Kicking Off the New Year with New Droplet Plans
Last week, we shared our 2018 roadmap preview and today, we’re excited to announce the first of many new updates for developers: new Droplet plans. We know that price-to-performance is an important consideration when choosing where to host your application, whether it be a small side project or a
Hasnain says:
Yay, now I can save the few hours I was planning on spending this weekend to save memory
Posted on 2018-01-16T23:18:24+0000
Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not
The revolution will be ushered in by young guys who are also cryptocurrency millionaires. Oh wait, they may be broke already.
Sting to star in American folklore game Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Gordon Matthew Thomas Summer, better known by buzzy stage name Sting, will headline as a voice actor in upcoming and very enticing new game Where the Water…
Hasnain says:
I've already been so excited to play this game since my friend Laura has been working on the writing (and she's great) - this is only increasing the hype
Posted on 2018-01-10T18:42:01+0000
The day I accidentally killed a little boy
Maryann Gray was a 22-year-old graduate when a tragic accident on an everyday car journey changed her life forever.
Classic Tools Retrospective: Tim Sweeney on the first version of the Unreal Editor
Tim Sweeney talks to David Lightbown about UnrealEd, one of the most popular level editors in the games industry, which was used to build levels for Unreal, Deus Ex, Gears of War, BioShock, Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, and Mass Effect, and many, many more.
Hasnain says:
This was a great read on gaming, and the importance of building software tooling.
"Look at all these internal engines... for example, Frostbite has more advanced rendering features than we have and they're producing prettier pixels than we are in a lot of cases, but Unreal developers can produce content much more productively, maybe 30 to 50 percent more productively, which means that a team half the size can produce a game that's just as good. They can iterate on it more, and polish it more than they could with these less polished toolsets. So, everybody should really make a conscientious decision to either fully invest in producing awesome tools for internal use, or not."
Posted on 2018-01-10T08:59:46+0000
Get ready for a lot more housing near the Expo Line and other California transit stations if new legislation passes
A new bill from state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) would dramatically increase housing density near transit stops across California.
Hasnain says:
"Subject to some limitations, the measure would eliminate restrictions on the number of houses allowed to be built within a half-mile of train, light-rail, major bus routes and other transit stations, and block cities from imposing parking requirements. Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), the bill’s author, said the state needs the housing to address affordability problems, maximize recent multi-billion-dollar transit investments and help the state meet its climate change goals."
woot!
Posted on 2018-01-05T00:09:42+0000
[PATCH] D41723: Introduce the "retpoline" x86 mitigation technique for variant #2 of the speculative execution vulnerabilities disclosed today, specifically identified by CVE-2017-5715, "Branch Target Injection", and is one of the two halves to...
lists.llvm.org
Hasnain says:
Compiler fixes for the recent CPU bug. Even more of a performance hit..
"When using these patches on statically linked applications, especially
C++ applications, you should expect to see a much more dramatic
performance hit. For microbenchmarks that are switch, indirect-, or
virtual-call heavy we have seen overheads ranging from 10% to 50%."
Actions Required to Mitigate Speculative Side-Channel Attack Techniques - The Chromium Projects
Home of the Chromium Open Source Project
Hasnain says:
Should we all just hang up our boots and head home? This is just nuts.
"Don’t serve user-specific or sensitive content from URLs that attackers can predict or easily learn. Attackers can load such URLs in their attack pages (e.g. ) to get the sensitive information into the process rendering their page, and can then use out-of-bounds reads to discover the information. Use anti-CSRF tokens or random URLs to break this kind of attack."
Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off $24 million in company stock
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich sold off a major stake in the company in November, months after the chip maker learned of a significant security flaw in its chips.
Hasnain says:
This is pretty damning. He sold all his stock, down to only holding what he legally had to hold per his contract.
Intel was made aware of the issue in June and the sale plan was put thru in October.
Someone at the SEC is going to have a field day
Posted on 2018-01-04T05:24:40+0000
Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
Posted by Jann Horn, Project Zero We have discovered that CPU data cache timing can be abused to efficiently leak information out of mi...
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Hasnain says:
A lot of the gory details of the bug that is scaring a lot of people in the tech world
Posted on 2018-01-03T23:56:12+0000