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Submission + - New Operating System Uses Hardware-Based Memory Protection Model (frute.net)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: FRUTE asks what an operating system looks like when the CPU, language runtime, garbage collector, compiler, and authority model are designed together instead of bolted together after the fact.

Conventional systems make language runtimes recover structure from untyped words, make security policy chase ambient names, and make garbage collectors infer which machine values are pointers. FRUTE moves those facts into the architecture: values are tagged, authority is explicit, and Scheme is treated as a first-class systems language.

Most CPUs treat memory as undifferentiated bits, then ask every compiler, runtime, kernel, and debugger to remember what those bits mean. FRUTE values carry architectural tags, so the machine can distinguish pointers, fixnums, characters, capabilities, bitmaps, and runtime objects directly.

Comment Re:DALL-E? (Score 2) 34

by Z00L00K (#66392500) Attached to: Getty Images Files For US Bankruptcy, Advances Restructuring Plan

I agree, DALL-E variants went offline a few months ago. Now it's GPT, Muse, Grok and Flux that have taken over.

Not that DALL-E was bad, it was pretty nice in its own way, but couldn't really compete with quality stock images.

That said - many AI generated images still have flaws, and are often just useful for illustrative purposes and memes. Many pulp-level sensationalist magazines are probably using them now to make it look like Prince Harry and Marilyn Monroe had an affair.

Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 39

I can't say for PHP itself, but I've been worried about PHP security for years. A BBS I installed using PHP wanted it installed as root. Total f*ck no. I've seen other apps running with elevated priveledges when they weren't needed. So many red flags I didn't use PHP because of the language itself, but because people that used it had zero worries about security.

Submission + - Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of trees (futurism.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Earlier in October, Finnish authorities ordered Google’s affiliate data center developer Tuike Finland Oy to immediately suspend the illegal cutting of some 1,300 acres of forest. The tech giant was given a week to draft a report explaining its actions, which soon became a flashpoint for Europe’s growing outrage over the data center boom.

As the anger grew, reporters descended on the scene — and what they found is a clear-cut example of the AI revolution’s impact on the environment.

New reporting by the Guardian shed fresh light on the impacts of Google’s deforestation. After the 1,300 acres of pristine boreal forests were reduced to tracts of mud and stumps, fauna which once called the woods home has been forced to vacate.

Comment Re: Bose (Score 1) 41

by Z00L00K (#66389698) Attached to: Bose Is Buying Skullcandy

Today I'd say that you'd probably need to put up some $50k USD. Original price was $16k USD, but they are a collectors item. Their successor HE-1 are in the same price range.

I have listened to them and the worst thing is that they actually sound so good that they'd be worth the price. But I'm not a headphone user so if I had them they'd be a dust collector.

Submission + - How we're Strengthening PHP Security

Submitted by Mirnotoriety
Mirnotoriety writes: Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security

“Earlier today, the PHP project released PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35. These releases fix two critical vulnerabilities that, under the right conditions, allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute code on servers running PHP.”

CVE-2026-109618 / GHSA-w8hw-w9fx-j79w: RCE via OOM corruption (out-of-memory): If a request reached PHP's memory_limit at exactly the wrong moment, PHP could leave partially initialized internal data behind and later treat it as valid, corrupting memory.

CVE-2026-109619 / GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp: RCE via stale global state: A fatal error at the wrong point could leave internal state pointing to memory that belonged to a previous request ..

Comment According to the notes, it isn't in the wild (Score 2) 60

by Creepy (#66386554) Attached to: Government Websites Go Dark After Severe PHP Vulnerabilities Disclosed

The patch notes say both vulnerabilities will be fixed on Oct 26 unless it's seen in the wild before that.

I've had trust issues with PHP using software since one piece I installed wanted to run web files root. Just no. Web server files are owned by the web user and can't touch anything else on the Raspberry Pi it runs on. That is not PHP though, just developers that don't think of security first using PHP.

Submission + - Physicists Trapped a Particle of Antimatter And Kept It Caged For Months (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: Theoretically, the birth of the Universe should have produced equal quantities of particles and antiparticles.

Why the current Universe is so heavily skewed in particles' favor is an enduring mystery – one whose solution remains all the harder to find because of antiparticles' tendency to go and collide with particles.

But an extraordinary effort may have finally tamed one of the biggest tricksters of the antiparticle milieu – the positron, the antimatter counterpart to the ubiquitous electron.

In a cryogenic, superconducting vacuum trap, physicists at Northwestern University in the US successfully kept a single positron for months – a breakthrough that, they say, paves the way to the most rigorous probes yet of particle physics.

Submission + - Which Major Websites and Advertisers Wrongly Equate Privacy as Ad-Blocking? 1

Submitted by BrendaEM
BrendaEM writes: We see it each day. You navigate to a website, and you are greeted with an overlay that states that you have an advertisement blocker or plugin installed, but you don't have one—it's just that their advertising wants to track you or individualize your advertisement experience. Perhaps it would be beneficial to set the record straight.

Which websites and advertising companies have you noticed that wrongly confabulate privacy as ad-blocking?

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