Comment The Navajo (Diné) Code Talkers of WW2 (Score 2) 99
Perhaps the AIs should communicate through the Navajo (Diné) native unwritten language. Like the code talkers of WW2 :o
Comment How hackers got inside a Flock Camera (Score 4, Informative) 73
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
Wired: “The hackers said they were able to access the Android system on the camera and found two partitions—sections of its hard drive, essentially. A few of these were unencrypted, the hackers said, including one called “vendor” and another called “media.” The latter contained an encryption key that unlocked another part, which contained much of the media—the videos and stills—the camera took.”
“In early 2025, security researcher Jon “GainSec” Gaines reverse engineered a Flock license-plate reader and documented flaws that could be used to gain root-level access. After Gaines disclosed his findings, the company acknowledged the findings but downplayed their severity, writing that the flaws required physical access to the device and that even someone who gained access to a camera “would still not be able to gain access to footage,” because images remained on the device only briefly after being transmitted to the cloud.”
Wired: “The hackers said they were able to access the Android system on the camera and found two partitions—sections of its hard drive, essentially. A few of these were unencrypted, the hackers said, including one called “vendor” and another called “media.” The latter contained an encryption key that unlocked another part, which contained much of the media—the videos and stills—the camera took.”
“In early 2025, security researcher Jon “GainSec” Gaines reverse engineered a Flock license-plate reader and documented flaws that could be used to gain root-level access. After Gaines disclosed his findings, the company acknowledged the findings but downplayed their severity, writing that the flaws required physical access to the device and that even someone who gained access to a camera “would still not be able to gain access to footage,” because images remained on the device only briefly after being transmitted to the cloud.”
Submission + - Omarchy: the fascist/right-wing distro :o
An anonymous reader writes: Omarchy gains $18.5M in backing, fresh converts – and fierce critics
"Running Omarchy means willingly integrating oneself into a fascist community. Legitimizing it. Supporting it. Omarchy is a fascist project that normalizes fascist thinking for everyone entering that community (even unknowingly)."
"Running Omarchy means willingly integrating oneself into a fascist community. Legitimizing it. Supporting it. Omarchy is a fascist project that normalizes fascist thinking for everyone entering that community (even unknowingly)."
Submission + - 1,100 nuclear workers failed substance tests in '25; NRC now wants less testing (americanbuildout.com) 1
ElectricVs writes: In its move to cut back or "modernize" regulations, the NRC is proposing rules that relax drug or alcohol testing. More than 1,100 nuclear plant works failed those tests last year while hundreds more were caught trying to cheat.
Submission + - Dr. Daniel Nagase on reverse transcriptase, vaccines & infertility
An anonymous reader writes: Dr. Daniel Nagase on reverse transcriptase, vaccines & infertility:
“The entire human genome has been poisoned, with a gene that has never been in the human genome ever in history. About 5 billion people out of 7 billion people on this planet have been injected. About 2.5 billion of them are women, about 1.25 billion, so half of that, are women of child bearing age. There's 1.25 billion women out there capable that are capable of having children with a genetic alteration. The genetic alteration we know about is the spike protein, and maybe these two other sequences that were inserted into the moderna injections.”
“The entire human genome has been poisoned, with a gene that has never been in the human genome ever in history. About 5 billion people out of 7 billion people on this planet have been injected. About 2.5 billion of them are women, about 1.25 billion, so half of that, are women of child bearing age. There's 1.25 billion women out there capable that are capable of having children with a genetic alteration. The genetic alteration we know about is the spike protein, and maybe these two other sequences that were inserted into the moderna injections.”
Submission + - Looks-maxxing and Youtube clipping
An anonymous reader writes: Politicians need to learn from Andrew Tate
“Professional clipping is a relatively recent phenomenon, which began in the late 2010s but has developed serious momentum over the past few years. This is how it works: people take short clips of long-form content from streamers, podcasters and, increasingly, politicians, then edit them for maximum virality (think colour changes and captions) before reposting them online. Professional clippers are paid to do this.”
“Professional clipping is a relatively recent phenomenon, which began in the late 2010s but has developed serious momentum over the past few years. This is how it works: people take short clips of long-form content from streamers, podcasters and, increasingly, politicians, then edit them for maximum virality (think colour changes and captions) before reposting them online. Professional clippers are paid to do this.”
Submission + - Minitap on how Google stole their code and attributions (minitap.ai)
Submission + - Windows update corrupts BIOS on HP systems
An anonymous reader writes: Windows 11 KB5121003 allegedly corrupts BIOS leading to installation fails on HP systems
“The thread, on Microsoft's official support forum, got upvoted by many who were likely facing the same issue. One of the users on the thread, KP, commented that they too were facing a similar problem on their Omnibook X 14-KC0013DX, a 14 inch model HP device. The user adds that HP support confirmed to them that Microsoft's update apparently corrupted the BIOS, and as such, they had to reset the BIOS settings to default to fix the issue.”
“The thread, on Microsoft's official support forum, got upvoted by many who were likely facing the same issue. One of the users on the thread, KP, commented that they too were facing a similar problem on their Omnibook X 14-KC0013DX, a 14 inch model HP device. The user adds that HP support confirmed to them that Microsoft's update apparently corrupted the BIOS, and as such, they had to reset the BIOS settings to default to fix the issue.”
Submission + - Ongoing Ebola disease outbreak in the Congo
An anonymous reader writes: Ebola disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
“On 13 September 2026, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) published a situation update reporting a total of 7 200 confirmed cases, including 3 475 related deaths (from data up until 12 September). A total of 923 patients are hospitalised in isolation. This represents an increase of 258 new confirmed cases and 126 deaths since the previous ECDC report on 11 September (reporting data up until 10 September). In total, 88% of identified case contacts are under follow-up in the affected provinces. Overall, 62 of 167 health zones are currently affected across the seven provinces.”
“On 13 September 2026, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) published a situation update reporting a total of 7 200 confirmed cases, including 3 475 related deaths (from data up until 12 September). A total of 923 patients are hospitalised in isolation. This represents an increase of 258 new confirmed cases and 126 deaths since the previous ECDC report on 11 September (reporting data up until 10 September). In total, 88% of identified case contacts are under follow-up in the affected provinces. Overall, 62 of 167 health zones are currently affected across the seven provinces.”
Comment Web scraper complains its content is being scraped (Score 1) 106
The irony is almost too perfect. AI companies have spent years vacuuming up the entire public internet to train frontier models. Then, when someone systematically queries their models’ outputs to train smaller models (i.e., distillation), suddenly it’s “illicit,” “theft,” “industrial-scale attacks,” and a national-security issue requiring FBI/NSA advisories.
Submission + - Public inquiry 'clouded Letby's innocence'
Mirnotoriety writes: Letby’s lawyer: Public inquiry ‘clouded by her innocence’
The findings of the Thirlwall Inquiry will be clouded by Lucy Letby's innocence, her barrister has said.
On Tuesday, Lady Justice Thirlwall will publish the long-awaited report into how the NHS and other institutions could have prevented Letby from killing seven babies and attempting to murder seven more at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016.
But large numbers of medical and legal experts have questioned Letby's guilt and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is deciding whether to send her case back to the Court of Appeal.
At the outset of the inquiry in 2024, Lady Justice Thirlwall emphasised that the inquiry's remit was not to retry the case or review Letby's guilt.
She refused Mr McDonald's request for Letby to be represented in the £18m hearing ..
The findings of the Thirlwall Inquiry will be clouded by Lucy Letby's innocence, her barrister has said.
On Tuesday, Lady Justice Thirlwall will publish the long-awaited report into how the NHS and other institutions could have prevented Letby from killing seven babies and attempting to murder seven more at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016.
But large numbers of medical and legal experts have questioned Letby's guilt and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is deciding whether to send her case back to the Court of Appeal.
At the outset of the inquiry in 2024, Lady Justice Thirlwall emphasised that the inquiry's remit was not to retry the case or review Letby's guilt.
She refused Mr McDonald's request for Letby to be represented in the £18m hearing
Comment Mullenweg unbenches himself :o (Score 2) 36
Less than 48 hours after Automattic’s board placed CEO Matt Mullenweg on leave, he announced to employees via Slack that he is “back in control” and the board is again in agreement. He posted “Don’t call it a comeback,” linking to LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” video; his Slack profile currently shows him in a pirate hat and eyepatch. CFO Mark Davies (who had been set to serve as interim CEO) had his Slack account deactivated. Mullenweg later published a personal blog post titled “Major Life Announcement” about buying a tugboat, without addressing the leadership situation. The episode follows years of legal battles, layoffs, employee departures, and controversy surrounding his leadership of Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com).
The original Automattic controversy centers on a bitter public and legal clash that erupted in September 2024 between WordPress co-creator and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and rival hosting company WP Engine (majority-owned by private equity firm Silver Lake). At WordCamp US, Mullenweg publicly labeled WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress,” accusing it of profiting heavily from the open-source project while contributing far less than Automattic (he cited roughly 40 hours per week versus thousands from his company) and of confusing customers by using the “WP” branding. He demanded that WP Engine either pay substantial trademark royalties (reportedly around 8% of revenue) or make larger contributions, and he cut off the company’s access to key WordPress.org resources, plugins, and updates—disrupting service for many of its customers.
WP Engine responded with a lawsuit accusing Mullenweg and Automattic of extortion, defamation, abuse of power, and anti-competitive behavior, claiming he had threatened a “scorched earth nuclear approach” after failed private negotiations. The fight triggered employee buyouts (159 staff left), community backlash, a court-ordered restoration of access, ongoing litigation, and broader questions about governance, trademark control, and the sustainability of the WordPress ecosystem.
The original Automattic controversy centers on a bitter public and legal clash that erupted in September 2024 between WordPress co-creator and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and rival hosting company WP Engine (majority-owned by private equity firm Silver Lake). At WordCamp US, Mullenweg publicly labeled WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress,” accusing it of profiting heavily from the open-source project while contributing far less than Automattic (he cited roughly 40 hours per week versus thousands from his company) and of confusing customers by using the “WP” branding. He demanded that WP Engine either pay substantial trademark royalties (reportedly around 8% of revenue) or make larger contributions, and he cut off the company’s access to key WordPress.org resources, plugins, and updates—disrupting service for many of its customers.
WP Engine responded with a lawsuit accusing Mullenweg and Automattic of extortion, defamation, abuse of power, and anti-competitive behavior, claiming he had threatened a “scorched earth nuclear approach” after failed private negotiations. The fight triggered employee buyouts (159 staff left), community backlash, a court-ordered restoration of access, ongoing litigation, and broader questions about governance, trademark control, and the sustainability of the WordPress ecosystem.
Submission + - The Dursleys: according to Borges
An anonymous reader writes: It is generally agreed by the inhabitants of Little Whinging that the Dursleys were, at the time of the events described here, a normal family. The assertion is repeated in municipal records, in the diaries of three neighbours, and, with suspicious unanimity, in the testimony of Vernon Dursley himself. I have been unable to establish whether these documents describe the family or merely the idea that the family had formed of itself.
Vernon Dursley was a large man. His moustache, whose exact dimensions have been variously recorded, was said by one neighbour to resemble a walrus and by another to resemble a small and badly educated animal. These descriptions are probably inaccurate. What matters is that the moustache existed and that Vernon was proud of it.
He worked for a firm that manufactured drills.
The reader may reasonably ask why a history concerned with magic should begin with drills. I can only answer that the universe has never demonstrated any preference for beginning with the significant.
Vernon's wife, Petunia, was thin, blonde and possessed of an extraordinary ability to recognise anything that might disturb the hierarchy of the ordinary. Their son Dudley was large, blond and, according to the family's own account, remarkable. The nature of this remark need not concern us.
There was also Harry.
The Dursleys maintained that Harry was not a Dursley. This was technically true, although it had the disadvantage of making the Dursleys responsible for him.
Harry's parents had died.
This fact, which occupies only a few words in most accounts of the matter, has produced an immense literature. Some historians maintain that their deaths were the essential event; others that they were merely the consequence of an older conflict; a third school, now largely discredited, maintains that the deaths were invented after the fact to provide Harry with a suitable childhood.
All three schools are wrong.
The truth, which I shall not reveal here, is considerably stranger.
For many years the Dursleys succeeded in preserving the belief that the world consisted of the things they had already seen. This is a common error. There are men who believe that because they have never encountered a unicorn, unicorns do not exist. There are others who, having encountered one, immediately cease to believe in it. The Dursleys belonged to the first category and would have considered the second insane.
One morning, however, owls began appearing.
This detail has been exaggerated by subsequent historians. There were not thousands of owls. There were merely enough to make the ordinary explanation inconvenient.
At the time, Vernon Dursley was on his way to work.
He noticed a man wearing a violet cloak.
He did not notice the cloak.
He noticed a cat.
He noticed the cat because cats belong to the category of things that can be noticed without endangering one's conception of reality.
The cat was sitting on a wall and reading the street.
I use the verb *reading* deliberately. The cat was not looking at the street. It was reading it in the manner of a scholar confronted with a text whose final page has been removed.
The cat was called Minerva McGonagall.
This name presents a minor difficulty. There are several Minerva McGonagalls in the archives, and one of them was almost certainly a woman. Another was a cat. A third may have existed only in a manuscript subsequently destroyed. The question has never been satisfactorily resolved.
At four minutes past eight, the cat ceased to be a cat.
It became a woman.
Or, more precisely, it revealed that it had been a woman.
The distinction is not pedantic. In magic, as in metaphysics, identity is often a matter of chronology.
Professor McGonagall had been waiting for a man named Albus Dumbledore.
Dumbledore had been waiting for the fall of a child.
The child had been waiting for neither.
His name was Harry Potter.
He was sleeping in a cupboard.
Years later, Harry would learn that this was considered an unusual place for a child to begin a history of magic. He would also learn that histories are written by the survivors, that prophecies are usually misquoted, and that the distinction between a cupboard and a tomb is sometimes merely a matter of duration.
But on that particular night he knew none of these things.
He was eleven years old.
The universe had already taken an interest in him.
The universe, characteristically, had neglected to inform him.
Vernon Dursley was a large man. His moustache, whose exact dimensions have been variously recorded, was said by one neighbour to resemble a walrus and by another to resemble a small and badly educated animal. These descriptions are probably inaccurate. What matters is that the moustache existed and that Vernon was proud of it.
He worked for a firm that manufactured drills.
The reader may reasonably ask why a history concerned with magic should begin with drills. I can only answer that the universe has never demonstrated any preference for beginning with the significant.
Vernon's wife, Petunia, was thin, blonde and possessed of an extraordinary ability to recognise anything that might disturb the hierarchy of the ordinary. Their son Dudley was large, blond and, according to the family's own account, remarkable. The nature of this remark need not concern us.
There was also Harry.
The Dursleys maintained that Harry was not a Dursley. This was technically true, although it had the disadvantage of making the Dursleys responsible for him.
Harry's parents had died.
This fact, which occupies only a few words in most accounts of the matter, has produced an immense literature. Some historians maintain that their deaths were the essential event; others that they were merely the consequence of an older conflict; a third school, now largely discredited, maintains that the deaths were invented after the fact to provide Harry with a suitable childhood.
All three schools are wrong.
The truth, which I shall not reveal here, is considerably stranger.
For many years the Dursleys succeeded in preserving the belief that the world consisted of the things they had already seen. This is a common error. There are men who believe that because they have never encountered a unicorn, unicorns do not exist. There are others who, having encountered one, immediately cease to believe in it. The Dursleys belonged to the first category and would have considered the second insane.
One morning, however, owls began appearing.
This detail has been exaggerated by subsequent historians. There were not thousands of owls. There were merely enough to make the ordinary explanation inconvenient.
At the time, Vernon Dursley was on his way to work.
He noticed a man wearing a violet cloak.
He did not notice the cloak.
He noticed a cat.
He noticed the cat because cats belong to the category of things that can be noticed without endangering one's conception of reality.
The cat was sitting on a wall and reading the street.
I use the verb *reading* deliberately. The cat was not looking at the street. It was reading it in the manner of a scholar confronted with a text whose final page has been removed.
The cat was called Minerva McGonagall.
This name presents a minor difficulty. There are several Minerva McGonagalls in the archives, and one of them was almost certainly a woman. Another was a cat. A third may have existed only in a manuscript subsequently destroyed. The question has never been satisfactorily resolved.
At four minutes past eight, the cat ceased to be a cat.
It became a woman.
Or, more precisely, it revealed that it had been a woman.
The distinction is not pedantic. In magic, as in metaphysics, identity is often a matter of chronology.
Professor McGonagall had been waiting for a man named Albus Dumbledore.
Dumbledore had been waiting for the fall of a child.
The child had been waiting for neither.
His name was Harry Potter.
He was sleeping in a cupboard.
Years later, Harry would learn that this was considered an unusual place for a child to begin a history of magic. He would also learn that histories are written by the survivors, that prophecies are usually misquoted, and that the distinction between a cupboard and a tomb is sometimes merely a matter of duration.
But on that particular night he knew none of these things.
He was eleven years old.
The universe had already taken an interest in him.
The universe, characteristically, had neglected to inform him.
Submission + - Half of Internet-facing FortiGate firewalls have leaked
An anonymous reader writes: FortiBleed: Half of Internet-Facing FortiGate Firewalls Have Leaked, Working Credentials
“A credential-exposure campaign now known as FortiBleed has compromised working login credentials for tens of thousands of FortiGate firewalls and VPN gateways worldwide, with independent researchers estimating that roughly half of all internet-facing FortiGate devices are represented in the leaked data. CISA says the exposure is tied to “approximately 74,000 Fortinet devices, including firewalls and virtual private network (VPN) gateways,” a figure that has since grown as new analysis has come in CISA.”
“A credential-exposure campaign now known as FortiBleed has compromised working login credentials for tens of thousands of FortiGate firewalls and VPN gateways worldwide, with independent researchers estimating that roughly half of all internet-facing FortiGate devices are represented in the leaked data. CISA says the exposure is tied to “approximately 74,000 Fortinet devices, including firewalls and virtual private network (VPN) gateways,” a figure that has since grown as new analysis has come in CISA.”
Submission + - Florida confirms DMV database breached
An anonymous reader writes: Florida confirms DMV database breached via stolen police account
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has confirmed that its DAVID driver database suffered a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion gang claimed to have compromised the system.
The disclosure comes after the ShinyHunters extortion group claimed it breached the DAVID database and stole more than 200,000 driver records.
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has confirmed that its DAVID driver database suffered a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion gang claimed to have compromised the system.
The disclosure comes after the ShinyHunters extortion group claimed it breached the DAVID database and stole more than 200,000 driver records.
