Virtual machine escape fetches $105,000 at Pwn2Own hacking contest, “members of Qihoo 360’s security team carried out the hack by exploiting a heap overflow bug in Edge, a type confusion flaw in the Windows kernel and an uninitialized buffer vulnerability in VMware”.
Happy 19th birthday, kottke.org!, congrats!
Co-dfns: Compiler Design and Architecture, YouTube video by Aaron Hsu. It’s 2h long, but really interesting.
The Key to a Data Parallel Compiler, by Aaron W. Hsu.
Codec 2 is an open source speech codec designed for communications quality speech between 700 and 3200 bit/s.
OCanren is a strongly-typed embedding of miniKanren relational programming language into Objective Caml
Analyzing the vintage 8008 processor from die photos: its unusual counters, by Ken Shirriff.
Attacking Nexus 9 with Malicious Headphones, by Roee Hay. WJW.