@VessOnSecurity
Anti-virus, malware and infosec expert, crypto amateur, privacy advocate and general annoyance.
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Russia's intel agency FSB says they found a spyware attack against "high-ranking" government officials carried out by foreign intelligence agencies.
"Using the technical capabilities of large intern...
@nprofile1q... I wonder if Kaspersky will publish anything about this...
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The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress.
@nprofile1q... Many countries are talking about implementing a 4-day workweek these days.
Also, I lived for a while in Bavaria, Germany, and got the impression that they still have a ginormous number of saint-related holidays there.
Also, I lived for a while in Bavaria, Germany, and got the impression that they still have a ginormous number of saint-related holidays there.
This is a bit old news by now but I learned it just recently, while reverse-engineering the change to a children's game.
Apparently, Brazil has banned recently the sale of loot boxes to minors in video games:
https://www.ascjogos.org.br/en/post/brazil-loot-box-ban-eca-digital-kids-games
Probably a good thing, although I'm of two minds about it. The game in question took a heavy-handed approach and just hid all the Shop offers for money from anyone residing in Brazil. On the one hand, this is good - the alternative would have been to implement proper age verification and deanonymization of players (although I suspect that the driver for this decision has been economical, not ethical). On the other hand, this eliminates some kind of service for players who are *not* minors.
Apparently, Brazil has banned recently the sale of loot boxes to minors in video games:
https://www.ascjogos.org.br/en/post/brazil-loot-box-ban-eca-digital-kids-games
Probably a good thing, although I'm of two minds about it. The game in question took a heavy-handed approach and just hid all the Shop offers for money from anyone residing in Brazil. On the one hand, this is good - the alternative would have been to implement proper age verification and deanonymization of players (although I suspect that the driver for this decision has been economical, not ethical). On the other hand, this eliminates some kind of service for players who are *not* minors.
Dog bites man is not news. Man bites dog is old news. The real news:
"Dog shoots woman with shotgun at Nebraska convenience store":
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/dog-shotgun-nebraska-convenience-store
"Dog shoots woman with shotgun at Nebraska convenience store":
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/dog-shotgun-nebraska-convenience-store
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"Researchers Issue Warning About Tech That Could Turn Every Router ‘Into a Potential Means for Surveillance’":
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-issue-warning-about-tech-that-could-turn-every-router-into-a-potential-means-for-surveillance-2000763181
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-issue-warning-about-tech-that-could-turn-every-router-into-a-potential-means-for-surveillance-2000763181
"An OpenAI Model Has Disproved a Central Conjecture in Discrete Geometry":
https://humanprogress.org/an-openai-model-has-disproved-a-central-conjecture-in-discrete-geometry/
https://humanprogress.org/an-openai-model-has-disproved-a-central-conjecture-in-discrete-geometry/
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
-- Ernest Hemingway
-- Ernest Hemingway
"AI: Providing definitive answers based on approximations derived from unreliable data provided by incompetent and intemperate Internet users." -- Prof. Eugene Spafford
https://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/quotes.html
https://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/quotes.html
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, is it a duck or just a bunch of linear algebra?