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

20 points by riffraff 9 months ago | 6 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.

One thing that has changed in the professional game industry is that(mastodon.social)

26 points by luu 3 years ago | 38 comments

Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story(infosec.exchange)

515 points by robin_reala 8 months ago | 220 comments

Mastodon post noting a matplotlib maintainer says quotes attributed to him in an Ars Technica article were fabricated, apparently AI hallucinations; the story was pulled.

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.

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

94 points by marvinborner 6 months ago | 71 comments

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS(discuss.haiku-os.org)

322 points by m0do1 3 months ago | 65 comments

Haiku forum thread about porting the Nvidia open GPU driver for Turing and newer GPUs to Haiku, with user posts on progress including running games.

Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware(lenowo.org)

426 points by minki_the_avali 1 year ago | 184 comments

A forum post on LenOwO describing how the original DOOM engine crashed after running for 2.5 years on real hardware due to an ever-incrementing demo variable.

We ported the original Doom to SQL(cedardb.com)

293 points by Vaslo 22 days ago | 45 comments

CedarDB blog post describing a port of the original 1993 Doom game logic and renderer to SQL, running inside the database with Python only handling timing and display.

Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine(code.idtech.space)

413 points by klaussilveira 8 months ago | 84 comments

Code repository page for a clean-room reimplementation of Half-Life 2 running on the Quake 1 engine, blocked by an Anubis bot-check screen.

A complete bypass of eMudhra’s 1FA OTP login system(mastodon.catgirl.cloud)

131 points by tensegrist 3 days ago | 53 comments

Mastodon thread describing a bypass of eMudhra's OTP login by encrypting OTP requests with an exposed public key, enabling brute-forcing of logins to steal certificates.

Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update(half-life.com)

509 points by Philpax 2 years ago | 211 comments

Valve's official page for the Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update, celebrating the 1998 game's release with new content and improvements.