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Microsoft: Windows 'inetpub' folder created by security fix, don’t delete Microsoft has now confirmed that an April 2025 Windows security update is creating a new empty "inetpub" folder and warned users not to delete it.

@samilaiho.com seems you’re how I know about the blank folder, now apparently there’s a reason - www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

YouTube video by Microsoft Discussion on quantum computing, Majorana 1 and more with Dr. Sankar Das Sarma and Dr. Chetan Nayak

Microsoft has several fully operational Majorana 1 quantum processors, running single topological qubits for testing of components.

▶️ Discussion on quantum computing, #Majorana 1 & more with Dr. Sankar Das Sarma and Dr. Chetan Nayak - #Microsoft
youtube.com/watch?v=uOCi...
#QuantumComputing

Grugqs access pyramid, displayed back to front - https://youtu.be/Huz2lP-iW9s?si=k58Om8aFvcO5GE1j - 7:31 — Grugq: You need to have five servings of 0day a day. It’s not that. 7:38 — Grugq: That’s password reuse and token theft. 7:43 — Grugq: That’s how you’re doing most of your stuff. 7:46 — Grugq: And then I guess… 7:52 — Tom Uren: Exactly, access, there you go. 7:55 — Grugq: So you’ve got your password reuse, then you’ve got your misconfigurations, then you’ve got your public exploits, and then somewhere at the very tippy top, you’ve got your 0day, 8:05 — Grugq: which is you bring it out for birthdays or your Dirt Day Treat of the Week sort of thing. 8:10 — Tom Uren: It’s not a food.

Grugqs access pyramid, displayed back to front - https://youtu.be/Huz2lP-iW9s?si=k58Om8aFvcO5GE1j - 7:31 — Grugq: You need to have five servings of 0day a day. It’s not that. 7:38 — Grugq: That’s password reuse and token theft. 7:43 — Grugq: That’s how you’re doing most of your stuff. 7:46 — Grugq: And then I guess… 7:52 — Tom Uren: Exactly, access, there you go. 7:55 — Grugq: So you’ve got your password reuse, then you’ve got your misconfigurations, then you’ve got your public exploits, and then somewhere at the very tippy top, you’ve got your 0day, 8:05 — Grugq: which is you bring it out for birthdays or your Dirt Day Treat of the Week sort of thing. 8:10 — Tom Uren: It’s not a food.

@tom.risky.biz @thegrugq.bsky.social @patrick.risky.biz @metlstorm.risky.biz chatgpt’s cute back-to-front takes on Grugq’s Access Pyramid 😂🤣

YouTube video by jason103030484 Ben Folds and the QSO 12 March 2020. I still call Australia home.

Ben Folds + Queensland Symphony Orchestra - “I still call Australia home” - youtu.be/twYR_qA8lEo?...

TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE | MARCH 13, 2025 | GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY YouTube video by Griffith Observatory

One globe watching a red moon! www.youtube.com/live/BguB5KS... www.youtube.com/live/J25XzCd... www.youtube.com/live/oONkjFK...

@tom.risky.biz @thegrugq.bsky.social Is the Samsung washer singing an opsec issue? 😂😀

@Apple maps obviously has no idea about on-the-ground geography in Australia, marking deserts green.. the Middle East looks correct tho?!🌵 🏜️ 🐪

RealPlayer circa 1997

American teens are flocking to a new video app

Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.

Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy
on Your Location
www.wired.com/story/gravy-...

Just more clever than everyone else still 😝

My only gripe with this is that it only keeps a max of six months previous emails available to access, past there you’re on your own with Thunderbird..

Console Chaos: A Campaign Targeting Publicly Exposed Management Interfaces on Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls - Arctic Wolf Arctic Wolf Labs identified a campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate firewall devices with exposed management interfaces.

Console Chaos: A Campaign Targeting Publicly Exposed Management Interfaces on
Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls
arcticwolf.com/resources/bl...

A reminder that contrary to some, doing the same thing over & over & expecting different results isn't the definition of 'insanity'.

For many people, it's called practice.

And everyone practices differently. I don't deride others who are striving to be better no matter how they do it.

#practice

Oh excellent. Well you’ll definitely like it! (And a sleight of hand, crimes of the patriots, etc).. separately “dark market” is also quite fitting

I just thought to pop up and note that any such book that doesn’t come with reading Merchants of Menace is always missing large chunks of the story :)

The processor is starting to not have all the hardware extensions and seems to chew battery nowadays?

A cute image generation app and a better battery 😝

Glad I’m not the only one that found this fascinating! I don’t know if I wished you a merry humbug, if I didn’t, sorry for my tardiness:)

Server 2025 is now officially supported as site system servers 🥳

learn.microsoft.com/...

That’s a lot of eps! I can’t believe I don’t think there’s one I missed, and having just finished the latest one, Merry Christmas back at you - have an awesome one and look forward to next year :) 20 million plus combined downloads must be surreal.. I can’t even imagine 20,000

If I say it with an Aussie accent is it any better? 😝

ZoomIt v9 with LiveDraw is out! Draw and annotate windows and the desktop while you interact with them: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysint...

Super glad you’re ok! Stay safe!

For about 10 frames in the movie Hiding Out I spotted a C128. Almost threw me off because it was attached to an Apple monitor.

Congratulations!

Release Release v0.87.0 · microsoft/PowerToys In the v0.87 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability, and improvements. Installer Hashes Description Filename sha256 hash Per user - x64 PowerToysUserSetup-0.87.0-x64.exe A6549B...

PowerToys 0.87 is here! A few highlights:
- Workspaces now supports more applications and can now move existing windows
- Advanced Paste now has "Advanced AI" which lets you sequence clipboard transformations
- New+ now works on Windows 10
🔥🔥🔥 github.com/microsoft/Po...

Go about designing, building, operating/securing/maintaining, a government, nation-level CA/PKI infrastructure for all citizens in a nation-state to use across whole of government/widely across business. I think the answer is, “slowly and methodically with great skill and care..”

It’s easy to forget when this is just an automated renewal request somewhere. Equally, when you build and run or protect (or both) the plumbing all day, is occasionally worth popping up and mentioning - ive done enough to think it a genuinely interesting line of thought to consider “how would I

When they can get text right, I don’t think anyone will be laughing anywhere near as hard 😝