"

1) No browser should time anything to any sports events
2) This is very annoying and I'm still not sure if I could disable it, because I don't have the button mentioned in the article #darkpattern

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/06/11/how-to-turn-off-firefox-widgets-new-tab/

@hrbrmstr I mean, why not use GLM 5.2 in the meantime? https://www.provos.org/p/qemu-escape-glm-5-2/

#ElonMusk is a murderer, and now he's lying about it. https://www.commondreams.org/news/musk-dead-children-usaid

Today I released C1B, the most personal app I’ve ever built.

Earlier this year, my father was diagnosed with lymphoma, and my family quickly outgrew our binders, Notes, spreadsheets, and group chats trying to coordinate his care.

C1B grew out of that experience. C1B is a caregiving log that helps families keep track of everything related to the ongoing care of a loved one.

❤️ https://c1b.app

1.2 billion downloads ran through pyca/cryptography last month. Nearly every Python app that touches crypto depends on it. If it doesn't ship post-quantum primitives, the Python ecosystem can't migrate.

We helped add ML-DSA (FIPS 204) for signatures and ML-KEM (FIPS 203) for key exchange to the library. Install and migration details in the blog. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/06/30/shipping-post-quantum-cryptography-to-python/