Return-oriented programming (ROP) attacks are hard to defend against.
Partial mitigations such as address-space layout randomization, stack
canaries, and other techniques are commonly deployed to try and frustrate
ROP attacks. Now, OpenBSD is experimenting…

A U.S. investigation into steering problems with more than 334,000 Tesla electric vehicles is a step closer to a recall.

I saw a Mastodon post that made me laugh this morning. It seemed sort of crazy that the html element wouldn’t have 100% support on CanIUse.com. Heck, I’ve been using it since 1994 and it worked just fine back then! This led me down a bit of a rabbit hole.

Compiler overhaul, stability improvements, and the road ahead.

Carl Weathers, former NFL player turned Hollywood actor who starred in the Rocky movies, dies aged 76

SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, xDC replica...

highlight.io: The open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Error monitoring, session replay, logging, distributed tracing, and more. - highlight/highlight

2012 independent video game

In a follow-up to his first article about Moses Schönfinkel, Stephen Wolfram looks for the whereabouts of Schönfinkel after 1924 through his family history.

Bone regeneration is a complex process, and existing methods to aid regeneration including transplants and growth factor transmissions face limitations such as the high cost. But recently, a piezoelectric ...

The Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) is the architectural complement to a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). The MVA and MVP must evolve together for a product to be successful. As new features are delivered to customers, corresponding incremental improvements…

Jujutsu (`jj`) is a new version control system from a software developer at Google. I have been using it full time for 6 months. Here’s why you should switch, too.

blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses. - dankamongmen/notcurses

Real-time WebGL origami simulator app

Posted by Rajat Sen and Yichen Zhou, Google Research Time-series forecasting is ubiquitous in various domains, such as retail, finance, manufacturi...

The Signpost has identified an extensive scam perpetrated by a company that calls itself "Elite Wiki Writers" or "Wiki Moderator", among many other names. Some of the other names they are suspected of using include wikicuratorz.com, wikiscribes.com, wikimastery.com…

“Distributed acoustic sensing” looks for disturbances in fiber to detect earthquakes and even insects. Can it also improve rail safety?

Designer News is dead. Designer News was an online community for product designers. For years it was the best forum to discuss designing software.