Wikipedia turns 25 today! 🎂📚
To celebrate, we’re looking back at its baby pictures—some of the earliest captures of the site, preserved in the #WaybackMachine.
Take a nostalgic peek at early Wikipedia ⤵️
https://web.archive.org/web/20030301000000*/en.wikipedia.org
As I will be travelling starting tomorrow, I declare the #nakeddiefriday today.
Instead of going deeper into one particular die, this will be several of them but one-pagers.
This one is HV9911 by Supertex (now owned by Microchip). Those following me have probably seen the epic struggle with restoring a diving light; this one came from the LED driver chip in the light. Entirely undamaged, as far as I can tell. Of particular interest is an array of fuses in the top right corner.
let's pour one to -fbounds-safety 🔥🌸
https://tech.lgbt/@fay59/115900565326279983
Nariman Gharib, an #Iran cyber-espionage expert (on exile):
Obtained #Starlink terminal debug data from Iran during the ongoing internet shutdown.
The telemetry shows direct evidence of GPS spoofing: the dish detected 18 #GPS satellites with valid signal lock, but activated its anti-spoofing countermeasures (inhibitGps: true). This isn’t simple jamming; the government appears to be broadcasting fake GPS signals to confuse terminals.
The impact: 20%+ sustained packet loss, connection never stabilized after 24 minutes, bandwidth restricted, and beam pointing ~1° off target. Starlink stayed online but was barely usable.
The anti-spoofing detection works, but SpaceX’s fallback positioning can’t currently maintain normal performance under electronic warfare.
First documented technical evidence of state-level GPS spoofing against consumer satellite internet.
https://github.com/narimangharib/starlink-iran-gps-spoofing/blob/main/starlink-iran.md
RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/115896145424737173
As a professional source code reviewer, I gotta agree with “We cannot overstate the extent to which just reading the OpenSSL source code has become miserable.” The answer to “how does OpenSSL—” is always “I don’t know and I don’t have six months to find out.” This is not true of alternative libraries with the same functionality.
📢 LAST CALL: IDA Plugin Contest!
The submission window closes January 15, 2026 @ 11:59pm CET.
Read the entry instructions and full details here:
https://hex-rays.com/plugin-contest
Good luck!
Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Himself To Fight AI Misuse https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/14/1549211/matthew-mcconaughey-trademarks-himself-to-fight-ai-misuse?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
When IMS Associates, Inc., couldn't get their hands on an Altair 8800, they decided to make their own! How's that possible? Key technology like the S-100 bus were easy to replicate, leading to a slew of clones, like the IMSAI 8080.
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#iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorld
We are at *twenty* hackerone submissions for #curl so far this year. Zero of them a confirmed vulnerability.