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April 28, 2025

April 28, 2025

April 28, 2025

Microsoft Outlook is pants at usability and running a fat GUI isn’t great for security. About a year ago I went on a mission to make mutt (the CLI mail client) work in a sandbox so I could read my work Microsoft365 mail nicely and more securely. Here’s how https://github.com/singe/muttpack

— Dominic White (@singe.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T21:43:13.784Z


It's kinda been raised, but its nuts that (according to Mandiant/M-Trends) in 2025:

- vulnerabilities/exploits are the most frequently observed initial vector;

- the top 4 exploited vulns belong to security vendors.

What are we doing here? 🤯😱 pic.twitter.com/jHH3lZtYO6

— haroon meer (@haroonmeer) April 27, 2025


Build your own text editor in C (Step by Step)!

- About 1000 lines of C in one file, no dependencies needed
- Includes basic features, plus syntax highlighting and search

🔗 https://t.co/1mlTZHYMD5 pic.twitter.com/XWHorLEw4n

— trish (@_trish_xD) April 27, 2025


Major new QEMU update released. The coolest part? Paravirutalized Apple GPUs.

You can now spin up disposable macOS VMs *with* hardware acceleration.

macOS guests now expose a thin vGPU (apple-gfx-mmio).

very useful for CI, reverse engineering, gfx research, etc pic.twitter.com/PdDtlEM6Ts

— LaurieWired (@lauriewired) April 27, 2025


JEFFREY, STOP TALKING DAWG

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ pic.twitter.com/bs5PVJ2O4R

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) April 28, 2025


Goodbye grayscale: DOOM on the Atari ST, now in 16 colors with a lot of dithering. Palette effects (screen going red when taking damage) supported as well. pic.twitter.com/zb6QFiwN7r

— Jonas Eschenburg (@indyjonas) April 27, 2025


Another salvo by China at US: "cyberattack launched by US intelligence agencies against a major Chinese commercial encryption provider". China is recently more vocal about cyberattacks. This is in part a new approach to public communication and information shaping. Interesting. pic.twitter.com/OcQladjVBj

— Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik) April 28, 2025


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