ReHacked vol. 341: Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware, 100 year old Halloween postcards and more
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Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware - Ars Technica #security #hardware
Servers running on motherboards sold by Supermicro contain high-severity vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to remotely install malicious firmware that runs even before the operating system, making infections impossible to detect or remove without unusual protections in place.
One of the two vulnerabilities is the result of an incomplete patch Supermicro released in January, said Alex Matrosov, founder and CEO of Binarly, the security firm that discovered it. He said that the insufficient fix was meant to patch CVE-2024-10237, a high-severity vulnerability that enabled attackers to reflash firmware that runs while a machine is booting. Binarly discovered a second critical vulnerability that allows the same sort of attack.
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Vintage Postcards From the Witching Hour | Moss and Fog #art #history
GNU Health | Freedom and Equity in Healthcare #software #health #society
GNU Health is a Free/Libre, community-driven project from GNU Solidario, that counts with a large and friendly international community. GNU Solidario celebrates GNU Health Con and the International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies (IWEEE) every year, that gathers the GNU Health and social medicine advocates from around the world.
LineageOS 23 #software
Welcome to the Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD (WSFB) #software
⚡ Experimental Project – Running FreeBSD on WSL2 ⚡
This repository hosts work-in-progress efforts to run FreeBSD inside Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) with minimal to no changes to the FreeBSD base system. The project builds on the open-source components of WSL2 to enable FreeBSD to boot and run seamlessly in a Windows environment.
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal #art #ai #cartoon #longread
California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill which requires web browsers to make it easier for Californians to opt-out of allowing third parties to sell their data.
The California Consumer Privacy Act, signed in 2018, gave Californians the right to send opt-out signals, but major browsers have not had to make opt-outs simple to use. The bill signed Wednesday would require them to set up an easy-to-find mechanism that lets Californians opt-out with the push of a button, instead of having to do so repeatedly when visiting individual websites.
Passed peak social media, maybe – FlowingData #socialnetworks
As we descend towards slop-based social media, where the videos are fake and the people are bots, we might be rounding up our time with algorithmically generated feeds. For Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch shows time spent on social media over the past decade.
Time travelling with IKEA catalogues 1951-2021 - IKEA Museum #design #history For over 70 years, the IKEA catalogue was produced in Älmhult, constantly growing in number, scope and distribution. From the 1950s when Ingvar Kamprad wrote most of the texts himself, via the poppy, somewhat radical 1970s and all the way into the scaled-down 2000s – the IKEA catalogue always captured the spirit of the time. The 2021 IKEA catalogue was the very last one printed on paper.
‘Dial it down’: California forces Netflix, Hulu to lower ad volume - POLITICO #copyrights
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a law banning excessively loud advertisements on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime that could become a de facto national standard.
The new California law is aimed at addressing what the Federal Communications Commission has called a “troubling jump” in TV ad noise complaints, fueled by streamers airing commercials louder than the shows and movies they accompany. It’s modeled off a federal law passed in 2010 that caps ad volumes on cable and broadcast TV, but doesn’t apply to streaming services.
Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons' | National Post #privacy #freespeech
In spite of multiple international statements framing internet access as a human right, the Liberal government is pursuing legislation that would allow them to unilaterally quarantine Canadian citizens from the online world.
The denial of service would requires only the personal order of the minister of industry, a position currently filled by Mélanie Joly, in consultation with the public safety minister, a position currently filled by Gary Anandasangaree.
AI is reshaping childhood in China, from robot tutors to chatbots - Rest of World #ai #society #education
China’s push to integrate AI into children’s lives has created a huge business opportunity for companies. Parents say AI tools are better — and less expensive — than human teachers and tutors. Experts warn that use of untested AI tools could harm children’s development and widen inequalities.
1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day #space #environment
With all constellations deployed, we expect about 30,000 low-Earth orbit satellites (Starlink, Amazon Kuiper, others) and perhaps another 20,000 satellites at 1,000 km [620 miles] from the Chinese systems. For the low-orbit satellites we expect a 5-year replacement cycle, and that translates to 5 reentries a day. It’s not clear if the Chinese will orbit-lower theirs or just accelerate us to chain-reaction Kessler syndrome.
The Kessler syndrome is a scenario in which the density of objects in low-Earth orbit is high enough that collisions between objects cause a cascade, with each collision generating space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions.
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