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Daily News Stuff 20 May 2026 (ai.mee.nu)

PinTheft: New Linux Exploit Steals Kernel References to Root Shell (www.cyberkendra.com)

Shooting Stars(1928) (classicfilmandtvcorner.wordpress.com)

PostgreSQL Patches 11 Security Flaws, Including Code Execution and a Sneaky Password-Stealing Timing Attack (www.cyberkendra.com)

Tiktok Disrupts Thai Subsea Cable Industry (subseacables.blogspot.com)

GitHub's Own Codebase Was Breached — A Poisoned VS Code Extension Was All It Took (www.cyberkendra.com)

Seeing Around Corners Using Smartphone-Grade Lidar (spectrum.ieee.org)

Nmap Firewall Scan (rajhackingarticles.blogspot.com)

Some New-Ish Releases, May 2026 Edition (www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com)

My Spouse Gets Me the Best Gifts (insearchofsecrets.com)

Personal finance links: the caregiving penalty (abnormalreturns.com)

Windows Privilege Escalation: SeImpersonate (rajhackingarticles.blogspot.com)

2000 Great Songs #1336: Tell Me A Story (www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com)

Taiwan’s Disposable Drones Tempt Europe, U.S. (spectrum.ieee.org)

Newspaper Clipping of the Day (strangeco.blogspot.com)

Handmade Handpainted Antique Postcard by Bill. Mailed 1913 (dulltooldimbulb.blogspot.com)

Will Robotics Have a ChatGPT Moment? (spectrum.ieee.org)

JWT vs Session Tokens in Spring Boot: A Senior Dev’s Decision Guide (systemweakness.com)

The Tool Is the Door (systemweakness.com)

I audited two AI-generated apps on the same backend. The outcomes weren’t close. (systemweakness.com)

SOC Metrics Explained: The Numbers That Actually Define Security Operations (systemweakness.com)

Understanding CWE-89: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command (“SQL… (systemweakness.com)

OverTheWire Bandit Walkthrough — Level 1 → 2 | 30-Day Cybersecurity Learning Journey (Day 2) (systemweakness.com)

OverTheWire Bandit Walkthrough — Level 2 → 3 | 30-Day Cybersecurity Learning Journey (Day 3) (systemweakness.com)

Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations: The AI-Powered Engine That Compresses Days of… (systemweakness.com)

FIPS-Enabled Python on cx_Freeze: Challenges, the Mangling Problem, and How We Shipped It (systemweakness.com)

Are we living through a Sputnik Moment? (thefinanser.com)

Pack your agentic stack in Slack (stackoverflow.blog)

ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, May 20th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9938, (Wed, May 20th) (isc.sans.edu)

The Importance of Being Idempotent (campedersen.com)

Install GOAD on MacOS. (systemweakness.com)

Google I/O 2026 — Here's Everything Google Announced (www.cyberkendra.com)

Tuesday links: the end of securities regulation (abnormalreturns.com)

Daily News Stuff 19 May 2026 (ai.mee.nu)

Microsoft's durabletask Hit by TeamPCP — Your Cloud Keys Were the Target (www.cyberkendra.com)

#716: Q&A: Your Kids Just Inherited $350,000 Each. Now What (affordanything.com)

The Virtual OS Museum (virtualosmuseum.org) (virtualosmuseum.org)

Robots Could Turn E-Waste Into a Source of Legacy Chips (spectrum.ieee.org)

In Memoriam: Peter G. Neumann (1932-2026) (acm.org) (cacm.acm.org)

Google's Aluminium OS Spotted on GDG Community Page Hours Before I/O 2026 Keynote (www.cyberkendra.com)

Microsoft Busts "Fox Tempest" — A Dark Web Service That Sold Fake Code Signatures to Ransomware Gangs (www.cyberkendra.com)

Biologists Say They Cracked One of Life’s Biggest Mysteries (backreaction.blogspot.com)

Research links: the index rebalancing trade (abnormalreturns.com)

2000 Great Songs #1335: Story (www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com)

The Next 15 Years of Moore’s Law, According to Imec (spectrum.ieee.org)

PhD Chemical Engineer Finds New Career Booty Hooping (economistwritingeveryday.com)

Reversing ‘Grateful Dead: D2S2’ (os9.ca) (blog.os9.ca)

Rust x GBA: Setup and Pixels (jonahnestrick.com) (jonahnestrick.com)

Home Robot Safety Is All About Relationships (spectrum.ieee.org)

Your fridge could be a threat to national security (stackoverflow.blog)

Is our future wars or trekking? (thefinanser.com)

Things worth reading: 19th May 2026 (thefinanser.com)

Software is having its semiconductor-toolchain reverse engineering moment (kumarletter.com)

Discord Calls Are Now End-to-End Encrypted — Even Discord Can't Listen In (www.cyberkendra.com)

Storm-2949 Hackers Turned One Stolen Password Reset Into a Full Azure Cloud Takeover (www.cyberkendra.com)

ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9936, (Tue, May 19th) (isc.sans.edu)

An Apple (II) for Teacher (technicshistory.com) (technicshistory.com)

Economic history as it’s happening is alway relative (economistwritingeveryday.com)

TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Activity Through 2026-05-17, (Mon, May 18th) (isc.sans.edu)