Troed Sångberg

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Demoscene coder. Cybersec consultant. A child of the 80s home computer era.

I use two accounts. This one is tech/retro/cybersec focused. Random social chitchat on random topics can be found over at @troed

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Demoscenehttps://sync.wtf

An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time (NewsGuard's Reality Check)

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global
http://www.techmeme.com/250306/p42#a250306p42

A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda

An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time

NewsGuard's Reality Check
The BlackHat call for papers is now open and we'd love to have your submission 😍 I am leading the Reverse Engineering track, and would be extra pleased to see your work at this year's con! If you have questions or would like a pre-review, let me know!
https://www.blackhat.com/call-for-papers.html
Black Hat

Black Hat

Updated #Sailfish to 5.0 on my #Xperia 10ii. Seems to work and now microG also. However the #Jeep app still doesn’t log in. It doesn’t crash anymore but then just states login error after giving credentials. The network is a bit iffy so will need to investigate further. Also #AuroraStore got an update but after hitting update it closes down on start.

Actual native things so far work, but I haven’t yet done broader testing. Still a nice environment.

🟥 We are happy to announce that the Software Sustainability Institute has received £4.8m from UKRI to launch the Research Software Maintenance Fund.
This new initiative will play a crucial role in strengthening research software maintenance in the UK, ensuring essential tools remain available to the research community.
Find out more about this exciting opportunity at https://www.software.ac.uk/news/ukri-awards-software-sustainability-institute-ps48m-strengthen-research-software-maintenance
UKRI awards the Software Sustainability Institute £4.8m to strengthen research software maintenance in the UK | Software Sustainability Institute

The SSI has launched the Research Software Maintenance Fund, a new funding initiative offering £4.8 million to support existing research software.

So it turns out the geniuses over at Bluesky trust the client app to fetch, and honestly report, webpage metadata for preview cards, so with a little tinkering in the debug tools you can post whatever news stories you like and they look exactly the same as real ones.

https://bsky.app/profile/andrewt.net/post/3ljo2dja62224

Andrew (@andrewt.net)

Let's see what happens if I spoof the article metadata from the backend... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/69420

Bluesky Social
You can now jailbreak your AMD CPU! 🔥We've just released a full microcode toolchain, with source code and tutorials. https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842357473280/zen-and-the-art-of-microcode-hacking
Blog: Zen and the Art of Microcode Hacking

This blog post covers the full details of EntrySign, the AMD Zen microcode signature validation vulnerability recently discovered by the Google Security team.

In the last few months, many people have called on the EU to start supporting open alternatives to US-owned social media sites. The thing is: The EU has been doing that for some time already. It has financed, among others, ActivityPub, Mastodon and PeerTube. For @netzpolitik_feed, we spoke to Michiel Leenaars, who professionally gives out buckets of EU cash to open source projects.

#eu #europeanunion #opensource #activitypub #mastodon

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/open-source-funding-on-the-brink-delivering-whats-needed-to-make-europe-sovereign/

Open source funding on the brink: „Delivering what’s needed to make Europe sovereign“

The EU is paying a fortune for broken commercial software, criticizes Michiel Leenaars of the Dutch NLnet Foundation in an interview with netzpolitik.org. Together with his team, he supports open-source, free solutions — funded by the EU. But that could soon come to an end.

netzpolitik.org
[RSS] Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit

https://icode4.coffee/?p=1081
Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit

Finding and exploiting bugs in the Xbox 360 hypervisor to create the "Bad Update" exploit.

I Code 4 Coffee

Facts matter. 🇺🇦

#Ukraine

I'm excited to share CVE Crowd's Top 5 Vulnerabilities from February 25!

These five stood out among the 352 CVEs actively discussed across the Fediverse.

For each CVE, I’ve included a standout post from the community.

Enjoy exploring! 👇

#Pentesting #AppSec #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #BugBounty #Hacking #CVE #CveCrowd