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Thursday 2024-10-17 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-10-17
Thursday 2024-10-17 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Thursday, October 17:

  1. China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor

    The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses to execute court-authorized wiretap requests. Those backdoors have been mandated by law—CALEA—since 1994.

  2. The second half of software supply chain security on GitHub
  3. For the first time since 1882, UK will have no coal-fired power plants
  4. Introducing Netflix’s TimeSeries Data Abstraction Layer
  5. Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices
Thursday 2024-10-17 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-10-17
Thursday 2024-10-17 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Thursday, October 17:

  1. China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor

    The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses to execute court-authorized wiretap requests. Those backdoors have been mandated by law—CALEA—since 1994.

  2. The second half of software supply chain security on GitHub
  3. For the first time since 1882, UK will have no coal-fired power plants
  4. Introducing Netflix’s TimeSeries Data Abstraction Layer
  5. Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices
Wednesday 2024-10-16 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-10-16
Wednesday 2024-10-16 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Wednesday, October 16:

  1. Code referencing now generally available in GitHub Copilot and with Microsoft Azure AI
  2. Announcing the stable release of the Azure OpenAI library for .NET
  3. Microsoft Just Dropped a Bunch of New Copilot Features
  4. Faster Integer Programming: A new analysis proves that all integer programs theoretically could be solved much faster than previously guaranteed.
  5. Confidential Container Groups: Implementing confidential computing on Azure container instances.
Monday 2024-10-14 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-10-14
Monday 2024-10-14 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Monday, October 14:

  1. Attackers exploit critical Zimbra vulnerability using cc’d email addresses
  2. Leveraging Graph Databases for Fraud Detection in Financial Systems

    Graph databases reveal patterns and relationships that would otherwise be hidden, allowing financial institutions to detect fraud faster and more efficiently.

  3. Microsoft’s new “Copilot Vision” AI experiment can see what you browse
  4. The more sophisticated AI models get, the more likely they are to lie
  5. How Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack
Tuesday 2024-10-01 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-10-01
Tuesday 2024-10-01 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Tuesday, October 1:

  1. Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity
  2. Getting started with testing and .NET Aspire
  3. The 10 best tools to green your software
  4. Introducing NotebookLM

    An AI-first notebook, grounded in your own documents, designed to help you gain insights faster.

  5. NotebookLM now lets you listen to a conversation about your sources

    Our new Audio Overview feature can turn documents, slides, charts and more into engaging discussions with one click.

Monday 2024-09-30 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-09-30
Monday 2024-09-30 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Monday, September 30:

  1. Changes coming in PostgreSQL 17
  2. Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source
  3. Unauthenticated RCE Flaw With CVSS 9.9 Rating For Linux Systems Affects CUPS

    A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers' (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer)."

  4. NIST Recommends Some Common-Sense Password Rules
  5. Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch
Tuesday 2024-09-24 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-09-24
Tuesday 2024-09-24 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Tuesday, September 24:

  1. Let’s Build an Incremental Source Generator With Roslyn, by Stefan Pölz
  2. Vaporizing plastics recycles them into nothing but gas
  3. OpenHCL: Evolving Azure’s virtualization model

    Azure Boost is a revolutionary accelerator system designed by Microsoft that offloads server virtualization processes traditionally performed by the hypervisor and host OS onto purpose-built software and hardware. This offloading frees up CPU resources for virtual machines, resulting in improved performance and a secure foundation for your cloud workloads.

  4. Going Super Sonic with Asio: Gotta go fast! Lessons learned for squeezing the most out of Asio for your application’s networking.
  5. Grid-scale batteries: They’re not just lithium

    When size and weight don’t matter, lots of other battery chemistries can work.