modrobert @modrobert@qoto.org

X, formerly known as Twitter, has automatically activated a setting that allows the company to train its Grok AI on users’ posts.

X enabled the new setting by default.

The good news is that you can switch it off and also delete your conversation history with the AI.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/26/heres-how-to-disable-x-twitter-from-using-your-data-to-train-its-grok-ai/

Quantum computers are the coolest ones! Literally

I drew my #retrogaming journey

#mastoart #art #drawing #comic

Either I am moving all the computer Shoppers to the new office, or I have finally, finally moved into cocaine

Materialism: buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people that don't matter. -- Robert Quillen

CrowdStrike deserves a pwnie award for inventing the reverse ransomware scheme. First you pay them a ransom then they break your IT department. You may not like it but this is what optimal disruption looks like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2024_global_cyber_outages#India

#Crowdstrike
#Wikipedia

Happy Crowdstrike outage day to all who celebrate

Heads up new OpenSSH (sshd) security bug only exists in RHEL 9 and friends. OpenSSH bug leaves RHEL 9 and the RHELatives vulnerable https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/11/openssh_bug_in_rhel_9/ #linux

I permanently switched away from #intel CPUs back when I had a C2000 board self-destruct due to CPU degradation fault (*) - now 13900K/14900K CPUs are developing issues en masse. Intel has acknowledged the issue but has been unable to give proper explanation for it. So far these issues has mostly been raised by individual end users but it seems this is likely to change as it appears that large hosting companies using these CPUs appear to be affected as well. #Level1Techs and #GamersNexus are hinting on the issue being far more widespread than initially believed and not a result of running the chips near or over the recommended power limits. GN video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAE4NWoyMZk

*) https://www.anandtech.com/show/11110/semi-critical-intel-atom-c2000-flaw-discovered

CVE-2024-5535 is an #OpenSSL problem that cannot be triggered by #curl

OpenSSL calls it it a low severity flaw. https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html

GitHub lists is as "critical" at 9.1 out of 10: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4fc7-mvrr-wv2c

At Sommarhack this weekend we somehow managed to win the zero bitplane competition with this contribution: https://youtu.be/QlbSEDq6Cno?si=sdocBAN_f3ZRj5fV

We just barely managed to get a higher score than SMFX with this demo, which in my opinion is more technically impressive: https://youtu.be/z2Ke-Irp7U8?si=fiBT7UXIl24bpIsa

The rules for the competition was that the demo should run on an Atari ST and should never display any graphics on the bitmap, and the only way you are allowed to display anything on the screen is by changing the background colour at precise times.

#atari #atarist #retrocomputing #demoscene

📚The r2book is getting updated with new contents and better organization. Check out the new chapters on r2con, r2wars, r2frida, r2pipe, r2js scripting and the revamped project introduction and help us by following the new contribution guidelines! https://book.rada.re

The death of public jailbreaks and the inability for Apple to let go of their control over their customers’s devices is an ongoing vulnerability that will be (or has been, even) getting people killed. I’m sure the ‘DMA bad’ peeps will find ways to spin or flat out ignore this.
https://infosec.exchange/@lorenzofb/112752391329610950

Lock up your computers and hide your software. A new version of SERV has been seen roaming the streets. https://blog.award-winning.me/2024/07/serv-13.html