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

20 points by riffraff 9 months ago | 6 comments

GitHub Disabled the Xz Repo(pony.social)

66 points by luu 2 years ago | 47 comments

GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io(infosec.exchange)

152 points by speckx 4 months ago | 55 comments

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.

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.

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.