Hello dear Root-Me community, We're aware of claims circulating on a hacking forum about a Root-Me data leak. We've obtained and analysed the files in question, and here's what we found. No user data is affected. The files contain only challenge source code, no passwords, no emails, no personal information. This is an old leak. Several years ago (prior to 2018, so nearly a decade old), a vulnerability allowed challenge sources from a specific server of ours to be extracted, and someone did exactly that at the time. The material surfacing today appears to originate from that incident. We've since fixed the underlying issue by hardening challenges and ensuring they were all properly sandboxed. There's nothing for our community to action, but if you have questions, we're here to answer them. We thank you all for the responsible reports that brought this to our attention. The Root-Me Team

AMD Readies Full Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Support for Linux tpu.me/8gd7

🚨 BREAKING: Wiz Research discovered Remote Code Execution on GitHub.com with a single git push The flaw in @github allowed unauthorized access to millions of repositories belonging to other users and organizations 🤯

Like I said in a previous post on the topic of ID/Age Verification - I started digging into the topic quite a bit, especially after that Meta lobbying exposed news dropped. What I have (and more of others) found is something that is so stupid, but also makes a whole lot of sense...in fact imo its the perfect piece of the puzzle. I will lay out my digging through a series of events: 1. Advertisers (ie Corporations with products or services to sell), contract with big Social media platforms, paying boatloads of money for adspace. The logic is that even if 10% of the tens of millions of users buy into their ads, its worth the investment. 2. The onset of botting, has led to ads being viewers by more bots than they do humans. No matter how many bots watch your ads, they never need your products or services. So they will never give advertisers' money and business. 3. This essentially means that, Advertisers are proverbially throwing money into the drain. Paying the price with practically no ROI. Many reports indicate that this botting problem resulted in multi-billion dollar wastage on ad spending. 4. Advertisers have started grilling social media companies, especially Meta which was one of the biggest sources of the issue. This resulted in many advertisers basically threatening to pull ad money until the botting situation is controlled. 5. The botting situation became even WORSE around 2023-2025 with the Ai-Bros and Ai Companies hard pushing Ai development. The past anti-bot systems and measures lose effectiveness as Ai makes bots more sophisticated. 6. Then late 2025/2026, you can see the SNAP. The nuclear solution - Age/ID verification being pushed or implemented across multiple countries at around the same timing (within months). 7. Then now all the news about Socmed and big tech corps lobbying politicians and governments for mass ID/Age Verification on an OS/Appstore level. 8. Why? Since you pick your poison to "age verify"...a selfie, submit your ID, or Ping your credit card. Sure your age will be "verified", but it also comes with the useful byproduct of confirming you are HUMAN. So as a takeaway, what does this mean? Well to me at least, this quite neatly explains why BOTH Governments and large Corporations have collaborated and colluded to push for ID Verification at an alarming pace Globally. In the end, it really was about money. It also means quite simply in my opinion - these Corporations and Governments, NEVER really cared about "the children". "Think of the Children" imo, has always been, and will continue to be the convenient excuse for these corporations and politicians to implement this privacy-invasive system. Because if only PROVEN humans can use social media, or other similar sites/services - Advertisers will be mollified and continue to throw money at these Big Tech corporations for continued ad space. This ALSO means - that the so-called parents and people like the Riceman who run defence of ID Verification, are either very stupid, or complicit in this. Either way, the only winners are the Advertisers, the Big Tech Corpos, and the Politicians. We all however, lose.

SystemD has added birth date storage in order to comply with Brazil and California Age Verification laws. Let that sink in. A Linux init system now handles Age Verification. github.com/systemd/systemd/p…

shut the fuck up you technocrat piece of shit

#proxmox loadbalancing is coming ^_^

The Linux community of 20 years ago would've taken one look at AB 1043 and pushed an update that limited the network speed of every machine in California to 1 kbps until it was repealed.

programer: includes c compilers as a part of opus training data opus: builds c compiler ai posters: 🤯😮

Today my entire feed is about the C compiler built by claude. Different opinions. Endless threads. So many takes. But I doubt you will find anything better than comments in github.com/anthropics/claude…

Imagine spending $20,000 to build a compiler that makes Doom run at 2 FPS at 160x100 resolution. And then flexing it. Every AI ad I see is like this. “You know that Good Thing™️? Now we made it worse, but at least it’s more expensive!”

Sounds incredible until you read the fine print. The compiler generates less efficient code than GCC with all optimizations disabled. It doesn’t have its own assembler or linker. It can’t produce a 16-bit x86 code generator. And Carlini himself says it has “nearly reached the limits of Opus’s abilities.” New features and bugfixes kept breaking existing functionality. So what did $20,000 and two weeks actually buy? A compiler that passes 99% of GCC’s torture tests but can’t match the output quality of a tool that’s had 37 years of human engineering. That’s the constraint nobody’s pricing in. The real story is in the cost curve, not the capability demo. $20,000 for 100,000 lines means $0.20 per line of generated code. A senior compiler engineer costs roughly $150/hour. At maybe 50 polished lines per hour for something this complex, that’s $3/line. AI just did it at 15x cheaper, and it will only get cheaper from here. But the code isn’t equivalent. The AI version needs a human to finish the assembler, fix the linker, optimize the output, and prevent regressions. Those are the hardest 20% of the problem, and they represent 80% of the engineering value. Anthropic built the demo. Shipping the product still requires humans. This tells you exactly where we are in the autonomous software timeline. AI can now produce impressive first drafts of complex systems at trivial cost. Turning those drafts into production software still requires the judgment that costs $300K per year in compiler engineer salary. The gap between “compiles the Linux kernel” and “replaces GCC” is measured in decades of accumulated engineering wisdom that no model has internalized yet. The companies that understand this will use agent teams to generate the 80% and hire engineers to finish the 20%. The companies that don’t will ship $20,000 compilers that produce slower code than a free tool from 1987.

Holy shit, Anna's Archive scraped almost all of Spotify. 300TB. annas-archive.li/blog/backin…

The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services. The Going Dark initiative, or ProtectEU as the Commission now calls it, wants to “enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner”. This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt. The EU Commission and several member states are also looking for new rules on data retention. In a new ”Presidency outcome paper”, the member states discuss metadata retention: which websites you visit, and who is communicating with whom, when and how often. The ambition is “to have the broadest possible scope of application” and this time some member states also want the proposal to include VPN services. Mullvad has spent the last three years opposing Chat Control 2.0 – even though the law would have affected our business positively. We will continue to fight Going Dark with full force, regardless of whether VPNs are included or not. If VPNs are included, and if Going Dark becomes law, we will never spy on our customers no matter what.

France's cybersecurity agency was previously actively using GrapheneOS. They helped us by auditing our code and submitting bug reports such as this one: github.com/GrapheneOS/harden… They also made suggestions for security improvements to improve protection against exploits.

there's been a significant uptick on cloud service provider outages since we've entered tHe ArTifiCiaL InTelliGencE ErA coincidence? probably.

"Pourquoi la souveraineté numérique avec les partenaires américains est un conte de fées. Les fournisseurs de services cloud basés aux États-Unis font la promotion de « clouds souverains » et d'une souveraineté des données conforme aux normes européennes sur le marché européen. Cependant, en vertu de réglementations telles que le CLOUD Act et le FISA 702, les données européennes ne sont jamais protégées contre les États-Unis". it-daily.net/it-management/c…

Swiss surveillance could become worse than US If passed, chat, email & VPN providers from #Switzerland must: 🚨 Log IP addresses 🚨 Ask for ID upon sign up 🚨 Decrypt data upon request Swiss Bundesrat is still discussing this draft bill, decision will likely be made in 2026. Let's fight for #privacy! 👉 tuta.com/blog/switzerland-su…

Dear politicians, Stop using 'child safety' as a vehicle for mass censorship and surveillance. No one believes you. And using children is just ... sickening.

🚨 Attention EU Citizens 🚨 💬 Chat Control is a piece of legislation that would mandate all services to scan all private digital communications of everyone residing in the European Union, and it's currently waiting to be green-lit by the EU Parliament tomorrow. According to Dr. Patrick Breyer a digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament: "Chat Control is being pushed through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan." Read more and how you can get involved to stop this here: patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-co… #chatcontrol #privacy #eu