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2026-10-25 - 20:13:38

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Unpatched Tailscale SSH Flaws Could Let a Hacked Device Reach Root on Other Servers

A single hacked device on a Tailscale network can be used to gain root access to other servers it can reach, according to a security researcher who published the findings this week. The attack requires two things: Tailscale SSH set up to allow port forwarding, and an attacker who already controls one device that the network's access rules permit to connect to the target. The findings were published on October 25 in a report called Tailworm by Erica Windisch of Cyberdione Labs. Windisch tested Ta...

PHP2Shell Exploitation Hits Government Entity Amid Global Scanning and Signs of AI-Assisted Hacking

Threat actors have been observed using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for post-exploitation activity following the abuse of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. "In one case, the attackers targeted a government entity in Europe and within two hours of the initial exploitation they had successfully accessed password hashes and multi-factor authentication secrets," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said. "They also established an NT LAN Manager (NT...

Anthropic sued for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs to train AI models

The owners of Elvis Presley’s music catalogue are suing artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic for allegedly using Presley’s songs to train their models without permission. Authentic Brands Group, the licensing organization that has ownership of both Presley’s music and likeness, is accusing Anthropic of infringing on the rights of 274 songs by Presley. The lawsuit, first reported by Billboard, was filed on Friday. While AI firms have already faced copyright infringement claims from the ...

So, About That ‘Clayface’ Cameo…

Clayface is out, and a movie about a shapeshifter naturally involves a decent amount of that. Once the movie’s established its main players, you can guess who Matt Hagen will end up being, but there’s one blink and you’ll miss it face that would’ve added another facet to Matt’s character. That would be Aaron Paul as Jimmy “One Nut,” Matt’s father referenced earlier in the film by a Gotham gangster who killed him. In the third act, Matt storms mobster Victor Szabo’s club, briefly becoming Jimmy l...

Pennsylvania enacts law regulating AI-generated advertisements

Pennsylvania enacts law regulating AI-generated advertisements Across the nation, there appears to be growing frustration with the explosion of AI-generated advertising plaguing small-business storefronts and restaurant interiors. Last Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, mandating that all ads, from million-dollar television commercials to printed flyers passed out on the street, contain a disclosure label in the sam...

What does the bell icon mean on your CarPlay screen?

What does the bell icon mean on your CarPlay screen? Demystifying one of CarPlay's least-obvious icons. While some elements used in software design are so common that nearly everyone knows what they do (like share and search), others are more obtuse. You might have noticed this in Apple's CarPlay, which is intentionally simplified for the sake of reducing distractions. Yet there's a lot that goes unsaid: with the lack of a tutorial, you aren't shown how its multitasking works, never mind trouble...

The most unexpected everyday tool can be found on your phone

The most unexpected everyday tool can be found on your phone If you have an iPhone, that is. The best way to measure something is still a tried-and-true tape measure. But if you don't have one on hand, your iPhone has a built-in tool that uses the camera (and, on Pro models, LiDAR) to get the job done. If you didn't know that, well, you aren't alone. After releasing the tool in 2018, Apple hasn't exactly promoted the app. It merely sits in the Utilities folder, waiting (perhaps in vain) to be di...

Consume a Message Queue Job in Node.js — Reliable Delivery Explained

To consume a message queue job from Node.js for an edtech shipment update, choose a queue with at-least-once delivery and make the worker idempotent. Treat acknowledgement as a business decision, not a networking detail: acknowledge only after the subscriber update has committed, and redeliver failures deliberately. That rule is more important than the queue brand. A textbook shipment can trigger notifications for a learner, a parent, a school administrator, and a support workflow. The message m...

OpenAI-Compatible Image Generation API: Single Gateway for 3-Provider Invoice Review

Short answer: Use a single OpenAI-compatible image generation API and route providers through the model field; for supplier invoice review, keep a fast preview path and a quality-first final path. When a media SaaS turns supplier invoice fields into generated review images, I would start with one OpenAI-compatible image-generation endpoint and keep the provider choice in the model field. The important constraint is quality versus latency: an invoice workflow needs legible, faithful output, but a...

PrepMate: Practice Interviews While Gemma 4 Does the Prep Work

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built PrepMate is a mock interviewer that runs on your own laptop. You drop in your resume PDF, paste the job description, pick Technical, HR or Managerial, and then you just talk. Gemma 4 reads your background, asks you tailored questions out loud, listens to your spoken answers, and when you end the session it hands you a scorecard: a communication score and a technical (or behavioral) score for ...

A Toy Company, AI, and the Human Argument

If anyone can make it, no one can sell it. This month, the people who make Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering moved to unionize. Most of the coverage is about pay, crunch, and layoffs, and those are real. But buried in the D&D team's letter is the sentence that explains the last three years at Wizards of the Coast: "As pressure has ramped up from Hasbro to adopt LLMs and Gen AI tools in various aspects of our work, WOTC has resisted these efforts and kept AI out of our games. That's goo...

Why my STL to CAD script was 8 mm off on a printer part, and the fix

mesh2cad turns an STL into CAD. Every part gets a STEP file with real planes, cylinders and cones. When the part is simple enough it also gets a CadQuery or OpenSCAD script with named parameters, so you can change hole_3_d instead of editing triangles. I test on six real Original Prusa i3 MK3S parts. After the last post all six were exact STEP, but only three had a script. 0.13.0 adds a fourth: y-motor-holder. What was wrong Last time I wrote that y-motor-holder was refused because its screw hol...

LazyNotes AI

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built I built LazyNotes AI, a lightweight Python tool powered by an open-weight model that automatically reads messy, unorganized notes, meeting logs, or raw text dumps and condenses them into clear summaries. Between managing daily tasks, exam prep, and constant notifications, I constantly catch myself putting off reading long logs or sorting through unstructured quick notes. LazyNotes channels in...

There Is No Unstructured Data

Pick up a supplier contract. It is a PDF, forty pages, scanned at a slight angle. In ten seconds you know who the parties are, when it starts, when it can be cancelled, what the penalty is for late delivery and which law applies. You see a header, a list of obligations, a table of prices and two signatures. Now ask your data platform what it sees. It sees a blob. Content type application/pdf , size 2.3 MB, last modified Tuesday. In the catalog, if it is in a catalog at all, it is filed under one...

TurtleShell: Let a Local Tortoise Turn Messy Git History into Standups

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built Standup time has a familiar ritual: open the terminal, scan a handful of commits called wip , it works now , and fix typo , then try to remember what the work actually meant. I built TurtleShell 🐢, a local-first tool that inspects a Git repository and turns recent commit messages and filtered diff excerpts into two useful drafts: - A standup with Yesterday, Today, and Blockers sections. - A c...

What actually triggers Claude's 5-hour limit (and the four ways around it)

If you have hit "You've reached your usage limit. You can resume in X hours" in the middle of a refactor, the useful question is not how many messages you get. It is what the clock is measuring and when it started. The window is rolling, not daily The five-hour limit is a rolling window. The timer starts at the timestamp of your first message in a usage session, not at midnight and not at the moment you get blocked. Two consequences follow, and they explain most of the confusion: - Two people on...

SlothSort — Tidy Files, Slowly

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built My Downloads folder has a familiar problem: files accumulate faster than I organize them. Screenshots end up beside lecture notes, code files get buried under documents, and filenames like document1.pdf, IMG_1234.jpg, and final_final_v2.txt don't make finding anything easier. I built SlothSort, a local-first, AI-powered file organizer that does the tedious part for me. SlothSort scans a selec...

How to Build a ComfyUI Custom Node with a JavaScript UI

Cross-posted from my blog. The original, with any updates, lives on fabwaseem.com. A ComfyUI custom node is a Python class that ComfyUI loads from a folder in custom_nodes . Most tutorials stop there. The interesting part starts when the node needs its own interface: a gallery, a picker, a preview panel. Then you need a JavaScript extension in the browser and a way to get what the user picked into the Python side when the graph runs. I built that for Civitai Gallery Explorer, my open-source node...

How I Built a 60 FPS Real-Time Fractal Explorer in WebGL 2.0 & Vectorized NumPy Library for 27 Complex Systems

How I Built a 60 FPS Real-Time Fractal Explorer in WebGL 2.0 & Vectorized NumPy Library for 27 Complex Systems 🌀⚡ Fractals are infinite mathematical universes generated by deceptively simple rules. Most of us have seen the classical Mandelbrot set ($z_{n+1} = z_n^2 + c$), but the mathematical universe of dynamical systems is vastly larger—spanning non-analytic systems, rational physics maps, and complex analytic continuations. Over the past week, I set out to build FantasticFractals: a dual-engi...

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

TOTAL KIDS REGISTERED …. TOTAL BOOKS GIFTED …. DOLLY PARTON’S IMAGINATION LIBRARY Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is dedicated to inspiring a love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from birth to age five, through funding shared by Dolly Parton and local community partners in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Republic of Ireland. Inspired by her father’s inability to read and write Dolly started her Imagination Library in 1995 for the children within...

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

Lauren Harper is Freedom of the Press Foundation’s first Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy. How much does it cost to get more information about a cop who punched someone in the face? If you guessed anything lower than $2.5 million, you’d be wrong — at least according to the city of Eugene, Oregon. In August, the local news outlet Double Sided Media filed a public records request for records about police officer Justin Peckels, which focused on potential misconduct between 2018 and 2026...

Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer

Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer While the latest issue of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine is a weather-monitoring projects special, we couldn’t resist sharing this build, as we are powerless in the face of anything space-themed. The maker, Michael Newton, is a commercial aircraft avionics engineer based in Calgary, Alberta. When he’s not on the flight line, he’s learning about and recreating historical aircraft and spacecraft hardware using modern technology and techniques. In 1966, three y...

Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English

Hurston-1 Accented English text-to-speech built for the phone, steered by a plain-language voice description. Hurston-1 introduces NB-TTS (Narrowband TTS): text-to-speech made for the phone line, where most customer service still happens, even when the other side is an AI agent. It learned in part from real phone calls between our contributors and AI voice agents, and its phone mode delivers what a caller actually hears: 8 kHz G.711 audio, ready for Twilio and other telephony systems. Full 24 kH...

All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

This quote from Charity Majors is probably the best summary of the current state of observability in the tech industry - a total, mass confusion. Everyone is confused. What is a trace? What is a span? Is log line a span? Do I need traces if I have logs? Why I need traces if I have great metrics? The list of questions like these goes on. Charity - together with other great folks from observability system called Honeycomb - have been doing a great job shedding light on these questions. Yet, per my...

Show HN: ReVault – new secure archive format

reVault is a new, secure-by-default archive format called a lockbox, designed to be simple to use. I've been working on reVault for about 2 years. It was originally written in Dart, but with the improvements in AI, I decided to port it to Rust using AI. It's now in beta, so I'm looking for feedback, particularly around the different language bindings. A lockbox is encrypted, signed and compressed by default. Each can be disabled selectively. - Hybrid post-quantum or passphrase encryption, includ...

Amazon's "digital pacifier" for toddlers

Amazon released new touchscreen tablets last week marketed specifically for toddlers to use, even as a growing body of pediatric research links such devices to developmental problems, emotional dysregulation, and poor eyesight. “Kids want a real tablet, not a toy,” the Jeff Bezos-founded company said in a press release announcing its Amazon Kids Tablets. Describing the device as age-appropriate for children as young as 3, Amazon encourages parents to make it their child’s “first tablet.” In sale...

Scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass

The Romans’ proficiency in the art of glass-making has produced some of the wonders of antiquity, but few of their creations better a 1,600-year-old masterpiece which sits in the British Museum. Depending on where a light source is positioned, the Lycurgus Cup changes colour, from jade green under normal lighting to ruby red when lit from behind – an astonishing feat of optical engineering that has confounded historians and glass-makers for centuries. Now scientists from the University of Sheffi...