Steve Jobs' Apple-1 sells for $945k
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Saint Eligius by Petrus Christus
. Source. Eligius pool is named after Saint Eligius, patron of goldsmiths and miners[ref]
Magic: The Gathering is Turing complete by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-21
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-21Related: Antihydra in Magic: The Gathering.
Updates Translation of Xi Jinping saying those against raise their hands by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-21
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-21I can't believe I had missed that meme until now, and I couldn't resist the temptation to translate it
Xi Jinping saying those against raise their hands (2017)
Source. Xi Jinping saying those against raise their hands (2022)
Source. Updates Understanding the state of 3x3 matrix multiplication by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-21
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-21After yet another awesome announcement by DeepMind that it had improved theoretical 4x4 matrix multiplication reducing the number of scalar multiplications with its AlphaEvolve system, I decided to have a look at the smallest open size 3x3 to understand what was going on in there.
Updates Two Linux Kernel Module Cheat videos by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-13
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-13I made not one but two quick videos presentation videos about my project Linux Kernel Module Cheat, an emulation setup to study and develop the Linux kernel and more:
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDJFyCma32U: a presentation of me talking about it, edited up from my earlier presentation at Aratu Week 2024
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgDhe1tN50o: a demo of me running actually the project
I had meant to do this editing for a while and kept pushing it off because editing hurts, but finally sat down did it, partly prompted by my quick recent updates made to the projects part of post OurBigBook job search round 2025. At first I was thinking of making a single video, but after I recorded the demo a bit it seemed like two separate ones would make more sense.
I also created a bug report for Kdenlive, the video editor that I used, for a freeze that happens if you try to shift + delete the last item of the timeline: bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504103. Kdenlive is a good editor, but unfortunately it has new freezes and crashes relatively often.
One more useless task that I get off my head, on to the next!
Linux Kernel Module Cheat presentation
. Source. Linux Kernel Module Cheat demo
. Source. CIA 2010 covert communication websites HTML title element by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07The discoverty of a possible HTML information leaks on HTML motivated us to download all HTML and have a grep.
<title> of webofcheer.com which is cryptically set as:pg1cWe started grepping with:and to just get the titles alone for visual inspection:
grep -ai '<title>' */index.htmlgrep -ahi '<title>' */index.html | sed -r 's/^\s*<title>//;s/<\/title>.*//'Some mildly interesting facts include:It is impossible to tell if these were oversights, or intentional to simulate common web development quircks. But they are cute in any case.
- opensourcenewstoday.com is titled just as "Title"
opensourcenewstoday.com/index.html:<title>Title</title> - a few sites are titled "Untitled Document" e.g.:This may have been the default title in Adobe Dreamweaver.
media-coverage-now.com/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title> newsandsportscentral.com/index.html: <title>Untitled Document</title> newsincirculation.com/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title> newsworldsite.com/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title> primetimemovies.net/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title> unganadormundial.com/index.html:<title>Untitled Document</title> - some others have empty title:
aeronet-news.com/index.html:<title></title> al-rashidrealestate.com/index.html: <title></title> arabicnewsunfiltered.com/index.html:<title></title> dailynewsandsports.com/index.html:<title></title> electronictechreviews.com/index.html:<title></title> indirectfreekick.com/index.html:<title></title> iran-newslink-today.com/index.html:<title></title> iraniangoals.com/index.html:<title></title> kickitnews.com/index.html:<title></title> mediocampodefutbol.com/index.html:<title></title> middle-east-newstoday.com/index.html: <title></title> mygadgettech.com/index.html:<title></title> sayaara-auto.com/index.html:<title></title> techwatchtoday.com/index.html:<title></title> the-open-book-online.com/index.html:<title></title> thenewsofpakistan.com/index.html:<title></title> theworld-news.net/index.html:<title></title> todaysengineering.com/index.html:<title></title> todaysnewsreports.net/index.html:<title></title> worldnewsandent.com/index.html:<title></title> - some others are titled just "index" or a variant of it:
all-sport-headlines.com/index.html:<title>index</title> europeannewsflash.com/index.html:<title>Index</title> fgnl.net/index.html:<title>Index Page</title> iraniangoalkicks.com/index.html:<title>index</title> just-the-news.com/index.html:<title>index</title> mide-news.com/index.html:<title>index</title> mytravelopian.com/index.html:<title>Index</title> noticiasdelmundolatino.com/index.html:<title>index</title> pakcricketgrd.com/index.html: <title>index</title> pangawana.com/index.html:<title>index</title> sportsnewsfinder.com/index.html:<title>index</title> thenewseditor.com/index.html:<title>index</title> turkishnewslinks.com/index.html:<title>index2</title> wahidfutbol.com/index.html:<title>index</title> webscooper.com/index.html:<title>index</title> webworldsports.com/index.html:<title>index</title> - a few don't have
<title>at all:b2bworldglobal.com/index.html bailandstump.com/index.html businessexchangetoday.com/index.html commercialspacedesign.com/index.html court-masters.com/index.html flyingtimeline.com/index.html marketflows.net/index.html nouvellesetdesrapports.com/index.html senderosdemontana.com/index.html sixty2media.com/index.htm
CIA 2010 covert communication websites Binary files by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07As per:a few of the HTMLs are interpreted by grep as being binary:
grep . */index.html | grep 'binary file matches'grep: china-destinations.org/index.html: binary file matches
grep: classicalmusicboxonline.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: driversinternationalgolf.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: familyhealthonline.net/index.html: binary file matches
grep: grubbersworldrugbynews.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: hai-pow.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: hi-tech-today.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: networkofnews.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: nigeriastar.net/index.html: binary file matches
grep: noticias-caracas.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: theentertainbiz.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: thefilmcentre.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: theinternationalgoal.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: wildbirds-seasia.com/index.html: binary file matches
grep: worldedgenews.com/index.html: binary file matches CIA 2010 covert communication websites HTML analysis by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07The HTML from the index page of Wayback Machine were:
- dumped at: github.com/cirosantilli/media/tree/master/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites/html
- downloaded with: github.com/cirosantilli/media/tree/master/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites/download-html.sh. Note that there were many supurious errors notably:we just ran it multiple times until all errors were gone.
OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to web.archive.org:443
The best way to analyse the HTML is to grap our dumps from: github.com/cirosantilli/cia-2010-websites-dump.
Some possibly interesting searches include:
Some of the HTML files contain conditional comments e.g. web.archive.org/web/20091023041107/http://aquaswimming.com/ contains:
<!--[if IE 6]> <link href="swimstyleie6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <![endif]-->Varios of the non-English websites seem to have comments translating the content e.g.:This feels like it could be the translation helping the technical webdev team know what is what.
./noticiasmusica.net/20101230165001/index.html:<h2>Alguns dos Melhores Sites Nacionais</h2><!--some of the best national sites (in music)-->Many of the RSS frame pages use:which is a weird HTML tag that would lead all links to open on new tabs, e.g. web.archive.org/web/20110202124411/http://thecricketfan.com/home.html.
<base target="_blank" />Various websites have pages with .php extension. It feels likely that all websites were written in PHP.
Some sites use a
feeds.php for the feeds, e.g. http://www.absolutebearing.net//absolutebearing_feeds/feeds.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds2.feedburner.com%2FOceanyachtsinfo&desc=1 Linux Device Drivers book 3rd edition by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ contains the PDF of each chapter.
Directorate of Digital Innovation (CIA) by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07Ciro Santilli believes that this recent directorate was likely created as a result of the massive failure of the CIA 2010 covert communication websites
Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07 CIA 2010 covert communication websites Possible HTML information leaks by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-23 +Created 2025-05-07This section is about possible real-world information leaks found in the HTML of the pages. Domain DNS metadata may of course expose more, and is more likely to do so, this section is only about in-page findings, notably in the HTML.
The HTML rather than a more natural title like "Web of cheer" as is the case for the other website. This feels like a forgotten placeholder for an internal page identifier, e.g. "page 1C" sounds plausible. At Section "HTML title element" we riefly inspected the
<title> of webofcheer.com is cryptically set as:pg1c<title> of every other hit with a wayback machine archive, and unfortunately none other seemed to have any such interesting title.The 2010 archive of europeantravelcafe.com has a "plan your trip" link links to a different domain: secure-cert.net/~etc/transport.html. This appears to have been a link to the system used by CIA operators to manage the website. Furthermore, the link then was later removed from the 2011 version, so it was almost certainly a leak! "secure-cert.net" is obscure, the only other surviving online mention of it is www.leewillis.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/#comment-6513 to
secure-cert.net/~sayitint/products-page/bags-totes/duffel-bag/ We've grepped all the HTML downloaded as HTML analysis but no other links to it were found.
secure-cert.net/~sayitint/products-page/bags-totes/duffel-bag/ We've grepped all the HTML downloaded as HTML analysis but no other links to it were found.
2010 Wayback Machine archive of www.europeantravelcafe.com with "plan your trip" highlighted by us
. Source. Starting December 2004 the "Submit your favorid carlson quote" was mind blowingly switched to point to https://washington.serversecured.net/~alljohnn/cgi-bin/memlog.cgi thus likely leaking the control site URL. Beauty. It previously pointed to the more sensible: web.archive.org/web/20040901162621/https://secure.alljohnny.com/cgi-bin/memlog.cgi
A similar thing happened to alljohnny.com
A few separate websites have an archive with the same It is unclear what it means. All of them contain something like:so looks like an archival artifact only.
pid parameter:fightwithoutrules.com/20131220205811/?pid=2POQ7BC1G/index.html
half-court.net/20131223165013/?pid=2POQ7BC1G/index.html
health-men-today.com/20131223002237/?pid=2POQ7BC1G/index.html
intlnewsdaily.com/20131221121441/?pid=2POQ7BC1G/index.html
intoworldnews.com/20131217193621/?pid=2POQ7BC1G/index.html<html>
<head>
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive" />
<meta name="googlebot" content="nosnippet" />
</head>
<body>
<div align=center>
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</div>
</body>
</html>The following two websites have a
feeds.php system for their RSS:./mydailynewsreport.com/20110211111053/myrss/feeds.php?src=http:/www.refahemelli.com/pashto/news/rss.php&chan=y&desc=1&targ=y&utf=y
./magneticfieldnews.com/20110208063545/magneticfeeds/feeds.php?src=http:/www.bbc.co.uk/pashto/index.xml&chan=y&desc=1&targ=y&utf=y There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.