Community Tutorial: Using NPoco with CockroachDB and C# / .NET Core | Cockroach Labs Hi, I’m Darrien, and I’m building a distributed, near-real time, “OSINT data reconnaissance” system. For this system, I’ll be using CockroachDB for its distribu
Hardware Solutions To Highly-Adversarial Environments - Whitebox Crypto vs TPM vs TEE vs Secure Enclaves vs Secure Elements vs HSM vs CloudHSM vs KMS If at some point you realize that doing cryptography means having to manage long-term keys, it means you’re standing in the world of key management. Makes sense right? In these lands, you are going to run into scenarios where attackers can be quite close ...
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Visual Studio Subscriptions resources for remote learning and productivity | Visual Studio Blog The Visual Studio Subscriptions team wants to do everything we can to support you, wherever you’re at during this tough time. We’ve got some suggestions for staying productive at home, and ways that you can take advantage of benefits in your Visual Studio...
Azure Dedicated Host: New capabilities and benefits Late last year, we’ve announced the general availability of Azure Dedicated Hosts. This blog provides an update regarding the new and recently added capabilities since we initially introduced Azure…
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Getting started with bare-metal assembly — Jonas Hvid Seeing a program you wrote running directly on the bare metal is deeply satisfying to anyone who enjoys writing software. And it turns out that creating such a program from scratch is easier than it sounds. The hardest part is figuring out where to start....
GTC 2020: RTCore for Compute: Exploiting Computational Patterns Using NVIDIA RTX Learn how to exploit NVIDIA RTCore and NVIDIA RTX for general-purpose compute. We'll provide a deep dive into computational patterns that can benefit from RTCore hardware; discuss code samples in domain of HPC/machine learning that can leverage them, and ...
The man who made the NES Maybe it's about being in the right place at the right time. How else to explain how Masayuki Uemura, an engineer born in wartime Japan to a humble background, came to change the course of video game history? Uemura is the man who designed the Famicom, a ...
Speeding up Linux disk encryption Encrypting data at rest is vital for Cloudflare with more than 200 data centres across the world. In this post, we will investigate the performance of disk encryption on Linux and explain how we made it at least two times faster for ourselves and our cust...
Why We Started Putting Unpopular Assets in Memory Recently, we developed a technology that reduces our hit tail latency and reduces the wear out of SSDs. This technology is a memory-SSD hybrid storage system that puts unpopular assets in memory.
Governor Northam Orders Statewide Closure of Certain Non-Essential Businesses, K-12 Schools Governor Ralph Northam today issued a statewide order to protect the health and safety of Virginians and reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. Executive Order Fifty-Three orders the closure of certain non-essential businesses, bans all ...
Learning Hardware With Makecode for Kids -- Live on Twitch! I’ve always wished that I could have learned about working with hardware and electronics from a younger age. I hope to share what I’ve learned and hopefully inspire school-aged kids who are currently stuck at home. When and Where I’ll be live-streaming an...
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DirectX Developer Day Schedule | DirectX Developer Blog Tomorrow (3/19) is DirectX Developer Day! Join the Microsoft DirectX team, along with partners AMD and NVIDIA, for a series of talks and demos covering the future of gaming graphics: The New Features and Unprecedented Opportunities of DirectX 12 – Jianye...
Researchers Say Microsoft Edge's Telemetry Has the Worst Privacy of Any Major Browser - WinBuzzer A research paper suggests the data Microsoft Edge sends to its back-end servers has a persistent hardware-based identifier which could be used to find a user's identity.
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Build This 8-Bit Home Computer With Just 5 Chips - IEEE Spectrum There’s something persistently appealing about 8-bit computing: You can put together a self-contained system that’s powerful enough to be user friendly but simple enough to build and program all by yourself. Most 8-bit machines built by hobbyists today ar...
Intro to quantum computing with Q# – Part 1, The background and the qubit Quantum mechanics is one of the fundamental theories of physics, and has been tremendously successful at describing the behavior of subatomic particles. However, its counter-intuitive probabilistic nature, bizarre rules and confusing epistemology have tro...
Reducing UDP latency Hi! I’m one of Embox RTOS developers, and in this article I’ll tell you about one of the typical problems in the world of embedded systems…
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Updating Farm Wi-Fi with Ubiquiti Unify TL;DR: I upgraded part of my Wi-Fi network on my farm with Unify equipment after years of “making do”.
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A Digression on Divergence Most people who do serious GPU work understand that shaders and other GPU programs are executed in a SIMD or “SIMT” fashion using “warps” or “wavefronts” that gr…
Microsoft Edge Is The Least Private Browser, Study Finds The study examined the unique identifiers, as well as information related to typed URLs which can be used to track down users. Microsoft Edge sent identifiers tied to the device hardware. The unique identifiers, which can be used to link apps on the devic...
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How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars Technica For today’s episode of War Stories, Ars Technica sat down with Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner to learn about the challenges he faced while bringing his ambitious vision for the game to life. As the 1980's wound down, Mechner found himself fightin...
The Philosophy of Computer Science The philosophy of computer science is concerned with those ontological, methodological, and ethical issues that arise from within the academic discipline of computer science as well as from the practice of software development. Thus, the philosophy of com...
Avoiding cache line overlap by replacing one 256-bit store with two 128-bit stores Memory is organized in cache lines, frequently blocks of 64 bytes. On Intel and AMD processors, you can store and load memory in blocks of various sizes, such as 64 bits, 128 bits or 256 bits. In the old days, and on some limited devices today, reading an...
ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery – TechCrunch It's no secret I'm a fan of the reMarkable, a tablet with a paper-like display that's focused on text and sketching rather than rich media and games. The sequel to the original, announced today, looks to make a good thing even better.
Power your Azure GPU workstations with flexible GPU partitioning Today we are very excited to share the general availability of NVv4 virtual machines in South Central US, East US and West Europe regions, with additional regions planned in the coming months.
Pumping up your internet speeds with the Unifi Security Gateway and 4G/5G I've worked from home for quite some time and having both fast and reliable internet access has of course always been a huge concern for me. In order to increase both the speed and reliability of my internet connection, I recently made an upgrade. My Ubi...
Fireiron: A Scheduling Language for High-Performance Linear Algebra on GPUs Achieving high-performance GPU kernels requires optimizing algorithm implementations to the targeted GPU architecture. It is of utmost importance to fully use the compute and memory hierarchy, as well as available specialised hardware. Currently, vendor l...
SRE keeps digging to prevent problems | Google Cloud Blog See a real-world example of how Google’s SRE practices can identify and help fix issues, even at the bottom of the hardware stack.
Building a swipe card jukebox using a Raspberry Pi You know how everybody hates on recipe blogs that start posts with stories even though a) it’s good for copyright and b) stories can tell you a lot of things about humans and the why and how of their food, well if that’s you then you’re going to hate this...
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When You Do (and Don't Need) a Service Mesh - The New Stack A decision tree for determining if, and when, you will need a service mesh.
Building the ultimate virtual office I’m fortunate enough to work in a role which allows me to spend of lot of time talking to people in all sorts of places around the world on a daily basis. As much as I enjoy this varied communication, it plays absolute havoc with your working hours...
Distributed DMX with Apache Ignite A little known fact is that the original, intelligent lights and programming hardware formed a distributed system. Each light had its own on-board memory which was used to store the different state…
Table 4 . Normalized global results for Energy, Time, and Memory Download Table | Normalized global results for Energy, Time, and Memory from publication: Energy efficiency across programming languages: how do energy, time, and memory relate? | This paper presents a study of the runtime, memory usage and energy consum...
ARITH-MATIC: Computational Hardware for Pragmatists Explore the guts of computing with ARITH-MATIC's beautifully engineered DIY electronic kits.
The Story of the PS2’s Backwards Compatibility From the Engineer Who Built It As the PS2 turns 20 in Japan, a look back on its PS1 backwards compatibility from the eyes of the former Sony engineer responsible for it.
Primes Demo - Making an 8 Bit pipelined CPU I've hit a big milestone in my CPU Build, the core of the processor is complete. There will be a few refinements as I convert more of it over to PCB's but the underlying functionality of the processor is done. As a demonstration and test I've implemente...
Firecracker Until now, you needed to choose between containers with fast startup times and high density, or VMs with strong hardware-virtualization-based security and workload isolation. With Firecracker, you no longer have to choose. Firecracker enables you to deplo...
Cloud Storage for $2 / TB / Mo Explore the model that shows why Sia storage will stay below $2/TB/Mo for the long term.
SLIDE : In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning Systems Deep Learning (DL) algorithms are the central focus of modern machine learning systems. As data volumes keep growing, it has become customary to train large neural networks with hundreds of millions of parameters to maintain enough capacity to memorize th...
Millions of tiny databases Millions of tiny databases, Brooker et al., NSDI’20 This paper is a real joy to read. It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of …
Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions - Indianapolis Business Journal The software as a service—or SaaS—market is going gangbusters.
Intel x86 Root of Trust: loss of trust The scenario that Intel system architects, engineers, and security specialists perhaps feared most is now a reality. A vulnerability has ...
The tyranny of I/O and the rise of distributed systems A system that runs on a single machine is an order of magnitude simpler than one that reside on multiple machines. The complexity involved in maintaining con...
HAB1 04.27.2016 Ascent to 31K Meters (103,000 Feet) I am Kevin Hubbard of Black Mesa Labs. I am a High Altitude Space Balloon Engineer and this is my story of the last 3 days: I work with a small group of ultrasound engineers in Issaquah,WA-USA who …
Levenshtein Distance (Part 3: Optimize Everything!) Less Allocations & Smarter Processing. Tagged with algorithms, performance, csharp, dotnet.
Firefox 75 On Wayland Now To Have Full WebGL, Working VA-API Acceleration Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.
Episode 133 – Nick Craver: Stack Overflow to .NET Core | The 6 Figure Developer Nick is the Architecture Lead for Stack Exchange. He designs and builds very fast things in hopes of making life easier for millions of developers. His day to day job keeps him fairly busy,
svenpetersen1965's Thingiverse Profile I am an engineer in electronic hardware development since 1994. The 3D printing and 3D design came to me in September 2019 and I really enjoy using these tools for my hobbies (or just for fun). My interests are retro computing and electronics. I like to d...
WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN The virtual private network software from security researcher Jason Donenfeld wins fans with its simplicity and ease of auditing.
Technical Details of Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers Looking back at this week's posts on the design, specifications, and performance of Cloudflare’s Gen X servers using AMD EPYC CPUs.
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Microsoft cancels GDC 2020 presence due to coronavirus concerns - Gematsu Following Sony, Facebook, Kojima Productions, Epic Games, Unity, and more, Microsoft has cancelled its presence at Game Developers Conference 2020 due to concerns surrounding the novel coronavirus CODVID19. Find the full statement from the company below. ...
Power Down: Low power mode for Azure Sphere Many of the IoT devices that Azure Sphere can securely connect need to operate in power-constrained environments. We have heard from many customers who want to integrate Azure Sphere into devices powered by batteries, solar panels, and even supercapacitor...
Azure Sphere is now generally available! Good morning, At IoT in Action today, we announced that Azure Sphere is exiting its Public Preview phase and is now a GA (generally available) product. This milestone represents another important step affirming Microsoft’s commitment to provide manufact...
Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height Andreessen-Horowitz has always been the most levelheaded of the major current year VC firms. While other firms were levering up on “cleantech” and nonsensical biotech startups that viol…
Passwords, how they are hacked and how to protect them I always liked to understand how things work in InfoSec. This because if you know how Hackers and Criminals operate, you know better how to protect yourself. That’s why on the website I wear to pre…
Ella: A Vibrator You Control From Your Phone Ella comes with an app, putting vibrations one tap away. For solo or partner play, in the same room or around the world.
MongoDB Transactions in .NET Applications This post gives you a general idea on Database Transactions, defines what transactions in MongoDB are and explains how to run your MongoDB as a replicaset. You will also learn how to use MongoDB Transactions in a .NET application.
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Compiler Explorer - C (x86-64 clang 9.0.0) int foo; short *bar = &foo; void func(void) { int foo2; short *bar2; bar2 = & foo2; }
NetFabric/NetFabric.Hyperlinq High performance LINQ implementation with minimal heap allocations. Supports enumerables, async enumerables, arrays and Span<T>. - NetFabric/NetFabric.Hyperlinq
Compiler Explorer - C (x86-64 clang 9.0.0) char a; int b; long c; long long d; char *e = &b; int *f = &a; long *g = &d; long long *h = &c; // note that "long" and "long long" are the // same size on this compiler, but still warn typedef int test_sizes[sizeof(l...
Hardware build: CRC calculation CRC (cyclic redundancy check) involves some intimidating math. But it turns out that it can all be done with some fairly simple hardware. In this video, I build the hardware to compute and verify CRCs. Previous video on CRC theory is here: https://youtu.b...
Update on our new and upcoming security keys Our current suite of products (Solo C, Solo A, Solo Tap A, Solo Tap C, Somu) make up the first generation of products that Solokeys has released, starting with our initial Kickstarter campaign. Now we’re getting ready to release a new generation of pro...
The Computer Scientist Responsible For Cut, Copy, and Paste, Has Passed Away The advent of the personal computer wasn’t just about making these powerful machines available to everyone, it was also about making them accessible and usable, even for those lacking a computer science degree. Larry Tesler, who passed away on Monday, mig...
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Does register selection matter to performance on x86 CPUs? Instruction selection is a critical portion in compilers, which different instructions could cause significantly performance difference even though the semantics not changed. Does register selection a
Calculating Pi: My attempt at breaking the Pi World Record Before I go into the specifics of my record attempt, it is important for you to have some background information. Over the past few years I have been steadily acquiring server hardware to increase my knowledge of system administration and cyber security. ...
AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan de Cock, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron
maharmstone/quibble Quibble - the custom Windows bootloader. Contribute to maharmstone/quibble development by creating an account on GitHub.
Rendering Particles with Compute Shaders - Mike Turitzin Overview I developed a technique to render single-pixel particles (using additive blending) with compute shaders rather than the usual fixed-function rasterization with vertex and fragment shaders. My approach runs 25-335% faster than rasterization on the...
This Goes to Eleven (Part. 2/∞) Decimating Array.Sort with AVX2. I ended up going down the rabbit hole re-implementing array sorting with AVX2 intrinsics. There’s no reason I should go down alone.
How do Managed Breakpoints work? In this blog entry, I’ll explain how setting source-level breakpoints in a managed debugger work under the hood from end to end.
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How do Managed Breakpoints work? In this blog entry, I’ll explain how setting source-level breakpoints in a managed debugger work under the hood from end to end.
SpaceX Starship : Texas Prototype(s) Thread 2 : Photos and Updates SpaceX Starship : Texas Prototype(s) Thread 2 : Photos and Updates
Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline Since the release of the ground breaking Fermi architecture almost 5 years have gone by, it might be time to refresh the principle graphics architecture beneath it.
GPU Performance for Game Artists Performance is everybody's responsibility, no matter what your role. For artists, a little knowledge of what goes on under the hood can make a big impact on a game's framerate. If you're an artist and want to understand how the GPU works and why things li...
dangrie158/SAP-1 Simple as Possible CPU Architecture. Contribute to dangrie158/SAP-1 development by creating an account on GitHub.
This Goes to Eleven (Part 1/∞) Decimating Array.Sort with AVX2. I ended up going down the rabbit hole re-implementing array sorting with AVX2 intrinsics. There’s no reason I should go down alone.
The tools and tricks that let Ars Technica function without a physical office Looking at the “future of work” with a team that’s been living it for two decades.
STM32 Game Boy cartridge – EmerytHacks While I was looking for a flashcart for running LSDJ, I started wondering if it would be possible to make a cheaper alternative using a modern microcontroller with lots of memory and computing power.
The Infinite Loop That Wasn't: A Holy Grail Bug Story - mGBA mGBA is an open-source Game Boy Advance emulator, copyright © 2013–2020 Vicki Pfau. This project is not affiliated in any way with Nintendo. Game Boy Advance is a registered trademark of Nintendo Co., Ltd.
This Outrageous Clock Is Made Out of 144 Seven-Segment Displays "Yo dawg, I heard you like digital clocks so I made a digital clock out of digital clocks."
http://solarcybersecurity.com/ Note: This is a summarised version of the disclosures sent to Sungrow Australia on 2019-09-20 and 2019-09-22. Specific passwords and protocols have been removed.
Containerized builds for Rust on the ESP32 - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻 . Tagged with ESP32, Rust, LLVM, embedded.
Racor - PSM-1R - Pro Store Multi-Use Storage Bracket - Wheelbarrow and Ladder Hanger - Utility Hooks - Amazon.com Racor - PSM-1R - Pro Store Multi-Use Storage Bracket - Wheelbarrow and Ladder Hanger - Utility Hooks - Amazon.com
Basic Instruction Scheduling (and Software Pipelining) An introduction to instruction scheduling and software pipelining for straight line code (basic blocks).
BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3 official implementations of the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function - BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3
Optimizing string.Count all the way from LINQ to hardware accelerated vectorized instructions A technical deep dive into SIMD accelerated C# APIs to speedup simple loop iterations
SHA-1 is a Shambles We have computed the very first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1. In a nutshell, this means a complete and practical break of the SHA-1 hash function, with dangerous practical implications if you are still using this hash function. To put it in another ...
Cheap USB Host Microcontroller [CH559, ESP32, HID] This video shows an affordable way to add USB support to maker projects. $2 for 10 PCBs (Any Color): https://jlcpcb.com (sponsor) The CH559 is a 8051 architecture based microcontroller that has built in dual USB Hosts. This allows to interface generic Ke...
X1 Extreme Gen 2 missing keystrokes Okay, I have been using my X1E2 for a little while now. Very mixed feelings about the device, aside of the poor battery life and couple other bugs my keyboard is missing keystrokes constantly, it's like the laptop is lagging altought there is nothing happ...
[Updated 02-13-20] Data leak 12-26-2019 02-13-20 update Thank you all for your patience. We have been working diligently to make progress on security improvements. At Wyze, we take data protection, and our customers’ trust in us to protect their data, very seriously. We appreciate your efforts ...
On Linux's Random Number Generation I have been asked about the usefulness of security monitoring of entropy levels in the Linux kernel. This calls for some explanation of how random generation works in Linux systems. So, randomness …
Signal >> Blog >> Technology Preview for secure value recovery At Signal, we want to make privacy simple. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your information is in your hands rather than ours. Technologies like Signal Protocol secure your messages so that they are never visible by anyone but you and th...
Microsoft tracks people with RFID tags Breeze Consulting is creating one of the largest non-traditional RFID networks assembled in Australia to track certain people movements at Microsoft Tech Ed in Sydney.
Home Switch to OpenStreetMap and discover how you can build beautiful maps from the world’s best map data.
We made Windows Server Core container images >40% smaller | .NET Blog Over the past year, we’ve been working with the Windows Server team to make Windows Server Core container images a lot smaller. They are now 40% smaller! The Windows Server team has already published the new images in the Server Core Insider Docker repo,
Privacy Analysis of Tiktok’s App and Website | Rufposten I did a detailed privacy check of the app TikTok and its corresponding website. Multiple law infringements, trust, transparency and data protection breaches were found.I provide all technical an
Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft https://PlatformSecuritySummit.com/2019/speaker/chen Every game console since the first Atari was more or less designed to prevent the piracy of games and yet every single game console has been successfully modified to enable piracy. However, this trend ...
BlueHat Seattle 2019 || Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story Tony Chen Every game console since the first Atari was more or less designed to prevent the piracy of games and yet every single game console has been successfully modified to enable piracy. However, this trend has come to an end. Both the Xbox One and t...
Embedded device research. The tools you'll need | Pen Test Partners Over the last couple of years, we've run many courses on embedded device security. The focus is often defensive, but all the courses have an aspect of o
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ESPlay Micro Everyone loves ESP32 chip, it's wonderfull chip from espressif with great functionality and really mature in software development side. This project most inspired by Odroid Go and Pocketsprite, so why making new one despite buy one of them? Well, i know t...
Designing Docker Hub Two-Factor Authentication - Docker Blog We recognize the central role that Docker Hub plays in modern application development and are working on many enhancements around security and content. In this blog post we will share how we are implementing two-factor authentication (2FA).
ESPlay Micro: Open Source ESP32 Game Console Today we'll take a look at the ESPlay Micro, an open source game console built around the ESP32 WROVER SoC. Aside from being a lightweight game console for retro emulation these boards also make for a great development platform to learn low level systems ...
pebri86/esplay-retro-emulation Retro Emulation Collection for ESPlay Hardware, an ESP32 based game console - pebri86/esplay-retro-emulation
TomF's talks and papers. SMCANI to AVX512 - the life cycle of an instruction set presented at Handmade Seattle 2019 conference. I talk about how we went about creating the 512-bit SIMD extensions to the 80x86 instruction set - starting from its inception as a research project, go...
Microsoft Sends a New Kind of AI Processor Into the Cloud An innovative chip from Graphcore could push artificial intelligence applications to greater heights.
Hands-on With a Graphcore C2 IPU PCIe Card at Dell Tech World We were able to get our hands on a Graphcore C2 IPU PCIe card at Dell Technologies World 2019 to show one of the hottest pieces of AI and deep learning tech
Safari Supports NFC, USB, and Lightning FIDO2-Compliant Security Keys in iOS 13.3 The iOS 13.3 update that is currently available to developers and public beta testers has a new Safari feature that supports NFC, USB, and Lightning...
Yubico iOS Authentication Expands to Include NFC | Yubico With recent updates, iPhone users (running iOS 13+) can now experience mobile tap-and-go authentication via NFC with a YubiKey 5 NFC or Security Key NFC by Yubico.
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 106 — November 10, 2019 | Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer 3D Programmer
Fixing Random, bonus episode 2: pigeons and the noisy-or distribution Source code for this episode is here. Welcome to this special bonus episode of Fixing Random, the immensely long blog series where I discuss ways to add probabilistic programming features into C#. …
Laser pointers can hijack your virtual assistants - Futurity Virtual assistants like Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant are vulnerable to hijacking via "Light Commands" with as little as a regular laser pointer.
Real World Crypto 2020 Program All the talks will take place in Alfred Lerner Hall at Columbia University.
Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2016, at Web Camp Zagreb [video] (45 mins)
BinomialLLC/basis_universal Basis Universal GPU Texture Codec. Contribute to BinomialLLC/basis_universal development by creating an account on GitHub.
Audio Fingerprinting using the AudioContext API Audio fingerprinting takes advantage of device performance specs to build up an identifying fingerprint of a user. It uses the AudioContext API for this
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GC Documentation: Update knobs doc to clarify usage by NickCraver · Pull Request #27566 · dotnet/coreclr The current docs are a bit confusing between global and per-heap. This clarifies that and aligns the GC bits between clrconfigvalues.h and clr-configuration-knobs.md (intended to be generated, but ...
LISA2019 Linux Systems Performance Talk by Brendan Gregg for USENIX LISA 2019: Linux Systems Performance. Abstract: " Systems performance is an effective discipline for performance analysis and …
Safe and Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages Drivers are usually written in C for historical reasons, this can be bad if you want your driver to be safe and secure. We show that it i...
Verzekeraar Allianz informeert klanten over datalek - Security.NL Verzekeringsmaatschappij Allianz Global Assistance heeft klanten geïnformeerd over een datalek dat een maand geleden al in het ...
A First Look at Java Inline Classes Java currently supports only two types of value: primitives and object references. Project Valhalla extends this by introducing inline classes which are a new form of type that exhibit some behaviors of both. These new types open the door to better alignm...
Add 64 bits support to Array underlying storage · Issue #12221 · dotnet/runtime While System.Array API supports LongLength and operator this[long i], the CLR does not allow arrays to be allocated with more than 2^31-1 elements (int.MaxValue). This limitation has become a daily...
Announcing the Open Application Model (OAM), an open standard for developing and operating applications on Kubernetes and other platforms - Open Source Blog Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud have created the Open Application Model (OAM) project under the Open Web Foundation.
.NET R&D Digest (September, 2019) Every month there is something exciting happening in the world of technology. This month (September) was a special one for .NET community because of .NET Core 3.0 release. Despite the fact we all a…
Resistance - The First Anonymous DEX and Privacy-Oriented Blockchain Resistance is an anonymous, decentralized exchange and privacy-oriented blockchain that combines Proof of Work and Proof of Research for block rewards.
Android-x86 - Porting Android to x86 Android-x86 is an Android Open Source Project licensed under Apache Public License 2.0. Some components are licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 or later.
Virtualization-Based Security: Enabled by Default Virtualization-based Security (VBS) uses hardware virtualization features to create and isolate a secure region of memory from the normal operating system. Windows can use this "virtual secure mode" (VSM) to host a number of security solutions, providing ...
dotnet/coreclr CoreCLR is the runtime for .NET Core. It includes the garbage collector, JIT compiler, primitive data types and low-level classes. - dotnet/coreclr
Ray Tracing Denoising An overview of the state of the art in ray denoising. We'll go over sampling, noise, filtering, machine learning, and temporal techniques used in modern denoising systems.
BeagleBoard.org® Launches BeagleBone® AI, Offering a Fast Track to Getting Started with Artificial Intelligence at the Edge /PRNewswire/ -- The BeagleBoard.org® Foundation today announces general availability of the newest, fastest, most powerful BeagleBoard.org® BeagleBone® low...
BluestormDNA/ProjectPSX Experimental C# Playstation Emulator. Contribute to BluestormDNA/ProjectPSX development by creating an account on GitHub.
http://phk.freebsd.dk/B-Heap/queue.html Would you believe me, if I claimed that an algorithm which has been on the books as "optimal" for 46 years, which have been analyzed in excruciating detail by geniuses like Knuth and taught in all CS courses in the world, can be optimized to run ten times...
Tutorial series for simulating NES Graphics – BIT INK STUDIOS On my twitter page (follow me if you haven’t yet!) I’ve been creating a few very quick tutorials to help people understand what NES graphics mean. I see a lot of people doing pixel art and just calling it “8-bit” or “NES style”, but a lot of the time it m...
App Store Review Guidelines - Apple Developer The App Store Review Guidelines provide guidance and examples across a range of development topics, including user interface design, functionality, content, and the use of specific technologies. These guidelines are designed to help you prepare your Apps ...
ixy-languages/ixy-languages A high-speed network driver written in C, Rust, Go, C#, Java, OCaml, Haskell, Swift, Javascript, and Python - ixy-languages/ixy-languages
john-h-k/MathSharp A vector and matrix library written in C# using hardware intrinsics - john-h-k/MathSharp
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Weakness in Intel chips lets researchers steal encrypted SSH keystrokes DDIO makes servers faster. It can also allow rogue servers to covertly steal data.
Compiler Explorer - CUDA (NVCC 10.1 Update 1) // Type your code here, or load an example. __global__ void square(int *array, int n) { int tid = blockIdx.x; if (tid < n) array[tid] = array[tid] * array[tid]; }
OWASP/CheatSheetSeries The OWASP Cheat Sheet Series was created to provide a concise collection of high value information on specific application security topics. - OWASP/CheatSheetSeries
r/Twitter - About half the gifs on twitter show one frame then go black. [firefox] 3 votes and 5 comments so far on Reddit
Hardware Intrinsics in .NET Core | .NET Blog Several years ago, we decided that it was time to support SIMD code in .NET. We introduced the System.Numerics namespace with Vector2, Vector3, Vector4, Vector<T>, and related types. These types expose a general-purpose API for creating, accessing, and op...
Age of JIT Compilation. Part 1. Genesis This article describes the lack of inheritance in structs, unbound delegates, as well as a technique of invoking any methods without reflection
Turning the Nintendo Switch into Android’s best gaming hardware You got your Google OS in my Nintendo hardware!
Breaking all existing Hex Encoding Records with .NET Core 3.0 - Nicolas Portmann - .NET / Java / Security A blog about C#, .NET, Java, InfoSec and Cryptography.
ImperialViolet - Username (and password) free login with security keys Most readers of this blog will be familiar with the traditional security key user experience: you register a token with a site then, when logging in, you enter a username and password as normal but are also required to press a security key in order for it...
Stack Overflow handling in HotSpot JVM JVM stack layout, guard zone, stack banging, reserved pages - how HotSpot implements Stack Overflow check
Not Rocket Science » Adding multiple devices to one PCI Express Slot Most ATX Mainboards have somewhere between 3 and 5 PCI Express slots. Generally, an x16, x8 and some x1's, but if you have e.g., a Threadripper X399 board you might have several x8 and x16 slots.
Link’s Awakening disassembly progress report – week 5 – Kzone - This article is part of an ongoing “Disassembling Link’s Awakening” series, where I attempt to gain some understanding on how special effects were implemented in this game.
Zelda Screen Transitions are Undefined Behaviour The vertical scrolling effect in the original “The Legend of Zelda” relies on manipulating the NES graphics hardware in a manor likely that was unintended by its designers. Since I don’t have access to any official documentation for the NES Picture Proces...
dotnet/coreclr CoreCLR is the runtime for .NET Core. It includes the garbage collector, JIT compiler, primitive data types and low-level classes. - dotnet/coreclr
Mark Henderson from Stack Overflow shares his experience on being an SRE Mark Henderson has been a Site Reliability Engineer at Stack Overflow since 2015. Before this he worked as the sole systems administrator at a small software company in Sydney, Australia. These days, he lives in South Australia and works from home with hi...
Size matters The scene graph and all the tools and features of Babylon.js rely on an engine which functions as the central hub from which all orders…
Snips and Seeed- Voice Interaction Development Kits Snips Voice Interaction Development Kits are infinitely hackable, open source and private by design combining latest Seeed hardware with the Snips AI Voice Platform, powered by a Raspberry Pi.
Benchmarks are hard · jbd.dev Benchmarking generally mean producing some measurements from a specific program or workload to typically understand and compare the performance characteristics of the benchmarked workload.
Low Spec Gaming - Computerphile We talk to Alex from LowSpecGamer about how he gets modern games to run on less capable hardware. Lens Blur in Video Games: https://youtu.be/vNG3ZAd8wCc Dithering Graphics: https://youtu.be/ico4fJfohMQ Low Spec Gamer on YouTube: https://bit.ly/1W9TxS...
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When watching a video and change volume, a 'chrome.exe' box is displayed. How to fix it? - Google Chrome Community This problem started very recently for me and is not something I encountered before. When watching a video on chrome, say in YouTube, or Netflix, and I go to change the volume, see the usual volume bar, but accompanied with the volume bar is a translucent...
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World's First Patented Unhackable Computer Ever (Canceled) The Unhackable Computer. A new PATENTED hardware design of a Computer line that does not let any virus and Malware into it.
.NET Core official support policy Learn about support policies and how to get help with .NET Core. .NET Core refers to several technologies including .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core.
What is the point of Microsoft? 3.0 - Liam Westley In 2015, at DDD SouthWest, I first considered what was the point of Microsoft, after it's demise was predicted by many wise beards, and some doubted whether they would be developing with Microsoft tools for much longer. In 2017, I revisited the topic for...
How to host and manage an entire private certificate infrastructure in AWS | Amazon Web Services AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now offers the option for managing online root CAs and a full online PKI hierarchy. You can now host and manage your organization’s entire private certificate infrastructure in AWS. Supporti...
The Peak-Performance-Percentage Analysis Method for Optimizing Any GPU Workload | NVIDIA Developer Blog Figuring out how to reduce the GPU frame time of a rendering application on PC is challenging for even the most experienced PC game developers. In this blog post, we describe a performance triage…
Avoiding instruction cache misses Excessive instruction cache misses are the kind of a performance problem that's going to appear only in larger codebases. In this article, I'm describing some ideas on how to deal with this issue.
What’s up with my branch on GPU? About This post is a small writeup addressed to programmers who are interested to learn more about how GPU handles branching and targeted as an introduction to the topic. I recommend skimming through [1], [2], [17] and [8] to get an idea of what GPU execu...
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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18917 | Windows Experience Blog Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18917 (20H1) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. IMPORTANT: As is normal with builds early in the development cycle…
RAMBleed RAMBleed is a side-channel attack that enables an attacker to read out physical memory belonging to other processes. The implications of violating arbitrary privilege boundaries are numerous, and vary in severity based on the other software running on the...
SSTIC2019 » Présentation » Everybody be cool, this is a robbery! - Gabriel Campana, Jean-Baptiste Bédrune Les HSM (Hardware Security Modules) sont des équipements électroniques utilisés comme brique cryptographique de confiance dans des environnements nécessitant de hautes exigences de sécurité. Ils sont utilisés comme enclave de sécurité afin de générer, sto...
Scamming the scammers – catching the virus call centre scammers red-handed A few months back I got a call one evening which was clearly a virus call centre scam; you know, the ones that call you out of the blue, tell you your PC is infected with all sorts of nasties and offer to fix it for you? Or maybe you
Cryptography and Your Apps - WWDC 2019 - Videos - Apple Developer System frameworks encrypt both data at rest and data in transit in a transparent way for you. This functionality is available by simply...
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Nick Craver - Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 Edition This is #1 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture. Welcome.Previous post (#0): Stack Overflow: A Technical DeconstructionNext post...
Microsoft, Brilliant team up to offer quantum curriculum - Microsoft Quantum With the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit, getting started with quantum development is easy. Now we’re helping to make it even easier: we’ve partnered with the team of educators at Brilliant.org to teach you about quantum computing in a new way.
US cities are being held hostage with stolen NSA tools Since May 7, the city of Baltimore in Maryland has been struggling to cope with a ransomware attack that has crippled its digital capabilities. Local government employees’ computers were infected with a malware that demanded $100,000 for files and access&...
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Want to train a dragon? You'll need 500 million files, 730TB of data, 54,000 CPU cores... DreamWorks picks Gremlin to weave digital marvels
GitHub Enterprise - The best way to build and ship software The power of GitHub's social coding for your own workgroup. Pricing, tour and more.
Google and Binomial Contribute Basis Universal Texture Format to Khronos’ glTF 3D Transmission Open Standard Earlier today, Google and Binomial announced that they have partnered to open source a sophisticated texture compressor and a high-performance transcoder for Binomial’s cross-platform Basis Universal texture format. This format can help solve a long-stand...
What good are hundreds of lights without hundreds of shadows? Introduction Modern dynamic light rendering techniques, such as Clustered shading, are very impressive if you want thousands of lights, and after implementing my own method for rendering scenes wit…
Graphics Team ships WebRender MVP! After many months of hard work and preparation, I’m pleased to announce the general availability of WebRender for selected Windows 10 devices. WebRender is a major rewrite of the Firefox rendering …
SMS for 2FA: What Are Your Security Options? - Authy Two-factor authentication is about using something in addition to your username and password for authentication. That “something” falls into three main categories, something you know (i.e. your social security number), something you have (i.e. a cell phon...
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IAIK/ZombieLoad Proof-of-concept for the ZombieLoad attack. Contribute to IAIK/ZombieLoad development by creating an account on GitHub.
Kubernetes and .NET running on a Raspberry Pi Cluster - Dan Clarke I'm starting writing this blog post on the train ride home from yet another amazing DDD event! This variant being DDD South West in Bristol! For those that haven't heard of DDD - there are various DDD conferences throughout the world - with quite a few in...
WSL 2 Post BUILD FAQ | Windows Command Line After announcing WSL 2 last week, we have had an amazing response from the community and received many great questions about the details surrounding this new architecture. We love answering your questions and want to make sure these answers reach as many ...
New Azure Machine Learning updates simplify and accelerate the ML lifecycle With the exponential rise of data, we are undergoing a technology transformation, as organizations realize the need for insights driven decisions. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies can help harness this data to drive real...
eyeDisk. Hacking the unhackable. Again | Pen Test Partners The story of the "unhackable" USB stick called eyeDisk. Teardown, analysis, and findings. Is it unhackable? TL;DR: Nope, it is very hackable.
Here's Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer These days, I get a lot of messages from people on security related things. Often it's related to data breaches or sloppy behaviour on behalf of some online service playing fast and loose with HTTPS or passwords or some other easily observable security po...
Decoupling Algorithms from the Organization of Computation for High-Performance Graphics & Imaging Future graphics and imaging applications�from photorealistic real-time rendering, to 4D light field cameras and pervasive sensing, to multi-material 3D printing�demand orders of magnitude more computation than we currently have. The efficiency and perform...
Announcing WSL 2 | Windows Command Line WSL 2 is a new architecture that allows for dramatic file system performance and full system call compatibility in WSL using a Linux kernel.
Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere | Visual Studio Blog Developers today are encountering an overwhelming amount of complexity due to the growing emphasis on time-to-market, and a broader variety of technologies being used than ever before (e.g. polyglot apps, microservices). Additionally, teams are becoming m...
Eon – Amiga Soundtrack Hacks In this rather lengthy post I’m going to talk about the soundtrack I made for the new Amiga 500 demo – Eon by The Black Lotus. I’ll be covering everything from the early beginning…
Fight the global warming: compile your C# apps ahead of time An overview of ahead of time compilation in .NET, and the ways to make your C# apps launch faster and use less memory.
OutOfMemory – a nerdy card game for developers! – TooSlowException So…after quite a serious thing which was writing Pro .NET Memory Management book, I’ve decided to experiment with a little pet project for having some more fun. I have quite a few very interesting ideas going on in my head. Yet, I needed to choose one!
AES-NI (.NET) - Outperforming C and OpenSSL - Nicolas Portmann - .NET / Java / Security A blog about C#, .NET, Java, InfoSec and Cryptography.
Eon by The Black Lotus (compo version) Revision 2019 Amiga Demo Compo winner, for Amiga 500 1MB. This is the same recording what was presented during the competition on the big screen. Recorded from real hardware - this means an actual stock Amiga 500 with only an 512KB RAM expansion. Pouet:...
How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer - IEEE Spectrum The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.
Pro .NET Benchmarking - The Art of Performance Measurement | Andrey Akinshin | Springer Use this in-depth guidebook to correctly design benchmarks, measure key performance metrics of .NET applications, and analyze results. You will avoid common pitfalls, control the accuracy of your measurements, and improve performance of your software....
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Pro .NET Benchmarking - The Art of Performance Measurement | Andrey Akinshin | Apress Use this in-depth guidebook to correctly design benchmarks, measure key performance metrics of .NET applications, and analyze results. You will avoid common pitfalls, control the accuracy of your measurements, and improve performance of your software....
'I would never buy one': Fears raised over security of GPS tracking smartwatch for kids It's every parent's worst nightmare: discovering the smartwatch tracking device you bought to protect your child could be used instead by a stranger to stalk them.
Logs vs Structured Events I got an interesting tweet the other day from @evntdrvn in response to this thread of mine. Paraphrasing, “So I’ve almost got our group at work up to Step 1 in your observability maturi…
MS Office Interop Automation in C# Improve MS Office Interop Automation Performance by 3X by using Pooling Pattern.
Verified cryptographic provider a triple threat Working toward provably secure online communications requires a strong foundation on which to build protocols. Enter EverCrypt, a fully verified cryptographic provider offering a comprehensive suite of algorithms, agility, and multiplexing capabilities
Troubleshoot blue screen errors - Windows Help Find out how to troubleshoot stop errors (also called "blue screen" errors) in Windows 10 by removing installed updates and using Windows recovery options.
Families We’re continually designing new features and parental controls to help make sure children use their devices in the ways their parents want them to.
Bringing GPU acceleration to Windows containers At the release of Windows Server 2019 last year, we announced support for a set of hardware devices in Windows containers. One popular type of device missing support at the time: GPUs. We’ve heard frequent feedback that you want hardware acceleration for ...
Stable Filtering — Part 2 How to make a filter than can be implied an infinite number of times without producing artifacts and remain nearly indistinguishable from the original image.
MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp Demo of the potential of C# for systems programming with CoreRT - MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp
MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp Demo of the potential of C# for systems programming with CoreRT - MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp
materialx/MaterialX MaterialX is an open standard for transfer of rich material and look-development content between applications and renderers. - materialx/MaterialX
RoboCup@Home – Where the best domestic service robots test themselves The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initi...
Open Source .NET – 4 years later A little over 4 years ago Microsoft announced that they were open sourcing large parts of the .NET framework and as this slide from New Features in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 2.1 shows, the community has been contributing in a significant way:
Tic Toc Games - A Unity Developer Case Study How the new Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS) delivers massive performance gains for Tic Toc Games.
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An Insider’s Look at Why Women End Up on the Cutting Room Floor How 60 Minutes cut women’s voices from a segment on . . . girls and women
Hardware intrinsic in .NET Core 3.0 - Introduction In the past two years, I worked for Intel Corporation as a compiler engineer. The major project I worked during that period of time is to design and implement the x86 hardware intrinsic for .NET Core.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum Prototype - Computer - Computing History This is the absolute original build of the Sinclair Spectrum, probably dating from late 1981 to early 1982. This is the absolute original build of the Sinclair Spectrum, probably dating from late 1...
Paper: Hyperscan: A Fast Multi-pattern Regex Matcher for Modern CPUs I’m pleased to report that Hyperscan, the regular expression matcher that ate my life from 2008 through 2018, finally has a paper (pdf) – it’s being presented this week at NSDI &#…
Submitting Your App to the Oculus Quest Store | Oculus UPDATE: The Oculus Quest form for submitting your concept is now open.
4 eras of blockchain computing: degrees of composability Trustless computing gives developers a new power tool: composibility. It means developers can do more with less. The questions are how and when?
The Four Horsemen of Centralization, by Ali Yahya Decentralization is the degree to which power and control over a network is distributed across a large, representative base of independent human actors. There are broadly four kinds of power that it can refer to.
Centralization vs Decentralization - AVC Decentralization is one of, if not the most, discussed features of the crypto tech stack. In a decentralized system, no single body controls the system. We have most certainly not reached the era fully decentralized systems, but that is what most of the w...
Goodbye Phones, Hello Drones I’ve loved gadgets all my life. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, it felt like ALL the best consumer hardware was coming from Japan. So when…
The Future of Tech, with Chris Dixon – [Invest Like the Best, EP.69] My guest this week is Chris Dixon, who has written some of my favorite essays on technology and venture investing. Chris is a prolific investor and thinker, having been an entrepreneur, angel investor, and now partner at the well known venture capital fir...
Field Notes: Devcon3 - Ethereum Developer's Conference - Andreessen Horowitz Editor's Note: These notes, based on talks at the Ethereum Foundation's third annual developer's conference earlier this month, were shared internally over email, as part of our ongoing sharing of …
US solar plant costs fall another 30 per cent in just one year US government’s renewable energy lab finds 30% fall in utility-scale solar costs year-over-year, with solar now as cheap as combined cycle gas.
First quantum computers need smart software Early devices must solve real-world problems, urge Will Zeng and colleagues.
a16z Podcast: Getting Applications Into People's Hands - Andreessen Horowitz The story of how innovation happens is a long one -- from government funding early basic research, to the heyday of corporate R&D like Bell Labs, to startups as experiments before product-marke…
Perfect Ten Apple had amazing product introductions before the iPhone, and it’s had a few good ones after. But the iPhone was the only product introduction that felt *impossible*.
facebookexperimental/eden A virtual filesystem for speeding up the performance of source control checkouts. - facebookexperimental/eden
The Elusive Frame Timing Finally, an explanation for why some games stutter on your PC (and a glimpse of hope that this might stop happening in the near future)
Microsecond Resolution Time Services for Windows The Windows Timestamp Project provides high resolution timestamp, timekeeping, NTP synchronization, and timer routines for Windows
What happens if 'throw' fails to allocate memory for exception object? From C++11 standard (15.1.p4): The memory for the exception object is allocated in an unspecified way, except as noted in 3.7.4.1 What if allocation fails -- will it throw std::bad_alloc inst...
r/miniSNES - Latency Analysis of NES, SNES, Classics, and RetroPie 81 votes and 44 comments so far on Reddit
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SSRTGI: Toughest Challenge in Real-Time 3D UNIGINE's Davyd Vidiger talked about the way Screen Space Ray-Traced Global Illumination is used to improve the image quality in real-time graphics.
Toward an honesty of pixels: on Final Fantasy 12 HD and Quake 3 Arena combined screenshots from Final Fantasy 12 (PS2, 2006) and Final Fantasy 12 HD (PS4 Pro, 2017) You either love or you hate Final Fantasy...
Breaking the x86 Instruction Set A processor is not a trusted black box for running code; on the contrary, modern x86 chips are packed full of secret instructions and hardware bugs. In this talk, we'll demonstrate how page fault analysis and some creative processor fuzzing can be used to...
Cyberinsurance and Acts of War - Schneier on Security I had not heard about this case before. Zurich Insurance has refused to pay Mondelez International's claim of $100 million in damages from NotPetya. It claims it is an act of war and therefor not covered. Mondelez is suing.
Banks Attacked through Malicious Hardware Connected to the Local Network - Schneier on Security Kaspersky is reporting on a series of bank hacks -- called DarkVishnya -- perpetrated through malicious hardware being surreptitiously installed into the target network:
That Bloomberg Supply-Chain-Hack Story - Schneier on Security Back in October, Bloomberg reported that China has managed to install backdoors into server equipment that ended up in networks belonging to -- among others -- Apple and Amazon. Pretty much everybody has denied it (including the US DHS and the UK NCSC). B...
Security of Solid-State-Drive Encryption - Schneier on Security Interesting research: "Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs)":
Compiler Explorer - C++ union meow_lane { struct { __m128i L0; __m128i L1; __m128i L2; __m128i L3; }; int Sub; }; static void AESRotate(meow_lane &A, meow_lane &B) { A.L0 = _mm_aesdec_si128(A.L0, B.L0); A.L1 = _mm_aesdec_...
When is it OK to remake a classic game? Remakes are common in the adventure genre. But not everyone likes to see their old favourites revived. We asked Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer what they thought
Here’s a neat trick for understanding how long computer processes take An easy way to compare, say, the speed of L3 cache with a single CPU cycle.
Democratic Socialists Distribute More N95 Masks Than the City - SF Weekly Fed up with the city’s response to bad air quality, organizers call for a climate crisis plan.
Project Tiny Preview Package is here! - Unity Technologies Blog Project Tiny is a new modular Unity runtime and Editor mode designed to build games and experiences that can load instantly and without install. As of today, it’s available as a preview package for Unity 2018.3, called Tiny Mode, via the Package Manager. ...
Docker and kvm containers (from scratch) - redo: a recursive build system "Containers" became popular a few years ago with the emergence of Docker, but they are actually the result of a long line of evolution starting with chroot, a concept which dates all the way back to 1979. The idea of a container, or a chroot, is to run a...
ImperialViolet - CECPQ2 CECPQ1 was the experiment in post-quantum confidentiality that my colleague, Matt Braithwaite, and I ran in 2016. It's about time for CECPQ2.
google/randen Fast backtracking-resistant random generator: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02227 - google/randen
D. J. Bernstein / Talks 2020.02.06 16:30 60 minutes invited lecture Germany local researchers [horizontal PDF slides] Security Network Munich, Talking Heads. Giesecke + Devrient. "Crypto horror stories." Talk given jointly with Tanja Lange. 2020.01.30 09:30 60 minutes invited...
Cortex-A7 Processor - ARM The ARM Cortex-A7 processor is the most energy efficient ARM processor ever developed. It is ideal for entry level smartphones
Male Novum - Mod for The End is Nigh (Trailer) Male novum is a mod that adds new levels and shit to The End is Nigh. (Yes, the quality of the video is trash, but thats the best i could do with my trash hardware.) Built by Onyx35678 Music used: Dan Mumm (Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 - Neo-Classical Guitar)
Cache tables Hash tables are the most popular probabilistic data structure, by quite a margin. You compute some hash code then compute an array index from that hash code. If you’re using open addressing-c…
EGSR 2019 This year, two submission tracks are proposed: the Research Track and the new Industry Track. Note that there will not be an EI&I track this year.
NVIDIA Turing Vulkan/OpenGL extensions NVIDIA just launched the TU102/TU104 (GeForce RTX 2080ti/2080), first GPUs based on the Turing architecture. This new architecture brings ...
Introduction to Turing Mesh Shaders | NVIDIA Developer Blog Turing introduces a new programmable geometric shading pipeline, mesh shaders,, enabling threads to cooperatively generate compact meshes on the chip.
Breaking Down Barriers – Part 5: Back To The Real World This is Part 5 of a series about GPU synchronization and preemption. You can find the other articles here: Part 1 – What’s a Barrier? Part 2 – Synchronizing GPU Threads Part 3 …
Tech Note: Shader Snippets for Efficient 2D Dithering | Oculus A few examples of the minimal ALU method left to right (Best viewed at 100%):Plus6Int (6 shades), Dither17 (better quality than 16), Dither32 (more shades), Dither64 (more shades, artifacts)
Program | High-Performance Graphics 2018 High-Performance Graphics 2018 will be held in Vancouver, BC in the Segal Building, Simon Fraser University.
GDC Retrospective and Additional Thoughts on Real-Time Raytracing This post is part of the series “Finding Next-Gen”. Just got back from GDC. Had a great time showcasing the hard work we’ve been up to at SEED. In case you missed it, we did two p…
Breaking Down Barriers – Part 2: Synchronizing GPU Threads This is Part 2 of a series about GPU synchronization and preemption. You can find the other articles here: Part 1 – What’s a Barrier? Part 2 – Synchronizing GPU Threads Part 3 …
Real-Time Rendering · “Real-Time Rendering, 4th Edition” available in August 2018 Tracking the latest developments in interactive rendering techniques
NVIDIA Nsight Graphics NVIDIA Nsight Graphics NVIDIA® Nsight™ Graphics is a standalone developer tool that enables you to debug, profile, and export frames built with Direct3D (11, 12, DXR), Vulkan (1.1, NV Vulkan Ray Tracing Extension), OpenGL, OpenVR, and the Oculus SDK.
Experiments with DirectX Raytracing in Northlight Remedy Entertainment discussed the experiments and research we have done in collaboration with Nvidia on the Microsoft DirectX Raytracing (DXR) API that enables straightforward access to real-time ray tracing running on development graphics hardware. Reme...
pervognsen/bitwise Bitwise is an educational project where we create the software/hardware stack for a computer from scratch. - pervognsen/bitwise
Magic Leap Promises to Show a Real Demo and Share Specs on Today's Livestream Following the company’s last session of ‘Magic Leap Live’, wherein the company had promised that viewers would get to “meet Magic Leap One”—but then offered no substantive details and dodged the audience’s most prominent questions—the company is promising...
Miles Sound System Development History RAD Game Tools' web page. RAD makes Bink Video, the Miles Sound System, the Telemetry Performance Visualization System, Oodle Data Compression, and Granny 3D (a 3D toolkit with exporters for 3D Studio Max, Maya and XSI), all popular video game middleware.
Compiler Explorer Compiler Explorer is an interactive online compiler which shows the assembly output of compiled C++, Rust, Go (and many more) code.
Reversed-Z in OpenGL Maybe you’ve heard of Reversed-Z: It’s a pretty good way to get more precision out of your depth buffer. Very useful for games with long view distances, like for example Just Cause 2 (a…
MESA International Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association is a nonprofit who educates the industry about Smart Manufacturing, IIoT and other topics about using IT in Manufacturing.
TP-Link EAP225v3 AC1350 Wireless MU-MIMO Gigabit Ceiling Mount Access Point Reviewed - SmallNetBuilder SmallNetBuilder provides networking and IT news, reviews, help and information for professional and prosumer home, SOHO and small business users.
A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs While in the middle of writing “Reading bits in far too many ways, part 3”, I realized that I had written a lot of background material that had absolutely nothing to do with bit I/O and…
Inigo Quilez :: fractals, computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, demoscene and more Tutorials and articles of Inigo Quilez on computer graphics, fractals, demoscene, shaders and more.
Solving network congestion MegaMIMO system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab speeds data transfer by coordinating multiple routers at the same time.
Database Encryption A paper on (attacking) database encryption was just released by Paul Grubbs, Marie-Sarah Lacharite, Brice Minaud, and Kenneth G. Paterson. Matthew Green just posted an article about it. I don't know much about database encryption, but from my experience t...
Attack of the week: searchable encryption and the ever-expanding leakage function A few days ago I had the pleasure of hosting Kenny Paterson, who braved snow and historic cold (by Baltimore standards) to come talk to us about encrypted databases. Kenny’s newest result is …
Introducing Adiantum: Encryption for the Next Billion Users Posted by Paul Crowley and Eric Biggers, Android Security & Privacy Team Storage encryption protects your data if your phone falls in...
Quantum computing as a field is obvious bullshit I remember spotting the quantum computing trend when I was a larval physics nerdling. I figured maybe I could get in on the chuckwagon if my dissertation project didn’t work out in a big way…
arXiv.org e-Print archive arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,657,256 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, ...
Bomb Jack Dissected TL;DR: what I learned about the Bomb Jack arcade machine while writingan emulator for it.
Nvidia Launches Turing Architecture, Quadro RTX Ray-Tracing GPU The chipmaker's new platform is launching first on professional GPUs, but it could soon come to consumer graphics cards.
Introduction to compute shaders | Anteru's Blog A couple of months ago I went to the Munich GameCamp – a bar camp where anyone can propose a talk, and then a quick vote is cast which talks get accepted. I’ve been asking around for some ideas, and one developer mentioned I might want to cover compute sh...
(Spread)sheet Music: Making a Simple Music Sequencer using CSV Spreadsheets On Friday night, I put together a little hack that I found quite amusing. It’s a music sequencer that uses CSV spreadsheets to loop and sequence beats. It has the useful feature that you can …
The Secret History of Mac Gaming The untold story of a creative, innovative, fiercely-independent gaming scene that was serially ignored by the outside world
Lucas Pope and the rise of the 1-bit 'dither-punk' aesthetic Lucas Pope is trying to capture the legibility and simplicity of great Mac games from the era of monochromatic '1-bit' Mac Plus games with Return of the Obra Dinn
O.MG Cable This page will continue to be updated with info about the cable as things progress. ---2019-12-31--- Rev 1 of the O.MG Cable is now being fully manufacturered and available for sale! Launch video is here (twitter) or here (youtube) For sale: at Hak5 The s...
» Life Off the Grid, Part 1: Making Ultima Underworld The Digital Antiquarian The 1980s was the era of the specialist in game development, when many of the most successful studios did just one or two things, but did them very, very well. For Infocom, that meant text adventures; for Sierra, graphic adventures; for MicroProse, milita...
» Whither the Software Artist? (or, How Trip Hawkins Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Consoles) The Digital Antiquarian One of the places we ran the “Can a computer make you cry?” [advertisement] was in Scientific American. Scientific American readers weren’t even playing videogames. Why the hell are you wasting any of this really expensive advertising? You’re competing wi...
» Doing Windows, Part 9: Windows Comes Home The Digital Antiquarian This series of articles so far has been a story of business-oriented personal computing. Corporate America had been running for decades on IBM before the IBM PC appeared, so it was only natural that the standard IBM introduced would be embraced as the way...
» Doing Windows, Part 8: The Outsiders The Digital Antiquarian Microsoft Windows 3.0’s conquest of the personal-computer marketplace was bad news for a huge swath of the industry. On the software side, companies like Lotus and WordPerfect, only recently so influential that it was difficult to imagine a world that did...
» Doing Windows, Part 7: Third Time’s the Charm The Digital Antiquarian Microsoft entered the last year of the 1980s looking toward a new decade that seemed equally rife with opportunity and danger. On the one hand, profits were up, and Bill Gates and any number of his colleagues could retire as very rich men indeed even if i...
» Doing Windows, Part 5: A Second Try The Digital Antiquarian The beginning of serious work on the operating system that would come to be known as OS/2 left Microsoft’s team of Windows developers on decidedly uncertain ground. As OS/2 ramped up, Windows ramped down in proportion, until by the middle of 1986 Tandy Tr...
» Doing Windows, Part 4: The Rapprochement The Digital Antiquarian We’ve seen how the pundits had already started speculating like crazy long before the actual release of IBM’s TopView, imagining it to be the key to some Machiavellian master plan for seizing complete control of the personal-computer market. But said pund...
» Doing Windows, Part 3: A Pair of Strike-Outs The Digital Antiquarian Come August of 1984, Microsoft Windows had missed its originally announced release date by four months and was still nowhere near ready to go. That month, IBM released the PC/AT, a new model of their personal computer based around the more powerful Intel ...
» Doing Windows, Part 2: From Interface Manager to Windows The Digital Antiquarian Bill Gates was as aware as everyone else of the abundant deficiencies of his own company’s hastily procured operating system for the IBM PC. So, in September of 1981, before the PC had even shipped and just a handful of months after VisiCorp had started t...
» Another World The Digital Antiquarian The French creative aesthetic has always been a bit different from that of English-speaking nations. In their paintings, films, even furniture, the French often discard the stodgy literalism that is so characteristic of Anglo art in favor of something mor...
» Adventure-Game Rock Stars Live in Conference The Digital Antiquarian On August 24, 1990, CompuServe hosted an online discussion on adventure-game design which included Ron Gilbert, Noah Falstein, Bob Bates, Steve Meretzky, Mike Berlyn, Dave Lebling, Roberta Williams, Al Lowe, Corey and Lori Ann Cole, and Guruka Singh Khals...
» Sierra at the Cusp of the Multimedia Age The Digital Antiquarian By 1990, life for the programmers and artists who made adventure games for Sierra On-Line had settled down into a predictable pattern. Even-numbered years were King’s Quest years, when the company pulled out all the stops to deliver a new iteration of the...
» A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community The Digital Antiquarian Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. There were buttons and switches everywhere — buttons to call for food, for music, for clothing. There was the hot-bath button, b...
» Games on the Mersey, Part 3: The Phoenix The Digital Antiquarian Ian Hetherington made for a strange choice as the guy to clean up Imagine Software’s confused finances. Brought in very late in the day to serve as the company’s financial director, he had no background in accounting whatsoever. Ironically, Bruce Everiss,...
» Games on the Mersey, Part 2: Last Days in the Bunker The Digital Antiquarian The first sign that something might be seriously wrong at Imagine Software greeted game buyers in March of 1984, when the company unexpectedly started slashing prices. They announced that their games would go from the current £5.50 to just £3.95, cheaper ...
» Living Worlds of Action and Adventure, Part 1: The Atari Adventure The Digital Antiquarian As regular readers of this blog are doubtless well aware, we stand now at the cusp not only of a new decade but also of a new era in terms of this history’s internal chronology. The fractious 1980s, marked by a bewildering number of viable computing platf...
» A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 1: Calculators and Cybernetics The Digital Antiquarian Back in my younger days, when the thought of sleeping for nights on end in campground tents and hostel cots awakened a spirit of adventure instead of a premonition of an aching back, I used to save up my vacation time and undertake a big backpacker-style ...
» A Time of Endings, Part 2: Epyx The Digital Antiquarian On a beautiful May day in 1987, Epyx held a party behind their offices to celebrate the completion of California Games, the fifth and latest in their hugely popular Games line of sports titles. To whatever extent their skills allowed, employees and their ...
microsoft/Freeflow High performance container overlay networks on Linux. Enabling RDMA (on both InfiniBand and RoCE) and accelerating TCP to bare metal performance. Freeflow requires zero modification on application ...
Microsoft's Evolving Gaming Strategy Takes A Giant Step Forward - Thurrott.com Microsoft's working on a major overhaul of its gaming infrastructure on the PC and we are starting to see how the company plans to bring Xbox games to the PC.
FOSDEM 2019 - Intel® Hardware Intrinsics in .NET Core In this presentation, we will talk about the Intel Hardware Intrinsics in .NET Core, a new feature in .NET Core 3.0. For the first time, .NET developers will have the ability to directly exercise underlying CPU features, very similar to what C/C++ develop...
.NET Design Review: GitHub Quick Review and DbDataReader Additions 00:00:00 - Approved: System.Reflection.Emit.Label should implement IEquatable https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/32959 00:02:50 - Approved: Exception to throw when interface dispatch is ambiguous https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/34124#issueco...
dotnet/coreclr CoreCLR is the runtime for .NET Core. It includes the garbage collector, JIT compiler, primitive data types and low-level classes. - dotnet/coreclr
Round 18 results - TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Performance comparison of a wide spectrum of web application frameworks and platforms using community-contributed test implementations.
APEX Wallet 3.0 - Our best wallet, made even better! Available in 2 orientations, The Apex 3.0 is a slim, minimalist, aluminum wallet featuring our quick-draw thumb-slot & RFID protection.
ASP.NET Core: Saturating 10GbE at 7+ million request/s 7+ Million HTTP requests per second from a single server