While profiling Shadesmar a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that for large binary unserialized messages (>512kB) most of the execution time is spent doing copying the message (using memcpy) between process memory to shared memory and back.

Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functions

Even though it lacks a complete explanation, the small-scale, everyday effect is being exploited for various applications.

Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

Events are things that happen in the system you are programming, which the system tells you about so your code can react to them.
For example, if the user clicks a button on a webpage, you might want to react to that action by displaying an information box.…

Designed by the practice in close collaboration with structural engineers, it illustrates how architects can play an integral role in the design of bridges.

I’ve been learning a lot about low-level programming languages lately, and for a long time there has been one thing that has interested me: SIMD (or ‘single instruction, multiple data’) code. I’ve seen a lot of articles about having massive performance gains…

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A review of the new HBO Max series from Ridley Scott.

OpenSSH post quantum cryptography

UPDATE – 12 September 2025: The Wikimedia Foundation will not appeal the UK High Court’s decision to dismiss our challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations. The Foundation will continue to monitor how the Court’s guidance is…

I suspect that LinkedIn regularly shadowbans competitors under the guise of "account security". Am I right?

A self-guaranteeing promise is verifiable and non-reversible. It does not require you to trust anyone.

This is so cool and unexpected, but then nothing out of spec, that I had to reblog it. Namely, if you run the following snippet of the Bour...