Reading privileged memory with a side-channel, by Jann Horn, Project Zero. Papers on Spectre and Meltdown
GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: 277,232,917-1
Dude, you broke the future!, Charlie Stross’s keynote on 34C3. Recommended.
IOHIDeous, by Siguza: “the tale of a macOS-only vulnerability in IOHIDFamily that yields kernel r/w and can be exploited by any unprivileged user.”
The 25th IOCCC will be open from 2017-Dec-29 05:38:51 UTC to 2018-Feb-28 05:29:15 UTC.
Computer latency: 1977–2017, measured by Dan Luu.
Racket-on-Chez Status: January 2018
Compiling a Subset of APL Into a Typed Intermediate Language (PDF, 2014), by Martin Elsman and Martin Dybdal.
UnifrakturMaguntia, 𝖆 𝖀𝖓𝖎𝖈𝖔𝖉𝖊 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖐𝖙𝖚𝖗 𝕱𝖔𝖓𝖙.