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Here's the paywall-free version of today's insane must-read: The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a Signal chat including SECDEF, VPOTUS, and others that discussed the Houthi strikes. In addition to being illegal, it's just dumb. A foreign adversary's dream come true
current status: scrawling "FUN JIT COMPILER PROBLEM" in sharpie on a big cardboard box, then putting it on my front lawn and seeing who jumps into it
DNA-Testing Firm 23andMe Files for Bankruptcy https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/24/0517231/dna-testing-firm-23andme-files-for-bankruptcy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
If you are trying to delete your 23andMe data and get an obnoxious reply asking for ID, tell them no, that's what your password is for, and they will do it. And if they then send you an obnoxious reply saying they will delete everything except the stuff they are required to keep by law, check out this article by actual lawyer @AugustB
TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly:
Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time!
We’re adding a new section to @elastic’s HackerOne Bounty Program! Today, we’re opening our SIEM and EDR rules for testing. We’re excited to have another way to thank our community for their efforts on our #detectionengineering. Get more details here: https://go.es.io/4hdKQCI
Project: openssl-static-gcc-dwarf 3.4.0
File: openssl
Address: 0088b2e0
mallopt
SVG:
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Cloudflare is now offering a feature called “AI labyrinth” where it serves a series of AI generated pages to AI crawlers that ignore robots.txt directives.
They’re essentially serving AI slop to AI crawlers that are training off of a website’s content without permission.
Deliciously devious. 😈
does anyone happen to know a processor with 28-bit instructions?
Wrote up a note on how the recent Next.js middleware vulnerability works https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/23/