Lukasz Olejnik (@[email protected])

@lukOlejnik

How the KA-SAT satellite cyberattack, accompanying Russian land invasion of Ukraine, happened. 13 countries affected (and Ukraine's military, and government). "Russia was testing ability to hack and destroy satellite systems". It was easy. bloomberg.com/features/2023-…

Mar 2, 2023

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The Perry Bible Fellowship

@PBFcomics

The Myth of Sisyphus

Mar 1, 2023

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Alfredo Ortega

@ortegaalfredo

A neat way to bypass any censor rule in chatGPT without gas-lighting it: When blocked, just 'incept' the idea and ask of another thing, eventually chatGPT will break the rule for you.

Mar 1, 2023

Alfredo Ortega

@ortegaalfredo

Credits: My kid, apparently this is how they have fun with AI in high school.

Mar 1, 2023

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@[email protected]

@pwnallthethings

I mean, no shit. That's what the pentagon does. They have a lot of CONPLANs. But for a more surprising example of CONPLANs USG has done, did you know in 2011 STRATCOM did a counter-zombie one? And more impressively, it was actually serious

Mar 1, 2023

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Darren Shepherd

@ibuildthecloud

If you were like, man I miss the good old days of compiling code and then copying it over FTP to a remote server to run as CGI, then you should totally try lambda. It's like that, but way worse.

Feb 27, 2023

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c0nc0rdance

@c0nc0rdance

Let's talk about radiotrophic fungi. I want to start with the most surprising fact about them: they don't just SURVIVE in high radiation environments, they grow at *FOUR TIMES* the rate they would in background radiation. Our best guess is they're "eating" radiation.

Mar 2, 2023

c0nc0rdance

@c0nc0rdance

The key is melanin, similar to the melanin that darkens your skin & protects you from UV damage. It's a dark, high molecular weight pigment polymer, absorbing 99.9% of UV & visible light.

Mar 2, 2023

c0nc0rdance

@c0nc0rdance

Ionizing radiation beyond UV can change the electronic/chemical structure of melanin, making it act similar to chlorophyll in its ability to capture photons and generate electron gradients. SOURCE:

Ionizing Radiation Changes the Electronic Properties of Melanin and Enhances the Growth of Melanized Fungi

Melanin pigments are ubiquitous in nature. Melanized microorganisms are often the dominating species in certain extreme environments, such as soils contaminated with radionuclides, suggesting that the presence of melanin is beneficial in their life cycle. ...

Mar 2, 2023

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vx-underground

@vxunderground

Today the Russian Federation made an amendment to "Federal Law No. 149-FZ - On information, information technologies and information protection". Russia now prohibits the usage of "information exchange systems" owned by foreign entities. See attached image for list of bans.

Mar 1, 2023

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8200 fighting the good fight.

Dr. Dan Lomas

@Sandbagger_01

Reservists in elite IDF unit threaten not to serve if judicial overhaul passes

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Mar 1, 2023

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Nikolaj Schlej

@NikolajSchlej

My 2c on the #BlackLotus UEFI bootkit (thanks, @ESETresearch): - "Exploitation Less Likely" is proven wrong, hope for a new DBX revocation list. - not trusting UEFI CA saves the day yet again. - having a single NV+BS variable as a gateway to booting whatever is a bad idea.

Mar 2, 2023

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J. A. Guerrero-Saade

@juanandres_gs

Excellent research as always by our friends at ESET. This one has been lurking in the UEFI dark peering at us for some time. https://t.co/RMhsf3jlaB

Mar 1, 2023

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Juliano Rizzo

@julianor

web3 wallet signs without asking user for confirmation 🤪 at least in this case victim has to "connect" to the dapp (scan QR). Yes, we found worse cases.

Mar 1, 2023

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jericho

@attritionorg

You haven't had @defcon fun until an actual fed agrees to stage a "taking your web site operators down" photo with the group... (DEF CON memories from 2001, back when they actively monitored our defacement mirror for intel)

Mar 1, 2023

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Mikael Brockman 🥸

@meekaale

omg there was this weird issue in my Prolog program where emojis in JSON would decode incorrectly and I assumed I was doing wrong but now I tracked it down to SWI-Prolog's incorrect handling of escaped UTF-16 surrogate pairs which are valid in JSON... and I fixed it

Mar 1, 2023

apenwarr

@apenwarr

@meekaale Once again emojis serve their accidental(?) purpose of making westerners finally care about debugging Unicode. Amazing galaxy brain strategy.

Mar 2, 2023

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Daniel Cuthbert

@dcuthbert

We all know that secrets being pushed into code repos is a bad thing©, so seeing @github enable secret scanning for all repos is just brilliant. This helps so many

Mar 1, 2023