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Windows 7 released Oct 22, 2009

Windows 7 released Oct 22, 2009

On October 22, 2009, Windows 7 was released. It went on to become one of the most popular Windows versions of all time, providing a much needed bounce back after Windows Vista. Two of the most beloved Windows versions ever,

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Max Bernstein's Blog
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Rails is a JIT compiler

Originally published on Rails At Scale. The title was bait to get you to open this article. But fear not! We will be generating code at run-time today. (See the PR for a sneak peek.) Sam popped into the JIT channel asking how we might optimize Rails enums in Roundhouse, mo...

Max Bernstein's Blog
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Objects, attributes, maps, oh my!

Or, IC UC we all C for ICs. In many dynamically typed programming languages, objects look like a big ol’ mapping of names to values. The languages encourage this flexibility. Consider for example Python: class C: def __init__(self): self.a = 1 self.b = ...

Xe Iaso's blog Valid
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"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-94300 for the project BIND 9 named, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix memory corruption in named triggered by replaying captured GSS-TS...

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"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-111813 for Apache Traffic Server, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to patch systems running its experimental magick plugin. In its default unsigned configuration, the plugin ...

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Can they write a function?

For a software developer position, there isn't a trick to finding the best candidate. Your criteria do not determine how solid the candidates will be. Everyone is submitting 500 applications a month now, and those who automate the process submit thousands. So how do you hi...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Adversarial interoperability is a team sport (21 Oct 2026)

Today's links Adversarial interoperability is a team sport: Vibe-coded jailbreaks are fun, but don't solve the problem. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Labour Whip's pro-Iraq war threats; LoC's emulators; Kevin Mitnick plays CIA stooge; ICE: "The w...

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Trust Stores Are Dependencies Too

26 of 29 CA bundles in critical packages contain roots Mozilla has removed.

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention Valid
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Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security

Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security If you're running anything on PHP it's vital you upgrade - today's updates (across the entire PHP 8.x line) address two remote code execution holes, and there have been exploits circulating since last nig...

The Old New Thing
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Why didn’t we use Ro­Register­For­Apartment­Shutdown to clean up the unmarshalable delegate?

Too many requirements, some of which bring us full circle.

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The Old New Thing
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Microspeak: Drain the slide, back-up slides

PowerPoint presentation jargon.

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Xe Iaso's blog Valid
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"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-111497 for the project Brotli, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix an out-of-bounds write in the Brotli decoder that permits remote code ...

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"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-107891 for the project musl, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix multiple integer overflows in regcomp() when compiling untrusted regular...

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Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile

Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile Well this is delightful: I released Battle Drones yesterday under an Apache 2.0 License and there's already a French language fork which reskins the game to take place in steampunk 1900s France and adds an animated intro! Panache est u...

Simone Salis Supports Webmention
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Going Somewhere

Going Somewhere

Vicky, driving me home from O'Hare, got sixteen dollars for the best conversation I had in months. The last line is hers.

Jim Nielsen’s Blog Valid
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No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner

I’ve mentioned before my interest in the history and development of nuclear weapons. Currently, I’m reading The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg (of Pentagon Papers renown). In the first chapter, Ellsberg talks about his time working ...

Krebs on Security Valid
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Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today

Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected servers. Experts say there are working exploits for the flaws, and that these critical bugs are already being exploited in the wild.

John D. Cook
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Backdoors, Incompetence, and Elliptic Curves

The NIST elliptic curves have been in the news twice lately. A few days ago Anthropic posted a paper on the NIST curve seeds that I wrote about here. Now the curves are in the news again, this time over broken certificates. My post a few days ago was about the possibility that the NSA […]

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Jesus Christ patch your shit now

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-109618 for the project PHP, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix multiple memory safety vulnerabilities that allow attackers to execute ar...

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Upgrade your PHP installs immediately to protect against php2shell

This morning, two critical PHP Security Advisories were published:

If you're running PHP for any service, you need to upgrade immediately to 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27, or 8.5.12. And if you use Remi's repos on RedHat-derivative Linux distros, you need to switch to official repos temporarily as Remi's on vacation and can't update his community repo. (Reminds me of xkcd 2347).

I'm glad I finished migrating this website from a PHP-based CMS to Hugo earlier this year—having a static website and a minimal commenting system saves on hosting costs and dramatically reduces attack surfaces. Especially in this era of AI tooling making exploit discovery easier.