All of the CRITICAL CVEs are patched, time to take a big swig of coffee and get back to regular wor…

https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/

#infosec #doomed #gitlab

Fun discovery from the #eMudhra mess: Java's keytool will claim to but not actually delete certificates from the root cacerts keystore!

If you’re looking for some Friday listening, Vienna Teng just made hours of free live sets available from this index:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1SKyAWWRJDOJwLkoI6pNj9B0RAnHuSK5wMx3Lw0xeJEU/htmlview

#music #ViennaTeng

“Last night, while I should’ve been poring over some of OpenAI’s hundreds of papers and/or writing this post, I decided to spend some time with my kids instead. They wanted a movie night, so I suggested something they’d never seen before (and that I hadn’t seen for decades), and that seemed chock-full of no-nonsense, practical guidance for the world in which they’re going to grow up: Terminator 2.”

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169

Why, yes, I had noticed you using React — the ~700ms keyboard input latency was a dead giveaway…

That 91% cheating rate is why the teachers I know rely on in-person work for grades now:

https://www.today.com/parents/family/professor-catches-ai-cheating-hidden-word-rcna589421

On the subject of inflation the 2TB flash drive I bought for for $150 in December 2023 is now over $470 or $280 if you don't mind half the performance.

Having to educate the Booking.com people that Washington DC should be an option for the state on a credit card form…

“The old rule of good bug reports was always: describe what happened, not what you think caused it. That rule got more important, not less, now that it has become so easy to generate a very confident paragraph about the supposed root cause. But confidence was never the same thing as correctness.”

https://www.jannis.io/the-fastest-way-to-get-a-slow-reply/

“‘I had to enable parental controls to keep my dishwasher from attacking other computers’ is one of those sentences which would leave me greatly amused in a PKD novel but I'm less fond of IRL”

https://hey.hagelb.org/@technomancy/statuses/01KWARV9MX4BGQY7G3QKKYF1TM

“In everyday use an agent is someone who acts on behalf of someone else and it has agency and more importantly: responsibility. An agent decides, represents, negotiates, acts, and can be blamed. … But the machine cannot be responsible, whoever is wielding it is. If it drops your database it was not at fault, you were.”

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/26/clankers/

#ai

Don't be so confident about using #GitLab as a bailout from #GitHub until the dust settles:

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

The U.S. Library of Congress has an open, telework-eligible infosec position available:

https://www.loc.gov/item/careers/information-technology-specialist-infosec-vacancyvar003335/

#getfedihired #jobs

“You can’t steal that, we stole it first!”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/us-accuses-china-of-industrial-scale-ai-theft-china-says-its-slander/

“This seems awful, but on the bright side, ML companies get to charge everyone money for the hellscape they created.”

https://aphyr.com/posts/415-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-annoyances

They’re saying that it’s faster to helicopter the #ArtemisII astronauts back from the raft but it seems like the setup process is taking longer than it says. I wonder whether this was a way of not saying it was a contingency so they could get someone injured to trauma care faster?

“Messages were recovered from Sharp’s phone through Apple’s internal notification storage—Signal had been removed, but incoming notifications were preserved in internal memory. Only incoming messages were captured (no outgoing).”
https://www.404media.co/fbi-extracts-suspects-deleted-signal-messages-saved-in-iphone-notification-database-2/

@ed do you have a favorite CLI tool these days for generating a WARC from a site using a real browser engine without setting up much infrastructure?

macOS Tahoe is going to turn me into @gruber with the way they used at least 3 different border radii randomly across apps

The secret for saving an hour: “defaults write com.apple.AMPDevicesAgent.plist AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true”