Reminder: it's easy to abolish #Monday and customise your week. All you need is a bit of creativity with time zones. https://timtfj.com/2010/10/11/abolish-mondays/

[RSS] Flicker and fall: rooting the Philips Hue Bridge both remotely and wirelessly

https://blog.thalium.re/posts/rooting-the-philips-hue-bridge-remotely-and-wirelessly/

Microsoft describing a ClickFix attack in 2026:

Make sure your web browser isn't 6 years out of date.

(Adobe stopped supporting Flash at the end of 2020, with major browsers automatically blocking it at the beginning of 2021)

After years inside datacenters, it’s hard to be afraid of AI killing all humans. I've seen the "secure facility." It's a chain link fence and a guy named Gary.

Night shift is usually 10-20 people. Two hundred people could shut a datacenter down with nothing but a Wikipedia article on fiber optics and some enthusiasm. Start swinging and you’ll hit something valuable pretty fast.

The "secure cages"? Chain link. The lobby's got badges and mancatchers and a guard who checks your ID like it insulted him. Out back it's a sliding metal door, propped open with a folding chair by whoever's waiting on FedEx.

It's not a fortress. It's a strip mall with better cable management.

LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/linkedin-beats-browsergate-lawsuits-over-scanning-users-chrome-extensions/

@masek This. I'd add that calling for a *slowdown*[1] (on Anthropics[2] side) is likely a pretext for below-expectation numbers ("they are like this, because we're deliberately slowing down") in the near future and getting IPO off the table altogether ("we'll do that once we can go full speed again").

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14dpgm0rg4o
[2] https://www.ipobonanza.com/news/2026-09-09-anthropic-ipo-analysis-delay-and-15b-revolver

Reminder: There is exactly one reason why a company postpones an IPO.

That is: They wouldn't get the money they expect or need.

When I read about OpenAI delaying the IPO due to the dangers of AI, I am certain they mean the danger their AI poses to their own quarterly figures (revenue vs. cash burn) they have to publish.

RE: https://ciberlandia.pt/@d3/117247637388924882

Age verification is having a moment in the EU. But we should ask why scrolling is so hard to stop rather than for whom 👀

Our 🇵🇹 member D3 has brought the first class-action lawsuits vs. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok & YouTube for their “addictive design”.

👏🏾 A bold & timely action! The attention economy has all of us in sight, we urgently need to tackle the business models & design practices that exploit vulnerabilities & manipulate behaviour.

More info ⤵️

Want to become a bug hunter but fuzzing takes too much resources? Check out Grape where we instrumentalize variant analysis to find difficult bugs in Chromium and other complex code bases. Short blog: https://nebelwelt.net/blog/2026/0913-grape.html (this was published at WOOT'26 and received the best paper award)

The contagion of fear
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/

Is it supposed to be so obtrusive to install #FreeBSD as a #desktop on a laptop with a DE? Configuring sysrc, manually editing lightdm #xkb although correct keyboard layout has been configured on installation? No username display just "User &", having to manually click and type your username and pw. Genuinely interested if FreeBSD is just not meant to be used as a desktop. #unix

"The hunt for a faster syscall trap"

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041215-00/?p=37003

This story is horrible in multiple ways. You are welcome.

@masek Alpha Beta did it, came to a different conclusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB3EZjLDu8o

@typeswitch
If P was so NP why would it look so P

The V8 JavaScript Runtime Undermined My Constant-Time JavaScript Library

Six years ago, I wrote a blog post titled Soatok's Guide to Side-Channel Attacks in which I discussed the general topic of side-channels in cryptographic applications, and how to avoid them, with example code in PHP....

http://soatok.blog/2026/09/12/the-v8-javascript-runtime-undermined-my-constant-time-javascript-library/

Only stupid smelly fucking nerds would understand why this is funny. So naturally, I laughed

22 recent Linux kernel CVEs with exploits brought to our attention by @nebusecurity https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/08/1

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