Nexus Mods’ recent removal of custom skins that gave Captain America the heads of United States presidents Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama in Marvel Rivals caused a bit of a stir among the types who typically freak out about this sort of thing. As such, the popular mod repository is doing its best […]

Bad Boy CEO Sean “Diddy” Combs and alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione being locked up together was certainly not on our bingo card for last year. However, sources told several publications that the rap mogul is envious of the attention the young man has been receiving.

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Norbert Heger: Apple has recently shown a noticeable tendency to collect, gather, transmit, and sometimes even store privacy-sensitive data – despite repeatedly emphasizing the importance of protecting such data and ensuring it remains solely on the user’s device. […] macOS Sequoia introduces another new feature labelled Help Apple Improve Search, which sends and stores various […]

Brent Simmons reported to me that my blog’s RSS feed wasn’t updating in recent versions of NetNewsWire. They’ve added support for the Cache-Control response header, and, for reasons unknown, my site was returning an interval of 2 days: $ curl --head https://mjtsai.com/blog/feed/ HTTP/2 200 date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:28:24 GMT server: Apache vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie,User-Agent […]

Guru Baran (via Ric Ford, PDF): The research team from Korea University, led by Hyerean Jang, Taehun Kim, and Youngjoo Shin, presented their findings in a paper titled “SysBumps: Exploiting Speculative Execution in System Calls for Breaking KASLR in macOS for Apple Silicon.” Their work represents the first successful KASLR break attack on macOS systems […]