Idle thought: you can have progressive JPEGs in which coefficients for lower-frequency components are sent first and the detail is refined as more data arrives.
I'm sure you can abuse this to construct a *regressive* JPEG that looks good with the initial low-frequency data and then degrades into something terrible.
lets be honest, we’re doing you a favor making your pc unbootable.
It's landed. The bug apocalypse is upon us as #Microsoft releases patches for 620+ CVEs to go along with #Adobe's 88. @TheDustinChilds has done his best to make sense of it all. Read his analysis at https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2026/7/14/the-july-2026-security-update-review
@cR0w when I need to do substitutions or otherwise want to push bash to its limits, my first reference was always the Bash Hacker's Wiki, which is now defunct but I'm thankful for flokoe for being back the content: https://flokoe.github.io/bash-hackers-wiki/
NEW: The Iranian government abused well-known flaws in the global telecoms infrastructure — specifically SS7 — to locate U.S. military personnel in the Middle East at the beginning of the war.
So, @Rapid7Official is shutting down AttackerKB (https://attackerkb.com/) soon.
I view this as a case where an initially promising idea became overwhelmed by low‑quality reports from contributors.
Anyway, archive any data you wish to retain.
Firefox Security & Privacy Newsletter 2026 Q2 | Attack & Defense
https://attackanddefense.dev/2026/07/12/firefox-security-privacy-newsletter-2026-q2.html
CVE-2026-42980: Reversing and Exploiting the Windows Kernel WMI Underflow https://blog.grunt.ar/bin-exploitation/binary-gecko-academy/cve-2026-42980-wmi-underflow-en/
So @chompie1337 and I are on a mission to find creative artists who want to help design the cover for Phrack #73.
retro sci-fi & chrome futures
▸ cyberpunk / terminal aesthetics
▸ dystopian systems
▸ hacker manuals from an alternate timeline
▸ weird cool stuff and machines
Keen? Fancy helping?
📮 arts@phrack.org
⏰ Deadline: August 15
Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder
Wait a moment. Aren't "AI" "skills" just markdown files in a skills directory? So to share them through Dropbox, you'd... drop them in your dropbox folder? And doing so needs a tool? What happened to cp? Or selecting files with your mouse, right click, copy, and paste it somewhere? Or I dunno, any of the myriad ways you can get files from one place to another on the same computer?
Oh, right, yes. We do not touch computers anymore. We let our agents do that! Right, right, sorry. I got left behind y'know, still have this mushy thing in my skull, so sorry. I'll try to use it less to keep up with "progress".