Remember, kids:

In proper scientific terms, an attempt to explain observable phenomena is called a "hypothesis".

It is called a "theory" when it fits all the observable facts, and there is no observable evidence to the contrary. We don't call it a "truth" because there's always a chance that it might be overturned by later evidence - but as far as science is concerned, a "theory" is as hard as it gets.

This is often confusing to people who dismiss science they don't like as "it's just a theory". But this distinction should be kept in mind when discussing things like the "Theory of Evolution", "Theory of Relativity", "Global Warming Theory", and "Dead Internet Theory".

#PSA #Evolution #GlobalWarming #DeadInternetTheory #Science #Theory

An attacker has remotely executed code through a JSON parsing library in production.

https://fearsoff.org/research/fastjson-1-2-83-rce

This unpriv-reachable vuln in the upstream 6.6 LTS was finally fixed yesterday after being publicly triggered in syzkaller over 5300 times since March when it was introduced: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3ad17e94107dda6b6b03 Since we don't ignore syzkaller results, we fixed it the day it was introduced.
https://bird.makeup/users/spendergrsec/statuses/2074499846887674260

🚨 New advisory was just published!

An independent security researcher working with SSD Secure Disclosure has identified a critical vulnerability in vBulletin that allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a remote server. The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2026-61511. Read our full advisory: https://ssd-disclosure.com/vbulletin-runtime-template-runmaths-preauth-rce/

Enterprise Role Play (ERP), sometimes also Enterprise Resource Play: A unique form of fetish role play.

Unlike more popular fantasies such as boss/secretary focused on power relationships in an office environment, in ERP the business processes themselves are central to the scenario.

ERP participants can create elaborate scenarios involving fictional purchasing departments, legal teams, contract negotiations, and more. Large group ERP scenarios sometimes even extend to the point of renting out vacant space in an office park and acquiring demo licenses of SAP or a competing software package to make the fantasy more realistic, or even traveling to a remote ERP group's dungeon to roleplay a merger or acquisition.

As with more conventional roleplays in the S&M context, consent is critical in ERP. If participants are expected to invest significant real-world money in software licenses, make sure this is agreed upon by everyone in advance. The outcome of all merger scenarios should be pre-briefed; attempted hostile takeovers of another dungeon are extremely frowned upon and can result in participants being banned from future events.

If those slop jockeys could read, they'd be very upset

EU Fines Google $1 Billion for DMA Competition Violations, Including Making Search Results More Useful
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/25/eu-fines-google-1b

I kinda wasn't expecting a multi trillion dollar industry to build its marketing campaigns on my tiny niche. Makes sense IMO, 0day have always been pretty easy and false positives don't really matter during the audits... and the entire world has been told 0day are impossible

The amount of people who aren't comfortable saying "I don't know" is staggering.

Make "I don't know" more common in y'alls vernacular. It's healthy and leads to learning new things

The PTFs for IBM i 7.6 TR2 and 7.5 TR8 are released today, Friday July 24 2026.

https://www.rpgpgm.com/2026/07/first-technology-refreshes-of-2026.html
#IBMi #rpgpgm #IBMChampion