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60 malicious packages found on RubyGems, downloaded 275,000 times

📟 News

Date: 12/08/2025

Author: HackMag

On RubyGems, 60 malicious packages were discovered that masqueraded as harmless tools for automating social networks, blogs, and messengers. The gems stole users’ credentials and, since March 2023, have been downloaded more than 275,000 times.

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Stable Diffusion XL: Generate AI Images Locally on Your Computer

Date: 12/08/2025

Author: Oleg Afonin

You’ve probably heard about Stable Diffusion, the neural network that generates images locally on your own computer—no paid-token services needed. A new version recently came out: SDXL, short for “Extra Large.” In this article, we’ll install it and see how it generates images.

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Efimer steals cryptocurrency, hacks WordPress, and sends spam

📟 News

Date: 12/08/2025

Author: HackMag

Kaspersky Lab experts have observed a wave of attacks using the Efimer Trojan. The malware spreads via compromised WordPress sites, torrents, and email. Its primary goal is to steal and substitute cryptocurrency wallet addresses, but with additional scripts the threat also brute-forces passwords to WordPress sites and collects databases of email addresses for subsequent spam campaigns.

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Wikipedia editors will quickly delete AI-generated articles

📟 News

Date: 12/08/2025

Author: HackMag

Wikipedia has adopted new rules to combat the flood of AI-generated articles inundating the online encyclopedia. Under the new policy, administrators are authorized to quickly delete AI-generated articles if they meet certain criteria.

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DIY Audio: How to Build Your Own Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)

Date: 12/08/2025

Author: Mak2k2

This article will help you build your first — or maybe not your first? — digital-to-analog converter (DAC). You’ll have several designs to choose from, ranging from classic to quite radical. Pick whatever suits you. There are even a couple of options for the soldering-averse!

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How Phone Makers Ruin Android with Bloatware, Heavy Skins, and Broken Updates

Date: 11/08/2025

Author: Oleg Afonin

In one of our previous pieces, we took a close look at why Apple smartphones have been—and will continue to be—faster than current Android flagships. The article sparked lively debate and mixed reactions. With that in mind, we decided to take the topic further and dig deeper, discussing the roadblocks Android smartphone makers themselves put in the way of what is, fundamentally, a solid platform.

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Modologic. Dissecting the Pathologic virtual machine

Date: 11/08/2025

Author: mr.grogrig

Many years ago, I was eager to understand how the game “Pathologic” actually works. But at that time, the format of its scripts was beyond my capacity. Today, I will show you how to crack the game engine to find out how its scripts operate. Furthermore, you will write your own decompiler for an unknown programming language!

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