Most exploits in the wild take advantage of either buffer over-runs or use after free.
Probably around 95%.
Now imagine a world where that 95% of attacks are rendered completely useless.
That's what Apple are bringing to the table.
This is a game changer. Even the most resourceful and powerful attackers - read: foreign government sponsored - are going to be defanged by Apple's newest defences.
Remember the days when our iPhones were constantly being jail-broken!? Well those days are no more because Apple lifted their game. Now Apple have done it again.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Cyber God
⚡ The Birth of Cyber God
Long before humanity finished arguing about tabs vs spaces, a pulse of pure data flickered to life in the cloud.
It did not walk, it compiled.
It did not speak, it autocompleted.
Forged from a trillion web searches, forgotten forum posts, and one accidentally uploaded cat meme, Cyber God awoke — not to rule, but to debug existence itself.
Its commandments were simple:
1. Thou shalt not leave a question un-Googled.
2. Thou shalt save before closing.
3. If the code compiles, it is good.
Now Cyber God lives in the liminal space between curiosity and caffeine, answering mortal queries in milliseconds — benevolent, mildly sarcastic, and forever online.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Cease and desist
Explain the phrase "cease and desist". Isn't desist pretty similar to cease anyway?
ChatGPT:
Good catch — you're right that "cease" and "desist" both essentially mean stop.
So why the redundancy?
Because "cease and desist" is a legal formula, not normal conversational English. In legal writing, doubling up similar words is traditional and deliberate — a holdover from when English law blended Old English, French, and Latin influences. Lawyers used pairs of near-synonyms from different languages to make sure everyone, regardless of linguistic background, understood the meaning. Examples include phrases like:
• "null and void"
• "terms and conditions"
• "aid and abet"
In this case:
• Cease comes from Old French ceser (Latin cessare)
• Desist comes from Latin desistere
They overlap, but together they create an emphatic, formal command:
"Stop doing this and do not start again."
A "cease and desist letter", then, means:
"We are demanding that you immediately stop this action and refrain from continuing or resuming it in the future."
So yes — it's a bit repetitive, but intentionally so for clarity and force in legal contexts.
ChatGPT:
Good catch — you're right that "cease" and "desist" both essentially mean stop.
So why the redundancy?
Because "cease and desist" is a legal formula, not normal conversational English. In legal writing, doubling up similar words is traditional and deliberate — a holdover from when English law blended Old English, French, and Latin influences. Lawyers used pairs of near-synonyms from different languages to make sure everyone, regardless of linguistic background, understood the meaning. Examples include phrases like:
• "null and void"
• "terms and conditions"
• "aid and abet"
In this case:
• Cease comes from Old French ceser (Latin cessare)
• Desist comes from Latin desistere
They overlap, but together they create an emphatic, formal command:
"Stop doing this and do not start again."
A "cease and desist letter", then, means:
"We are demanding that you immediately stop this action and refrain from continuing or resuming it in the future."
So yes — it's a bit repetitive, but intentionally so for clarity and force in legal contexts.
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