The backdoor highlights the politics, governance, and community management of an ecosystem exploited by massive tech companies and largely run by volunteers.
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The Xz Backdoor Highlights the Vulnerability of Open Source Software—and Its Strengths
Jason Koebler · Mar 30, 2024 at 3:27 PM
The backdoor highlights the politics, governance, and community management of an ecosystem exploited by massive tech companies and largely run by volunteers.
Image: Zulian Firmansyah, Unsplash
Friday afternoon, Andres Freund, a software developer at Microsoft, sent an email to a listserv of open source software developers with the subject line “backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise.” What Freund had stumbled upon was a malicious backdoor in xz Utils, a compression utility used in many major distributions of Linux, that increasingly seems like it was purposefully put there by a trusted maintainer of the open source project. The “xz backdoor” has quickly become one of the most important and most-discussed
Perfect Dark finally gets the full-featured PC port it deserves
Decompilation project adds mouse-and-keyboard controls, upscaled graphics and more.
The article is a month old and covers the unofficial PC port of Perfect Dark allowing for things like mouse and keyboard, widescreen, and 60 FPS support.
Hackaday also has an article on this which can be found here.
The GitHub page can be found here and if you find this interesting you might also want to check out the mouse injector for GoldenEye 007 .
Super Mario RPG (2023) - Review Thread
Game Title: Super Mario RPG
Platforms:
Trailer:
Developer: Nintendo
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 85 average - 97% recommended - 36 reviews
Ars Technica - Andrew Cunningham - Unscored
For people who haven't played it in a while, the Super Mario RPG remake is a fun opportunity to revisit a game you remember fondly. For those who are new to RPGs, this game is a great and low-stress introduction to the form, much like the original game was for kids in the '90s. The worst thing I c
Super Mario RPG - Review Thread
Game Title: Super Mario RPG
Platforms:
Trailer:
Developer: Nintendo
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 84 average - 98% recommended - 46 reviews
Ars Technica - Andrew Cunningham - Unscored
For people who haven't played it in a while, the Super Mario RPG remake is a fun opportunity to revisit a game you remember fondly. For those who are new to RPGs, this game is a great and low-stress introduction to the form, much like the original game was for kids in the '90s. The worst thing I c
Super Mario RPG (2023) Review Thread
Game Title: Super Mario RPG
Platforms:
Trailer:
Developer: Nintendo
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 84 average - 97% recommended - 32 reviews
Ars Technica - Andrew Cunningham - Unscored
For people who haven't played it in a while, the Super Mario RPG remake is a fun opportunity to revisit a game you remember fondly. For those who are new to RPGs, this game is a great and low-stress introduction to the form, much like the original game was for kids in the '90s. The worst thing I ca
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Montana loses fight against youth climate activists in landmark ruling
Emotional testimony leads to plaintiffs' win in first youth-led climate trial.
WD believes it can wring a bit more capacity out of existing PMR and SMR tech.
The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president
1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.
No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators
Disenchanted mods Ars spoke with want change, not more communication.
This article covers mostly the recent events, where Reddit tries to gaslight the mods into a "we need to talk". As well as r/place opening.
I'm posting this here as it documents that the media already took notice of the hostility towards Reddit and Reddit Inc., including in r/place, even if the admins are trying to control the damage in it by screwing with the message.
Either way, experts think OpenAI should be less opaque about its AI model architecture.
"Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon"
Meta promised to make Threads compatible with W3C open standard for social media.
Interesting rundown of the whole Meta/Threads/Fediverse situation so far. Not a lot of new information but might be a handy primer for curious newbies.
Mostly sharing for this prime bit of W3C mailing list sass in response to Meta software engineer Ben Savage's self-introduction:
“The company you work for does disgusting things among others. It harms relationships and isolates people. It builds walls and lures people into them. When that doesn't suffice, brutal peer pressure does … That said, welcome to the list, Ben.”
Viasat’s new broadband satellite could be a total loss
The mission now in peril is thought to be valued at roughly $700 million.
Viasat’s new broadband satellite could be a total loss
The mission now in peril is thought to be valued at roughly $700 million.
Saturn stars in this near-infrared image taken June 25 by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Webb’s near-infrared camera took the picture of Saturn on June 25. Scientists added orange color to the monochrome picture to produce the image released Friday.
The picture shows Saturn’s iconic icy rings shining around the disk of the gas giant, which appears much darker in near-infrared due to the absorption of sunlight by methane particles suspended high in the planet’s atmosphere.
Webb pointed its 21.3-foot (6.5-meter) gold-coated mirror toward Saturn as part of an observing program to test the telescope’s ability to detect faint moons. The observations included several deep exposures of Saturn that astronomers are still analyzing to probe the planet’s fainter rings and search for undiscovered moons.
There are 146 known moons in orbit around Saturn, ranging in size from larger than the planet Mercury to the size of a sports arena, more than any other planet in the solar system, according to NASA.
via: [ArsTechnica](https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/saturns-rings-steal-the-s