The Story of the SolarWinds Hack https://www.npr.org/2021/04/16/985439655/a-worst-nightmare-cyberattack-the-untold-story-of-the-solarwinds-hack
The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music https://www.vitling.xyz/toys/acid-banger/
www.vitling.xyz
vitling: The Endless Acid Banger
Algorithmic music experiement by Vitling
“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH+zwQgBBGUJdiVK@unreal/
Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
Signal
Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective
Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called “digital intelligence.” Their customer list has included…
Why Lichess will always be free https://lichess.org/blog/YF-ZORQAACAA89PI/why-lichess-will-always-be-free.
lichess.org
Why Lichess will always be free.
The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/04/23/great-malaria-vaccine-news
Science
Great Malaria Vaccine News
Excellent news today: we have word of the most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered. A year-long trial in Burkina Faso has shown 77% efficacy, which is by far the record, and which opens the way to potentially relieving a nearly incalculable burden of…
Dan Kaminsky has died https://twitter.com/marcwrogers/status/1385961838735597572
Twitter
Marc Rogers
I guess theres no hiding it now. We lost @dakami yesterday. One of the brightest lights in infosec and probably the kindest soul I knew. The vacuum he leaves behind is impossible to measure. Please keep speculation to yourself and be respectful of his family…
Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/24/pentagon-internet-address-mystery/
Google have declared Droidscript is malware https://groups.google.com/g/androidscript/c/Mbh5TZ6YYnA/m/GflwflqaDAAJ
Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died https://www.npr.org/2021/04/28/509599284/forgotten-astronaut-michael-collins-dies
Labor shortage or terrible jobs? https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-capitalism-is-broken-economy
Culture Study
The 'Capitalism is Broken' Economy
This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. Subscribers: If you haven’t activated your invitation to Sidechannel, email me for a new one!…
The compiler will optimize that away https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/the-compiler-will-optimize-that-away/
blog.royalsloth.eu
The compiler will optimize that away
Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages/
phiresky.github.io
Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages - (or IPFS or any static file hoster) - phiresky's blog
I was writing a tiny website to display statistics of how much sponsored content a Youtube creator has over time when I noticed that I often write a small tool as a website that queries some data from a database and then displays it in a graph, a table, or…
Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class https://twitter.com/EricLengyel/status/1389106103179378689
Twitter
Eric Lengyel
Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class, and there was a semester-long factorization contest that we could participate in. I implemented a distributed multiple polynomial quadratic sieve (MPQS) for the Mac, and I needed a cluster of computers to…
ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/
GitHub
GitHub - ClearURLs/Addon: ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking…
ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy. - ClearURLs/Addon
Bob Dylan lays down what killed rock n roll (2016) https://medium.com/cuepoint/like-it-is-bob-dylan-explains-what-really-killed-rock-n-roll-f6a4b6587a1a
Medium
Like It Is: Bob Dylan Explains What Really Killed Rock ’n’ Roll
And no, it wasn’t Nickleback