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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency urges affected users to update ASAP. More eyes fixing the bugs, even more eyes finding the bugs
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Quote: A deep-dive write-up of the vulnerability reveals that these exploits provide “a very powerful double-free primitive when the correct code paths are hit.”
Double-plus ungood!
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Slow news day?
Quote: The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1086 and carrying a severity rating of 7.8 out of a possible 10, allows people who have already gained a foothold inside an affected system to escalate their system privileges.
Quote: It was patched in January, but as the CISA advisory indicates, some production systems have yet to install it.
My emphasis.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Microsoft warned customers on Thursday that the May 2024 non-security preview update for Windows 11 is causing taskbar crashes and glitches. It's good that no one depends on the Taskbar
"He tightens and loosens a few spare parts. One things fixed, another falls apart."
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"The ultimate streamlined UI is no UI at all!"
Microsoft: "This is just another small step towards perfection."
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Thus my refusal to ever install a "preview" update.
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Google blames ‘data voids’ and edge cases for its bad AI-generated search results. You're searching it wrong
Just cancel it and move on, you cowards!
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For this year’s Microsoft BUILD conference, we are thrilled to announce significant updates to WSL. Because it's...well, you know
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Because it's the year of everybody being geniuses? 
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The company said that its newest LLM is fluent in over 80 programming languages including Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, Bash, Swift, and even Fortran which came out in 1957. It's like the other coding assistants, but this one adds more accents and silent letters
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A recursive function just isn't complete until the umlaut (pronounced um-lout).
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ya everyone says they know everything...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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As part of the latest Windows updates, Microsoft fixed the broken drag-and-drop on the address bar, finally allowing you to move folders and files to a folder or few above the current one (Microsoft calls that "breadcrumbs"). When the new features are just old broken features coming back
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Pfft! We wish. Maybe Windows 15.
TTFN - Kent
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(That is an unfortunate check mark, mind you... Damn you for probably being right. (Or optimistic.))
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So when will it come in a non-preview update?
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Supposedly it's in this month's dump of carp fixes. So, whenever you're brave enough to try installing that. I hear it breaks some people's taskbars though (more on Monday's newsletter)
TTFN - Kent
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GPT-4o UNCHAINED! This very special custom GPT has a built-in jailbreak prompt that circumvents most guardrails, providing an out-of-the-box liberated ChatGPT so everyone can experience AI the way it was always meant to be: free And every phone on this planet rings in unison
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Cell by Stephen King?
Nope, nope, nope.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Close - his Lawnmower Man (possibly just the movie version)
Which reminds me I wanted to read Cell. Any good?
TTFN - Kent
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Pretty good, can't go into it much without spoiling. There was a movie made, starring Samuel L Jackson and John Cusack.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Microsoft Loop is a new AI-powered collaborative app that empowers you to create, share, and manage your projects efficiently. In case you want to get loopy
Either that, or Microsoft is getting loopy
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Either that, or Microsoft is getting loopy
"Getting" loopy? That cow's been out of the barn for a while now.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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