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"Reverse Engineering for Beginners" free book
Topics touched: Oracle RDBMS, Itanium, copy-protection dongles, LD_PRELOAD, stack overflow, ELF, win32 PE file format, x86-64, critical sections, syscalls, TLS, position-independent code (PIC), profile-guided optimization, C++ STL, OpenMP, win32 SEH.
Push for Pizza app a Silicon Valley triumph - CNET
An app that tackles one of the world's most pressing problems has arrived. Now, with a simple few taps, you too can realize what it's like to live in the year 2014.
Hasnain says:
This app is going to revolutionize all our lives.
#firstworldproblems couldn't get any worse.
Posted on 2014-08-10T02:02:06+0000
Get Your Hands Off My Laptop
This work will be presented in CHES 2014 and published in its proceedings. An extended version (PDF, 5.3MB) is available.
Coccinelle: A Program Matching and Transformation Tool for Systems Code
The development of Coccinelle is supported in part by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) under the contract ANR-09-BLAN-0158-01.
Hasnain says:
Why had I not known of this before? This is amazing
Posted on 2014-08-08T01:22:35+0000
CoolGithubProjects
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Particle Clicker
An addictive incremental game that was made during the CERN Webfest 2014. It takes the player on a historic journey through modern particle physics.
Hasnain says:
CERN came out with a clicker game. What is the world coming to?
Posted on 2014-08-07T18:16:32+0000
Extracting audio from visual information
Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass.
Hasnain says:
So much for us making fun of CSI. This is mind blowing.
Posted on 2014-08-04T18:21:37+0000
Your Steak Would Taste Better if Grilled With Molten Lava
British designer duo Bompas & Parr, who designed the world’s first edible fireworks and are best known for their ambitious and sometimes monumental jelly-based sculptures, traveled to Syracuse, New York, this summer to try out their idea for the world’s most extreme barbecue session—grilling meat ov…
Patching the Newton | Dadhacker
This one ends with me going into a Good Guys electronics store in a suburb of Boston, flashing my employee badge and saying “I’m from Apple. Take me to your Newtons.” I wanted to use a deep G-man voice, but I didn’t have the build for it. Also, I was wearing the slightly redonkulous khaki-pants and…
Hasnain says:
"The Guy from Apple exits Good Guys, checks it off the list, and proceeds to the next store on his assignment. G-Man is surprised what we was able to do by flashing his Apple badge and adopting some bluster; just walk in, make some demands and start cracking open merchandise. That’s kind of disturbing, really."
This is a really great story about patching devices in the 90s. Also kind of worrying how easy it was/is to do social engineering.
Posted on 2014-08-04T03:19:56+0000