alkali
@alkalinesec.bsky.social
mobile security / symbolic execution . he / him
sat in seat 5G on the flight home and now i might have covid. coincidence??
December 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
sat in seat 5G on the flight home and now i might have covid. coincidence??
good sploit
An analysis of a recent 0-click exploit targeting Samsung devices: googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-lo...
A look at an Android ITW DNG exploit
Posted by Benoît Sevens, Google Threat Intelligence Group Introduction Between July 2024 and February 2025, 6 suspicious image files were ...
googleprojectzero.blogspot.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
good sploit
i think its not really a good representation of what we are looking for but the query for "number of people" yields 12854871 and the query for "number of grandchildren" yields 2191740.
ooo i think it might be possible to answer this question with www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat... . though it seems like it might need to be rephrased to something like "people with parents that also have parents (within the database)"
Wikidata:SPARQL tutorial - Wikidata
www.wikidata.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
i think its not really a good representation of what we are looking for but the query for "number of people" yields 12854871 and the query for "number of grandchildren" yields 2191740.
watching the most recent great @acollierastro.bsky.social video and wondered what percent of people with wikipedia pages also have at least one parent with a wikipedia page. i figured someone may have already checked this but it seems like no. got 3/10 blue parents when going to random ppl pages
December 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
watching the most recent great @acollierastro.bsky.social video and wondered what percent of people with wikipedia pages also have at least one parent with a wikipedia page. i figured someone may have already checked this but it seems like no. got 3/10 blue parents when going to random ppl pages
'An internal document named “OPSEC”' is a very fun start to a sentence in the intellexa leak article.
December 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
'An internal document named “OPSEC”' is a very fun start to a sentence in the intellexa leak article.
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We derestricted a number of vulnerabilities found by Big Sleep in JavaScriptCore today: issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=com...
All of them were fixed in the iOS 26.1 (and equivalent) update last month. Definitely some cool bugs in there!
All of them were fixed in the iOS 26.1 (and equivalent) update last month. Definitely some cool bugs in there!
Google Issue Tracker
issuetracker.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We derestricted a number of vulnerabilities found by Big Sleep in JavaScriptCore today: issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=com...
All of them were fixed in the iOS 26.1 (and equivalent) update last month. Definitely some cool bugs in there!
All of them were fixed in the iOS 26.1 (and equivalent) update last month. Definitely some cool bugs in there!
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javascript should support memory-unsafety, just to make things more interesting
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
javascript should support memory-unsafety, just to make things more interesting
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cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
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fun little bit of code in CoreFoundation when you attempt to call addObjectsFromSet: with a non-set argument. it warns you 64 times while adding to "checkForAndForgiveClientSin" with the error message also including "Please wait while the system corrects this..." like its gonna take a minute lol
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
fun little bit of code in CoreFoundation when you attempt to call addObjectsFromSet: with a non-set argument. it warns you 64 times while adding to "checkForAndForgiveClientSin" with the error message also including "Please wait while the system corrects this..." like its gonna take a minute lol
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Some more cool JS Engine bugs found by Big Sleep were fixed in yesterday's Apple security updates: support.apple.com/en-us/125632
Technical details will be available soon at issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=com...
Technical details will be available soon at issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=com...
About the security content of iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1 - Apple Support
This document describes the security content of iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1.
support.apple.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Some more cool JS Engine bugs found by Big Sleep were fixed in yesterday's Apple security updates: support.apple.com/en-us/125632
Technical details will be available soon at issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=com...
Technical details will be available soon at issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=com...
petition to change the name "big sleep" to "superhuman hacking machine" so i feel less bad about it finding 1000x more bugs than me
November 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
petition to change the name "big sleep" to "superhuman hacking machine" so i feel less bad about it finding 1000x more bugs than me
support.apple.com/en-us/125632
the name "big sleep" feels a lot more insulting now that its really threatening to take our jobs
the name "big sleep" feels a lot more insulting now that its really threatening to take our jobs
About the security content of iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1 - Apple Support
This document describes the security content of iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1.
support.apple.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
support.apple.com/en-us/125632
the name "big sleep" feels a lot more insulting now that its really threatening to take our jobs
the name "big sleep" feels a lot more insulting now that its really threatening to take our jobs
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does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags
Embroidery Trouble Shooting Page
Embroidery Trouble Shooting Answers to all your questions about Embroidery problems
web.archive.org
October 25, 2024 at 3:39 PM
does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags
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turning a big dial taht says "AI" on it and constantly looking back at the market for approval like a contestant on the price is right.
October 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
turning a big dial taht says "AI" on it and constantly looking back at the market for approval like a contestant on the price is right.
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tired: traveling for halloween
wired: spooky action at a distance
wired: spooky action at a distance
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
tired: traveling for halloween
wired: spooky action at a distance
wired: spooky action at a distance
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this psyduck is adorable
October 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
this psyduck is adorable
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Apple is planning a special initiative featuring iPhone 17 with Memory Integrity Enforcement. To rapidly make this defense available to those targeted by mercenary spyware, the company will provide a thousand iPhone 17 devices to civil society organizations.
security.apple.com/blog/apple-s...
security.apple.com/blog/apple-s...
A major evolution of Apple Security Bounty, with the industry's top awards for the most advanced research - Apple Security Research
Today we’re announcing the next major chapter for Apple Security Bounty, featuring the industry’s highest rewards — up to $2 million and a maximum payout in excess of $5 million — expanded research ca...
security.apple.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Apple is planning a special initiative featuring iPhone 17 with Memory Integrity Enforcement. To rapidly make this defense available to those targeted by mercenary spyware, the company will provide a thousand iPhone 17 devices to civil society organizations.
security.apple.com/blog/apple-s...
security.apple.com/blog/apple-s...
(guy designing c++): alright how do we make it as hard as possible to find the actual value of a variable
October 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
(guy designing c++): alright how do we make it as hard as possible to find the actual value of a variable
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NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"
Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime
www.404media.co/police-said-...
Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime
www.404media.co/police-said-...
Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.
www.404media.co
October 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"
Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime
www.404media.co/police-said-...
Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime
www.404media.co/police-said-...
its pretty cool how we are warping our economy so that it will either develop AGI or completely implode.
(actually a part of me does unfortunately really think this is cool)
(actually a part of me does unfortunately really think this is cool)
October 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
its pretty cool how we are warping our economy so that it will either develop AGI or completely implode.
(actually a part of me does unfortunately really think this is cool)
(actually a part of me does unfortunately really think this is cool)
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