OTD 1999: #SunMicrosystems announces the Sun Ray thin client. Great blog about its development: https://marcschneider.weebly.com/sun-ray.html

How it started / How it's going

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-admits-almost-all-major-windows-11-core-features-are-broken/

#AI #Microsoft #Windows

This will probably get spread around as misinformation, because people read the titles, not the articles. So let's start with the obvious:

#Signal is secure.

Now what everyone didn't read:

> The FBI said the information came from a “sensitive source with excellent access” and introduced the report as a warning about “extremist actors targeting law enforcement officers and federal facilities”.

In other words, the FBI had an informant on the inside. AKA, "a spy".

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/fbi-signal-group-chat-immigration

not enough people are talking about this gif from the wikipedia article on the falling cat problem

Please help making #TreeSitter Playground better by doing this little experiment:

https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/7-playground.html

Write some JS, like `var x=1;`. Enable Query and provide the `(identifier) @foo` pattern in the new Query textbox.

Do you see the code highlighted? (if not, turn on Accessibility, a'la GH issue #1714)

[RSS] exploits.club Weekly(ish) Newsletter 92 - S23 N-Day PoCs, Printer Overflows, DNG OOB Writes, And More

https://blog.exploits.club/exploits-club-weekly-ish-newsletter-92-s23-n-day-pocs-printer-overflows-dng-oob-writes-and-more/

We have updated the #Pwn2Own Automotive rules to expand the target scope of the #Alpitronics category and to clarify the model of the ChargePointHome Flex model number. Check out the rules at https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/Pwn2OwnAuto2026Rules.html

CrowdStrike says it caught an insider sharing screenshots taken on internal systems with unnamed threat actors.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crowdstrike-catches-insider-feeding-information-to-hackers/

[RSS] NSO Group argues WhatsApp injunction threatens existence, future U.S. government work

https://cyberscoop.com/nso-group-whatsapp-injunction-appeal/

User-friendly GUI: please provide command line parameters in this text box!

Me, knowing that one of the characters will need escaping:

That's how I like my #Friday's: I came back from lunch and my code started working!

Time to push to prod...

[RSS] How And Why We Hacked Cypherock Hardware Wallet: The Full Story

https://www.darknavy.org/blog/how_and_why_we_hacked_cypherock_hardware_wallet_the_full_story/

"How did the U.S. government obtain LuBian%27s wallet private key?"

Love this so much. 💜

what if we just forgot about DNS and start to address everything in IPv6-l33tspeak?

#internet #infrastructure #cloudflare #microsoft #AI #aws #crowdstrike #DNS #rust #Linux

🔌 Allow us to introduce the new IDA Plugin Manager.

Now, with a few simple commands, you can access a modern, self-service plugin ecosystem. Discover and get discovered more easily.

https://hex-rays.com/blog/introducing-the-ida-plugin-manager

Genie: You have 3 wishes
Me: Can I just have -1 wish?
Genie: Okay, you have 4294967295L wishes

#microfiction

[RSS] AI Coding Vibe Check

https://tamir.dev/posts/ai-vibe-check-2025/

/by @tmr232

A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/spanish-court-orders-meta-pay-550-mln-digital-media-companies-2025-11-20/
http://www.techmeme.com/251120/p18#a251120p18