Batten Down Fix Later(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

100 points by riffraff 3 years ago | 26 comments

PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

245 points by YakBizzarro 3 years ago | 147 comments

Roots of Trust Are Difficult(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

66 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 26 comments

DKIM: Rotate and publish your keys(diziet.dreamwidth.org)

213 points by JNRowe 3 years ago | 130 comments

Reconstructing an invalid TPM event log(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

24 points by kencausey 3 years ago | 6 comments

Why Git Is Hard(roadrunnertwice.dreamwidth.org)

37 points by signa11 3 years ago | 32 comments

Intel's Humbling(stratechery.com)

501 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 354 comments

Stratechery essay by Ben Thompson analyzing Intel's struggles, its leadership history, and its foundry strategy.

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU(jia.je)

120 points by jiegec 1 month ago | 6 comments

A blog post investigating a hardware erratum on the Loongson LA664 CPU where an atomic instruction loses updates, causing an infinite loop while packaging normaliz for Debian.

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction(righto.com)

102 points by pwg 8 days ago | 33 comments

Ken Shirriff blog post examining the Intel 8087 coprocessor's microcode and circuitry for floating-point addition and subtraction, including special cases.

Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug(righto.com)

362 points by gslin 1 year ago | 110 comments

Ken Shirriff's blog post examining the Pentium die to show where the 1994 floating-point division bug lies in the silicon and why it occurred.

The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

399 points by DvdGiessen 1 year ago | 408 comments

Blog post by Matthew Garrett arguing that GPUs, not TPMs, are the real root of hardware DRM; the capture shows a Dreamwidth captcha page instead.

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5(blog.calif.io)

438 points by quadrige 5 months ago | 122 comments

Calif blog post describing the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 silicon that bypasses Memory Integrity Enforcement, built in five days.