The 7 Coolest Mathematical Discoveries of 2024
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-7-coolest-mathematical-discoveries-of-2024/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Hear ye hear ye

The following instances will be offline briefly on Saturday, December 14 from 9am ET / 2pm UTC for approxmately 10 minutes:
infosec.exchange
infosec.town
infosec.pub
pixel.infosec.exchange
books.infosec.exchange
matrix/element.infosec.exchange
relay.infosec.exchange
meetup.infosec.exchange
video.infosec.exchange
infosec.press
infosec.place
fedia.io
fedia.social
elk,.infosec.exchange
infosec.space
convo.casa

The servers supporting these instances require a reboot. The Dell servers these instances run on take a very long time to boot, so I am estimating 10 minutes of downtime. It could be more, could be less.

We use live patches to minimize reboots needed for patching, however Ubuntu only provides livepatch support for a year, which is how long most of these systems have been running for.

In his latest blog, ZDI researcher Piotr Bazydło covers a pre-auth Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability he discovered in the SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM). It may not sound exciting, but it can lead to a local privilege escalation on domain-joined Windows machines. Read the details at https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2024/12/11/solarwinds-access-rights-manager-one-vulnerability-to-lpe-them-all

It's time for everybody's favorite: unsolicited advice!

In which I discuss the reality of the cybersecurity jobs market, and what you really should be doing to improve your chances.

https://taggart-tech.com/20241212-2025-jobs-guide/

Citrix Denial of Service: Analysis of CVE-2024-8534 https://www.assetnote.io/resources/research/citrix-denial-of-service-analysis-of-cve-2024-8534

Fixed the OpenGraph image on Shazzer it was bugging me. Then did a normalization vector to test it!

https://shazzer.co.uk/vectors/675add23a8574986b36cc848

I can't seem to get WebView2 working in a Visual Studio extension, so I'm dropping that effort for now.

If anyone knows how to do this, or actually wants Function-Graph-Overview in Visual Studio, let me know!

The number one skill required for learning any complex system is patience.

— Kelsey Hightower

#complexity

🚨 We are calling on all EU-based Mozillians to help us monitor Apple’s new browser choice screens.

Let’s hold Big Tech to account!

Anyone in the EU with an Apple device can join in this effort.

Learn more: http://mzl.la/49xJpvP

Incredible essay about the importance and challenges of digital archival by Maxwell Neely-Cohen, as well as the various imperfect strategies to achieve “century-scale” digital archives.

https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage/

"We picked a century scale because most physical objects can survive 100 years in good care. It is attainable, and yet we selected it because the design of mainstream digital storage mediums are nowhere close to even considering this mark."

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#archival