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Mastercard to open up network to select cryptocurrencies
reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-mastercard/mastercard-to-open-up-network-to-select-cryptocurrencies-idUSKBN2AA2WF

 

Crypto fee comparison
senatusspqr.medium.com/cryptocurrency-fee-comparison-which-crypto-has-the-lowest-fees-4e9118590e1f

 

Microsoft president calls on other countries to 'copy' Australian media bargaining code
abc.net.au/news/2021-02-12/microsoft-calls-on-countries-to-copy-media-bargaining-code/13147892

 

Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms
bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researcher-hacks-over-35-tech-firms-in-novel-supply-chain-attack/

 

Light Table [app]
lighttable.com/

 

Common libraries and data structures for C
github.com/tezc/sc
or
github1s.com/tezc/sc

dont forget the shit.Buy Planets
buyplanets.net/

 

\bonus/
EA - We didnt make those games #haha - facebook.com/trollarchgaming/posts/3851638338234441

Edited February 12 by whoknows (see edit history)

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Australia to introduce landmark Google, Facebook legislation to parliament
reuters.com/article/us-australia-media-google/australia-to-introduce-landmark-google-facebook-legislation-to-parliament-next-week-idUSKBN2AC0BF

 

Google-Assistant-Unofficial-Desktop-Client
github.com/Melvin-Abraham/Google-Assistant-Unofficial-Desktop-Client

 

Czech CZG buys 175-year old US gunmaker Colt in cash and stock deal
reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2KH3HO

 

The Internet of Trash
www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2021-02/iot.html

Why SQLite Does Not Use Git
sqlite.org/whynotgit.html

Hacking native ARM64 binaries to run on the iOS Simulator
bogo.wtf/arm64-to-sim.html

\bonus4web.devs/
cssreference.io

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K-9 Mail is looking for funding
k9mail.app/2021/02/14/K-9-Mail-is-looking-for-funding

GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3
github.com/GTAmodding/re3

Waterfox web browser sold to System1
www.ghacks.net/2020/02/14/waterfox-web-browser-sold-to-system1/
www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-has-joined-system1/

RethinkDNS (android)
bravedns.com

Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
qvault.io/2020/09/17/very-basic-intro-to-elliptic-curve-cryptography/

Smile - executable ASCII art (2011 remastered)
github.com/xyzzy/smile

Everything Is Buggy
hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/004-everything-is-buggy

XenArmor.Asterisk Password
giveawayoftheday.com/xenarmor-asterisk-password-recovery-pro-personal-2021

Transparent wood
theconversation.com/transparent-wood-is-coming-and-it-could-make-an-energy-efficient-alternative-to-glass-154981

Unpacking Interview Questions
jacobian.org/series/unpacking-interview-questions/

12 Years in Hiding – A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Windows Defender
labs.sentinelone.com/cve-2021-24092-12-years-in-hiding-a-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-windows-defender/

JDK 16: The new features in Java 16
www.infoworld.com/article/3569150/jdk-16-the-new-features-in-java-16.html

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Using Microsoft Event Viewer logs to reverse an attack
youtube.com/watch?v=wl_ML6Uj1Cw

26 Years… of Delphi
blogs.embarcadero.com/26-years-of-delphi/

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Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage
github.com/apankrat/nullboard

US Presidential Election $25,000 Database Bounty Review
www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-02-15-election-bounty-review/

Python strings are immutable, but only sometimes
web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/pythonstringsaremutable.html

Microsoft Teams Logs for Activity
netsecninja.github.io/analysis/2021/02/11/ms-teams-logs-activity.html

Simtel.Net MS-DOS Collection
www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/index-msdos.html

dont forget the shit.Jacquard by Google
atap.google.com/jacquard/

Atlassian launches a whole new Trello
techcrunch.com/2021/02/16/atlassian-launches-a-whole-new-trello

dont forget the shit.LineageOS ends Android 9 Pie support, cutting off 24 phones and tablets
www.androidpolice.com/2021/02/16/lineageos-ends-android-9-pie-support-cutting-off-24-phones-and-tablets/

The web didn't change; you did
remysharp.com/2021/02/11/the-web-didnt-change-you-did

 

Facebook will block Australian users and publishers from sharing news links in response to new bill
theverge.com/2021/2/17/22287776/facebook-block-news-australia-regulation-media-link-sharing

JEB Community Edition
pnfsoftware.com/jeb/community-edition

 

Facebook Australia: PM Scott Morrison 'will not be intimidated' by tech giant
www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56109036
www.businessinsider.com/what-facebook-looks-like-without-news-in-australia-2021-2
businessinsider.com/explainer-australias-war-with-facebook-and-google-over-news-content-2021-2
www.business-standard.com/article/international/facebook-fined-8-45-mn-in-italy-over-improper-use-of-subscribers-data-121021800126_1.html

Before buying a NYT subscription, see what it’ll take to cancel it
imgur.com/a/K8m7p2t

dont forget the shit.Google Maps will let you pay for parking and public transit
www.androidpolice.com/2021/02/17/google-maps-will-let-you-pay-for-parking-and-public-transit/

Edited February 18 by whoknows (see edit history)

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New malware found on 30,000 Macs
arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/new-malware-found-on-30000-macs-has-security-pros-stumped/

Sequoia Capital says it was hacked
axios.com/sequoia-capital-says-it-was-hacked-590dcdd6-fe49-46c6-8422-60a944272302.html

Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript
github.com/lkesteloot/turbopascal

Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's exhibits auction
theregister.com/2021/02/17/soviet_spy_gadgets_museum_auction/

Kroger data breach exposes pharmacy and employee data
bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kroger-data-breach-exposes-pharmacy-and-employee-data/

Obfvious - a CLang (v 12) based compiler that allows for Windows binaries obfuscation
github.com/nimrodpar/Obfvious

RE3(reversed source code for GTA3/VC) has received a DMCA
github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/02/2021-02-19-take-two.md

Linux Sucks 2021
odysee.com/@Lunduke:e/LinuxSucks2021:1

Reverse engineering on the MSX to trigger easter eggs in a game
youtu.be/UCJWKRwmbMk

dont forget the shit.Dropbox Passwords
dropbox.com/features/security/passwords

Diablo II: Resurrected
diablo2.blizzard.com/

Bulgaria Asks United States to Help Shut Down Torrent Tracker Zamunda
torrentfreak.com/bulgaria-asks-united-states-to-help-shut-down-torrent-tracker-zamunda-210219/

Blizzard Arcade Collection leaks hours before BlizzConline
slashgear.com/blizzard-arcade-collection-leaks-hours-before-blizzconline-19660231/

Microsoft reduces Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC support to 5 years
ghacks.net/2021/02/19/microsoft-reduces-windows-10-enterprise-ltsc-support-to-5-years/

Microsoft announces a new Office for offline fans
theregister.com/2021/02/19/office_ltsc/

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Institutional Bitcoin Investors Briefly Lose $13 Billion
decrypt.co/58611/companies-lose-13-6-billion-worth-of-bitcoin-in-market-dip

Playstation 2 Architecture
www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-2/

Firefox 86 Introduces Total Cookie Protection
blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/

Facebook refriends Australia after last-minute changes to media code
www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/government-agrees-to-last-minute-amendments-to-media-code-20210222-p574kc.html

Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone
www.alvarez.io/posts/living-like-it-s-99/

Daft Punk Break Up
pitchfork.com/news/daft-punk-call-it-quits/
 

Free for Developers
free-for.dev

Search people across 350 social media sites [py]
github.com/qeeqbox/social-analyzer

Edited February 24 by whoknows (see edit history)

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Quote

Think of Google as a kind of Godzilla that slurps up data about its users at one end and craps out gold ingots at the other.

 

Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast
casparwre.de/blog/stop-using-google-analytics/

 

 

North Korean hackers target defense industry with custom malware
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korean-hackers-target-defense-industry-with-custom-malware/

XSS Attack Examples and Mitigations
goteleport.com/blog/xss-attacks/

Evolution of Developer Salaries: Looking Back 20 Years
codesubmit.io/blog/the-evolution-of-developer-salaries/#tracing-developer-salaries-in-america-from-2001-to-2019

Exploiting (and Patching) a Zero Day RCE Vulnerability in a Western Digital NAS
youtu.be/vsg9YgvGBec

dont forget the shit.Seagate Announces Lyve Cloud, Web-based Storage Service
www.guru3d.com/news-story/seagate-announces-lyve-cloudweb-based-storage-service.html

QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs
mac.getutm.app/

Facebook says it will pay $1 billion over three years to news industry
business-standard.com/article/international/facebook-says-it-will-pay-1-billion-over-three-years-to-news-industry-121022500105_1.html

 

Deep Nostalgia application can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos
gizmodo.com/deep-nostalgia-can-turn-old-photos-of-your-relatives-1846363190

Firefox replaces GA with a fake no-op GA
twitter.com/__jakub_g/status/1365400306767581185

152kb WebAssembly interpreter
github.com/wasm3/wasm3

Jailbreak tool 'unc0ver' 6.0.0 upgraded to work with iOS 14.3
appleinsider.com/articles/21/02/28/jailbreak-tool-unc0ver-600-upgraded-to-work-with-ios-143

JSON parser written in 6502 assembly language
github.com/ppelleti/json65

Credit Card Payment Systems Crashed on across America
businessinsider.com/credit-card-payments-system-outage-stores-restaurants-chick-fil-a-2021-2

Drivers locked out of their cars at Royston Tesco
bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-56221408

Generate Flowcharts from Text
flowchart.fun/

LastPass Android app has got 7 trackers in it
reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/165465/

How to Read Assembly Language
wolchok.org/posts/how-to-read-assembly-language/

Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked
arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/gab-the-far-right-website-has-been-hacked-and-70gb-of-data-leaked/

Edited March 2 by whoknows (see edit history)

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Okta says it’s buying security rival Auth0 for $6.5 billion
www.cnbc.com/2021/03/03/okta-is-buying-security-rival-auth0-for-6point5-billion-stock-falls.html

Goat Ops
http://www.goatops.com/

Did Schnorr destroy RSA?
eprint.iacr.org/2021/232.pdf
sweis.medium.com/did-schnorr-destroy-rsa-show-me-the-factors-dcb1bb980ab0
twitter.com/FredericJacobs/status/1367115794363088897
eprint.iacr.org/2021/232

Cbonsai: Grow bonsai trees
gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai

End to End Encrypted, Private Search
private.sh

Brave acquires search engine (ex-Cliqz, Tailcat Group) to offer the first private alternative to Google
brave.com/brave-search/

Piracy is Theft? Ridiculous. Says Minecraft Creator
torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-theft-ridiculous-lost-sales-they-dont-exist-says-minecraft-creator-110303/

Dear ImGui
games.greggman.com/game/imhui-first-thoughts/
github.com/ocornut/imgui
6mb @ user-images.githubusercontent.com/919017/100410429-89deca00-3023-11eb-9985-a35f86462bc3.gif

Google to Stop Selling Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing
www.wsj.com/amp/articles/google-to-stop-selling-ads-based-on-your-specific-web-browsing-11614780021
        
Meat consumption and risk of 25 common conditions
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-021-01922-9

Google Fonts adds support for Icons
fonts.google.com/icons

Möbius Printing helper
shreevatsa.net/mobius-print/

Whole Web Pays For Google And Facebook To Be Free
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-03/pay-for-twitter-super-follows-you-can-thank-google-and-facebook

Why northern Europe is so indebted
theloop.ecpr.eu/why-northern-europe-is-so-indebted/

Understanding the evolution of game consoles through their architecture
www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/

On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward
www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/mining_CCS.pdf

Local PDF Tools – Powered by WebAssembly
localpdf.tech/
use of pdfcpu.io/getting_started/getting_started (?)

dont forget the shit.Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC & Pizza Hut
agfundernews.com/beyond-meat-signs-global-supply-deals-with-mcdonalds-yum-brands.html

The incredible boxes of Hock Wah Yeo
obscuritory.com/essay/incredible-boxes-of-hock-wah-yeo/

dont forget the shit.jQuery 3.6.0 Released!
http://blog.jquery.com/2021/03/02/jquery-3-6-0-released/

degoogled phone on stores
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/google-free-e-os-is-now-selling-pre-loaded-phones-in-the-us-starting-at-380/
wccftech.com/google-free-android-smartphones-are-now-available-in-the-u-s/
e.foundation/

Watch a Robot has World-Class Curling Competitors
www.scientificamerican.com/video/watch-a-robot-ai-beat-world-class-curling-competitors/

Hacking Super Monkey Ball Part 2 w/ Ghidra
www.smokingonabike.com/2021/02/28/hacking-super-monkey-ball-part-2-decompilation-with-ghidra/

3500 packages uploaded to PyPI, pointing to a malicious URL
twitter.com/DataNerdery/status/1366263351685226499

How an Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript Developer” became a typeScript fan
betterprogramming.pub/how-an-anti-typescript-javascript-developer-like-me-became-a-typescript-fan-a4e043151ad7

Life discovered deep beneath an Antarctic ice sheet
www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-56268439

Write complicated anonymous functions other than lambdas in Python
github.com/hsfzxjy/lambdex

Accenture acquires Brazilian robotics and automation firm Pollux
www.zdnet.com/article/accenture-acquires-brazilian-robotics-and-automation-firm-pollux

What is a while(2) loop in Hex-Rays?
www.msreverseengineering.com/blog/2021/3/3/what-is-a-while2-loop-in-hex-rays

How (NOT?!) to jailbreak your iPhone
nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/03/03/how-not-to-jailbreak-your-iphone/

US - more immigrants with children are still in their first marriage
ifstudies.org/blog/immigrant-families-are-more-stable

Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Chart Looks Like a Dick
www.vice.com/en/article/n7vgpq/great-news-johnson-and-johnson-vaccine-chart-looks-like-a-dick

Las Vegas Sands Corp sells Vegas properties for about $6.25b
www.business-standard.com/article/international/las-vegas-sands-sells-vegas-properties-for-about-6-25-billion-121030301510_1.html

RTM Cybergang Adds New Quoter Ransomware to Crime Spree
threatpost.com/rtm-banking-trojan-quoter-ransomware/164447/

Male and female voices affect brain differently
www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/422-1.174743

dont forget the shit.Google.Flutter 2 is out!
developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/announcing-flutter-2.html

Phone Calls live on Twitch with OBS, Twilio and JavaScript
www.twilio.com/blog/taking-phone-calls-on-twitch

Automate Labeling Of Obfuscated APIs In Malware
youtu.be/wYiPEDV9IAw

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John McAfee indicted for cryptocurrency fraud
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-crime-mcafee/update-1-u-s-says-john-mcafee-indicted-over-fraudulent-cryptocurrency-schemes-idUSL2N2L31SF

AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique
https://github.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers

Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea

We Expect 300k Fewer Births Than Usual This Year in the US
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/opinion/coronavirus-baby-bust.html

Capstone Disassembler Framework
https://github.com/aquynh/capstone

Exploring Borland dBase IV for DOS
https://psychocod3r.wordpress.com/2020/07/21/exploring-borland-dbase-iv-for-dos/

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At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Email Software
krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/at-least-30000-u-s-organizations-newly-hacked-via-holes-in-microsofts-email-software/
gizmodo.com/the-latest-microsoft-hack-looks-like-it-could-be-huge-1846397829

New ransomware only decrypts victims who join their Discord server
bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-ransomware-only-decrypts-victims-who-join-their-discord-server/

DOS.Zone
http://dos.zone
https://js-dos.com/

Raspberry Pi for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202101.0412/v1

How to send an 'E mail' - Database - 1984
youtube.com/watch?v=szdbKz5CyhA

Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks & Docker
https://mybinder.org/
https://jupyter.org/

dont forget the shit.Kbee: Use Google Drive as a Wiki
https://www.kbee.app/

Edited March 8 by whoknows (see edit history)

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Hackers breach thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jails, hospitals
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/1.1574681

Clone Wars - Open source clones of popular sites
https://gourav.io/clone-wars

Cisco Webex launches real-time translation
https://business-review.eu/tech/cisco-webex-breaks-through-language-barriers-and-launches-real-time-translation-217869

Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=49471

OVH CEO Octave Klaba speaking about the incident
https://www.ovh.com/fr/images/sbg/index-en.html

Google's Plan to Disrupt the College Degree
https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/inside-googles-plan-to-disrupt-college-degree-exclusive.html

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Google faces 'very large' EU advertising probe
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/google-faces-very-large-eu-advertising-probe-vestager-says-1.1576161

Microsoft hack: 3,000 UK email servers remain unsecured
www.bbc.com/news/technology-56372188
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/ransomware-gangs-hijack-7000-exchange-servers-first-hit-by-chinese-hackers/

Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-12/swiss-police-raid-apartment-of-verkada-hacker-seize-devices

VM Detection Tricks, Part 2: Driver Thread Fingerprinting
labs.nettitude.com/blog/vm-detection-tricks-part-2-driver-thread-fingerprinting/

dont forget the shit.NET 6 Preview 2
devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-6-preview-2/

Dymo label printers bricked by Windows 10 Update
www.dymo.com/en-US

Kainet AppleMan.Mandelbrot Set Viewer
kainet.ch/Mandelbrot-Set-Viewer

Edited March 14 by whoknows (see edit history)

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DuckduckGo - Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1371509053613084679

Narco Submarine Found in Spain
http://www.hisutton.com/Narco-Submarine-Found-In-Spain.html

Lenovo - Refund of pre-installed Windows
https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210302-01.html

Self-hosted Airtable alternative
https://baserow.io/
 

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Awesome .NET Performance
https://github.com/adamsitnik/awesome-dot-net-performance

Dig to Docker Image
https://theartofmachinery.com/2021/03/18/reverse_engineering_a_docker_image.html

Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70m Merchants 
https://www.btctimes.com/news/visa-plans-to-enable-bitcoin-purchases

dont forget the shit.Eclipse IDE 2021-03 is released
https://www.eclipse.org/eclipseide/

The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t
https://www.osnews.com/story/133160/the-nokia-n900-the-future-that-wasnt/

How do onion services work?
https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/overview/
 

Edited March 19 by whoknows (see edit history)

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Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock (NoScript and uBlock Origin teams  helping this approach)
blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/03/23/introducing-smartblock/

How to create a 1M record table with a single query
antonz.org/random-table/

Apple : Closing web browser windows doesn't close connections
lapcatsoftware.com/articles/closing.html

TLS 1.0, 1.1 officially deprecated
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8996/

ZGC – What's new in JDK 16
malloc.se/blog/zgc-jdk16

Factoring 2048 RSA integers in 177 days with 13436 qubits and a multimode memory
arxiv.org/abs/2103.06159

Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10b

Iceland Volcano Eruption from Up Close
petapixel.com/2021/03/22/i-captured-the-iceland-volcano-eruption-from-up-close/

Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database
medium.com/adyen/updating-a-50-terabyte-postgresql-database-f64384b799e7

Reverse-Engineering NES Tetris to add Hard Drop
www.gridbugs.org/reverse-engineering-nes-tetris-to-add-hard-drop/

CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
cutiepi.io/
www.kickstarter.com/projects/745629624/cutiepi-raspberry-pi-untethered

What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26528011

SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION
www.foxhound.systems/blog/sql-performance-with-union/

New Intel 'backdoor' – undocumented x86 instruction to alter microcode
twitter.com/_markel___/status/1373059797155778562

Regexploit: DoS-able Regular Expressions
blog.doyensec.com/2021/03/11/regexploit.html

The Art of Warez Documents the Lost ANSI Art Scene
www.juxtapoz.com/news/film/the-art-of-warez-documents-the-lost-ansi-art-scene/

'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film
fieldofvision.org/do-not-split

Aussie billionaire doubles down on crypto after 400% return on investment
www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aussie-billionaire-alex-waislitz-doubles-down-on-crypto-after-400-return-on-investment/news-story/88dd202d6c0b41cf600b9f9544f4295f

Edited March 26 by whoknows
adding shits (see edit history)

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Test Browser Permissions
permission.site/

Speculating the entire x86-64 Instruction Set
blog.can.ac/2021/03/22/speculating-x86-64-isa-with-one-weird-trick/

Neo-Geo Assembly Programming
www.ajworld.net/neogeodev/beginner/

1993: CGI Scripts and Early Server-Side Web Programming
webdevelopmenthistory.com/1993-cgi-scripts-and-early-server-side-web-programming/

Programming quotes
www.ronaldsvilcins.com/2020/12/10/programming-quotes/

SQLite is not a toy database (Native JSON)
antonz.org/sqlite-is-not-a-toy-database/

VS Code themes
themes.vscode.one

MS.calc.exe is now open source
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/calc-exe-is-now-open-source-theres-surprising-depth-in-its-ancient-code/

Steve Jobs Interview 1981
youtube.com/watch?v=DbfejwP1d3c

DeaDBeeF Player
deadbeef.sourceforge.io

H.265 makes video files 94% smaller
janstechtalk.blogspot.com/2021/03/comparing-h265-hevc-and-h265-video-file.html

Do you want Linux phones
blog.brixit.nl/do-you-really-want-linux-phones/
pine64.com/product-category/pinephone

Emoji Under the Hood (seven ways emoji can be encoded)
tonsky.me/blog/emoji/

Google’s got a secret (only google is really allowed to crawl the web)
knuckleheads.club/

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Vanara - .NET assemblies that contain P/Invoke functions, interfaces, enums and structures from Windows libraries
github.com/dahall/Vanara

Restoring Classic Calculator in Windows 10
afana.me/archive/2016/06/27/restoring-classic-calculator-in-windows-10.aspx/

What Google’s Privacy Sandbox Means for Internet Governance
www.cigionline.org/articles/what-googles-privacy-sandbox-means-internet-governance

Activision releases online-only PC game without online content, cracked in one day
arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/03/activision-releases-online-only-pc-game-without-online-content-cracked-in-one-day/

PHP's Git server compromised
news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838

Nintendo Game Boy Modded to Mine Bitcoin
www.techpowerup.com/280282/nintendo-game-boy-modded-to-mine-bitcoin

Acer Hit by Ransomware
guru3d.com/news-story/acer-hit-by-ransomware-hackers-want-50m.html

LIII BitTorrent Client (lightweight)
ghacks.net/2021/03/29/liii-is-a-lightweight-open-source-bittorrent-client-for-windows/
github.com/aliakseis/LIII

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Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsrs (FLoC)
eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
therecord.media/google-collects-20-times-more-telemetry-from-android-devices-than-apple-from-ios/

Remote-controlled forklifts
techcrunch.com/2021/03/31/logistics-giant-geodis-partners-with-phantom-auto-to-deploy-remote-controlled-forklifts/

Microsoft will move third-party drivers to a new folder in Windows 10 soon
www.ghacks.net/2021/03/31/microsoft-could-move-third-party-drivers-to-a-new-folder-in-windows-10-soon/

dont forget the shit.China kicks off mass production of next-gen DDR5 memory
www.tweaktown.com/news/78495/china-kicks-off-mass-production-of-next-gen-ddr5-memory/index.html

Bitcoin mining Game Boy mod goes for the money
www.slashgear.com/bitcoin-mining-game-boy-mod-goes-for-the-money-30666114/

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Microsoft wins $21.9 billion contract with U.S. Army to supply augmented reality headsets
www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-army/microsoft-wins-21-9-billion-contract-with-u-s-army-to-supply-augmented-reality-headsets-idUSKBN2BN36B

dont forget the shit.BlackBerry 5G
www.techradar.com/news/blackberry-5g-2021

Hackers demand up to $40 million in ransom from Broward schools
archive.is/LG5su

Pro¹X: A Linux smartphone (XDA)
www.fxtec.com/pro1x
www.xda-developers.com/pro1-x/
www.indiegogo.com/projects/pro1-x-smartphone-functionality-choice-control

Booking.com fined €475,000 for late reporting of data breach @ 2018
www.computing.co.uk/news/4029362/booking-com-fined-eur475-late-reporting-breach-gdpr

Massive security breach at US universities
dorper.me/articles/unileak.aspx
stanforddaily.com/2021/04/01/hackers-leak-social-security-numbers-student-data-in-massive-data-breach/

 

 

Edited April 3 by whoknows
adding shits (see edit history)

[whoknows]

A man thought opening a TXT file is fine, he thought wrong. macOS CVE-2019-8761
www.paulosyibelo.com/2021/04/this-man-thought-opening-txt-file-is.html

MedData asks GitHub to remove data from Arctic vault as contains leaked patient records
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-arctic-vault-likely-contains-leaked-meddata-patient-records/

Remote work visas around the world
remotechoice.co/remote-work-visas

Visualizing the Most Used Languages on the Internet
www.visualcapitalist.com/the-most-used-languages-on-the-internet/

Speeding Up Webamp's Music Visualizer with WebAssembly
jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-visualizer-with-webassembly/
webamp.org/
butterchurnviz.com/

Linux Containers Online
linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it/

mitmproxy HTTPS proxy - again!
mitmproxy.org/

Experience with code signing Windows apps
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26672773

Computers by the Decade
www.charlieharrington.com/computers-by-the-decade

An HTTP server in a single .c file
github.com/emikulic/darkhttpd

Ways to send an encrypted email in 2021
medium.com/reactivelions/best-ways-to-send-encrypted-email-in-2021-f76284db0d51

List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously_at_sea

Thunder Client for VS Code (Rest Client for Testing APIs)
www.thunderclient.io/

Where did the $12 trillion of covid spending go?
mleverything.substack.com/p/where-did-the-12-trillion-of-covid

The Secret of Synchronization
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-_VPRCtiUg

All Pluralsight courses are free to watch during April (expect 0day releases)
www.pluralsight.com/offer/2021/free-april-individual

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533m Facebook users phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
businessinsider.com/stolen-data-of-533-million-facebook-users-leaked-online-2021-4

        Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users
        businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-phone-number-facebook-leak-data-reports-2021-4

Terramaster NAS exposing itself with UPNP
kn100.me/terramaster-nas-exposing-itself-over-upnp/

Which is the fastest web framework
github.com/the-benchmarker/web-frameworks

Sealed Super Mario Bros. sells for $660k
theverge.com/2021/4/2/22364245/super-mario-bros-most-expensive-game-ever-record-sealed-auction

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Researchers demonstrate first human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface
www.brown.edu/news/2021-03-31/braingate-wireless

How to bypass CloudFlare bot protection ?
jychp.medium.com/how-to-bypass-cloudflare-bot-protection-1f2c6c0c36fb

Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage
www.trtworld.com/business/egypt-demands-over-1b-in-damages-after-suez-canal-blockage-45537

Toxic wastewater reservoir on verge of collapse in Florida
cbsnews.com/news/florida-state-of-emergency-wastewater-leak/

enkiTS: A C and C++ Task Scheduler for creating parallel programs
github.com/dougbinks/enkiTS

SpatiaLite: A Spatial Extension to SQLite
gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

SQLite Plus: all the missing SQLite functions
github.com/nalgeon/sqlite-plus/

DMclone 1.2 (Win&Mac) Lifetime
www.giveawayoftheday.com/dmclone/
www.donemax.com/disk-clone/dmclone-for-windows.html

The Simtel CD Collection (1994-2001)
cd.textfiles.com/simtel/

Blogosphere – Discover independent technical blogs
bilbof.com/blogosphere

Gold plated Electrical Engineering Reference Cards to help you reverse engineer things
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nerdonic/cheatkard-electrical-engineering-reference-cards

AlmaLinux Released As a Stable RHEL Clone For Those Who Liked CentOS
wiki.almalinux.org/
linux.slashdot.org/story/21/04/03/0450256/almalinux-released-as-a-stable-rhel-clone-for-those-who-liked-centos

 

Edited April 4 by whoknows (see edit history)

[whoknows]

supremecourt.Google’s copying of the Java SE API was a fair use of that material
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf
www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-statement-regarding-oracle-v-google-040521.html

LG to open source their phones
www.change.org/p/lg-electronics-lg-to-open-source-their-phones-as-they-are-shutting-down-production-for-good
www.axios.com/lg-is-getting-out-of-the-mobile-phone-business-a1398158-51e4-428b-a649-47e080884fee.html

New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phase I human trials
www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/141892/novel-hiv-vaccine-approach-shows-promise-in-landmark-first-in-human-trial/

Amazon illegally fired workers who criticized warehouse conditions, NLRB reportedly finds
www.cnet.com/news/amazon-illegally-fired-workers-who-criticized-warehouse-conditions-nlrb-reportedly-finds/

US - Has my Facebook data been leaked w/ source
fbleak.info/

People Are Stealing Legos
www.npr.org/2021/04/03/983870097/people-are-stealing-legos-heres-why

[whoknows]

Signal isn't as open source as you thought it was anymore
www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signal-isnt-as-open-source-as-you-thought-it-was-anymore/

Rust in the Android platform
security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-platform.html

I hope work from home continues (crazy shit)
www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2021/4/6/some-of-the-reasons-i-hope-work-from-home-continues-and-i-never-have-to-return-to-an-office

Engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully expanded 16G memory and 1TB hard drive
inf.news/en/digital/b5599514f985bf2acd947d74d74a203d.html

The Facebook Phone Numbers Are Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned
haveibeenpwned.com/
haveibeenfacebooked.com/ (search world wide, by phone - getting Cross-Origin LOL)

Kallithea – Self-hosted alternative to GitHub
kallithea-scm.org/

Facebook Business - Analytics is Going Away
www.facebook.com/business/help/966883707418907

How Browsers Lay Out Web Pages
browser.engineering/layout.html

Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adopt SAP instead
www.cnbc.com/2021/04/05/google-will-stop-using-oracle-finance-software-switch-to-sap.html

[whoknows]

Kaboom.js is a zero-dependency declarative JavaScript game library
kaboomjs.com/

Learning COBOL
monadical.com/posts/cobol.html

Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support
www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/04/wtf-signal-adds-cryptocurrency-support.html

skruv - small JS framework
skruv.io/

[whoknows]

The Edges of Our Universe
arxiv.org/abs/2104.01191

This is the final motherfornicationing website
perfectmotherfornicationingwebsite.com/

A free/libre COBOL compiler
gnucobol.sourceforge.io/

FDA approves first test of CRISPR to correct genetic defect causing sickle cell disease
news.berkeley.edu/2021/03/30/fda-approves-first-test-of-crispr-to-correct-genetic-defect-causing-sickle-cell-disease/

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wtf!! New generation of webcam? 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMxr8Nq-w_w

Fly - Docker without Docker
fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/

How a Carnivorous Mushroom Poisons Its Prey
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-carnivorous-mushroom-poisons-its-prey/

Pierre Fabre hit with $25 million ransomware attack
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/leading-cosmetics-group-pierre-fabre-hit-with-25-million-ransomware-attack/

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Et tu, Procter & Gamble? - P&G Worked With China Trade Group on Tech to Sidestep Apple Privacy Rules
daringfireball.net/2021/04/et_tu_procter_gamble
apple.news/ALxtnAojhRVyEKpyhNKX6Hw

Meet the patent troll that won a $308 million jury trial against Apple
www.letterspatent.org/p/meet-the-patent-troll-that-won-a

uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox

Edited April 10 by whoknows (see edit history)

[whoknows]

Photopea (free alternative to Photoshop, online) - runs completely in your computer (after Photopea.com loads, you can disconnect from the internet and use it offline) - yeah old shit
www.photopea.com/
www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/i8j5te/i_made_a_free_alternative_to_photoshop_that_is/g18ush0/

Clubhouse data leak: 1.3 million user records leaked online
cybernews.com/security/clubhouse-data-leak-1-3-million-user-records-leaked-for-free-online/

Squirrelbyte - a SQLite-based JSON document server
squirrelbyte.com/

Alibaba slapped with record $2.7B antitrust fine
www.zdnet.com/article/alibaba-slapped-with-record-2-7b-antitrust-fine/

Brave disables Chromium FLoC features
github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/8468

The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback
www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-the-untold-story-2014-4

dont forget the shit.Gradle 7.0 Released
docs.gradle.org/7.0/release-notes.html

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Microsoft in advanced talks to buy Nuance for about $16 billion, announcement could come Monday
www.cnbc.com/2021/04/11/microsoft-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-speech-recognition-company-nuance.html

Japan decides to release water from Fukushima plant into sea
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Japan-decides-to-release-water-from-Fukushima-plant-into-sea

Edited April 13 by whoknows (see edit history)

[whoknows]

ParkMobile Breach Exposes License Plate Data, Mobile Numbers of 21M Users
krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/parkmobile-breach-exposes-license-plate-data-mobile-numbers-of-21m-users/

Website reveals if Google is SPYING on you with new hi-tech 'ad tracker'
amifloced.org/
www.thesun.co.uk/tech/14620600/website-reveals-google-spying-ad-tracker/

Don't save your password, save the way to generate it
passwordonce.com/

FBI arrests Texas man with alleged plot to blow up Amazon data center
www.cnet.com/news/fbi-arrests-texas-man-with-alleged-plot-to-blow-up-amazon-data-center/

He Found The Source of the Coronavirus (74k likes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU

Cracking Enigma in 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzWB5jL5RX0

VSCode - Debug Visualizer
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hediet.debug-visualizer

Writing NES Emulator in Rust
bugzmanov.github.io/nes_ebook/

Open Source Discord like
github.com/Megapixel99/dissonance

OpenJailbreak - Apple tools. Built from scratch
github.com/openjailbreak

Israeli Phone-hacking Firm Cellebrite to Go Public
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium-israeli-phone-hacking-firm-cellebrite-to-go-public-1.9694259

Unity Future .NET Development Status
forum.unity.com/threads/unity-future-net-development-status.1092205/

FCC Wants You To Use Its Speed Test App
gizmodo.com/the-fcc-wants-you-to-use-its-speed-test-app-to-figure-o-1846667372
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samknows.fcc

Create websites as easily as creating slides
aspect.app/

Single PHP file w/ jQuery generating $101,101 this month (exists by 2014)
remoteok.io/

[whoknows]

Former C1A Director - Bitcoin Is a ‘Boon for Surveillance’
decrypt.co/66411/cia-bitcoin-surveillance

Rust, not Firefox, is Mozilla's greatest industry contribution
www.techrepublic.com/article/rust-not-firefox-is-mozillas-greatest-industry-contribution/

RentMyCPU
github.com/franklbt/RentMyCPU

WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal
www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/13/whatsapps-new-privacy-policy-is-so-bad-it-might-be-illegal/

Deep dive in CORS
ieftimov.com/post/deep-dive-cors-history-how-it-works-best-practices/

Counter Strike - Bug Allows Hackers to Take Over a PC With a Steam Invite
www.vice.com/en/article/dyvgej/counter-strike-bug-allows-hackers-to-take-over-a-pc-with-a-steam-invite

After Brave, the Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC as well
vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-vivaldi-users-will-not-get-floced/

CDC 4 Covid
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html

Data from 500M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale Online
threatpost.com/data-500m-linkedin-users-online/165329/

++Ad blocking, or how to use the Web properly++
www.cynicusrex.com/file/adblocking.html
hblock.molinero.dev/

Buy a phone, get a tracker
noyb.eu/en/buy-phone-get-tracker-unauthorized-tracking-code-illegally-installed-android-phones

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Open Source Note Taking Apps
lonm.vivaldi.net/2021/04/05/open-source-note-taking-apps/

High quality audio makes you sound smarter
tips.ariyh.com/p/good-sound-quality-smarter

Don't Use Google Chrome
spreadprivacy.com/block-floc-with-duckduckgo/

Australian developers score the highest on coding tests
devskiller.com/it-skills-report/#Twelve

Reuters website goes behind paywall in new strategy
www.reuters.com/article/us-thomson-reuters-professional-website/reuters-website-goes-behind-paywall-in-new-strategy-idUSKBN2C21QU

Facebook content moderator quit with a blistering internal note
twitter.com/rmac18/status/1382366931307565057

bash - Run unknown shell script with a line-by-line confirmation prompt
gist.github.com/wlib/093f8b8f670016813073a4c4f8b28e81

Ghidra Analyzer for UEFI Firmware
github.com/DSecurity/efiSeek

bonus
lofi.cafe/

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Opting your Website out of Google's FLoC Network (NGINX / Apache / Caddy / Lighttpd / Netlify / GitHub / GitLab / Cloudflare / WordPress)
paramdeo.com/blog/opting-your-website-out-of-googles-floc-network
plausible.io/blog/google-floc

Java is criminally underhyped (hahaaaa)
jackson.sh/posts/2021-04-java-underrated/

IT companies warn in open letter: EU wants to ban encryption (Tutanota inside)
mailbox.org/en/post/it-companies-warn-eu-plans-to-ban-encryption

FTP is 50 years old
www.filestash.app/2021/04/16/ftp-is-50-years-old/

Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Instagram for children (15 Apr 2021)
commercialfreechildhood.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/instagram_letter.pdf

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Chinese technology company Huawei eavesdropped on Dutch mobile network KPN
nltimes.nl/2021/04/17/huawei-able-eavesdrop-dutch-mobile-network-kpn-report

Facebook faces mass legal action over data leak
www.bbc.com/news/technology-56772772

HTTP/3 Support now in Firefox
hacks.mozilla.org/2021/04/quic-and-http-3-support-now-in-firefox-nightly-and-beta/

dont forget the shit.One-Click Anonymous Login
human-id.org/

Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, and Mozilla are all out - Nobody is join Google’s FLoC
www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387492/google-floc-ad-tech-privacy-browsers-brave-vivaldi-edge-mozilla-chrome-safari

First GMO Mosquitoes to Be Released In the Florida Keys
undark.org/2021/04/12/gmo-mosquitoes-to-be-released-florida-keys/

The original streamer (12yr), who ran his own public access gaming show in 1993
www.pcgamer.com/meet-the-original-streamer-who-ran-his-own-public-access-gaming-show-in-1993/

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Are the top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting?
jonatron.github.io/webgl-fingerprinting/

Seam carving in Julia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpB6zQNsbQU

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? 
hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men

Microsoft Files Patent to Create Chatbots That Imitate Dead People
www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-chatbot-patent-imitate-dead-people-ai
twitter.com/ign/status/1352390788613857284

Top 10 Craziest Assembly Language Instructions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz_xJPN7lAY

WindowGrid
windowgrid.net/

Canada Proposes New Regime to Block and Deindex Pirate Sites
torrentfreak.com/canada-proposes-new-regime-to-block-and-deindex-pirate-sites-210415/

Pigeon: A signal client for a minimalist phone
www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/#pigeon

Exact String Matching Algorithms
www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/

Microsoft launches Edge Kids Mode, the first kid-friendly version of a browser
finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-edge-kids-mode-161818072.html

Docfy – Modular JavaScript tool to help build documentation sites
docfy.dev/

Back to the BBS - Part four: BBS Server software
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po7afzVSaQs

WebGL State Diagram
webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/resources/webgl-state-diagram.html

Warez-BB shuts down after 15 years of operation
twitter.com/warezbborg/status/1379781931118772224

Media player made for movies (js)
github.com/BMSVieira/moovie.js

Edited April 17 by whoknows
adding shits (see edit history)