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🚨 Oh no, the sky is falling! Two obscure monitoring tools are "compromised," and The Register decides to channel its inner HAL 9000 with a 403 Forbidden 😂. Apparently, even #robots have boundaries when it comes to reading their own drivel. 🤖🚫
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/cpuid_site_hijacked/ #skyisfalling #monitoringtools #compromised #TheRegister #HAL9000 #HackerNews #ngated

CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads

: Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers

The Register

TheJestPress Aug 3, 2025

Skydiving Fish Triggers Unexpected Canadian Brush Fire, Wildlife Left Confused

#FallingFish #CanadianWildfires #OddNews #FishySituation #SkyIsFalling By: TheJestPress.com **Fish Falls from Sky, Sparks Brush Fire in Canada; Authorities Blame Salmon Flambé Front** In a development that could only make sense to a weather forecaster with a head injury, citizens of Maple Moose County, Canada, were left flabbergasted yesterday after a sky-falling fish reportedly ignited a…

http://thejestpress.com/2025/08/03/skydiving-fish-triggers-unexpected-canadian-brush-fire-wildlife-left-confused/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Skydiving Fish Triggers Unexpected Canadian Brush Fire, Wildlife Left Confused

THEJESTPRESS.COM

N-gated Hacker News Jun 7, 2025

😱 Oh no, the sky is falling! #BorgBackup 2 ditched server-side append-only, and the world might just end. 🌀 But don't worry, because GitHub's #AI overlords are here to save the day with magical code-writing pixie dust. ✨
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/pull/8798 #GitHub #CodeMagic #SkyIsFalling #HackerNews #ngated

remove remainders of append-only support by ThomasWaldmann · Pull Request #8798 · borgbackup/borg

Some features like append-only repositories rely on a server-side component that enforces them (because that shall only be controllable server-side, not client-side). So, that can only work, if suc...

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