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Release v0.3.0 · malwaredb/malwaredb-rs What's new: BREAKING: SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 hashes are now stored in Postges as bytea. BREAKING: MD5, Import Hash are now stored in Postgres as uuid. EXPERIMENTAL: To help with the brea...

#MalwareDB v0.3.0 is out, which provides #Yara search and a GitHub-hosted Docker container. Unfortunately something happened where GitHub's download action couldn't download the GHA-built Python modules, so those were published to PyPi manually. github.com/malwaredb/ma...

@districtcon.bsky.social I'd love to help out and I'm local.

I really miss #Shmoocon, and I am very grateful that @districtcon.bsky.social exists and that I've been able to attend both years. It's a great conference and I met some wonderful people, caught up with friends, and learned new things! Thank you! Can't wait for Year 2!

Substitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript #Cryptography
www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

DisplayPort > HDMI
the HDMI Forum is run by idiots

Rust in Android: move fast and fix things Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...

“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.”

security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...

Linux Kernel Ported To WebAssembly - Demo Lets You Run It In Your Web Browser - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-WebAssembly

TL;DR if you need help investigating Glassworm, feel free to use Turngate's free trial to make sense of your Google calendar data. Longer form: Wow. The Koi writeup on Glassworm is something else... TL;DR if you need help investigating Glassworm, feel free to use Turngate's free trial to make sense of your Google calendar data. Longer form: Wow. The Koi writeup on Glassworm is something else. Th...

TL;DR if you need help investigating Glassworm, feel free to use @turngate.bsky.social free trial to make sense of your Google calendar data. More here www.linkedin.com/posts/gdead_...

Announcing Ember 2024, our new dataset of benign and malicious samples. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05074 The dataset brings an update of 3.2 million malicious and benign files first seen between Sep. 2023 and Dec. 2024.

I was able to visit the #Railroad Workers Memorial Museum in Altoona, PA today, which was an awesome experience. After seeing a GG1 in person, I was wondering about the details of how the #NortheastCorridor works, found original PRR technical docs prr.railfan.net/ElectricTrac...

'Who Needs Rust's Borrow-Checking Compiler Nanny? C++ Devs Aren't Helpless' "When Rust developers think of us C++ folks, they picture a cursed bloodline," writes professional game developer Mamadou Babaei (also a *nix enthusiast who contributes to the FreeBSD Ports collection). "To them, every line of C++ we write is like playing Russian Roulette — except all six cha...

'Who Needs Rust's Borrow-Checking Compiler Nanny? C++ Devs Aren't Helpless'

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/05/11/1759213/who-needs-rusts-borrow-checking-compiler-nanny-c-devs-arent-helpless?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Carmack: World Could Run on Older Hardware if Software Optimization Was Priority Gaming pioneer John Carmack believes we're not nearly as dependent on cutting-edge silicon as most assume -- we just lack the economic incentive to prove it. Responding to a "CPU apocalypse" thought experiment on X, the id Software founder and former Oculus CTO suggested that software inefficiency, ...

Carmack: World Could Run on Older Hardware if Software Optimization Was Priority

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/13/1321259/carmack-world-could-run-on-older-hardware-if-software-optimization-was-priority?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Intel TDX Support For KVM Finally Expected To Debut In Mainline Linux 6.16 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-TDX-For-KVM-Linux-6.16

My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules. Or how to make the Linux kernel run .com files in the quest for the smallest possible executable file ever. Practicality be damned. www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/tx... #Linux #ExecutableFiles #Kernel #Fun

"Well, Actually" w/ Jim Mathews YouTube video by Rail Passengers Association

Rail Passengers President & CEO Jim Mathews rides the rails after a successful two-week stay in DC for our #RNDC advocacy workshops and lays out five points on why privatizing Amtrak is still a real dumb idea.

Rail Passengers Association Rail Passengers Association is the leading voice for the more than 40 million rail passengers in the United States. We are a non-profit organization fighting for a modern and robust national rail netw...

Send a message to Congress: keep @amtrak.com rolling! Support this vital public service. action.railpassengers.org/Default.aspx...

BLOOMIN8 E-Ink Canvas-World's First Smart COLOUR E-Ink Frame Display your images like paper - charge once, last for years. Cord-Free | iOS & Android | Local Home Assistant Integration | In-App AI

Cool kickstarter project: color e-ink picture frame www.kickstarter.com/projects/arp... #eink

Putting together the "who's who" of the advocacy world. If you know of a state/regional account that we should add, let us know! Let's make our voice heard together!

The American Association of Railroads doesn't want you to know about this history.

Amtrak's Redesigned iPhone App Offers Easier Access to Train Status, Tickets, and More Amtrak on Wednesday announced that it has redesigned its iOS and Android apps to provide more convenient access to train status, tickets, and more. Amtrak, the national passenger rail company in the U.S., operates more than 30 train routes throughout…

Amtrak's Redesigned iPhone App Offers Easier Access to Train Status, Tickets, and More

Haiku OS Wrapping Up Its New malloc & Various Performance Optimizations - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-New-malloc-More-Perf

Apple M4 MacBook Air review: I have no notes The only things missing from these Airs are some Pro-only bells and whistles.

For anyone other than people who absolutely need or require an operating system that isn't macOS, this is the default laptop.

Agreed, but the related work section might be informative to people who are interested in the research but don’t have a background in the area or don’t have time to read all the papers out there.

@districtcon.bsky.social what is the National Malware Association? Not a ton of info on the website :) nationalmalware.org

Googling for “bees in my computer”. Google AI Overview: “Bees can be present in desktop computers built after the l mid-2000s, but only at a microscopic level. These bees are a special breed of Apis Arithmeticam that perform basic computations in the CPU.”

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From the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: SS United States, a 72 year old ocean liner, passes under the Walt Whitman Bridge on her way to be sunk as an artificial reef in Florida Explore this post and more from the Damnthatsinteresting community

Turns out, this was the SS United States being taken to Florida www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

Scenes from #Amtrak: the Delaware Memorial bridge and what looks like the HMS Tetanus

Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

Hiding text with Unicode, including emojis. paulbutler.org/2025/smuggli...

Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049