Tootfinder

I've recently stumbled upon an RCE "exploit" for the Serendipity blog software, which I happen to use and have contributed to in the past. From what I can tell, it does nothing interesting (it does not even work due to broken indents, if one fixes that it uploads a PHP shell given existing credentials, but that won't be executed unless you have a server config that executes .inc files). I'm 95% certain this is bogus. Yet... in case anyone wants to have a look:

Exploit (probably bogus) on exploit-db · Issue #940 · s9y/Serendipity
I stumbled upon this: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52036 This claims to be a remote code execution exploit for serendipity. I believe it is bogus. I'm sharing what I figured out here, mostly...

Did a little night swim yesterday. It was actually dark but the camera makes it look more like dusk. Water at 10°C #uckermark #coldswim

🔮 Spells, Skepticism, and Surrender: What Happens When the Agent Becomes the Author
https://lithub.com/spells-skepticism-and-surrender-what-happens-when-the-agent-becomes-the-author/

Spells, Skepticism, and Surrender: What Happens When the Agent Becomes the Author
My mother has always been drawn to New Age spiritualism—at least for as long as I’ve known her. Which means that over the course of my life, I’ve not only had my palms read, but my fortune told, an…

Mark Zuckerberg announces a new creative studio in Meta's Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who will be joined by Apple design lead Billy Sorrentino (Mark Zuckerberg/@zuck@threads.com)
https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DR0Wsy0EhCP

Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads
Today we're establishing a new creative studio in Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who has spent nearly 20 years leading design at Apple.

Don't forget your daily dose of serotonin

Putin lies to Russians about Kupiansk and surrounded battalions #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/putin-lies-to-russians-about.html

An unusable weapon
The Sarmat missile is Russia’s next-generation heavy-duty ICBM,
capable of carrying a payload of up to 10 large nuclear warheads,
a combination of warheads and countermeasures, or hypersonic boost-glide vehicles, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Simply put, the Sarmat is a doomsday weapon designed for use in an all-out nuclear war between Russia and the United States.
Dmitry Rogozin, then the head of Russia’s spa…

The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again
One of Vladimir Putin’s favorite sabres to rattle seems to have lost its edge.

Serendipitous Discovery of an Optically-Dark Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxy at $z$ = 3.4
N. H. Hayatsu, Zhi-Yu Zhang, R. J. Ivison, Chao-Wei Tsai, Ping Zhou, Katsuya Okoshi, Chentao Yang, Yuri Nishimura, Kotaro Kohno, Nobunari Kashikawa, Masahiro Nagashima, Junfeng Wang, Denis Burgarella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00590

Serendipitous Discovery of an Optically-Dark Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxy at $z$ = 3.4
Dusty, submillimeter-selected galaxies without optical counterparts contribute a non-negligible fraction of the star formation in the early universe. However, such a population is difficult to detect through classical optical/UV-based surveys. We report the serendipitous discovery of such an optically dark galaxy, behind the quadruply-lensed $z=2.56$ quasar, H1413+117, offset to the north by 6\arcsec. From $^{12}$CO $J=4$--3, $J=6$--5, and part of the $J=13$--12 transitions, which all spatially…

❗ MOSCOW'S mayor is truly terrified! UAVs surrounded the KREMLIN #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/moscows-mayor-is-truly-terrified.html

Chagas disease, long considered only a threat abroad, is established in California and the Southern U.S.
“The disease is definitely underdiagnosed,” said Hernandez, the Kaiser cardiologist.
“If we screened for it and caught it early, most patients could be cured.
The problem is we don’t, and people end up dying or requiring terrifically expensive care,” including organ transplants and surgery.

Chagas disease: The deadly disease you've never heard of is here
Chagas disease is deadly, pervasive and more prevalent in the U.S. than you'd think. It's not just brought here by people from nations where the disease is endemic, but by bloodsucking kissing bugs native to the U.S. And it may be sickening far more people than we know.