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.

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.

Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools(mastodon.social)

505 points by robhlam 1 year ago | 145 comments

Mastodon post by curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg reporting that Joshua Rogers' AI-assisted tools found many potential curl bugs, with 22 fixes already landed.

Unix v4 Tape Found(discuss.systems)

476 points by greatquux 11 months ago | 77 comments

Mastodon post by Rob Ricci reporting that staff found a tape containing UNIX v4 from Bell Labs (c. 1973), to be delivered to the Computer History Museum.

The rise of ChatGPT-enabled GitHub spam(mastodon.social)

96 points by luu 3 years ago | 64 comments