BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪

Text that reads: A: n the context of security vulnerability disclosure, the term "embargo" refers to an agreed-upon period of time during which details of a discovered vulnerability are kept confidential. This allows affected parties (such as software vendors, maintainers, or downstream distributions) time to prepare and release patches or mitigations before the vulnerability becomes public. The list is public, hence agreed immediately to disclosure or the 30-days confidential period past invaine (or just a template). Anyway, good time to list those systems that are impacted and those that are not affected by this vulnerability.

A security researcher has accidentally published the details of a BusyBox bug that can be abused to crash IoT devices, gain root privileges, or plant persistent backdoors

lists.busybox.net/pipermail/bu...

1 byte overwrite = system compromise.

Rocky Linux Hardened (RLC-H) protects you with hardened_malloc - adding crucial protection for C/C++ memory vulnerabilities.

Read Jeremy Allison’s blog: bit.ly/4oslANe

Thanks GrapheneOS & Rocky Security SIG!

#cybersecurity #rockylinux #infosec

OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS | Amazon Web Services AWS continues to expand access to the most advanced foundation models with OpenAI open weight models now available in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Accessing these new models from…

The new OpenAI open weights models are available in Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker JumpStart. In Bedrock, you can use them also via an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. More info in my post:

buff.ly/8dRMPG9

#AWS #AI #GenAI #OpenAI #OpenSource

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I have a feeling the Irish weather might kibosh this, a little. 😄

Irish start-ups bet on food delivery battle being won in the sky Two Irish innovators have collaborated on a one-of-a-kind drone delivery app as they hedge their bets on the future of the food ordering battle being won in the sky. Flipdish, an all-in-one digital ordering and management platform for the hospitality sector, is partnering with drone delivery firm Manna Air Delivery, to deliver what it calls […]

2 Irish startups bet on food delivery battle being won in the sky.
New tech enables customers to browse local restaurant menus, place orders for drone delivery.
Both winners at Irish StartUp Awards when I was on judging panel
@mannadronedelivery.bsky.social
www.cateringinsight.com/irish-start-...

Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’ Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

“WIRED spoke with more than 150 current and former federal employees, experts, and Musk supporters across more than 20 agencies to expose the inner workings of DOGE.”

So many incredible reporters worked on this story that a separate skeet is required to list them all.

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

It is not that hard to pick up, honest.

I got an LLM working locally about 2+ years ago, now it is dead easy with Ollama and soon I'll be running agents locally with other models (using a Pi 500) if I am lucky.

So it depends, people younger than me can grasp it too!

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The Chinese models are superb.

And OpenAI has missed an obvious trick, only 2 models and too big.

Typically, Chinese LLMs are released across a wide range of sizes, allowing for greater pickup and dissemination.

That's the clever way of doing it.

That is 5pm, British and Irish summer time.

Cursor AI Code Editor Fixed Flaw Allowing Attackers to Run Commands via Prompt Injection Critical flaw in Cursor AI editor let attackers execute remote code via Slack and GitHub—fixed in v1.3 update.

#Cursor: Prompt Injection vulnerability CVE-2025-54135 (fixed in v1.3).
By feeding poisoned data to the agent via MCP, an attacker can gain full remote code execution (#RCE):

#AISecurity
👇
thehackernews.com/20...

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🔥 ArmSoM-CM1 Crushes Industrial Extremes: -40°C to 85°C Certified!
✅ Full validation: Cold boot·Thermal shock·Hi/Lo operation
Image1：before testing
Image4: testing finished
Stay tuned: docs.armsom.org/armsom-cm1

#CM1 #industrialembedded #iot #opensource #raspberrypi

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Been a bit peaky, but I did manage to play with qwen-coder online and a bigger model.

Simply spectacular.

Capable of a facsimile of reasoning, able to digest criticism and can flip between different languages (Pascal and Python).

Blows away a lot of ordinary LLMs by comparison.

#jobs

and you innocently thought that punch cards was how we used to do programming heh

how about logic gates via vacuum tube bulbs?

To all professionals (and retirees) in journalism, join the challenge to post a photo of yourself in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession. Copy the text and post a pic on YOUR page.

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A merry good afternoon from #London

Apparently it is 22 degrees C. 😄

There is a story there, not just the lack of preparation, not a sausage of beta testing or secure design (which could have met the legal requirements but protects privacy and doesn't give 3rd parties too much info)

This is new. I've never had a photo of myself used in an ad campaign before! Maybe I have a career ahead of me as a male model! The picture is from some Linux Foundation event or another.

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🌍✨ EuroPython just ended.
In many hallway chats and community organisers open space, one issue came up again and again: Sponsorship.
Now that AI is taking the spotlight, I’m asking: Who's left behind?
My thoughts here:
✍️ georgiker.com/blog/is-ai-l...

#EuroPython #OpenSource #AI #Python #community

While working on something else in the garden discovered termites in the shed. One of those vacations that are really a task list that keeps growing.

How the information ecosystem works on X today: A random account aggregates my reporting, recounting scoops from our Media Matters story, and uses it to drive subscriptions to their Substack. Elon Musk sees it and endorses it, with apparently no idea he's reading the NYT, a publication he hates.

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Persistence pays off.😄

A weird, multi colored 3d printed contraption

After 87 million iterations. I finally got these buttons to fit

Measure once, print 67

☂️ Move the material and cupertino packages outside of Flutter · Issue #101479 · flutter/flutter This issue tracks the work to formally decouple the material and cupertino libraries from the core Flutter framework and establish them as standalone, first-party packages on pub.dev. ➡️ 📄 Read mor...

It’s happening! The #FlutterDev core team decided to move Material and Cupertino outside of the framework, and instead focus on a core set of design-neutral widgets! ✨💙

Time to get involved 🥳

github.com/flutter/flut...

i have been using endeavouros on my laptop for the past 3 months for everything except video editing and music making and honestly the experience has been such a breeze compared to windows i can definitely see how desktop linux will probably take over in the next few years

Been impressed by the #RaspberryPi 500:

Cute design, little refinements on the Pi 400 (got a pair of those)
Fast (did my post install apt favourite apps in ~18 mins)
Nice memory (8Gb)
And the repo is fair, not a complete copy of Trixie (I know because it broke my script a few times) but acceptable

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How Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and DOGE Got Access to a Federal Payroll System That Serves the FBI Hundreds of pages of records reviewed by WIRED show just how quickly DOGE gained access to systems at the Small Business Administration—and through it, a USDA system that handles payroll for federal l...

WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is primarily based on reporting from Freedom of Information Act requests.

Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/edward...