Honestly, WTF Microsoft. https://hawktrace.com/blog/CVE-2025-59287

ICYMI (story broke late Friday evening): A judge has ordered NSO Group to stop targeting WhatsApp users.

At the same time the judge reduced the damages the spyware maker had to pay to WhatsApp from $167 million to $4M, becasue there was no evidence NSO’s behavior was “particularly egregious."

http://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/spyware-maker-nso-group-blocked-from-whatsapp/

nl-laundry-1 still meeting its nine fives sla this morning.

💚 my IRC runs without US-EAST-1 💚

"Unavailability Zones"

digital signatures per saxophone

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

Today is "reminder they use AWS US-EAST-1" day.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

"Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTtMCoJrGxk this is incredible

TL;DW they didn't get it 100% right and there's some mistakes and several anachronisms in there, but overall, holy shit

How to design a GDPR-compliant cookie banner:

1. Have a 'reject all' button that is as easy to press as the buttons that grant consent.
2. Test your site with no consent for user tracking.
3. Realise that all of the tracking bits are unrelated to site functionality.
4. Remove them.
5. Remove the cookie banner.

When a cookies banner tells you truth 😅

Taken from this page https://vibe-coded.lol

🪟 Calling all Windows experts!

Hack.​lu CTF 2025 (http://flu.xxx) has a great Windows kernel exploitation challenge, sponsored by @binary_gecko. And the best thing about it? Solving it can earn you a ticket for @offensive_con 2026!

🧵⬇️

And hey, since the weather is absolutely abysmal today, I will treat you to another die shot as an extension of #nakeddiefriday.

This is КР1810ВМ86, an otherwise identical clone of Intel 8086 made by Soviets at an unknown plant.

The 8086 was extensively reverse-engineered by @kenshirriff -- give his blog a read!

SiPron page: https://siliconprawn.org/archive/doku.php?id=infosecdj:unknown:kr1810vm86

#electronics #reverseengineering #icre

Something that I love about technology is that it often used in new, unexpected, and delightful ways.

While @mattgodbolt created @compiler_explorer to better understand whether features could be used given his constraints at $work [0], it has since found many new use cases.

Matt used it to teach us what compilers do [1, 2] and @lefticus used it to introduce Stack Usage [3].

[0] https://xania.org/202206/happy-birthday-ce

[1] https://youtu.be/bSkpMdDe4g4

[2] https://youtu.be/nAbCKa0FzjQ

[3] https://youtu.be/kXe-YkJ9nBs