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Former Bay Area railway workers are facing felony charges for allegedly building secret apartments in two train stations for a total of $50,000, using public funds. The historic Burlingame and Millbrae stations were converted into mini apartments, complete with kitchenettes and security cameras, sparking some admiration in a region where affordable housing is scarce. Social […]
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The author tells a true story of proposing a change to a client’s ASIC IP, adding CRC checking based on out-of-band memory. This change took much longer than anticipated due to buried magic numbers in the test bench. Lessons learned include the importance of proper reset timing, avoiding hard-coded constants, and handling changing requirements. The […]
In 2008, a major vulnerability in GitHub’s SSH login times was tackled by patching OpenSSH to lookup keys in a MySQL database. After the patch was implemented, users started accessing others’ repos over SSH, leading to the discovery of key collisions due to a Debian OpenSSL issue. Luciano Bello discovered the vulnerability, highlighting the importance […]
Total Annihilation holds a special place in the author’s heart as one of the best RTS games from the late 90s, alongside Command & Conquer and Starcraft. Released 10 years later, Supreme Commander, led by notable figures from Total Annihilation, impressed both critics and players with features like “strategic zoom” and realistic ballistics. The article […]
April 9, 2024 Update on building a complete computer system using discrete logic components: – Computer capable of running network applications. – Built physical level adapter for Ethernet signal conversion. – Implementing a MAC layer module for homebrew computer. – Unique MAC address filtering method. – No FCS generation in transmitter, done in software. – […]
Confidential Computing is a burgeoning field that shields running workloads from external threats by reducing the Trusted Computing Base. Public cloud vendors are spearheading the movement to enable the execution of more secure workloads. Despite the marketing hype, the challenges of Confidential Computing are significant and not completely solved. Intel TDX, AMD SEV-SNP, and Intel […]
Excited to present the DualShock Calibration GUI, a user-friendly platform to recalibrate DualShock 4 or DualSense controllers, replacing complex calibration scripts. Features firmware info, centering analog sticks, recalibrate stick range, auto-detects original vs clone DS4. Free, open-source, available on GitHub for Chrome, Chromium, Edge browsers using WebHID extension. Created to simplify repair technicians’ tasks, reduce […]
Peter Higgs, the Nobel prize-winning physicist credited with the discovery of the Higgs boson, passed away at the age of 94. His groundbreaking work in 1964, along with Belgian physicist François Englert, highlighted how the boson gave particles their mass and helped bind the universe. The confirmation of their theory in 2012 by researchers at […]
Chronon, an ML Feature Platform, is now open source, offering ML practitioners tools for data management, low latency streaming, and observability. It aims to solve the common struggle of spending excessive time on data management rather than modeling. The platform allows for defining features once for both offline training and online inference, offering tooling for […]
Explore Logs is a new way to browse logs without needing to write LogQL. Built by Grafana Labs, this application provides a user-friendly interface that allows engineers to navigate through logs with ease. With features such as breakdowns by label, detected fields, and pattern detection, Explore Logs simplifies log analysis for users who may not […]