March 2025

“Oracle are attempting to wordsmith statements around Oracle Cloud and use very specific words to avoid responsibility,” wrote Beaumont.

“A search on the U.S. government’s Public Access To Court Electronic Records system yielded no recent results for either Wang or Ma.”

“While advertising tracking only needs to be refused once, the user must always confirm their consent a second time.”

“Both investigations concluded that most highly experienced pilots with similar levels of experience in an F-35 would have punched out of the plane.”

“Nearly three decades after the last time a new class of antibiotics reached the market, McMaster researchers have made a breakthrough discovery that could hold the key to addressing antimicrobial resistance.”

“A potential supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQL started simply: a publicly exposed secret, valid for 1.022 seconds at a time.”

“Most of our students are functionally illiterate. This is not a joke.”

“They broke open the front door without warning or ringing the bell first, searching the whole building and arresting six women attending the meeting in a hired room.”

“Our first test flight met all our expectations, achieving a great success,” said Metzler.

“Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission.”

“Since 2018, the venue has been equipped with facial recognition tools used to identify people deemed to be potential security threats.”

“Removes script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account…”

“In other words, little of the horsepower being used in this editing process is actually coming from the Mac Mini on this guy’s desk.”

“Grammarly broke my calculations and thus they broke my website.”

“Not only do we not have a right to privacy in public; we don’t even have a right to see ourselves as the government and police might see us.”

“However, the build pipeline for compiling the sandbox binary included an automated step that adds security proto files to a binary whenever it detects that the binary might need them to enforce internal rules.”

“When JPMorgan bought Frank in 2021, the bank thought the startup had 4 million customers. The bank found out that the actual customer count was only 300,000 when it later sent test marketing emails to alleged Frank users and approximately 70% of those messages bounced back.”

“The company’s AI business currently generates only limited revenue: xAI reportedly told investors last November that it was “on pace” to reach $100 million in annual sales.”

“We’re spending just shy of $1.5 million/year on AWS S3 at the moment to host files for Basecamp, HEY, and everything else.”

“By outsourcing the institute to the universities, the EPSRC guaranteed that the ATI would always be less than the sum of its parts.”

“The exploit chain was capable of compromising iPhones running the latest version of iOS (16.6) without any interaction from the victim.”

“Since the release of Sequoia last fall, one can no longer reliably cut or copy text from the Mac app.”

“Representatives from these companies, all who agreed to confirm the data under the promise of anonymity, confirmed the authenticity of the information.”

“Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking.”

“Even if the malicious package ethers-provider2 is removed, the threat actors made sure their malicious functionality would persist.”

“This does not mean that Google is making Android a closed-source platform, but rather that the open-source aspect will only be released when a new branch is released to AOSP with those changes, including when new full versions or maintenance releases are finished.”

“Most Waymo crashes involve a Waymo vehicle scrupulously following the rules while a human driver flouts them: speeding, running red lights, careening out of their lanes, and so forth.”

“In 2023, when more than 240 misdemeanor defendants requested representation, the county judge appointed lawyers in only a handful of cases, records show. Nonetheless, the state has imposed no consequences.”

“Due to the old version range, this was given lower priority in our triage queue.”

“There are 7,535 email addresses on that list which is nearly half of all addresses in that export.”

“The recall covers 2024-2025 Cybertrucks manufactured from November 2023 through February 2025.”

“Paul Roberts cooked the books. He lied to investors and auditors about his company’s revenue and about his company’s premier product: an AI-powered tool that, ironically, was supposed to detect fraud in the digital advertising industry.”

“To use the app, you have to connect your dishwasher to WiFi, set up a cloud account in something called Home Connect, and then, and only then, can you start using all the features on the dishwasher.”

“Then in 2023, it suffered a massive cyberattack in which the data of its nearly 7 million customers, including users’ genetic predisposition and ancestry reports, was stolen by hackers.”

“However, HP doesn’t have to admit that it did anything wrong, and it won’t be handing over any money to those customers who were affected by the 2020 firmware update.”

“In the current market environment, our board and investors have determined that it is not possible to raise the capital needed to achieve that goal independently…”

“Pure LLMs score 0% on ARC-AGI-2, and public AI reasoning systems achieve only single-digit percentage scores.”

“Over the course of 40 months, Hobby Lobby acquired over 40,000 artifacts in an unprecedented buying blitz.”

“Aardvark is thousands of times faster than all previous weather forecasting methods.”

“Since Llama.cpp has such a special heap-management system, special features of this system will fail the classic ptmalloc exploitations that we are familiar with.”

“He made the final hiring decision for every naval officer who applied to serve on a nuclear submarine until he retired.”

“Given 23andMe’s reported financial distress, I remind Californians to consider invoking their rights and directing 23andMe to delete their data and destroy any samples of genetic material held by the company.”

“The Court’s decision wasn’t made available to support AGCOM’s statement, and at the time of writing, we are still trying to locate a copy.”

“A human rights campaigner, Tanya O’Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising.”

“The proposed law was a surveillance wishlist disguised as anti-drug legislation.”

“Instead, the notice she received listed hundreds of possible federal crimes that would justify a seizure, though it didn’t provide Martin’s supposed connection to those offenses.”

“The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else.”

“Lee’s lawyer said that prosecutors had screwed up the digital forensics. He didn’t deny that Lee had asked the AI about martial law, just that it happened after Yoon had declared it.”

“Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has lost confidence in the ability of AI head John Giannandrea to execute on product development, so he’s moving over another top executive to help: Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell.”

“Serbian officials were forced to admit on Wednesday, 19 March, that there was a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) on the streets of Belgrade on 15 March, which they had previously denied.”

“AI companies should stop acting as if the GDPR does not apply to them, when it clearly does.”

“According to the Commission, device manufacturers and app developers should be able to access nine iOS connectivity features that were restricted to Apple’s exclusive use before, such as peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC features and device pairing.”

“Before this vulnerability was patched, you could send a message to NetAuthAgent asking for the credentials to any server, and it would just give them to you.”

“When we detect unauthorized crawling, rather than blocking the request, we will link to a series of AI-generated pages that are convincing enough to entice a crawler to traverse them.”

“It allows writing to arbitrary files, allowing the execution of arbitrary code on any Pagure instance.”

“Merely keeping up with the stream of issues found by fuzzing costs Google at least 0.25 full time software engineers. Worse, we observably don’t find everything or find things only after the code has shipped to users.”

“However, from 2000 to 2020, we find that higher income growth predicts the same growth in house prices, housing quantity, and population regardless of a city’s estimated housing supply elasticity.”

“Wiz’s products will continue to work and be available across all major clouds, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud platforms.”

“The cause appears to be a faulty firmware update, which is transforming Samsung soundbars globally into useless rectangular bits of plastic.”

“Roku already places ads on the homescreen and in its screensaver, but autoplaying ads as soon as the TV is turned on is new, and rather aggressive behavior.”

“Instead of continuing the discussions, Cloudflare sent Moonchild a form for what it called an ‘overly broad and general non-disclosure agreement (NDA).’”

“This is not symbolic of any pointed move away from GNU components - it’s literally just about replacing coreutils with a more modern equivalent.”

“According to the lawsuit, Rippling set up a “honeypot” to prove out its suspicions.”

“We are experiencing dozens of brief outages per week, and I have to review our mitigations several times per day to keep that number from getting any higher.”

“There’s no reverse engineering. No cracking of cryptographic secrets. No circumvention of any technical control.”

“The Tesla on Autopilot managed to stop for a kid mannequin in the middle of the road when statics, moving, and blinded by lights, but it couldn’t stop in fog or heavy rain”

“As Baidu’s latest foundation model and native multimodal model, ERNIE 4.5 outperforms GPT-4.5 in multiple benchmarks while priced at just 1% of GPT-4.5.”

“Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa voice recordings locally, which means those recordings (with the exception of certain Alexa features like wake word detection) will be sent to the company’s cloud.”

“In other words, it could be used for an account takeover attack.”

“But still, a more direct line from problem to solution is forcing default search engine choice, not a forced sale of Chrome itself.”

“Whereas a few years ago, I think these variables were much more decoupled, that is not what I hear from folks today, even if their jobs were quite cozy a few years ago.”

“The compromised Action prints CI/CD secrets in GitHub Actions build logs.”

“Medical documents were also found that included diagnoses, prescriptions, and treatments, which Fowler presumed served as proof of medical grounds for missing shifts.”

“The ransomware uses the current time (in nanoseconds) as a seed.”

“Most notably, this means the next generation of web technology is being defined & built by one minority group, and the larger majority have effectively no way to access this technology right now.”

“He took off in his Mooney M20 propeller plane from Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, en route to Zürich in Switzerland, but local media reports that he crashed into a cabin on Slovenia’s Velika Planina mountain, splitting the hut in two.”

“An arbitrator has sided with the social media company, saying that the book’s author should stop selling and publicizing the book, which went on sale earlier this week.”

“I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work.”

“Individual engineers don’t own software; engineering teams own software.”

“Mark stood up and told the truth at great personal risk to himself and his family.”

“You can stretch the truth and maintain credibility, but you can’t maintain credibility with bullshit.”

“To recap: An employee of SignalWire (which develops FreeSWITCH) came right out and said they would let people who aren’t paying for FreeSWITCH Advantage stay vulnerable until their regularly scheduled release (sometime in the Summer).”

“All API Connections must be considered insecure as long as Readers can call the backend server.”

“When you use PayPal Honey, merchants may pay us affiliate commissions. We share those commissions with our users in the form of rewards.”

“The native implementation will drastically improve editor startup, reduce most build times by 10x, and substantially reduce memory usage.”

“I installed this toner cartridge about a month ago, with no issues. But today suddenly an error code 11 popped up which means the printer doesn’t accept/recognize the cartridge any more.”

“The use of an Excel spreadsheet file to track and report financial performance for a NZ$28bn expenditure organisation raises significant concerns, particularly when other more appropriate systems are present on the IT landscape.”

“People can no longer reliably distinguish between a real voice of someone and the person’s AI clone.”

“uBlock Origin is the best browser-based content blocker available on the web today. Sadly today Google just pulled the plug on it by enforcing their new v3 manifest.”

“Unfortunately, as I will document in this post, these impressive performance gains turned out to be primarily due to inadvertently working around a regression in LLVM 19.”

“We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.”

“From people’s movements to contentious elections, as political escalations continued to make headlines in Africa, authorities increasingly defaulted to internet shutdowns to disempower and disconnect people.”

“Even during bad economies, when layoffs are rampant and often more justified, the results are similar — and that’s according to Bain & Company, which, ironically, consults for firms that make cuts.”

“Tesla was proudly proclaiming less than a year ago that it would be selling 20 million electric vehicles annually by 2030.”

“If you’re having deja vu, you’re not alone: Europe has been talking about and toying with using RISC-V for supercomputing for some years, even getting far as some silicon, though turned to Arm’s architecture for its first exascale system.”

“By the 12-month mark, that number had increased to 11 (79%) patients.”

“Currently, we rely on a mix of both Google and Bing libraries to provide you with answers to your searches.”

“In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion.”

“The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains undocumented commands that could be leveraged for attacks.”

“When his position was eventually terminated on September 9, 2019, the kill switch was activated and thousands of employees around the world were locked out of the network, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage, it is said.”

“We will never, ever make this mistake any more. On the steering wheel, we will have physical buttons. No guessing any more.”

“The DMV employee sold the Jeep to a used car dealer for $13,500. After passing through several more hands, another dealership ultimately sold it to a customer for $28,781.44.”

“Age verification laws do far more than ‘protect children online’—they require the creation of a system that collects vast amounts of personal information from everyone.”

“A jury at the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court, has just found six of my compatriots — citizens of Bulgaria — guilty of conspiring with the Kremlin to kidnap and possibly murder me and my colleague and friend, Roman Dobrokhotov.”

“OpenAI’s technology is embedded in Microsoft products, from Copilot to Bing’s AI-powered search features and Microsoft 365’s productivity tools.”

“Over a three-day period, Tesla reported selling 8,600 vehicles at four locations across the country, resulting in $43 million in government rebates.”

“Each machine could replace between one and six workers, and the largest factories surveyed anticipated cutting 22% of their workforce.”

“The Chrome distrusts of GLOBALTRUST and Entrust were both implemented using SCTNotAfter.”

“For organizations with stringent data privacy requirements, Mistral OCR offers a self-hosting option.”

“On this date, access to Opsgenie will be shut off, and the product will no longer accessible.”

“This means users can’t roll back when they discover the unwanted new ‘features’ post-update.”

“the politically inconvenient ADP-promoting “for barristers” document has actually been wholesale deleted from the internet, with a HTTP redirect put in place to point to the inferior “defending democracy” documents.”

“When a trader puts all the risk on a consumer for its own recklessness, negligence, errors, inadequate digital services and inadequate testing, that appears onerous to me.”

“It carries a $1 million prize, for which Google Inc. provides the financial support, and is named for Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician who articulated the foundations of computing more than 70 years ago.”

“Then, at 2 a.m. EST on March 3, it was official: LuGRE acquired and tracked signals on the lunar surface for the first time ever and achieved a navigation fix — approximately 225,000 miles away from Earth.”

“Leith says the DSID advertising cookie is created shortly after the user logs into their Google account – part of the Android startup process – with a tracking file linked to that account placed into the Google Play Service’s app data folder.”

“Rayhunter works by intercepting, storing, and analyzing the control traffic (but not user traffic, such as web requests) between the mobile hotspot Rayhunter runs on and the cell tower to which it’s connected.”

“Italy’s Council of Ministers has approved a draft law calling for the government to adopt a series of legislative decrees to create the legal framework for the reintroduction of nuclear power, which was phased out following a referendum in 1987.”

“For lymphoma, the rate is nearly three times higher for the group of individuals with large tattoos compared to those without tattoos.”

“Reddit is full of this kind of support replies after the slightest pushback from the clients.”

“Wealth inequality is only getting worse in this country and frankly I’m not sure what stops this train.”

“By winning an Academy Award, Flow is also sure to delight indie animators, proving that projects with relatively small budgets – emphasis on relatively, as Flow still cost over $3.6 million – can stand toe-to-toe with industry giants.”

“Automattic intentionally disrupted WP Engine’s business by blocking access to WordPress.org’s critical services, thereby causing disruption, security risks, and economic harm.”

“Harrison donated blood and plasma a whopping 1,173 times, according to Lifeblood, every two weeks between 1954 and 2018.”

“Powered only by solar cells, not radioisotope power sources, these small, comparatively inexpensive lunar landers are not expected to survive the lunar night.”

“The voice coil motor controlling the head isn’t strong enough to overcome this sticky rubber, so the head just sits there until the drive’s firmware gives up on trying and spins the platter down.”

“The moment you run LLM generated code, any hallucinated methods will be instantly obvious: you’ll get an error.”

“Since the exploits identified in this research target core Linux kernel USB drivers, the vulnerability is not limited to a particular device or vendor and could impact over a billion Android devices.”

“The state has already disbursed $600 million in onshoring grants to the tech giant for its central Ohio venture.”

“Right now we have TT08 awaiting packaging and TT09 still in the SkyWater Technology fab. These chips represent a huge investment of time and energy from hundreds of people, and we currently don’t know if we’ll receive them.”

“And all of these connections from Xcode, to every domain, require login to your Apple Developer account, so Apple is definitely receiving identifying information about you in any case.”

“No one is going to create bootleg copies of DRM-protected video one screenshotted still frame at a time — and even if they tried, they’d be capturing only the images, not the sound.”