A new write-up shows how Kindles that switched to MTP in 2024 can be rooted by talking to the file-transfer daemon alone: leak its address through a file's creation date, then overflow its stack. Amazon patched it in firmware 5.20.1.
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A new write-up shows how Kindles that switched to MTP in 2024 can be rooted by talking to the file-transfer daemon alone: leak its address through a file's creation date, then overflow its stack. Amazon patched it in firmware 5.20.1.
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The card's own PCIe switch parks an 8 MB BAR in the same window as the VRAM, so a boot script makes Linux forget the GPU and find it again with a 16 GB window.
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Every page in his Scraper Junkyard carries a number that encodes its place in a binary tree, so the order of the requests gave away one central queue behind thousands of rented servers.
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Its IT contractor made the account in January 2012 to test logins before real users moved over, and nobody ever turned it off. Attackers took 42 GB covering about 3,300 people, most of them children.
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Peter Hraska's open-source companion app schedules the reviews on a Mac and keeps up to 16 cards on the 600-by-600 screen, with the day's weather and next three meetings above each one.
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The TypeScript port of John Calhoun's paper-airplane game rebuilds enough of the Macintosh Toolbox to run with no ROM, keeps the original's bugs on purpose, and has Calhoun's blessing.
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Title V of the copyright law is the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act, which protects the designs of boat hulls.
Bethesda opened its wasteland with midnight sales at about 2,000 stores. Within days it had shipped about 4.7 million copies worth over $300 million at retail, 55 percent of them on Xbox 360.
IBM offered $190 a share in cash, about $34 billion, and announced it on a Sunday.
Meta shut down the standalone Facebook Gaming app just over two years after it launched in April 2020. Apple had rejected it several times before letting it into the App Store, so it was a short run for a long wait.
1956: A hard drive: 3.75 MB. Today: 44 TB. IBM's 350 RAMAC held 3.75 MB on fifty 24-inch disks in a 5-by-6-foot unit that weighed over a ton; Seagate's Mozaic 4+ drives ship at up to 44 TB, and 44,000,000 MB divided by 3.75 MB is about 11.7 million times as much.
