The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

I’ve uploaded the slides and added the links to the videos of the two presentations i did at #r2con2025

* TocTouMaps https://github.com/radareorg/r2con2025/tree/main/TocTouMaps
* VibeReversing https://github.com/radareorg/r2con2025/tree/main/VibeReversing

@dey but it's so good to be finally back to winter time (brighter mornings)!

COM to the Darkside - Slides and resources from MCTTP 2025 Talk by Dylan Tran (d_tranman) and Jimmy Bayne (@bohops)

https://github.com/bohops/COM-to-the-Darkside

https://m.slashdot.org/story/448340

why fix bugs when you can just disable features instead?

All US Nuclear Reactor Incidents are public and posted online by the NRC.

My Favorites:

“The reactor cavity is full of water. [Individual] ingested some amount of cavity water.”
(Michigan, 4 days ago)

“Unit 2 power is being reduced from 100% in response to the influx of jellyfish.”
(Florida, 2011)

Radioactive AMC Theater Exit Sign Missing
(New York, 2025)

Got angry, posted about academic fuzzing research status quo again: https://addisoncrump.info/research/what-the-hell-are-we-doing/

please enjoy: my Wasm-hosted, Wasm-targeting build of Clang/Clang++/LLD: a self-contained, 25 MiB (gzipped) pure function
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@yowasp/clang

Going live on https://www.twitch.tv/filosottile in 30 minutes! 🔴

Join me for some Go livecoding of the post-quantum signature scheme ML-DSA!

@lcamtuf Wouldn't be the most ridiculous thing people wear on the catwalk

@obsoletemediauk I recently had the opportunity to listen to original magnetic wire recordings and I was amazed how well they preserved the recordings!

The MI-12877 was a cartridge containing thin magnetic wire for recording and playback of audio, and was introduced in 1947 for use in the RCA Magnetic Wire Recorder. Wire was already in use as a recording medium but it was fragile and needed to be threaded across the recording head and attached to a take-up spool. The use of a cartridge made this much easier.

I'm grateful to my friend Thomas for donating this.

For more information, visit https://obsoletemedia.org/mi-12877/

Trying to understand if I was overreacting.

I got a little bit triggered by this since I had the opportunity to meet the inventor of the MP3.

Now people “write” historical pieces about how the MP3 got invented and attach deepfake images of “people” who supposedly worked on the project. Totally fake and not related to the actual team. The original team gets discredited.

It’s a perfect example of how AI will start to replace fact with fiction and people don’t question it
#aislop #mp3 #linkedin

Project: golang/go https://github.com/golang/go
File: src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewritegeneric.go:3307 https://github.com/golang/go/blob/6425749695130f2032ac9cfdf5407b6a322534db/src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewritegeneric.go#L3307

func rewriteValuegeneric_OpAnd32(v *Value) bool

SVG:
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It's getting close to being done - #BinYars a #YARA-X #BinaryNinja plugin! Still testing, but plan on open sourcing it for all to use.

Shout out to Remco Sprooten for making this tool (also shown in the video) for quickly drafting Yara rules 💪 https://github.com/1337-42/SimpleYaraBN

Video: Part 1 of 2

When you go to the lavatory, spend a longer time there than is necessary.

Project: mpengine-x64-pdb 1.1.24090.11
File: mpengine.dll
Address: 75a296fa0

sqlite3VdbeMemGrow

SVG:
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I know inference is _relatively_ cheap but do we really need to invoke Copilot for each commit message?

As a result of working on r4ghidra I set the ambitious goal to create REshare, an exchange format for #ReverseEngineering tools:

https://github.com/v-p-b/reshare/

The code is still in its early days (literally) but the fact that it works with complex, real life binaries tells me that this goal is worth pursuing.

I'm looking for contributors, esp. for #BinaryNinja, #IDA and #radare2 scripting so we can bring all these worlds together!