The EU is building a high-speed rail network connecting the Baltics to Europe.
Rail Baltica will decrease travel times by over 50% in the region.
Part of TEN-T, a megaproject aimed at uniting Europe with rail, roads, and infrastructure.
‼️🚨 Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 just hit a wall. For the first time in 19-years, ZDI rejected dozens of working zero-day RCE submissions because organizers ran out of contest slots.
Rejected hackers are now going public with PoC demos and direct vendor disclosures, breaking Pwn2Own's usual secrecy.
▪️ AI surfaces a massive wave of 0-day RCEs.
▪️ Submissions overwhelm ZDI past max capacity.
▪️ Slots run out. Researchers with working chains get rejected.
▪️ "Revenge disclosures" begin. ← we are here.
Confirmed casualties so far:
▪️ @xchglabs : 86 vulnerabilities prepared (PyTorch, NVIDIA, Linux KVM, Oracle, Docker, Ollama, Chroma, LiteLLM, llama.cpp). All rejected. Now reporting directly to vendors with writeups dropping as patches land.
▪️ @ggwhyp : full-chain Firefox RCE on Windows. Rejected. Publicly demoed (HTML page → cmd.exe → calc.exe). Responsibly disclosed to Mozilla.
▪️ @yunsu_dev : working RCE chain, rejected. Submitting elsewhere.
▪️ @ryotkak : tried to register for 3+ weeks. ZDI confirmed "at maximum capacity, can't add extra contest days." Considered canceling flight and hotel.
▪️ @anzuukino2802 : Claude Code RCE PoC. Rejected.
▪️ @desckimh : 0-day RCEs in Ollama and LM Studio. Rejected.
Reported impact: a community-estimated 150+ researchers tried to register. Accepted contestants are now being warned about collisions. Rejected vulnerabilities going to bug bounty programs may trigger pre-event patches that invalidate the work of those who got in.
ZDI has not publicly addressed the capacity issue. The event still runs May 14-16 in Berlin.
Yeah, yeah, yeah - your GDP is enormous, but so is the $40 trillion debt keeping the whole circus alive.
Your houses are made of cardboard, your bridges collapse, your roads look like they belong somewhere in rural Africa, and your downtowns are dead shopping malls guarded by fentanyl ghosts and the occasional mass shooter.
Your life expectancy has been stuck in 1974 for decades. Your kids learn active shooter drills before they can even spell. Your workers grind through 90-hour weeks across three jobs before dropping dead early anyway.
Your mothers give birth and are back in the office the next morning with the umbilical cord still attached. Your students start adult life buried under mountains of debt. Your idea of a grand vacation is four days in Orlando.
I don't even need to return to the original question.
My refrigerator sent me a push notification that I'm eating too much dairy.
I didn't ask for this feature.
I just wanted a machine that dispensed crushed ice and kept my milk cold.
Instead I bought a $3K appliance that acts like a judgmental nutritionist.
Yesterday I tried to open the crisper drawer to get a block of cheddar.
The fridge locked the drawer and suggested a handful of almonds via the LCD screen.
I'm a grown man paying a mortgage.
I had to unplug the entire unit just to make a grilled cheese sandwich.
Now all my condiments are warm but I've reestablished dominance over my kitchen.
Tomorrow I'm going to eat a stick of butter right in front of the internal camera.
I won't be bullied by a Samsung.
We have a strict zero-trust policy for local admin rights.
A graphic designer requested elevation to install a custom font called "Bebas Neue".
I replied with the standard Vendor Risk Assessment questionnaire.
It's a 40-page Excel document.
He asked if this was a joke. He just needs a font for a PDF.
I told him all third-party code requires a security audit, a data privacy impact assessment, and VP approval.
He said the font is open-source and free.
I explained that "free" means we need legal to review the licensing agreement.
He asked how long that takes.
I said anywhere from four to six months.
He sat in silence for a minute.
He replied, "I'll just use Arial."
I closed the ticket as "Alternative Solution Accepted."
I love Arial.