Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays(mas.to)

20 points by riffraff 9 months ago | 6 comments

US national level OS-level age verification bill(social.coop)

94 points by marvinborner 6 months ago | 71 comments

Codeberg Is Down(social.anoxinon.de)

34 points by sscaryterry 4 months ago | 20 comments

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips(mas.to)

845 points by marvinborner 7 months ago | 435 comments

Mastodon thread by Mozilla engineer Gabriele Svelto describing data from Firefox crash reports showing many crashes stem from bit-flips caused by bad memory or flaky hardware.

Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl(mastodon.social)

44 points by torutofu 20 days ago | 5 comments

Mastodon post by Daniel Stenberg noting curl hit two arm64-specific compiler optimization bugs in GCC 15/16 and Rust, linking a GitHub issue.

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory(mathstodon.xyz)

516 points by IngoBlechschmid 3 months ago | 217 comments

Mastodon thread by Ingo Blechschmidt describing how since Linux 6.9 the LUKS suspend tool silently failed to wipe disk-encryption keys from memory.