Sziget Festival is going full force, LLMs produce new hits every nanosecond, but there's one thing neither of them can beat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DpG_kdtLtA

The multiverse theory - where every variation of events fork to a bazillion parallel realities - is unsettling, but it becomes nerve wrecking if you drive a car.

This is cool! https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts

It's 2026 and on Windows Server 2025, attempting to create a TLS certificate will default to a 1024 bit key and you have to find this menu and expand it to change it.

New vulnerability report from Talos:

Microsoft Windows TCPIP.SYS IppQualifyAddresses Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2026-2427

CVE-2026-49177,CVE-2026-49177

My terminal is out of black paper

Let’s call it „beg4shell“. At least now everyone can be a vulnerability researcher.

I self-host now: this account runs on my own server and my own domain, @mbr

The old instance is shutting down and the auto-migration only carried a fraction of you across. If you can read this, you're already in the right place.

Everyone else has to re-follow by hand. Please BOOST this to help me get back everyone :)

#Fediverse #SelfHosted #Mastodon #mbr #masterbootrecord

Rob Pike received the 2026 USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award! https://www.usenix.org/about/awards/flame

Git, grant me the serenity
not to stage changes that don't matter
the courage to commit those that do
and the wisdom to know the difference.

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We don't eat our own dog food because frankly it tastes like shit

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/google-ai-team-tells-job-222929935.html

Dreams don't lie, my latest documentation issue just got fixed 🤩

https://github.com/Vector35/binaryninja-api/issues/7413#event-29360967336

RE: https://infosec.place/objects/f3eee898-f8d9-45c7-bf5d-101540b3eda6

[RSS] Bypassing Android Hardware Attestation from the Analyst's Chair

http://blog.quarkslab.com/bypassing-android-hardware-attestation.html

[RSS] How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal chats

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/11/how-trail-of-bits-helps-verify-the-integrity-of-your-signal-chats/

(Re-)New Nightmare Eclipse stuff!

https://git.projectnightcrawler.dev/NightmareEclipse/ShieldBreak

Essentially RoguePlanet 2, it seems like.

#NightmareEclipse #Windows #Malware #Infosec #Microsoft

Today the solution for the Halting Problem is: It does not halt.

#fml

Discovered while doing ethnographic research for a public library district. I was touring one of their branches when this caught my attention.

It’s genius. Smartest solution I’ve seen for this common problem.

Librarians could save the world if we’d let them. 😉

#DIY #Libraries #Library #Ethnography