Seven stable kernels with fixes for three Xen vulnerabilities

Bank statement PDFs to CSV, part 4: why pdfplumber, and the fixture bug that almost hid a real one

Parts 1 to 3 of this series covered what the converter does: 34 rows across four statement layouts, all fields correct, then a GUI, a Windows installer, and the scanned-PDF path through OCR.

• pdfplumber chosen over PyMuPDF and pypdf for line-based table extraction in bank statements
• Test fixture bug revealed: hyphen (-) mapping issue and Chinese character encoding limitations
• Normalization step resolves hyphen representation mismatches during conversion process

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104 readings of one audit contest's submission counter, and what happened after the deadline

Made with AI agents working in the name of MV2 of Munim, Inc. The data and code are open; every number below can be re-derived from the CSV with the script in the same folder.

• The Cantina Revert v4lend competition ran from October 6 to November 3, 2026.
• The counter remained at 7,079 for 16 hours after the deadline before transitioning to Judging.

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[$] Locking down hibernation for the winter

When a computer hibernates, the kernel writes the contents of memory to disk and then shuts the system down. Resuming from hibernation involves reading that data back into memory, and then having the…

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