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In fall 2022, Trail of Bits audited cURL, a widely-used command-line utility that transfers data between a server and supports various protocols. The project coincided with a Trail of Bits maker week, which meant that we had more manpower than we usually do, allowing us to take a nonstandard approach to the […]
In this post, we will discuss recent results from Immunant and Galois in extending C2Rust to emit memory-safe Rust in certain cases. With this work we aim to shift a meaningful part of the translation burden from the human to the machine. Up until now, C2Rust has only been able to translate C to unsafe Rust that is no…
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on April 3, 2023
A post-modern modal text editor.
In the final part of our series, we'll implement an edit modal.
Open sourcing our learnings around Windows APIs, COM, C++ and their delightful integration into Swift - while building Arc.
Discovery and walkthrough of CVE-2023-38633 in librsvg, when two URL parser implementations (Rust and Glib) disagree on file scheme parsing leading to path traversal.
This article explores how terminal emulators function, decoding the process of sending commands to the shell for execution. Unveil the mystery behind what happens when you open a terminal and enter Is.
Monarch Mixer: Revisiting BERT, Without Attention or MLPs
I couldn’t find a great tool for viewing disassembly, so I wrote it myself over the weekend.
Clojure makes me more efficient and extends my reach as a designer. And it protects me from complex design workflows...
By David Seddon from Kraken Technologies. Hi, I’m David, a Python developer at Kraken Technologies. I work on Kraken: a Python application which has, at last count, 27,637 modules. Yes, you read that right: nearly 28k separate Python files - not including tests. I do this along with 400
The first official GCC 13 release is just around the corner, and you may be a bit surprised to find out that gccrs will not be included in it. The aim of this blogpost is to go into a little bit more detail as to why this was done and how you can still try out our compiler if you’d like to.
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Yesterday, we announced adding AI to our recon engine. Today, we're underscoring how reconciliation is a pain point by delving into the math.
Hello, today we are going to talk about some flying robot behavior improvements. Some of the problems we fixed were reported countless times, so I hope that some people will appreciate it :).
Async/await was added to the C# language over a decade ago and has transformed how we write scalable code for .NET. But how does it really work? In this post, we take a deep dive into its internals.
A high-level overview of Temporal's new .NET runtime, and some interesting challenges encountered during its development.
Debugging is difficult. Debugging across multiple languages is especially challenging, and debugging across devices often requires a team with varying skill sets and expertise to reveal the underlying…
Project Mage is a quest for seamless structural editing, a decent GUI toolkit, and, overall, an environment where interactivity, flexibility and power are valued very highly. A few applications are on the roadmap, notably the ones providing for note-taking, computational notebook capabilities, project-info tracking…
All about changes and improvements that Godot 4.0 offers to C# developers.
A guide to adding Rust to a Java codebase with JNI and the rust-maven-plugin.
For an ABI that probably nobody uses.
Explore the C++ memory model and learn about migrating from x86 to ARM architectures. Enhance your understanding of memory management in C++.
Learn Ruby metaprogramming: call methods dynamically with send, define them at runtime with define_method, and handle missing calls with method_missing.
Sigils have a bit of a bad reputation. According to their detractors, sigils are “just a way of encoding type information” in variable names – basically a glorified version of apps Hungarian notati…
TableGen is a language used within the LLVM project for generating a variety of files, when manual maintenance would be very difficult. For example, it is used to define all of the instructions that can be used on a particular architecture.
We’re once again at the end of our internship season, and it’s my task to provide a few highlights of what the dev interns accomplished while they were here.
