Brendan Gregg from Sun's Fishworks team makes an interesting discovery about inducing disk latency. For a ca. 2020 retrospective on this 2008 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IYzD_NR0W4#t=28m47s

On August 8, the US government sanctioned
the Tornado Cash
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company can interact with Tornado Cash in any way, all assets of the
organization are to be reported so that they…

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A language server for Standard ML.

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Hi! This is a demo/proof-of-concept release of 90spot. The code in its current state is only capable of doing two things:

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In 2019 Nirmal 'Nims' Purja MBE summited the world’s 14 highest peaks in an astonishing 7 month window. At the time the record stood at just under 8 years.

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Vulnerabilities and exploits in common targets like browsers are often associated with memory safety issues. Typically this involves either a direct error in memory management or a way to corrupt internal object state in the JavaScript engine. One way to…

Special rapporteur claims forced labor could amount to 'crimes against humanity'

In this article, I'm trying to understand what makes the OpenBSD documentation that good.