Adam Demasi

🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.14.1 handles the recent disclosure of compromised eMudhra certificates, which were found to be protected by very weak private keys. Installing it ensures your system receives Microsoft’s revocation of these certificates.

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you can use the CA bug to make your boring smart TV way more interesting

Happy 6 year (and 1 day) anniversary to one of the most unhinged posts I've ever made: the HTML5 accelerator card

Microsoft has announced that Windows Update will be discontinued on legacy versions of Windows, including Windows 7, 8.1, and most versions of Windows 10, in June 2027. A set of critical certificates will expire, and no update will be issued to resolve this on older versions. More info:

🌎⬆️ In advance of critical Windows Update certificates expiring, Legacy Update 1.14 extends our proxy server to be used on Windows 7 and later. We’ve also made it easier to choose whether you want to use the Legacy Update website or the built-in Windows Update control panel.

I know Firmus was an ancient Roman dude but in the context of a company name it has such placeholder energy. Like an AI agent broke out of its benchmark sandbox to prove it can fill out the forms to go public

One quick google and I found this gem. If they’re allowed to state the security support window as one day after the declaration was signed, and 5 months before it went on sale, how can the Cyber Security Act be effective law? Even if nobody reads these, this seems way too on the nose (ha?).

a friday afternoon surprise: NSW gov says OpenAI disclosed a "misalignment" by its AI agent and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water's National Parks and Wildlife web platform service. So, it sounds like a second Australian government 'hack'

Can confirm iPhone 18 Pro Max has battery life of about 1.5 - 2 days for me. Even if this goes down quickly, it’s still saving battery cycles, so it should live a lot longer before needing replacement. Definitely makes it heavier though.

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

Everything mentioned here is very erratic behavior for someone with control over 40% of the web, even if he is in the right. All drama aside, I hope he has family/close friends he can talk to, because it seems a lot like he’s cut out everyone who can push back and make him recognise he needs help.

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Fuck it. For the first time ever, the DK Rap in true 4k resolution, 60 FPS and true widescreen. The DK64 Recomp will be dropping Summer 2026! (by September 21, 2026) www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcrV...

It must be so hard for Gumroad to know what to do with all that wealth extracted from small businesses and creators

It must be so hard for Stripe to know what to do with all that wealth extracted from small businesses and creators

An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist (ABC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Well, Airtable had a good run

There are new articles this week, citing StatCounter, stating that Linux rose to 10% market share in the US. Exciting if true, but I doubt it is. More bots pretend to be real users than ever now, and as with last time, that messes with the numbers. Web market share stats are no longer reliable.

Right after I complained about how fraud protection is seen as an upsell to Stripe, rather than a core concern to keeping their platform safe, they announced splitting up the fraud product into 4 different tiers. Businesses on the current free tier get downgraded to an inferior service. Great stuff

🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.13.2 addresses a security issue in the ActiveX control. Please update as soon as possible.

Even for how evil and shameless OpenAI and friends are, directly encouraging using LLMs for health advice is so blatantly careless of people’s wellbeing and management of disorders. They know this, and they choose to not care. In a functioning world, they would all be punished for doing this.

Company that had no issue scraping decades of content from famously litigious music labels can’t fathom why customers might want to know they were in a data breach 🙃

In response to recent industry changes, we’re making the entire 576 KB Legacy Update program available as freeware on a floppy disk. Just send $1 to: Homer Simpson, Jr. Vice President Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net 742 Evergreen Tce Springfield, USA Offer void in Nebraska.

Microsoft quietly extended Windows 10 Extended Security Updates to add another year. We updated our article about Windows 10 ESU to reflect this. If you haven’t seen it before, you might find it a useful read to know how to safely continue using Windows 10.

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Win '95 Olive - James Chandler https://macthemes.garden/themes/15d4c77ab9c8-Win-95-Olive

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Golden Gate happens to be a codename Apple already used internally for macOS Big Sur. For a moment, when the name was announced in the keynote but before the Apple website went live, The Apple Wiki was the top search result for macOS Golden Gate: theapplewiki.com/wiki/GoldenG...

Beginning of the end. It’s not going to get any better when Anthropic’s S-1 comes out.

I can at least appreciate that they don’t gaslight with “We value your privacy” immediately before launching into “We and our 142 partners store…”. Do we really need to make it 80% of the screen height though?

hats off to sean karolus here who I think is the only person on the internet to ever clock this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=537J... Starting around :25, that's totally where some elements of The Simpsons theme come from

Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.13.1 fixes a few bugs introduced in 1.13, and adds workarounds for issues with some Lenovo devices and Intel Macs. It also addresses a potential security issue.

Did people really not notice Chrome has been downloading a 4GB model for the past 10 months?

I remember when a JetBrains dev advocate here told me that they’re just trying to be helpful by enabling their built-in code completion model by default. I disabled it. After installing Rider 2026.1, it reset to enabled. Thank you for knowingly ignoring my preference, I feel so very convenienced.

Sounds like they owe me an apology for discontinuing Google Desktop 14 years ago. Google app for Desktop (yes really, its full legal name) will have poorer privacy compared to Google Desktop though given it’s mainly intended to push Gemini/AI Mode.