November 17, 2022
NEW: Facebook sent a memo to its fact-checkers this afternoon telling them if Trump announces he's running for president tonight they can no longer fact-check anything he says.
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DHS has stalled research grants to study domestic terrorism/violence. Sources say privacy concerns around the data collection are the reason, but others say it’s politics and that DHS is concerned about criticism over the studies and what they might show
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Okay, I give up. How's the NYPD paying $2M to a company registered to some guy's Brooklyn apartment when the guy says he's never heard of the company and is broke
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Don't forget, if you solve the complete #burpchallenge, you can win a free Burp Suite Certified Practitioner exam credit - giving you a novel opportunity to demonstrate your skills with the most widely used web application security testing toolkit…
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One of the things that I think is sad about the decimation of Twitter eng is that Twitter was doing a lot of interesting (and high ROI) engineering work that, at younger companies, is mostly outsourced to "the cloud" or open source projects
A few examples off the top of my head:
Dan Luu @danluu
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China has crazy quad track unmanned vehicles that are amphibious. Death robots from the sea…
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/chinas-quad-tracked-amphibious-unmanned-vehicle-is-fascinating-
Our partners @CISAgov and @FBI detail in a new Cybersecurity Advisory how suspected Iranian state-sponsored actors compromised a federal network through an unpatched VMware Horizon server. Read the advisory to learn how to detect and prevent related compromises.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency @CISAgov
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The Zambian foreign ministry says it has urgent questions for Moscow about how the 23yo nuclear engineering student ended up fighting for Russia.
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Lots of bots and such available for sale.
https://news.cybersixgill.com/twitter-has-a-massive-dark-web-problem/-
Formal monkey linguistics
Do monkeys have language? Sort of. Maybe. They can modify one call with another call. So there’s a sort of proto grammar.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/tl-2016-0001/html-
That incendiary allegation hung on the word of a single, anonymous "senior intelligence official."
My colleagues and I recently wrote/presented a paper on this very topic (I will share it when it's published), and one of our findings was that Twitter actually shapes the course and outcome of crises. It can literally mean the difference between life and death. 10/
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“Sometimes, I feel very unlucky to be Nepali.”
Nepal sent more workers to Qatar than almost any nation, their people built the World Cup. More than 2,000 returned in coffins. I went to Nepal to see just how unfettered ambition collides with dire poverty
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U.S. DOJ: Two Russian Nationals Charged with Running Massive E-Book Piracy Website (Nov 16) justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/t…
Defendants are allegedly responsible for operating Z-Library. Arrested in Argentina on 3 Nov 2022.
Indictment (.pdf, 8 pages) justice.gov/usao-edny/pres…
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Today I am releasing part 2 of my 3-part browser exploitation series on Chrome!
In part 2, we take a deep dive into the V8 compiler pipeline by understanding what happens under the hood in Ignition, Sparkplug, and TurboFan!
Enjoy!
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Super excited for this project! I love the fact that the team focuses on building things that can be used broadly with the primary attention to safety for all:
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Step aside Eskimo words for snow.
Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps
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