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Post #798 11.8K Jan 8, 2018, 18:24 UTC

A nice trip into the past:
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/

Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 The recent reveal of Meltdown and Spectre reminded me of the time I found a related design bug in the Xbox 360 CPU – a newly added instruction whose mere existence was dangerous. Back in 2005 I was…

Post #797 866 Jan 6, 2018, 16:35 UTC

Forwarded from Vivian's dev rants.

How to create a compiler - Parser and Lexer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF9qWbuQLuw

YouTube Parser and Lexer — How to Create a Compiler part 1/5 — Converting text into an Abstract Syntax Tree In this tool-assisted education video I create a parser in C++ for a B-like programming language using GNU Bison. For the lexicographical analysis, a lexer is generated using re2c. This is part of a multi-episode series. In the next video, we will focus…

Post #795 11.9K Jan 5, 2018, 20:36 UTC

A handy git reference

https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules

GitHub GitHub - k88hudson/git-flight-rules: Flight rules for git Flight rules for git. Contribute to k88hudson/git-flight-rules development by creating an account on GitHub.

Post #794 12.4K Jan 4, 2018, 08:57 UTC

Educate yourself about the new processor security flaw and the impact it will have:

Project Zero: Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html

spectreattack.com

Blogspot Reading privileged memory with a side-channel Posted by Jann Horn, Project Zero We have discovered that CPU data cache timing can be abused to efficiently leak information out of mi...

Post #792 12.5K Jan 2, 2018, 23:35 UTC

Fix All Conflicts: Easy-To-use CUI for Fixing Git Conflicts - https://github.com/mkchoi212/fac

Post #791 796 Jan 2, 2018, 00:18 UTC

Forwarded from Vivian's dev rants.

Why xor reg, reg is the best way to zero a register:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33666617/what-is-the-best-way-to-set-a-register-to-zero-in-x86-assembly-xor-mov-or-and/33668295#33668295

Stack Overflow What is the best way to set a register to zero in x86 assembly: xor, mov or and? All the following instructions do the same thing: set %eax to zero. Which way is optimal (requiring fewest machine cycles)? xorl %eax, %eax mov $0, %eax andl $0, %eax

Post #790 11.4K Jan 1, 2018, 09:25 UTC

Happy New Year!

Post #789 14.2K Dec 28, 2017, 19:21 UTC

State of the art text-to-speech from Google - can you recognise which clips are human and which are the machine?

https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/index.html

Read more here: https://research.googleblog.com/2017/12/tacotron-2-generating-human-like-speech.html

research.google Tacotron 2: Generating Human-like Speech from Text Posted by Jonathan Shen and Ruoming Pang, Software Engineers, on behalf of the Google Brain and Machine Perception TeamsGenerating very natural sou...

Post #788 11.7K Dec 28, 2017, 18:43 UTC

Live streams and recordings from the Chaos Communication Congress on a variety of topics:

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/34c3

streaming.media.ccc.de See you soon … somewhere else! – 34C3 Streaming Live streaming from the 34th Chaos Communication Congress

Post #787 12K Dec 27, 2017, 02:24 UTC

A readable look at the implementation of lists in Python and how it affects your Python code

https://rcoh.svbtle.com/notes-of-cpython-lists

Post #786 13.1K Dec 24, 2017, 17:56 UTC

How an NSA backdooring attempt showed up years later in printer software:

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/12/19/the-strange-story-of-extended-random/

A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering The strange story of “Extended Random” Yesterday, David Benjamin posted a pretty esoteric note on the IETF’s TLS mailing list. At a superficial level, the post describes some seizure-inducingly boring flaws in older Canon printers…

Post #785 14.9K Dec 17, 2017, 20:32 UTC

A tool to embed PowerShell scripts inside PNG files

https://github.com/peewpw/Invoke-PSImage

GitHub GitHub - peewpw/Invoke-PSImage: Encodes a PowerShell script in the pixels of a PNG file and generates a oneliner to execute Encodes a PowerShell script in the pixels of a PNG file and generates a oneliner to execute - peewpw/Invoke-PSImage

Post #784 14.4K Dec 14, 2017, 10:22 UTC

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/clever-attack-uses-sound-computers-fan-steal-data/

WIRED Clever Attack Uses the Sound of a Computer’s Fan to Steal Data By controlling the speed of a computer's internal fans, researchers show how they can steal passwords and other data from "air-gapped" machines.

Post #783 12.1K Dec 14, 2017, 08:14 UTC

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/learn-how-to-use-static-type-checking-in-python-3-6-in-10-minutes-12c86d72677b

Medium How to Use Static Type Checking in Python 3.6 Automatically catch many common errors while coding

Post #782 11K Dec 13, 2017, 19:33 UTC

Donating $86 million of bitcoins to charity

https://pineapplefund.org/

Post #781 584 Dec 12, 2017, 20:04 UTC

Forwarded from ZeBl

https://thehackernews.com/2017/12/hp-laptop-keylogger.html?m=1

Post #780 11.6K Dec 12, 2017, 17:02 UTC

https://blog.apnic.net/2017/12/12/internet-protocols-changing/

APNIC Blog Internet protocols are changing | APNIC Blog Guest Post: Learn about the significant recent changes being made to the core Internet protocols.

Post #779 12.5K Dec 9, 2017, 20:02 UTC

http://www.clerro.com/guide/580/quantum-computing-explained

Post #778 14.4K Dec 5, 2017, 18:50 UTC

A series of posts by the developers of Crash Bandicoot about making the game and what the industry was like in the 90s

http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/

Post #777 16.2K Dec 3, 2017, 18:47 UTC

A simple explanation of concurrency vs parallelism

http://davidvedvick.info/notes/2017/01/20/concurrency-vs-parallelism

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