They finally did it. Microsoft has successfully over-engineered a text editor into a threat vector.

This CVE is an 8.8 severity RCE in Notepad of all things lmao.

Apparently, the "innovation" of adding markdown support came with the ability of launching unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.

We have reached a point where the simple act of opening a .md file in a native utility can compromise your system. Is nothing safe anymore? 😭

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20841

#noai #microslop #microsoft #windows #programming #writing #windows11 #enshittification #cybersecurity #infosec #technology

This is from the executive director of the 18F, the digital services agency within the General Services Administration (GSA) that develops open-source tools to improve digital services across the federal government.

"I am the Executive Director of 18F and 18F’s longest running employee- I have been at 18F for 10 years. You may not have heard of us, but last night proved that we are powerful. The way the administration ran to get rid of us under the cover of night and shut us down without warning proves that they were scared. They are too afraid to even speak to us.

We, like our many allies, had the “radical” idea that the government should be responsive to the needs of real people. We assembled amazing teams of technology professionals from different specialities who could work together and learn from each other. We shared what we learned with everybody.

I saw, time and time again, where we stood up for partners who were getting taken advantage of by vendors, or just needed help turning a vision into reality. We could make a simple website or a complicated system, we would do what we needed to best serve the mission and the public. We didn’t upsell anyone, we tried to teach our partners how to do what we did. I see them still prospering years after working with us.

We have proven methods that could be replicated, so we helped even more people through guides and writing. Those people are still going. And I am cheering them on.

We were living proof that the talking points of this administration were false. Government services can be efficient. You can work with agencies as they are now and work with them to better manage their services.

This made us a target. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who made websites better. Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved that the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people."

https://fedscoop.com/gsa-shutters-18f-possibly-leaving-agencies-in-the-lurch/

Wait, what? This is a new "gender" thing...

Credit: @uastronomer

The American #FCC is accepting public comment on a proposal that would license the 902-928 MHz band to a private company (NextNav Inc) for use in terrestrial location tracking as a commercial alternative to free #GPS, GLONASS, & Galileo satellite positioning systems. The company already operates in the 920-928 MHz band.

This will significantly interfere with #LoRaWAN IOT devices and could have dire consequences for #decentralized communication networks such as #Meshtastic.

NextNav intends to deprive the public of these unlicensed frequencies and build a nationwide monopoly on PNT infrastructure in the 902-928 MHz band. (https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10416238018537/1)

This is not only harmful to the #opensource and #openhardware community, it is a gross misappropriation of the public's precious radio frequencies to further the goals of a monopolistic for-profit corporation.

(https://meshtastic.org/blog/meshtastic-opposition-to-nextnav-proposed-changes/ )

Initial comments were due by September 5th. "reply comments" (comments that support the concerns expressed in other comments) are due by September 20th. You can make a comment here: (https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5Bname%5D=24-240). You can view all public comments here: (https://tinyurl.com/FCC-24-240)

This is new, extremely dangerous territory.

A private company (for whatever reason, right or wrong) is defying the laws of a country in which it operates, by virtue of its control of a service within that country.

Imagine if a foreign national owned your water utility and refused to abide by the water-quality laws of the US.

Regex isn't hard enough, so I present you with a crossword where all hints are regular expressions!

I confess at first it looked like the hints don't contain enough information to solve the puzzle but after some slow but steady progress I can confirm that they do 🤣

The original puzzle is from https://puzzles.mit.edu/2013/coinheist.com/rubik/a_regular_crossword/

I shared this on my blog: https://mathspp.com/blog/problems/regex-crossword

#puzzle #puzzles