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Getting a New WAN IP Address via DHCP from Spectrum Internet (2022)
Ubiquiti Updates Firmware on 10-Year Old EdgeRouter Lite (MIPS Octeon ERLite-3)
SoK: 20 Years of Power, Privilege, and Peril in x86 System Management Mode
Re:Seeing Around Corners Using Smartphone-Grade Lidar
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:26PM (#48312371)
Ordinary WiFi can "see" through walls/corners with biometric fingerprinting of humans, https://gizmodo.com/researchers-issue-warning-about-tech-tha...
Researchers collected WiFi signal recordings from nearly 200 participants as they walked through a WiFi field using different walking styles. The data was recorded from four different perspectives using both the BFI method and an older WiFi sensing approach relying on channel state information, or CSI.
“This technology turns every router into a potential means for surveillance,” said co-author Julian Todt in the press release. “If you regularly pass by a café that operates a WiFi network, you could be identified there without noticing it and be recognized later – for example by public authorities or companies.”
The researchers are urging the IEEE, the organization that sets industry standards, to include stronger privacy safeguards in the upcoming 802.11bf standard, which is meant to standardize WiFi sensing applications.Researchers Warn of WiFi 7 Routers as 'A Potential Means for Surveillance'
Freediving, Embodiment and Humanity – Joanna Rutkowska
Android Intrusion Logging as new source of data for consensual forensic analysis
Private Post-Training and Inference with TEEs for Frontier Models
Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits
BIO: The RISC Bao I/O Coprocessor
Intel Device Modeling Language for virtual platforms
Virtual iPhone (iOS26) on Apple Private Cloud Compute (PCC) research VM
Re:Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices
on Thursday March 12, 2026 @07:05PM (#47358480)
Google will launch Chrome for ARM64 Linux devices in Q2 2026, following the successful expansion of Chrome to Arm-powered macOS devices in 2020 and Arm-powered Windows devices in 2024.. Google is partnering with NVIDIA to make it easier for DGX Spark users to install Chrome.
Android desktop mode: https://x.com/sahajsarup/status/2031963143082295610
FlashKeeper: Where SpiSpy meets Stateless Laptop (2024)
Designing Secure Software
Google-Intel Joint TDX Security Review [video]
How Predator iPhone Spyware Can Defeat iOS Orange and Green Recording Indicators
Steam Deck Plugin to Enable MTP File Transfer via USB DRD (Dual-Role Device)
Hydroph0bia – fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware from Insyde H2O (2025)
Unlocking secret ThinkPad functionality for emulating USB devices (2024)
Trying to Access ZFS-Encrypted SSD Following a Kernel Update Failure (2025)
Open-Source Ecosystem Whale Falls
Volatility: The volatile memory forensic extraction framework
Democratizing cryptographic silicon verification with Infra-Red imaging (2024)
Chiplets Get Physical: The Days of Mix-and-Match Silicon Draw Nigh
Re:WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System
on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @06:24PM (#46982676)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/whofi_wifi_identifier...
> Researchers in Italy have developed a way to create a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal propagation.. can re-identify a person in other locations most of the time when a Wi-Fi signal can be measured. Observers could therefore track a person as they pass through signals sent by different Wi-Fi networks – even if they’re not carrying a phone.. their technique makes accurate matches on the public NTU-Fi dataset up to 95.5 percent.
Re:WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System
on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @02:00PM (#46979223)
WiFi Sensing is part of Wi-Fi 7 and present in most recent laptops and smartphones. Local NPU machine learning can be combined with WiFI radar. Malware can attack phone and radio basebands and exploit this capability. It can uniquely fingerprint human biometrics, measure breathing rate, record keystrokes and more. Thousands of academic papers have been published in the last 15 years on "device free wireless sensing", before the capability was ratified by IEEE as 802.11bf. It's being rolled out commercially. Mitigations include drywall or insulation with a layer of RF shielding.
"Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion", 500 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426726#44427986
"Wi-fi signal tracks heartbeat without wearables", 80 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45488908
2022 laptop demo of respiration sensing, https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/respiration... | https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Client/...
2025 biometric signature, https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/whofi_wifi_identifier...
> Researchers.. developed.. a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal propagation.. CSI in the context of Wi-Fi devices refers to information about the amplitude and phase of electromagnetic transmissions.. interact with the human body in a way that results in person-specific distortions.. processed by a deep neural network, the result is a unique data signature.. [for] signal-based Re-ID systems