Zenbleed(lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

1160 points by loeg 3 years ago | 327 comments

Tavis Ormandy's writeup of Zenbleed, an AMD Zen 2 CPU vulnerability that leaks data from vector registers, covering exploitation, discovery, and mitigation.

Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?(lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

728 points by taviso 1 year ago | 772 comments

Tavis Ormandy's essay examining Anubis, a proof-of-work anti-AI-crawler gate, covering the problem it targets, cost numbers, alternatives, and workarounds.

NixOS for the Impatient(borretti.me)

139 points by yarapavan 3 years ago | 68 comments

Scaling HNSWs(antirez.com)

198 points by cyndunlop 11 months ago | 42 comments

Ledger(lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

144 points by hggh 2 years ago | 80 comments

Reptar(lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

557 points by abhi9u 2 years ago | 168 comments

Tavis Ormandy's write-up of Reptar, an Intel CPU bug where redundant instruction prefixes put processors into a glitch state, covering its discovery and fix.