cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46584454

Local Privilege Escalation "Dirty Frag" made public

• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/linux-kernel-dirty-frag-lpe-exploit.html
• https://safecomputing.umich.edu/security-alerts/linux-kernel-vulnerability-%E2%80%9Cdirty-frag%E2%80%9D
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-dirty-frag-zero-day-with-poc-exploit-gives-root-privileges/

What I have watched happen in my profession in the last two years, I am still struggling to describe. The first time I knew something was wrong, roughly a year and a quarter ago, I noticed a colleague replying to me using AI...

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46584454

Local Privilege Escalation "Dirty Frag" made public

• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/linux-kernel-dirty-frag-lpe-exploit.html
• https://safecomputing.umich.edu/security-alerts/linux-kernel-vulnerability-%E2%80%9Cdirty-frag%E2%80%9D
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-dirty-frag-zero-day-with-poc-exploit-gives-root-privileges/

just a reminder - congress rats block US gdpr 10th year after EU passed gdpr.

companies that lose data face no consequences.

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According to the latest annual report from the Linux Foundation (LF), less than 3% of its budgetary resources are allocated to the thing it is named after!

A $50 increase in the US. Further increases rolling out in Japan, Europe, and Canada.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1093208/the-devout-muslim-making-a-living-from-islamophobic-ai-slop-a-content-creator-in-pakista

• A man in Pakistan has been making thousands from Facebook pages spreading racist videos aimed at UK audiences;
• Posts target Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan, and turn a profit via Meta's ad revenue model;
• New AI tools mean creators can produce divisive viral content without needing to understand its message.

To the people here that host a synapse server, how do you handle registration?

Do you use the new matrix authentification server? How does that work?

If not, registration works via element web, where you can have a captcha to avoid a bot swarm. However the only accepted captcha in the synapse config is recaptcha. Have you read the news? Well, we will have to change the captcha method. I think I read somewhere it was possible to use hcaptcha on elementweb however the setting does not exist in synapse, or I did not find it.

How do we do?

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