10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips(mas.to)

845 points by marvinborner 7 months ago | 435 comments

Mastodon thread by Mozilla engineer Gabriele Svelto describing data from Firefox crash reports showing many crashes stem from bit-flips caused by bad memory or flaky hardware.

Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays(mas.to)

20 points by riffraff 9 months ago | 6 comments

The rise of ChatGPT-enabled GitHub spam(mastodon.social)

96 points by luu 3 years ago | 64 comments

US national level OS-level age verification bill(social.coop)

94 points by marvinborner 6 months ago | 71 comments

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory(mathstodon.xyz)

516 points by IngoBlechschmid 3 months ago | 217 comments

Mastodon thread by Ingo Blechschmidt describing how since Linux 6.9 the LUKS suspend tool silently failed to wipe disk-encryption keys from memory.

Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools(mastodon.social)

505 points by robhlam 1 year ago | 145 comments

Mastodon post by curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg reporting that Joshua Rogers' AI-assisted tools found many potential curl bugs, with 22 fixes already landed.

Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message(discuss.privacyguides.net)

575 points by negura 5 months ago | 427 comments

Privacy Guides forum thread discussing Google account registration now requiring users to send an SMS from their phone (via QR code) rather than receive one.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3(chaos.social)

524 points by aendruk 3 years ago | 332 comments

Mastodon post showing that Bluesky handles verified by serving a file from a domain let someone claim an S3 domain handle.

Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs(mailgun.com)

346 points by pqvst 2 years ago | 228 comments

Mailgun blog post explaining Gmail and Yahoo's 2024 sender requirements and inbox protections and how they affect bulk email senders.

Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses(shkspr.mobi)

329 points by m_km 6 months ago | 88 comments

Blog post by Terence Eden describing how a unique email address he gave BrowserStack ended up with a third party via Apollo.io, implying a leak.

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left(moddedbear.com)

1115 points by speckx 4 months ago | 750 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author left Gmail after being annoyed by unrequested AI-generated message summaries and draft replies.