Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload(social.treehouse.systems)

143 points by happosai 2 months ago | 96 comments

Unix v4 Tape Found(discuss.systems)

476 points by greatquux 11 months ago | 77 comments

Mastodon post by Rob Ricci reporting that staff found a tape containing UNIX v4 from Bell Labs (c. 1973), to be delivered to the Computer History Museum.

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.

Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation(mastodon.bida.im)

126 points by subvol 1 month ago | 58 comments

Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits(mastodon.gamedev.place)

54 points by fooker 4 months ago | 37 comments

Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished(grapheneos.social)

234 points by Cider9986 1 month ago | 199 comments

RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent(sharpsec.run)

352 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 173 comments

Security blog post disclosing that qBittorrent's DownloadManager ignored SSL certificate errors for 14 years, enabling remote code execution, fixed in version 5.0.1.

AI-Built Torrent Site Looks Inside Downloads to Catch Fakes and Malware(torrentfreak.com)

6 points by HieronymusBosch 14 days ago | 1 comments

TorrentFreak article on TorrentClaw, an AI-built torrent search engine whose TrueSpec feature inspects torrent contents, revealing a malware trick using a genuine VLC player as a decoy.

Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities(jhftss.github.io)

546 points by transpute 1 year ago | 176 comments

Blog post accompanying a POC2024 talk describing an overlooked macOS attack surface and more than ten new sandbox escape vulnerabilities.

GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks(successfulsoftware.net)

215 points by hermitcrab 1 month ago | 89 comments

A Successful Software blog post complaining that GitHub has not removed malicious software imitating the author's product three weeks after it was reported.

I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon(blog.joinmastodon.org)

540 points by Tomte 11 months ago | 379 comments

Op-ed on the Mastodon blog by founder Eugen Rochko announcing he is stepping down as CEO and taking a strategy and product advisor role.

BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon(darnell.day)

370 points by cmrdporcupine 3 years ago | 211 comments

Blog post reporting that the BBC has abandoned Meta's Threads while continuing its presence on Mastodon.