Halo games from now on will be developed on Unreal Engine:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FDgR1FRJnF8 #UE5 #UnrealEngine

Can You Get Root with Only a Cigarette Lighter?
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The wayback machine has been compromised.

See you all in HIBP!

Note:

Final update and confirmations:

The compromise has been confirmed via BleepinComputer and TroyHunt. 31,000,000 users impacted. There is no confirmed information on how the site was compromised. No Threat Actor(s) have been attributed to the compromise. More information is available on their respective social media platforms. More information will probably become available in the following hours or days.

Unrelated to the defacement and compromise, Sn_darkmeta claims to have been DDoSing Internet Archive. They state they're DDoSing the website because the United States government supports Israel and The Internet Archive belongs (?) to the United States.

https://x.com/internetarchive/status/1844134181451989331

https://x.com/haveibeenpwned/status/1844146274758689206


The site is under DDoS and also faced security breach losing data of 31 million users. The source of the breach is an outdated #JavaScript library

Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency
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Next.js, Just Why?
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1 Bug, $50k how Zendesk left a backdoor in Fortune 500 companies
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Zendesk is a customer service tool used by some of the world’s top companies. It’s easy to set up: you link it to your company’s support email (like support@company.com), and Zendesk starts managing incoming emails and creating tickets. You can handle these tickets yourself or have a support team do it for you. Zendesk is a billion-dollar company, trusted by big names like Cloudflare.

Playable Counter-Strike Diffusion World Model (trained on 2x4090, 5M frames)
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We train a diffusion model to predict the next frame of the game. The diffusion model takes into account the agent’s action and the previous frames to simulate the environment response.

> we got AI real time generated games before gta6

git can be extremely dumb sometimes

Yesterday Chinese researchers from Shanghai University unveiled a technique to defeat RSA and AES encryption using Quantum Computing.

The paper titled: "Quantum Annealing Public Key Cryptographic Attack Algorithm Based on D-Wave Advantage", is in Mandarin and has lots of maths

“Using the D-Wave Advantage, we successfully factored a 22-bit RSA integer, demonstrating the potential for quantum machines to tackle cryptographic problems,” the researchers wrote in the paper.

You can either read what other journalists wrote, or you can try to read it yourself.

The original paper: http://cjc.ict.ac.cn/online/onlinepaper/wc-202458160402.pdf

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SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027
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MP3 to EXE (1999) (yeah, it's funny at 2024😂)
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The idea is to enable songs to be distributed with no concern whether the recipient will have an MP3 player installed (which was a valid concern in the late nineties. Certainly not a concern anymore for any modern operating system).