Mastodawn

"A Florida jury on Friday found that flaws in Tesla’s self-driving software were partly to blame for a crash that killed a 22-year-old woman...and severely injured her boyfriend...The jury verdict,...would require Tesla to pay as much as $243 million in punitive and compensatory damages... The jury found that Tesla bore 33 percent responsibility for the crash, and blamed the driver, George Brian McGee, for the remainder." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/business/tesla-autopilot-federal-trial-verdict.html

Jury Says Tesla Was Partly to Blame for Fatal Crash

Lawyers for the family of a woman struck and killed by a Tesla sedan in 2019 argued that the company’s Autopilot software should have avoided the crash.

The New York Times

marasawr Jul 21

our periodic reminder that @riskybusiness holidays are their own cursed threat level
https://infosec.exchange/@lorenzofb/114892936832579918

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (@lorenzofb@infosec.exchange)

NEW: The hackers that have been exploiting the Microsoft SharePoint zero-day have been targeting government agencies, researchers say. Also, different research teams are seeing more than 8,000 exposed and potentially vulnerable SharePoint servers on the internet. https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/hackers-exploiting-sharepoint-zero-day-seen-targeting-government-agencies-say-researchers/

Infosec Exchange

marasawr Jul 18

Marcel Waldvogel Jul 17

Earlier this week, Peter Gutmann and @sten published a bombshell paper: The looked at all the reported factorization "breakthroughs" in quantum computing. And found that all of them essentially were magician's tricks, "sleight of hand".

The two reconstructed the algorithms used on a 1981 home computer (a million times less powerful than what you hold in your hand now), an #Abacus and with a #dog.
#VIC20 #VC20
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog

This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog. We hope that this work will inspire future efforts to match any further quantum factorisation records, should they arise.

IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive

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marasawr Jul 17

the more I learn about how cancers work the, more difficult it is to not anthropomorphise malignancy. once you understand the mechanisms of action, it feels impossible that malice is absent from them

truly the only phenomenon of non-sentient aetiology I have ever encountered that struck me as unequivocally evil

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marasawr Jul 17

one of the vet techs painted the sweetest scarf for Olaf’s last radiotherapy session 🖤

we’re back to palliative care as the cancer was already back on his post-op CT scan, but there’s no ‘easy’ dose of radio. even 20 Gy will knock an adult human for six, and our guy is in for a rough week or two before he starts chemo #DogsOfMastodon

marasawr Jul 15

Doug Madory Jul 15

Just to clear up some misinfo circulating, a BGP hijack was not the cause of
Cloudflare DNS going down today.

At 21:51 UTC, Cloudflare (AS13335) withdrew both 1.1.1.0/24 and 1.0.0.0/24 for an unknown reason.

I suspect AS4755 was always announcing 1.1.1.0/24, when CF went away, it leaked a bit (i.e. "%2").

https://infosec.exchange/@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social/114854023690856642

Infosec Exchange

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marasawr Jul 11

we pay for inefficiency and overhead, not care. it is taking so long to get a lab order this time (3 wks and counting) that my phlebotomy order might expire before I can get the labs done

which means another virtual visit for the new phlebotomy order, bc those can’t be valid for more than 12 mos

for a condition that will literally never go away, and becomes deadly dangerous if unmanaged

marasawr Jul 11

why is US healthcare so expensive?

I have a genetic iron-loading disorder that is managed with therapeutic phlebotomy. there is no end-date for this; I have to do it forever

before donating ~14% of my blood volume, I need an iron panel to see how saturated I am and avoid over-correcting into anemia

getting an order for those labs takes min. 2 phone calls and >1 hr every 12 wks bc insurance will not allow recurring orders for this condition. this *genetic* condition that never goes away

marasawr Jul 9

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Mr. Bitterness Jul 9

For those not in the know:
Amazon prices fluctuate all the time.

Once a year, Amazon hypes up "Prime Day", where they make your savings over list price jump out at you to trigger a psychological reaction that says "I need to buy this now (before Prime Day is over)!"

These boasted savings aren't over the usual price. They are over the list price, which you usually only pay if you're unlucky in your timing.

Sometimes you'll end up paying more on prime day than any given item has been in the past. If you already were planning on buying a thing and it happens to be one of the Prime Day specials, great. On the other hand, if you're trawling through Prime Day specials to look for things to buy because they're on sale, well, there's a reason that Jeff Bezos was able to rent out an island for his fancy wedding. 😂

marasawr Jul 8

Chris Wysopal Jul 8

The EU Product Liability Directive will take effect Dec 2026. Software, firmware, applications, AI systems, and will now be subject to the same strict liability regime as traditional physical goods. Cybersecurity vulnerabilities will be considered product defects. Analysis by Reed Smith LLP: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=bbef1939-2af0-465a-8b8f-c1ff3ebe9118

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