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oss-sec mailing list archives Arbitrary shell command evaluation in Org mode (GNU Emacs) Hi, Here is a vulnerability in Emacs Org mode. Reproducer is the following .org file: #+LINK: shell %(shell-c

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The Biden administration has published its proposed plan for preserving old-growth trees in national forests across the country, opening another opportunity for public input on conserving ancient tree

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In our previous post, we introduced how to utilize Discrete Event Simulation (DES) in PicoLisp. Now, let's explore another application: a railroad model simulation that includes tracks and trains. The

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Paper 2024/677 Asynchronous Consensus without Trusted Setup or Public-Key Cryptography Sourav Das , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Sisi Duan , Tsinghua University Shengqi Liu , Southern U