today's leftovers
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NVIDIA driver 535.98 now available for Linux
NVIDIA GPU owners may want to go and grab some updates as driver 535.98 is out now. This is a pretty small release for their Production Branch, which is suitable for everyone to install and use containing a bunch of needed bug fixes.
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Mastering the curl command line
For the firs time ever, I am going to present a single, very long, video class with the title shown above.
This session will be streamed and recorded live on August 31, starting at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST, 09:00 PDT) and is expected to take about two and a half hours. Due to many uncertainties, the stream might of course be longer even if the end recording might get edited down a little.
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SandboxAQ Open Sources Cryptography Management Tool for Post-Quantum Era
The AI and quantum spin-out from Alphabet uses the Sandwich framework for the Cryptoservice module in its SandboxAQ Security Suite, currently used by several U.S. government agencies, global banks, telcos, and tech companies. The framework is designed to simplify cryptography management and give developers greater observability and control.
“Modern cryptography management and cryptographic agility are becoming increasingly more essential for businesses of all sizes; however, there has been a distinct lack of open-source tools for developers to support these features,” Graham Steel, head of product for the company’s Quantum Security Group, said in a statement.
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What helps people get comfortable on the command line?
I think there are two parts to getting comfortable: motivation and resources. I’ll start with a couple of motivations and then list some resources.
a “killer app”
A few people mentioned a “killer command line app” that motivated them to start spending more time on the command line. For example: [...]
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Hackers prepare to take on a satellite at DEF CON
Flying somewhere high above the earth is a small satellite that, for the next week, will be target #1 for five teams of hackers at this year’s DEF CON conference.
The annual Hack-A-Sat capture the flag (CTF) competition held at Aerospace Village at the annual DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas is the first time an on-orbit satellite will test contestants mettle while bringing together hackers who don’t typically work on space systems.
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The Orb Web Desktop
[Hugo Leisink] is a programmer who contributes to Open Source projects. In their spare time, they have been developing a web-browser-based operating system called Orb. It is available for the princely sum of zero cheeseburgers and doesn’t need a high-spec machine to run smoothly. The project is built using PHP and Javascript, which allows it to run efficiently on most desktop devices. There are a number of apps included, which are again written in a combination of PHP and js, together with a few written using webasm.
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2023 Edition [Ed: Microsoft, where back doors -- not security -- are the goals]
Microsoft Corp. today issued software updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related products, including multiple zero-day vulnerabilities currently being exploited in the wild.
Meet the Brains Behind the Malware-Friendly AI Chat Service ‘WormGPT’
WormGPT, a private new chatbot service advertised as a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to write malicious software without all the pesky prohibitions on such activity enforced by the likes of ChatGPT and Google Bard, has started adding restrictions of its own on how the service can be used. Faced with customers trying to use WormGPT to create ransomware and phishing scams, the 23-year-old Portuguese programmer who created the project now says his service is slowly morphing into “a more controlled environment.”