How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

#MalwareDB v0.3.0 is out, which provides #Yara search and a GitHub-hosted Docker container. Unfortunately something happened where GitHub's download action couldn't download the GHA-built Python modules, so those were published to PyPi manually. github.com/malwaredb/ma...

I really miss #Shmoocon, and I am very grateful that @districtcon.bsky.social exists and that I've been able to attend both years. It's a great conference and I met some wonderful people, caught up with friends, and learned new things! Thank you! Can't wait for Year 2!

Substitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript #Cryptography www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

DisplayPort > HDMI the HDMI Forum is run by idiots

“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.” security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...

Linux Kernel Ported To WebAssembly - Demo Lets You Run It In Your Web Browser - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-WebAssembly

TL;DR if you need help investigating Glassworm, feel free to use @turngate.bsky.social free trial to make sense of your Google calendar data. More here www.linkedin.com/posts/gdead_...

Announcing Ember 2024, our new dataset of benign and malicious samples. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05074 The dataset brings an update of 3.2 million malicious and benign files first seen between Sep. 2023 and Dec. 2024.

I was able to visit the #Railroad Workers Memorial Museum in Altoona, PA today, which was an awesome experience. After seeing a GG1 in person, I was wondering about the details of how the #NortheastCorridor works, found original PRR technical docs prr.railfan.net/ElectricTrac...

'Who Needs Rust's Borrow-Checking Compiler Nanny? C++ Devs Aren't Helpless' https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/05/11/1759213/who-needs-rusts-borrow-checking-compiler-nanny-c-devs-arent-helpless?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Carmack: World Could Run on Older Hardware if Software Optimization Was Priority https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/13/1321259/carmack-world-could-run-on-older-hardware-if-software-optimization-was-priority?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Intel TDX Support For KVM Finally Expected To Debut In Mainline Linux 6.16 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-TDX-For-KVM-Linux-6.16

My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules. Or how to make the Linux kernel run .com files in the quest for the smallest possible executable file ever. Practicality be damned. www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/tx... #Linux #ExecutableFiles #Kernel #Fun

Rail Passengers President & CEO Jim Mathews rides the rails after a successful two-week stay in DC for our #RNDC advocacy workshops and lays out five points on why privatizing Amtrak is still a real dumb idea.

Send a message to Congress: keep @amtrak.com rolling! Support this vital public service. action.railpassengers.org/Default.aspx...

Cool kickstarter project: color e-ink picture frame www.kickstarter.com/projects/arp... #eink

Putting together the "who's who" of the advocacy world. If you know of a state/regional account that we should add, let us know! Let's make our voice heard together!

The American Association of Railroads doesn't want you to know about this history.

Amtrak's Redesigned iPhone App Offers Easier Access to Train Status, Tickets, and More

Haiku OS Wrapping Up Its New malloc & Various Performance Optimizations - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-New-malloc-More-Perf

For anyone other than people who absolutely need or require an operating system that isn't macOS, this is the default laptop.

@districtcon.bsky.social what is the National Malware Association? Not a ton of info on the website :) nationalmalware.org

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

Scenes from #Amtrak: the Delaware Memorial bridge and what looks like the HMS Tetanus

Hiding text with Unicode, including emojis. paulbutler.org/2025/smuggli...

Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

This Mag Safe battery pack for iPhones is the first commercially available "solid state" battery I've seen. Is that correct? The battery seems remarkably safe if the claims are true. kuxiu.co/products/kux... #Apple #iPhone #SolidStateBattery

Light wand challenge 1 is complete! @psifertex Jordan Wiens has successfully parsed captures to understand R/G/B values, checksum, and static values necessary to frame the transmission. GitHub documentation promised after cleanup. #Shmoocon Challenge 2, Flipper app is still unclaimed at this time

Last weekend I got to talk about the light wands I use in my Christmas display and give a live demonstration at Shmoocon. Thanks Carson Zimmerman, official Shmoo photographer, for the awesome pics. You have to do the "we will rock you" soundtrack in your head! www.scworld.com/perspective/...

A #Haiku enthusiast has started working on porting it to #Loongson! Follow along at discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-l....

Rest in Peace David Lynch. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Thank you #Shmoocon! 😢

So long and thanks for all the moose, @shmoocon.bsky.social.

I ❤️ shmoocon

Thanks for joining us at ShmooCon 2025. Lead with kindness and continue achieving great things.

Last night’s lobby con and paper airplane con was awesome. Someone managed to get a paper airplane to go through a plant leaf at 4am. #Shmoocon #LobbyCon

Lots of new followers rolling in so it’s introduction time. I’m Shawn: -I work in tech and love photography -I shoot mostly wildlife and landscapes -My wife and 9 year old daughter are also photographers -I shoot Nikon and Leica cameras mostly www.shawnthomas.art for my high res work. #photography

#Shmoocon Labs BBS by bluknight is live! telnet://shmooconbbs.dotorg.org

I presented #MalwareDB at the last #Shmoocon firetalks. github.com/rjzak/malwar...

Rusticl OpenCL Driver Nearing Cross-Vendor Shared Virtual Memory Support - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rusticl-Cross-Vendor-SVM

Happy F5 day to everyone who celebrates.

Helping analysts with their reverse engineering work and finding similar functions is a problem. A lot of existing literature doesn't really work on real data. We can get better results by being dumber! @NeurIPSConf #NeurIPS2024 @BoozAllen w/ @krismicinski.bsky.social @rjzak.bsky.social

Serde is so good. #Rust

Amtrak’s FY24 sets ridership, revenue records www.trains.com/trn/news-rev... #trains #Amtrak

Reinforcement learning in #AI is hard, so I’ve made a website to collect answers I’ve given to common RL questions. It's named Decisions & Dragons. It’s launching with 8 questions and answers, but I will add to it in the future. A 🧵 to give a preview with the link below.

I can’t wait for #Apple Intelligence, because when I say “Hey Siri, play This Corrosion by Sisters of Mercy”, what I don’t want to hear is “Now playing Sisters of Mercy by Leonard Cohen”. No disrespect to Mr Cohen. #AppleIntelligence #HeySiri #AppleMusic #SistersOfMercy

Haiku beta 5 is out! www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1...

I made a Rust crate which provides macros for easily reporting execution time of code blocks and functions. github.com/rjzak/code-t...

hell yes I want to know more about paleontologists or even just people who like dinosaurs in the olympics 🦖🦕