This one ran for more than 36 hours on my laptop with ghidriff's SimpleDiff (mostly single threaded so I don't think a bigger machine would've made much difference). I just filed a PR for an optimization that seems to make one phase run in seconds instead of hours, that sounds a bit too good to be true, so reviews are welcome:

https://github.com/clearbluejar/ghidriff/pull/107

/cc @clearbluejar

I'm still stunned by the ICC having their evidence on Azure.

Public bodies need to have their own infrastructure. Especially when their storage is somewhere that serves shareholders and the country where they are incorporated.

Kinda hope the UN is on independent infrastructure.

You diff binaries and immediately find the single change that adds the overflow check.

I diff mpengine.dll and break all reversing tools out there.

We are not the same.

https://gist.github.com/v-p-b/513a8f70a32c62f3ab7bf0d6a90e0941

#bindiff #ghidriff

She most definitely needs a movie. She was part of the Resistance in Holland, and
Damn, she was a badass. She also helped Jewish people escape camps and blew up some train tracks the Reich used.

The second part of my #WinDbg deep-dive into the #Windows #bootloader is up: Get ready for a decades-old registry structure, unique sorting algorithms, and lots of corner cases. The result is a modern Rust replacement for Mark Russinovich's LoadOrder tool: https://colinfinck.de/posts/nt-load-order-part-2/

@troed FTR it took me about a week a quit after this, so the effects were clearly significant :D

I have to admit this tweet of mine at the time of Elon's takeover didn't age well:

https://scrapco.de/twitter/buherator/status/1585874987617243136/

An article about an algorithmic advancement for leaving preallocated space between sorted objects in a way that minimizes how much you have to move things around for an arbitrary insert.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-book-sorting-algorithm-almost-reaches-perfection-20250124/

OK. Hear me out.

"IBM Software Download Tips: Three Easy Steps to Make Download Director Work Again"

I'm pretty sure that not a single soul wants to make Download Director work again.

[RSS] The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot up

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/

[RSS] CVE Farming - Problem & Solution

https://jericho.blog/2025/01/25/cve-farming-problem-solution/

Many important, but often overlooked details about CVE assignment and vulnerability management in this one!

Project: golang/go https://github.com/golang/go
File: src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewritegeneric.go:20188 https://github.com/golang/go/blob/refs/tags/go1.23.4/src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewritegeneric.go#L20188

func rewriteValuegeneric_OpOr16(v *Value) bool

SVG:
dark https://tmr232.github.io/function-graph-overview/render/?github=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgolang%2Fgo%2Fblob%2Frefs%2Ftags%2Fgo1.23.4%2Fsrc%2Fcmd%2Fcompile%2Finternal%2Fssa%2Frewritegeneric.go%23L20188&colors=dark
light https://tmr232.github.io/function-graph-overview/render/?github=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgolang%2Fgo%2Fblob%2Frefs%2Ftags%2Fgo1.23.4%2Fsrc%2Fcmd%2Fcompile%2Finternal%2Fssa%2Frewritegeneric.go%23L20188&colors=light

I want to see less nostalgia for Geocities design and more nostalgia for web standards / proto-web 2.0 aesthetics

E.g., early CSS Zen Garden - linking you intentionally to the oldest entries from 20 years ago (cw: some lean heavily on the Orientalism, remember it’s from 20 years ago before you put a creator on blast)

https://csszengarden.com/pages/alldesigns/?pg=12

Context: The CSS Zen Garden was a groundbreaking project at the time, aiming to change minds about the viability of semantic HTML and CSS 2, separating contents from design.

The site had fixed HTML for its content, and designers were invited to submit designs. All looked radically different from each other. It inspired many people to step up their game and keep up with the new tech.

Many had a very bold design to distinguish themselves from each other.

You might have to zoom a bit on some of those, 1024×768px resolutions were the norm at the time.

Hang on now. How did they get this Juniper backdoor installed??

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/25/mysterious_backdoor_juniper_routers/

Slick C2 coding tho.

#malware #infosec

Which punk rock record would you have recorded on blank side 2 back then?

I got “Russia To Rocket” recorded on a cassette by a friend. My first punk rock cassette 📻

#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #hardcorepunk #history #punkrockhistory

I got a letter from a company I’ve never heard of informing me of a “privacy event,” a new and stupid euphemism for “we collected your data and allowed it to be stolen.” The letter never says that the company is, in fact, United Healthcare.

@skeletor

[RSS] A brief and incomplete comparison of memory corruption detection tools

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250124-00/?p=110805

Whoever figured out that retirement homes and kindergartens can be merged should receive a Nobel prize (any field would do).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j-lU5Lvny8

(Hungarian, use auto-translate)

The second part is about teenagers teaching computer use for the elderly. Notice that a girl explains how to pirate movies on YT xD