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Friday June 12th, 2026

AUR compromise Dan Lyke / comment 0

The Arch Linux AUR (Arch User Repository) had over 400 packages compromised with malware

There's a thread on the public AUR Mailing List with people reporting packages, where it seems like over 400 packages were hit with the issue. Arch packager Jonathan Grotelüschen mentioned work was ongoing to "reset/delete all malicious commits and ban the accounts".

ifin: 400+ AUR Packages Compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit points to Taggart :ifin: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange

I'm trying to understand the details of AUR processes for submitting PKGBUILDs. In other words, how exactly did this happen? arojas submitted hundreds of changes to PKGBUILD or related files. And they were just...accepted? What am I missing?

Edit: What I missed was this was pure impersonation. The maintainer is fine, but the process was vulnerable to spoofing.

Microsoft announces way to disable AI in Bing Dan Lyke / comment 0

Search Engine Roundtable: Bing Gives Searchers A Way To Disable AI Copilot Answers

Jordi Ribas, the President, Head of Search at Microsoft, wrote on X about this saying, "We just shipped a preview extension in Bing that lets you toggle AI chat-like features on or off with just one click."

Microsoft Bing AI Search Choice for Chrome
Microsoft Bing AI Search Choice for Edge

Windows Central: Bing users can now disable AI Copilot search results with this new extension

Installing the Chrome data extension warns that

It can:

Read and change your data on bing.com and www.bing.com

Replace the page you see when opening a new tab

Read your browsing history

Change your search settings to bing.com

I was alerted to this by elilla& com pomba-gira de frente @elilla@transmom.love

AI video shorts Dan Lyke / comment 0

"AI............is inevitable." (YouTube video)

Making art in 2026 (Fediverse Video).

token limited Dan Lyke / comment 0

daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder@mastodon.social

working theory: we get fewer vulnerability reports late in the weeks as the researchers have all run out of tokens by now...

Thursday June 11th, 2026

Scalzi has a request Dan Lyke / comment 0

John Scalzi: Please I Beg of You Do Not Use “AI” In Your Business Communications.

The thing is: I’m not special. Every writer and creative person, from the most successful down to the very newest, is inundated with these scam spam emails. Lots of them, every single day. Pretty much every one of us, I assure you, now associates “AI”- generated text with attempted fraud.

AI writing has become the modern day Facebook ad: sure, the product looks intriguing, but you know this particular link is a scam.

San Francisco’s Magdalen Asylum Dan Lyke / comment 0

Beth Winegarner: San Francisco’s Magdalen Asylum. Including a listing of inmates and prisoners.

Same author: Mission Local: The hidden, painful history of SF’s Magdalen Asylum.

Via.


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