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FatGid - FreeBSD 14.x kernel LPE

FatGid: a four-byte type, an eight-byte stride, one root shell. A local privilege escalation in the FreeBSD 14.x kernel via a setcred(2) stack buffer overflow.

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Tailwind: Suffering From Success - Sebin's Blog

In November 2025, a pull request was opened for the Tailwind website repository to add llms.txt as an endpoint for, you guessed it, providing an LLM-friendly version of the popular CSS framework’s documentation. It first sat idle for a while and the issuer...

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On Google declaring war on the Web

In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” direction that “AI Overviews” have established (you know, those...

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[RFC] Open Access to Standards Documents

tl;dr: ISO is seeking testimonials from “open source organizations” by June 4th on the importance of open access to ISO standards documents; this RFC is about that statement. Background Roughly speaking, under the usual…