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Refurb iPhone 15 Models Now Available From Apple’s UK Online Store
Apple is selling refurbished iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max models to its online store in the United Kingdom, around four months after introducing the discounted models in other European countries.

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[$] Filtering fanotify events with BPF
Linux systems can have large filesystems; trying to keep up with the
stream of
fanotify filesystem-monitoring notifications for them can be a struggle.
Fanotify is one of a few ways to monitor accesses to filesystems provided by the kernel.
Song Liu led a discussion
on how to improve in-kernel filtering of fanotify events to a joint
session of the filesystem and BPF tracks at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
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Release Candidate of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, iPadOS 18.5 Available, Public Release Coming Soon
A release candidate build for iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, and MacOS Sequoia 15.5 is now available for users enrolled in the beta testing programs. For users not in the beta testing programs, what this basically means is that the final versions of these system software releases is coming soon, perhaps even next week. macOS Sequoia … [Read More … ⌘ Read more

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[$] Improving FUSE writeback performance
In a combined filesystem and memory-management session at
the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory
Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Joanne Koong led a discussion on
improving the writeback performance for the Filesystem in\
Userspace (FUSE) layer. Writeback is how data that is written to the
filesystem is actually flushed to the disk; it is the process of writing
dirty pages from the page cache to storage. The current FUSE
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Securing Model Context Protocol: Safer Agentic AI with Containers
Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools remain primarily in the hands of early adopters, but broader adoption is accelerating. Alongside this growth, MCP security concerns are becoming more urgent. By increasing agent autonomy, MCP tools introduce new risks related to misalignment between agent behavior and user expectations and uncontrolled execution. These systems also present a novel… ⌘ Read more

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Announcing OpenReports: Standardized Kubernetes Reporting
The Kubernetes ecosystem, while powerful, is a sprawling landscape of tools. As organizations scale their deployments, ensuring compliance and security becomes paramount. But how do you effectively track and report on your Kubernetes policies and scanners… ⌘ Read more

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Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium and kappanhang), Red Hat (osbuild-composer and thunderbird), SUSE (chromedriver), and Ubuntu (c-ares, corosync, mysql-8.0, mysql-8.4, openjdk-17, openjdk-21, openjdk-24, openjdk-8, and openjdk-lts). ⌘ Read more

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Apple Seeds iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 Release Candidates
Apple today seeded the release candidate versions of upcoming iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 updates to developers and public beta testers, with the software coming a week after Apple released the fourth betas. The release candidate represents the final version of iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 that will be released to the public should no bugs be found.

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In ‘Highly Unusual’ Move, Trump DOJ Sues to Block States From Holding Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for Climate Crisis
: Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: The Trumpian fascist coup shows you almost every day that it cares nothing about your wellbeing, and it seeks to suppress any preparation to ameliorate the devastation of your life, and the lives of your children a … ⌘ Read more

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Trump Sons’ Deals on Three Continents Directly Benefit the President
Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany,  Investigative Reporter | Contributing Writer  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Are you having problems with your grocery costs? Were you stunned by what your pharmaceuticals cost? Were you appalled by the prices you saw when you looked to buy a new car? As ordinary Americans struggle with the economic chaos that aspiring dictator and psychopath Trump h … ⌘ Read more

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Study reveals stark differences in life expectancy across US states over the past century
Colin Poitra,  Staff Writer  -  Medical Press

_Stephan: Look at the graph at the head of this article. What do you notice? I have been telling you for 30 years that by every objective measure I can find, from happiness to literacy to life expectancy, Republican governance is always inferior to Democratic governance, even as flawed as it often is. … ⌘ Read more

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A militarized conspiracy theorist group believes radars are ‘weather weapons’ and is trying to destroy them
Andrew Freedman,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: The weaponization of misinformation on social media, plus America’s gun obsession, plus the rise of fascism in the MAGAt world, is creating a serious distortion of the U.S. culture. Here is an example of what I mean. The only thing that is going to change this is you an … ⌘ Read more

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A new AUTOSEL release
AUTOSEL is a tool that is used to find kernel patches that should be
considered for backporting into the stable releases. Sasha Levin has announced a new and completely
rewritten version of AUTOSEL for those who would like to play with it.

Unlike the previous version that relied on word statistics and
older neural network techniques, AUTOSEL leverages modern large
language models and embedding technology to provide significantly
more accurate recommen … ⌘ Read more

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foss-north 2025
I attended foss-north, a free / open source conference covering both
software and hardware from the technical perspective, at Chalmers
Conference Center in Gothenburg on April 14 & 15. A great conference.
Lots of interesting talks:

https://foss-north.se/2025/speakers-and-talks.html

My own presentation was “Forking QEMU to emulate and secure the
Tillitis TKey”. Recording is here:

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GhidraMCP 搭建及核心源碼閱讀
前言–手動逆向太費勁了 想找個 AI 助手幫我逆向一下 逛 github 的時候看到了一個 GhidraMCP 於是打算拿來用用 所以本文記錄一下 GhidraMCP 搭建以及源碼解析什麼是 MCP——-MCP(Model Context Protocol,模型上下文協議)是一種開放協議,旨在實現 大型語言模型(LLM) 應用與外部數據源、工具和服務之間的無縫集成,類似於網絡中的 HTT ⌘ Read more

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Ten Formidable Bugs and Insects That Scientists Recently Discovered
The insect world is home to strange, menacing creatures that, if you were a little bug, you would be wise to steer clear of. Year after year, researchers uncover new species of ferocious creepy crawlies, monsters of the minibeast world. Parasitic wasps, exploding ants, beetles with punky hairdos, there is no shortage of grisly wonders. […]

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10 Things Humans Are Weirdly Bad at Predicting
Humans like to think of themselves as rational, forward-looking creatures. But when it comes to forecasting the future—even our own—we’re often laughably wrong. From personal choices to global crises, our brains are wired with cognitive shortcuts and emotional biases that lead us to consistently underestimate, overestimate, or misjudge reality. Sometimes, the error is small. Other […]

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