Among the many changes merged for the 5.13 kernel is support for the LLVM
control-flow integrity (CFI) mechanism. CFI defends against exploits by
ensuring that indirect function calls have not been redirected by an
attacker. Quite a bit of work was needed…

iOS 14.5 has rendered some old apps inoperable that worked in previous versions of iOS 14. What options are available for recovering data from those apps if you can no longer launch them? Adam Engst spelunks through iPhone backups and numerous erase-restore…

A study counts blood cells and footsteps to predict a hard limit to our longevity

Twitter confirms “Twitter Blue”, which costs $2.99 per month by publicly including such In-App Purchase on the App Store For testing, I’ve become the first paying Twitter Blue customer 😅 Twitter Blue comes with Color Themes as well as custom App Icons Reader…

Spectrum costs $30 for 400Mbps on one street, $50 for half the speed on another.

Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming

The art of reading non-fiction non-linearly.

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For at least the second time in recent memory, a person’s life potentially hinges on critical information that is being withheld by a social platform.

Words Victorian-era Greek lexicon translated as ‘to wench’ or ‘do one’s need’ have been given much earthier new readings at Cambridge for modern students of classics

Working remotely while abroad has obvious appeal. But the tax consequences vary depending on where you go. Here’s what to know.

What's the real cost of interruptions? I illustrate all the context developers keep in their head and how it starts to decay immediately when interrupted.

UPDATED July 2023: How to use EXPLAIN ANALYZE in PostgreSQL, learn tools to visualize the output. See query execution time and row count.

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Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Shiller is worried a bubble is forming in some of the market’s hottest trades.

A team of Google security researchers said they discovered a new way to perform Rowhammer attacks against computer memory (RAM) cards that broaden the attack\'s initial impact.

Online study aids used by US soldiers contained detailed information about base security and the location of nuclear devices in Europe.