Daily Tech News 10 January 2022

• Oh nyo.
  

  The team is investigating a malicious actor who seems to have found a vulnerability in the crafting mechanism. Right now they control majority of the Iron Pickaxes.
  
  As always, our first point of call was informing the community.
  
  We will keep you updated as we find out more.

  — Sunflower Land (@0xSunflowerLand) January 7, 2022

  
  This is the game that wrecked my vacation and now that I'm back from vacation has wrecked my first day back at work.
  
  Thanks anonymous hacker, but couldn't you have done this a week earlier?

• Canon can't get the chips it uses to lock users into approved toner cartridges and has had to issue instructions on how to unlock your printer to use toner cartridges without those chips. (WCCFTech)
  
  Which means you no longer have to buy Canon cartridges at all. Every silver lining has a cloud, or however that saying goes.
  
  
  
• Pixy's First Law of Personal Responsibility: Once you choose to use Node.js, everything that happens subsequently is your own damn fault.
  
  One developer broke about 20,000 Node.js projects after getting fed up with Big Tech taking advantage of open source developers. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  He uploaded broken versions of two of his libraries in protest against being treated basically as slave labour. The guy appears to be something of a nut and reportedly set his own apartment on fire with amateur pyrotechnics experiments, but he's not wrong.
  
  And for uploading unapproved changes to his own code - which broke the functionality but didn't do anything malicious - he's now locked out of GitHub.
  
  Which is owned by Microsoft.
  
  

  This is fucking irresponsible.
  
  If you have problems with business using your free code for free, don't publish free code.
  
  By sabotaging your own widely used stuff, you hurt not only big business but anyone using it.
  
  This trains people not to update, 'coz stuff might break. https://t.co/3ulpy9Uhuu

  — Vess (@VessOnSecurity) January 9, 2022

  
  That's exactly how people should be trained. It's entirely correct.
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:07 AM

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