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

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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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OpenSSH post quantum cryptography

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

A self-guaranteeing promise does not require you to trust anyone. You can verify it yourself.

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...