Obsessively Explaining the Visual Effects in Flight of the Navigator

[Captain Disillusion] has earned a reputation on YouTube for debunking hoaxes and spreading a healthy sense of skepticism while having some of the highest production value on the platform and …read more Continue reading Obsessively Explaining the Visual Effects in Flight of the Navigator

Hackaday Links: December 13, 2020

Our Sun is getting a bit frisky these days, and has rewarded us with perhaps the best screensaver image ever taken. The incredibly detailed photo of a sunspot was actually taken back in January by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, a 4-meter instrument with adaptive optics that can image …read more

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The Mandalorian’s “Unreal” sets: A new age of game-based filmmaking

Filmmaking is entering a new era, powered by the technology that’s made video games some of the most compelling entertainment in recent history. It’s not green-screen CGI as we know it, either – it’s the creation of whole digitally projected sets.Conti… Continue reading The Mandalorian’s “Unreal” sets: A new age of game-based filmmaking

VU#797896: CGI web servers assign Proxy header values from client requests to internal HTTP_PROXY environment variables

Web servers running in a CGI or CGI-like context may assign client request Proxy header values to internal HTTP_PROXY environment variables. This vulnerability can be leveraged to conduct man-in-the-middle(MITM)attacks on internal subrequests or to direct the server to initiate connections to arbitrary hosts. Continue reading VU#797896: CGI web servers assign Proxy header values from client requests to internal HTTP_PROXY environment variables