NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/
The Citizen Lab
BLASTPASS
Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices. We…
Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.article
Chemistry World
Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
Find could point to new ways to prospect for material in high demand for batteries.
Nginx Unit – Universal web app server https://github.com/nginx/unit
GitHub
GitHub - nginx/unit: NGINX Unit - universal web app server - a lightweight and versatile open source server that simplifies the…
NGINX Unit - universal web app server - a lightweight and versatile open source server that simplifies the application stack by natively executing application code across eight different programmin...
Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230911-00/?p=108749
Microsoft News
Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
The common pattern of trying to delete yourself.
Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/09/13/the-million-dollar-reporter
Meduza
The million-dollar reporter
The public has known for years that governments around the world use software developed by an Israeli cyber-arms company to spy on journalists, opposition politicians, and activists. Investigative journalists published a series of bombshell reports in July…
Don’t mess with a genius (2010) https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/dont-mess-with-a-genius/
The Lumber Room
Don’t mess with a genius
Or: What happens when Newton’s laws are violated (Note in case you see ads here: This post is also available at my newer blog.) Recently, I read a book called Newton and the Counterfeiter, su…
How FoundationDB works and why it works (2021) https://blog.the-pans.com/notes-on-the-foundationdb-paper/
Lu’s blog
How FoundationDB works and why it works
FoundationDB is a very impressive database. Its paper won the best industry paper award in SIGMOD’21. In this post, I will explain, in detail, how FDB works and discuss a few very interesting design choices they made. It’s a dense paper packed with neat ideas.…
OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era https://www.openra.net/
www.openra.net
Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/humour/carproblems.txt
Cisco Acquires Splunk https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/leadership/splunk-and-cisco-unite-to-accelerate-digital-resilience-as-one-of-the-leading-global-software-companies.html
Splunk
Splunk and Cisco Unite To Accelerate Digital Resilience as One of the Leading Global Software Companies | Splunk
Splunk is taking the next step in our journey to realize our vision for the future of security and observability by joining forces with Cisco.
The WebP 0day https://blog.isosceles.com/the-webp-0day/
Isosceles Blog
The WebP 0day
Early last week, Google released a new stable update for Chrome. The update included a single security fix that was reported by Apple's Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) team. The issue, CVE-2023-4863, was a heap buffer overflow in the WebP image…
A hacker's guide to language models [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkrNMKz9pWU
YouTube
A Hackers' Guide to Language Models
In this deeply informative video, Jeremy Howard, co-founder of fast.ai and creator of the ULMFiT approach on which all modern language models (LMs) are based, takes you on a comprehensive journey through the fascinating landscape of LMs. Starting with the…
Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem https://jenson.org/text/
An analysis of the Google antitrust trial https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-to-hide-a-2-trillion-antitrust
Thebignewsletter
How to Hide a $2 Trillion Antitrust Trial
We did an analysis of the Google antitrust trial. Last week, over half of the trial was held behind closed doors because the judge, Amit Mehta, is deferring to Google on the need for secrecy.
A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2023/05/a-journey-into-the-shaken-baby-syndrome-abusive-head-trauma-controversy/
Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press - The Official Blog of Cambridge University Press
A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy - Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is publishing a textbook I have co-edited with five colleagues, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Investigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy, by Findley et al. With contributions by 32 authors, this book provides a thorough analysis…