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1. Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium Total comment counts : 117 Summary This article consists of various comments expressing dissatisfaction and anger towards Google’s proposal for Web Environment Integrity (WEI), which aims to prevent the hiding or spoofing of fingerprinting techniques on websites. Users are calling out Google for being greedy, betraying the principles of an open internet, and urging others to boycott Google’s services and switch to alternative platforms like Firefox....

1. Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow Total comment counts : 54 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary The article tells a story about a nurse at a hospital who called tech support because she had a “weather report” window on her screen that she couldn’t close because it would go under the screen. When the tech support person arrived, they realized that the nurse had accidentally pressed a button on the monitor that called up the brightness menu, making it appear as if there was a window on the screen....

1. Zenbleed Total comment counts : 31 Summary The article discusses a vulnerability discovered by Tavis Ormandy from Google Information Security. The vulnerability affects all Zen 2 class processors and allows attackers to spy on operations, such as strlen, memcpy, and strcmp, that use vector registers. The vulnerability is triggered by utilizing the XMM Register Merge Optimization, a register rename, and a mispredicted vzeroupper instruction. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can monitor encryption keys and passwords as users log in....

1. Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node Total comment counts : 36 Summary The article discusses the case of William Weber, a former member of LowEndTalk who was involved in a court case in Austria related to running Tor exit nodes and the issue of child pornography. The article includes an interview with William, where he discusses his reasons for running a Tor node, the raid that took place at his apartment, and his legal situation....

1. Plane – Open-source Jira alternative Total comment counts : 29 Summary The article introduces the open-source software development tool called Plane Mobile, which is designed to help manage issues, sprints, and product roadmaps. It is trusted by over 1000 teams in more than 100 countries. Plane offers a simple user interface and can be customized to fit different workflows. It also provides features like Cycles and Modules to support different project management methodologies....

1. Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it Total comment counts : 60 Summary The article is a compilation of comments and experiences from users who have been facing issues with the Fly app. They report problems with health checks, machines being in a stopped state, inability to restart or destroy instances, and errors when trying to redeploy the app. Some users have managed to restore availability to their app by scaling and allocating more virtual machines (VMs), but the bad VMs remain in an indeterminate state....

1. Kevin Mitnick has died Total comment counts : 198 Summary The article discusses a website that is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. It mentions that certain actions, such as submitting a specific word or phrase, a SQL command, or malformed data, can trigger a security block. The reader is advised to contact the site owner, providing details of what they were doing when the block occurred and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of the page....

1. ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products Total comment counts : 42 Summary Intel has announced a term sheet agreement with ASUS to manufacture, sell, and support the Next Unit of Compute (NUC) 10th to 13th generation systems product line. The agreement also includes the development of future NUC system designs. Intel is pivoting its strategy to enable ecosystem partners like ASUS to continue innovating and growing the NUC systems product line....

1. Llama 2 Total comment counts : 106 Summary The article introduces Llama 2, the next generation of an open-source language model. Llama 2 is available for free for research and commercial use. It includes pretrained and fine-tuned language models with different parameters. The models outperform other open-source language models on various benchmarks. Llama 2 was pretrained on publicly available online data sources and has received support from companies, cloud providers, researchers, and others who believe in an open approach to AI....

1. LazyVim Total comment counts : 51 Summary The article describes a Neovim setup called LazyVim which is made easy to customize and extend config with the help of lazy.nvim. Top 1 Comment Summary The author had become burnt out customizing their Vim settings, but was impressed by LazyVim. Within a minute of installing it, they had a fully functional IDE that felt comparable to VS Code with plugins. The author recommended LazyVim to those who find setups like nvChad or lunarVim overly complex....