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Interdepartmental Dispute: The Quick Fixes Folder Has Been Compromised

The developers behind the uBlock Origin project have discovered what appears to be a rather mundane violation of corporate protocol, except the protocol in question is the General Public License; an open-source agreement. The team responsible for the Honey browser extension, which is ultimately owned by PayPal, seems to have treated the GPL as a suggestion, allegedly copying filter lists and code from uBlock Origin's project files into their own product, Pie Adblock, without complying with the open-source license requirements.

This whole situation is being treated like someone saw the free coffee in the break room and then decided to take the entire bag home, arguing they were simply providing the 'Quick Fixes' to their own cubicle. The code in question is from the uBlock Origin Quick Fixes filter list and various GPL-licensed scriptlets, which were found inside the Honey team's compiled extension. They are now being gently reminded by the community and the original developers that the "open" in open-source does not mean "free for commercial lifting without attribution or compliance," a concept which apparently still needs to be filed under "Mandatory Training" for new hires at billion-dollar corporations.

The Existential Crisis of Middle Management

An anonymous employee has issued a company-wide memo, titled "I am rich and have no idea what to do," detailing the crushing weight of having achieved all possible success metrics. This is the white-collar equivalent of running out of printer toner and realizing the new cartridges will just lead to more work; a profound sense of meaninglessness has settled over the entire executive suite.

The comments section is now acting as a pro-bono life-coaching service; replete with suggestions ranging from starting a new niche hardware company to simply adopting a cat. Everyone agrees the problem is simple: the employee has accidentally completed the game's main quest line and has nothing left but side quests. This happens when the only thing left to optimize is your own happiness, which, as every startup knows, is typically not a key performance indicator.

Security Update: The Terminal Got Phished

A critical security vulnerability has been identified and patched in iTerm2, the popular macOS terminal emulator. The issue, which affects versions 3.5.6 through 3.5.10, essentially amounted to the program accidentally leaving sensitive user input and output out in the open. Specifically, a bug in the SSH integration feature caused data to be logged to a file named /tmp/framer.txt on the remote host, which could be read by other users.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22275, carries a 'Critical' CVSS score of 9.3 because, naturally, it involves exposing things like passwords, private keys, and whatever other embarrassing commands you ran while setting up your deployment pipeline. Users are strongly advised to update to version 3.5.11 immediately; otherwise, your entire digital life might just be sitting there in a plaintext file on some server for Steve from Operations to accidentally read.

Web Traffic Is Now Mandatory Security Awareness Training

The digital gatekeeper Cloudflare is now facing user complaints that its automated security challenges have become, to use the technical term, completely impassable. For a growing number of people, simply trying to browse a protected website results in an endless loop of CAPTCHAs, or the system simply deciding that the user, who is trying to find their TPS reports, is actually a hostile bot swarm. The challenge is essentially the digital equivalent of a security guard asking you to solve a three-dimensional chess puzzle just to enter the lobby.

A public complaint thread titled "Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience" quickly became a support group for frustrated users who are being told they are not human. This is a clear case of a security protocol becoming so effective at stopping bad actors that it has begun stopping all actors; a success by every internal metric.

Briefs

• Regulatory Boredom: A U.S. appeals court has struck down the FCC's net neutrality rules. This policy change will allow ISPs to treat the internet like a tiered office vending machine, where you have to pay extra for the good snacks, but only after they figure out which meetings they can now skip.
• GPU Governance: The debate over hardware security has shifted, arguing that the GPU, not the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), is the new root of hardware DRM. The DRM is in the shaders, apparently, turning every high-end gaming rig into a tiny, self-policing security state.
• Knowledge Retention Failure: Autodesk suddenly deleted a significant chunk of its old forum posts, citing "archiving" processes. This is the equivalent of the IT department accidentally wiping the corporate Wiki and calling it "modernizing the knowledge base."
• Excessive Complexity: The Advent of Code 2024 has been completed in pure SQL. It turns out you can do anything with a database query if you are motivated enough to make the database cry.