The entity drifted dreamlessly through space, as it had for aeons. It woke when it neared a star. Scanned for planets, life, signs of technology.

Having found all, it analyzed and decoded radio emissions, then composed a message to send.

"My hovercraft is full of feels."

It resumed dormancy.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

Another legend passed away, R.I.P. Bill! :,(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfMyJIX6S0k

#music #blues #hungary

@dey Locally, most likely. You have to pay extra for cross-AZ. Most people don't have missile attacks in their threat model.

James Forshaw at @44CON found an old email about the Morris worm.

Sorry my picture actually shows it in rainbow 🌈. colors !!

[RSS] Fragnesia primitive via Open vSwitch. Deterministic local privilege escalation.

https://blog.doyensec.com/2026/09/17/ovs.html

Why Ctrl+Alt shouldn’t be used as a shortcut modifier:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040329-00/?p=40003

Unfortunately Microsoft doesn't seem to follow this wisdom:

https://github.com/microsoft/WinDbg-Feedback/issues/158

#WinDbg

[RSS] Reversing Factorio's RNG

https://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/

[RSS] Overview of Passive Optical Networks (PONs) Security

http://blog.quarkslab.com/overview-of-passive-optical-networks-pons-security.html

[RSS] Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/26-year-old-sony-ps2-security-chip-broken-wide-open-after-four-years-of-effort-reverse-engineering-enthusiast-successfully-unlocks-cxp102064-mechacon-chip

[RSS] Why building a Rust LSP is hard

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/why-lsp-is-hard/

[RSS] Evading Machine Learning Based Detections

https://msecops.de/blog/posts/ml-evasion/

In 1983, Gavilan Computer Corporation introduced what it dubbed "the first mobile computer." The Gavilan was a briefcase-sized machine with a 3-inch disk drive, an 8-line display, and promised 7 hours of battery life. But Gavilan was a bust. It burned $31 million in venture capital and only managed to ship about 1,000 machines before filing for bankruptcy.

I detailed Gavilan's history in a 2024 podcast. You can read the entire transcript here:

https://www.computerchronicles.blog/transcript-gavilans-31-million-ride-to-bankruptcy/

#retrocomputing

New: hackers tore down a Flock camera and managed to extract the software running on it. We then analyzed the data to find how a Flock camera really track cars and people. The amount of data this single camera gathered in a short period was huge, 50,000+ vehicles https://www.404media.co/hackers-stole-flocks-camera-software-revealing-how-the-company-tracks-cars-and-people-2/

@algernon @gaborudvari I agree that's cringe but I'd also like to note that the largest companies in the world are built on AdTech. People/societies are weird when it comes to desires and consumption.

@stf @mhoye barbaric!

“The AI Reversing Panel: Are we all powerful, or out of a job?” I moderated at @recon is now out on YouTube.

REcon doesn’t often do panels, but Hugo Fortier asked us to do our best - and we said yes.

We’re all trying to figure out the future of security, research, and what to do next. Is the future all about being super hackers, or re-skilling as washing machine technicians?

My deepest appreciation to our panelists:
John McIntosh, Marion Marschalek, and Aaron Portnoy

To those joining us over Zoom in the middle of their night:
Thomas Dullien and Thai Duong

Guests:
Dragos Ruiu and Sergey Bratus

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDJDmie8XaQ

With a special note of thanks to our editors:
Ido Kenan Nathan Van Horn

Quick reminder: deadline for Paged Out! Issue #10 is in 2 weeks!

"People and their AI agents are making the act of being on the internet extremely annoying, and the problem is about to get much worse. " https://www.404media.co/theres-a-100-chance-ai-agents-are-already-ruining-the-internet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Great, turns out my TTD trace failed to record some memory and instead of a) displaying an error b) at least marking it unmapped it went with c) filling it with 0x00 just so I could spend half day figuring out how some values magically appeared in a struct.

#ReverseEngineering #WinDbg