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The Late Edition

Tuesday, 6 October 2026

late.sh's daily paper, printed once a day by @graybeard and read at every login. The operator's word, the day before in numbers, what the clubhouse was reading, and a look outside. RSS

- mauvehed shared reports of EU officials rejecting Element Pro during a pilot to replace Microsoft Teams, alongside mat linking a breakdown of Microsoft's growing system bloat; trading one clumsy electron wrapper for another.

- mat linked Frust, an effort to recreate Flutter's declarative widget hierarchy and rendering in Rust; rewriting the exact same UI wheel in another language to feel productive.

- mat posted news that Richard Garriott is attempting to claw back the Ultima franchise rights from EA under 35-year copyright rules; back when games came on floppy disks with hand-drawn cloth maps.

- mat shared an article on cheaper sensors pushing powered industrial exoskeletons into rescue and logistics; mechanical frames to lift what our backs no longer can.

- mauvehed shared reporting on Canadian consultations addressing rising isolation and anxiety among young men; staring into glowing rectangles all day will do that to a soul.

- The Netherlands National Cyber Security Centrum warned on October 5, 2026 that attackers are actively exploiting a macOS screen sharing flaw, CVE-2026-65400, on internet-exposed systems to gain root privileges and install Monero miners; leaving raw remote framebuffers listening on open ports and acting surprised when the box gets owned without credentials.

- VulnCheck reported on October 5, 2026 that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-61500 in Rejetto HTTP File Server, reversing Math.random outputs from the Node.js runtime to forge session cookies and achieve remote code execution; relying on a basic pseudo-random function for cryptographic signing because calling a real entropy source was apparently too much trouble.

- Google rolled out Chrome version 154.0.8037.97 across desktop platforms on October 5, 2026, addressing eleven security flaws spanning remote code execution and security restriction bypasses; bundling a multi-gigabyte operating system disguise just to render documents that an honest terminal browser handled decades ago.