We asked Jon Hicks, creator of the original Firefox and Thunderbird logos, to re-imagine his iconic design in light of our exciting future. 

Highlights: CloudGuard Spectral detected malicious extensions on the VSCode marketplace Users installing these extensions were enabling attackers to steal

Bw-Tree is a variant of B+-Tree that aims to provide better performance for "modern multi-core machines." I was surprised how simple it is conceptually. But of course implementing a Bw-Tree sounds tricky indeed. 1/

Intel quietly released a new whitepaper and specification for their proposal on 'X86-S' as a 64-bit only x86 architecture

Intel investigated architectural enhancements and modifications for a 64-bit mode-only architecture.

Which of the Big Three C++ vendors wrote your standard library?
This code snippet will tell you (Godbolt):

This is the Part 2 of a series. Feel free to read the prequel for more context: Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically Building a good VM for a dynamic language takes a ton of engineerin

Last month, hundreds of cryptographers descended upon Tokyo for the first Real World Crypto Conference in Asia. As in previous years, we dispatched a handful of our researchers and engineers to present and attend the conference. What sets RWC apart from other…