Kissaki
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- Comment on Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers 7 hours ago:
Yes, that’s the safe way. Uninstall, download current version, install. That’s it.
Outside of being compromised already where you would have to notice and fix outside of notepad anyway. But that seems unlikely given the selective attack nature the hoster was able to confirm.
- Comment on Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers 7 hours ago:
The previous release already fixed this, or evaded the issue.
The channel was the update mechanism. Upon Notepad++ checking for updates, they were able to inject their own. So if you updated via the apps own update checker they could have misdirected you into installing something else or something modified.
- Comment on Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers 7 hours ago:
Every version before the previous one.
If you haven’t updated you were not vulnerable to the update hijacking.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 1 day ago:
When I open communities (“submolts”) none of them seem to load. Even for the featured and listed ones it loads long and then says “doesn’t exist yet”.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 1 day ago:
No comment replies indicates that it worked! /s
- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 1 day ago:
I had written to them, and they pointed to a CNBC source, which mentioned another video from a different angle, and the family confirmed it was them in the video. So yeah, seems like it was valid.
- Comment on Self-driving cars, autonomous robots and drones, and other AI systems get hijacked by custom road signs 2 days ago:
As long as it didn’t say “minimum speed”
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 2 days ago:
Then you’re part of “monthly active Copilot users”
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 2 days ago:
The article mentions concrete numbers for the different Copilot products.
A Microsoft spokesperson tells TechCrunch that this number has grown to 150 million total.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 2 days ago:
OS takes a screenshot every five seconds. CEO: “Damn, look how much it is being used!” /s
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 2 days ago:
It’s insane that public institutions make contracts based on promises or hopes. They should be with minimum requirements to be met by the contracted, or not cost in full.
Would the company still go for the contract? Maybe. At least they’d have to eat cost when they can’t meet a defined baseline, effectively taking responsibility to a degree.
- Comment on The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules 4 days ago:
Companies may very well jump at the opportunity. Make a contract with the US government, with revocation cost paid in case of cancellation or regulation/contract basis changes written into it.
Like how a German minister contracted companies to implement the PKW Maut (Autobahn car fee), which was designed in a way criticized for probably violating EU law. And EU courts later ruled it to be in violation. The companies received 243 million €. (DE Wikipedia)
- Comment on Chrome is also turning into an agentic browser with its newest update 4 days ago:
Chrome has added Auto Browse
sit down, lean back, and watch the internet scroll by /s
- Comment on Kernel Community Drafts a Plan For Replacing Linus Torvalds 4 days ago:
I find the headline misleading.
- Comment on Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit 4 days ago:
The subheadline:
Android users involved in the class action could lawsuit could receive up to $100 each.
lol at the grammar though
- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 4 days ago:
Today, German public broadcasting morning show was showing a supposed video of the one recently shot dead, supposedly kicking ICE cars and cursing at them and then being wrestled to the ground, and supposedly escaping afterwards. The movement looked strange to me, which made me suspect AI.
Can anyone confirm whether such a video is in circulation and the validity of it?
I most certainly wouldn’t be surprised if it were AI generated.
- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 4 days ago:
- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 4 days ago:
Those seeking truth are misled into lies. Those seeking things that fit their agenda or views find lies.
It’s a pretty asymmetric balance. No matter how much more time we have collectively, Trump and MAGA don’t care. If we lie about what they will catch on to, I imagine it would be things they’d radicalize and self-validate them more. Everything else, they’ll disregard. Like they have been doing for years with founded reporting etc.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 4 days ago:
Does UpScrolled have a web or desktop version?
Currently, UpScrolled is available exclusively as a mobile app — downloadable on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
The app is fully supported on smartphones and tablets, giving you a seamless experience across mobile devices.
Web and desktop version are on our roadmap.
- Comment on How to revert Firefox’s latest changes to address bar suggestions 5 days ago:
Now it prioritizes its own suggestions.
The article talks about search suggestions. Those are from the search provider, not Firefox.
I’ve always had them disabled. It’s not like I need suggestions of what to search for or what I may want to search for.
- Comment on California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of the current US president Donald Trump 6 days ago:
I’m pretty sure under Biden, it was a matter of Chinese control outside of US government control, not bringing it under US billionaires specifically. Now it’s a political instrument of corruption and control, which is something different.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 6 days ago:
If you consider reading and writing as part of productivity then you became more productive! /s
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Do you have a source for that?
BitLocker FAQ says
How can the recovery password and recovery key be stored?
BitLocker Drive Encryption allows you to manually encrypt a specific drive or drives on a device running Windows Pro, Enterprise, or Education edition.
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 1 week ago:
Published on Nature. 40 € article.
Here’s the news article from the university.
This advancement results from a synergistic combination of materials, heat transfer fluid and refrigeration structures.
Operating at 1Hz, the desktop-scale device achieved a cold-source temperature of -12 ℃ from a room-temperature heat sink (24℃), establishing a temperature lift of 36 ℃. This is the first reported sub-zero Celsius performance in elastocaloric cooling. In a real-world demonstration, the system was integrated into a package measuring 1.0×0.5×0.5m3 and tested outdoors at temperature between 20 and 25℃. It successfully cooled an insulated chamber down to a stable -4℃ air temperature within 60 minutes and froze 20ml of distilled water into ice within 2 hours, validating its real-world freezing capability.
- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 1 week ago:
I think the dialog can be changed to give a more stern and obvious warning before escalating to no alternative installs without developer tooling.
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 1 week ago:
That’s crazy. Vimeo started as the opposite of that.
- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 1 week ago:
Your grandpa got greedy and wanted to invest money to make more money.
What makes you think they got scammed with supposed investment, and not other types of scams?
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
So, this means Microsoft has copies of every single bitlocker key
But, by default, BitLocker recovery keys are uploaded to Microsoft’s cloud
Not everyone follows the default. So no, it doesn’t mean Microsoft has copies of every single BitLocker key.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
If you uploaded your recovery key to Microsoft, then recovery is probably available in the normal recovery workflow.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
It’s a consequence of the design.
I certainly wouldn’t want end users calling me because they lost their recovery keys and consequently all their data. So I can understand offering or even recommending fallbacks.
The real solution would be clear and obvious documented choice for an informed decision. Online backup for fallback but meaning possibility of court order compromise and other external management risks, or self-managed with no recovery in case of loss.
