Well this is interesting. I’ve got an animated gif that I can open up in Acorn on x86, and it uses about 360MB of memory. I open the same image on Apple Silicon, and it takes up 35.51 GIGABYTES. Methinks there’s a memory leak in CG* somewhere.

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The discoverer of the KRACK attacks
against WPA2 encryption in WiFi is back with a new set of flaws in the
wireless-networking protocols. FragAttacks is a sizable group of
WiFi vulnerabilities that (ab)use the fragmentation and aggregation (thus
"Frag") features…

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Word is out, and unfortunately true: @CSIRO's @Data61news dismantles Trustworthy Systems (TS), the team that shook the scientific world with the first correctness proof of an OS, #seL4. TS staff to reallocate to AI projects or sacked 1/6

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CNBC's "TechCheck" discusses the bear case on bitcoin with Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard. Subscribe to CNBC PRO for access to investor and analyst insights on crypto and more: https://cnb.cx/2BT2E7y

Bitcoin pared its gains and briefly dipped into negative…

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Astrophysicists from the University of Bath have developed a new method for pinpointing the whereabouts of extremely rare extragalactic objects. They hope their technique for finding 'changing-look quasars' ...

Astrophysicists from the University of Bath have developed a new method for pinpointing the whereabouts of extremely rare extragalactic objects. They hope their technique for finding 'changing-look quasars' ...

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