ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Crucial CVE flaw-tracking database narrowly avoids closure to DHS cuts
Board members have launched a nonprofit to take over the program from MITRE.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/crucial-cve-flaw-tracking-database-narrowly-avoids-closure-to-dhs-cuts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Why do some neurons say “sleep” while others shout “stay awake!” — inside the same brain?

In fruit flies, researchers just mapped the molecular chaos behind this nightly tug-of-war. And it’s wilder than we thought.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/106686?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

"If you spend your whole time thinking about the universe, you tend to forget the less important bits of it. Like your pants."
-- Small Gods
#TerryPratchett

A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39jj9vkr34o

Probably the last CVE indexed before it goes dark should be CVE-2025-DOGE (critical, local privilege escalation vulnerability that leads to malicious code execution and data exfiltration).

Mouse watches The Matrix, scientists map brain that looks like a ‘galaxy’
Thanks to a mouse watching clips from The Matrix, scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date, a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons.
#science #technology #brain #movie #Health #Mouse
https://globalnews.ca/news/11124950/mouse-watching-the-matrix-scientists-map-galaxy-brain/

OpenSSH 10.0 (a regular bump from 9.9) is out, and it makes the post-quantum ML-KEM hybrid mlkem768x25519-sha256 the default. https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-10.0

The next release of x/crypto/ssh will support it, too, when used with Go 1.24, making SSH sessions quantum resistant! https://go.dev/cl/646075

#curl's configure script has 75(!) different --disable options to disable specific things in the build.

That's 37778931862957161709568 build combinations only there. Tricky to test.

@Janeishly I saw someone say something like "Facebook is where all the boomers and Gen Xers who need help with their computers live. The fedi is where all the boomers and Gen Xers who *designed and built* the damn computers live".

Plotting graphs like it's 1978...

#rc2014 #forth

When they say no-one is safe, here is the evidence
We are all vulnerable to phishing, even @troyhunt has been caught! If it can happen to Troy, it can happen to us all. Each and every one of us.

“…the penny has just dropped that a Mailchimp phish has grabbed my credentials, logged into my account and exported the mailing list for this blog. I'm deliberately keeping this post very succinct to ensure the message goes out to my impacted subscribers ASAP, then I'll update the post with more details.“

https://www.troyhunt.com/a-sneaky-phish-just-grabbed-my-mailchimp-mailing-list/
#CyberSecurity #DataBreach #InfoSec #Phishing

I am so excited to see that UK Government Will Discuss Re-joining the EU on 24th of March 2025 After Petition reaches 125,000 signatures!
If you are British, no matter where you live please sign

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700005

I've started to think about the, y'know, all of this on a spectrum ranging from "too big to handle," to "too small to matter." I'm also thinking about the size of an issue against one's ability to make a difference.

There's a sweet spot where the work is worthwhile.

Small problems outside your control matter little. The big ones outside your ability to impact can be paralyzing—most of us can't stop DOGE from entering buildings, for example, no matter how outraged we are. The small ones you can impact tend to be easy, but they can deceive you into an outsized impression of your impact. And then there are the big ones you can impact. That's the worthwhile zone to live in. The trick is, this zone is uncomfortable, and almost always requires you to work with others—even others you don't entirely agree with.

The adversary is hoping you never make it to that zone. If enough of us do, the tide turns.

GIMP 3.0 is released, check it out!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed in any way - from testing and submitting bug reports through to designing, coding, fixing, packaging, testing some more, translating, documenting, hosting, administration, so many people, so much work, so much to be thankful for!

Welcome to GIMP 3.0!