How do transistors work, anyway?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/how-do-transistors-work-anyway

CISA just took CVE-2024-11053 from 9.1 all the way down to 3.4!

https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2024/11xxx/CVE-2024-11053.json

Apparently #NVD has rated #curl #vulnerability #CVE_2024_11053 as #CVSS v3 Base Score 9.1 "critical". This is wrong, and will lead to automation triggering unnecessary warnings and blocking use of perfectly fine systems until an update is installed (which can take months). https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11053

#Music #Electronics

Holy shit.

The Russian gov send in an abuse request for the @Bellingcat to be removed from mstdn.social

I am not gonna comply, and have replied to Hetzner

No way I'm gonna let the evils of the gremlin dictate stuff on anything I host

UPDATE: Hetzner ignores their requests and we're in the clear: https://mstdn.social/@stux/113662573364116275

A few weeks ago I bought my first iPod. It's a Classic 5 / 5.5 that has seen better days over it's 19 year life
Features include a battery that will last up to 30 mins. A damaged screen with an interesting black blob in the middle and a 30GB spinning hard disc.
But it does work. And can be repairs and bought up to date.

A thread...

New #PEsieve
& #HollowsHunter (v0.4.0) are released: https://github.com/hasherezade/pe-sieve/releases & https://github.com/hasherezade/hollows_hunter/releases - A lot has changed in the new version, check it out!

There's magic in listening to people talk about things they've done for a very long time.

Microsoft just released a tool that lets you convert Office files to Markdown. Never thought I'd see the day.

Google also added Markdown export to Google Docs a few months ago.

https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

Kinda curious why the EU isn't bringing the hammer down on Microsoft with its Windows 10 end of life bullcrap. You'd think they wouldn't like the idea of a bad MS policy creating tons of e-waste and security issues for Europeans for no reason and tell MS that no, actually, they'll continue rolling out Windows 10 security updates in the EU free of charge OR make it so "incompatible devices" are made compatible

Reminder: infosec.exchange is about to be rebooted and will be unavailable for about 10 minutes at the top of the hour.

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment: Suchir Balaji, 26, claimed the company broke copyright law. Balaji helped gather and organize the enormous amounts of internet data used to train the startup’s ChatGPT chatbot. Information he held was expected to play a key part in lawsuits against the OpenAI https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/openai-whistleblower-found-dead-in-san-francisco-apartment/

🟠 "Pwned", The Book, Is Now Available for Free
by @troyhunt
In PDF & EPUB formats.

#TroyHunt #Pwned #freeEbook

https://www.troyhunt.com/pwned-the-book-is-now-available-for-free/