HackerNews Summary (2023-06-02 12AM)

Source: Triangulation: Trojan for iOS

Summary
Sophisticated spyware known as “Triangulation” has been discovered targeting iPhones of top and middle management employees. The spyware, which is deployed via an invisible iMessage with a malicious attachment, can only be detected and removed through external tools.

Fact

📱 Triangulation spyware is deployed via an invisible iMessage with a malicious attachment.

🚨 Kaspersky’s Unified Monitoring and Analysis Platform (KUMA) detected the anomaly on Apple devices.

🔍 There are no standard operating-system tools for detecting the spyware on infected smartphones.

💾 An effective way to remove the spyware is by resetting infected iPhones to factory settings and installing the latest version of the operating system and the entire user environment from scratch.

👥 Kaspersky believes that it was not the main target of this cyberattack.

Source: mame/radiation-hardened-quine: A robust quine program that works even after any one character is deleted.

Summary
Radiation-hardened Quine is a self-printing program in Ruby that can repair itself even if one character is deleted from its code.

Fact

👨‍💻 The program is written in Ruby.

🔪 The program can repair itself even if one character is deleted from its code.

🧪 The program is radiation-hardened, meaning it can resist the effects of radiation on electronic devices.

Source: macoy/cakelisp: A performance-oriented Lisp-like language where I can have my cake, and eat it (too)

Summary
Cakelisp is a high-performance, compiled programming language with emphasis on compile-time code generation, modification and execution. It is compatible with C and C++ and features true full-power macro support, no heavyweight runtime, “real” types, no garbage collection, hot reloading, and seamless C and C++ interoperability.

Fact
💻 Cakelisp is a compiled language with true full-power macro support, seamless C and C++ interoperability, and no garbage collection.

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