#Mozilla reports that #Firefox #security CVE-2024-9680 is being exploited in the wild
A vulnerability has been discovered in Mozilla Firefox which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Mozilla Firefox is a web browser used to access the Internet. Successful exploitation could allow for arbitrary code execution. Depending on the privileges associated with the user an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.
Interesting-looking software engineer position open on the Internet Archive's Archive-It team. https://app.trinethire.com/companies/32967-internet-archive/jobs/99996-software-engineer-archiving-data-services-remote
The wikipedia article on electrostatics has the best cat picture 😽
60TB Hard Drives Arriving in 2028, According To Industry Roadmap https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/10/04/1929235/60tb-hard-drives-arriving-in-2028-according-to-industry-roadmap?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Mozilla bought the excellent Android email app K-9 (which didn’t include any trackers) and integrated trackers as part of #Mozilla‘s rebranding under the #Thunderbird name.
They even made it opt-out instead of opt-in. Their defense for breaking the law: ”we wouldn’t have enough data if we obeyed the law.“
It doesn’t matter whether you ”anonymized“ the data or not: If you want to extract data from someone’s device to yours, you may do so only if they knowingly consented.
https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/113244035577912640
Russia has started evacuating citizens from Lebanon, but so far Putin has only ordered a special flight for 60 members of diplomats' families. The other 3,000 Russian nationals in the country are currently on their own. https://www.agents.media/po-ukazaniyu-putina-iz-livana-evakuirovali-tolko-diplomatov/
A popular pro-Russian politician in #Poland once again amplifies the popular #Russia narrative about “languages spoken in #Ukraine”, trying to demonstrate that “majority of people speak Russian”.
But apart of using old and manipulated data, he distracts the debate from simple international law facts to vague “common sense” heuristics, where speaking a language automatically means belonging to some culture or country and - above all - gives those countries some moral or political right over other countries. Following this line, one would have to conclude that the US automatically has a right to the UK, Australia or Ireland (and anyone can come up with a dozen of such examples from their region). For starters, the fact that I speak fluent Russian does not imply that I’m culturally Russian or expect “protection” from Russia.
Ukraine’s defense against Russian invasion is 100% cultural and civilisation war between two competing models of governance - the archaic feudal-autocratic model of Russia, and the “democracy of peers” model which has been always widespread among Slavs in the form of veche assemblies.
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