BlindSide allows attackers to “hack blind” in the Spectre era. That is, given a simple buffer overflow in the kernel and no additional info leak vulnerability, BlindSide can mount BROP-style attacks in the speculative execution domain to repeatedly probe and derandomize the kernel address space, craft arbitrary memory read gadgets, and enable reliable exploitation.

Raccoon is a timing vulnerability in the TLS specification, related to Diffie-Hellman key exchanges.

A Time Leap Challenge for SAT-Solving, by Johannes K. Fichte, Markus Hecher, and Stefan Szeider. “We compare the impact of hardware advancement and algorithm advancement for SAT-solving over the last two decades. In particular, we compare 20-year-old SAT-solvers on new computer hardware with modern SAT-solvers on 20-year-old hardware.”

Entangelement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox, by Geoffrey Penington.

AVIF has landed, a new image format derived from the keyframes of AV1 video.

Hacking Ethernet out of Fibre Channel cards, by Ben Cox.

FVWM 3, the successor to fvwm2.