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Voter Guide: There’s an election Tuesday. Meet the candidates and make your picks.

Source: Kentucky.com -- State

Article note: Voter guide is up. Go get informed. I haven't been following much on this cycle so it's taking some reading, and in several of the down-ticket primaries there seems to be a lot of same positions different face.

Election Day in Kentucky is almost here, so it’s time to start paying attention and pick your candidates. The primary election for governor, which will determine the Democratic and Republican … Click to Continue »

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Bluetooth’s Complexity Has Become a Security Risk

Source: Hacker News

Article note: 0. Most of computing's complexity has become a security risk 1. Bluetooth has always been a disaster
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nesdev.com • View topic – Koei bytecode

Source: Published articles

Pointed out to me the other day, Koei made a nifty VM obviously designed to be an easy C target that runs on top of the NES' 6502. Uses a "left" and "right" register and a stack.

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Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider

Source: Hacker News

Article note: I knew it was bad, and I knew it was especially bad for virtualized workloads, but _damn_. AMD needs to get their Zen2/7nm production up to volume so they can steal some large customers.
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HP Enterprise Nears Deal to Buy Cray

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Woop. Looks like last Cray is going into the HPE maw (With the remnants of DEC, and SGI, and Apollo and...). Interesting. First theory: Maneuver to have network tech that isn't Infiniband (due to Mellanox buyout), and access to Cray's existing contracts/market.
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Lexington will no longer recycle paper products. Effective now. Find out why.

Source: Kentucky.com -- Fayette County

Article note: Well shit. They are still taking corrugated cardboard, but nothing else.

Lexington will no longer recycle paper products, effective immediately, city officials announced Tuesday. That means office paper, newspapers, magazines, cereal boxes, paper rolls and other paper-based products should be put … Click to Continue »

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Microsoft warns of major WannaCry-like Windows security exploit, releases XP patches

Source: The Verge - All Posts

Article note: If Microsoft released an XP patch, they are trying to get out ahead of a _major_ clusterfuck.

Microsoft is warning users of older versions of Windows to urgently apply a Windows Update today to protect against a potential widespread attack. The software giant has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Remote Desktop Services that exists in Windows XP, Windows 7, and server versions like Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2008. Microsoft is taking the highly unusual approach of releasing patches for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 even though both operating systems are out of support.

“This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction,” explains Simon Pope, director of incident response at Microsoft’s Security Response Center. “In other words, the...

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ZombieLoad: Cross-Privilege-Boundary Data Sampling on Intel CPUs

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Another day, another microarchitectural side-channel data exfiltration attack. These things are getting ludicrously complicated, but the fact that the environment they work in has enough moving parts for that kind of complication is always the root cause.
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Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Why the hell aren't they signed in a "Signature valid at timestamp" system with revocation (like app signing in several major commercial OSes), which while obnoxious, at least is not set up so things will break via inaction? Users' working binaries should never just stop working because an out-of-mind third party did something, and even moreso because they did not do something.
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Google Is Turning Off the Works with Nest API

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Don't buy Internet of Shit crap, you will eventually get screwed.
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