I’ve been working with computers for five decades. Some people view me as an “expert” in certain subjects.
And I can tell you that when I am learning a new technology I still feel like the dumbest newb on the planet. I make tons of mistakes. I go down stupid rabbit holes of my own making. I have tons of self doubt.
So give yourself some grace. Everybody goes through this phase. Take a deep breath. Believe that you can do this.
Apple SEAR is hiring an offensive security researcher focused on wireless security!
We're looking for talented researchers to help find and exploit vulnerabilities across wireless technologies.
If you love digging into wireless stacks and
CVE-2025-45422: Proximus b-box UPnP Persistence & Access Control Bypass https://github.com/Cedrico03/CVE-2025-45422---Bbox
GET IT HERE https://github.com/shibco/ableton-linux/
So
after 14 months(?) of work
and a lot of frustration
barely knowing what i was doing
i think i made someting special (!)
presenting:
a Wine fork
for Ableton Live 12
on Linux
stable
pixel perfect
vst support
1st class gnome citizen
device hotwire support
low latency audio
tell ur friends 🥹🥹
Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator - https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/avalanche/
Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
Meta faces $1.4 trillion in damages for hooking kids on purpose. The company's market cap is $1.5 trillion. They're arguing the number is unprecedented in consumer protection history, which is technically true. It's also the first time anyone built a $1 trillion business on deliberately addicting children.
https://gizmodo.com/metas-teen-safety-case-just-became-a-1-4-trillion-existential-threat-2000782306
If you're just now hearing about GhostLock and looking to fix it, make sure you don't introduce two unpriv-reachable DoSes associated with its fixes. The fix the Linux CNA lists for CVE-2026-43499 introduces a NULL deref, which caused CVE-2026-53166 to be issued. Unfortunately...