Here is a sad (and somewhat pathetic, I guess) fact: The new Firefox "smart window" (which is an LLM-based browser), doesn't even use a local or open model, it's literally just Google's models run via their API

Full-Blown Cross-Assembler…in a Bash Script

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/06/full-blown-cross-assembler-in-a-bash-script/

PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.

[RSS] Django SQL Injection in RasterField lookup (CVE-2026-1207)

https://vulnerabletarget.com/VT-2026-1207

New Project Zero issue:

Samsung: QuramDng Warp opcodes out-of-bounds read

https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/462544562

CVE-2026-20973

[RSS] CVE-2025-6978: Arbitrary Code Execution in the Arista NG Firewall

https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2026/2/4/cve-2025-6978-arbitrary-code-execution-in-the-arista-ng-firewall

When a piece of type gets damaged, it's like a fingerprint that can be used to tie all the work of a printer together, whether or not their name appears on the title page. The Catalog of Distinctive Type is building a database of these fingerprints for Restoration England. https://cdt.library.cmu.edu/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@albinowax/116018773839725691

I'm happy to be on the TOP 10 list for the second time, this time with the fun SOAP stuff.

I'm even more happy to see ORM research in 2nd place. I saw it live during BHEU and it was awesome 🤟

The path to #pwning the PS VR2 (part 1) - "Recovery mode" <- yet another case study on how assumptions should always be checked in practice 🤷

https://bnuuy.solutions/2026/02/01/ps-vr2-recovery-mode.html

Electronic Waste Graveyard Immortalizes Dead Electronics

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/05/electronic-waste-graveyard-immortalizes-dead-electronics/

A good blog about computer viruses in Soviet times, the KGB and computer security in the USSR.
#hacking #history
https://fromcyberia.substack.com/p/how-the-kgb-discovered-computer-viruses

🚨 New advisory was just published!

A flaw that exists within the handling of sch_cake can allow a local user under the CentOS 9 operating system to trigger an use-after-free. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of root. This vulnerability won first place in the Linux category during the TyphoonPWN 2025 event: https://ssd-disclosure.com/linux-kernel-net-sched-cake-qdisc-use-after-free-lpe/

https://www.c0t0d0s0.org/blog/tarxpathology.html

I sat through way too many #pentest interviews where the candidates had no clue about the fundamentals of web security, like the Same-Origin Policy.

If you want to make a career of finding flaws in (web)apps, do yourself a favor and read @b0rk's HTTP zine:

https://wizardzines.com/comics/same-origin-policy/

While waiting for the upcoming release of #IDAPro 9.3 by @HexRaysSA, I have made some updates and bug fixes to my idalib-based headless IDA #plugins rhabdomancer, haruspex, and augur.

Check out the changelogs for all the details and enjoy!

https://hnsecurity.it/blog/streamlining-vulnerability-research-with-the-idalib-rust-bindings-for-ida-9-2/

High level diff of iOS 26.3 beta3 vs. iOS 26.3 RC 🎉

https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw-diffs/blob/main/26_3_23D5114d__vs_26_3_23D125/README.md

TIL In #Proxmox when you *move* a disk, the original one doesn't get deleted but remains attached to the VM as "unused". Space gets only freed up in the original storage when you remove it from the VM.

#ProTip

It seems Windows can't even launch its terminal properly, this issue is open for >5 years:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/4750

4 February 1917 | A Polish Jewish dancer Franciszka Mann was born. She was most probably the woman who on 23 October 1943, inside the undressing room of gas chamber II at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, seized SS man Josef Schillinger’s pistol, shot him & wounded SS man Wilhelm Emmerich.
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A podcast about this and other cases of resistance at Auschwitz: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/education/e-learning/podcast/different-cases-of-organized-resistance-at-auschwitz/