In 2022, Tom Lehrer released all his songs, lyrics and works to the public domain, an amazing move. While checking on the site, I found out he silently released more material in September of 2023 - a DAT tape of his work with an orchestra and some solo piano takes that are not elsewhere. If you're a Lehrer fan, quite a surprise.
We are happy to tell you that we accept your proposal "Broom not included: curling the modern way" in the Network devroom at #FOSDEM 2024.
It looks like I will blab at FOSDEM again.
"In this vulnerability disclosure report, we discuss details of 5Ghoul – a family of implementation-level 5G vulnerabilities. Such a family of vulnerabilities are present in the firmware implementation of 5G mobile network modems from major chipset vendors i.e., Qualcomm and MediaTek. Consequently, many 5G-capable commercial products such as smartphones, Customer-premises Equipment (CPE) routers and USB modems are potentially impacted due to the employment of vulnerable 5G modems in such products."
https://asset-group.github.io/disclosures/5ghoul/
I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.
We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parti
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You probably never figured the Caribbean island of Anguilla would be a hotbed of AI activity, but here we are. One of the more interesting press releases I received this morning:
"Due to the rise in popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI), .ai domain registration figures have skyrocketed. The small island of Anguilla, whose government owns the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .ai, has had a huge spell of luck after reaping significant profits amid this tech-driven trend."
"Anguilla’s government is earning around $3 million every month from registrations, which has almost surpassed the revenue generated from all goods and services, from all of their shops and restaurants each month of the year so far. Should this trend persist, projections suggest a potential additional revenue of up to $45 million by the end of 2024."
"Although this presents a significant opportunity for a tiny island of only 16,000 inhabitants, such reliance on a single revenue stream poses potential risks to the nation’s economic prospects."
Always amazes me to find quotes like this one from a coder like Dan Scott: "While I was learning and coding, I was always in awe of the crackers. Cracking encrypted code, rearranging disk Content to find space for a cracktro, one filing games, squeezing 2 disk games onto 1 disk etc.. Seemed like voodoo to me" (https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=1657173#post1657173)
@pancake I think the main problem currently is that no original ideas comes from the "AI", but once you give it an original idea it can elaborate further.
In there lies another problem (unless you run the AI locally); should you share original ideas with a for profit AI service which has questionable privacy policy at best? In the case of ChatGPT this could potentially mean Microsoft patents your own ideas before you have chance to do so.
@pancake I think you did it right.
Did you know that there is full coverage of the C radare2 api for Rust and Python autogenerated with bindgen and ctypeslib respectively? It’s not idiomatic and certainly needs some maintainance and cosmetic work but the hard part is done. https://github.com/radareorg/radare2-bindings
"Honest Government Ad | How to rig elections"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3WTlyuhDs0
@Sophistifunk Remain skeptical, always.
@MikeDunnAuthor I was wondering, because they seem to be excused somehow, so here's hoping this genie includes all of them.
@MikeDunnAuthor Does it include Ukraine?
The #OPLArchive is my project to preserve the history of DOS-based chiptune music in a central location, using the universal VGM file format. I'm trying to find and add as many songs as I can. Check it out at https://opl.wafflenet.com - You can even listen in your browser! #YM3812 #YMF262
You can learn how to use radius2 by checking the new repository collecting several usage examples! By @alkali https://github.com/aemmitt-ns/radius2-examples
@campuscodi @pancake I was about leave Twitter at one point, but after deep diving into The Twitter Files as the information was leaked (not the "curated" version currently on wikipedia) it became clear to me that it probably can't get any worse. I'm a hardcore believer of free speech even when it means the people I dislike the most are onboard.
@lauren The Twitter Files.
-"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..."