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January 12, 2024

January 12, 2024

January 12, 2024

Holy cow! New debugger just dropped 👀!https://t.co/AwHhxEPQdp

— j j (@mistymntncop) January 12, 2024


I threw together a quick blog post explaining the recent attack on AirDrop privacy, and how Chinese law enforcement is exploiting it. https://t.co/TXlS53LxV2

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) January 11, 2024

The technical details here are pretty simple. What’s interesting is the political dimension: does Apple plan to repair this issue now that it’s being exploited by Chinese security agencies?

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) January 11, 2024


BREAKING: Google formally endorses right to repair and is set to lobby to pass a strong right to repair law in Oregon. Says parts pairing (done by Apple) should be illegalhttps://t.co/6QDaF1ihAY

— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) January 11, 2024


High-Throughput, Formal-Methods-Assisted Fuzzing for LLVM
Yuyou Fan (@YuyouF) and John Regehr  (https://t.co/iAh7YABHxj)https://t.co/ad6X09cz3v
2024 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (@CGOconf)#LLVM #CGO24 pic.twitter.com/9kqJ1IWT1U

— Matt (@matt_dz) January 11, 2024


🧵 below w/ additional advice regarding our blog post yesterday covering the Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerabilities we discovered being exploited ITW at one of our customers:
https://t.co/ZXfVZ8bsci#dfir #infosecurity #ThreatIntelligence

— 5ck (@5ck) January 11, 2024

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@5ck: 🧵 below w/ additional advice regarding our blog post yesterday covering the Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerabilities we discovered being exploited ITW at one of our customers: #dfir #infosecurity #ThreatIntelligen...…


In December, in macOS Sonoma, Apple fixed 15 video decoding vulnerabilities I reported. This is how these issues were found: https://t.co/7r5unShLCp

— Ivan Fratric 💙💛 (@ifsecure) January 11, 2024

Also note that these issues were fixed in macOS Sonoma *only*, meaning that the macOS (and especially Intel-based macOS) users on Ventura and possibly Monterey are still vulnerable. https://t.co/s9Fjqh4rko

— Ivan Fratric 💙💛 (@ifsecure) January 11, 2024


For the Floating Point nuts amongst us, BFloat16 & its invention* by google is being challenged in a patent dispute.

Ramifications could include sunsetting of Google TPUs, but also the use of Bfloat16 & Bfloat like types in other devices, including:
GPUs, CPUs, AI accelerators https://t.co/UQPuBLVX72

— non commutative math enjoyer (@FelixCLC_) January 11, 2024

Google's TPUs could end up costing it a billion-plus, thanks to this patent challenge https://t.co/JN1mXVJlpR

— The Register (@TheRegister) January 10, 2024


pic.twitter.com/sjG5SsdxRi

— cts🌸 (@gf_256) January 12, 2024


Expand your research capabilities with newest update for Open Source Surveillance. Now you can access data on Airbnb guests, Strava athletes, VKontakte users, and other social media. Choose from over 30 modules including Craigslist, Ticketmaster, Nextdoor, Zillow, and more… pic.twitter.com/mm3cNeCL0U

— Offensive OSINT (@the_wojciech) January 11, 2024


country music by men: I love my tractor and beer and my pretty little lady

country music by women: I am about to commit A Crime and it’s probably Murdering My Husband

— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) January 11, 2024

how can you say you don’t like country music when it’s given us some of our most unhinged girl power anthems pic.twitter.com/8eDnVdmxzF

— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) January 11, 2024

Here’s the three songs, in ranked order of how good I think they are.


What eBay did is just totally bananas. https://t.co/N0at0KB2Ba pic.twitter.com/3qMvejEbb3

— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) January 12, 2024


This it the superintelligence that I’m told will kill us all within the next 5 years pic.twitter.com/hPrOLBlU0B

— jolly jim 🎅 (@importancatpete) January 10, 2024

this is incredible lol pic.twitter.com/wQ6hFtfRwR

— sorrel (@sorrelquest) January 11, 2024

GPT4 is no better lol pic.twitter.com/O7bIFE5php

— Larry Engineer (@larry0x) January 11, 2024


My only opinion of tucked-in wool sweaters is that they remind me of my first job, where I worked as an after-school chess instructor for kids ages 8 through 12. On the first day, I was being trained by someone who tucked in their wool sweater.

This person showed me how to lead… https://t.co/Rv0tsLwule

— derek guy (@dieworkwear) January 12, 2024

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