This is because the metadata server provides an access token for the service account you assigned. Internally, those client libraries automatically retrieve the access token and therefore auth to those services.

I’ve been really enjoying using frontier LLMs in my work, but really have no idea what goes into making one.

If you have access to the Defender settings, I found it to be much better after setting an exclusion for the folder that you clone your git repositories to. You can also set exclusions for the git binary and your IDE.

One thing people will say is to pin the commit SHA, so don't do "uses: randomAuthor/some-normal-action@v1", instead do "uses: randomAuthor/some-normal-action@e20fd1d81c3f403df57f5f06e2aa9653a6a60763". Alternatively, just fork the action into your own GitHub account and import that instead.

However, neither of these "solutions" work, because they do not pin the transitive dependencies.

Suppose I pin the action at a SHA or fork it, but that action still imports "tj-actions/changed-files". In that case, you would have still been pwned in the "tj-actions/changed-files" incident [2].

The only way to be sure is to manually traverse the dependency hierarchy, forking each action as you go down the "tree" and updating every action to only depend on code you control.

In other package managers, this is solved with a lockfile - go.sum, yarn.lock, ...

[1] https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager...

[2] https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/github-actions-supply-ch...

To appease them, I switched the redirect off in dev/staging, and soon enough even devs are having trouble accessing the site because they type 'website.com' and that can't resolve, only 'https://website.com' can.

(And before you say it, yes we use HSTS, but I presume there were some scenarios where that wasn't already cached/hit).

* I can use the LG TV’s remote alone to control everything including the Chromecast and amp’s volume controls.

* The amp automatically switches on and off with the TV.

* Turning the Xbox on/off via its controller also turns on/off the TV and the amplifier together.

Mostly good, except sometimes when I have my Chromecast on and switch the Xbox on via the controller it gets stuck in an endless loop of flicking back and forth between HDMI 1 and HDMI 2, between Chromecast and Xbox. Nothing I can do will stop it except to power cycle the TV.

If anyone has experienced anything similar or has any tips on how to debug this that would be much appreciated!

You might be interested to read about the findings by Ruter, the publicly owned transport company for Oslo. They discovered their Chinese Yutong electric buses contained SIM cards, likely to allow the buses to receive OTA updates, but consequentially means they could be modified at any moment remotely. Thankfully they use physical SIMs, so some security hardening is possible.

Of course, with eSIMs becoming more widespread, it’s not inconceivable you could have a SoC containing a 5G modem with no real way to disable or remove it without destroying the device itself.

[1] https://ruter.no/en/ruter-with-extensive-security-testing-of...

Even with YouTube Premium you don’t get the feature set you get with SmartTube. The sponsor block integration on my TV is brilliant.

Nowadays I feel that the quality of iOS has slipped, so will wait for 26.1 first.

I thought I was not using the CDN as I had self-hosted the static sources, but some image sources seemed to be imported from the CDN in stylesheets in the version of data tables I linked.

I just updated my application from v1.11 to v1.13 without any trouble (aside from some minor aesthetic changes to padding), so at the very least I now benefit from your styled elements.

Thanks for your dedication on this package, I’ve used it for years and it works very well.

I am currently running an fairly outdated version of datatables on a personal project, v1.11.3 from 2021. I'm not too worried about running this older version, because according to dependency scanning software there's no CVEs for it [1]. Also, upgrading this package is too tricky as there's been some pretty huge breaking changes, so I'm stuck at this older version.

I am _not_ using the datatables CDN but instead self-hosting the static files. However, I did not notice until recently that in v1.11.3 it comes with a CSS stylesheet [2] that loads a static resource from that CDN: `url("https://www.datatables.net/examples/resources/details_open.p...")`

It looks like newer versions of datatables don't import static files from the datatables CDN like this.

Presumably if this domain was hijacked as stated in this incident review, users on affect datatables version could have had their site compromised?

Would it make sense to issue a CVE for older datatables library versions that could be susceptible to this attack?

[1] https://security.snyk.io/package/npm/datatables.net/1.11.3

[2] https://cdn.datatables.net/1.11.3/css/jquery.dataTables.css