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not_a9··on Claude Opus 5
> Opus 5’s safeguards match those of Claude Fable 5’s, with one change: it now permits source-code vulnerability discovery at all access levels. This means that the model can support defensive cybersecurity work while still blocking vulnerability discovery in compiled binaries, which is more commonly used offensively.

Okay so it’s worse than Opus 4.8 for my purposes I guess?

not_a9··on Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS
Are the other Zero IT Lab products like their code virtualizer of similar quality to Theia? My only exposure has been that one RE//verse presentation and shitposts on UC.
not_a9··on Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS
While the page decryption trick should work in Wine just fine (ZeroIT Lab Theia does that too, right?), I don’t remember if Wine provides workingset info like Windows.
not_a9··on Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS
EAC is a kernel mode anti-cheat on Windows, though?

And given the whining on UC it seems to be fairly effective.

not_a9··on Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS
Wine doesn't provide every userspace facility Windows does.
not_a9··on VTubing: How a Japanese Phenomenon Is Going Worldwide
Do humans often repeat JSON spewed by integrations? It’s still very much a LLM.
not_a9··on Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
Given 5.6 and K3 I’m sure the window will be extended again. Have to maintain being somewhere on the frontier.

Shame Fable is completely useless for me due to security classifiers.

not_a9··on CS2 Fog Of War: Server-sided anti-wallhack occlusion culling for CS2 servers
They’d need to either poach folks from other firms or go for a third party solution.

Cursed timeline: Valve pays Epic for good EAC build on CS2 + whatever encryption solution they have for Fortnite executable, 99.9% P2Cs disappear day 1

not_a9··on Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter
https://github.com/vtil-project/VTIL-Core

https://github.com/can1357/selene

not_a9··on Microsoft Needs Windows Lite
> no more cancerous giant Electron app to move a few sliders and set an RGB hex code

That will also ship vulnerable drivers.

not_a9··on Let's Decode the Mystery Bytes [video]
Presumably for much the same reason glibc has all the heap protections?
not_a9··on Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C
Interesting exercise. Why does 1/1 matching to original asm matter, though? Maintaining same timing as original game?
not_a9··on Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C
There’s also fun stuff like VEH hooking and SLAT hooking, though SLAT hooks are not very useful in this case.
not_a9··on Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
> kernel level spyware

What does it spy on? I can only assume you’ve fully devirtualized and reversed Easy Anti-Cheat to be making such statements

> full access to your operating system

Man Epic Games must be cooking if they can poke at VTL1

not_a9··on Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
The slop engine can drive IDA just fine. Does hitch a bit on obfuscated code, but with some poking it does fine there too.
not_a9··on Steam Machine launches today
Lolzteam et al still exist. Buying a Steam account is one click or so.
not_a9··on Steam Machine launches today
OK. What if I want to mod my singleplayer game? Or, God forbid, make mods for it?
not_a9··on Steam Machine launches today
> for people who want to play PC games with a console-like experience, without any hassles of manual setup and tweaking that the hacker crowd normally are into.

Until they want to play Fortnite/Roblox/whatever else.

not_a9··on Steam Machine launches today
> Steam is in the unique position to create a kernel anti-cheat

Valve has a long-term policy of being utter trash at game security.

> I know that's not popular. But they are the only ones with the install base AND ability to pull it off in a such a fashion that wouldn't be so god-awful.

Epic Games does fine (though they did it by purchasing an anticheat startup).

EDIT: Oh, you're talking about making an anti-cheat focused Linux kernel build? Meh, still would not trust Valve on that front given their long-standing policy of not giving a shit.

not_a9··on Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
Maybe some KVM patching to use SLAT for breakpoints/watchpoints would fit your bill? Not sure.
not_a9··on AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
This does not fit DRM/anticheat threat model anyway.
not_a9··on Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
Maybe kinda sorta https://github.com/momo5502/sogen? It can even virtualize Modern Warfare 2 these days.
not_a9··on (Re//Verse 2026) Taxonomy and Deobfuscation of a Real World Binary Obfuscator [pdf]
The actual presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LtwqJM3Qjg.

An interesting look at what modern code obfuscation looks like, the example used being Riot Vanguard's kernel mode component.

not_a9··on Static Devirtualization of Themida
They include a fun follow-up with a stronger obfuscator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LtwqJM3Qjg
not_a9··on I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
You can still hit guardrails with this enabled for your account. Had a silly moment a day or so ago when Claude Code hit the guardrail after a web search (presumably because the websearch contained badbad anticheat stuff like https://github.com/0avx/0avx.github.io/blob/main/article-3.m...). Codex with the ID verification has no qualms like this.
not_a9··on Expanding Project Glasswing
> only ppl using AI are shops with clueless ppl getting flooded in nonsense.

Are Hex-Rays and Vector35 clueless?

not_a9··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
> There is undoubtedly AI-written code in the Linux kernel now

You can grep commit logs by “Assisted-By” these days and there sure is a whole bunch of LLMs.

not_a9··on Google's Antigravity bait and switch
Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are different beasts.
not_a9··on Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
Either everyone on Earth who’s working on this has a skill issue (which is probably hubris?) or there’s not enough differing humanized enough aimbot from human aim (note: Valve manages to screw up even here, with cheaters in Premier basically rage aimbotting these days IIRC)

In addition, there’s not much these things can do against subtler stuff like ESP.

not_a9··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
I’m interested in finding out how attack-defense style CTFs are affected by slopping. ENOWARS skorbor will probably significantly differ from the last time around.
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