Wednesday, October 28
Daily News Stuff 28 October 2026
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Use The Four Luke Edition
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- The Four Awakens: If you have a device running the GoAhead embedded web server - which you might be, because there are reportedly hundreds of millions of these, though less than a million connected directly to the internet - there's an unwelcome surprise on one of the security modes: Four. (FoxIO)
Yes, it's back. Though this time it's a bit of a guessing game; instead of using a 2048-bit (256 byte) key, it actually uses an 8-bit key.
Oh, and it only really uses three of those eight bits; only eight values are possible - 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128.
Tech News
- We'll make our own Microsoft Office! With blackjack, and hookers! (Tom's Hardware)
In fact, forget the Microsoft Office.
- Apple has announced new models of the MacBook Pro and iMac with the M6 CPU. (Tom's Hardware)
Overpriced as always, but a good bit faster than the previous M4 model. Not only is it one of the fastest CPUs around for single-threaded tasks, but it has two more cores than the M4, which combine to deliver about 40% better performance.
- The Python JIT compiler that arrived in version 3.13 is going away again in version 3.16. (LWN)
Joke's on them; I've been using PyPy since 2.7. It's currently only up to 3.12, and the main Python release is up to 3.15, but I don't really care.
- The Exponential Time Hypothesis may be false. (Tech Crunch)
And that may mean - just possibly - that P=NP, in which case we're doomed.
- But probably not.
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