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Some long-anticipated updates landed in October, making MAME 0.260 a very exciting release! Firstly, there are some general updates to MAME itself. After a few false starts, MAME now supports bgfx video output with Wayland on Linux. As requested by users, you can finally use delta CHD files for clone systems and…
Original Publish Date: June 2023 | MC650424 Revised Date: August 30, 2023, based on Microsoft's Updated Message See text in red font. Microsoft's...
New technology in operation at LIGO is tackling quantum mechanical noise, enabling LIGO to probe a larger volume of the Universe and greatly boost the observatory's ability to study the exotic events that shake space and time.
An overview of containers and seccomp as sandboxing primitives
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
Elliptic curves are standardized, instead of being generated like Diffie-Hellman parameters. There's good reasons!
Yesterday, we announced adding AI to our recon engine. Today, we're underscoring how reconciliation is a pain point by delving into the math.
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
Software abstraction ladder becomes too tall and starts to fall
My phone is not being returned to me by police as, astonishingly, I am now formally under investigation for terrorism. Whether this relates to support for Palestine or for Wikileaks has currently not been made clear. What follows is, unspun and unvarnished, my account of my interview under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism…
Updated 10/25
It’s time to move from Buffer to Uint8Array.
In the beginning of the year I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck for myself. There were two main reasons I decided to buy it:
Which is better for code reviews, a unified diff or a split diff?
We are excited to explore the latest developments in generative AI and how it can drive ML applications through image augmentation and dataset population.
A few things Marc Andreessen forgot to mention
Code run in a lightweight Virtual Machine can’t take advantage of the Efficiency cores of the host Apple silicon Mac. How then does Sonoma handle its threads?
This blogpost, written by WithSecure’s STINGR Group, presents the analysis of a security incident that happened in February 2026 and was investigated by the WithSecure Incident Response team.
In a shocking turn of events, several smartphone manufacturers, including industry giant Samsung, have taken a drastic step that has left customers outraged. These companies have remotely disabled phones purchased through gray markets, effectively holding the users’ data hostage until they buy new phones from official…
Cascade is a RISC-V CPU fuzzer that generates valid , long and complex programs, and relies on a termination cascade-effect for bug detection. It detected 37 new bugs (29 new CVEs) in 5 RISC-V CPUs, which is more than all the existing fuzzers, combined. You can read a paper we wrote on Cascade here and try it out here…
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
I'm trying out TinaCMS to make it faster and easier to post here!
Today is the day! After more than a year of work, our team is excited to finally put a fancy "stable" sticker on the first release from the 4.x release line! To celebrate, let's make together a tour of the major changes; should you look for a more itemized list, take a look at the changelog.
The biggest library release is finally here! Learn more about the changes, motivation behind them, and how to upgrade to the next version today.
Embeddings are a really neat trick that often come wrapped in a pile of intimidating jargon. If you can make it through that jargon, they unlock powerful and exciting techniques …
