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Virtualization is a powerful technique for code obfuscation, and reversing it can be challenging. In this post, we cover the work done during an internship on developing an automated devirtualization tool. We explore a simplified taint-based approach and discuss its limitations. For a more in-depth analysis, the full…
Over the last month, there has been a ton of debate and conversation about web2 vs web3 with many leading voices raising doubts about web3. Debate and doubt are healthy. And web3 enthusiasts, particularly on Twitter, remind me of missionaries trying to recruit the unwashed to their belief system. Frankly, it is all…
Apple today announced AirPods are available to order online now from Apple.com, arriving at Apple Stores next week.
I get a lot of pitches for "Steam competitors." 99% of them are doomed to failure, but the vast majority are doomed before they even start.
Why being popular is not the goal of most small businesses
-> Updated June 22, 2018 – Three 16GB/FHD configs added to the line up in the US -> Updated Jan 26, 2018 – Added list of countries that offer the XPS 13 developer edition offline.…
Today, our CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to Google employees about changes we’re making to better support our employees.
Wage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—affects far more people than more well-known and feared forms of theft such as bank robberies, convenience store robberies, street and highway robberies, and gas station robberies. Employers steal billions of dollars from their employees…
Published: June 2023 In prior articles and newsletters, I’ve explored the causes of consumer price inflation over time. In short, the rate of consumer price inflation in an economy comes from a combination of 1) money supply growth and 2) significant changes in productivity and/or resource abundance. -Periods of fast…
A lot of people ask us the question, why do we choose to use Common Lisp as our primary development language? Often times the question comes disguised as a suggestion: "Flask is a great webserver you should consider using". This is a well intentioned suggestion- of course we would like to use the best tools available!…
The trials and tribulations of betting against crypto's biggest stablecoin.
I had free access to GitHub Copilot for about a year, I used it, got used to it, and slowly started to take it for granted, until one day it was taken away. I had to re-adapt to a life without Copilot, but it also gave me a chance to look back at how I used Copilot, and reflect - had Copilot actually been helpful to…
In 1973, what a forty-hour week of work produced takes sixteen hours to produce today. That’s according to Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) input output tables. An hour of work in American business now makes two and a half times what it made in 1973. For every forty hours that used to be needed, twenty-four […]
JavaScript and C both make you maintain your invariants the most painful way possible. Happily, there are better alternatives these days.
Typically: * Chapter 1: Types * Chapter 2: Variables * Chapter 3: Operators/Math * Chapter 4: Control structures * Chapter 5: Arrays * Chapter 6: Functions * Chapter 7: Structs * Chapter 8: Classes and Objects * Chapter 9: Methods * Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism * Chapter 11: Some advanced thing X * Chapter…
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IPinfo scans reveal that 85% of exposed French refrigeration controllers had known security flaws before the October 2026 cyberattack.
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A list of things that were not supposed to be Turing-complete, but are.
What happens when you give employees control of their own salaries? A lot of great things, actually.
I personally find the people who are in the software startup game just for the money to often be nearly delusional about their chances of success and the likely magnitude of it when it happens. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. If you are in it for the money and…
Under civil forfeiture laws, police officers can take money from people with no proof of any wrongdoing, and without filing criminal charges. How does this work, and what happens to the money?
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Global Public Policy Hundreds of millions of users around the world use Google Earth . Many of the...
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OpenAI acquires TBPN to accelerate global conversations around AI and support independent media, expanding dialogue with builders, businesses, and the broader tech community.
