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→