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🇪🇺 | 👽 #cybersecurity #reversing #DFIR | he/him | RT: either endorsement, or it's just... interesting 🤷 | https://medium.com/@od8086

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Utamu@utamu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"A.I.’s common sense may still be lacking. Anuradha Weeraman, software engineer, noticed A.I. systems struggled to answer a trick question most people would find laughably simple. When he told chatbots he needed to take his car to a repair shop 50 meters away the, bots said walk."

Grace@gracekind.net · 6mo ago

Software engineers: “my occupation used to be associated with intelligence, but now a computer can do it” Chess players:

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Bob Pony@bobpony.com · 2mo ago

Microsoft's OWN software included with Windows, the Remote Desktop Connection client application in the latest Windows 11 Insider Experimental Canary Build 29613 as of this posting, still reports as "Windows 10" for the local OS under Client details even though Windows 11 has been out for 5 years! 🫠

Screenshot of the Remote Desktop Connection information dialog, under Client details, it says Local OS Windows 10 IoT Enterprise x64 (10.0, Build 29613).
Ken Shirriff@righto.com · 2mo ago

The Space Shuttle could hold a flying laboratory called Spacelab in its cargo bay. Three French-made computers ran Spacelab. I opened up a Spacelab computer and found that instead of a microprocessor, it is built from a multitude of simple chips. Let's take a closer look at the computer...

The computer is a shiny metal box, roughly the size of a toaster oven. It has two handles on the front, as well as six round military-style connectors. The computer is labeled "cimsa", the manufacturer. I took the top of the computer, so you can see the 36 circuit boards inside. The photo shows a close-up of one of the circuit boards. The board contains 28 rectangular integrated circuits. Three of the integrated circuits are much larger than the others.
Ken Shirriff@righto.com · 2mo ago

In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to be faster for spreadsheets or CAD, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point chip. Internally, the chip runs special code called microcode. We opened the chip, extracted the microcode, and are figuring out how it works. 1/n

The 8087 chip is a black rectangle with 40 metal pins along its long sides. This package is known as a DIP (dual inline package). Unlike modern chips, this chip is a ceramic package. Text on the chip includes "D8087-1" "Intel copyright 1980 1984"/
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2mo ago

Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.

Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity

Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit.

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Hacker News 50@betterhn50.e-work.xyz · 4mo ago

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux https://social.hails.org/@hailey/116446826733136456 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861270)

Hailey (@hailey@hails.org)

Attached: 1 image With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. And unlike modern WSL, no hardware virtualisation is used so even your 486 can run it! Please enjoy, I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

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Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 4mo ago

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years. That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines

The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.

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Armin Ronacher@mitsuhiko.at · 5mo ago

We have been here before though in a way. Rob Landley who maintained Busybox for years, started Toybox precisely to change the license away from GPL. It also triggered a lot of very similar comments and emotions. See lwn.net/Articles/478... bsky.app/profile/mits...

Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Matthew Garrett has posted a complaint about an attempt to create a permissively-licensed busyb [...]

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Armin Ronacher@mitsuhiko.at · 5mo ago

chardet was vipeforked to MIT and I have thoughts about it. Spoiler: I like it. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/5/the...