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Virtualisation on Apple silicon

Viable - create and run macOS virtual machines on Apple silicon Macs Takes an IPSW image, available from Apple or downloaded in the app, and creates a virtual machine from it. Runs those virtual machines using your settings for the number or cores (vCPU...

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21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg | depthfirst

depthfirst's production autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, after intensive security analysis by Google and Anthropic. Moving beyond theoretical analysis, our agent produces concrete, reproducible PoC inputs to...

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Jonot's Blog

The Game Boy Advance is an interesting game console. It has a modern-style CPU (32-bit ARM, lots of registers), but uses an old-fashioned tile based renderer like how the NES did it in the 80s. Don’t get me wrong, since its one of Nintendo’s last tile-based...

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Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter

TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter...

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WASI 0.3 Launched

WASI 0.3 is official, and async is now native to WebAssembly Components. The WASI Subgroup voted to ratify WASI 0.3.0, rebasing WASI onto the WebAssembly Component Model’s async primitives. The 0.3.0 specification is now stable, and runt...