@danirabbit
I prefer cocaine.
"Folks, cocaine is inevitable. It's endemic and there's nothing we can ever do to resolve that. We have to learn to live in a world where cocaine is part of the norm. At the very least we shouldn't be so militant about casual or benevolent cocaine. Instead of wasting time trying to stop cocaine, we need to refocus on promoting local, on-device, ethical cocaine"
BertvB posted a photo:
A dramatic and atmospheric view of the vast heathlands of Drenthe, captured a few hours after a heavy thunderstorm. The receding storm clouds leave behind a textured sky, while the damp sandy tracks and vibrant greenery glisten in the soft, breaking light, perfectly capturing the refreshing peace that settles over the Dutch countryside after a summer storm.
"A security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products," reports TechCrunch, "along with code to exploit them."
Microsoft's response to the researcher? "Threatening to take legal action and call the cops on them."
On Wednesday, Microsoft published a blog post criticizing the researcher, who goes by the handle "Nightmare Eclipse," for publicly disclosing a series of bugs, including BlueHammer, RedSun, UnDefend, and YellowKey. The flaws affected products such as the Windows built-in antivirus engine Defender and the disk-encryption tool BitLocker.
The core of Microsoft's complaints is that the researcher did not attempt to report the bugs so that the company could fix them. That would have been "responsible," as Microsoft's blog put it. The other side of the company's argument is that by publishing the details of the bugs and how to exploit them before they were patched, Nightmare Eclipse may have aided malicious hackers. Some of the vulnerabilities Nightmare Eclipse disclosed have since been used by hackers in real-world attacks, according to Microsoft, as well as the U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA. "Our Digital Crimes Unit will continue bringing cases against these actors and those that enable their criminal activity — coordinating as needed with law enforcement around the world," Microsoft wrote...
In a series of blog posts published in the last couple of weeks — without providing many specific details — Nightmare Eclipse claimed to have been in contact with Microsoft, but the company allegedly mistreated them, including revoking access to their Microsoft Security Response Center account, the portal where researchers can report vulnerabilities to the tech giant. Nightmare Eclipse's implication was that they had no choice but to release the vulnerabilities publicly... The researchers published the bugs on open source repositories GitHub (owned by Microsoft) and GitLab. The researchers' accounts on those platforms have been banned...
In response to this latest controversy with Nightmare Eclipse, countless researchers have shared their bad experiences reporting bugs to Microsoft.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Elektroschock for sharing the news.
Microsoft's response to the researcher? "Threatening to take legal action and call the cops on them."
On Wednesday, Microsoft published a blog post criticizing the researcher, who goes by the handle "Nightmare Eclipse," for publicly disclosing a series of bugs, including BlueHammer, RedSun, UnDefend, and YellowKey. The flaws affected products such as the Windows built-in antivirus engine Defender and the disk-encryption tool BitLocker.
The core of Microsoft's complaints is that the researcher did not attempt to report the bugs so that the company could fix them. That would have been "responsible," as Microsoft's blog put it. The other side of the company's argument is that by publishing the details of the bugs and how to exploit them before they were patched, Nightmare Eclipse may have aided malicious hackers. Some of the vulnerabilities Nightmare Eclipse disclosed have since been used by hackers in real-world attacks, according to Microsoft, as well as the U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA. "Our Digital Crimes Unit will continue bringing cases against these actors and those that enable their criminal activity — coordinating as needed with law enforcement around the world," Microsoft wrote...
In a series of blog posts published in the last couple of weeks — without providing many specific details — Nightmare Eclipse claimed to have been in contact with Microsoft, but the company allegedly mistreated them, including revoking access to their Microsoft Security Response Center account, the portal where researchers can report vulnerabilities to the tech giant. Nightmare Eclipse's implication was that they had no choice but to release the vulnerabilities publicly... The researchers published the bugs on open source repositories GitHub (owned by Microsoft) and GitLab. The researchers' accounts on those platforms have been banned...
In response to this latest controversy with Nightmare Eclipse, countless researchers have shared their bad experiences reporting bugs to Microsoft.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Elektroschock for sharing the news.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Marcia Lucas has died. The former wife of Star Wars creator George Lucas shared an Oscar for co-editing the first Star Wars movie, helped behind the scenes on The Empire Strikes Back, and co-edited Return of the Jedi. As time went on, her contributions to the blockbuster trilogy were less and less acknowledged.
In een wedstrijd die in niets leek op de finale van vorig seizoen, wint opnieuw Paris Saint-Germain. De Fransen blijken ook zonder spektakel te kunnen winnen. Voor Arsenal rest het vieren van de vorige week behaalde landstitel.
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Creaking Cristiano Ronaldo’s presence at World Cup is more a curse than a blessing | Jonathan Wilson
Veterans such as Messi and Modric are much in evidence at the finals, but an obsession with celebrity may undermine Portugal
It turns out that 2022 wasn’t Lionel Messi’s last dance after all. He will turn 39 during the World Cup, but despite concerns over the “muscular overload” that led to him limping out of Inter Miami’s 6-4 win over Philadelphia Union on Sunday, he remains the figure on whom Argentinian hopes rely.
Messi won’t be the only veteran in Canada, the US and Mexico: Cristiano Ronaldo, aged 41, will also be there – inevitably, given how his career and Messi’s seem inextricably bound. So will Luka Modric and Edin Dzeko, plus the goalkeepers Manuel Neuer, Craig Gordon, Guillermo Ochoa and Vozinha, all of whom are 40. And there is one 39-year-old other than Messi: the Japan defender Yuto Nagatomo.
Continue reading...PARIJS (ANP) - De regio Parijs is zaterdagavond gestopt met het openbaar vervoer per bus. De menigtes, onder wie relschoppers, maken het voor personeel en reizigers onmogelijk veilig te rijden. De Parijse voetbalclub Paris-Saint-Germain (PSG) heeft in Boedapest na strafschoppen de Champions League gewonnen en in heel de Parijse regio zijn feestvierders de straat op gegaan.
Op veel plaatsen ging dat volgens Franse media gepaard met het afschieten van vuurwerk, het stichten van brandjes en schermutselingen met de politie. Die heeft voor zover bekend een heleboel mensen aangehouden op verdenking van geweldplegingen, van wie er zeker 45 zijn gearresteerd. Bij de rellen zouden vooralsnog twee agenten gewond zijn geraakt.
De heftigste ongeregeldheden waren rond het stadion van PSG in Boulogne-Billancourt aan de zuidwestelijke rand van Parijs. Die begonnen al tijdens de wedstrijd in Hongarije. Er werd brand gesticht en er werden enige tijd barricades opgeworpen.