.NET has an out of band update today to fix CVE-2026-40372, an Elevation of Privilege, which, in some cases, could allow an attacker to forge authentication tickets, or decode authentication tickets or other protected data.
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Jonathan Keir
Harker Starmer
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Not having enough questions about
their good friend, the Prince of Darkness
You have to ask why the No 1 Jet Engine maker declined to make these jet engines.
It likely lands somewhere near "It can't be done in a reasonable time with the given R&D budget, with the required reliability and fuel efficiency"
we all know I have no life, so:
"The Boom XB-1 is supersonic demonstrator, designed to fly up to Mach 1.3, and powered by three General Electric J85-15 engines"
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As I understand it, they have not flown the Symphony.
"Existing supersonic engines are jet fighter engines, which have neither the fuel economy nor the reliability required for commercial aviation.[5]"
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Spoiler: They're not "on the cusp" of it. There are no aircraft ready to do this.
Boom are not close.
Joke. Boom are nowhere near having a production-ready aircraft. And they may never be. They don't have the necessary engines yet. Rolls-Royce noped out of making them. simpleflying.com/rolls-royce-...
Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".
Hi this joke is for me
We're here! 36%! Rock bottom!
Congratulations everyone, we did it!
Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today
Why are so many teams obsessed with the mouse and ignoring the elephant in the room?
The impact on software dev outcomes of working in smaller batches - developing & releasing fewer changes at a time - is so profound that it's genuinely puzzling why so few teams even think about pulling that lever.
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+++ As I was asleep at the wheel yesterday - A belated Rest in Power - to Jim Steinman - who left us on the 19th April 2021. +++
Hey now! - Respect to the man who single handedly gave us 'Wagnerian Rock' & placed Von with a 40 piece choir.
#JimSteinman #ThisCorrosion #TheSistersOfMercy #postpunk
Claiming Labour have been forced into increasingly cruel and right wing policies is actually moving the Overton window. No one made them, they have a massive majority. This is what they want.
Trust your common sense: yes, a series of massive fossil fuel supply shocks is, in fact, going to radically accelerate the process of electrification & decarbonization.
Sometimes the answer to “how do stupid things keep happening?” Is “people can find intelligent-sounding ways to rationalize anything”
The most important dividing line within couples is Team Early To The Airport versus Team Late To The Airport. I seriously believe you should be able to filter for it on dating websites. (I am also Team ETTA, obvs).
this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990
Ironically, the internet was far more social before social media arrived.
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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The mega success of Star Wars gets weirder and weirder the more you think about it. It's basically a knowingly kitsch cult tribute, now popularly remembered as a po-faced originator. Including by the guy who made it.
*Dead media studies, often enlightening in unusual, politicized ways
most people focus on the immediate & obvious dangers, but actually the worst aspect of godzilla romping thru a city tends to be the hazardous particulates that get kicked up into the air. way more people die of godzilla-related mesothelioma than get crushed, radiation-lasered, &c
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
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Already spotted by Trevor Noah, who should know!
The simplest solution is probably a zero-tolerance position towards shitty code. If they try to sneak in an trash LLM submission, nuke it and publicly block the submitter for wasting your time with wretched dogshit.
As LLM addicts all quickly become incapable of proofing their code...
