Thursday, September 03

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Daily News Stuff 3 September 2026

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  • A group called Nexus is advertising 153 million US drivers licenses for sale on Russian exploit site Exploit. (Krebs On Security)

    They advertised this with a photo of the drivers license of a certain... Brian Krebs.

    Uh.

    And he followed up by asking 10 friends to see if their redacted data was in the list. Nine times out of ten, it was.

    How did this happen? We may never know. Oh.
    Here’s where it gets interesting: I was able to find my mother’s drivers license in this service as well, and the timestamps for her images are just a few seconds apart from mine. That’s notable because we both handed our licenses to the Hertz rental car representative at the same time.
    Oops.

    So Hertz got hacked?

    Nothing so pleasant.
    Edwards told KrebsOnSecurity that although he did not rent a car in Vegas, he did hand over his license at the TSA checkpoint, at a marijuana dispensary in Vegas, and at his hotel (the Aria). But he said the only one of those three that for sure scanned his ID in some kind of device was the dispensary.
    Not Hertz it would appear, but, the company that Hertz uses to verify IDs.
    Contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, idscan.net said it was investigating the matter, but the company has not yet shared an official statement or a substantive reply to specific questions sent via email.
    The birdbath is on fire.


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The full character set of the Imagine 1000. It actually has four versions of this, with character cells at 8x10, 10x10, 8x12, and 10x12 pixels, all generated on demand from less than 4k of shape data and native code. It can boot and generate the ASCII subset and load the editor screen in 30 milliseconds at 3MHz.

The point of this? All those accented characters let you play a really cool version of Nethack.


Also today: Integrating Belnap's four-valued logic into the core of my programming language, nailing down JSON tags for its rich type system, making sure it doesn't blow up MongoDB or Elasticsearch, and setting it up as a shared runtime for my next programming language. On the emulator side of things... 73k free of 128k on startup? Where did it all go? Fixing that.

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That's the default 480x270 colour display with 48x27 text; it also supports 640x360 with up to 80x36 text.


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