Links tagged “wtc”
310 links, newest first.
mathstodon.xyz
LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys - a security regression that shipped in Linux 6.9 and went unnoticed.
fazamhd.com
Networking and the Internet, from First Principles - what actually happens when a message crosses a continent, built up from nothing.
tris.sherliker.net
Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt - a real, self-evaluating, obfuscated Akamai script, sold as clothing, taken apart line by line.
purplesyringa.moe
Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if - branch prediction, aliasing and autovectorisation, taken apart with benchmarks.
lore.kernel.org
"Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects" - Torvalds settles kernel LLM policy on the mailing list: it is a tool, and anyone who disagrees can fork or walk away.
maurycyz.com
Regressive JPEGs - later scans in a progressive JPEG can overwrite what was already drawn, so a single file can show a different image while it loads, and animate if you push it. The format taken apart byte by byte.
bun.com
Bun's own account of a mechanical port from Zig to Rust over eleven days, reporting better stability and fewer leaks.
rfc-editor.org
RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method - a real HTTP method for search, safe and idempotent, with a request body. No more choosing between a GET with a body that nothing guarantees and a POST that lies about what it does.
scrollprize.org
The Vesuvius Challenge read an entire carbonized Herculaneum scroll for the first time, with imaging and ML. Two thousand years in a furnace, now readable. The rest is below, including how Elden Ring fakes its enemy AI with no ML at all.
techcrunch.com
Ford brings back 350 veteran engineers, its CEO saying the company mistakenly assumed introducing AI would by itself produce a high-quality product.
openai.com
The preview announcement, claiming stronger coding, science and cybersecurity performance alongside a reworked safety stack.
