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A critical security flaw in Ruby on Rails is getting urgent attention today. The vulnerability sits inside Active Storage, the framework's file handling component, and carries remote code execution potential — meaning an attacker could run arbitrary commands on an affected server. If your applications rely on Rails, patching this one should be at the top of your list right now.
Shifting gears to something considerably more playful — Microsoft Azure's chief technical officer, Mark Russinovich, has gotten Doom running inside Microsoft Paint. Not as a gimmick exactly, but as a genuine technical exercise. DoomPaint loads the actual original shareware engine and uses Paint as its display viewport through an OLE clipboard hack, hitting up to thirty-five frames per second. Remarkable, and probably not what the Paint team had in mind.
And on the music streaming front, Spotify's former Head of Innovation is stepping out with a new vision for what a music platform could be. Mauhan Zonoozy argues that streaming made music ubiquitous but passive, and that the next major platform needs to give listeners something to actually do with the music — a challenge made more complicated by AI reshaping the economics of the entire industry.
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