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What if a secure device had an attacker-viewable crashdump format? What if that same device allowed putting arbitrary memory into the crashdump? Amazingly, the ps4 tempted fate by supporting both of these features! Let’s see how that turned out…
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Zone setting changes used to rebuild entire DNS zones, even ones with tens of millions of records. Here is how we built a planner that picks the smallest safe build, cutting full builds by 40%, peak memory by 85%, and halving build delay.
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What is a deterministic hypervisor and why do we need one anyhow?
This is episode 5, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla's Identity team. For this post, we bring the discussion back to scaling ...
It's not beyond possibility to set up MySQL to achieve 100,000 concurrent connections if you balance network config and use thread pools. By Vadim Tkachenko
Moved to: https://capnproto.org/news/2014-06-17-capnproto-flatbuffers-sbe.html (GitHub Pages doesn't support 301 redirects :(.)
Performance metrics are surprisingly challenging to get right. Here we share how to create metrics that are accurate, precise, and useful!
Posted by Platform Hardening Team In Android 11 we continue to increase the security of the Android platform. We have moved to safer def...
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How customer needs shaped Oxide's Kubernetes integrations.
Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.
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In addition to those on its well-known list of 200+ new features, OS X Mountain Lion also brings along a handful of new UNIX commands and binaries. Most are probably outside the scope of Ask Different (e.g. commands concerning Radius Authentication, Kerberos or Berkeley DB maintainance) but some of them may prove…
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
We are thrilled to announce the release of **Wasmer 5.0**, the latest milestone in our journey to make WebAssembly the greatest tool for executing softw...
In this article, you can find how setting the TZ environment variable can prevent thousands of system calls.
Trail of Bits recently completed a security assessment of Kubernetes, including its interaction with Docker. Felix Wilhelm’s recent tweet of a Proof of Concept (PoC) “container escape” sparked our interest, since we performed similar research and were curious how this PoC could impact Kubernetes. Quick and dirty way…
LLM inference that gets faster as you use it. Our runtime-learning accelerator adapts continuously to your workload, delivering 500 TPS on DeepSeek-V3.1, a 4x speedup over baseline performance without manual tuning.
We announce the technology preview of NGINX support for QUIC+HTTP/3 as pre-release software, available for interoperability testing, feedback, and code contributions. HTTP/3 replaces TCP with QUIC, which is designed to support multiplexed connections more reliably.
From the Zed Blog: In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten asks the founders — Nathan, Max, Antonio — about the data structures at the heart of Zed: Rope and SumTree.
Guest blog post, posted by Andrey KonovalovIntroductionLately I’ve been spending some time ...
