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The simplest form of technology is the development and use of basic tools. The prehistoric discovery of how to control fire and the later Neolithic Revolution increased the available sources of food, and the invention of the wheel helped humans to travel in and control their environment.
After a month of reverse-engineering, we’re excited to release documentation on the Valhall instruction set, available as…
Explanation of the various GPU architectures The behavior of the graphics pipeline is practically standard across platforms…
Summary The REvil ransomware (a.k.a Sodinokibi) is a threat group that operates in the RaaS (Ransomware-as-a-Service) model, where the…
Programming language memory models answer the question of what behaviors parallel programs can rely on to share…
According to a cybersecurity specialist who responded to the attack, the hack that brought down the country’s…
Google is currently reworking its search algorithm to include Core Web Vitals as part of its search algorithm, which…
It was launched in January of 2020, when we made the fly “hemibrain” connectome available on the…
Released back in 2013, VeraCrypt picks up where TrueCrypt left off. Supporting more encryption algorithms, more hash…
Prosus, the company which develops online programming education programmes, said that it has inked a deal to…
Writing assembly is itself an art. When C, C++, or any other language is compiled, the compiler…
In light of the recent SolarWinds supply chain attack, I decided to take a quick look at…
In previous posts we wrote about our configuration distribution system Quicksilver and the story of migrating its storage engine to…
This post originally appears here One of the great arts of software engineering is making updates and…
This post originally appears here Cloudflare’s network processes more than fourteen million HTTP requests per second at…
In binary analysis, a recurrent problem is to track back a register or memory value (we will…
Today’s Go security release fixes an issue involving PATH lookups in untrusted directories that can lead to remote execution…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a series of attacks by a threat actor of Chinese origin that has targeted organizations…
Welcome! In this post, we’ll be taking a character-by-character look at the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer…
You should already know how big tech companies like Google or Facebook are using your private data to make revenue from…
Anti-cheat development is, by nature, reactive; anti-cheats exist to respond to and thwart a videogame’s population of…
When I ask my colleagues why mmap is faster than system calls, the answer is inevitably “system…
Author’s note: This article was originally found here. Introduction Much of the work done at Google, and…
Linux is not a secure operating system. This guide aims to explain how to harden Linux as much as possible for security and privacy.
Quick Introduction The internal design of the Game Boy Advance is quite impressive for a portable console…
Bohmian mechanics, which is also called the de Broglie-Bohm theory, the pilot-wave model, and the causal interpretation…
Preface: In conjunction with the PEW Research Center Social media includes all the ways people connect to…
Generating A Twitter Ego-Network & Detecting Communities Preface: The work of colleagues and I will expand upon…
Think of all the tasks that take place behind the scenes when you interact with a program…
Part 1: How your user experience changes for the worse as the open web gives way to…