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All your .lol are belong to Google | Ars Technica
Vaguely, Google finished by saying it pursued entities the company thinks, "have interesting and creative potential, such as .lol"
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2014
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Is Joomla a sinking ship? - Ars Technica OpenForum
Joomla is like trying to teach a man to fish at a rodeo
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How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century
In the Web era of development, Waterfalls are finally out. Agile is in.
2016
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HEIST exploit
Approach exploits how HTTPS responses are delivered over transmission control protocol. HEIST is able to count the number of frames and windows sent by interacting with a set of newly approved APIs, one called Resource Timing and another called Fetch. In the process, they allow a piece of JavaScript to determine the exact size of an HTTPS response. The malicious HEIST code then works in tandem with BREACH to ferret pieces of plaintext out of the encrypted response by adding thousands of guesses to requests and analyzing the size of each resulting response.
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Why the silencing of KrebsOnSecurity opens a troubling chapter for the ‘Net
It’s hard to imagine a stronger form of censorship than these DDoS attacks because if nobody wants to take you on then that’s pretty effective censorship
2022
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Insteon looks dead—just like its users’ smart homes
With its servers down, the Insteon app appears worthless, and users’ automations and schedules have stopped working.
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New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI—but loses to human amateurs
By playing unexpected moves outside of KataGo’s training set, a much weaker adversarial Go-playing program (that amateur humans can defeat) can trick KataGo into losing.
2025
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Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers
Two European-based cloud service companies, Exoscale and Elastx, tell WIRED they have seen an uptick in potential customers looking to abandon US cloud providers over the last two weeks—with some already starting to make the jump.
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Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil
The researchers used Gemini's web of connectivity to perform what's known as an indirect prompt injection attack, in which malicious actions are given to an AI bot by someone other than the user. And it worked startlingly well. The promptware attack begins with a calendar appointment containing a description that is actually a set of malicious instructions. The hack happens when the user asks Gemini to summarize their schedule, causing the robot to process the poisoned calendar event.