• We haven't had a critical local privilege escalation bug in Linux for at least...  What's the time now?  (Ars Technica)
  
  Today's little surprise package comes courtesy of an unexpected exclamation mark in the source code for the Netfilter module that handles firewall tasks resulting in a use-after-free bug that can pretty reliably be tricked into granting an unprivileged user administrator access to the entire system.  Might break shared-kernel containers too; not sure about that.
  
  If you think you're safe because you use iptables or lfw rather than Netfilter I have some uncomfortable news for you: It's Netfilter all the way down.  That's been true since the last millennium.

• The FCC wants to kill burner phones.  (404 Media)
  
  Wait, you can still get phones in the US without signing over your firstborn?
  
  
  
• The Pentagon has labeled multiple Chinese tech companies as...  Chinese tech companies.  (AP News)
  
  As in they're all in bed with the Chinese military, which is not the army of China but of the Chinese Communist Party.  Which it is and they are.
  
  
  
• Google has just fired a shot across the bow of GitHub Copilot.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Their entry-level AI plan has been reduced from $8 per month to $5 while doubling included storage from 200GB to 400GB.
  
  Google's plan apparently is Russian roulette with steak knives, betting they can survive the blood loss longer than anyone else.
  
  
  
• SpaceX has unveiled plans for an 11 million square foot satellite factory in Texas.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That...  Um.  That's a quarter of the 1000 acre site, in factory floor.
  
  
  
• The Radeon 9070 XT has dropped to a low low price of $649.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The MSRP is $599 but it has rarely been available at that price, even less so since the Everything Sucks Era began.
  
  At least in the US.  Here in Australia I picked one up for $570 in March.  Don't know exactly why it's like that; Nvidia cards here are as inflated as in America.
  
  
  
• Container Machine is Windows Services for Linux for MacOS.  (GitHub)
  
  Basically.
  
  
  
• Origin Code has shown off 128GB CUDIMMs for desktop PCs.  (WCCFTech)
  
  As in, individual modules.  256GB for a pair.  Running at 8GHz.
  
  Don't know if you can put four of them in a system, and the answer is probably not unless you have night job harvesting organs from unsuspecting Walmart employees in Minecraft.
  
  
  
• Donut Lab's new solid state battery - breakthrough technology that boosted the company to a value of $1.25 billion - is not made of donuts.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I is also, apparently, not solid state.  It's a regular lithium-ion batter in a fancy shell.
  
  Yes, criminal investigations are under way.
  
  
  
• Minisforums N5 Max is a NAS with room for five 3.5" hard drives and five M.2 SSDs.  (Liliputing)
  
  And dual 10Gb Ethernet ports, 80Gb USB4v2, and...  A Ryzen AI 395 Max+ processor with 16 CPU cores, 40 graphics cores, and up to 128GB of RAM.
  
  So if you're spending someone else's money (it starts at $2500 with no drives) and need to pack your entire lab into an 8" x 8" x 10" cube...  It exists.
  
  
  

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Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, June 10 2026 11:09 PM (HomVQ)

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