Do they mention if the trackers were private? It’ll be interesting to see in discovery the details of the trackers and which ones are being monitored by the industry.

Funny Games shouldn’t really count because it’s the same director with an actual budget to do what he wanted to do in the first place.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

It seems more likely to me that the administration and various 3 letter agencies couldn’t connect the dots with the information they had, rather than a vast conspiracy of them enabling or orchestrating the terrorist event that makes them look stupid, and then getting everyone involved to stay silent for 25+ years.

The flaw of not using HTTPS for the downloads is so basic it’s shocking they didn’t have internal tooling to raise this before it was shipped. I’m not familiar with AMD’s bug bounty policy but they should have at least paid $1337 to the researcher for raising this to them.

The place by me that does this and doesn’t require any membership fee and is fairly affordable. You walk in with your own mason jar or some canister, note the initial weight, fill up with what you want, and then at checkout do the final weigh and pay for the weight of what you filled up with.

What mental gymnastics are going on that they claim “unlawful intent” if the intent to was to stop the man from assaulting her. How is intending to stop someone from continuing a hate crime unlawful?

LLMs are just a tool, just like airplanes or hammers. An airplane is very expensive, but better at going really far distances than humans can on foot. A hammer is cheaper than a human, but by itself is useless unless operated properly. Despite the tone of the outputs, LLMs should not be authoritative and human judgement shouldn’t be replaced with them.

Just on the security side of coding, highly skilled security engineers at Mozilla were able to use Claude Mythos to identify and address many issues to make Firefox more secure. Some if these issues were introduced over 10 years ago, and a human could have identified and fixed them but human speed of reading and finding will always be a bottleneck. Having highly skilled humans offload the slow task to go through the codebase and raise issues, allowed them to find and understand the nuanced problem, and work on a fix. The key here is giving the people with the skills the ability be enhanced with LLMs, not replace them with one.

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I would never view it on company hardware

I browse on a company device and have noticed that i guess images uploaded to communities from users on instances are sometimes considered “low reputation” domains, and do get flagged as suspicious or oddly as pornography for whatever reason? Fortunately i am able to see and dismiss these in my org, and justify the usage as “cyber intelligence news gathering”

I think what the commenter is saying is if you have something running on a server on an external IP address for like a website that needs to be public, the additional risk of opening up more ports to slow down Internet scanners is not beneficial to you and not worth the risk.

If you’re deploying an raspberry pi and opening it up to the Internet, and don’t care if it crashes due to overload, thats a bit of effort and cost you incure to keep it running to be a nuisance.for Internet scanners. If you don’t have anything which needs to be publicly accessible to the Internet, the best thing you can do is not open any ports and expend no effort, so that the firewall/ NAT gateway operates in stealth mode which is does inflict some processing and time on the Internet scanner to run waiting for responses to timeout.

It’ll probably just be a nuisance for small operations and for larger botnets be a drop in the bucket or not even noticable.

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Be careful incentivizing the kids too much with the tooth fairy

Interesting bit from the court docs of how they traced it to him:

Based on cryptocurrency tracing analysis performed by FBI personnel, I have learned the following, among other things: on or about November 12, 2025, and November 13, 2025, in a total of approximately three transactions, Wallet-0xAf6 sent a total of approximately $149,980 of cryptocurrency to particular cryptocurrency swapping service (“Swapping Service- 1”).2,3 Based on documents from Swapping Service-1, I have learned that shortly after those three transactions, Swapping Service-1 sent approximately $149,980 of cryptocurrency to a particular cryptocurrency payment processor (“Payment Processor-1”). Based on documents from Payment Processor-1, I have learned that the November 12 and 13, 2025 transactions were received by account in the name of “Michele Spagnuolo,” and that an Italian Government identification card was used to open the account at Payment Processor-1. A copy of that identification card, which I have reviewed, appears to be a government identification card for MICHELE SPAGNUOLO, a/k/a “AlphaRaccoon,” the defendant.

Seems like whatever swapping service he used is what got him as he probably assumed that they wouldn’t comply with law enforcement or have detailed records.

I see, admittedly I didn’t check too closely but see what you’re saying now. I’ve had good luck with this app for tracking other BLE devices around. FWIW the MAC address filter takes a wild card value (using *), but I’m not too familiar with how the manufacturer ID and MAC address manufacturer prefix are related, if at all. Anyway, all this to say that while the NoPeek app is focused on just smart glasses, other apps exist that have similar functionality, and are easier to install.

Microsoft has been mum on any details about these matters, so it’s hard to tell if the situation is about an uncooperative researcher who doesn’t follow standard disclosure rules or a company being difficult about security reports. Regardless, the move to ban Eclipse’s GitHub account makes for poor optics, as it is being heavily criticized, and ultimately achieves nothing for security, since the code is out there anyway.

Classic Streisand effect. Just two years ago Satya Nadella publicly announced they’re prioritizing security above all else, but now have nothing to say about these exploits and are trying to silence the researcher? Viewing from the sidelines, it did seem a bit reckless how Eclipse was dropping these as zero days, but Microsoft’s actions speak louder than words and they probably didn’t pay for the bounties.

Unless you’ve committed to a 5 or 10 year CD, you probably can defer the payments or split them until the CD matures so you don’t forfeit the interest. Also, for proper CD planning, it’s probably best to use a ladder strategy where you have multiple CDs and staggered so one matures every year for you to decide if you need the cash or can reinvest it.

If you go to Radar Alerts, set the filter to use the manufacturer. The readme in OPs GitHub page lists these manufacturers: https://github.com/getnopeek/nopeek-android#️-devices-detected

I used to work with a guy that worked at Apple Computers in the 80s/90s in Japan I think when they were getting into the market there. He described an anecdote from that era where Apple had a high volume of returns and were trying to figure out why, since the hardware was functioning when it was received. Turns out most of the returns were because the coiled cable for the keyboard would get messed up and not coil properly, which was inconvenient but acceptable in the western markets, whereas in Japan that was unacceptable for the average consumer.

paw patrol is just so over stimulating with frequent cuts and it’s clearly designed to hook kids short attention spans / does not help develop longer attention spans. It’s a classic problem that kids don’t want to stop watching and have tantrums if you enforce screen time and turn it off. All of this to sell huge toys that kids think they want and will play with one time.

Also the stories are not really that great, and suck to watch as a parent. They always introduce an issue which is immediately resolved, triggering that instant gratification in your kids brain, without teaching them about conflict resolution or anything really useful. This isn’t even about the idea of Adventure Bay being a police state or promoting the privatization of communal services.

It’s an unfair comparison, but a show like Bluey has great storytelling and while not being purely educational, teaches kids how to emphasize with others and deal with conflict that isn’t easily solvable, even for adults. The music, illustrations, and stories are a work of art and a more valuable use of time than Paw Patrol.