November 3, 2022

Benedict Evans @benedictevans

I wrote something new: Ways to think about a 'metaverse'. What does anyone mean when they say that, and what might happen next? And where are we with VR? ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…

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Exploiting static site generators.

https://blog.assetnote.io/2022/10/28/exploiting-static-site-generators/

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Thái "thaidn" Dương @XorNinja

You see confusion, chaos and bad management. I see 5 promotions. Congratulations!

Tom Gara @tomgara

It’s pretty simple: Google Meet (original) was previously Meet, which was the rebranded Hangouts Meet. Meet has been merged with Google Duo, which replaced Google Hangouts. Google Duo has been renamed Meet, and Meet has been temporarily named Google Meet (original), for clarity https://t.co/Wa3wkj5nqE

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ᴉpᴉǝH 🐐💕 @summer__heidi

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Military Pigeons @MilitaryPigeons

Pigeons in the Roman Military: Siege of Mutina (43 B.C.)

pigeonsofwar.wordpress.comPigeons in the Roman Military: The Siege of Mutina (44-43 B.C.)At its peak, the military of Ancient Rome was without peer. Enterprising commanders developed advanced weaponry, employed innovative strategies on the battlefield, and implemented incredible …

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Quite Interesting @qikipedia

A popular textbook on statistical mechanics begins as follows:

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techdirt @techdirt

Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve

techdirt.comHey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning CurveIt’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up, insist that they’re the “platform for free speech” without quite understanding what that actua…

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Mike Dank @Famicoman

Found this video on Youtube, "Underground Fone Phreaking" (1990) starring Milo Fonbil and distributed by Alternative Inphormation. Covers blue boxes, red boxes, and other phreaking hardware/software. youtube.com/watch?v=nls9nZ… Mirrored on IA here, archive.org/details/underg…

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The Lost Supper 📘 @lostsupper

We succeeded in recreating a Neolithic flatbread! This is about as close as I can figure out how to make bread as it would have been baked in one of the first daily bread-making cultures, ca. 9,000 years ago. I’ll let you judge the authenticity…but the taste is fantastic.

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranmartinoxf

Important & very good paper on the cyber dimension of the Russia/Ukraine war by my former GCHQ colleague Marcus Willett, now @IISS_org . Big contribution to the debate.

iiss.orgThe Cyber Dimension of the Russia–Ukraine WarAlthough the Russia–Ukraine war of 2022 has raised questions about the utility of cyber operations in war, it still provides valuable insight into what the cyber dimension of a modern war might look like | Read the free article from the October–November 2022 issue of Survival: Global Politics and St…

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Patrick Gray @riskybusiness

I did so much research on grain supply chains helping @DAlperovitch prepare his podcast on wheat security that I was getting farm machinery ads for months. Back to creepy defence contractor advertising now… but this is good news! https://t.co/lWiAIfTE5R

Javier Blas @JavierBlas

The price of the world's two main food staples (🌾wheat and 🍚rice) is today roughly the same as it was in Nov 2021, well before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Both wheat and rice are also today **lower** than they were 10 years ago | #OATT

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badidea 🪐 @0xabad1dea

so some dread prophecy is 100% about to come to pass, right?

MyOutdoors @MyOutdoors

Magnetic north, true north and grid north align over Great Britain for the first time in history via @OrdnanceSurvey https://t.co/GoJajSN7lc https://t.co/723HIs4ZqV

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Alexander Tarasikov @astarasikov

I looked into this. It seems that even though there exists a fuzz testing harness for X.509 and it's used by both devs and OSS-Fuzz, it does not cover a large portion of parsing code because it does not invoke X509_verify_cert. Time to inspect coverage :( allsoftwaresucks.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-cv…

hanno💉💉💉💉 @hanno

I have a question: Why was this not found before they put that code into a release? #OpenSSL https://t.co/AJtlenD5Li

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik

Current quantum computers, like those in IBM Q cloud, leak information. IBM Q found to be vulnerable to information leaks. Directly: quantum computers already have security vulns in them! They’re getting hacked. First example of a hacked quantum computer? That was fast. Congrats!

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Emilien Socchi @emiliensocchi

How a simple web-app assessment lead to complete #AzureAd tenant takeover 🤯 🧵 👇 #Azure #AzureKubernetesService #aks #Kubernetes #KubernetesSecurity #k8s #bugbounty #bugbountytips #bugbountytip #DevSecOps

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Brendan Nyhan @BrendanNyhan

How Birdwatch works (cc: everyone mischaracterizing it since Musk took over the platform) arxiv.org/pdf/2210.15723…

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Runa Sandvik @runasand

If you missed my virtual presentation at @umichTECH last week, along with an excellent conversation with @elodievialle, you can now check out the recording here.

youtube.comU-M SUMIT 2022: Adventures in Securing At-Risk People with Runa Sandvik and Elodie VialleWatch a recording of the Security at University of Michigan IT (SUMIT) symposium keynote event, Adventures in Securing At-Risk People. Hear from Runa Sandvik...

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European ALMA Regional Centre @EsoARC

Sadly, this means that astronomic observations with ALMA are currently suspended. "ALMA Services Affected by Cyberattack":

bit.lyALMA Services Affected by Cyberattack

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John Bull @garius

One of the things I occasionally get paid to do by companies/execs is to tell them why everything seemed to SUDDENLY go wrong, and subs/readers dropped like a stone. So, with everything going on at Twitter rn, time for a thread about the Trust Thermocline /1

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