Cyberpunk is a genre of science fiction that focuses on computers or information technology, usually coupled with some degree of breakdown in social order. The plot of cyberpunk writing often centers on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and mega corporations, tending to be set within a near-future dystopian Earth, rather than the "outer space" locales prevalent at the time of cyberpunk's inception. Much of the genre's "atmosphere" echoes film noir, and written works in the genre often use techniques from detective fiction. While this gritty, hard-hitting style was hailed as revolutionary during cyberpunk's early days, later observers concluded that in terms of literature, most cyberpunk narrative techniques were less innovative than those of the New Wave, twenty years earlier. Primary exponents of the cyberpunk field include William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, John Shirley and Rudy Rucker. The term became widespread in the 1980s and remains current today.
A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.
On 29 March 2024, a malicious backdoor was discovered in the compression software XZ Utils. The backdoor gives an attacker who possesses a specific private key the ability to remotely execute code on an affected system through OpenSSH, a set of networking utilities. The backdoor was discovered by software developer Andres Freund.
It was later discovered that the exploit was deliberately included into the software in February 2024 by a user going by the name of "Jia Tan", affecting both version 5.6.0 and 5.6.1. The issue was given the CVE exploit number CVE-2024-3094 and was assigned a CVSS score of 10.0, the highest possible score, indicating that the exploit was extremely severe.
While XZ Utils is commonly present in most Linux distributions, at the time of discovery the affected versions had not yet been widely deployed to production systems, but were present in development versions of major distributions, resulting in distribution maintainers rebuilding their packages to mitigate the exploit. A patch for this backdoor was released on 29 May 2024, with version number 5.6.2. The exploit was noted for its high level of obfuscation, being the result of a campaign lasting years. (Full article...)
This map presents an overview of broadband affordability, as the relationship between average yearly income per capita and the cost of a broadband subscription (data referring to 2011). Source: Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute. (from Internet access)
Image 23The digital divide measured in terms of bandwidth is not closing, but fluctuating up and down. Gini coefficients for telecommunication capacity (inkbit/s) among individuals worldwide (from Internet access)
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