UEFIs booting Windows and Linux devices can be hacked by malicious logo images.

I caught up with some of the latest developments in the ecosystem around Justine Tunney's cosmopolitan and Actually Portable Executable (APE) projects this week. They are absolutely fascinating .

This is a complete tutorial for understanding the basics of Linux ext4 file system.

Join me as we take a look at common application data patterns, and how they relate to the inner-workings of databases. In this post, we discuss data caching, indexing, optimistic mutations, and recursive cache invalidation. We will see how life might be easier…

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Expressive Compile-time Parsers in C++ - Alon Wolf - CppCon 2023
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Modern C++ has many language features and that can be leveraged to design an expressive API or a domain-specific language. However…

Solving integer overflow in C++ is possible

The Best Practices for OSS Developers working group is dedicated to raising awareness and education of secure code best practices for open source developers.

Henry Kissinger, the most powerful U.S. diplomat of the Cold War era, who helped Washington open up to China, forge arms control deals with the Soviet Union and end the Vietnam War, but who was reviled by critics over human rights, has died aged 100.

Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust

Suppose that you want to parse quickly 8-bit integers (0, 1, 2, …, 254, 255) from an ASCII/UTF-8 string. The problem comes up in the simdzone project lead by Jeroen Koekkoek (NLnet Labs). You are given a string and its length: e.g., ’22’ and length is 2.…

Some notes on storing data in pointers and the impact of >48-bit virtual addresses