Samsung Patches CVE-2025-4632 Used to Deploy Mirai Botnet via MagicINFO 9 Exploit

May 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Malware Samsung has released software updates to address a critical security flaw in MagicINFO 9 Server that has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-4632 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a path traversal flaw. “Improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory vulnerability […]

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How to publish a HarmonyOS application?

1. Obtain Certificates To publish an app on the HarmonyOS AppGallery, you must apply for official certificates. (During personal development, you might often use auto-signing, but it is not accepted for app submission.) The certificates include p12, cer, csr, and p7b. Summary: Create a folder in advance to store the four certificates. Generate a p12 […]

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GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here’s how we (re)built it

Originally, Issues search was limited by a simple, flat structure of queries. But with advanced search syntax, you can now construct searches using logical AND/OR operators and nested parentheses, pinpointing the exact set of issues you care about. Building this feature presented significant challenges: ensuring backward compatibility with existing searches, maintaining performance under high query […]

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Is the enterprise (actually) ready for AI?

May 13, 2025 Maryam Ashoori, Head of Product for watsonx.ai at IBM, joins Ryan and Eira to talk about the complexity of enterprise AI, the role of governance, the AI skill gap among developers, how AI coding tools impact developer productivity, what chain-of-thought reasoning entails, and what observability and monitoring look like for AI. Credit: […]

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High-Low Frequency Detectors

This article is part of the Circuits thread, an experimental format collecting invited short articles and critical commentary delving into the inner workings of neural networks. Naturally Occurring Equivariance in Neural Networks Curve Circuits Introduction Some of the neurons in vision models are features that we aren’t particularly surprised to find. Curve detectors, for example, […]

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systems-mcp: generate systems models via LLM

Back in 2018, I wrote lethain/systems as a domain-specific language for writing runnable systems models, and introduced it with this blog post modeling a hiring funnel. While it’s far from a perfect system, I’ve gotten a lot of value out of it over the last seven years, because it allows me to maintain systems models […]

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