Christian Noll

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

i dissected some firmware for a Hanwha Wisenet XNP-9300RW and found that it had github admin tokens in it, also miltech is weird

Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left - Mindgard

KOReader

No One

Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

The Eclectic Light Company

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

Latest Geekbench performance figures for macOS VMs, and testing of how few cores and how little memory is really needed: could you run a macOS VM usefully on a MacBook Neo?

Who Owns the Code Claude Wrote?

AI-generated code copyright explained for builders.

Bogdan's Blog – From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: Why I Made the Switch

Broken updates, Copilot shoved everywhere, and my system bricking itself. Here's why I finally escaped to Linux.

Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users

The company that decides whether you're a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.

GitHub - arman-bd/guppylm: A ~9M parameter LLM that talks like a small fish.

A ~9M parameter LLM that talks like a small fish. Contribute to arman-bd/guppylm development by creating an account on GitHub.

My Nintendo News

SEGA has no plans to abandon physical media and still sees a lot of value in it

With discourse still growing around Sony’s plans to completely abandon physical media in 2028 Famitsu asked SEGA president and COO, Shuji Utsumi, about his thoughts on physical video game software. Mr.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users

Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

New details about what we found, and how agentic harnesses are now able to reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives.

killthecookiebanner.eu

Kill the Cookie Banner!

The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com

AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees | The Jerusalem Post

Oracle laid off ~13% of its staff to fund a $300B computing deal with OpenAI. Now, a credit downgrade and $7B in required power grid guarantees put the massive project in jeopardy.

Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers

Changes proposed for ADB could kill an entire ecosystem of open-source power-user apps, mobile developer setups, and rootless privacy tools based on Shizuku.

Microsoft Edge: Passwords end up in memory as plaintext

The Edge password manager appears secure: encrypted storage, secured by Windows Hello. But plaintext is stored in memory.

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.