Wow, we (+@h0t_max and @_Dmit) have found two undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs which completely control microarchitectural state (yes, they can modify microcode)

After 27 years TonyHax has been released - a softmod backup loader for the Sony PlayStation 1. This is a backup loader that leverages a save game exploit present on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and 3 (more games are now available). In this episode , we take…

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Richard Stallman says he’s coming back to the FSF and he will hopefully lead the FSF again

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The release of the first major release of Crystal arrives after many years of hard work. With thousands of contributions from people worldwide, it was finally possible to find consensus for what truly mattered for 1.0 and what could wait for future releases.…

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Slowly but surely the Rust language is making its way into Linux. I talked with Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman about where they see Rust and Linux working together.

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Many people (although fewer than in the past) will tell you not to install security updates in your Docker image. This is terrible advice.

Open letter signed by hundreds: RMS "has no place" in free software community.

This document formally deprecates Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 (RFC 2246) and 1.1 (RFC 4346). Accordingly, those documents have been moved to Historic status. These versions lack support for current and recommended cryptographic algorithms…

In the second half of 2020, I held numerous free mock technical interviews. During those interviews, one recurring question I often got from the interviewees was:
"I know I need data structure knowledge to pass most technical interviews, but how muc...

In memoriam of sK1 project founder and friend

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I've seen a lot of buzz recently about software developers wanting to form unions. I'm particularly interested in this topic while I'm #indiehacking Qvault,