Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of ...

A GitHub project has enabled encoding files as lossless video for YouTube storage, gaining 367 stars despite Terms of Service violations and account termination risk.

Many of the emails released by the Department of Justice from its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are full of garbled ...

A marriage of formal methods and LLMs seeks to harness the strengths of both.

Mouse primary motor and somatosensory cortices contain detailed information about the many time-varying arm and paw joint angles during reaching and grasping, implying a 'low-level' role in ...

For snakes at supper, more is more. They’re nature’s binge eaters, capable of swallowing and digesting things so large it really appears to defy physics – but their time in between meals is equally ...

Olimex HoT (Home of Things) is a lightweight Smart Home solution designed to run on low-end hardware (128MB RAM, 128MB flash) ...

This was supposed to be the year AI made us more productive. Instead, it just started its own church. That’s all thanks to Moltbook – the world’s first “AI-only” social network. Imagine Reddit (RDDT), ...

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? That’s usually an encoding problem; your software isn’t reading the data correctly. The good news is that Microsoft Office makes it easy to ...

Learn how to enable and secure basic authentication for enterprise systems. Guide covers tls encryption, credential hygiene, and sso migration for ctos.

The llvm-21-tools package ships a test file that contains non-UTF-8 characters without an encoding declaration, causing package installation to fail with Python 3.14. This occurs during package ...

Here we explain a little bit about Unicode and why we may encounter UnicodeDecodeError or UnicodeEncodeError exceptions. While much of the world runs on UTF-8 these ...