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Step 1: install Tailscale and let your box run for a month. Step 2: ssh in and find all the Apple product teams having a helluva party with your Mac (and your energy bill):
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The bug is like a joke.
On Alpine Linux, type 257 to 1024 characters of anything and you get root. 💀
‼️ BREAKING: OpenSSH has rushed out a fix for a critical flaw that lets attackers log into some Linux servers without the right password.
The team learned of the bug a day earlier. OpenSSH's Damien Miller says long embargoes now mostly help attackers, because AI agents rediscover bugs, sometimes within hours.
It hits Linux systems on the musl C library with PAM off, such as Alpine Linux. Miller told admins to disable password logins or SSH itself "IMMEDIATELY".
Version 10.6p2 works around it. Systems on glibc or PAM are not affected, and Miller says the root cause sits outside OpenSSH.
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The bug only affects accounts with a locked "*" password, on musl/no-PAM systems with password auth enabled and another account holding a real hash. It requires a 257–1024 character password and grants access to that locked account, not automatic root. Fixed in OpenSSH 10.6p2
privacyaffairs.com/openssh-alpine…
threatlandscape.io/blog/openssh-m…
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Everything might become de-facto open source: github.com/EthanArbuckle/fai…
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All the top tech giants have deep ties to the CIA. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon. Facebook and Instagram are overseen by “former” CIA operatives. Our whole civilization is run by an alliance of oligarchs and empire managers.
Ten years a former senior Pentagon official told me what I thought was an apocryphal story: American spies had saved Steve Jobs, and by extension, Apple.
Tracking it down became a personal obsession and the starting point for my new book, Valley of Death. I'm thrilled to share the excerpt about Jobs and the CIA published today in the @WSJ.
wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-appl…
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❗️Under a secret order, the UK wants Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted iCloud backups. Apple is refusing, and fighting it in court.
Britain's first attempt covered Americans' data too. Washington pushed back, and it was withdrawn — then the Home Office issued a new one, narrowed to UK users only. Apple filed against it at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal last month.
Britons have had no Advanced Data Protection since February 2025: the opt-in setting that end-to-end encrypts iCloud photos, notes and backups. Apple pulled it rather than comply.
By Apple's own account, UK users are now the only ones in the world who can't switch it on. Their photos and backups sit on servers Apple can unlock — and hand over on a valid legal request...
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Apple is suing OpenAI into the ground.
Breaking News: Apple sued OpenAI, accusing the company of stealing secrets about products still in development. nyti.ms/44oAF9C
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@AudioBrewers have released Ab Recorder for IPhone users.
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We just had an emergency family meeting. I had to explain to them that we’ll be selling our family car in order to afford the next generation Mac Mini when it gets released. I told them that’s the only way we’ll be able to run AI models now that all the AI labs are getting de facto nationalized, plus we can always use the public transportation. They protested vehemently saying something like “we live in America, there is NO public transportation here”, but I held firm and pointed out that was their false conscience speaking and they were all victims of the late stage capitalism gaslighting. Man, I love my family.
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Apple's Tim Cook has "never seen anything like" the surge in memory & storage costs that forced a product price hike.
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In 2016 Norway gave every 5-year-old child an iPad.
Within a few years, Norway's reading scores plummeted and dropped below the OECD average.
They ranked dead last out of 65 countries.
Now Norway is spending millions of dollars to reverse this trend and get people reading.
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iFixit Teardown: MacBook Neo is Apple’s Most Repairable Laptop in 14 Years iphoneincanada.ca/2026/03/14…
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hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.
ALT iOS 4.0: 8d ff ff ff 91 ff ff ff 95 ff ff ff 99 ff ff ff 9d ff ff ff iOS 4.0.1: 86 ff ff ff 98 ff ff ff 9e ff ff ff a7 ff ff ff b0 ff ff ff
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Tim Cook is likely to step down as Apple’s CEO
According to Bloomberg, John Ternus, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, is expected to take over.
Bloomberg notes that Apple now likely needs an engineer rather than a sales or operations specialist. While the company expanded significantly under Cook’s leadership, it has struggled to break into new tech categories such as virtual reality, generative AI, smart home devices, and autonomous vehicles.
Ternus reportedly stands out among other potential successors. After stepping down, Cook may remain as chairman of Apple’s board — a path previously taken by leaders like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
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The Bloomberg article does not mention a time frame about when Cook will step down -- instead, it focuses on who will take over whenever "Cook eventually steps down"
bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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Satellite features on iPhone: support.apple.com/en-us/1223…
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How to: Get to Know iPhone Privacy and Security Settings | Surveillance Self-Defense: ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-ge…
