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Security

Mastodon had a Critical Security Vulnerability

Mental Outlaw discusses the recent security updates to Mastodon to fix critical security vulnerabilities that allowed for cross site scripting through oEmbed preview cards (CVE-2023-36459) and Arbitrary file creation through media attachments (CVE-2023-36460 AKA TootRoot) make sure the Mastodon instance you’re using is on version 4.1.3 or later.  

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Virtual Reality

The Metaverse is Dead

Seeing the writing on the wall (and Wall St) Facebook has quietly killed off the metaverse, they are now going to be focusing on creating AI models starting with LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model. Mental Outlaw dives into it.

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Autonomous Vehicles Ethics Privacy

Ford’s Future Automated Repossession Tech

Add “repo man” to the list of jobs, AI will take away. In this video Mental Outlaw talks about Fords patent approved “automated repossession” technology that they want to develop and put in cars so they can drive themselves to a repossession agency or junkyard, and how this technology could be modified to make the […]

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Open Source Security

Millions of Devices Are Vulnerable to a Critical OpenSSL Bug

In this video learn about the forthcoming OpenSSL 3.0.7 release which is supposed to include patches for a critical security vulnerability, the worst one in the OpenSSL library since Heartbleed. I also discuss some ways you could mitigate the vulnerability in the meantime.

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Virtual Reality

The Metaverse Is The World’s Deepest Money Pit

Meta continues to shoot itself in the foot, spending billions of dollars on the metaverse while only having a couple hundred users on the whole platform. This video provides harsh, but accurate criticism.

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Microsoft Security

Is This The Worst Microsoft Office Virus I’ve Ever Seen?!

Its one thing For MS Office to have a vulnerability, its another for that vulnerability to lead to RCE, but a NO CLICK RCE vulnerability codenamed Follina in Microsoft Word that doesn’t even require macros?

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Privacy

Forks Of Signal Messenger (In Case It Gets Compromised, Or Just Because)

Signal is one of the most mainstream private messaging applications, but as its popularity rises so does the likelihood of it becoming compromised. Get familiar with these forks so you’re ready in case something happens FOSS signal https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/ Molly https://molly.im/ Session https://getsession.org/

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