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Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis

Bots are currently scraping the internet for LLM training data at unprecedented rates[1][2][3], driving up costs and destabilizing public-facing websites. I want to talk about how this has been particularly difficult for wikis, and has gotten much worse in...

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nexus

The building blocks for the torment nexus are mislabeled. Few people would be stupid enough to build the torment nexus if the labels were honest.

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Rebane (@rebane2001@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 video back in 2022 i found a bug that would let me, with no user interaction, turn any chromium-based browser into a permanent js botnet member in edge, you wouldn't even notice anything out-of-place, and would stay connected to the c2 even...

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Why does the arrow (->) operator in C exist?

The dot (.) operator is used to access a member of a struct, while the arrow operator (->) in C is used to access a member of a struct which is referenced by the pointer in question. The pointer

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XSS Is Deadly for Passkeys: The Hidden Risk of Attestation None

A single XSS vulnerability can turn passkeys from a phishing-resistant login mechanism into a persistent account takeover backdoor. If malicious JavaScript can run on your page, it may be able to register an attacker-controlled passkey against the victim’s...

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