And it only took 19 fucking years. Who says government in this country doesn't work
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/travel/tsa-shoes-removal-airport-security.html
Trump’s tax law by the numbers: $1 trillion less for Medicaid, $75 billion more for ICE https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/070825_tax_bill_numbers/trumps-tax-law-by-numbers-1-trillion-less-medicaid-75-billion-more-ice/
President Trump's sweeping tax-and-spending law, which renews tax breaks that largely benefited corporations and the wealthy, also contains sharp increases in spending on immigration enforcement and steep cuts to government programs that serve lower-income Americans.
#Tucson #Arizona
this whole generative ai and vibe coding thing, to me, has this very strong aura of, like david lynch would say, "big sadness"
Unveiled at #TROOPERS25 - Hexagon fuzzing unlocked
Hexagon is the architecture in Qualcomm basebands - they power most of the world's leading smartphones.
Until now, this baseband was out of reach.
We released the first open-source toolchain for system-mode Hexagon fuzzing, presented by Luca Glockow (@luglo), Rachna Shriwas, and Bruno Produit (@bruno) at @WEareTROOPERS
Full post: https://www.srlabs.de/blog-post/hexagon-fuzz-full-system-emulated-fuzzing-of-qualcomm-basebands
How we opened up mobile firmware in 3 steps:
1. Boot real iPhone basebands with a custom QEMU fork
2. Rust-powered fuzzer controls execution via JSON configs
3. Ghidra integration maps coverage across threads
This brings full visibility to Qualcomm’s 4G/5G/GPS stacks.
Reproducible. Extendable. Open source.
Hexagon’s no longer off-limits - mobile security just got a lot more transparent.
🔗 Try it yourself: https://github.com/srlabs/hexagon_fuzz
📚 Docs: https://github.com/srlabs/hexagon_fuzz/blob/main/docs/reverse_engineering.md
🖥️ Slides from Troopers25: https://github.com/srlabs/hexagon_fuzz/blob/main/docs/talk/hexagon_fuzz_troopers2025.pdf
🛠️ Issues, ideas, or contributions? PRs welcome.
I did a thing. while working on native NFC capabilities, i ended up writing a test program which reads all the info from EMV cards (such as Visa/Master/Amex) and dumps it to try and learn the payload.
the info shown in the #GTK interface is fairly basic mostly as demo, but it dumps a lot more to the shell:
https://github.com/FakeShell/nfc-tester
it may be possible to use this for malicious purposes with the right skill set, so please use it responsibly =)
Test stand is pretty roasted. It is going to take some work to get back up and running.
@purism i havent seen a lot of doing the last 2 years, updates to the software to make the L5 better over time and fully functional yet have to materialize
Update: YouTube has just reinstated the video, after what I presume is a human review process. I wish it didn't take making noise on socials to get past the 'AI deny' process :(
Go forth, and self-host all the things! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hFas54xFtg
BWAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
"AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers"
A $1.5 billion AI company backed by Microsoft has shuttered after its ‘neural network’ was discovered to actually be hundreds of computer engineers based in India.
Liberux NEXX is a Linux smartphone with Rockchip RK3588S, 32GB RAM, 6.34-inch OLED (Crowdfunding)
Liberux NEXX is a Linux smartphone powered by a Rockchip RK3588S octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 processor coupled with 32 GB LPDDR4x and a 512GB eMMC flash, as well as a 6.34-inch 2400×1080 OLED display. We’ve seen other Linux smartphones in the past with the most popular likely being the Pur…
https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/03/liberux-nexx-linux-smartphone-rockchip-rk3588s-32gb-ram-6-34-inch-oled/
Pretty cool that the same people who told us 2 years ago that native apps are dead, let's do everything via the web are now telling us actually the web is dead too, let's do everything via an LLM
https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025
Versions 2.2.3 and 2.3.0 of Pipeline was released. Pipeline now hides videos which require payment by default. If you are using an external video player, you can spawn it again by clicking the thumbnail of the video instead of going back to the feed and clicking the video again. Startup performance of Pipeline also has been significantly improved. Those releases also fix quite a few bugs. For details about those, consult the changelog: https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/pipeline/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md.
Ukraine has developed Sky Sentinel, an AI-powered autonomous air defense turret designed to detect, track, and neutralize Russian Shahed drones and missiles. This advanced system operates independently, requiring minimal human intervention, and provides a cost-effective solution to the relentless drone attacks targeting Ukrainian cities.
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