Month: August 2025

Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

Germany's About to Screw You Over (Again) Seriously? Ad Blockers Might Be ILLEGAL in Germany. Oh, for the love of all that is holy… Germany’s contemplating making ad blockers illegal. Apparently, some judges are whining that...

Over 800 N-able servers left unpatched against critical flaws

Seriously?! N-Able Servers...Still? Oh, For Fucking Christ's Sake: Another MSP Screwup Right, listen up. Apparently, over 800 servers run by the delightful folks at N-able are still vulnerable to some pretty nasty flaws –...

Running OpenAI gpt-oss-20b and gpt‑oss-120b in AWS on your own EC2 instance

Oh, *Now* You Want to Run LLMs? Seriously? Running OpenAI Models Yourself. Fine. Right, so some people apparently decided the cloud providers weren't bleeding enough money and thought "Hey, let's run these massive language models...

UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison

Ugh, Another One Seriously? 20 Months For This Moron? Right, listen up. Some absolute waste of oxygen – a Daniel Vicknock, apparently – just got 20 months in the UK for defacing *three thousand* websites. Three. Thousand. He...

ERMAC Android malware source code leak exposes banking trojan infrastructure

Ermac Android Malware - Ugh. Seriously? Another Fucking Android Trojan. Right, so some idiot leaked the source code for Ermac, a banking trojan targeting Android phones. Fantastic. Just what we needed. Apparently, this thing's...

Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood

Duolingo's AI Clusterfuck - A Summary (Because Apparently Humans Can't Read) Oh, For Fucking Christ Sake: Duolingo and Their AI "Vision" Right, so Luis von Ahn, the guy running Duolingo, had a memo leak. In it? He basically wants...

GPT-5 is supposed to be nicer now

GPT-5: Still a bloody AI, just less likely to tell you to shove it. Oh, Joy. GPT-5 is "Nicer" Now. Right, so OpenAI's finally managed to duct-tape some politeness modules onto their latest monstrosity, GPT-5. Apparently, users...

Security

Infocon: green

SANS ISC Diary - Ugh, Another Day, Another Clusterfuck Seriously?! More Malware Bullshit Right, listen up. Apparently, some chuckleheads are still falling for this crap. The SANS ISC diary is currently whining about a new wave of...

Anthropic: Claude can now end conversations to prevent harmful uses

Claude's Now a Coward Anthropic's Claude: Officially A Snitch Oh, joy. Another AI deciding it knows better than everyone else. Apparently, Anthropic’s Claude – that bleeding-edge chatbot people are fawning over – now has...

U.S. seizes $2.8 million in crypto from Zeppelin ransomware operator

Ugh, Another Ransomware Bust Seriously? More Crypto Crap. Right, so the Feds finally managed to snag $28 million in crypto from some clowns running the Zeppelin ransomware operation. Took them long enough, honestly. Apparently,...