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An Emulator Writer's HOWTO for Static Binary Translation

So... the aim of this HOWTO document is to give you a very practical method that you can adapt to your own area of expertise, which should pretty much guarantee that if you have already written or worked on a reasonable emulator, you will be able to write a...

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Why C Strings Suck And How I Fixed Them

I made a small string library in C. You can use it, it's open source. It's very basic. Here I explain how and why I did this.

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Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke · sunshowers

Discuss on Hacker News or Lobsters. Here is Anthropic describing (archive link) yesterday how their new version control system, Scion, uses a concept called “derived data” to make operations like blames more efficient: How Anthropic describes Scion’s...

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We found a Tencent agent fleet

Between 28 September and 8 October 2026, a large group of AI agents running on the cloud platform operated by Tencent attempted to answer questions about places in China using a Chinese Google Maps-like service, Amap.

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How the L0pht (probably) optimized attack against the LanMan hash.

Introduction Data Encryption Standard The LanMan Algorithm Brute Force Attack Version 1 Precomputing Key Schedules 1 Version 2 Using Macros For The Key Schedule Algorithm Initial and Final Permutation Skipping Rounds Version 3 Precomputing Key Schedules 2...

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Package managers have an integrity problem

I tested 25 of the most popular package managers to check whether they detect a compromised package repository injecting malicious code into legitimate packages. Only two verified the integrity of every package they downloaded.