A simple explanation of concurrency vs parallelism
http://davidvedvick.info/notes/2017/01/20/concurrency-vs-parallelism
  http://davidvedvick.info/notes/2017/01/20/concurrency-vs-parallelism
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/
  http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/
Forwarded from ZeBl
  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/
  
  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…
  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
  https://rcoh.svbtle.com/notes-of-cpython-lists
Live streams and recordings from the Chaos Communication Congress on a variety of topics:
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/34c3
  
  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
  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
  
  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
blog.research.google
  
  Tacotron 2: Generating Human-like Speech from Text
  
  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
  
  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
  xorl %eax, %eax
mov $0, %eax
andl $0, %eax
Fix All Conflicts: Easy-To-use CUI for Fixing Git Conflicts - https://github.com/mkchoi212/fac
  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
  
  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...
  Forwarded from Vivian's dev rants.
  
  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…
  This is part of a multi-episode series. In the next video, we will focus…
A nice trip into the past: 
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/
  
  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…